It's hard to believe a Republican is pushing a piece of non-terrible legislation for a change.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Jesus, I can just picture the Heritage Foundation fascist thinktank rolling a screen onto the Senate floor that's some janky McConnell LLM Max Headroom looking AI to tell the Senate Republicans what to think.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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?
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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sorry but i don't trust hawley he has an ulterior motive
It would be a mistake if Democrats didn't at least pursue this behind the scenes.
This is confusing because Hawley is pretty fucking evil but this bill makes sense..
I replied to another comment saying that it's important to remember that these people are not evil incarnate. Many of them just have a radically different worldview, one that I strenuously disagree with in many ways, but that doesn't mean there can't ever be compatibility. Cory Booker is working with Hawley to combat child labor. Booker disagrees with Hawley on a lot of stuff but he'll put that aside to work on something productive.
Gacy was a great member of the community and helped at hospitals and charitable event but he also murdered a lot of people and I can say he was evil. Is Hawley evil I would say yes, can he do right things sometimes? Sure but his end game is inherently evil
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It only applies to publicly traded companies, which tend to be beholden to the "woke, oppressive majority" of society. Private companies would remain free to funnel unlimited funds to their choice of shithead.
I vote we have a law where politicians have to have logos of their sponsors emblazoned on all their suits
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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.
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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
Anyone resisting corruption legislation should be placed under direct investigation, prosecuted, and made into the primary benchmark example.
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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
Looks like someone is afraid of the truth... Good. Let the truth out, and let it hurt.
Yertle the turtle, King of the swamp
This is the best summary I could come up with:
(CNN) - 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.
According to multiple sources familiar with the Tuesday lunch meeting, McConnell warned GOP senators that they could face “incoming” from the “center-right” if they signed onto Hawley’s bill.
But there’s also no love lost between McConnell and Hawley, who has long criticized the GOP leader and has repeatedly called for new leadership atop their conference.
Just on Tuesday, Hawley told CNN that it was “mistake” for McConnell to be “standing with” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, in their push to tie Ukraine aid to an Israel funding package.
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 – an effort that aligns the conservative Missouri Republican with many Democrats.
According to a list of senators obtained by CNN, McConnell singled out a number of lawmakers who benefited from his outside group over the last three cycles: Mike Braun of Indiana, Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Roger Marshall of Kansas, Susan Collins of Maine, Steve Daines of Montana, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Katie Britt of Alabama, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Eric Schmitt of Missouri, Ted Budd of North Carolina, JD Vance of Ohio and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
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