“While Susan Collins’ campaign is backed by billionaire donors, our campaign is built on a movement funded by the people, with an average donation of $26,” said Graham Platner’s campaign manager.
A new analysis of campaign finance data shows that nearly 100 billionaires and their spouses have contributed to Republican Sen. Susan Collins’ reelection bid so far, funneling nearly $10 million to the incumbent’s campaign committee and PACs supporting her effort to fend off progressive challenger Graham Platner.
The Maine Monitor on Thursday published a list of billionaires who have donated to Collins and Platner, who has called his Republican opponent a “corrupt” protector and beneficiary of an oligarchic political system.
The outlet noted that Collins’ billionaire donation total “stands in stark contrast with the fundraising of her opponent... whose campaign has mostly attracted smaller amounts of funds but from many more people.”
176 Comments
ceenote@lemmy.world · 121 pts · 73d
To them, losing the "progressives can't win purple states" narrative would be a catastrophe.
Blibly@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 73d
Not only can progressives win in purple states, I bet they can win in these supposedly "red" states that have been abandoned by the Dems in recent years. Progressive takeover of the Democratic Party needs to happen ASAP.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 73d
I agree. I don't think the actual silent majority thinks "that guy's too far right" or "that lady's too far left," they ask "which one's gonna help with my problems?"
mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 73d
Just look at all the special elections earlier in the year that flipped seats. They're definitely scared we're waking up
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 73d
We need a Left version of the Tea Party
logi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 71d
And we need it fast. No time for steeping. Call it the Espresso Party!
zbyte64@awful.systems · 1 pts · 71d
The tea party was an astroturfing campaign....
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 71d
What's astroturfing?
zbyte64@awful.systems · 2 pts · 70d
It's when big money funds a "grass roots" campaign. In the case of the tea party the Koch brothers bankrolled that project.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 69d
Thank
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 72d
People in those red states will never vote for anyone with a 'D' next to their name, no matter how much they agree with them.
Squidious@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 73d
Asking honestly... how do we do this?
Blibly@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 73d
I'm no strategist but: Primaries, local organizing with progressive supporters, and refusing to play the "civility politics" game that so many conservatives and neoliberals love to play. Be progressive and don't apologize for it.
Do they ever apologize? No, they don't. We don't either.
edible_funk@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 71d
Vote in every dem primary for the progressive candidate, campaign for the progressive candidate, run as the progressive candidate. Vote in every primary and every general.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 73d
I think it's already happening. People are tired of the current leadership who have proven themselves deaf to the needs of the working class. They've just been stringing people along with performativism and virtue signaling, but people have definitely woken up to that in recent years.
Also, establishment Dems' catastrophic failures in last election followed by a series of progressive wins is a good signal. Progressives are demonstrating their electability, and that momentum will only build from here on. It will become increasingly harder for Democratic Party leadership to stifle the progressive caucus.
Also, the new DNC chairman is at least nominally progressive. We'll see how he does in two years. Till then all we can do is hope and wait and vote.
tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works · 66 pts · 73d
In 1936, Roosevelt was elected despite millionaires pouring money into Hoover's campaign.
Voting is important.
https://www.americanheritage.com/1936-fifty-years-ago-2
Eldritch@piefed.world · 26 pts · 73d
If it wasn't, they wouldn't make it so hard to vote or try to stop you. It unfortunately isn't very effective when people are complacent. But when people are pissed, even stacked decks and rigging won't hold ultimately.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 73d
That's why perpetual whiplash is baked into the system. People get complacent when things are going good, which is when the opposition's momentum is at its strongest.
4-8 years later the other side is the one that gets complacent as their opposition gets fired up.
Rinse and repeat.
MushuChupacabra@piefed.world · 49 pts · 73d
The algorithm is simple. Watch who the billionaires back, then vote for the other option.
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 73d
Doesn't always work, Kamala had more billionaires backing her than trump .
Unless you want to advocate voting for Stein, which is fine, you'll just have to deal with a large chunk of people here caling you a Russian bot.
wheezy@lemmy.ml · 26 pts · 73d
A better rule of thumb is "who are the Zionist and Billionaires funding". Personally, I really dislike Platner. But when I see literally every Zionist group funding attack campaigns it really doesn't matter anymore. It's a single election. If I was in Maine, I'd go vote against what the Zionist clearly want.
Does the chud betray us and turn into a Fetterman? Maybe. Maybe he has a stroke too. But I want Israel to stop getting bombs. I don't have to like Platner. But I am excited that a candidate that says he wants to stop weapons shipments to Israel is actually popular in a purple state like main. That is amazing. And no amount of virtue signaling will take that away from me.
I've been fighting Zionism since I was in college in 2015. Platner winning would be good for the entire movement of the left. Even if he doesn't follow through. People don't want "it's complicated centrist". You don't have to compromise. You can win elections while being against the genocidal apartheid state. That is absolutely a win.
architect@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 72d
Yea this is the kind of thing people should be saying. Instead of attacking anyone with an opinion of a previous Nazi tattoo. I’m not in Maine, i don’t trust this guy. But Fuck Susan Collins.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 72d
Careful with that nuance. People here don't like measured criticism of Platner
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 72d
Not all people here. Some of us want to get closer to the truth, no matter how pretty, or ugly, it is. Overall though, I agree.
edible_funk@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 71d
My concerns are that he's either lying about knowing it was a totenkopf or if he isn't that he's pretty stupid because a totenkopf isn't subtle, it's like the third or fourth most recognizable nazi symbol, and any tattoo shop that'll do a totenkopf is gonna have other nazi imagery around because that's a nazi shop, so he would have had to miss that too. So yeah he was either nazi adjacent or really dumb. Neither are good, but he likely can't be worse than Collins so he gets a benefit of the doubt. But I'm sorry if you get a totenkopf tattoo without somehow recognizing a prominent and exclusively nazi symbol then you're pretty goddamn stupid. It's not an obscure symbol, it's the goddamn death's head. You shouldn't even need history class, popular media should be enough.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 71d
Exactly. And the people here that are willing to say whatever they need to in order to deflect any criticism, regardless of how valid...
Stop trying to fucking gaslight people into thinking this isn't a blatant Nazi symbol.
I was literally told on here that I'm lying about knowing the symbol prior to the controversy. In their mind it's simply not possible for someone to be aware of the totenkopf. Unreal.
rossman@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 73d
this is good to know. billionaires can play both sides and all candidates are susceptible to being a turncoat. ultimately it's maine choice and he has more to bring to the table.
Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 73d
Sort of..
There are many unaccounted for, could just be those who are backing dems are OK with that being public vs through a PAC.
edible_funk@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 71d
Stein literally ran at the behest of Russia as a Dem spoiler. This was pretty out in the open. Do not vote for Russian assets/agents.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 73d
It's definitely not fine to vote for an Ableist like Stein who thinks you can cure autism with crystals
Edit: apparently I have her mixed up with someone else
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 73d
Source?
She graduated from harvard medical school and practiced medicine for 25 years before she entered politics, I sincerely doubt she believes either autism is a disease that can be cured or that crystals have anything to do with it.
Meanwhile her platform on disability rights is leagues ahead of Kamala and the Dems
You can hate Stein for being a spoiler, but there's no need to spread lies about her.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 73d
I can't find anything. I might be mixing her up with another green party candidate. Mb.
At most I can find that she used to be anti-vax but has changed her position on that.
As long as the electoral college exists Jill Stein can be a literal angel, Halo and wing span.. and it won't matter.
Anyone who thinks voting third party will do anything is either a secret Republican or is hopelessly naive.
edible_funk@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 71d
I hate her for working for Putin.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 72d
Maybe Maryanne what's her face?
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 0 pts · 73d
No, West.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 73d
Trump, an actual Russian asset and known pedophile with deep ties to a fascist tech oligarchs
Harris, an empty suit who took the nomination sans primary and immediately handed her campaign to the Cheney family
Jill Stein, a perennial fail candidate with no meaningful ties to anyone who mostly just campaigns on climate change and anti-war issues
I mean, if you want the Harm Reduction Candidate, it's obviously Stein.
But if you're heavily invested in partisan politics, you just vote straight ticket
BillCheddar@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 73d
Jill Stein has run multiple Presidential campaigns, each one funded by the fucking Russians.
IDK what the hell you're going on about, but you've completely missed the plot with that traitorous bitch.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 72d
she was investigated by the senate, and they found that she wasn't taking funding from russians. this is misinformation
BillCheddar@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 72d
Bullshit. They proved she was a Russian asset.
Here's a story of her campaigning in 2024 with Russian assets.
https://democrats.org/news/icymi-jill-stein-to-campaign-today-with-alleged-russian-assets/
Here's one from 2018 showing the Russians running a social media blitz on behalf of Jill Stein for President.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russians-launched-pro-jill-stein-social-media-blitz-help-trump-n951166
SORRY BUT YOU'RE JUST WRONG, DUDE. SHE'S A FUCKING RUSSIAN PLANT AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -1 pts · 72d
this is all insinuation and innuendo. what I said is the truth.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 72d
BillCheddar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 72d
What you said is technically treason. She's a traitor and by extension, so are her supporters.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 72d
It doesn't matter. They have a picture of her sitting at a dinner table that one time in 2015. So now she's basically FSB Western Hemisphere Commanding Officer for life.
Facts simply do not influence their feelings.
edible_funk@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 71d
Why was she there? Why exactly was an unelected political candidate meeting with a hostile foreign government during an election campaign? Why could that be?
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 73d
Voting for Stein was basically voting for Trump
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 72d
voting for stein was voting against trump.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 72d
Lol no, not how the electoral college works
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -1 pts · 72d
this is a nonsequitur
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 72d
Is this like how voting for Gary Johnson is voting for Hilary?
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 72d
Anything but voting for Hillary was voting for Trump
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 72d
How the Hillary Clinton campaign deliberately “elevated” Donald Trump with its “pied piper” strategy
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 69d
Yeah.....
edible_funk@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 71d
That's all well and good but it's known that non and third party voters get republicans elected and arguing with numpties who ignore that reality isn't worth it.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 72d
that's just not true
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 72d
Just a complete lack of understanding of US elections.
Edit: never mind, I just saw the user name. No benefit of the doubt here, this is misinformation. You know exactly what you're saying.
What's the end goal here? Accelerationism I guess? How's that working out for you
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 38 pts · 73d
areakode@riskeratspizza.com · 16 pts · 73d
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 72d
When that health care CEO was executed, his company, and all the other health care companies temporarily eased up on their denials, and thousands of people got treatment who were previously denied. I've read of people who were going to die, until they suddenly got approved following the murder.
Of course, they've gone back to business as usual, but that only demonstrates that we have to execute another CEO every few months. Maybe be strategic about it, and spread it around in different industries until they get their shit together.
First handle a few health care guys until they clean it up, and stay there. Then maybe oil companies CEOs are next. Maybe pharmaceutical companies.
Eventually, maybe we execute enough, that the business world decides to adopt a more moral stance towards money, one where they can still get rich, without being such shitheads that they eventually get set on fire in front of their families.
areakode@riskeratspizza.com · 1 pts · 73d
Bluedragon012@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 72d
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 72d
It would be nice to have a post-conflict plan TBH. But yeah, whatever the plan, that would be step 1
deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 72d
post conflict plan is socialist reconstruction & infrastructure but most liberals aren’t ready to accept that yet, they’d rather have oligarchy because it means they won’t have to give up their gentrified apartment
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 71d
Honestly, I think the 2nd biggest reason for the opposition to socialism, is change. People don't like breaking habit, even if it is extremely bad for them. Better the demon you know, than a angel you don't.
Randelung@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 71d
No, you see, when I'm in charge, everything will be peachy! It's the other oligarchs that are the problem.
zbyte64@awful.systems · 1 pts · 71d
It's socialism or barbarism but they got you thinking they are the same things
Randelung@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 71d
They got you thinking it would be socialism.
404found@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 72d
Seems like a short sighted plan. Not much changed after what happened to the CEO of UHC insurance.
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 71d
Maybe not long term, but there was a noticeable uptick in claims being approved from what I recall. Whether you think Luigi was right or wrong, it's hard to deny people are alive today because of him.
edible_funk@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 71d
It directly resulted in thousands of claims being granted that would otherwise have been denied, literally saving thousands of lives. It got my dad's heart surgery approved.
Bluedragon012@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 72d
404found@lemmy.zip · -2 pts · 71d
It's cute you think the problem can be solved by wiping them out. You're either naive or ignorant to the way things work. Either way I don't want to be a part of this conversation anymore so I'll just stop completely with my noise.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 71d
a solution without wiping them out won't solve the problem.
zbyte64@awful.systems · 2 pts · 71d
I call it the house cleaning fallacy. "Cleaning the house doesn't solve the problem of things getting dirty"
404found@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 71d
Exactly. I feel like a lot of the people who are not in agreement with me on this issue are being short sited and impractical.
Bluedragon012@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 71d
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 73d
"But we need someone electable, someone both sides like!"
Yeah no, the "both sides" these people are referring to is the defensive and offensive wing of the same group.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 73d
You cant win elections appealing to "both sides".
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 73d
You can, if you're appealing to the 1% of each side
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 72d
How do we/ why would we appeal to people who are literally a combination of mind-bogglingly corrupt Traitors, Racists, and Pedophiles? What kind of a compromise do you cut with them? They are only allowed to do a little graft, treason, racism, and child raping? Just regulate it, to keep it at a reasonable level?
MAGA needs to be mercilessly crushed, and purged from our government and society. They don't get to contribute to the future of America. We allowed them to do that after the Civil War, and it led to this. We can't make that mistake again.
MAGAs rise and reign has been ugly, and we need to make their decline and demise even uglier, so future generations will learn harsh lessons from it.
kgbbot@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 71d
Heritage foundation and Federalist fucks too
edible_funk@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 71d
They all need treated like the traitors and seditionists they are.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 73d
Jesus Christ, Maine.
robocall@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 72d
Let's interview everyone that has a grudge with Susan Collins.
No? We can only interview every ex girlfriend, guy that's willing to say something negative, and Republican friend of a friend that knows the grassroots guy. Huh, I wonder why.
godsammitdam@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 73d
They are absolutely terrified of Platner taxing them aren't they?
I think that tells us all we need to know.
I wonder if they're feeling what we felt with Trump where no matter how many truths we told about his scandals he kept going. The difference this time is that it's democrats and republicans lying and trying to manufacture scandals, but it's not slowing him down.
Hell yeah Maine, tax those terrorists!
timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 73d
Far less to do with that than with Republicans control of the Senate potentially hinging on her seat.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 73d
I listened to her talk. She’s geriatric AF.
Educated, united, armed populace over billionaires
BigMacHole@thelemmy.club · 16 pts · 72d
BUT these Billionaires CARE about Us! THATS why they're FORCING us to Invest ALL OUR RETIREMENT into Their Companies so they can be Trillionaires!
ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 72d
NM_Gringo@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 72d
Hey, now. Susan Collins is very concerned about all the billionaire money in politics. Very concerned. Almost very, very concerned. Right on the edge.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 72d
She's not happy about it, but in the end, after wrestling with her conscience, she will take their money, but she's not happy about it, and she'll do whatever they tell her to do, but she's not happy about it.
benjirenji@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 72d
She must be a very unhappy woman.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 72d
Those pearls don't clutch themselves.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 14 pts · 73d
Planter was the only candidate whose website had the word "genocide" so he got my vote
garbagehead@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 73d
She's been strongly pro-war all along and that is a huge money making venture.
BillCheddar@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 73d
Her fucking husband is a lobbyist whose job before that was as a lobbyist for weapons manufacturers.
Before all that, he was her mentor in politics, in case you wondered if every goddamn Republican was grooming someone at some point.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 73d
Yet tankies will still continue to focus their vitriol on Platner...
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 73d
He's problematic, maybe? Probably? What he isn't is Susan "he's learned his lesson" Collins.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 17 pts · 73d
Waiting for a perfect candidate with a squeaky clean record is an exercise in futility.
The only way someone gets old enough to run for political office while having enough knowledge and experience to actually be capable of doing the job, without having ever made any mistakes that one's opponents can dig up for their mudslinging campaigns, is to take no risks, be non-controversial, a chameleon, totally performative and insincere. That's how you end up with these robotic-sounding DNC stars.
What's important is whether someone learned from their mistakes and has shown themselves capable of improving. There's this weird essentialist idea floating around in people's heads that once someone has made a mistake, that mistake is fundamentally who they are as a person and they should be judged for it for the rest of their lives. And honestly, if that mentality takes root and grows, it could lead to a very dystopian world. It's just one more part to add to the total surveillance state we're already sliding towards.
edible_funk@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 71d
I mean the dude got a nazi tattoo. Not an ambiguous thing, an exclusively and extremely recognizable nazi tattoo. The amount of stupid required to do that without knowing it was a nazi tattoo, or anyone in your circle who's seen it over the years, is incredibly concerning. So given the choice between he knowingly got a nazi tattoo and lied or he and everyone around him is too dumb to recognize like the third or fourth most recognizable nazi symbol, well he's probably still better than Susan Collins. But nobody accidentally gets a nazi tattoo.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · -1 pts · 71d
A nazi tattoo that hardly anyone knew was a nazi symbol until the story about him spread around? I for one didn't know what it was until I read about him.
Does that make me "too dumb to recognize like the third or fourth most recognizable nazi symbol"? I guarantee you I'm not the only one.
"extremely recognizable" is a huge stretch.
edible_funk@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 71d
I mean if you've ever covered nazi Germany in a history class you've seen the totenkopf. If you've seen popular media featuring Nazis you've seen the totenkopf. It's distinctive from any other skull or crossbone pirate imagery which is the excuse I keep hearing. If you've played the wolfenstein remake the fucking bag guy is literally called deaths head. Yeah, if you're totally unaware that the totenkopf is well known and exclusively Nazi symbol, and you tattoo it on yourself at a tattoo parlor willing to give Nazi tattoos, and everyone in your life that sees it for the decade plus you are displaying it, then absolutely you and all those people that saw and also didn't know are stupid. You cannot get a Nazi tattoo by accident unless you're really really really fucking dumb.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 71d
That's a stretch. I don't recall ever seeing a totenkopf in a history textbook. Maybe if you majored in history with a focus in WWII, but that's not the majority of people.
I don't think I've ever noticed one portrayed in any media depicting nazis either. Inglorious Bastards? Sound of Music? The Pianist? It's a Beautiful Life? Schindler's List? Boy in the Striped Pajamas? Show me a screenshot from any of those movies that has a totenkopf.
How many people is that? Oh, not the majority. Great.
I wasn't aware of that until I read about it in the context of Platner.
I wouldn't have anyway because I think it looks stupid.
I don't think those kinds of parlors exactly advertise themselves as such.
You still haven't convinced me that the majority of people even know what it is.
I guess I'm stupid then.
I don't have any tattoos, but I can still see how someone might have walked into a tattoo shop, picked something out of their catalog and gotten it without researching the history or symbolism behind it. It's not that crazy to believe.
edible_funk@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 71d
I learned about the fuckin thing in grade school history in the goddamn rural Midwest. You're just saying that most people are really stupid. You've got a big fuckin blind spot for fascist imagery and it's got you doing nazi apologism. Ignorance isn't a goddamn excuse in a lot of situations and this is one of them. Nobody accidentally gets a nazi tattoo because it's not fuckin easy to find a tattoo shop that tolerates nazi imagery in the first place and the ones that do are fuckin nazi shops. Ignorance does not get to be an excuse for tattooing a goddamn death's head on you. No. If you knew anything about tattoo culture you'd know him getting in the first place very nearly guarantees he knew what it was. I'd still prefer him over Susan Collins but he's either lying or really fucking dumb and these are the only two options. Or he was forced to join a prison gang, so I guess three options but I'm pretty sure it's not the third. It is impossible to accidentally get a nazi tattoo.
logi@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 71d
Since I went browsing around, here are some images for comparison:
Yes, it's a specific design and you should be careful with skulls but I'm not sure we should demand that everyone recognize the difference. I wouldn't have until now if I'd seen them as line drawings. In embossed silver, sure...
edible_funk@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 71d
I think we should. Because you don't accidentally get a nazi tattoo because any shop willing to do nazi tats very quickly and rightfully gets a reputation as a nazi shop, and if you're seeing a death's head in their flash you're seeing more nazi imagery. So he would have had to miss all of that. And everyone who ever saw it would have also had to have been unaware, and again despite your lack of awareness it's incredibly recognizable as an exclusively nazi symbol, it's up there with the iron cross right behind ss runes and the swastika. It's right there on the ss caps. The fuckin Mitchell and Webb "are we the baddies" sketch that everyone memes shows it front and center. It is not an ambiguous symbol and he's either lying about knowing what it was or really stupid. He's still better than Collins, but you don't accidentally get a nazi tattoo and I'm kinda tired of everyone minimizing this like it's no big fuckin deal. He gets the benefit of the doubt but everyone should be keeping him under a fucking microscope for any fuckery whatsoever.
architect@thelemmy.club · 0 pts · 72d
I mean if you’re an ex drug addict you shouldn’t be Secretary of health. I think at some point we’ve gone too far.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 72d
I think RFK jr. shouldn't be Secretary of Health because he's anti-science, anti-vaccine, anti-handwashing, anti-public health, believes raw milk and red meat are good for you, eats roadkill, swims in raw sewage, and brags about doing coke off of public bathroom toilet seats. I'm sure I missed a few points, too.
Being a former drug addict doesn't factor into it. Some of the kindest, most caring, self-aware, and health-focused people I know are former drug addicts. People can turn their lives around, and climbing out of a mountain-deep hole is as big of an accomplishment as climbing a mountain.
The fact that you're trying to conflate RFK jr.'s being-a-drug-addict with his being-a-disgusting-unqualified-piece-of-shit is very problematic and reveals a lot about you as a person.
solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 72d
Everything Harris or Biden related: "genocide is genocide!" "There's no such thing as a little genocide!"
Everything Platner: "what's genocide? He has a tattoo!"
All others in Democratic party (and Bernie somehow): "controlled opposition!"
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 72d
We need term limits in Congress.
ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 72d
5wim@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 72d
7.62 ?
ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 72d
I could swear that's what I typed. Or I've been playing a video game with different numbers? Who's to say.
trslim@pawb.social · 1 pts · 71d
theres a lot of 7mm ammo, particularly 7.62, 7.63 and 7.92. i could have swore there was a rare 7.68 ammo, but after looking for it to check, i cant find anything about it, so it either doesn't exist or is very rare
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 72d
The best time to plant a tree, and all that...
jestho@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 72d
You need a lot more than that, American
ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 72d
And probably needed more than one little law 40 years ago. I stand by my approximate ratio.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 73d
A traitor to the United States of America.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 73d
https://themainemonitor.org/billionaires-backing-collins-list/
The list it sources says 97 for her and 5 for the opponent.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 72d
Let them waste their money. And when the Dems take it all back, let's investigate and audit the fortunes of every one of those 97 Sociopathic Oligarchs, and see how many end up in prison, along with their family members.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 8 pts · 73d
Wut. Since when are hedge funds alternative investments?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 72d
They're alternative to any investments we're allowed to make. All we can do is stick our money in the bank for .5% interest with inflation over 4%, or toss our money into the stock market whirlpool for the wealthy to swallow.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · -2 pts · 72d
ETFs, mutual funds, forex, precious metals, cryptocurrency...
demizerone@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 72d
Let them waste their money. Mainers are not stupid. Can't be said for my home state of CA unfortunately...
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 71d
Cash wasted on liars and traitors. Are the Maine voters dumb enough to keep her in office?
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 71d
The cost of election campaigns in the US is just ridiculous. How/why does it cost millions/billions of dollars to run for public office?
ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 71d
The cost comes from running ad campaigns on all media types, which are unfortunately shown effective, and PAC groups can unfortunately spend unlimited money attacking the opposition.
green_goglin@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 73d
Always has been
6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 72d
& none of “em wanna see her nekkid.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 72d
Does Stephen King's recommendation carry any weight? Has he made a statement regarding this? Maybe he's smart to stay out of it.
DMBFFF@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 72d
He appears to have endorsed Platner:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_election_in_Maine#Endorsements_2
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 71d
Good to know. Thanks for the info.
marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 72d
The Epstein Island pedophile Stephen King who wrote CSEM multiple times?
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 71d
Not that one. The one who is a bestselling author. That one.
marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 71d
Right, the one who insisted the Epstein files weren't real, and also wrote about child sex.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 71d
I prefer my group of billionaires over their group. The Senate is so outrageously corrupt it is hard the fathom. It was created as a wealthy check on the will of the people. Just let that sink in.
boaratio@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 71d
It must be nice to be a sock puppet for the ruling class. Gotta feel great peeling off hundreds from their trillions.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 0 pts · 72d
She must be just as much of the people as pelosi, right?
/s
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 72d
WTF?
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 72d
Stupid people don't investigate the meaning of
/s.quick_snail@feddit.nl · 0 pts · 73d
I thought she dropped out?
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 72d
That was Janet Mills, the current Governor. She was also running in the race to unseat Collins' run for a seventh term as Senator.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 72d
The election won't change anything. Republicans will remain in power, the Tr*mp family will establish a ruling dynasty, and Democrats will express moderate concern.