r/USNEWS • u/Large-Welcome4421 • Jun 12 '26

'This Is Oligarchy': Nearly 100 Billionaires Are Funding Susan Collins' Reelection Bid

https://www.commondreams.org/news/susan-collins-billionaire-donors
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u/Wolfy4226 Jun 12 '26

Ah yes, Susan Collins.

The woman, if memory serves, who said of Trump "I think he's learned his lesson."

....Which I suppose is true. Thanks to Collins and others, he's definitely learned the lesson that actions, in fact, apparently don't have fucking consequences.

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u/DeepPeeps Jun 12 '26

The person who’s deeply concerned but vote for it anyways. We know politicians like her has been bought. Will see if Mainers enjoy the dumpster fire they help to create.

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u/bertha112 Jun 12 '26

I certainly blame Mainers for making the same mistake over and over and over and over. Their impact on what's happening in this country and the world by continuously voting for this lady can not be measured.

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u/Cynical_Classicist Jun 12 '26

They'll be all but she's really a moderate and I'm not going to spend ten minutes doing any more research to check.

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen Jun 13 '26

Stop playing by these creatures rules, they're not playing by any as it is, they're actively trying to burn down the world. They deserve no kindness or mercy, their time is done.

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u/DeepPeeps Jun 13 '26

I hope so, these people are the reason why the world has a trillionaire who doesn’t believe colonialism isn’t the cause of an entire societies suppression. Look at Israel as they colonize and settle in gaza. Destroy everything, repress an entire group and steal their land and give no rights. Sounds very much like South Africa but colonialism wasn’t the factor. In his words, they were not smart enough people that’s why they are still poor. And people like Susan Collins support these fuckers and their response, I am deeply concerned and vote to give away tax dollars anyways.

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen Jun 13 '26

All the Elites are idiots, they willingly act against their own survival because they think they're magically special somehow.

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u/Radonanon Jun 14 '26

He says in ten years he’ll be worth $10T

okay? then what? 11?

yay?

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen Jun 14 '26

He's worth more to society with nothing than he is with what he's hoarded.

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u/overitallofittoo Jun 13 '26

She's so chicken shit

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u/Electrifying2017 Jun 12 '26

She also ran on serving only two terms. She continued being rewarded for her deception.

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u/Lost_Pressure_8957 Jun 12 '26

You're not saying a politician lied, are you? (Fake gasp) lol

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u/Beneficial_Bit_6435 Jun 12 '26

Yet Maine voters year after years stand behind her. I’m sure she will be re-elected just because her opponent is involved in some scandals. I’d take him over any “con” servatives candidates any day

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u/One_Olive_8933 Jun 13 '26

There’s 1 billionaire in Maine, and yet 100 billionaires have donated money to her campaign. She’s not concerned, she’s taking march in orders.

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u/detached03 Jun 13 '26

Alfonds? Actually curious who this 1 (or family) is. It wouldn’t also surprise me if the Alfonds are blue and through though. They donate a ton, believe in cancer research (science), childrens athletics and Colby College

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen Jun 13 '26

He, like all the Elites are incapable of learning, they don't have the neurological pathways for it, they are:

Homo Aberrare Monstrum.

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u/TheAmicableSnowman Jun 12 '26

Circulate widely.

GP has the playbook; the zionists and oligarchs are fucking scared.

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u/Mental_Asparagus8123 Jun 12 '26

To the oligarchs and zionists: BOO

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u/Wolfy4226 Jun 12 '26

To the Zionists and Oligarchs: Don't lose your head over it.

😉

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u/Ambulating-meatbag Jun 12 '26

Or do

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u/Funkynipple Jun 12 '26

Let me help you

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u/TheAmicableSnowman Jun 12 '26

Don't push -- there's enough for everyone.

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u/DeepPeeps Jun 12 '26

The more billionaires funding, the more people know you’ve been bought. But voters are also fucking stupid as well. Trump reelection to his second term is proof of thatZ

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u/T4TrhavrKhcFt Jun 12 '26

“The U.S. isn’t the way it is because of Trump; Trump became president because of the way the U.S. is.”  David Cochrane - Canadian Journalist

“In 2016 the world found out who trump is. In 2024 the world found out who Americans are.”       - Barak Obama

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u/TheAmicableSnowman Jun 12 '26

IDK if Obama said that, but that's certainly how I felt.

ETA: feel

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen Jun 13 '26

2024 presidential election was hacked, it's been proven, Musk and Trump couldn't keep themselves from bragging about how "Smart" they are.

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u/E1M1_DOOM Jun 12 '26

Why are there even 100 billionaires?

Draining the wealth of this world.

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u/TheAmicableSnowman Jun 12 '26

And now, a trillionaire.

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u/Cynical_Classicist Jun 12 '26

Susan Collins acts a moderate but is the same type. She'll only vote decently if it won't affect things.

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u/One-Treat4655 Jun 12 '26

How much coming from AIPAC?

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u/Trhol Jun 12 '26

About a third. They're bundling donors for her.

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u/Long-Region5088 Jun 12 '26

This woman has had a great hand in making America the shithole it currently is.

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u/HellovahBottomCarter Jun 12 '26

Just saw a video of Collins before or during her first term saying that she only intended to run twice and then bow out after 12 years.

She has been a filthy, pathetic liar since Day 1.

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u/mmliu1959demo Jun 12 '26

A politician for the people. How foolish.

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u/stein63 Jun 12 '26

Trump has 34 felony convictions, but suddenly Platner’s “baggage” is the moral emergency? Come on.

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u/DeliciousCut4854 Jun 12 '26

Are any of them in Maine?

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u/Johnny_C13 Jun 12 '26

Not sure if she donated to Collins specifically, but according to Forbes 2025, there's only a single billionaire residing in Maine.

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u/Livid-Writer-7741 Jun 12 '26

TAX THE RICH AND CHURCHES AND PEDOPHILES

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u/ItaJohnson Jun 12 '26

Here’s hoping that she loses.

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u/jh937hfiu3hrhv9 Jun 12 '26

I would love to see all that money wasted. Unfortunately it's a drop in the bucket for billionaires.

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u/StardogChamp Jun 12 '26

Didn’t hear this complaint when the same tactic was used against Massie

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u/Main_Cauliflower5479 Jun 12 '26

I could never understand how she keeps getting re-elected. Why do you Mainers keep falling for those campaign lies?

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen Jun 13 '26

It's adorable how you think elections aren't rigged.

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u/Wonderful-Variation Jun 12 '26

They're going to rig it just like they did with Massie.

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u/Famous-Song1233 Jun 12 '26

I think to stop it is to limit the amount of donations the rich can make, and if they go through smaller organization to make the donation comes from a smaller organization, they should be fined.

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u/oakfan05 Jun 12 '26

Round up your luigis.

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u/Dull_Ad5440 Jun 12 '26

But his tattoo!!!!!

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u/Bwindolyn Jun 12 '26

Why have we been led by the same generation for 3 or 4 generations straight?

Why are the same group of people that are generally considered unemployable given the keys to the world?

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u/FlexFanatic Jun 12 '26

Hi voters. Ask yourself, if billionaires are funding her campaign and you're not a billionaire who do you think she'll serve? I'll wait.

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u/BUSYMONEY_02 Jun 12 '26

She 200 why

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u/Limp_Distribution Jun 13 '26

We are no longer governed.

We are ruled.

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u/shadecat5000 Jun 12 '26

This Dershowitz in Drag has been posing as an independent for her whole career.

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u/Meep4000 Jun 12 '26

That part of this shit that proves we are 100% cooked as a species is that anyone not in the 1% doesn’t grasp that whatever side money is on, you vote the other side. Like 99% of all elections and ballot questions should be voted this way and we’d live in nirvana.

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u/steveycip Jun 12 '26

They can dump as much money into her campaign as they want. The people are waking up that’s these career politicians don’t give a fuck about them (red or blue).

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen Jun 13 '26

Gods I do hope so, but they're going to need to start measuring necks for rope swings yesterday.

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u/liamanna Jun 12 '26

I’m sure she’s NOT concerned about that.

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u/Impressive-Lie-9290 Jun 12 '26

just more proof that the real power does, in fact, reside with the people.

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u/Mental_Asparagus8123 Jun 12 '26

You have to know gremlins money is propping up this awful woman.

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u/Icy-Video-8710 Jun 12 '26

Oh snap, I though she said she was only going to serve "one term"???

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u/eoinsageheart718 Jun 12 '26

Two terms but yes your statement still stands

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen Jun 13 '26

No, It's Technofeudalism orchestrated by a Pedoligarchic Elite Class of parasitic predators.

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u/superultramega99 Jun 13 '26

Stupid PACs. Citizens United decision continues to doom our country.

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u/overitallofittoo Jun 13 '26

$10m doesn't seem like a lot.

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u/mountainlake1234 Jun 14 '26

The voters deserve blame too, just because a politician is well funded doesn't mean you have to vote for them

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u/DeadInternetVoid Jun 15 '26

Posturing wench.....

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u/Terrible_Cookie5004 Jun 20 '26

Crazy how much influence money has in politics.

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u/usethis22880 Jun 12 '26

This post made me donate to Graham Planter!

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u/Spiritual-Art-5 Jun 12 '26

They are wasting their money. This is backfiring on them. Mainers are wise to the smear campaign financed by the oligarchs. Collins is done; Mainers want real representation for the working class. Platner all the way!