This style of captioning is horrible and should never be used for anything except as an example of how not to do captioning.
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Yeah, this isn’t karaoke. We don’t need the words highlighted as they’re said.
That guy sold his soul for just $7K? My fucking god are our elected officials cheap…
Here for it.
When? Where?
Most likely from yesterday, in Illinois at the Democratic Party of DuPage County Annual Gala Fundraiser.
Just a little bit of hope to start my day!
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was talking politics with someone and the were talking about how their progressive candidate doesn’t take corporate money.
how the fuck is that something that needs to be brought up!!! how is bringing the expected norm?
It’s because “Corporations are people” and “Money is speech” are foundational parts of the SCOTUS SuperConstitution.
now that they are legally people, can they be tried in court like people and send all their executives to jail when the company breaks the law?
All people are equal, but some people (in this case, the corporate entries that are objectively not people) are more equal than others
US politics is different than what you have.
I’m in the US. it’s just insane how the bar is that low.
that’s like putting in my CV that I proudly did not have sex with the office coffeemaker.
You can run for office without doing it - many have, and do! They just don’t win that office. Except once in awhile like . . when, uh . . the . . well, I’m sure there’s an example out there somewhere.
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Nobody should be able to use money to influence politics for any reason.
then form another government ╮(︶▽︶)╭
Choke on a boot
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Also their power too!
PAC money is just a bad, anti-democratic concept overall. That is why it exists.
If I ran for any office I would literally accept all donations, and not concern myself at all with where any of it came from. I’d have no private meetings or dinners with donors, spend no time talking to lobbyists.
I’d just treat every dollar the same and focus on what it’s being used for.
It doesn’t seem logical not to take your oppositions money if they are going to give it freely. That’s their mistake to make.
The money is a reward. Unless you sell out you will not receive their money.
The funnier joke is that they kept their seats.
Lobbying still works in FashUS.
Hopefully Anabel Mendoza finds herself suicided from the top of a hotel building. /s
