Hmmmm, anyone want to fund my superpac?

I'll give you a discount on the first states sold off

Scalia: "Wow, that's a LOT of democracy!"

How much extra for a Constitutional Amendment to go with it?

What I took from that article was rich casino owners wouldn't be rich if people would stop... I don't know... going to casinos and wasting their money.

/tax on the stupid, indeed

I never saw this coming.

Alito assures us that no foreign money will find its way in to this nearly unregulated system with no disclosure rules.

He just...knows, ok?

I donated to a SuperPac.

/Colbert
//all others scare the shiat out of me

Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before.

If only there was some group of people in the U.S. who could go to some place and case some sore of "vote" for anyone they wanted instead of just people that spent tons of money. A dream I know.

America becomes the farce everyone thought it was going to be when the framers first crafted it.

Wow maybe we should start a Fark super pac. Then the total farkers would start a totalfark super pac and everyone would fight then all the money would be spent on booze...........wait I think I am ok with that.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

Oh sure, but if some lefty actor uses their fame to give endorsement we all just say "free speech". It's just another version of sheeple and shepherds.

mkultra4013: TheShavingofOccam123: ...I hope our first Japanese president has large hooters and she won't be afraid to use them.



Second

I can haz big breasted Japanese girl thread?

Oh, come off it. It's not like our election will be marred by foreign interests and international investors.

/despite what the Birthers have youto believe

God dammit, America.

You know what the biggest problem with SuperPacs is? They can't directly coordinate with campaigns, even if all the staff on the SuperPAC are ex-campaign folks. Really pesky issues pop up- you might get some cases where messages aren't totally in sync.

The solution is to eliminate the campaign. A candidate's campaign should do nothing other than gather the signatures to get them on the ballot. Everything else can be handled by the SuperPAC, which will have no direct contact with the candidate at all. (Really! Honest! You can trust us 100%)

In fact, you really don't need to worry too much about the candidate It's not like you're going to be advertising for him or her anyway- find someone bland and inoffensive with a good haircut, queue up the negative ads against the opposition and let them roll. So long as you have more of them than the other guy you win.

Gosh, I love modern democracy.

Funny. The wealthy don't threaten, rob, assault, rape, and murder my family and friends. Why should I find them more worrisome being involved in politics than the holier-than-jesus-poor?

Soounds alot like how the last POTUSs' got elected

TheShavingofOccam123: A New York Times article:

But some checks came from sources obscured from public view, like a $250,000 contribution to a super PAC backing Mr. Romney from a company with a post office box for a headquarters and no known employees.


At least they aren't taxing people for the right to work in the form of union dues, and spending $85 million dollars of those people's money on political contributions, regardless of whether the union members support the political donations or oppose them.

All that money and they don't understand that the Presidential race is a beauty contest?

Congressional races are the important races.

How long til foreign goverments get in on the game? A quick corp chartered in the US, a shil candidate with citizenship, and they could have a shot at a Real Manchurian candidate.

/thanks Citizens United - worst SC decision since Dred Scott.

I'm rich so that means I have more free speech than you!

neener neener neener Sucks to be you.

Poor people can't afford a congressman and wouldn't know what to do with one if it could.

This guy seems to have a point (new window) Probably not relevant, but.....

Teen Wolf Blitzer: I can haz big breasted Japanese girl thread?

America, the best democracy money can buy.........

You poor saps really thought your vote was equal to everyone else....

beta_plus: Funny. The wealthy don't threaten, rob, assault, rape, and murder my family and friends. Why should I find them more worrisome being involved in politics than the holier-than-jesus-poor?

sure they do. they are just more subtle about it. what rock do you live under?
also, please don't vote.

Here is the problem. You can't regulate political speech in the US.

If you say it is ok to impose limits on speech because the source is a company, or because of the quantity, then its only a few moments before film companies start facing accusations that they are being political and therefore subject to the same regulation. There is no real distinction between a billionaire who buys an ad company to put forward their political views and a billionaire who buys a newspaper or film or music production studio, or printing press and a shipping company.

Like it or not, when it comes to speech, all organizations are equal because the only way to segregate them is equally vile.

Incog_Neeto: If only there was some group of people in the U.S. who could go to some place and case some sore of "vote" for anyone they wanted instead of just people that spent tons of money. A dream I know.

That's part of the reason I've voted for Ralph Nader three times. I think I'm done this time around. I spent most of my younger years as a voter being engaged, volunteering, giving a shiat in general. But I'm tapped out, done. All most people look for now in candidates are haircuts and american idols. It feels like we're in a long, slow slide. To what end, I'm not sure. But I worry about what kind of world my toddler son will inherit.

Occam's Nailfile: TheShavingofOccam123: A New York Times article:

But some checks came from sources obscured from public view, like a $250,000 contribution to a super PAC backing Mr. Romney from a company with a post office box for a headquarters and no known employees.


At least they aren't taxing people for the right to work in the form of union dues, and spending $85 million dollars of those people's money on political contributions, regardless of whether the union members support the political donations or oppose them.


Wow, you mean people are forced to work at jobs that are union-only? The more you know!

beta_plus: Funny. The wealthy don't threaten, rob, assault, rape, and murder my family and friends. Why should I find them more worrisome being involved in politics than the holier-than-jesus-poor?

No, they just get the armed forces and Police to do it for them, so their hands stay clean.

Money talks, democracy walks.

Makes the perfect gift for a friend!

/or just someone you can use

I did a search on the article for "George Soros" but it wasn't there, so this article is very incomplete.

Thank you, SCOTUS!

So we throw away one form of government where the rich ruled and the poor remained poor in perpetuity (oligarchy, feudalism, etc), only to re-invent and re-invest in the same type of system two hundred years later. Why the fark did the revolutions happen in the first place if it never really achieved anything? It's like 18th century France vacillating between Bonaparte rule (Republic) and rule by monarchy. Are we really that stupid as a species where we actually do make the same mistakes over and over?

LOL ... these guys won't pay taxes but they've got plenty of money to buy elections.