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And do cargoes on crime most. For the death penalty for first degree, murderers Dukakis not only opposes the death penalty, he allowed first degree murderers to have weakened, passes from prison one was really Horton who murdered a boy and a robbery stabbing him. Nineteen times, despite a licence, Orton receive ten weekend passes from prison. Orton fled, kidnapped a young couple, stabbing the man and repeatedly raping his girlfriend weekend. Prison passes Dukakis on crime, the progress on Josh clerk? There's Charles of each of bright, there's Jerry over there in what you have just heard, was something we brought back with us from nineteen we're. The way back was right in attacking the attacker

from the nineteen eighty eight election between George Herbert Walker, Bush in one Michael Dukakis, Drake and add, is widely credited is turning the tide against you. Carcasses campaign, which was doing pretty good at the time yet boil some people say so, for the people say to visit. He asked his eyes dissent that politics does it turns out. There is always more than one opinion, but the reason we bring up this add which first air it on September twenty first nineteen eighty eight years is called weaken, passes for obvious reasons, and it will

funded by something called the National Security Political Action Committee and S pack was a non affiliated pro Bush political Action committee that was aimed at seeking Dukakis in getting Bush elected yeah. I think I wanna bushes, maybe this chief campaign guy, said by the time we're done. People are gonna, think Willie Horton. Is the carcasses running late an hour to I mean like still, if you the name, Willie Horton people of a certain age. He d, our age, can still say. I know that is yeah well play the story. Willie Horton, as he was he was in prison for murder, was followed,

part of the four weekend as part of the Massachusetts for low programme. That was in effect at the time and he raped and killed. Somebody on this we can pass on the weak impasse was a big sign that it may not be a good idea to furlough murders yeah. I guess they needed. Tested out to find out one way or another, but yeah that's pretty much closed the book on it and the thing was the Bush campaign linked carcasses. What do cockers himself with the weak and passes in insinuated that he had come up with this and that he was and supported while he was in support of it. He didn't come up with a year. He inherited it from his republican predecessor. I believe yet actually started night seventy two without republican government governor of Massachusetts Many things have been going fine up until then having soberly Horton came along

can I had a weird along long and winding road. The initial programme excluded first degree: murderers, and then the Supreme Court said now the law that is specifically say that so you can't exclude first degree murderer. So the legislature said, while we gotta put a stop to this end, we can't let first three murders out on leave. Crack and De Kok has vetoed that, so we did support it until he decides to run. For president and that's when he said, let's get this off the books, so the S pack add was very widely criticised. It was criticised as being misleading. It was criticised as fostering racist attitudes and but it still worked. A lot of people say- and I understand some people say that a lot of people say this did work

Some people say that take cried member that I forgot about Jack is around that. Take the I totally forgot about that. He was off the rails there for a little bit, but the thing is George Bush's campaign was able to say hey. This had nothing to do with us play man ass pack right, so it still worked in George Bush's favoured by George Bush got to get to say this. I had nothing to do with me. I do it, you re Mila, those quaint noticed it was. It was fifty dead on Clayton really is called the political mash up

And the whole way that this pact was was funded was with what's called dark money year. We should the which it is vital this one, how to exploit a loophole in America and how the Supreme Court really screwed things up, yeah or if you dont, like Josh and check talking politics, turn it off now yeah, but we're taking on the system yeah yeah. Here's the thing man billionaires controlling who gets elected in the United States A conservative or liberal issue were all being screwed over equally here everyone I gotta stay Maria and then we'll get right into it. This will shake you to the core, since and ten of the one billion dollars spit in federal elections by super backs almost six percent of that money came from one hundred and ninety five people and their spouses.

One hundred and ninety five people, sixty percent of campaign of super back spinning and as crazy as it is crazy. But it's not that surprising. If you really step I can look at what's been going on in the last decade or so, and that's what people in some people say like spinning the money on elections. Is it bad? It's the fact that a hundred ninety five people are the ones doing the majority of the spending right. That's that is not right and the that that's a billion dollars spent by super pacts are political action committees projects up until recently had to disclose who needed money to him. So this is just the money that's traceable and we're talking about is the money. That's not traceable. Here. We're gonna go back a little bit

in the way back machine back to the early twentyth century, once again, yeah and am we're gonna talk about money in politics. There is really good mother Jones article called follow the dark money and it gives a bit of a history of politics in money and says. Congress is always react thing to some sort of money, scandal right, but this is long, history and tradition of knowing who is funding campaigns transfer. In America yeah and it started with Teddy Roosevelt Teddy Roosevelt ran his trust buster, whose against the big corporations, strolled so much in the robber barons, but he was all simultaneously secretly going to these same corporations robber barons in getting secret funding for his campaigns.

Why not tycoon said Teddy Roosevelt got down on his knees? For us? That's not the normal description of Teddy Roosevelt and is now Preparations are concerned that a humbly came in a Teddy Roosevelt. You, wouldn't they got on his knees ready. So, as a result, after Roosevelt was like did here We did something about it. He signed in the law the Tillman ACT that prevented it outlawed corporations from directly contributing to candidates. That's illegal still is today. It is that's why we need loopholes. Watergate came along in the I think. The nineteenth century, for nineteen year, the Navy to nineteen seventy two election. When Nixon was running for office, he relation ok, he

kept it. Twenty million dollars in nineteen seventy two money in secret political contributions and we're talking like delivered in cash and checks in brief cases by courier through a flying, private from Texas, the D C for PETE's sake, yeah and his personal attorney one Herbert Kalmbach. He was the deputy, find its share for the committee for reelection for present. He destroyed this evidence and which prison for it yeah. So it was real thing that happened with crises. The their political action committee was the committee to re, elect the president. In the acronym was creep. They call themselves creep in their China reelect. Next it has prevented any commands, a law on the nose. Don't you think? Maybe lost on them. So you first foreign you to say: ok, guys, let's start bashing Teddy Roosevelt Richard Nixon Harrison. Some Democrat

soon there and to Bill Clinton, was a really good example of that, as well you wanna, go jargon with bill. One play golf six figure check please their access to the President, or even as somebody who's running for the presidency is not supposed to be purchased people. You honestly Lincoln, better you're you're. I we can see that we don't have access to the president. Could we don't have much money, so it is simply not fair. For somebody who does have that much money to have that much more access to the president or somebody running for the president, so over the years scandal and then some sort of change to campaign finance laws. But there's been this Ruth thread over the twentieth century that America has said We want to know who is giving money to two candidates.

We want to know who they are indebted to when they win. You ever there's also a better thread of every time. Law comes into action. There is a loophole that is invariably found. They can get around that right, created by the same politicians who passive act to begin with sure because of such aid these really but setting. If you think about it, how it's very upsetting I'm really I'm doing a good job you're staying com, while you gave him in your forehead, that's pulsing! I can see it is this split spurting out of earlier, so I'm Chuck there's a there's another threat to arm to all. This is my political and that is the text copyright. So if you go look at the text, could, after nineteen thirteen you're going to see something called the fight.

One C4 organization, Collis Social Welfare Organisation, or you can also be a local association of employees and be a fiber wincey for those are also known as unions Right Greg, and as of nineteen thirteen, the Underwood tear a fact which brought back income taxes. Five, C4 organizations are nonprofits, there are tax exempt right and they can accept donations, but because it is their five or one c4 status, they don't have to reveal who there Yours are right, which wouldn't seem like a big problem, because all non profits are people trying to save animals and say the rain forest right social welfare, one sure. So you wanna just donate your money and I wanted to be an honest and it's no big deal right but not always the case by the well eighteen, fifty nine early, nineteenth sixties,

government realise that politics and fibre, see where they find one C4 that time yeah, ok there intertwined. There was nothing they can do about it. So they started loosening rules and in eighteen, eighty one they said you know what you can be politically engaged as long as it's under the banner of the promotion of quote Social well welfare quote or that the work you are doing is primarily social welfare and the way that that translated as far as the IRS, who Reno enforces the tax code. Yet as far as Irish was concerned, it was if fifty one percent of your funds are spent on social welfare. You can spend it forty nine percent on political stuff here and Iris, headed for fight for that designation. Because we had to sit primarily, which is such a loose word right. You know they said you know we. What is this really mean right so that they too,

I think they release the interpretation of rule. It said this is what primarily means fifty one, forty nine I was the rule from nineteen eighty one on basically yet, and so You got five or one c4 you're hanging out there over there. There do their own thing nobody's paying too much attention to him, and then she doesn't ten roles: and there is a lawsuit that it made its way through the lower court of the Supreme Court, and it was called citizens United versus the Federal Election Committee, yeah medicine. It sounds so boring that I have to say that ninety percent of Americans have never even it s in. It may be one of the most influential Supreme Court rulings in the history of this country right, but it just listen to citizens United versus the F p c snow so citizens United, was a political action committee, and so I think it still is. As a matter of fact, in citizens United,

was spending money on advertisements for a video on demand movie. That was basically a attack ad. Giant attack on hill, Hillary Clinton, but you're gonna sales on his Kirk Cameron movies. I think it was summer, he had a camera. I think I forget, and so in this we like the citizens? United, didn't I don't believe it. They find it move your finest if they were, they were adds about it and they were running adds a thin. I think, thirty days of the the election, no sixty days of the private, no sorry It is a primary election which, under the Mccain, gold act, which is a campaign finance reform ACT, came along into doesn't do you not allowed do and citizens United said

Why? Why would we be allowed to do this? Is political speech or going to sue the Federal Election Commission and they did every speech and the Supreme Court ruled out? court in Citizens United, ruled in favour of citizens united, but released one of the most sweeping explanations of what they ruled. They just completely changed the face of american politics. From that point, on its head it's open season, bring in as much money as you want and the american political system, because we are opening the floodgates as wide as they can go here basically did was a acquainted speech with money, and they said basically, they took the term money talks to the reaches that we can't even comprehend

you can make huge donations, and that is a political statement. That is your speech is a corporation and you are protected because corporations or individuals right so so that's exactly what they did. Bending money on political campaigns. Any political contribution is a form of political speech, speeches protected under the first moment, but the speech of individuals is protected. Well. Corporations are considered artificial people, so therefore they should have that same thing extended to them here. Right away that the ruling was that you can spend it much as you want, as long as it doesn't go directly to a candidate and You can also now, since there's fibre whence force you can funnel as much money as you want to I've always C4 and remain an anonymous donor yet and that the problem. Well, there a lot of problems one of the biggest problems is. Is these corporations are spinning tons

tons, millions and millions of dollars. The court essentially said Joe smile on this donating ten dollars to a campaign is the same things a quarter. And donating Zack, a hundred thousand dollars to a camping right exact because we're both individuals right so created this huge loophole. Anything the Supreme Court, whether they were relying on was that these groups would be independent of the candidates and that's not only not how worked out that was the plan, a law. It was extremely naive. The ruling was you Lloyd, naive or was it I don't know. But if you look at the have the same question, you know a lot of people do that The? If you look at the ruling, though there is a section on transparency where they say we, the Supreme Court, uphold the constitutionality of requiring transparency in camps, fine idea that past eight to one right, eight to warrant the images like this lead nowhere descending was Clarence Thomas and it was like yes, we're saying you need to be transparent.

And they said okay. Well, then, transparency is going to come through people demanding the corporation that they own stuck in to release what work political donations they done. That makes total sense. If you have stuck in a company with your life fortune is invested in a core. Patient, but you should know who were there, who they're giving their money to ok in its own right and they they also said rather the Federal Election Commission. They got their job to do the IRA see there's always regulatory agencies that are tasked with keeping transparency in the political process and war. We're just gonna rely on them but to see after this break, relying on that was an enormous mistake. Foolhardy

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plus also don't worry about the major donors donating directly to candidates, because you you there's, there's requirements for reporting. There's transparency requirements if you under Mccain Feingold, if you contribute a thousand dollars or more to a candidate or a pack yeah that has to report donors. U S report it somebody's gotta report. It sure there's transparency right, the federal actions. Commission, the iris. All these guys are tasked with making sure that happened. So we're fine Supreme Court went home and took a giant that together in their enormous nine person, bed and use. One of the other big problems is a lot of this. Money goes toward campaign, as television adds, which have a lot of sway. Nine out of ten in people's study this year and avert public policy centre

determine that in the two thousand twelve campaign cycle, nine out of ten ads, by dark money were negative, so that's what It was negative adds another way that but twenty six percent of those were misleading and there's no accountability there being funded anonymously and there's no fat they don't have to run it by anybody to get approval and say what this is all true misleading at all. So you can pay say what everyone the ad runs. Its anonymously funded in someone's campaign, is destroying the process so that the point is as long as the candidate is not coordinating with the political action committee. The super packer the fibre, C4, then it's all kosher. It's all legal and coordinated meeting like so blatantly, but come on it so every every election season as it starts to kick off you you'll, see on the news like take cruiser Bernie Sanders, whoever just released of an eerie

well our tape of them doing different things with no soundtrack whatsoever and the whole thing is that they do. Really surreal them hanging out with their mom them. Writing a tractor them like state. Like a mountain working as the sun comes up with their foot on the head of a small child. Sure they're like they're in it's just that there's no sound too whatsoever, and they just put it out there. I'm just pointed out there and then but we want to use it can do whatever they want with it political action committees who attacks from that I've already forced come alive. Raw footage use their footing to make their ads in support of the cannon. I kind of wonders like how are they getting this footage anyway, if they can't be directly died, pointed out there. I had no idea yet it Cynical really, if you think about it, the idea that they're not coordinating in any way shape or form there is put in others raw footage out there sure an inward again guys like you, Now that the fear of public him when we say they, like the Democrats, do this too, but it

really disingenuous to say that all parties are equally equally at fault here for using dark money because again studies then, if you qualify the amount of money spent by the GEO p in by the Democrats, the GNP has outspent the Democrats mind boggling eighty three percent to seventeen percent. Yes, as far as using dark money, go here It's definitely not a break. The Democrats do it for sure and they sometimes through cynically. I read about a a dark money committee that released and add in favour of Harry Reed lambasting dark money. That's pretty cynical as well, while yeah so both sides The Republicans is, do it we re more year, and I think I have a claim is come under fire for her reliance on super packs being attacked by Bernie. Of course,

I gotta want any part of that stuff, although there are some super pacts for Bernie, but I think he's disavowed them. Maybe you have to look, and I join wish disavowed the weekend passes out to you. You still benefit from its now he's like guys, you have to stop well, there was my Bernie Sanders. No, that was your Larry David right away same guy. Look to the primaries here in New Hampshire, and I were not too long ago, Bernie came under foot from Hilary, because there is a group called friends of the earth action. There are five or one for and they are in strong supporter, Bernie and she's. Like hey. Did you get it? Money too. From this outfit friends of earth action said, first of all, we ve been around since early seventys. We ve been around long before dark

and he has been around that's not what we are. We are mainly small donor base. Do not compare us to these corporations. Then you know they have appoint the waterways. You can compare the friends of earth action to the Coke brothers, but I think he's just trying to get in some like hey you're, not completely clean, either right, it's true, and if the CUP Brothers is good, that you mentioned them, because they are basically the poster boys for dark money contributions, Americans for prosperity, spit death, thirty six million dollars and ass. There grew bright into doesnt phobia into doesn't twelve and actually got out spent by other They call Rove created Crossroads, GPS River end. There are these names are so damn they spent seventy one million in two thousand twelve, but the cope brothers in particular pledge

I hunted million dollars for the two thousand sixteen cycle, but how much they're going to spend on the two thousand six things like, oh and dumb. Read up on those guys in their dark money contributions or just their general political contributions definitely amassed a lot of friends in state legislatures in the Senate. In the g in the year, be the house and the one: that's. Where does the presidency in their spending a tremendous amount of money making friends with whoever is going to become President! Are it so I thought for a second about. Does money when you an election, because that's really: what's it the route here, If money doesn't when you elections and who cares, I take issue with Africa for what was the issue while the issues I'd like it in this article, the author says, you know a lot of people raise a lot of money and flame out there.

Make it even though the primary like a job Bush year, he gave race a hundred and three million through supermax alone yeah and in just burned right through didn't get anywhere with yeah but that's a disingenuous. It's a straw argument because its it saying like You can raise alimony, want you're stuck in a win. The thing is: somebody's gonna win in the people that help them. And through these huge donations, they're gonna, be indebted to those people well out Pierre even further, my friend, ok, people that say you can spend the money and still not win who he or she has been. Most money, almost always wins. Yeah Thea saudi yeah, nine out of ten, in the house and eight out of ten in the Senate. Winners are the people who spent the most Zira yeah. Eighty eighty two percent, ninety four percent, so you can ignore that if you raise the most money,

you have an eight or nine out of ten chance of winning I gotta. So money is buying elections. It is, and then people say well if these are as long as the pacts and the super packs and five or one C4 as all stay separate, the candidate, then there's no coordination and there's no cross over wherever they make their candidates, not indebted to these people who gave hundred million dollars to their campaign, which is just the most ridiculous assertion. You can possibly think yeah, and I really I read this is I think it was a Bloomberg article Mew s news. I can remember any a basically explain how you're indebted to these people you it's not to seriously nefarious, although I'm quite sure there is a tremendous amount in the far EAST. This out there, but even if you remove the nefarious angle right, if you are a prayer

it's a candidate in your moving unshaken you're, going to like the local diner somewhere like Rhode, island or whatever, and shaken hands or whatever, but People you're really interacting with that. You see over over again at the same fund. Razors. Those are the major donors yeah, you don't see it you'd, whose sitting at the diner asking your question more than that one time at that one day you see him in the follow up. You you, you do see the same mega donors time after time after time, Thank you for the very least they have your ear and even if they dont have your ear, they become who you think of when you think of your electorate, these people, who you saw time and time and time again, who contributed money after money after money? Even if you're not saying yeah gimme some money and I'll make sure your legal troubled go away with the IRS, even if it's not quid pro quo like that, this

oh a mentality that crops up where, if your exposed to these people, who are giving you tons of cats to get you elected, you're, going to equate their home, with your successor being elected, that's at the very least how it influences politics here are we definitely need to take a break? because I can't even Magua Lemming out of your eye ducks hey, I'm Andy. If you don't know me, it's probably because I'm not famous, but I did start immense grooming company called Harry's. The idea for Harry's came out of a frustrating experience. I had buying razor blades, most brands were overpriced over designed and out of touch at here is our approaches: simple cures, our secret,

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Alright, we're back you good, the other tissue younger you crying bloody dears, I'm good. I get rather too manasses it's when you look at the state of american politics. These days is very hard to night, Want to go, live on a deserted island somewhere among our amateur that started her own oligarchy, yeah real myself, monkeys. I wonder what, if I don't know much about politics around the world are no other way. You know wealthy countries or corrupt as well. I feel we're leaving the race, though it may be, a boy- the race downward yeah. I'd like to hear from other trees out. There are other, like big, wealthy countries about your systems. Again, I'm sure they're largely broken right. Are we the only one No we're deftly not the only ones immediately when it right that the fence I dont know about. Finland

I gave all the other man you look at Scandinavian you're like rather like a model of of you know using taxes for good and all. But how much do you not hear about like how much like right like waste? Is there how much graft as their home? You know I'd like while they pay so much much in taxes, they are, but everything we here, though, from people that are the world say we're happy too, because everything's great weak

We have no crime, have no gun violence, everyone's healthy, we all get healthcare. Schools are awesome, brow happy. Maybe I'll move defended. So we we talked about like why. How money influence is politics but the underlying keys? This is, if you, if you can purchase campaigns, you can purchase everything else, because you get people who owe you, wherever you ve influence or who you just share a tremendous amount of common viewpoints worth two in the office you back there,

force your guy got in there right. You can put it as crass lears nicely as you want, but you help get somebody in the office. Another can. Oh you and now the policies are probably going to fall into your favor and just the ability to do this is such a symptom of the inequality in the United States that we're dealing with right now here that I think that's what disheartened me, the most dear it's it's like one Supreme Court rule in two thousand ten were opening the floodgates. This city the voice, individual yeah, but yeah did but did we ever with the Supreme Court really just saying like hey we're, gonna, take the scales off your eyes right we're going to take away any pretence. Here's how it is used really how it's always been right. Now it's legal man to stay use to the ever known as being essential.

Because of what I mean like back in the seventies Watergate happen, people paid attention to that. In no way does it yeah three idea that if you are aware The EU could become an ambassador for turning fifty k or the access to the President railways, ticked Americans officer. So remember. When we talked a little bit ago about the five or one he force have to fifty one percent of their spending cannot be political, but no comment on that part, but its unenforceable. Basically, while Iris did try to enforce and wants the Et Cetera, was headed. The IRS made the mistake of going too hard at the tea party, because they felt like they were the worst offenders and it backfire on him in a big way. To say the least. We can say we are well the GNP in kind.

Came down hard on the iris they got. The irish director removed from her position got a new person installed, and this new guy has basically said. Like you know, this fund is going with everything the Supreme Court thinks so I'm gonna stop enforcing this, and even if the Irish wanted to enforce these rules that that their tasked with making sure that there is transparency- you, I guess, The Senate actually inserted a couple bills and by sending me much Mcconnell who hates campaign finance was yeah. He got it full of bills inserted in the omnibus spending better off a couple writers. Yes, and if you guys a lot of people may not know what an army by spending bill, as is basically a big large sweeping set of many many, and writers on and banner repeated. We governments budget well yeah, but it's it's there.

You don't have to do with one another. You can win you here, like a writer, was attached to it right that that a lot of means someone is trying to sort of sneak something through right. So you attach a rider to the right bill. You can get almost anything pass, then you know, I should say, sneak something through because it's not like it's in secret but its away. It's a very convenient way to pass a controversial amendment right ok. So if you, if you take a very cherry bill like one that has to pass like the bill that pays for the government spending for the next year, and you insert a writer in there. That says the area is not allowed to make cuts rules on five or one C4 incoming political action committee spending on politics, you're gonna get it. Any dig it passed yet another thing that guy Pass was remember when we talked about the fact that our shareholders wanted to know if the corporations

you're, donating too. They also gather almost had snuck in there also got in a rider that said now. Corporations don't have to do that they they did. They said that these The sea is not allowed to make rules considering making corporations disclose political controversy. Here you cannot force them so there's a ban on on the iris, clarifying its rules and the SSC creating or just clarify latest, wanted a more clearly defined right, leaning out this thing, I can't do that right. We like a really nebulous so Congress, said, sit down when it comes to camping, financed stuff. You? U dont, do your job anymore, you're regulatory stuff is with now individuals have petitioned these companies.

And sometimes they voluntarily given it up, but if that's the solution, then it's not much of one right and then, sir. Lastly, so that as he sees down, virus is down and the last the last agency that was tasked with enforcing transparency was the federal elections. Commissioner, off yes, surely they would step up and do the right thing so the First Elections Commission is now split, three and three long party lines in apparently deadlocks as a matter of routine. Yet so you need for commissioners for efficacy, commissioners to take action on anything you to get a core right. They can't even get a quorum.

Far as campaign financed stuff goes, they have been sitting on their hands since two thousand ten, and there was a couple of rulings about transparency that that are about the last things they did so she doesnt seven. They said you know that Mccain final requirement. That says, if you spend a thousand dollars or more contributing to a political group or campaign, you have to disclose it yeah we the fair like the commission, decided that that means that if you spend a thousand dollars or more on a political color like communication like an ad, then you have to disclose it. So that means that, if you, if you contributed a thousand dollars to political action committee, you would have to say this is for adds war and for this adds specifically.

There came later, but that's the way it is now which no one ever does another loophole. So this law, thing this last bastion of transparency. Here, where you had to say I don't need a thousand dollars or more you, you would have to say it is not just for an attack had it for attacking number two. Thirty, eight Hilary hates America right. That's what this money is for and, like you said, no one knows that workers it'll have to so you'd, so that, as far as the Federal Actions Commission is concerned, you don't have to say donated that thousand dollars, yet they don't have to so they won't because they don't want their name attached to it, which is the most cowardly thing you can do it if you think about it, were yeah. There's this threat, but that's the argument that a lot of people's argument is anonymous. Political speech keeps you from,

getting blow back from the powers that be or whatever, and there was a woman who is caught. Handing out anonymous pamphlets that she wrote a side of appalling place get at which apparently was illegal under Mccain Feingold and everybody Well, there's a long, proud tradition of handing out churned out of it by Thomas pay right. The federalist papers were originally anonymous. Ia Injustice Scalia, who was who died recently. He was actually very, very conservative and in his descent on that ruling in favour of the women's right to hinder our anonymous. Pamphlets said anonymous. Pamphlets have about as much historic tradition and press as an autonomous phone calls in this country. I do not know about something, honourable about anonymously. Lambasting something yeah they didn't translate to. The rest of the court is furs. Citizens united concerned here is it we have of going in the dark night like spray painting something on a wall and running away night. Sir,

So here's, where we're out right now the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are Bobby. They already had ruled that they upheld it. Political money is protected speech right yeah, so open the floodgates to unlimited money to fibre whence he forests, which are non profit action groups who do not need this closer donors, identities, which means that you could you could contribute as much money as you wanted to anonymously through a political campaign. So there s a sea with from requiring corporate disclosure. The iris was banned from investigating the political action groups themselves and then the efficacy the federal elections, Commission removed the last transparency requirements of the donors and an estimated

Ten billion dollars is going to be spent on this two thousand sixteen campaign, five or six billion on the presidency right, two billion was spent in two thousand twelve. So the big question here is: are you the individual are being your political contribution? Five times? Do you account for this enormous increase from two billion to five or six billion dollars? No, no, of course not there are some folks who started digging around and said are whose funding is finding some of these efforts. Maybe, like climate change, denial, some somebody, the stuff right. So there's a guy named while addressing university. Environmental effect sociology rule. He said you know it Look into this and see somebody's. Giving lot of money to climate change, denial and Exxon it was was given a ton of money like blade.

For years and years then again the Coke brothers, the brothers, and we all knew that because it was all you know on record, but a weird. Happened once these changes came about the coat brothers, coke industries and x on mobile, their cash flow to climate change now disappeared without a trace either traceable stuff but for a hundred and forty foundations, funneled almost six hundred million dollars to about one hundred climate, deny organizations since then, and their money dried up. Money increased into anonymous five already our new tv, a Sherlock Holmes to figure out what's going on here yet and the other thing about a fiber when C4 is, let's see, You have a really great a really great play, actually committee or a really great social. Social awareness grew bright. Yet our social welfare Group and you d one of let that brand die because it really established itself, but you don't want.

He'd following money to it, because climate than has a bad name. These days right, you can funnel money five or one C4 that funnels money to that political action committee. Let it happen and you you're donation is It's basically laundered your laundering, your donation, turning it anonymous yeah, but it's still having the same effect. The same outcome, the ethics for that loophole. Yeah, and then one more check on more criticism of this whole thing is, if you say so, why? Who cares? This is the way the world works, especially with corporations, in particular, if they start doing what's called red seeking, which is theirs. It there's a establish pie and when you read seek you go to get your piece of the pie It keeps you from innovating. You start going spending more money on legislation yet site rinsing is basically, if your big corporation spending a hundred million dollars on lobbying for regular.

Since against your competitor instead of spending there, hundred million dollars investing in your own corporation to grow right, which is no good for Gerald. No bottom line, still kind of goes up a really you're just reaching the path towards a nation because you not innovating any more and the public loses out, because regulation decreases right, jobs are lost because you're not innovating and then as far as consumers are concerned, there's like less stuff, thereby because corporations are going for the peace of the pie rather than making the pie bigger or creating new powers. Yeah go for the money, that's already out there, so that the solution. I think it is strictly public financing of campaigns like. I have no problem with that. Say: here's a hundred million dollars to the candidates one, the primary site get creative? This is all you got. You

go they use. Another penny outside of these public funds that were just given to you as the the party candidates go to everything else, is totally illegal. I can't imagine what a sea change it will be in politics, I can't imagine that would be another loophole. Well, you know what would happen is suddenly these these political action committees would start attacking this idea. Say you, Joe Schmo, you can't vote with your arm or you can use your political speech from your campaign contravene readying research. Your first remember, rights are being restrict your fifty dollars. You're gonna get exactly candidate, which has certainly taken on huge dimensions of import, yeah, it's being restricted, and he s exactly what would happen who so moving the feminine, though we need to take this country back man. What's the best country, that's what I want to know from listeners which ones the best. I can't wait to hear

Eureka! That's pretty nice right! If you want to know more about campaign, fine dark money, all their jazz. We want you to go check it out. Look of dark money in the search bar has therefore tat. Calm and discharge Dark money. All over the web, including gene, air from the New Yorker wrote. A really interesting book called that money all about the cook brothers. Yet the death was it De Mer cyclist riding This one maybe appropriate for this. Somebody funding is largely. This is from a coal mining about our buildings like ass. He said the Hague Eyes, one. On that? No one ever seems to talk about with renewable energy? Is the people by the people you ass? Well, underground call minor for seven years until the market got so bad. I lost my job. I have just one of seven thousand plus people here and eastern Kentucky than has been hit hard by this, I'm nuts

we need to stick with coal is just the people, don't think about the people that are behind the fossil fuel industry. Losing jobs Not only are people losing their way of life, an entire towns are being killed. I kick out how many people have had to leave the place but they ve called home their entire life to find work What new renewable, cheaper energy? We need to find jobs to fill that void of those who have been lost. Creed, Ghana, I mean it's not His creating renewable energy creates a lot of jobs but they're not going to the co minors right nonsense about, however, Kennedy, I was lucky enough to find work. It bit. Source attack start up here. The company hard ten former coal minors and began teaching, a web and how to be web and software developers awesome. The only problem is their only ten of us in its history the company, and they cannot build devoid void of all those who lost jobs. Guys might be able to help shed some light on this problem. Like I said, no one thinks about the people. The families

hurt by progress, but it happens. Someone told me once you can be we'll make her out there, but if no one needs wheels anymore, does it matter how good you are thanks for the pot? Yes, I love listen, my drive to in framework. That is Michael Harrison. Let us great point, Michael. It is claimed by do something or maybe trainees, people in new renewable energy sure, and this bedsores company is a pretty good example of how the market can can swoop in and in faster progress, basically right sure, but the fact that near hiring ten call minors out of seven thousand, who need job it is also an example of how the market doesn't do that and like you could. This is where government comes in government spending say: let's move forward in lay the infrastructure for an enormous high speed internet national grid. We need people to install that way.

People to design, we need people to develop and we need people to maintain it lets take people who don't have jobs, train them to do this stuff filled this infrastructure and take off like Iraq. From that that's one thing: you could do a great man, we're gonna get male for this whole episode. If you want to get in touch with us to, let us know what you think about this whole jam. You can now three to us it s. Why escape? I guess you can do some facebook that complex that we should now be concern is an email, Mr Pike, ass, the house, the horse. I can't and, as always thrown us at home on the web, selfish, no dot com.

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