The corruption is really open at this point.
Given how close the polls are, if want to stop this, Americans here going to need to actively work to help elect Biden. That means checking your voter registration, talking with people you know, volunteering, and financially supporting the campaign
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Yea but compare that against decades of republicans saying “we’re not a democracy” while their judges champion foreign influence and remove regulations.
The Citizens United decision happened and people keep acting surprised about shit like this…
I hope Anthony Kennedy hits his head on a door frame and has to stop and blink a few times because it hurts.
Maybe its just me but this seems like a request for a bribe
That’s pretty much all lobbying is. Legalized bribery.
Trump’s response stunned several of the executives in the room overlooking the ocean: You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. At the dinner, he vowed to immediately reverse dozens of President Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted…
Giving $1 billion would be a “deal,” Trump said, because of the taxation and regulation they would avoid thanks to him
How the fuck is that even remotely legal?
Because the laws of the US are written by the people in charge who have all the money (resources).
Get money out of politics entirely. Interests of politicians needs to be aligned with the greatest number of people they represent, not companies
You can’t do that unless you hold power though, and that means not just Congress and the Presidency, but also the courts, since they’ve ruled that money is speech. And getting there means actually kicking in money to help elect candidates willing to make that change. (Or paying in both blood and treasure through a revolution, which is a lot less likely)
Yeah man, we’re fucked
Congress could pass a law, or an amendment. But they’ll have to destroy the republiQans to do that.
Which, obviously, i s preferable.
Hey member that time when Gee Dubz and Cheney planned to invade Iraq again? They met secretly with oil execs to review Iraq’s oil fields then prevented those meetings from becoming public record?
Member? It was before the 2000 election. Or maybe just afterwards. Lemme check. Ah yes, March 2001. Six months before “another ‘Pearl Harbor’” incident that surpise led to the invasion of those very same oil fields. What a coincidence!
Are we reaching a point in time where we need to codify some shit to prevent this from happening?
Are we reaching a point in time where we need to codify some shit to prevent this from happening?
A lot of this is already codified. Laws are toothless if those in charge of enforcing it are unwilling to do so.
That might help a little, but laws don’t help stop fascism because the Republican judges and prosecutors are all OK with bribery when a Republican does it.
I mean if “the last 150 years” is “a point” then yeah we’ve reached it.
