Citizens United established that corporations are people and that money is speech. Therefore corporations can spend unlimited money on political campaigns under the guise of free speech. Out of 9 Justices, 5 voted in the affirmative, 4 dissented. Dissenting were Justices Stevens, Ginsburg, Breyer and Sotomayor. Those 4 were the good guys who tried to stop Citizens United. But this cartoon shows Justice Ruth Ginsburg as a Justice who voted for it, that's incorrect, she voted against it.
I just had to clarify that one point. It is not fair that people think a Justice voted yes on Citizens United, who actually voted No on it. Justice Ginsburg voted no, and her picture shouldn't be in the cartoon.
The 5 Justices who voted yes were the 5 conservatives who make up the majority block on the court, who always vote for the corporations, Justice Roberts, Justice Thomas, Justice Kennedy, Justice Scalia, and Justice Alito.
Why do you think the GOP has been so desperate to push a pro corporation agenda? The Ryan plan, union busting and privatization in Ohio and Indiana. They want to place themselves in front of the Dems at a much much larger feeding trough. They even think that pissing off senior citizens can be offset by all that money! Ummm yeah...good luck to em on that one. But this just shows what a game changer Citizens United really is, for Both partys
how do corporations not have human rights? arnt they just a collection of humans? so what because we don't like what a corporation wants to say its alright to silence the people inside the corporation just because they are one?
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi You can emphasize your "(should not)" if that is your opinion, but "does not" is incorrect. Corporations are persons under the law.
@gibblets17 They count as a person in a court of law. Corporations can do practically everything on paper that a person can. You don't sue the individuals in a corporation, not even the ceo or chairman of the board, or president, you sue the corporation. There are certain rights that go along with this personhood that corporations are happy to have. I forget exactly why it's so good for them.
We wouldn't have this problem if there wasn't so much government. If we abolished the fed then they wouldnt be sending their lobbyists over to tip their hat off for more alms or to bribe our politicians to screw everything up.
@minnesotastategop this isnt overgrown gov that commited this, it corporation buying there will into the supreme court in other words it fascism the merger of corporations and govorment
@minnesotastategop You sound hyperpartisan. This is Fox News "Newspeak".
"Big Government" is a hypnotic buzz term created by the very people doing these things to control your thinking. If you haven't read 1984, Google "Newspeak". The bloodbath between Democrats and Republicans in America has been deliberately orchestrated to keep us at each other's throat so this malevolent Corporatocracy happens without resistance. Bringing Fox News Newspeak into this discussing is tragically ironic.
@mlynn1231 I have read 1984. I doubt you have. It was not a corporatocracy it was a socialist state. INGSOC meant English socialism. The kind of things that happened there WILL happen here thanks to liberals.
@minnesotastategop Liberals had nothing to do with the Supreme Court ruling granting corporations the same rights as individuals, or the massive deregulation that allows fewer and fewer corporations to own more and more businesses - hence layoffs when the greedy bastards move everything overseas. That was pretty much the doing of right-wing Republicans. PS, 1984 is a critique of totalitarian Communism, not socialism. There is actually a difference.
@minnesotastategop I think you miss the point. 1984 was actually a satire of stalinist government. The very point of the tale of INGSOC was that it *wasn't* socialist, and the party had, like the CPSU used a crisis (war) and an -ism (which could be any ism, capitalism, socialism etc.) to obtain power, then promptly hijack the ideological and political vehicle to consolidate and perpetuate their rule. It is, in fact, an exploration of realpolitik that could be applied to ANY political faction.
@minnesotastategop If you actually read 1984 you would be aware that the three different superstates all had different parties which professed different ideologies (the to extent they could successfully dehumanise the others), yet all functioned in exactly the same way.
@mlynn1231 the word "big government" was around before fox was even a idea in the heads of its creators. the push for more government or less has been around since the beginning of america itself.
@businessfreedom Oh no, Bush had nothing to do with it. Karl Rove isn't orchestrating this at all. The middle east wars aren't the least bit grotesque profit machine for the folks doing this.
When you've been conditioned to ignore the ills of one Administration (YOUR PRECIOUS PARTY) while frothing at the mouth at THE EVIL, IMMORAL, BABY-KILLING, AMERICA-HATING OTHER ONE you're a tool being wielded like a samurai sword by the very Corporatocracy that distroying our county. You're helping them.
@businessfreedom Oh no, Bush had nothing to do with it. Karl Rove isn't orchestrating this at all. The middle east wars aren't the least bit grotesque profit machines for the folks doing this.
When you've been conditioned to ignore the ills of one Administration (YOUR PRECIOUS PARTY) while frothing at the mouth at THE EVIL, IMMORAL, BABY-KILLING, AMERICA-HATING OTHER ONE you're a tool being wielded like a samurai sword by the very Corporatocracy that distroying our county. You're helping them.
DEATH TO ALL CORPORATIONS INCLUDING THE U. S. CORPORATION INC
incorporated February 21st 1871 41st Congress Session 3 Chapter 62 page 419
there IS NO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT it is a FRAUD this is why the supreme court made that corporate ruling "THEY" KNEW. All of "THEM" KNOW IT we people need to start thinking like the Egyptians..walk like an Egyptian sMiLe
So what about anti slavery laws stating that you can't own another person?
Are all these corporations about to be liberated from being owned by anyone? Will they finally be held legally responsible for the actions of their child companies so long as they were created less than 18 years ago?
@jacensolo53 Corporations are run by the American people. You can go look at the shareholders in these companies and they are mostly average Americans like anyone else. The director boards do have richer people but they're still Americans who have the same yearnings as anyone else: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Liberals keep attempting to demonize the American corporation as a force for evil, when it is because of corporate scholarships and internships that liberals college went.
@TheAdarkon Correction: Corporations are run by the richest of the richest American people and most of the share holders are NOT average people. The middle and lower income class of america accounts for roughly 80% of the US population yet owns about 30% of the wealth. The richest 1% owns about a third and the remaining 19% own the last third. Its actually life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness at the expense of others.
@TheAdarkon Everyone "works hard", but it doesn't give them the right to ship jobs overseas and deprive other hardworking people of their livelihoods. Or to pump unlimited amoutns of money into their pet politicians' campaigns, effectively drowning out all other challengers. Or, for that matter, to reap record bonuses for driving their companies into the ground and causing a major recession.
@TheAdarkon The only thing any corporation cares about is making a profit. It does not give a shit about anything or anyone else. Go read a textbook dumbass.
Gee, it just ain't right Pinocchio had to set things right before he became a real boy. The Corporations get to act like the bad boys and they still get to become real people. Who wrote this fairy tale. I want a rewrite.
Hey, if corporations are people, then why aren't people also corporations?
I want to restructure my personal identity, so all my financial liabilities are piled onto one of my divisions, which can then independently declare bankruptcy. The second of my identities does jail time for all my unspeakable crimes. And my third self gets to run off with all my illegal and should-be-illegal profits (that's the one that keeps my body).
@loqiloqi Actually YOU CAN! in most states you can become a corporation of sorts, all you need to do is file for a limited liability corporation. In oregon for instance you have the right to do so and to set out what the corporation is for. like This LLC exists to further the quality of life of * your name here* or a 503c non profit devoted to the support of artists, chosen by the Corporation, and the corp choooses YOU!
funny huh. Now if we can only get a corporate death penalty....
@loqiloqi@loqiloqi Actually YOU CAN! in most states you can become a corporation of sorts, all you need to do is file for a limited liability corporation. In oregon for instance you have the right to do so and to set out what the corporation is for. like This LLC exists to further the quality of life of * your name here* or a 503c non profit devoted to the support of artists, chosen by the Corporation, and the corp choooses YOU!
funny huh. Now if we can only get a corporate death penalty....
@chinchychilla ... yeah, but the fake tan does that to him... Or is that color a big nicotine stain from all those tobacco industry bribes he was handing out on the floor of the senate?
The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision reversed 100 years of law to give corporations a right to unlimited secret campaign spending.
The Chamber of Commerce quickly capitalized and put $75 million of secret corporate money, some from foreign corporations, into the 2010 elections.
Now predatory international corporations can control every politician in America. They don't even need bribery. All they need is to threaten a barrage of negative ads in the next election.
@dangerouslytalented Next time the police come to the door wanting help for some sort of crime that has taken place around the neighborhood, I was going to tell them it sounded like "a civil matter" and slam the door.
What scares me is the fact that if corporation are people, under the 2nd amendment, they've the right to form militia.
MenwithHill 2 months ago
Can a corporation run for president if it originated in the US and was based here for 14 years or more?
KJLesnick 6 months ago
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Citizens United established that corporations are people and that money is speech. Therefore corporations can spend unlimited money on political campaigns under the guise of free speech. Out of 9 Justices, 5 voted in the affirmative, 4 dissented. Dissenting were Justices Stevens, Ginsburg, Breyer and Sotomayor. Those 4 were the good guys who tried to stop Citizens United. But this cartoon shows Justice Ruth Ginsburg as a Justice who voted for it, that's incorrect, she voted against it.
TheBeckyRileyShow 6 months ago
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TheBeckyRileyShow 6 months ago
I just had to clarify that one point. It is not fair that people think a Justice voted yes on Citizens United, who actually voted No on it. Justice Ginsburg voted no, and her picture shouldn't be in the cartoon.
The 5 Justices who voted yes were the 5 conservatives who make up the majority block on the court, who always vote for the corporations, Justice Roberts, Justice Thomas, Justice Kennedy, Justice Scalia, and Justice Alito.
TheBeckyRileyShow 6 months ago
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Of course you're right. This animated series is a blend between propaganda and entertainment.
b1gr1g 4 months ago
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TheBeckyRileyShow 6 months ago
WTF? A corporation is not a person and should not have human rights !!! It should have corporation rights and laws they should follow!!!
Kidcosmosuno 8 months ago
Goethe Soros supports every politician that votedDOWN Citizens United, so where is you logic?
g4macdad 9 months ago
Why do you think the GOP has been so desperate to push a pro corporation agenda? The Ryan plan, union busting and privatization in Ohio and Indiana. They want to place themselves in front of the Dems at a much much larger feeding trough. They even think that pissing off senior citizens can be offset by all that money! Ummm yeah...good luck to em on that one. But this just shows what a game changer Citizens United really is, for Both partys
lerch25 9 months ago
Ginsberg voted against Koch Brothers United so she shouldn't be in your video.
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Macwylee 9 months ago
how do corporations not have human rights? arnt they just a collection of humans? so what because we don't like what a corporation wants to say its alright to silence the people inside the corporation just because they are one?
gibblets17 1 year ago
@gibblets17
The people within the corporations have normal human rights, but the corporation itself is not a person and does not (should not) have these rights.
sdrawkcabgnipytmi 10 months ago 2
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi You can emphasize your "(should not)" if that is your opinion, but "does not" is incorrect. Corporations are persons under the law.
newguy33X 8 months ago
@newguy33X
We don't all live in the United States.
sdrawkcabgnipytmi 8 months ago
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi Good point. I guess I shouldn't get caught up with U.S. ways of doing things so much. But they affect so many other people.
newguy33X 8 months ago
@gibblets17 They count as a person in a court of law. Corporations can do practically everything on paper that a person can. You don't sue the individuals in a corporation, not even the ceo or chairman of the board, or president, you sue the corporation. There are certain rights that go along with this personhood that corporations are happy to have. I forget exactly why it's so good for them.
newguy33X 8 months ago
It's the will of the secret societies ushering in the New World Order. Please read the book/watch the movie 1984 and look around you.
mlynn1231 1 year ago
We wouldn't have this problem if there wasn't so much government. If we abolished the fed then they wouldnt be sending their lobbyists over to tip their hat off for more alms or to bribe our politicians to screw everything up.
minnesotastategop 1 year ago
@minnesotastategop this isnt overgrown gov that commited this, it corporation buying there will into the supreme court in other words it fascism the merger of corporations and govorment
gonzo361 1 year ago
@minnesotastategop You sound hyperpartisan. This is Fox News "Newspeak".
"Big Government" is a hypnotic buzz term created by the very people doing these things to control your thinking. If you haven't read 1984, Google "Newspeak". The bloodbath between Democrats and Republicans in America has been deliberately orchestrated to keep us at each other's throat so this malevolent Corporatocracy happens without resistance. Bringing Fox News Newspeak into this discussing is tragically ironic.
mlynn1231 1 year ago 2
@mlynn1231 I have read 1984. I doubt you have. It was not a corporatocracy it was a socialist state. INGSOC meant English socialism. The kind of things that happened there WILL happen here thanks to liberals.
minnesotastategop 1 year ago
@minnesotastategop Liberals had nothing to do with the Supreme Court ruling granting corporations the same rights as individuals, or the massive deregulation that allows fewer and fewer corporations to own more and more businesses - hence layoffs when the greedy bastards move everything overseas. That was pretty much the doing of right-wing Republicans. PS, 1984 is a critique of totalitarian Communism, not socialism. There is actually a difference.
streetswell 1 year ago 3
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@streetswell Yeah blame the so called right wing. You're the ones who wanted BIG government and now you got it.
1984 is a critique of totalitarian Communism, not socialism. There is actually a difference.
But either way, that is what THe dems want for America.
minnesotastategop 1 year ago
@minnesotastategop I think you miss the point. 1984 was actually a satire of stalinist government. The very point of the tale of INGSOC was that it *wasn't* socialist, and the party had, like the CPSU used a crisis (war) and an -ism (which could be any ism, capitalism, socialism etc.) to obtain power, then promptly hijack the ideological and political vehicle to consolidate and perpetuate their rule. It is, in fact, an exploration of realpolitik that could be applied to ANY political faction.
Krys1304 1 year ago
@minnesotastategop If you actually read 1984 you would be aware that the three different superstates all had different parties which professed different ideologies (the to extent they could successfully dehumanise the others), yet all functioned in exactly the same way.
Krys1304 1 year ago 2
@mlynn1231 the word "big government" was around before fox was even a idea in the heads of its creators. the push for more government or less has been around since the beginning of america itself.
gibblets17 1 year ago
wow, thanks for not insulting our intelligence with your gay video
wavelength121 1 year ago
Lynyrd Skynryd had a song which is a companion to this video called"Working for MCA.
Another thing about Corpoations is their secret weapon and boy ain't it a Atomic Bomb called the Copyright!!!
Even some rockbands(Even though their the ones who wrote and proform the songs).
If it's under the music company's name,the music company(Corporation) can block under copyright grounds.
businessfreedom 1 year ago
Excellent video Mark!
The Obama Administration and the courts filled Goldman-Sachs People who associated with Robert Rubin.
Goldman-Sachs who's CEO Peter Sutherland was also the CEO of BP.
Btw Obama's speaker of the house lived 5 yrs rent free in Apartments in Washington D.C owned by a BP Advisor.
That's why there's no Justice in the Gulf Spill
businessfreedom 1 year ago
@businessfreedom Oh no, Bush had nothing to do with it. Karl Rove isn't orchestrating this at all. The middle east wars aren't the least bit grotesque profit machine for the folks doing this.
When you've been conditioned to ignore the ills of one Administration (YOUR PRECIOUS PARTY) while frothing at the mouth at THE EVIL, IMMORAL, BABY-KILLING, AMERICA-HATING OTHER ONE you're a tool being wielded like a samurai sword by the very Corporatocracy that distroying our county. You're helping them.
mlynn1231 1 year ago 3
@businessfreedom Oh no, Bush had nothing to do with it. Karl Rove isn't orchestrating this at all. The middle east wars aren't the least bit grotesque profit machines for the folks doing this.
When you've been conditioned to ignore the ills of one Administration (YOUR PRECIOUS PARTY) while frothing at the mouth at THE EVIL, IMMORAL, BABY-KILLING, AMERICA-HATING OTHER ONE you're a tool being wielded like a samurai sword by the very Corporatocracy that distroying our county. You're helping them.
mlynn1231 1 year ago 2
DEATH TO ALL CORPORATIONS INCLUDING THE U. S. CORPORATION INC
incorporated February 21st 1871 41st Congress Session 3 Chapter 62 page 419
there IS NO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT it is a FRAUD this is why the supreme court made that corporate ruling "THEY" KNEW. All of "THEM" KNOW IT we people need to start thinking like the Egyptians..walk like an Egyptian sMiLe
4skully 1 year ago
Awww, that's so special...it warms your heart :)
rbolo29 1 year ago
Corporations never know when enough is enough.faceless souless spineless bastards.
SSstrikerX 1 year ago
Wall Street handed out record bonuses this year.
RepublicConstitution 1 year ago
Nice cartoon -- but corporations are already considered human entities.
exphoenix 1 year ago
waht a waste of bandwith that was
prometheus919 1 year ago
So what about anti slavery laws stating that you can't own another person?
Are all these corporations about to be liberated from being owned by anyone? Will they finally be held legally responsible for the actions of their child companies so long as they were created less than 18 years ago?
Philosification 1 year ago
Corporations always have Americans' best interests at heart, regardless of what Marxists (they call themselves liberals) will tell you.
TheAdarkon 1 year ago
@TheAdarkon That's sarcastic right?
jacensolo53 1 year ago
@jacensolo53 Corporations are run by the American people. You can go look at the shareholders in these companies and they are mostly average Americans like anyone else. The director boards do have richer people but they're still Americans who have the same yearnings as anyone else: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Liberals keep attempting to demonize the American corporation as a force for evil, when it is because of corporate scholarships and internships that liberals college went.
TheAdarkon 1 year ago
@TheAdarkon Correction: Corporations are run by the richest of the richest American people and most of the share holders are NOT average people. The middle and lower income class of america accounts for roughly 80% of the US population yet owns about 30% of the wealth. The richest 1% owns about a third and the remaining 19% own the last third. Its actually life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness at the expense of others.
Escapification 1 year ago
@Escapification Those people worked hard to get there. They deserve to be rich.
TheAdarkon 1 year ago
@TheAdarkon Everyone "works hard", but it doesn't give them the right to ship jobs overseas and deprive other hardworking people of their livelihoods. Or to pump unlimited amoutns of money into their pet politicians' campaigns, effectively drowning out all other challengers. Or, for that matter, to reap record bonuses for driving their companies into the ground and causing a major recession.
streetswell 1 year ago
@TheAdarkon The only thing any corporation cares about is making a profit. It does not give a shit about anything or anyone else. Go read a textbook dumbass.
Escapification 1 year ago
scary wonderful - one of Fiore's best ev er
Studdells 1 year ago
Gee, it just ain't right Pinocchio had to set things right before he became a real boy. The Corporations get to act like the bad boys and they still get to become real people. Who wrote this fairy tale. I want a rewrite.
veggiescrub 1 year ago
So when do corporations become truly human and gain a conscience?
DeistPaladin 1 year ago 3
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>"So when do corporations become truly human and gain a conscience?"
After the current boards of directors all get eaten by grues and replaced by hippies?
LordCustos3 1 year ago
Part sad. Part funny. And completely scary. It must be nice to be able to buy politicians.
TonyThompson1981 1 year ago 3
Hey, if corporations are people, then why aren't people also corporations?
I want to restructure my personal identity, so all my financial liabilities are piled onto one of my divisions, which can then independently declare bankruptcy. The second of my identities does jail time for all my unspeakable crimes. And my third self gets to run off with all my illegal and should-be-illegal profits (that's the one that keeps my body).
Fair's fair, Supreme Court.
loqiloqi 1 year ago 4
@loqiloqi Actually YOU CAN! in most states you can become a corporation of sorts, all you need to do is file for a limited liability corporation. In oregon for instance you have the right to do so and to set out what the corporation is for. like This LLC exists to further the quality of life of * your name here* or a 503c non profit devoted to the support of artists, chosen by the Corporation, and the corp choooses YOU!
funny huh. Now if we can only get a corporate death penalty....
3minutefilms 1 year ago
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@loqiloqi @loqiloqi Actually YOU CAN! in most states you can become a corporation of sorts, all you need to do is file for a limited liability corporation. In oregon for instance you have the right to do so and to set out what the corporation is for. like This LLC exists to further the quality of life of * your name here* or a 503c non profit devoted to the support of artists, chosen by the Corporation, and the corp choooses YOU!
funny huh. Now if we can only get a corporate death penalty....
3minutefilms 1 year ago
U.S. Supreme Court: Bought and paid for.
johnny718bravo 1 year ago
Always look forward to your videos, they bring a smile, a wry smile, but a smile nonetheless.
colourmegone 1 year ago
Can a million corporations march and command world attention for days?
saadasim 1 year ago
@saadasim why would they need to command world attention when they command the world?
jasonsadventure 1 year ago
So touching... it brings a tear to John Boehner's eye!
chinchychilla 1 year ago 43
@chinchychilla ... yeah, but the fake tan does that to him... Or is that color a big nicotine stain from all those tobacco industry bribes he was handing out on the floor of the senate?
dangerouslytalented 1 year ago
@chinchychilla Everything brings a tear to Boehner's eye.
cablepanos 1 year ago
@chinchychilla Great comment.Loved it.George
junktex 1 year ago
The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision reversed 100 years of law to give corporations a right to unlimited secret campaign spending.
The Chamber of Commerce quickly capitalized and put $75 million of secret corporate money, some from foreign corporations, into the 2010 elections.
Now predatory international corporations can control every politician in America. They don't even need bribery. All they need is to threaten a barrage of negative ads in the next election.
Yea Corporatocracy!!!
goog2k 1 year ago 3
Brilliant!!!
bunsinspace 1 year ago
Corporations should be careful if they want to become human... For much of the stuff many corporations do, the US has the DEATH PENALTY.
dangerouslytalented 1 year ago 64
@dangerouslytalented nice
vinny4man 1 year ago
@dangerouslytalented BOOM!
mlynn1231 1 year ago
@dangerouslytalented Next time the police come to the door wanting help for some sort of crime that has taken place around the neighborhood, I was going to tell them it sounded like "a civil matter" and slam the door.
CanadaIndieFilm 3 months ago