Charles Koch now owns the Supreme Court majority. He bought it for $500,000,000.

[ancianita]

Next term, our new Justice Jackson will see that the SCOTUS majority serve one of our two countries -- the one called Kochistan, where constitutional rights and human futures go to die.

[LakeArenal]

1. We in Wisconsin tried to warn everyone since 2009.

[ancianita]

2. You were definitely ahead of the curve. ALEC (2010) was America's first intro to the Koch cabal.

Then came Jane Mayer's Dark Money(2016), Nancy MacLean's Democracy In Chains(2017) for the history of this neoliberal white supremacist authoritarian oligarch with some Russian oil background.

[erronis]

6. Add in Anne Nelson's "Shadow Network" for a more recent exposition of Koch and CNP

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/29/774133071/shadow-network-offers-a-lesson-on-the-american-rights-mastery-of-politics

[ancianita]

10. Thanks. I'll check it out.

[Wild blueberry]

5. Yes!

And we have to re-elect Governor Evers, to help us withstand our ghastly RepubliQan gerrymandering legislature, this November.
Most important Midterms of our lives, for the whole country.

[CentralMass]

3. Well that fucker can't live for ever

[ancianita]

4. But. His corporate network of minority rule WILL.

[erronis]

7. Greed and power-grabbing will also live forever.

That's why we need government and rules. I think "government" comes from the concept of limiting excess in a process (a governor.) That's what the free-market corporatist want to remove.

[ancianita]

8. Corporate values and goals outlive generations of humans.

We need not just government and rules but accurate human history, comprehensive corporate history, and how corporate activity effects all class levels of political activity. Thom Hartmann, in Unequal Protection has made a good stab at how corporations have chipped away at equal constitutional protections and standing before the judiciary. Free-market corporatists might once have "wanted" to remove restraints of excess. But now, as Sheldon Whithouse recounts in Captured, we're being shoved through the door of fascism.

There's been such narrow framing of American history by design, and we have to blow that up.

A record of everything is as important as saving democracy, imo. Or we humans won't have lessons to apply to the future.

[ultralite001]

9. Time to dig deep...

and follow that SCOTUS $$$...

There's a trail of breadcrumbs out there somewhere... or at least an oily stain...

That is all...

[ancianita]

11. Oh, if that's what you need, Whitehouse leads you right down the money trail.

1 year ago

3 months ago

Last month

[erronis]

12. Thanks so much for these clips. I wish more Americans would watch them.

[ancianita]

13. oh you're most welcome, erronis!

Whitehouse is priceless, isn't he?! I'd call him the MVP of the Senate.

He has at least 1.5 million views of his 15 presentations. Here's his latest about the plot to destroy the EPA while handily crippling Congress in the face of Big Fossil's designs on this government.