99'ers Keep up the cause, its not right for these people we put in office to be pawns to the greedy at the expense of the people the masses. Making laws that only benefit them the greedy, and justify it by saying its the law. Slavery once was legal it didn't make it right. We must change these laws for all to benefit and live with dignity self worth
Jesus this video was HORRIBLE...what was this about again? Something about changing a document? I don't know I was hoping to find out here. Try not screwing off, and give up the REAL information please so some of us that WANT to understand can. Thanks.
@SixStringTorment42 I appreciate a lot of things that Ron Paul says. I appreciate that he'd do many things Obama should do like end the drug war and end our foreign military empire. But on this issue, he'd be really really bad.
Irony. This video and the accompanying campaign is made in tandem with and organized by People for The American Way -- a corporation that wants to ban speech it disagrees with.
Ron Paul-Champion of United States Constitution-honored his Oath of Office 100% yr by yr-often standing alone-until the 112th Congress-18 of 535 members who do: S Myrick NC, Ron Paul TX, P Roe TN, B Posey FL, C Mack FL, T McClintock CA, R Labrador ID, T Huelskamp KS, T Johnson IL, W Jones NC, A Harris MD, T Graves GA, John Duncan, JR TN, Jeffery Duncan SC, J Campbell CA, J Chaffetz UT, J Amash MI, Rand Paul KY(Freedom Index 8-8-12 less who voted for ndaa)3% of members honor their word
In summation however: The only people I see complaining about it, are people interested in class warfare. In other words they want to take corporations money simply because they own more, which is just legal theft. This helps balance that out.
And then there is the other option of using them to leverage the democracy in other areas that need correction -such as using Pampers and Gerbers to leverage for pro-life laws.
@JohananRaatz I still don't see this SCOTUS decision balancing anything. What I see Citizen's United doing is flooding the airwaves and media with corporate monies for the purpose of manipulating the American electoral system at all levels in order to procure a government which is most favorable to corporate interests. It takes a political playing field that was already tilted heavily towards big money and places a giant corporate thumb on the monied side of the scales.
@cardcreekdesign You mean like how the liberal New York Times corporation "manipulated" the system for decades by engaging in electioneering communications and endorsing candidates? Like how Michael Moore's corporate-financed film company produces manipulative political films? The decision balances the influence of the institutional corporate press by enabling others to speak in a corporate voice that is amplified through the pooling of resources in the corporate form. Learn about it.
@sklanger Newspapers across the nation endorse candidates both locally and nationally. What they don't do is run multi-million dollar video campaigns in every state in the nation. And their spending (just page space actually) is dwarfed hundreds-fold by the spending taking place by the members of A.L.E.C. What Newspaper has it's own Washington based think tanks to spew forth position papers designed to influence politics? You have it backwards. The corporate voice was never at risk.
@cardcreekdesign No. You have it backwards: The newspaper space devoted to candidate endorsements and ancillary electioneering communications by "newspapers across the nation" is worth many millions of dollars in equivalent ad space. Allowing only the corporate press to engage in speech but not others threatens the freedom of speech of others who may wish to speak in corporate form in order to amplify their voices. THEIR corporate voice is at risk. The decision de-cartelizes corporate speech.
@sklanger No, the decision amplifies corporate speech. Well beyond that of any citizen or private entity. The depth of the pockets and the breadth of the spending by Corporate funded SuperPacs this year alone will likely exceed 1 Billion dollars. Citizen's United is an insult to the democratic process. As well, in almost every market, the corporate press' editorial board is generally directly aligned with the corporate SuperPac.
@cardcreekdesign No. That's the point: those who wish to speak in association with others are able to do so by pooling their resources in corporate form. This amplifies the voice of citizens who might otherwise have not been heard individually because each individual's limited resources curtails the reach of his or her message. The decision merely balances the right of these individuals to speak in corporate form against that of the corporate press which was allowed to do so under BCRA.
@sklanger Corporations are not bound in anyway, shape or form to speak out on behalf of their constituent membership. In fact, they often "speak" without even consulting their membership. Sure, large organizations such as MoveOn have greater latitude. But in reality...where it counts, the ability of such organizations, especially in the continued grip of deep unemployment, to inject massive funds into political dialog is dwarfed by the deep pockets of multinational corporate America.
@cardcreekdesign Wrong. Corporations have diverse internal charters, many of which provide some form of shareholder control over corporate speech. Some delegate the decision to speak on their behalf to CEOs, corporate spokesmen, or employees; it doesn't change the underlying point: that should they wish to amplify their voices through the corporate form, they may do so. Should they not, they can divest themselves of membership in the organization. Deep pockets balance deep pockets.
In practice, our electoral system is wholly controlled and manipulated through the introduction hundreds of millions of dollars to which the private citizen is unable discern the donor. Most of this money comes through the marriage of non profit 501c3 corp's which can't politic which funnel it anonymously into 501c4 advocacy groups which CAN politic. It's the same damn billionaires who run ALEC, AEI, REASON and Heritage. And it's all lies. Balance my ass.
@sklanger I wish the ties between AEI, ALEC, Reason and Heritage were just a theory. Ignore that tie at your own risk and the risk of this republic. What you have done is buy into a partial truth as if that were the way it's played out in reality. I assure you, it is not.
@sklanger How nice of you to just brush the subject off when the truth is told. In the real world there are conspiracies. And a lot of them stem from boardroom meetings. but how will zombies like you ever know?
Looks like @LeeCamp forgot to get a major boob-lean into the video. If you have a preachy guy in a suit speaking against hedonism while you show soft porn you can get away with it. You know, like FAUX News does.
sometimes i wish i lived in an oppressed country like america so i could protest about something as important as this, but i live in the uk and while we have our problems nothings as stupid as this. (ok ignoring following you in to war)
Maybe we should ask churches to start spending money on elections, instead of having some CEO as President why don't we have a wicked child molesting priest as president.......Anybody remember Florida recount? and you still think votes actually matter? LMFAO, this country has been hijacked since JFK and you morons still think your vote counts or that you have free speech hahahaha. Didn't you see the arrests on Occupy all over the world....freedom my ASS!
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So the guys from Ben and Jerry's, a corporation that has done a lot of good through political action, are campaigning against Citizen's United, a decision prevents Congress from stopping corporations to campaign? lol.
The most hilarious part about this video seems to have been unintentional.
@shadyog If not stop corporations from campaigning, then at least put a cap on how much they can contribute! I don't think it was unintentional for Ben and Jerry's. Their participation in this video and campaign continues to show how much good they are doing: they're giving up this "perk" so that other bigger, ruthless companies will be stopped.
@ecksesnohhz Why would you want Ben and Jerry's to stop participating in government? They have done a lot of good. Your problem isn't with corporations, its with corporations YOU DON'T AGREE WITH. Free speech trumps all that.
@ecksesnohhz Ben & Jerry's are a bunch of raving hypocrites wishing to ban corporate speech they disagree with. They want to ban Haagen Daz from advertising in Vermont, perhaps. But you do know that contribution caps remain in place right? Citizens United involved independent expenditures, not campaign contribution limits.
@shadyog The fact that one corporation has helped the people doesn't change the fact that all the others work against us. If it weren't for corporate influence, we'd have had a real healthcare bill and it would now be easy to unionize your workplace. Only the corporations were against those things.
And only speech is speech. Money isn't speech. There's no such thing as the right to buy an election.
@KennBurch All corporations help people by producing goods and services people want. When they stop helping people, they go bankrupt. Your internet connection, the computer you're on, this video-sharing site you're perusing, even this silly video are all produced by corporations. Money isn't abortion, so you can ban expenditures on abortion? Money isn't speech, so you can limit the money spent to produce a print-run of books? Buying speech doesn't equate to buying elections. You're confused.
I guess the 4 dislikes here are the 4 big bank-corporation-people (Citibank, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, JP MorganChase <------MOVE YOUR MONEY OUT OF THESE BANKS!)
Why didn't they add all those buzz words to the tags, like cat playing piano, cutest little baby, coning, diet coke and mentos geizer... If you go so far as that you put it in the video, you might as well go all the way and put it in the tags...
Don't get me wrong. I love me some Lee Camp (as well as everyone else who appears in this video) but I think the the message, which is divided up between too many speakers to begin with, is completely overshadowed and obscured by the humor.
So funny. I often wonder now, is it worth it for me to share info on politics because either:
A) info moves too fast
B) Most people don't wanna hear it, because it depresses them.
C) Can we really change the system or are we just fighting against eachother while the powers that be really push their agenda so secretly we don't even know?
Anyways ppl rather see funny videos. SO this is a good thing.
TYT and others are misrepresenting Citizen's United. Citizens' United wanted to make a movie critical of Hillary Clinton and advertise it during the 2008 primaries. It was ruled "electioneering" and banned but the Supreme Court overturned that ban. I think with the court that Citizen's United free speech was violated in this case.
@OgreMECH "At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics."
@JuanVoyce Citizen's United didn't appear to me like lobbyists buying senators with campaign contributions. This is what I think of when I consider campaign finance reform. Citizen's United seemed like a group of people who just wanted to speak against Hillary Clinton. Cenk and this group never really explained what Citizen's United was all about.
@OgreMECH The case dealt with the FEC's ruling that "Hillary, The Movie" was in violation of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002's restriction on political ads financed by non-campaign corporate treasuries (foreign or domestic) aired within 30 days of a federal election.
There is too much useless verbiage in this video. Cut Laura Flanders. Repeat the mantra and keep it simple.Keep your best joke. Add Action and moving background music, and you have a viral video. Remember to repeat the message creatively!
Funny clip! However, the video fails to mention corrupt UNION money influence. It is just as poisonous as corporate money; after all, unions are people too.
The polls will open on March 30 2012 and Americans will be able to vote on and elect 2 delegates, one male and one female, from each congressional district in every state. These delegates will undertake the duty of authoring the historic 99% Declaration, a formal list of grievances. Celebrating the constitutional right of the people of the United States to formally redress and petition the government, the 99% Declaration will pose these grievances to lawmakers.
The 99% Declaration is a not-for-profit organization formed under the laws of the State of New York for the sole purpose of funding and facilitating a National General Assembly (NGA) in Philadelphia the week of July 4, 2012.
Help serve congress a legal subpoena to answer YOUR "redress of grievances"
In order to form a more perfect union the occupy movement began and swept across the country. Among its goals, to remove corporate influence over elected officials and restore the power of the democratic process to the people. Now the people are gathering together in an attempt to ratify an important document to be presented before Congress. This document will be written by delegates that the people elect.
being Citizens United allows for no disclosure means if China or Russia wants to support a campaign in our country,they can without anyone having to disclose it.American's are fools if they allow this to continue.
@Thejbirdy The election system has become NOT what policies politicians advocate but WHO SPENDS THE MOST. This has totally corrupted the political process - that's why no one does what you want but they always do what the rich want. Citizens united was a piece of legislation that said that the government has no right to stop corporations spending as much as they like - turning the process from the democratic one person one vote t the fascistic one dollar one vote...
@StunnedByStupidity Thank you for this..we're going to have to fight tooth and nail against these traitors to our American way of life. Thanks to a right wing supreme court, we can't move anywhere in this nation.....
Ok so the production value is a bit minimal, what's important here to remember is to halt the progress of the bloody festering pustulating canker sore known as corporate control via deep pockets over our government. And by golly and gumshoe we're going to get this country back, even if we apparently have to resort to cheap props from the school of guerilla video making!
'our democracy' is capitalism-where a Constitution Law Professor gets paid mad dollars to overturn 'our democracy' to the highest bidder that's made off with our 'democracy'....
corporations lack all that is human.. blood, that they get from you.. flesh, that they also get from you and from what I hear they do it in pounds.. emotion, intellegence, the ability to reproduce after their own kind, etc.. it's not even a question as to whether a corporation is a person, as a reasonable person would define "person", they are NOT, therefore the Supreme Court has shown us that they are not all THAT supreme.. how does one give a corporation 20 yrs in prison for fraud..?
It's funny and all and I get the joke. I'm just one of those people that sees it all so far gone already I'm about to vomit. Lets see how many regular concerned folks get their heads knocked in by police during occupy the courts, then let's make another joke, then let's watch some more people get their heads bashed.
@perogulate The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. We haven't been vigilant. We've been lazy. It's our fault this is out of control. Don't give up.
I love how almost exactly 1% of the like/dislike bar is dislikes
imadizzy1 5 days ago
if we stop it do we stop the liberal media too? when does it stop. pac money doesnt compare to money spent all year by liberal press/media
mryouwishy 1 week ago
@mryouwishy This is reality. Please come back!
tristbjorn 1 week ago
@mryouwishy Spoken by a true faux/Rush sheep.
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99'ers Keep up the cause, its not right for these people we put in office to be pawns to the greedy at the expense of the people the masses. Making laws that only benefit them the greedy, and justify it by saying its the law. Slavery once was legal it didn't make it right. We must change these laws for all to benefit and live with dignity self worth
bestwayusa1 3 weeks ago
Jesus this video was HORRIBLE...what was this about again? Something about changing a document? I don't know I was hoping to find out here. Try not screwing off, and give up the REAL information please so some of us that WANT to understand can. Thanks.
one234569and10 1 month ago
@one234569and10 lmao! I think you missed the point.
trybal007 1 month ago
1611 likes, 16 dislikes: The 1% doesn't like this video.
KoutetsuTenshin 1 month ago 8
I ended up here because I did a search for coning; thanks for being here for me!
HyperMediaNews 1 month ago 2
I came here because of the meat on the head
2legs2armsetc 1 month ago
"Citizens Untied"
billyhallquist 1 month ago
Ron Paul! Grassroots FTW!!!
SixStringTorment42 1 month ago
@SixStringTorment42 I appreciate a lot of things that Ron Paul says. I appreciate that he'd do many things Obama should do like end the drug war and end our foreign military empire. But on this issue, he'd be really really bad.
beelzebubblicious6 1 month ago
Downvoted for Cenk
hosebeatings 1 month ago
Jim Hightower! Yea!
tehslapster 1 month ago
Irony. This video and the accompanying campaign is made in tandem with and organized by People for The American Way -- a corporation that wants to ban speech it disagrees with.
sklanger 1 month ago
I dislike Cenk.
Kestral03 1 month ago
@Kestral03 I hope he dies of ass cancer.
hosebeatings 1 month ago
Wanna hear something sad? I have a friend who's a die-hard liberal who doesn't see a problem with Citizens United.
bcbowar50 1 month ago
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@bcbowar50 "Wanna hear something sad? I have a friend who's a die-hard liberal who doesn't see a problem with Citizens United."
Tie meat to his head.
SpitfireOFatj 1 month ago
@bcbowar50 That is quite said
bluegreen1138 1 month ago
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Ron Paul-Champion of United States Constitution-honored his Oath of Office 100% yr by yr-often standing alone-until the 112th Congress-18 of 535 members who do: S Myrick NC, Ron Paul TX, P Roe TN, B Posey FL, C Mack FL, T McClintock CA, R Labrador ID, T Huelskamp KS, T Johnson IL, W Jones NC, A Harris MD, T Graves GA, John Duncan, JR TN, Jeffery Duncan SC, J Campbell CA, J Chaffetz UT, J Amash MI, Rand Paul KY(Freedom Index 8-8-12 less who voted for ndaa)3% of members honor their word
possumpistol 1 month ago
Cenk! I hope he runs for Pete Starks congressional district when Pete Stark Retires...
thorkelson 1 month ago
You know what else is viral, my music video Geocomplacent!! ;)
Wiiguy 1 month ago
Katrina, Laura, Jim AND Cenk- Quadruple WIN!
yoursaxman 1 month ago
love it
SilentKhayos 1 month ago
inb4 this becomes viral.
keyfamily 1 month ago
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Democracy is bad, we want a republic. Citizens United is the perfect way to balance out excesses of democracy like class warfare.
JohananRaatz 1 month ago
@JohananRaatz Shirley you Jest?
bluegreen1138 1 month ago
@JohananRaatz corporation good, people bad. me good monkey. me want rich too. me suck up real good. treat?
hamnose 1 month ago
@JohananRaatz How is Citizen's united a balancing decision? Please expand on your assertion.
cardcreekdesign 1 month ago
@cardcreekdesign watch?v=wlzmMIIHudw
JohananRaatz 1 month ago
@JohananRaatz No thank you, I prefer it in your own words,, please.
cardcreekdesign 1 month ago
@cardcreekdesign Those are my words, it's my video.
In summation however: The only people I see complaining about it, are people interested in class warfare. In other words they want to take corporations money simply because they own more, which is just legal theft. This helps balance that out.
And then there is the other option of using them to leverage the democracy in other areas that need correction -such as using Pampers and Gerbers to leverage for pro-life laws.
JohananRaatz 1 month ago 2
@JohananRaatz I still don't see this SCOTUS decision balancing anything. What I see Citizen's United doing is flooding the airwaves and media with corporate monies for the purpose of manipulating the American electoral system at all levels in order to procure a government which is most favorable to corporate interests. It takes a political playing field that was already tilted heavily towards big money and places a giant corporate thumb on the monied side of the scales.
cardcreekdesign 1 month ago
@cardcreekdesign You mean like how the liberal New York Times corporation "manipulated" the system for decades by engaging in electioneering communications and endorsing candidates? Like how Michael Moore's corporate-financed film company produces manipulative political films? The decision balances the influence of the institutional corporate press by enabling others to speak in a corporate voice that is amplified through the pooling of resources in the corporate form. Learn about it.
sklanger 1 month ago
@sklanger Newspapers across the nation endorse candidates both locally and nationally. What they don't do is run multi-million dollar video campaigns in every state in the nation. And their spending (just page space actually) is dwarfed hundreds-fold by the spending taking place by the members of A.L.E.C. What Newspaper has it's own Washington based think tanks to spew forth position papers designed to influence politics? You have it backwards. The corporate voice was never at risk.
cardcreekdesign 1 month ago
@cardcreekdesign No. You have it backwards: The newspaper space devoted to candidate endorsements and ancillary electioneering communications by "newspapers across the nation" is worth many millions of dollars in equivalent ad space. Allowing only the corporate press to engage in speech but not others threatens the freedom of speech of others who may wish to speak in corporate form in order to amplify their voices. THEIR corporate voice is at risk. The decision de-cartelizes corporate speech.
sklanger 1 month ago
@sklanger No, the decision amplifies corporate speech. Well beyond that of any citizen or private entity. The depth of the pockets and the breadth of the spending by Corporate funded SuperPacs this year alone will likely exceed 1 Billion dollars. Citizen's United is an insult to the democratic process. As well, in almost every market, the corporate press' editorial board is generally directly aligned with the corporate SuperPac.
cardcreekdesign 1 month ago 2
@cardcreekdesign No. That's the point: those who wish to speak in association with others are able to do so by pooling their resources in corporate form. This amplifies the voice of citizens who might otherwise have not been heard individually because each individual's limited resources curtails the reach of his or her message. The decision merely balances the right of these individuals to speak in corporate form against that of the corporate press which was allowed to do so under BCRA.
sklanger 1 month ago
@sklanger Corporations are not bound in anyway, shape or form to speak out on behalf of their constituent membership. In fact, they often "speak" without even consulting their membership. Sure, large organizations such as MoveOn have greater latitude. But in reality...where it counts, the ability of such organizations, especially in the continued grip of deep unemployment, to inject massive funds into political dialog is dwarfed by the deep pockets of multinational corporate America.
cardcreekdesign 1 month ago 2
@cardcreekdesign Wrong. Corporations have diverse internal charters, many of which provide some form of shareholder control over corporate speech. Some delegate the decision to speak on their behalf to CEOs, corporate spokesmen, or employees; it doesn't change the underlying point: that should they wish to amplify their voices through the corporate form, they may do so. Should they not, they can divest themselves of membership in the organization. Deep pockets balance deep pockets.
sklanger 1 month ago
@sklanger That's the theory...
In practice, our electoral system is wholly controlled and manipulated through the introduction hundreds of millions of dollars to which the private citizen is unable discern the donor. Most of this money comes through the marriage of non profit 501c3 corp's which can't politic which funnel it anonymously into 501c4 advocacy groups which CAN politic. It's the same damn billionaires who run ALEC, AEI, REASON and Heritage. And it's all lies. Balance my ass.
cardcreekdesign 1 month ago
@cardcreekdesign 1. Citizens United upheld disclosure rules. 2. I don't do conspiracy theories, bye.
sklanger 1 month ago
@sklanger I wish the ties between AEI, ALEC, Reason and Heritage were just a theory. Ignore that tie at your own risk and the risk of this republic. What you have done is buy into a partial truth as if that were the way it's played out in reality. I assure you, it is not.
Good luck. We'll need it.
cardcreekdesign 1 month ago
@sklanger How nice of you to just brush the subject off when the truth is told. In the real world there are conspiracies. And a lot of them stem from boardroom meetings. but how will zombies like you ever know?
tristbjorn 1 week ago
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@tristbjorn There are conspiracies, and there are conspiracy theories. Yours is the latter.
sklanger 1 week ago
@JohananRaatz What you mean WE, privilege face?
(Apologies to Jay Silverheels.)
KennBurch 1 month ago
Looks like @LeeCamp forgot to get a major boob-lean into the video. If you have a preachy guy in a suit speaking against hedonism while you show soft porn you can get away with it. You know, like FAUX News does.
WNYmathGuy 1 month ago 12
This is Crazy, Alex Jones said it best at 20-25 minutes in his move-umentary Fall Of The Republic.
Delaware Liscencing has killed the power of The People.
" Fall of the Republic " Alex Jones.
msam1970 1 month ago
I would like to give Laura some meat.
2dave494 1 month ago
Was this meant to be funny?
thetravinmeister 1 month ago
@thetravinmeister Obviously dumbos like you don't understand humor... dumbo.
ajbdkla3652 1 month ago
@ajbdkla3652 let me guess, you're a Jerry Seinfeld fan.
thetravinmeister 1 month ago
@thetravinmeister You've got good a good sense of intuition.
bluegreen1138 1 month ago
AMAZING! Who are the 5 expletive expletive that disliked this??
sully42682 1 month ago
Brilliant stuff, ladies and gentlemen!
seancarletonzero 1 month ago
sometimes i wish i lived in an oppressed country like america so i could protest about something as important as this, but i live in the uk and while we have our problems nothings as stupid as this. (ok ignoring following you in to war)
tmarritt 1 month ago
@tmarritt You've got Cameron and Clegg...so don't be so smug. They'll take you back to the Eighties before the next election.
KennBurch 1 month ago
This video is great! They click on geysers they don't click on Jim LMFAO
sethpajak 1 month ago 2
Maybe we should ask churches to start spending money on elections, instead of having some CEO as President why don't we have a wicked child molesting priest as president.......Anybody remember Florida recount? and you still think votes actually matter? LMFAO, this country has been hijacked since JFK and you morons still think your vote counts or that you have free speech hahahaha. Didn't you see the arrests on Occupy all over the world....freedom my ASS!
Radmann916 1 month ago
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haxney 1 month ago
So the guys from Ben and Jerry's, a corporation that has done a lot of good through political action, are campaigning against Citizen's United, a decision prevents Congress from stopping corporations to campaign? lol.
The most hilarious part about this video seems to have been unintentional.
shadyog 1 month ago
@shadyog If not stop corporations from campaigning, then at least put a cap on how much they can contribute! I don't think it was unintentional for Ben and Jerry's. Their participation in this video and campaign continues to show how much good they are doing: they're giving up this "perk" so that other bigger, ruthless companies will be stopped.
ecksesnohhz 1 month ago
@ecksesnohhz Why would you want Ben and Jerry's to stop participating in government? They have done a lot of good. Your problem isn't with corporations, its with corporations YOU DON'T AGREE WITH. Free speech trumps all that.
shadyog 1 month ago
@ecksesnohhz Ben & Jerry's are a bunch of raving hypocrites wishing to ban corporate speech they disagree with. They want to ban Haagen Daz from advertising in Vermont, perhaps. But you do know that contribution caps remain in place right? Citizens United involved independent expenditures, not campaign contribution limits.
sklanger 1 month ago
@shadyog The fact that one corporation has helped the people doesn't change the fact that all the others work against us. If it weren't for corporate influence, we'd have had a real healthcare bill and it would now be easy to unionize your workplace. Only the corporations were against those things.
And only speech is speech. Money isn't speech. There's no such thing as the right to buy an election.
KennBurch 1 month ago
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@KennBurch All corporations help people by producing goods and services people want. When they stop helping people, they go bankrupt. Your internet connection, the computer you're on, this video-sharing site you're perusing, even this silly video are all produced by corporations. Money isn't abortion, so you can ban expenditures on abortion? Money isn't speech, so you can limit the money spent to produce a print-run of books? Buying speech doesn't equate to buying elections. You're confused.
sklanger 1 month ago
Keep it going Lee.
We all love you bruva.
karmachoga 1 month ago
silly ;-)
Casey3000g 1 month ago
Here for Lee Camp, Jim, and Cenk. Did not disappoint. Though Lee didn't blow a head-gasket in this video so I'm still not sure if this is legit.
LoganIsTaken 1 month ago
I would click on Jim Hightower ANY day....
WhenAmyGraduates 1 month ago 2
5 people are less than 1%
gabesmall 1 month ago 11
I guess the 4 dislikes here are the 4 big bank-corporation-people (Citibank, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, JP MorganChase <------MOVE YOUR MONEY OUT OF THESE BANKS!)
artisanrox 1 month ago
awesome!
TheLydianPattern 1 month ago
Why didn't they add all those buzz words to the tags, like cat playing piano, cutest little baby, coning, diet coke and mentos geizer... If you go so far as that you put it in the video, you might as well go all the way and put it in the tags...
juhmoeduhr 1 month ago 3
@juhmoeduhr Good point, juhmoeduhr, I hope the poster takes you advice.
bluegreen1138 1 month ago
So funny! +1
YezeniaPoulsen08 1 month ago
I agree with the message, but for god sakes stop with the awful humor.
Mutex50 1 month ago
"People, click on geizers... they dont click on Jim.
AAAbby1 1 month ago
Don't get me wrong. I love me some Lee Camp (as well as everyone else who appears in this video) but I think the the message, which is divided up between too many speakers to begin with, is completely overshadowed and obscured by the humor.
But nice try.
Sharoney 1 month ago
So funny. I often wonder now, is it worth it for me to share info on politics because either:
A) info moves too fast
B) Most people don't wanna hear it, because it depresses them.
C) Can we really change the system or are we just fighting against eachother while the powers that be really push their agenda so secretly we don't even know?
Anyways ppl rather see funny videos. SO this is a good thing.
BKsFiNeSt08 1 month ago
PASS A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT BANNING CORPORATE INFLUENCE IN ELECTIONS THAT SAYS ONLY PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE.
Hahntin989 1 month ago
I'm not sure you can overturn a Supreme Court case without the Supreme Court.
Anyone?
billthecat666 1 month ago
They should have guns and Freddie Wong.
LancePoint9 1 month ago
Lee kicks ass. Repeatedly.
MKEIronworkers 1 month ago 2
need to see a bacon hat
Nationalist83833 1 month ago
Yes to my man Lee!
TheAwakenedHeretic 1 month ago 2
TYT and others are misrepresenting Citizen's United. Citizens' United wanted to make a movie critical of Hillary Clinton and advertise it during the 2008 primaries. It was ruled "electioneering" and banned but the Supreme Court overturned that ban. I think with the court that Citizen's United free speech was violated in this case.
OgreMECH 1 month ago
@OgreMECH What !! Get Out !!
420gma 1 month ago
@OgreMECH "At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics."
JuanVoyce 1 month ago
@JuanVoyce Citizen's United didn't appear to me like lobbyists buying senators with campaign contributions. This is what I think of when I consider campaign finance reform. Citizen's United seemed like a group of people who just wanted to speak against Hillary Clinton. Cenk and this group never really explained what Citizen's United was all about.
OgreMECH 1 month ago
@OgreMECH The case dealt with the FEC's ruling that "Hillary, The Movie" was in violation of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002's restriction on political ads financed by non-campaign corporate treasuries (foreign or domestic) aired within 30 days of a federal election.
JuanVoyce 1 month ago
People click on Guysers...they dont click on Jims...
LMFAO
TheGonzaPoker 1 month ago 3
There is too much useless verbiage in this video. Cut Laura Flanders. Repeat the mantra and keep it simple.Keep your best joke. Add Action and moving background music, and you have a viral video. Remember to repeat the message creatively!
sunergos2001 1 month ago
Be a patriot, kick a politician in the balls.
jschultzVII 1 month ago 9
nice
xs1ner 1 month ago
No Trololo guy?
sgottlieb 1 month ago 2
Cenk FTW ^_^
Hanamorichan 1 month ago
Everyone Like and Favorite plz...spread the word!
Maestroxxx1 1 month ago
Awesome. And who would be such a dick that they would vote this down at all? It shouldn't have one thumbs down. Unless it was an accident.
nowwithmorekick 1 month ago
@nowwithmorekick obviously, since corporations have the same rights as individual people, 2 corporations voted this down
yzeone 1 month ago
Lol. The first 15 seconds I was like: This is it, I'm unsubscribing from the Nation's newsletter, but then I got the point.
TheRacistsMustDie 1 month ago
I'm here for Cenk and the cat
raccoonsarebadass 1 month ago 57
@raccoonsarebadass the cat was probably thinking "dont touch me on my studio"
petelovesrat 1 month ago
Outstanding!!!
KCKatheist 1 month ago
Genius~
505alicious 1 month ago
+1 anything Cenk.
splein23 1 month ago 72
@splein23 He's rich as hell man, see his crib!!
BKsFiNeSt08 1 month ago
everyone sign the petition it overturn citizens united by going to senator Berny Sanders web page.........
RedlineMMA 1 month ago
Cenk outta nowhere.
Recolation 1 month ago
Just look at that rating bar. Not a single corporate suck-up disliked this video.
cadman2300 1 month ago
I hope this works. In my opinion who would take it serious when we make a joke out of it!
nardo1224 1 month ago
Cenk!!!! :D
OctZide 1 month ago
It's hilarious how Orwellian these things are always named. Citizens United.. when it's about corporations. Ha!
sogghartha 1 month ago
people click on geysers, they dont click on Jims.
k3w1b3an5 1 month ago
Citizens United's Wiki makes it sound somehow altruistic. It's the wolf in sheep's clothing.
Solarfactor 1 month ago
Funny clip! However, the video fails to mention corrupt UNION money influence. It is just as poisonous as corporate money; after all, unions are people too.
TheGoodFight916 1 month ago
i can tell by the comments, some people dont know about the supreme court decision concerning the "personhood of corporations"
dennj2 1 month ago
cats, cute babies and mentos in coke, this sums up the internet
NightSayana 1 month ago 3
@NightSayana NOOKY! NOOKY! NOOKY!
pythor2 1 month ago
@heavytransit yeah, i suppose, everything just seems such an awful emergency.
perogulate 1 month ago
that was a perfect satire of you tube .
Chansulus 1 month ago
hahaahahahahahaha
greenrage247 1 month ago
*strapping the meat to my head for the lizard* *LOL*
lilacaraby 1 month ago 2
truth speaks volumes thru humor, compared to the documentary 'it's too scary if real' style of delivery..Loving this..hope it's the new trend:)
StealthEmerald 1 month ago
@acasouk , Strange... I see 0 dislikes. Is it possible to undo dislikes? That would be cool... sometimes I hit the wrong button.
rg0057 1 month ago
For some reason the share button here isn't working for me....hmmmm
pj58tt09 1 month ago 2
"national week of action begins January 16", and Occupy Congress is on January 17! This is gonna be hella protest : D
CoN0R115 1 month ago 3
Yeah Jim Hightower YOU MY BOY!
redsully 1 month ago
Soda bottle eruption = dirty thoughts.
Seriously though, I'm 100% behind getting rid of corporate personhood. It's an abomination and America isn't a democracy without this amendment.
And yes, that baby IS cute enough.
DorEnErnil 1 month ago 3
GREAT JOB
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DanieClarke 1 month ago 2
the Supreme Court fucked up and now we have to do this. lovely video btw. i will share.
ramonlazotrio 1 month ago
You should put "mentos and cola light, keyboard cat, japanese gameshow, cute baby, coning" in the tags!
LtShock 1 month ago 2
@LtShock BUMP
Pct3ch 1 month ago
Fantastic!
leafletd 1 month ago
Love it.
MzFlux 1 month ago
This video was really clever.
def226 1 month ago
F&*k! Negin! Lee! I adore you. O-mazing.
rockandrollmadonna 1 month ago
being Citizens United allows for no disclosure means if China or Russia wants to support a campaign in our country,they can without anyone having to disclose it.American's are fools if they allow this to continue.
stillbreathing37 1 month ago 3
In order for it to become viral, don't you have to change the tags? i.e. "Cute baby", "kitten playing piano", "phallic meat reference" etc.?
MrJooberdoober 1 month ago
I like it...but I fear it's preaching to the choir.
jstgr8t 1 month ago
What IS citizens united anyway? Is it like a phony corporate front? Thanks.
Thejbirdy 1 month ago
@Thejbirdy The election system has become NOT what policies politicians advocate but WHO SPENDS THE MOST. This has totally corrupted the political process - that's why no one does what you want but they always do what the rich want. Citizens united was a piece of legislation that said that the government has no right to stop corporations spending as much as they like - turning the process from the democratic one person one vote t the fascistic one dollar one vote...
StunnedByStupidity 1 month ago
@StunnedByStupidity Thank you for this..we're going to have to fight tooth and nail against these traitors to our American way of life. Thanks to a right wing supreme court, we can't move anywhere in this nation.....
Thejbirdy 1 month ago
@Thejbirdy No problem. Its great to know there's one less of 'them' and one more of 'us'.
StunnedByStupidity 1 month ago
Hilarious, guys! Thank you for making this!
sabatheus 1 month ago
Fuck, I feel like the only one to recognize that amazing man known as Lee Camp in the video.
TuWear 1 month ago
Ok so the production value is a bit minimal, what's important here to remember is to halt the progress of the bloody festering pustulating canker sore known as corporate control via deep pockets over our government. And by golly and gumshoe we're going to get this country back, even if we apparently have to resort to cheap props from the school of guerilla video making!
artinthehead 1 month ago
'our democracy' is capitalism-where a Constitution Law Professor gets paid mad dollars to overturn 'our democracy' to the highest bidder that's made off with our 'democracy'....
otrabogada 1 month ago
Perfectly excellent. Thank you! Shared.
mckathiki 1 month ago
Yeh, good luck dreamers. Amerikans are fucked for life.
FlameHue 1 month ago
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Ironic, nicely done, humerous...
But it is well known we live in an oligargic corporatocracy with strong fascistoid tendencies.
It is destroying us.
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Only "true democracy" can be a saviour.
But to get there is not so easy.
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MrCally1 1 month ago
FRICKEN FABULOUS!!!!!
SoulJuiceTV 1 month ago
corporations lack all that is human.. blood, that they get from you.. flesh, that they also get from you and from what I hear they do it in pounds.. emotion, intellegence, the ability to reproduce after their own kind, etc.. it's not even a question as to whether a corporation is a person, as a reasonable person would define "person", they are NOT, therefore the Supreme Court has shown us that they are not all THAT supreme.. how does one give a corporation 20 yrs in prison for fraud..?
Dewdaahman 1 month ago
Hahaha...classic.
true101story 1 month ago
Love this - humor is a great way to communicate!! I'm posting this one on my FB wall and asking my friends to share. They will.
MsGelemos 1 month ago
It's funny and all and I get the joke. I'm just one of those people that sees it all so far gone already I'm about to vomit. Lets see how many regular concerned folks get their heads knocked in by police during occupy the courts, then let's make another joke, then let's watch some more people get their heads bashed.
perogulate 1 month ago 35
@perogulate Yea they already have an army to protect them, a militarized police and corrupt courts and gov. We need some power on our side.
grgfraiser 1 month ago
@perogulate The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. We haven't been vigilant. We've been lazy. It's our fault this is out of control. Don't give up.
McSuperfly5 1 month ago
@perogulate well its a way to be more friendly to the average citizen so they dont feel intimidated by the movement. dont know
heavytransit 1 month ago
Yes!!!!!! Fucking Brilliant man!!!! I will be sharing this!! nice work Lee, thanks. :D
headcase357 1 month ago 2
This is fricking BRILLIANT!! Love it. Sarcasm, irony and reality, all perfectly juxtaposed. Gotta share this.
CAnative64 1 month ago 2
Some people won't get it, but it was worth it seeing Lee in a suit! I will pass along
victhpooh1 1 month ago 2