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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:
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.
I agree with you.
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.