{"id":3330,"date":"2014-04-16T13:36:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T20:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2014-04-17T23:18:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T06:18:16","slug":"supreme-lackeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3330","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Lackeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size-full wp-image-3337\" title=\"supremecourtcorporatelackeys\">In case it wasn&#8217;t clear after the <em>Citizens United v. F.E.C<\/em> decision in 2010, last week&#8217;s <em>McCutcheon v. F.E.C<\/em> decision has made it abundantly clear to all Americans; our democracy has transformed itself into an oligarchy where democracy exists only if you have money&#8230;and lots of it. This latest decision, which removes donation limits, was split 5-4, with all the <strong><em>compassionate conservative Republicans<\/em><\/strong> on the bench voting to give control of the country to those poor, underrepresented plutocrats, billionaire CEOs and job creators. So to summarize: the corporate lackeys on the bench have made it possible for more corporate lackeys in congress. And they can do this because, thanks to Citizens United, corporations are people, too.\u00a0 <strong>America: For the Corporation, By the Corporation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3337\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3337\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=3337\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3337\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3337\" title=\"supremecourtcorporatelackeys\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/supremecourtcorporatelackeys.jpg\" alt=\"Poor Plutocrats everywhere are rejoicing now that their corporate lackeys on the Supreme Court have given them control of America.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/supremecourtcorporatelackeys.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/supremecourtcorporatelackeys-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plutocrats everywhere are rejoicing now that their corporate lackeys on the Supreme Court have finally given them a voice in the running of America.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case it wasn&#8217;t clear after the Citizens United v. F.E.C decision in 2010, last week&#8217;s McCutcheon v. F.E.C decision has made it abundantly clear to all Americans; our democracy has transformed itself into an oligarchy where democracy exists only if you have money&#8230;and lots of it. This latest decision, which removes donation limits, was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3330\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Supreme Lackeys&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,85,3],"tags":[885,628,22,20,389,27,9,886,21,98,852,64,596,19,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3342,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions\/3342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}