'Thanks to Citizens United': 50 Megadonors Have Put Over $1.5 Billion Into 2024 Election

Fuck Citizens United.

Just gonna leave this here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_(organization)
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- As I always say;
  The rivers of ruin run deep.

Thanks a lot John Roberts and Sam Alito for fucking up our politics. Citizens United may be the worst Supreme Court decision since the Civil War

There's a conservative group trying to use Dred Scott as a precedent to disqualify Kamala Harris. The civil war never ended, it just went cold.

Imagine this money put into public healthcare...

Every drop helps, but the US spends around $4.5 trillion annually on healthcare. If we changed to single-payer, cut out the middle-man multi-pipeline network of private insurers thereby also lowering administrative overhead that last I checked was around 30%... We would likely achieve what most other nations are achieving at half the per-capita cost we pay now.

Citizens United.

But just a few, incredibly rich ones. So it’s like the opposite of what the name seems to imply.

"We The People" never included the peasants.

They always give these draconian laws positive sounding names. Also, all that disposable money could've be used for social programs through taxation

What law are you referring to?
- They appear to be mistaking the shorthand for the Supreme Court ruling to be the name of a law. In fairness, bills do often have overly patriotic names that hide their paradoxical purposes.

democracy :)

If we don't turn over the institutions of government to the highest bidder, all the ads on TV say we'll get something way worse
- Like healthcare for everyone 👻

that is a lot of school lunches

So many out of work hookers and piles of cocaine disappearimg in the morning dew.

Are there other western countries that have a similar rule regarding money in politics? I'm not familiar with rules regarding political donations in other countries

Not really. Most actually have very strict rules about who can donate
- Are the rules around who can donate or around how much they can donate? My understanding is that in the US, most people can donate directly to a candidate (within a limit) but you can donate unlimited amounts "indirectly" to the candidate

After a certain point, they're just going to cut out the middle-man and say Money = Votes and allow you to bid or hold shares in the office of the President.

Citizens United and SpeechNow fucked us. Until these are overturned, along with the Electoral College and FPTP abolished, dark days are ahead for our Democracy.

At which point we the people would be morally and legally obligated to make that office uninhabitable.
There is always an answer. Just not always a civilized one.

”Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest…”

_{hysterical laughter with a backing track of Ominous Latin Chanting}

They're all begging for the guillotine. Why keep them waiting?

Yeah, I keep reading that as "Megaboners"

Republicans don't want to get rid of it because it helps them against Democrats. Democrats don't want to get rid of it because it helps them lock out progressives. We're stuck with it.

How would the Democrats “get rid of” a supreme court decision?
Proponents of which party brought the case? Appointees of which party were in the deciding majority on the court?
- How would the Democrats “get rid of” a supreme court decision?
  Stacking the courts and bringing another case. Or an amendment.
  So like I said, we're stuck with it.

y'all come on now, just cause they donated a couple billion bucks does not mean their opinion matters more than an average citizen does it?

Is one of them Israel and other foreign governments? Also Pfizer?

So let's see Kamala's plan to end this bullshit... Obviously Trump wouldn't, but Kamala might if we push enough

Lmao this take that Kamala is somehow immune to the realities of our political financing structures makes no sense to me
- Not immune, and not calling for her to abstain... But she could easily say she wants to change the system and how. It's not even controversial and would get her plenty of points from the left to the center.

This is how we get rid of the Deep State! Thank you Trump's Supreme Court (who has been doing the Same Things as Citizen United but for our OTHER Rights!)!

Pretty sure I might be on this list. Gave $20 not too long ago, so I'm about to buy some laws.

It is their country after all we are just guest/the help at this point.

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It's funny people believe before citizens united that money didnt run politics. America is an oligarchy ,has been my entire life, and always will be. It's not a bad system if you learn about it. Lots of opportunities if you are willing.

The entire point of the law they struck down was to take money out of politics. Yes we know money has been a problem.
America is an oligarchy ,has been my entire life, and always will be.
Are you over 200 years old? government used to break up monopolies. citizens united probably wasn't the beginning but it sure did streamline the corruption and legalize the purchase of politicians. Anyways, normalizing apathy probably isn't going to help the situation.
- Since Eisenhower at least.