Worse Than Shittizens United - The BCE Felonious Five Strikes Again!

[FORD]

Taft-Hartley was the beginning of the corporatist assault on the American people, but I don't see what it has to do with this thread.

Except for the fact that the damage done by Taft Hartley pales in comparison to anything that's been done since December 12, 2000

[FORD]

[Nitro Express]

I think the corporations are now so entrenched in the federal government the only way to clean house is for the states to hold a constitutional convention. The states fire all three branches of government and clear the slate. Fire everyone. I say add term limits to the congress and supreme court justices.

People need to remember the states hold most the power. We don't have to take this shit from a rogue federal government or the corrupt corporations it serves.

[FORD]

[jacksmar]

All you need to know : McCain-Feingold lost.


Citizens United :

The Court held that 2 U.S.C. Section 441a, which prohibits all corporate political spending, is unconstitutional. Foreign nationals, specifically defined to include foreign corporations, are prohibiting from making "a contribution or donation of money or ather thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State or local election" under 2 U.S.C. Section 441e, which was not at issue in the case.

Foreign corporations are also prohibited, under 2 U.S.C. 441e, from making any contribution or donation to any committee of any political party, and they prohibited from making any "expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication... ."

Perspective on our Constitutional Republic.

[ELVIS]

We're no longer a Constitutional Republic...

[Kristy]

We're no longer a Constitutional Republic...

We're a DVD conspiracy selling without fact checking one.

[Nickdfresh]

Well, not quite. The Citizens United decision stated that Americans do not forfeit their First Amendment rights when they join together to form businesses.

The defamation of this fact is a political lie. The never tried a case, fat, gun-hating oompa loompa didn't know what she was talking about in her own dissent.

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Oh fucking please! This is nothing but legalized corruption. It's tantamount to donating money to the police and town board to never get traffic tickets. FFS! Money is not and never has been speech! If it is, then a whole host of criminal enterprises will soon be legal...

[ELVIS]

We're a DVD conspiracy selling without fact checking one.

"We're" nothing...

You're a loser junkie pretending to be female and I'm steadily moving up the food chain of life on multiple avenues at the same time...

So, go get high again and stop bothering the people who work to support your drug habit...

Did I say you're a loser, loser ??

I thought so, Claude...

[jacksmar]

Oh fucking please! This is nothing but legalized corruption. It's tantamount to donating money to the police and town board to never get traffic tickets. FFS! Money is not and never has been speech! If it is, then a whole host of criminal enterprises will soon be legal...

nick,
The court struck down federal “aggregate limits” on how much an individual may spend on otherwise legal contributions in a two-year election cycle to federal candidates, political parties, and political action committees.

My take on the benefit of throwing more money at the parties and politics is not positive. The money going into politics mostly goes into the pockets of the media and media corporations.

So this next part will be tough to read and comprehend,,,,,,,,,but, for example,

If you listen to Limbaugh or O'Donnell,

if you watch OReily or Maddow, Cnn or FOX,

if you listen to Hannity or Hartmann...............


you are getting the same message.

[Kristy]

"We're" nothing...

You're a loser junkie pretending to be female and I'm steadily moving up the food chain of life on multiple avenues at the same time...

So, go get high again and stop bothering the people who work to support your drug habit...

Did I say you're a loser, loser ??

I thought so, Claude...

For all the gravy training welfare you've been for the past 10 years you sure are angry about your free lunches.

And you're a chronically unemployed cretin masquerading as a human being.

So, go back to your dollar store and stop calling 911 every time the store takes back their shopping cart.

Did I say you are chronically unemployed?

I thought so, junior.

[FORD]

if you listen to Hannity or Hartmann...............


you are getting the same message.

Not even remotely true.

Hannity is a moron who parrots Rupert Murdoch/KKKoch brothers talking points.

Hartmann generally supports the Democratic Party as the "lesser of two evils", but is not afraid to call them out on policy, and in fact, does so on a daily basis. He does so more than Rachel or the others on MSNBC because he's not limited by Comca$t in what he's allowed to say. Sadly he's also not as vocally opposed as Mike Malloy, Cenk Uygur or Norman Goldman are. But I see that as a minor philosophical difference, i.e. believing you can still change things by voting for one of the two major parties - but radically changing that party.

Thom is a little more optimistic than I am in that regard. And it's because of Shittizens United and now Shittier United (the sequel) which will reinforce the lie that the "Democratic" party has to corporate cock (or Koch, more accurately) to compete with the Repukes.

[ELVIS]

For all the gravy training welfare you've been for the past 10 years you sure are angry about your free lunches.

No, that's you...

My life is exactly how Bob Daisley wrote in the rock anthem Believer:

"Destiny planned out I don't need no handout"

And you're a chronically unemployed cretin masquerading as a human being.

I don't need a "job." I have multiple skills...

So, go back to your dollar store and stop calling 911 every time the store takes back their shopping cart.

That's fucking lame and proof you're locked in a closet smoking crack...

Did I say you are chronically unemployed?

Yes...

I thought so, junior.

Whatever, crackhead, stoner, trannywannabe...

Fuck off...

[Kristy]

Whatever, crackhead, stoner, trannywannabe...

Fuck off...

Poor bitter little racist. A chronically unemployed talking parrot for a paranoid cult of idiots. You spend more time here than you do at the employment office blaming anyone for your own misery who happens to have a nickel more than you do. Try getting out of your trailer park and socializing sometime.

[jacksmar]

Not even remotely true.


Hartmann ..............

As you're a socialist, the point made went directly over your head.

Go back and re-read, the point wasn't about Hartmann or Hannity or any of the rest.