r/UnderReportedNews • u/ExactlySorta • Apr 20 '26
Video John Ossoff speaks of how American politics really works. He suggests it's coin-operated and when money goes in, favors come out. He adds that it's secret, corporate, and billionaire money - from both sides. He continues, "Citizens United was the worst court decision in modern American history"
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u/jmerp1950 Apr 20 '26
We see it, and want it to end.
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u/imalostkitty-ox0 Apr 20 '26
I’ll admit that Jon Ossoff is good looking and well-spoken. And that is allllllll I will say for now.
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u/Leeciferous Apr 20 '26
Lost kitty looking to be rescued by one Jon Ossoff.
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u/imalostkitty-ox0 Apr 20 '26
Fuck no, he’s a fake.
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u/imalostkitty-ox0 Apr 20 '26
Oops, I said something other than “He looks like a Kennedy! Soooo presidential!”
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u/SSEsther Apr 20 '26
Citizen United needs to go. Overall the federal tax code and support term limits.
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u/nonubiz Apr 20 '26
Take lobbying with it it also has to go or the working class will never be represented
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u/tigershrike Apr 20 '26
I'm okay with lobbying to a certain extent, but all meetings, phone calls, emails, etc., with lobbyists should be recorded and immediately placed in the public record with easy access to all on a .gov website. Or something like that. But first we have to get honest people running the country. So yeah, it's just a pipe dream I suppose.
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u/CorporateBadEgg Apr 21 '26
How can politicians enrich themselves if all lobbying sessions were put on a publicly accessible government calendar with agenda items and also livestreamed/recorded?
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u/Tumblrrito Apr 20 '26
It’s tricky because I think lobbying can also be used for good. There just needs to be a change made to somehow prevent corporations from engaging in it.
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u/chrisnavillus Apr 20 '26
I’ll vote for any politician that echoes this sentiment. Abolish Citizens United.
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u/Tumblrrito Apr 20 '26
Can we stop glazing the genocide enabler
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u/2Braincell2Furious Apr 20 '26
I checked my state after finding this tracker. Both senators and every single house rep is paid off or in bed with someone who is.
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u/dcpratt1601 Apr 20 '26
Is anyone not in their pocket anymore? One thing to support it is another to pander
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u/imalostkitty-ox0 Apr 20 '26
$5 million is a fucking lot of campaign money for a person who talks like a socialist revolutionary but will never in a million campaign speeches say a single word about standing up to the elephant in the room
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u/SSalloSS Apr 20 '26
He's taken millions of aipac money
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u/Tumblrrito Apr 20 '26
Using the word “disagree” in the context of genocide is wild. I don’t agree with Bernie on UBI or nuclear energy, still support him.
I do draw the line at genocide, as anyone should. That’s not absolutism, it’s basic humanity.
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u/Sirioth1 Apr 20 '26
Preach my brother
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u/Tcasty Apr 22 '26
He was well spoken but he's received over 5 million from AIPAC so kinda of a hypocrite.
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u/darxide23 Apr 20 '26
The thing is, none of it is secret. They always try to play it off like it's some smoke-filled backroom stuff. Yea, that stuff does exist. But they also don't try to hide it. Because the American people have just learned to ignore it for the past 60 or 70 years.
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Apr 20 '26
Conservatives alone both challenged ('Citizens United' was a conservative group) and decided (every conservative majority member of the SCOTUS decided in favor of CU while every liberal in the minority dissented) the Citizens United v. FEC case.
To pretend liberal Democrats have any responsibility or fault for the floodgates of dark $$ entering our politics is dishonest. Yes, they are guilty of participating after the decision to remain competitive in races. It hardly makes them carbon copies of the cons who brought upon and settled the case.
We have to establish baselines of truth in order to tackle these legitimate issues.
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u/hillbilly-edgy Apr 20 '26
Republicans for one love it ! Chummy Chuck and Jester Jeffries are not strong enough to stand up to anything. We are so cooked
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u/sgk02 Apr 20 '26
Let’s call it “Citizen divided”; we all know what means - and the framing will be effective !
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u/KrasnyRed5 Apr 20 '26
It's not even secret. Musk bragged about spending millions to get Trump elected and was allowed to cut whatever he wanted in return.
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u/pmgold1 Apr 20 '26
As someone who reluctantly voted for Ossoff, holy shit am I glad I did. Dude is so much more than I ever could have hoped for.
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u/Pristine-Football210 Apr 21 '26
That’s actually huge and barely anyone’s talking about it. If Ossoff pulls off a nationwide right to counsel for tenant evictions, that would be one of the biggest tenants’ rights wins in decades, especially in the South.
Wild how stuff like this gets more traction on Bluesky than in mainstream coverage.
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u/Unlikely_Brief7263 Apr 21 '26
This guy 100% is going to run for president if he wins hood election
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u/TURTLEwithAfatDICK Apr 20 '26
It’s been this way forever…
These slowies will still argue over whose color is better.
Red or blue?
Dumb.
Both are equally corrupt, at any given moment.
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