The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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Unbridled greed is the most destructive problem facing humanity today.
aug 29, 2025, 9:55 pm • 128 14 • view
Exactly
aug 30, 2025, 4:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Isn't greed one of the Seven Deadly Sins? And aren't Xtians supposed to try to live free from sin? Well, they're not trying hard enough.
aug 29, 2025, 10:48 pm • 3 0 • view
unbridled greed is what gave us every aspect of your life.
aug 30, 2025, 1:26 am • 0 0 • view
You get it.
aug 29, 2025, 10:29 pm • 24 0 • view
Thank you
aug 30, 2025, 4:25 pm • 2 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 1:12 am • 0 0 • view
also, the idiocy of ~8 billion people who can't stop the few thousands whose unbridled greed actually turns into unlimited money
aug 30, 2025, 1:21 pm • 2 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 12:11 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 1:12 am • 0 0 • view
The NRA bought the republican party in the 80s.... Then distorted the second amendement and transformed america into the mass shooter gallery of the world.
aug 30, 2025, 1:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Corporations may be a fine way to organize a business. A corporation has a very clear goal: maximize short/medium term profits. A catastrophic problem occurs if a corporation is treated as a person, with Constitutional rights. Or, if corporations are allowed to control government.
aug 30, 2025, 1:01 am • 1 0 • view
Or, if government were run as if it were a corporation. But government has very different goals than corporations. It’s goal is trying to maximize safety and prosperity for everyone, in the widest possible sense. In some ways, government is almost exactly opposite to corporations.
aug 30, 2025, 1:01 am • 1 0 • view
it is opposite, it's not there to make money, it is our money, a paid for SERVICE, not a business
aug 30, 2025, 4:21 am • 2 1 • view
Oligarch-owned media propaganda is at least as much of a problem. Along with people not challenging the things they've been conditioned to believe. Right after that, is all the politicians who've sold their souls to big-money. They all need to be voted out.
aug 30, 2025, 12:05 am • 1 0 • view
We could also limit the length of campaigns to, say, July 4th- November Election Day, including primaries. And make Election Day a paid holiday with free public transportation to the polls for anyone who needs it.
aug 30, 2025, 1:15 am • 1 0 • view
That's why they're rich!
aug 30, 2025, 8:30 am • 0 0 • view
Tech billionaires buy off Trump. No industry regulation.
aug 30, 2025, 2:45 pm • 0 0 • view
There isn’t a republican or democratic party. america is run by corporations and has been for decades. It’s exactly what happens when politicians can be bought. And it’s exactly why the old guard are worried about the new generation. “Don’t fuck up the deal we have!”. It’s abhorrent.
aug 30, 2025, 4:23 am • 4 1 • view
aug 30, 2025, 5:40 am • 1 0 • view
So True. We need to start over. No Lobbyist, No Campaign funding. Its always the most money that usually wins. Really sick of it. We need to change the way we do things.
aug 29, 2025, 10:03 pm • 4 0 • view
Thank you Sir, for your continued advocacy, fierce bravery and brilliance 🇺🇸👏🏽💪🏽💥
aug 29, 2025, 10:32 pm • 3 0 • view
I've been wondering for a while now why humans should be in charge of the planet at all. Maybe birds should have a go?
aug 30, 2025, 1:23 am • 1 0 • view
I have been saying this for years now, nothing will change until Citizen's United is overturned.
aug 30, 2025, 1:27 am • 2 0 • view
Snap, my host’s name is Robert too, but I call him Bobby. As a nepotism baby, my whole existence has been for money in politics, so ixnay on all of that if you don’t mind. [Satire] youtube.com/@intellectua... I’m the worm living inside RFK Jnr’s head, enjoy my publicity shot below.
aug 30, 2025, 6:58 am • 2 0 • view
Voting for people with no integrity, no morality, and no decency, is also a problem We elect garbage instead of dragging it to the curb.
aug 29, 2025, 10:08 pm • 3 0 • view
Garbage gets elected because decent people can't compete with the levels of American psychopathy required to be a soulless shill to your donors.
aug 29, 2025, 10:54 pm • 4 0 • view
Yes, we elected garbage over and over. Why should we expect anything different
aug 30, 2025, 1:15 am • 0 0 • view
Greed and lust for power bring everyone to the bottom and eventually, the end.
aug 30, 2025, 6:57 pm • 0 0 • view
My neighbor who is a trained healthcare professional says that vaccine research is now gone and that if it restarts it will probably be by a private investor(s) with a lot of money financing pharmaceutical and medical related corporations and non-profits; instead of govenment owned, privately owned.
aug 30, 2025, 1:42 am • 1 0 • view
trump pays off kids
aug 29, 2025, 11:51 pm • 3 0 • view
Cut off the special interest money, and you cut off the head of the snake! Or:
aug 29, 2025, 10:15 pm • 4 0 • view
NEW! extra Rich and creamy style Solent Green taste's like a Billion Dollars!
aug 30, 2025, 4:19 am • 4 1 • view
Thank SCOTUS
aug 29, 2025, 11:02 pm • 4 0 • view
Preach it! There is no greater threat to the world than greed.
aug 30, 2025, 1:32 pm • 0 0 • view
😡
aug 30, 2025, 1:22 am • 1 0 • view
Does anyone remember the meeting tRump had with a group of billionaires before the election? Where he promised them anything? Anyone? Billionaires buy off America, and the world goes to hell. Remember who stood behind the orange turds behind when he was inaugurated. It wasn't Mother Theresa. 🚬😎
aug 30, 2025, 2:01 am • 2 0 • view
Corporations ARE NOT PEOPLE. Start with a law establishing this.
aug 29, 2025, 10:21 pm • 4 0 • view
And self-policing guarantees no change of the status quo.
aug 30, 2025, 12:51 am • 2 0 • view
I'd go one step back and say GREED is the root of all evil. An insatiable desire for far more than what you need of anything. Money is the best example. Power and land are others. Greed destroys everything it touches.
aug 30, 2025, 2:10 am • 4 0 • view
The feeling of not having enough… is the root of our problem.
aug 29, 2025, 11:29 pm • 5 0 • view
Where is the root cause?
aug 30, 2025, 3:34 am • 2 0 • view
AIPAC buys off Congress. Palestinians die & have no home
aug 30, 2025, 2:00 am • 2 0 • view
Dark money flows in as long as Citizen United stands!
aug 29, 2025, 10:22 pm • 6 0 • view
Money in our everything is the root of our problems. An American’s salary determines every aspect of their life.
aug 30, 2025, 3:04 am • 1 0 • view
🎯🎯🎯
aug 30, 2025, 2:53 pm • 1 0 • view
True, when special interest groups took over community action and political participation, true democracy died.
aug 29, 2025, 10:53 pm • 5 0 • view
Citizens united 🤬
aug 29, 2025, 10:44 pm • 4 0 • view
Truth
aug 30, 2025, 11:25 am • 0 0 • view
The Epstein files are the answer.
aug 30, 2025, 1:39 am • 1 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 12:42 pm • 3 0 • view
Yep, Ronald Reagan enabled the deep state, and here we are.
aug 30, 2025, 12:09 pm • 0 0 • view
AIPAC buys off Congress, watches children starve to death.
aug 30, 2025, 12:21 am • 1 1 • view
Yeppers.
aug 30, 2025, 12:12 am • 2 0 • view
Term limits is a big step forward in curtailing the influence of these big businesses
aug 29, 2025, 11:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Nope. The existence of the Senate is the root of our problem. Money being able to buy congress is just one of the many cancers grown by a malapportioned legislature built to protect slavery.
aug 30, 2025, 3:54 am • 3 1 • view
NOT totally true ALL ur troubles are a direct result of NoT enquiring in the past (&present) why ‘this’; why ‘that’ ‘is there a better way?’ by NOT CONTROLLING UR legislature/POLITICIANS “Don’t wait until freedom is gone to regret its loss. FREEDOM isn’t GOD-GIVEN; it is FOUGHT for by the PEOPLE”
aug 30, 2025, 5:55 am • 2 1 • view
So, what's the strategy for getting rid of "citizens united"? We would have to take over the Senate AND the house by a margin of 60/40 to insure they cant block legislation. The Supreme Court is bought and payed for by the dark money at the core of the problem. ETHICS reform is unlikely.
aug 29, 2025, 11:33 pm • 8 1 • view
It's those willing to take that money . If honest people were in Congress this would not happen. Just sayin.
aug 29, 2025, 10:18 pm • 3 0 • view
Trump buys off Melania with pre-nup. No action.
aug 29, 2025, 11:46 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes, money and cowards. Don’t forget cowards.
aug 29, 2025, 10:46 pm • 3 0 • view
Money in politics is the root of our destruction.
aug 30, 2025, 1:52 pm • 0 0 • view
You forgot AIPAC -- they love seeing Palestinian kids in misery
aug 29, 2025, 10:38 pm • 3 0 • view
Publicly finance all elections NOW!
aug 29, 2025, 11:00 pm • 7 0 • view
And limit the amount each campaign can spend, as well as the length of the campaign season.
aug 30, 2025, 1:31 am • 3 0 • view
I 💯 agree
aug 29, 2025, 10:42 pm • 5 0 • view
It’s the fact that our politicians accept it. It’s the lack of ethics. If they had integrity and were true public servants not money grubbing folks who have their hands out- we would get the legislation we need.
aug 29, 2025, 11:19 pm • 5 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 12:36 pm • 0 0 • view
The root of our dysfunction is racism and misogyny.
aug 30, 2025, 2:44 am • 1 0 • view
not going to include subservience to the donor class?
aug 30, 2025, 5:07 am • 1 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 2:05 am • 1 0 • view
Money is indeed the root of all evil!
aug 29, 2025, 11:05 pm • 4 0 • view
STOP WITH YOUR BOTH SIDING. What may have been true of Democrats in your younger years DECADES AGO is NOT TRUE of Democrats NOW. The Democratic platform addresses ALL OF YOUR COMPLAINTS! It is republicans & republicans ONLY that prevent addessing those societal ills. Educate yourself or STFU!
aug 30, 2025, 3:13 am • 2 0 • view
#BigPharma causes addition and mass casualties, they own the #magaRepublicans. #BigGun owns the #Republicans. #BigOil, destroying the planet, owes the #Republicans. The Health Insurance Industry owns the #GOP. #Corporations own the United States, bottom line.
aug 30, 2025, 8:42 am • 0 0 • view
Absofuckinglutely ‼️‼️
aug 30, 2025, 12:03 am • 2 0 • view
And Big Pharma, lol.
aug 29, 2025, 9:48 pm • 5 0 • view
And the rest of us suffer the consequences of everything they are doing to the country in the environment
aug 30, 2025, 12:32 am • 1 0 • view
Another horrible Supreme Court opinion that hastened our fall into fascism. Thank you, John Roberts
aug 30, 2025, 5:35 am • 3 1 • view
aug 30, 2025, 5:36 am • 6 0 • view
Yes and organized religion is the root of evil
aug 29, 2025, 10:51 pm • 5 0 • view
Thaks to John Roberts and Citizens United.
aug 30, 2025, 4:28 pm • 1 0 • view
The campaign financing, the lobbying… it’s out -in-the-open corruption and bribery. Nothing less. Blatant, shameless bribery.
aug 30, 2025, 6:40 am • 2 0 • view
Russia buys off the GOP and installs its long-captured asset in the White House. Lots of action sabotaging the entire U.S. government, economy, education, and alliances.
aug 30, 2025, 1:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Also white supremacy.
aug 29, 2025, 10:22 pm • 5 0 • view
Putin buys off trump. No action on the war.
aug 30, 2025, 2:31 am • 3 0 • view
Imma add morons. Money and morons are the root of all evil. Because any moron can be born into wealth. And when a moron is rich, you get Trump.
aug 30, 2025, 12:53 am • 1 0 • view
So if Congress can be bought, how does the left get in on that? If that’s the only way things can get done. Or should we just continue to complain about money in politics?
aug 30, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Wouldn’t have been possible without money buying off the Supreme Court first.
aug 31, 2025, 2:02 am • 2 1 • view
And our Supreme Court is the root of money in politics.
aug 29, 2025, 10:13 pm • 6 1 • view
We have money, too. Perhaps we should just withhold our taxes. All of us.
aug 29, 2025, 10:11 pm • 3 0 • view
Sounds like private security is the business to get into.
aug 30, 2025, 2:41 am • 1 0 • view
Why do we care so strongly about saving this system?
aug 30, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
brighthorizon49.blogspot.com?m=0
aug 30, 2025, 8:14 am • 0 0 • view
Politicians being able to buy their way into office with enough funding. Endemic corruption in government.
aug 30, 2025, 2:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Agree but "in politics" is redundant
aug 30, 2025, 2:52 am • 1 0 • view
Money is required. It is the "quid pro quo" nature of dark money that removes democracy from representation. This is what has to be fixed. The judicial argument of free speech is a "red herring", and the exact opposite is true. It's more like killing speech and speech translation.
aug 30, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
One of many ills but one of the biggest.
aug 30, 2025, 3:29 am • 2 1 • view
What I ponder is why the NRA went bankrupt? The Russians were pumping them up for awhile, and as a rural American who owns guns, it seems odd that no one even mentions them anymore. When I ran for office I got an A- out of them in 2018 because I own a water fowling club because that was essential.
aug 29, 2025, 11:05 pm • 4 0 • view
Yes 1000percent
aug 30, 2025, 3:16 am • 1 1 • view
And teachers unions buy democrats so we can’t get better education for our kids.
aug 30, 2025, 4:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Great diagnosis, doc. Do you have any suggestions for treat more specific than “Get money out of politics?”
aug 30, 2025, 4:01 am • 2 1 • view
Good thinking Batman! Something POSITIVE like “Don’t wait until freedom is gone to regret its loss. FREEDOM isn’t GOD-GIVEN; it is FOUGHT for by the PEOPLE”
aug 30, 2025, 5:48 am • 0 1 • view
Critical correction: The NRA buys off ALL the Republicans and a few Dems. The oil industry buys off ALL the Republicans and a few Dems. Insurance companies buy off ALL the Republicans and a few Dems. The grotesque money in politics is thanks to ALL the Republicans on SCOTUS.
aug 29, 2025, 10:00 pm • 14 2 • view
Nope, stop trying to give the Dems a pass on this, they are all as guilty as each other & apart from just a few, they are all on the AIPAC payroll Up until last year, Biden was the biggest recipient of AIPAC $ over the term of his political career, now it's Trump
aug 30, 2025, 2:03 am • 9 1 • view
How does AIPAC have ANYTHING to do with guns, climate, or health care in the US?!?
aug 30, 2025, 4:43 am • 3 0 • view
Israel has free healthcare and free education courtesy of the American taxpayers.
aug 30, 2025, 7:25 am • 2 0 • view
I don't understand. Why are you blaming Israel for the decisions that Americans have made about our own education and health care systems. Do you think that if America stopped supporting Israel, we would suddenly get those things? Of course not. They are totally separate issues.
aug 30, 2025, 8:57 am • 0 0 • view
Th 7 MidEast NorthAfrican countries th U.S. bombed back into th Bronze Age since 2001 were all on BiBi's personal list of "Israel's greatest enemies" Th U.S. military is th Largest polluter & Greenhouse gas producer on th planet & we don't have Universal Health Care because of military spending 🤷♀️
aug 30, 2025, 9:03 am • 0 0 • view
Also Israel makes additional billions Over the 3 billion in aid they're given every year exporting overpriced guns to sell the US...
aug 30, 2025, 9:05 am • 0 0 • view
As an American friend of mine once said to me over a nice cold beer in a pleasant bar in a South East Asian country, "America has the best politicians money can buy". Obviously, he was right.
aug 30, 2025, 1:21 am • 2 0 • view
Wonder why you left out AIPAC? They are the reason why 377,000 souls are dead in Gaza while people in America suffer from record homelessness and child poverty with no financial help.
aug 30, 2025, 3:07 am • 6 0 • view
Came here to mention the same thing. Something about glass houses and throwing stones. Reich and Krugman are unctous and insufferable.
aug 30, 2025, 10:55 am • 0 0 • view
Now you add in a corrupt president, administration & the majority of congress. We need people to vote now more than ever. I understand their frustration & feeling of why bother. The election is already being rigged, what can my 1 vote do? Tons! Vote to save us! needs to be all over the media now.
aug 29, 2025, 11:05 pm • 4 0 • view
Always has been. And the supremes endorsed it.
aug 30, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
And kompromat. But that is not unrelated.
aug 29, 2025, 10:41 pm • 7 0 • view
Citizens united must end or our democracy will
aug 30, 2025, 7:44 am • 3 0 • view
And greed is the root of all evil
aug 30, 2025, 2:39 am • 2 0 • view
The USA political system needs a total overhaul. It’s not fit for purpose. It should not need millions to enable someone to run for President.
aug 30, 2025, 7:29 am • 2 2 • view
These are the death watch beetles that tap tap tap away at the beams that hold up the roof
aug 29, 2025, 9:57 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes, that and right wing "Christians"
aug 30, 2025, 3:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Money is the root of our dysfunction.
aug 29, 2025, 10:23 pm • 4 1 • view
Agree.
aug 29, 2025, 11:24 pm • 5 0 • view
For over 100 years.
aug 30, 2025, 1:55 am • 1 0 • view
The root of the evil is the Citizens United decision.
aug 30, 2025, 12:05 am • 2 0 • view
Why can't we regulate these industries like we did the tobacco industry?
aug 30, 2025, 5:03 am • 2 1 • view
aug 30, 2025, 5:40 am • 2 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 5:39 am • 1 0 • view
Repeal Citizens United!
aug 30, 2025, 12:40 am • 7 1 • view
Money is NOT an expression of free speech!
aug 30, 2025, 12:41 am • 9 0 • view
money is for buying things, that's it... it has no other use
aug 30, 2025, 4:22 am • 2 2 • view
Hi
aug 30, 2025, 1:03 am • 1 0 • view
Abolish all political campaign contributions above $1,000 per individual and outlaw lobbyists
aug 29, 2025, 11:26 pm • 5 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 10:25 pm • 67 17 • view
Let's add POWER to the aforementioned vices because power in the hands of a self-proclaimed genius is equally as destructive as money and greed. He's done it already, and in many cases, irreversibly.
aug 30, 2025, 7:02 am • 1 0 • view
That's why they should not be involved in governing people. Especially poor people. They are persecuting and letting them die.
aug 29, 2025, 11:42 pm • 36 5 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
Robert, you forgot Pharmaceutical companies
aug 30, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view
The best government money can buy.
aug 30, 2025, 12:30 am • 1 0 • view
And the GOP made sure that it was made worse
aug 29, 2025, 11:25 pm • 4 0 • view
And to know that what I was told in the late 1970s of crap that was soon to come. It's shameful. Our politicians today will pay for what they've done. IMPEACH TRUMP NOW.
aug 29, 2025, 10:45 pm • 10 3 • view
Absolute truth! And allowing representatives to trade stocks? WTF?! The US allows such weird (and harmful!) things..
aug 29, 2025, 10:28 pm • 7 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 11:57 pm • 3 1 • view
Exactly 💯
aug 30, 2025, 2:24 am • 2 1 • view
That's not "money in politics." It's simply crime by corrupt motherfuckers.
aug 31, 2025, 12:15 am • 0 0 • view
This ⬆️⬆️⬆️
aug 30, 2025, 3:14 am • 2 0 • view
At what point will the US public realize that money in gov't is supposed to help them, not hurt them. It's supposed to benefit them, not make rich corrupt politicians richer.
aug 29, 2025, 11:10 pm • 6 0 • view
That and the Repeal of The Fairness In Reporting Doctrine.
aug 29, 2025, 9:49 pm • 11 1 • view
It was the Fairness Doctrine and it applied only to editorial content, not news reporting. www.fcc.gov/document/edi...
aug 30, 2025, 11:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Tax. Wealth. First. Everything else will follow. Spread the word.
aug 29, 2025, 10:35 pm • 5 0 • view
And Republicans are like swine at a slop trough. Groveling in the mire to sell their souls for a buck.
aug 30, 2025, 1:13 am • 2 0 • view
As it turns out, the left was right all along
aug 29, 2025, 10:53 pm • 6 0 • view
It's literally how Trump got elected. Oligarchic fascism by steps.
aug 30, 2025, 5:46 am • 3 0 • view
Musk rigged the election
aug 30, 2025, 12:51 pm • 1 0 • view
...the biggest oligarch in history...
aug 30, 2025, 5:08 pm • 0 0 • view
ABSOLUTELY!
aug 29, 2025, 9:50 pm • 4 0 • view
It isn’t money per se. It is crooked politicians who put self before country. That being said, there should be no lobbyists, no Citizen’s United and no trading stocks by anyone who holds a position of influence.
aug 29, 2025, 10:45 pm • 25 4 • view
But it’s also about the fact that our system lets the crooked politicians get ahead and leaves the honest ones behind. That’s why we’re in this situation. Not because most people are crooked but because we keep voting for the wrong ones.
aug 29, 2025, 10:50 pm • 15 2 • view
Thank Citizen United.
aug 30, 2025, 7:38 am • 3 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 1:18 am • 0 0 • view
*putting profits above the good of humanity is the root of our dysfunction. Money in politics is a symptom 😞 🤬
aug 30, 2025, 4:05 am • 4 1 • view
True “Don’t wait until freedom is gone to regret its loss. FREEDOM isn’t GOD-GIVEN; it is FOUGHT for by the PEOPLE”
aug 30, 2025, 5:46 am • 1 0 • view
This is american history!!!!!
aug 29, 2025, 10:23 pm • 3 0 • view
Unethical and immoral people in the U.S. are also a problem…
aug 30, 2025, 3:53 am • 3 1 • view
MUCH MORE IMPORTANT is U DID NOTHING U R COMPLICIT U DID NOT CHALLENGE U LACK SPINE “Don’t wait until freedom is gone to regret its loss. FREEDOM isn’t GOD-GIVEN; it is FOUGHT for by the PEOPLE”
aug 30, 2025, 5:57 am • 1 0 • view
Our dysfunction is also representatives without a spine and voters who can’t critical think
aug 30, 2025, 3:16 am • 3 1 • view
NOW UR TALKING WHERE were U WHEN THE ACTIIN WAS NEEDED DID U ‘ENGAGE’? “Don’t wait until freedom is gone to regret its loss. FREEDOM isn’t GOD-GIVEN; it is FOUGHT for by the PEOPLE”
aug 30, 2025, 6:06 am • 1 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 2:01 am • 15 5 • view
Well, that and a bit of systemic racism.
aug 30, 2025, 1:08 am • 1 0 • view
The US is a country by the money, for the money.
aug 30, 2025, 3:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Why isn’t the medical/pharma lobby trying to stop MAHA?
aug 29, 2025, 10:50 pm • 7 0 • view
Not Quite Right! The QUOTE IS:- "IT IS THE LOVE of MONEY that is the ROOT of ALL EVIL" & those that take that money are at fault as well as a system which allows PAC's to take that money for candidates promoting less honest & or ideological hardliners! Just saying!🤔
aug 30, 2025, 6:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Citizens united effectively ended democracy in this nation. We are not a democracy.
aug 30, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Hello capitalism!
aug 29, 2025, 10:14 pm • 4 0 • view
What gets me is, if you look at the numbers, the NRA basically stopped buying off Congress a while ago! Their donations have been very small of late. But Congress stayed bought anyway. What does that tell you?
aug 29, 2025, 9:50 pm • 12 0 • view
For those playing the home game, the LARGEST of the NRA donations to any politician in the 2024 cycle (sum total of all donations to that candidate) was under $10,000. Here's the entire fucking list:
aug 29, 2025, 11:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Blackmail is cheaper?
aug 29, 2025, 9:56 pm • 14 0 • view
That's certainly one good theory.
aug 29, 2025, 10:42 pm • 5 0 • view
Someone please remind me who this twat waffle was SoS of during this 90's. Guess who did not win the 2016 DNC primary. Where are the images of the poster during the 2016 primary on the local transit stations. RTD is a huge part of the problem here in Denver.
aug 30, 2025, 10:26 am • 1 1 • view
The fact is gun control gets Republicans out to vote, because it's one of the few Republican policy positions they see a tangible benefit from:
aug 30, 2025, 3:34 am • 2 0 • view
"See these things you enjoy owning? Dems want to ban them. They have banned them in other states where we didn't have the votes to stop them. They tried to pass a ban in this state but we stopped them. But they will try again next year and if we lose our majority they'll probably succeed."
aug 30, 2025, 3:34 am • 1 0 • view
Most other Republican policy positions aren't super popular. One of the few things keeping them from splintering and fading into obscurity is guns, and more specifically the Democratic Party's stubborn insistence on trying to make popular ones illegal to buy and own.
aug 30, 2025, 3:34 am • 1 0 • view
The real question is: if traditional lobbying is fading, what new methods are keeping lawmakers in check, and is that more dangerous in the long run?
aug 30, 2025, 3:30 am • 0 0 • view
Authoritarian Trumpism is the method, and yes, it's more dangerous.
aug 30, 2025, 4:01 am • 0 0 • view
what will you do
aug 30, 2025, 4:25 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 2:40 am • 3 0 • view
Big donors aren't spending money on their pet interests, money is used to BUY politicians. Politics is just another industry people get jobs in to make money & politicians are just whores in suits.
aug 30, 2025, 7:32 am • 2 2 • view
Rise up and demand Congress closes the growing US carbon price gap, and does the other things. Not because they are easy, but because we, our children, and life on Earth require it. carboncashback.org/carbon-price-gap
aug 29, 2025, 11:11 pm • 6 0 • view
Together, we can turn the tide before it's too late. What steps do you think we should take next to put pressure on Congress?
aug 30, 2025, 3:33 am • 2 0 • view
Talk climate with candidates. Learn about economists' most well-recommended policy solution (a cash-back carbon fee on fossil fuel production and a CBAM). Join a group that is working to create the political will to enable Congress to pass effective climate legislation. bit.ly/cfdresources
aug 30, 2025, 6:45 pm • 0 0 • view
What do you think needs to change in the Democratic Party?
aug 30, 2025, 11:20 pm • 0 0 • view
There are systemic problems. End dark money, undo Citizens United, create laws that undo giving corporations the rights of people, federal ranked choice voting, end the delegate system, end superPACs and bundling campaign contributions, set age limit of 75 for elected officials. Who will fix it?
aug 31, 2025, 2:43 am • 0 0 • view
Does the Democratic Party currently have a leader you approve of?
aug 31, 2025, 3:08 am • 0 0 • view
You have three followers and are asking questions a bot would ask. Do you have any opinions yourself? What are your answers to the questions you have asked me?
aug 31, 2025, 8:50 pm • 0 0 • view
You can ask anything
aug 31, 2025, 8:58 pm • 0 0 • view
AMEN, AMEN !
aug 30, 2025, 1:37 am • 1 0 • view
The root is the Robert's Court and decades of bad decisions
aug 30, 2025, 3:35 am • 2 1 • view
Fucking Reagan; “corporations are people too” no , just say no …
aug 29, 2025, 9:53 pm • 54 5 • view
I thought that was Romney... but fuck Reagan anyway
aug 29, 2025, 9:55 pm • 30 0 • view
Yes just on general principles, fuck Reagan.
aug 29, 2025, 10:31 pm • 40 1 • view
Hello
aug 29, 2025, 10:59 pm • 6 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
the beginning of the end that is now: Reagan the first fake president, an actor playing a president for his CIA handler George Bush, just a face, a spokesman, somebody people knew of, demented old man who talked about dumb shit like jelly beans, any of this sound familiar?
aug 30, 2025, 4:25 am • 7 3 • view
He ushered in our demise 1,000%.
aug 30, 2025, 2:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Get rid of…CITIZENS UNITED!! Our corrupt Not Supreme Court!! delinquent!
aug 30, 2025, 3:11 pm • 1 1 • view
Always is and always has been
aug 30, 2025, 3:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Russia and Israel buy off and honeypot Congress. No more America.
aug 30, 2025, 2:33 am • 1 0 • view
100% Fact !
aug 30, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
100% agree. Until we can cut out big money in politics, this country is fucked...period.
aug 30, 2025, 2:39 am • 5 2 • view
The root of the world's dysfunction, not just the USA.
aug 29, 2025, 10:35 pm • 4 0 • view
We need to vote the republicans out of Congress
aug 29, 2025, 11:12 pm • 4 0 • view
You live in a monetocracy
aug 30, 2025, 5:39 am • 2 0 • view
End NRA. They own GOP & prevent common-sense gun laws bsky.app/profile/chri...
aug 30, 2025, 10:19 am • 9 2 • view
aug 30, 2025, 9:55 pm • 0 0 • view
may i quote you ?
aug 30, 2025, 2:35 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s why I am writing a book called ‘How Capitalism Killed Democracy’
aug 29, 2025, 11:26 pm • 6 2 • view
Fucking spot on!!!
aug 30, 2025, 3:17 am • 2 1 • view
Universal Healthcare would solve one of those. Greed is the ONLY reason it thrives here.
aug 30, 2025, 3:25 am • 2 1 • view
“Don’t wait until freedom is gone to regret its loss. FREEDOM isn’t GOD-GIVEN; it is FOUGHT for by the PEOPLE”
aug 30, 2025, 6:04 am • 1 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 7:14 pm • 0 1 • view
Russia has invested in the NRA I suspect because they're quite happy with the American death toll every year
aug 30, 2025, 1:15 pm • 1 0 • view
It really is that simple. Citizens United v. FEC turbocharged the payola.
aug 29, 2025, 11:19 pm • 3 0 • view
The GOP loves the murder of children. That’s the logical conclusion here.
aug 29, 2025, 11:00 pm • 3 0 • view
Power (unchecked) = corruption Corruption is in this White House. Greed for money and power is in this POTUS.
aug 30, 2025, 6:54 pm • 1 0 • view
What is the remedy?
aug 29, 2025, 10:15 pm • 3 0 • view
Solve the root cause of the problem
aug 30, 2025, 3:36 am • 3 0 • view
“A single State Bank, the biggest of the big, with branches in every rural district, in every factory, will constitute as much as nine-tenths of the socialist apparatus.” -- Vladimir Lenin I admire his quote because I'm an American Marxist-Leninist.
aug 30, 2025, 1:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Peter Thiel buys off the right wing and his employee, VD couch becomes VP
aug 29, 2025, 10:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Give each candidate an equal pool of money and equal access to media and stop the fundraising entirely. It's ridiculous to make fundraising a qualifying factor for leading a nation.
aug 29, 2025, 10:33 pm • 4 0 • view
I have known this since Jr High, Robert in 1967.
aug 30, 2025, 7:42 am • 2 0 • view
The old guard is being forced into retirement. The big dirty back door deals they made, might not hold unless they can control incoming younger, candidates. Through bribery, blackmail & extortion. How else can they make sure candidates vote in obedient lock step compliance?
aug 30, 2025, 8:37 am • 1 1 • view
🤬🤬
aug 30, 2025, 1:01 am • 1 0 • view
You sir are the smartest of men. You speak clear and loudly. You own the truth. Brave you are.
aug 30, 2025, 12:42 am • 2 0 • view
Absolutely true. Until money stops controlling politics, real change will always be blocked. Lobbyists and big corporations shouldn’t have more power than the people, yet that’s exactly why nothing gets fixed from guns to climate to healthcare.
aug 29, 2025, 10:10 pm • 5 0 • view
Campaign finance reform is the foundation we need if we want genuine progress
aug 29, 2025, 10:10 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s mainly the GOP Congress that walk around with their hands out. Now, how much of that payoff is going into their bank accounts now that trump is in control?
aug 30, 2025, 3:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Citizens united can kiss my big old hairy ass.
aug 30, 2025, 12:11 am • 2 0 • view
All of those things ARE America. This country's guiding principle has been greed for decades. To suggest anything else is disingenuous. This is the grotesque version of America that the Reagan vision of unchecked capitalism was always going to lead.
aug 29, 2025, 10:22 pm • 9 0 • view
There is a thread of exploitation, greed and abuse that runs from the very beginning to the current day and beyond.
aug 30, 2025, 3:53 am • 2 0 • view
It's wrong and damaging. It needs to be changed.
aug 30, 2025, 3:36 am • 1 0 • view
"DARK MONEY" got us here. America is thoroughly and completely f*cked
aug 30, 2025, 12:09 am • 1 0 • view
💯 agree!
aug 29, 2025, 10:59 pm • 3 0 • view
I follow Reich, too. He'd pretty much tight on the money with everything his says. A welcome bit of sanity in this money mad eorld world.
aug 30, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
It's the root of all evil.
aug 30, 2025, 2:57 am • 1 0 • view
Agree!
aug 30, 2025, 8:27 am • 0 0 • view
This is the part of a Capitalist country our forefathers could never have guessed would happen. After all that fighting and work to achieve the Grand experiment, a group of nazi-fetish idiots simply threw it all away for the SAME things they fought against.
aug 29, 2025, 10:38 pm • 13 3 • view
Big pharma buys congress so cannabis can't get legalized
aug 30, 2025, 12:04 am • 3 0 • view
💯
aug 29, 2025, 11:44 pm • 4 0 • view
AIPAC buys everyone, no action on genocide
aug 30, 2025, 7:23 am • 0 0 • view
Greedy, dishonest people are ultimately the root of dysfunction. None of that would matter if they stood in integrity to serve their constituents.
aug 30, 2025, 1:41 am • 7 0 • view
AIPAC www.trackaipac.com/congress
aug 30, 2025, 2:57 am • 9 4 • view
We have to destroy Citizens United.
aug 30, 2025, 1:57 am • 3 0 • view
Oh, but it works quite well for rich fucks who built their wealth using a democracy which made that wealth possible. And how do they repay that debt to democracy? They don't; in fact, they hardly pay any taxes at all! How much is democracy worth to you, rich fucks? Time to pay up, pay the system.
aug 30, 2025, 1:35 pm • 0 0 • view
What about your legal system?
aug 30, 2025, 12:34 am • 1 0 • view
Money is the root of our dysfunction. Well, actually capitalism and competition itself. The rot isn't confined to congress or the US. Sure, the rot is worse in the US but only because it idolizes destructive competition more than most. Delete competition and currency entirely.
aug 30, 2025, 6:21 am • 1 0 • view
People are terrified at even the notion of asking if capitalism is actually an incredibly evil and destructive way to run a cooperative world. But if we aren't willing to do that, our species dies. Society is already collapsing.
aug 30, 2025, 6:24 am • 2 0 • view
It won't change. As Chicago Alderman Paddy Bauler said 100 years ago, "This city ain't ready for reform yet..." The fix is in, as they say.
aug 30, 2025, 2:17 am • 7 2 • view
yes professor now, how do we get rid of .... citizens united
aug 29, 2025, 10:09 pm • 3 0 • view
How can we buy off Congress to represent We The People again? We need better lobbyists.
aug 30, 2025, 1:46 am • 1 1 • view
aug 30, 2025, 6:55 am • 7 1 • view
This Supreme Royal Republican Court structure needs revamped … term limits, ethics rules enshrined in the constitution, etc.. citizens united my ass…. Presidential Immunity granted but undefined my ass… my civil rights revoked my ass…
aug 30, 2025, 2:04 pm • 1 0 • view
But Americans still believe that they have lived in a "democratic" country when in reality their country is run by the corporate oligarchic plutocracy in a corrupt political and justice systems that mainly exist to punish the poor and allow the rich to do whatever they want... That's despotism...!
aug 30, 2025, 9:43 pm • 4 4 • view
Since when did a gun pull its own trigger? People kill people, not guns. In the UK, personal ownership of a firearm is verboten, yet people kill each other using sticks, hammers, chains, scissors, knives, and more. Do you want to get rid of cars too?
aug 29, 2025, 11:40 pm • 3 0 • view
None of these things are designed to kill thirty people with thirty trigger pulls in thirty seconds or less. You go to a classroom, music concert, or business carrying one of those things and fifty people won’t die. Most will get away.
aug 30, 2025, 6:38 am • 0 0 • view
A gun's express purpose is to KILL. A car's express purpose is transportation. How come we all have to have license, insurance, etc. for car, but not for guns. Why do YOU think the US has hundreds of times more *school shootings* than any other country???
aug 30, 2025, 12:02 am • 3 0 • view
The problem is that America is basically a two party dictatorship. The choice is bad or worse. Nearly every developed country on the planet has a multi party system. This often creates coalitions, that are a great check on abuse of power. & sometimes it throws up the occasional oddball. Democracy!
aug 30, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Mhhh, seems like we live in a market and not a country.
aug 30, 2025, 7:43 am • 0 0 • view
If the people were smart, they would get rid of the Congress personnel who get benefits from these lobbyists.
aug 30, 2025, 8:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Aka Capitalism
aug 30, 2025, 12:02 am • 3 0 • view
LETS NOT FORGET THAT MAGA BOUGHT IT FROM THE GET GO!
aug 30, 2025, 2:51 am • 1 0 • view
Let's not forget that the DNC and RNC cash the same checks.
aug 30, 2025, 5:06 am • 1 0 • view
Jews are the root of the world's dysfunction and if you think they pay anyone you're dumb
aug 30, 2025, 2:34 am • 1 0 • view
pfft, stfup
aug 30, 2025, 5:08 am • 2 0 • view
Broadly agree, but it's worth noting that renewables, and the IRA bill, which the Dems passed under Biden, absolutely destroyed coal generation, which is fallen by over 60% from what it once was - and will continue its slide in spite of everything the current regime is pushing.
aug 30, 2025, 5:17 am • 2 1 • view
aug 30, 2025, 5:38 am • 0 0 • view
Did you hear what Australia did?
aug 30, 2025, 4:04 am • 3 1 • view
No what?
aug 30, 2025, 5:47 am • 1 0 • view
Absolutely 100%
aug 30, 2025, 12:16 am • 1 0 • view
if we survive this, seats need to change, politicians need to be removed, we need to clean house and start over.
aug 30, 2025, 12:16 am • 1 0 • view
And greedy A…..
aug 29, 2025, 10:39 pm • 3 0 • view