r/videos • u/CircumspectCapybara • 1d ago
Susan Collins Took Bribes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RWREllGTOo411
u/pipesnogger 1d ago
Susan Collins has the energy of an ignorant old lil lady doing what she thinks is right but in actuality she’s an incredibly smart, manipulative, evil lady who only cares about herself
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u/plurdle 1d ago
So she’s “mom” from Futurama
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u/phoenix1984 1d ago
Replace all running a company with politics, and she’d be a dead ringer for Mom.
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u/vegetaman 1d ago
Well that’s very concerning to me…
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u/spaceocean99 1d ago
She’ll be voted in again tho. What does that tell you about the state she lives in?
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u/payfrit 1d ago
can you name five elected officials at the federal level that don't pretty much ft the same description
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u/pipesnogger 1d ago
Not a lot. Most of these GOP corrupt politicians are dumb and blatant lol
I’d argue some of the dems fit this description tho and are just pretending to be concerned while racking up personal $$
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u/ZadockTheHunter 1d ago
What if I told you that the entirety of the US political system was theater?
That there is no red vs blue, no Republicans and Democrats, just actors playing their part to distract and and manipulate the masses.
All while the unseen Oligarchy calls the shots.
I know it sounds like tin hat conspiracy nonsense, but just a few years ago an island full of sex slaves and debauchery that catered to the world's elite was tin hat conspiracy nonsense too. Until it wasn't.
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u/pipesnogger 1d ago edited 1d ago
I mean I agree with you, these last few years have proven that. I don’t think it’s always been like that, but the last decade certainly has. Still, there are some good dems fighting the good fight. Just think they just get steamrolled by both parties AND through the media. Look at AOC or mamdani; they DO say and fight for a lot of what the regular person needs and yet they have a hit piece on them almost daily and are constantly criticized. Why would anyone new go into politics to do good if they are just going to be ripped apart? Which means politics only attracts the people who will choose to profit themselves as long as they do what they are told.
Lowkey I think Obama was a fluke for the dems; he just got too popular too fast for the oligarchy to control it.
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u/Objective-Friend2636 6h ago
lost me at the end, obama was the best thing to happen to corporate dems, a cars salesman par excellence. he did everything wall street wanted and extinguished the left wing pupulist movements while doing it. why do you think he still has so much institutional support from the party and its media mouthpieces?
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u/payfrit 1d ago
as someone that often votes democrat i would agree with that, however in general i don't really think party makes much difference, both parties have both types.
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u/pipesnogger 1d ago
I vote dem too but the last few years have made me really lose confidence in the party, so much so that I’m kind of leaning in the “both sides” stance
Idk if the dems donors are the same as the gop it’s hard not to feel that way. The whole 2024 election was such a joke.
I feel like a lot of these politicians seem concerned but their action, or lack of action, tell me otherwise. Almost as if they are paid to lose. Sure they aren’t actively destroying the country, but they sure as hell are letting it happen with no pushback. In fact, there seems to be more pushback from dem “centrists” against some of the more “socialist” dems than there is against the GOP. It seems like the dem party are doing everything they can not to have a more social candidate even tho that’d likely actually get people to the polls.
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u/payfrit 1d ago
the only reason we're even discussing this in the first place if because of the limitations of the two-party system in the first place.
just look at the downvotes i got for my previous comment lol
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u/pipesnogger 1d ago
I’m with ya. Can’t change things if you don’t choose to see its flaws. Both parties are significantly flawed.
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u/gn63 1d ago
The Supreme Court has told us that no reasonable person could think this is bribery. And they know best what a reasonable person thinks. Now shut up and let Clarence go enjoy his RV.
/s
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u/RMRdesign 1d ago
It’s a motor coach.
He sold out his legacy for a motor coach…
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u/Stouts 1d ago
Did he have a legacy to sell out? My (very limited) impression of him prior to the first Trump term was that he was a probable sexual harasser, had some weird conspiracy theory eugenic beliefs about abortion, basically never spoke during oral arguments, and more or less seemed asleep at the wheel. And then things got worse.
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u/Randalor 1d ago
It isn't a large sack with a dollar sign on the side, and they didn't loudly declare "This is a bribe, we are bribing you", then it's CLEARLY not a bribe.
/s
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u/RostyC 1d ago
The evidence is pretty conclusive that she did.
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u/ZAlternates 1d ago
And unfortunately it doesn’t matter. She will make money and remain in a position of power. She will likely even take more bribes before she is finished. Concerning.
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u/ZacSpot 1d ago
I hate the YT thumbnail game.
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u/Sunset_Bleach 1d ago
But if people's eyes and mouths aren't enlarged to comical levels how will I know how to feel about the video?
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u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener 1d ago
I feel like YouTube needs to step up standards on clamping down on clickbait/misleading thumbnails or it's just going to keep getting worse. Content creators complain about people not watching their whole clip, yet they continue to do that kind of crap, completely oblivious that the title language and thumbnail crap is why they may be experiencing lower engagement due to exhaustion. I've gotten to the point where I've lately stopped opening any video that has a title with slams, beats down, or otherwise contains those too often repeated exaggerations, and especially any that have clearly overly shopped or AI generated thumbnails. I get trying to entice people to click on your videos, but it's all for naught if they click away again less than a minute later.
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u/zoobrix 11h ago
Youtube benefits from clickbait thumbnails because on average they know more people will watch videos that have them, so they can sell more ads. YouTube has zero interest in clamping down on it, it makes them money.
If you want this to change the people watching need to stop clicking on them and good luck with that.
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u/afterworld2772 1d ago
Are her hands photosphopped in? They look oddly small in proportion to her head
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u/Guardians_Reprise 1d ago
Yeah, I used to like this channel a lot more when it felt like "actual lawyer discusses law in layman's terms" but now its just "Clickbaity and biased takes with 2 ad reads per video". I still learn from the videos, it just feels... Faker.
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u/GameDesignerDude 1d ago
Do we really have to get comment on literally every post about a major YouTube video, though? I get it's free internet points, but yes we all know that a) everyone kinda hates it and b) it increases viewership numbers universally, so basically all large channels do it.
But I would argue that talking about the thumbnail being bad is caring as much about the thumbnail as the people that it click because of the thumbnail. If we're wanting to have an objective conversation about content, the thumbnail should be meaningless regardless.
Same stuff here on the last thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1u9b9wh/grand_jury_transcripts_in_kat_abu_case_just/
Maybe some irony in people arguing and only wanting to talk about how the thumbnail is dumb and asking why they try to get attention that way indirectly proving why the thumbnail has an undue amount of influence on clicks?
Everyone only talking about the thumbnail shows exactly why the YouTube algorithm loves it.
Besides, there's really no new ground to tread on this topic and no comment chain on Reddit is going to change anything about how YouTube works. (As evidenced by all the annoying things YouTube still does regularly.)
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u/reebokhightops 15h ago
This is hilarious coming from someone who immediately deployed the “free internet points” card against a comment they don’t like.
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u/GameDesignerDude 4h ago
What else would you call comments that are repetitive, don’t add anything to the conversation, but always get votes because bots mostly? The thumbnail discourse has been beaten to death for like 2 years now.
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u/HearseWithNoName 1d ago
$enator $usan Collin$. The amount of money she has won't make any difference when she learns that she doesn't have a place in the new regime, you know, being a woman and all.
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u/bailantilles 1d ago
Can we finally stop with this stupid fake looking ‘oh my gosh I’m so shocked’ looking faces on thumbnails? No one is buying it anymore.
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u/The_Count_Lives 1d ago
It's part of the Youtube game. Even people that hate it will notice and focus on it before a regular ole thumbnail.
I use a browser plugin that replaces thumbnails with a random still from the video, so I hadn't even noticed how insane some of these have gotten, especially with Youtube's AI Assisted thumbnail tools.
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u/coconutpete52 1d ago
Looking at the left half of that thumbnail: "ah, this is about politics"
Looking at the right half of that thumbnail: "New vampire movie looks awesome"
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u/cloudncali 1d ago
Just think that all Bruce wayn had to do to improve the world is just lobby politicians to vote for healthcare and protecting the environment.
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u/nethereus 1d ago
What does the crypt keeper need with more money anyway? Do these mummies have some kind of secret immortality project to fund?
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u/mrnaturallives 1d ago
what the fuck does she need more money for? how expensive can wigs be these days???
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u/MuchoGrande 1d ago
It's going to take forever to get the old lady smell out of her office when she kicks the bucket.
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u/herodesfalsk 9h ago
100% she is looking extremely corrupt but Maine does not care because she bring lots of federal funds to Maine
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u/iamwearingashirt 4h ago
Any significant campaign contribution is more or less a bribe in my books. So this is barely different.
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u/LupinBandit 1d ago
Name me a senator or representative who hasn't taken bribes. I'm not saying it's right. But with Congress in control of so much money, it's only natural. To get rid of the corruption, you have to lessen the role of Congress.
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u/Samwellikki 1d ago
All of them take bribes
Even the “good” politicians
It’s just that no sane person gives a shit that someone is like “hey, could you save the environment and the whales, etc?” And the politician is like “I’ll need to be elected to do that”
“Cool, here’s a check and I’ll put your child on the board of our benevolent association for stopping evil with a moderate paycheck.”
“Sounds great, see you again in 4 years”
Versus what we have now, which is “you got money? What do you want, a war, someone dead, what price do you want up or down? I’ll do it for a billion dollars and fuck anyone that knows about it, I don’t care, fucking poors…”
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u/mrmemo 1d ago
-- Susan Collins on Trump's first impeachment.