Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell bluntly warned Republican senators in a private meeting not to sign on to a bill from Sen. Josh Hawley aimed at limiting corporate money bankrolling high-powered outside groups, telling them that many of them won their seats thanks to the powerful super PAC the Kentucky Republican has long controlled.
It’s hard to believe a Republican is pushing a piece of non-terrible legislation for a change.
Yes! I’m confused! Hawley has always been a shithead. What’s changed!!?! I’m not complaining, just curious… and a little suspicious.
He’s still a shit head, he just probably thinks this will limit corporate money to Dems, plus most of the Republican party takes donations from shady or compromised sources like the NRA, so it doesn’t hurt them as much to limit corporate contributions.
Shhhh… Let them think they’ll own the libs on this “terrible bill for democrats” wink wink
He may actually be dumb enough to believe that such legislation would hurt Democrats more than Republicans.
True believers are always a detriment to a false movement.
He doesn’t, and he won’t. It is part of their culture war against woke. It will not end in any legislation, but it will be repeated ad nauseum in the press as if it was actually serious, and his voters will lap it up.
The more extreme the Republican party becomes the more likely it is that big corporations will fund Democrat opponents.
Yes; either redemption is possible and a choice or there’s an angle. And this is not a partisan issue.
Imagine being about to die any day now, and still using your failing, literally sputtering life force to proactively stand for enduring corruption even when you’re gone and will no longer profit from it, as if the corporations that bribe the Republicans and Neoliberals will be able to send the bribe checks to hell or something.
There aren’t many villains, even in fiction, that lack any nuance to this degree. McConnell truly is a palpatine-esque cartoon of malevolence.
He really is one of the most evil humans to ever exist in the USA. PLEASE can he die soon. PLEASE. The earth needs a win.
Somehow, McConnell returned.
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Let them eat their own faces. Corruption of these folks Tammany Hall level is where we are again.
Did you see that hawley basically wants to over turn Citizens United? That could be major!
He doesn’t though. It is all culture war posturing:
“Let’s get one thing straight,” Hawley bellowed this summer, “Corporations are not people.” The crowd, this one gathered in Washington for the social conservative Faith and Freedom Coalition summit, barely stirred. But then they erupted when the populist senator continued, “I’ve got news for these woke corporations: We are not going to surrender this nation to the cultural Marxists in the C-suite.”
This is typical conservative behavior. The moment the status quo does not benefit themselves, they become stridently progressive on that one issue.
Notice the subtext. Woke corporations and C-suite Marxists. He’s opposed to corporations funding his opponents, and he finally got around to doing the math on Citizens United and realized that most corporations aren’t run by fundamentalists and bigots.
Money isn’t speech, and corporations aren’t people. I’ve always said that. But the only reason Hawley agrees with me now is that the “people” are “saying” they don’t want to be associated with fascists and terrorists.
But that’s…fine. Because corporationsa aren’t fuckin “woke” either. Corporations help nothing but corporations. Overturning citizens united does not change if their reasons for wanting to overturn it are stupid. These people are stupid. If they want to do the right thing for the stupidest, most incorrect reasons…it’s still getting the right thing done.
I agree with you completely. It just seems like a lot of people are confused about being on the same side of an argument as Hawley when they know what a selfish gasbag he is. He hasn’t changed in the slightest, and hasn’t become a better person or principled in any way. His interests align with the greater good right now, and he’ll be useful as long as that’s true.
Yep that’s exactly it.
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The cultural Marxists in the C-suite
Wtf does that even mean? It’s just a nonsensical jumble of buzzwords thrown together. The crowd cheered for that?
Knew it. He’s cutting off his nose to spite his face.
Edit: However, in this case, the nose has cancer, so maybe it could accidentally wind up being a good thing. Is he doing something he thinks is so evil, he’s flipped back to good, like an old videogame score…?
Must be an ulterior motive, like corporations being people makes anti abortion legislation impossible to write in legaleaze or similar.
It pisses me off that I agree with Hawley about anything, but here we are.
I think it’s always important to remember that people like him aren’t evil incarnate they just have radically different worldviews, the majority of which I vehemently disagree with, but there’s always some commonality out there somewhere. Cory Booker is working with Hawley on child labor prevention.
Thank you for some common sense and sanity here.
Rationality > Emotionality
Tammany Hall got some things done.
McConnell’s undeath can only be maintained by a constant flow of bribery cash. Nonexistent campaign finance law is where he hides his phylactery.
Okay, this needs to be the plot of an urban fantasy political thriller immediately. That’s amazing!
He transforms into his original form of a tortoise and eats the donation cash as though it were lettuce.
A cosmic dark lord turtle?
Nothing quite that cool, he’s just a Tort-Lich summoned by Russian interests.
With four White Elephants on his shell supporting a Flat Earth?
(With apologizes to Terry Pratdhett)
What’s the catch? What is Hawley’s new source of funds that he has and the Establishment GOP doesn’t have? There’s no way in hell that seditious pigfucker would cut off the money supply unless he’s got a private source.
Maybe I’m being overly optimistic but it’s at least possible he just thinks it’s wrong. He’s a grade A schmuck but like it or not he is a senator. Maybe this could create bipartisan support to over turn Citizens United.
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As I understand it, the more extreme nutcases like Hawley and MTG get much more of their funding from small donations. They make the news for saying insane shit and being controversial, spread their crazy bullshit on social media, and then get money pouring in from around the country.
I think it’s clear at this point that the MAGA Republicans are willing to undermine their party as a whole if it fits their agenda. What do they care, anyone who isn’t 100% loyal to their movement is just a RINO anyway, right?
I vote we have a law where politicians have to have logos of their sponsors emblazoned on all their suits
s/uits/kins
and now im with you.
It’ll be awkward when they all have 666 branded on their foreheads though
Better than all the ones with 88.
sorry but i don’t trust hawley he has an ulterior motive
Yes just keep handing our democracy over to the highest bidders and see how this all ends
You make it sound like that’s not the express aim of the mainstream republican politicians. This isn’t a bug to them, it’s a feature.
Seems optimistic to assume most Dems are much better
One of the most successful con-jobs ever was convince people that all Democrats and all Republicans are the same because all it does it create apathy among democratic voters and help Republicans get elected.
Hey, you guys remember that time that Democrat president refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, refused to accept that he lost the election and said that Congress shouldn’t certify the vote? Then, most of the Democrats in Congress just blindly agreed and said fuck the vote results, let’s keep this guy!
Yeah, that was pretty treasonous of those Democrats.
“January 6th was antifa in maga hats” ugh. All we can do is try to vote them out or vote to keep them out.
The FBI, DOJ and CIA are all infiltrated by antifa to the point of them only charging the trump supporters who got caught up in the crowd, swayed by the agent provocateurs into doing things they never would.
That’s why the only people charged so far are Trump loyalists even though we all know that BLM and antifa (who were sponsored by Bud Light and Target) actually caused it.
And George Soros
Idk man, as a Canadian looking at US politics from outside, it seems kinda naive to presume Dems aren’t also incredibly corrupt.
But yes Trump and his goonies are another level
Incredible. Do citizens united next. Full support
From the article:
Hawley’s new bill, called the Ending Corporate Influence on Elections Act, is aimed at reversing the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision that loosened campaign finance laws
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Tf is hawley’s angle?
I’ve been thinking about this for awhile cause Gates has said some similar stuff in the past, I’m guessing they’re scared of establishment republican PACS turning on them.
Idk though, the so called “establishment” republican elite hasn’t done much against Trump and his cronies the past 8 years
Anyone resisting corruption legislation should be placed under direct investigation, prosecuted, and made into the primary benchmark example.
Isn’t he busy dying or something?
I don’t trust him one single bit
Neither do I but Democrats would be foolish if they didn’t pursue this at least quietly. This could be incredibly major.
because the ones in the Democratic party pulling the strings were never not sold out as well
Why would they? It would apply to them too.
Democrats have submitted both a constitutional amendment and legislation to end citizens United.
So have Republicans. What’s your point?
Republicans submitted a constitutional amendment to end citizens United?
Democrats: queens of purposefully inefficient attempts and grandstanding. They’ll let some true progressives in their ranks just to appease the far left just enough, but keeping a leash so as not to upset their real masters.
The voters decide who gets elected not the party. Not some mysterious overlord. You seriously sound like some right-wing maga nut job crying about the deep state.
Bless your heart
You’re adorable
Turtle stew sounds lovely right about now.
Yeah, I guess, to be fair he’s being cynical not ‘good’.
The line of projection to his base will be: “ Only Demoncrats are funded by billionaires like SOROS!!! The GOP is funded by YOU GOOD PEOPLE!!!”
