Corruption thy name is Trump

This may be the most blatant example of high-level corruption in recent American history. Cannot think of a precedent https://t.co/EbNkstWfqm

— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) February 12, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Trump is a piece of dog shit in every way

Trump is a tax dodger. Either he pays $0 income taxes in most years or when he does pay it’s 2-5% of his income when folks in that income range pay 30% average (37% marginal).
Trump Paid $1.1 Million in Taxes During Presidency, but $0 in 2020, Report Shows https://t.co/ZUfCO7LbBR

— Nouriel Roubini (@Nouriel) December 21, 2022

Republicans = Losers

Peace,

emaycee

 

The Big Payback

While I appreciate the effort by Senator Sanders to overturn Citizen's United with a constitutional amendment, and I believe firmly, as Digby notes in the link, that devotion to this cause would be about as important of a movement as liberals could undertake, we are absolutely kidding ourselves that this amendment will ever be anything more than a pipe dream.

It takes a two-thirds majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate to move an amendment forward.  We couldn't manage 60 votes in the Senate for a measly Public Option in the healthcare debate, and we're going to get 67 for this amendment?  And 350 (approximately) votes in the House?  Of course, two-thirds of the state legislatures could call for a constitutional convention to propose the amendment, but it has never happened in the country's history and considering the conservative strain running through the south, this isn't likely to be the amendment to be the first.

So smart ass, you're probably wondering, what do you propose?  Simple:  attack it like religious right has attacked abortion.  Sue, sue, sue.  If corporations are indeed people, they should have no more rights or privileges than the rest of us.  Start with tax deductions--if a corporation is a person, they should get no more deductions than you or I.  When a corporation is charged with a crime, they should have to stand trial as any other person would.  If convicted, shut down the corporation.  If a person is convicted of a crime and sentenced to prison, he or she doesn't  get to keep going to work.  The possibilities are endless.

My guess is, after a short while of being treated like an actual  person, minus the privileges they're accustomed to, corporate America would be begging to be only a business entity once more.

Peace,
emaycee

The Unspectacular

Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our own table.
                                                                      W.H. Auden


I've felt for some time--since at least Reagan the dullard was President--that all of America's problems begin and end with corporations.  Their money has corrupted our government; their greed has lessened the standard of living for 99% of us.  Anyone who has seen a Wal-Mart (or any other corporation) commercial about the happy family who saved x amount of money by buying some shit or other has to know by now that all Wal-Mart (or any other corporation) really cares about is what's in the family members' purses or wallets.  But they run these commercials and sell their images through groups like the Antoinettes to make themselves seem, as Mr. Auden suggested, that they are just like you and me.

They are not.

If there is any one point that Occupy Wall Street needs to make inroads on it is that there is a clear difference between the 99% and the 1%.  They do not share our beds--they shackle us to them.  They do not eat at our own table--they eat us for lunch. 

They have corrupted the system.  It is our duty to clean it up.

Peace,
emaycee