Progressive Socialist, Humanist, Heathen. The U.S. isn't a democratic republic - it's run by the unelected. I speak English, Portuguese, German, and Spanish.
They passed a law that said corporations are "people."
Then they passed a ruling that said spending money is "speech."
Then they said you cannot limit speech.
Therefore, a corporation spending $300 million to influence an election is a person exercising their constitutional rights.
This is not a metaphor.
This is Citizens United v. FEC, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 2010, the law of the land, the operating architecture of American democracy.
Follow the logic and it’s airtight.
Question the premises and the entire thing collapses into what it plainly is:
A legal framework constructed, over decades, by people whose interests were served by constructing it, to convert unlimited money into unlimited political influence while calling it "freedom."
The vocabulary did more work than any lobbyist.
The vocabulary was the lobbying.
There is no democracy in the “Democratic” party. It is run like the Mafia. There will always be a mob boss at the top. Right now it is Jeffries and Schumer, before it was Pelosi and Schumer. It is an authoritarian party that exists to serve capital and betray workers.
Americans invented a word for bribery so it would stop sounding like bribery.
They called it "lobbying."
A pharmaceutical company that spends $300 million purchasing the votes of legislators who will then block drug price regulation is not, in American law, corrupt.
It is "civically engaged."
A defense contractor that pays a retired general $500,000 a year to advocate for weapons contracts, contracts the general previously approved from the government side, is not a conflict of interest.
It is "private sector expertise."
A senator who receives $2 million from the insurance industry over a career and votes against universal healthcare every single time is not bought.
He is "fiscally responsible."
The genius of American corruption is not that it is hidden.
It is that it is legible, documented, publicly filed, searchable on the internet, and still not called what it is, because the people who would name it are the same people cashing the checks, and the people watching it happen have been trained to call it "democracy."
At least when a Nigerian official takes a bribe, everyone in the room knows what happened.
In Washington, they hold a press conference about it.
BREAKING: Thomas Massie’s resolution to impeach Pete Hegseth fails in the House 211-204, after 11 Democrats failed to show up for the vote.
If those 11 Democrats had showed up, Hegseth would have been impeached 215-211.
CODEPINK’s Taxpayers Uprising is currently flooding the halls of Congress to stop the outrageous “Trump-Hegseth $1.5 Trillion War Bill”.
Watch CODEPINK co-founder Jodie Evans and I discuss their efforts to stop this bill at the link below:
I don't think AOC and Zohran anticipated the huge public backlash against Jeffries & Schumer when they threw their lot in with them so early. That's why AOC's squirming at the chalkboard & changing her tune to 'of course we'd *prefer* a progressive challenger but there's nothing we can do' from 'I support Jeffries bc of housing in NY.'
Dr. Gabor Maté - holocaust survivor, Jewish physician & renowned author:
"Israel right now is a psychopath functioning in an infrastructure of impunity.
It is a complete disaster spiritually, ethically, morally."
Hakeem Jeffries mocks the media and asserts he already has the votes for Speaker then endorses Chuck Schumer.
This man is funded by AIPAC and Palantir, opposes Medicare for All, and will use his speakership to serve Wall Street and the Zionist war machine.
The people desperately need a party because the Democrats don’t represent us at all.
Tonight, we try to distract you with something that happened in Europe 88 years ago in the hopes that you'll stop noticing the livestreamed genocide we're funding with your tax dollars.
BREAKING: Ohio congressman Don Leonard shares top House Democrats threatened him if he doesn’t get in line and vote for Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker.
All because he has 2 demands:
1) End Citizens United to stop corporations and billionaires from buying elections.
2) End the war on Iran and all funding to Israel.
These are popular positions with the overwhelming majority of Americans, yet top House Democrats are threatening him for trying to serve the people.
There is no place for the will of the people in the “Democratic” party, which is why it is time for us to build our own party!