Vaguely related side note: Thanks so much for making the Master Plan podcast series @davidsirota! I recommend and link to it constantly. This kind of political history is so essential to understanding the crises liberal democracies find themselves in. But few people under 50 have any memory of a time when democratic institutions weren't sidelined in favour of corporations.
"We took it for granted because we stopped listening, we started confining ourselves to bubbles. Which is why I tweeted yesterday about the move off of X, into BlueSky and other platforms, only limits our ability to listen, learn, understand and ingratiate ourselves to others."
#DeanPhillips, Democrat Congressman, 2024
https://www.levernews.com/the-democrat-who-tried-to-warn-us-with-rep-dean_phillips/
Way to miss the point. Yes, *politicians* need to be on X, or anywhere their constituents might be.
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I don't often strongly disagree with Lever journalists, but I have to take issue with presenting Occupy Wall St as a counterpart of the Tea Party;
The two couldn't have been more different.
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"In order to appease this right-wing coalition which was keeping him in power, [Netanyahu] actually strengthened Hamas. And ... he seems not to care that much about getting the hostages back, and seems to be interested in engaging in a forever war", in order to be able, once again, to stay in power and to elude the consequences of his own actions."
https://www.levernews.com/the-secret-recordings-netanyahu-wants-censored/
"... Israel at the time was in the middle of a kind if identity crisis, over attempts by Netanyahu to alter the power of the judicial system. In part that was to appease his right-wing coalition, who desperately wanted to expand settlements in the West Bank, and also, this was a gambit by Netanyahu to actually influence the judiciary at a time when he was facing the judicial music, in the form of a corruption trial."
https://www.levernews.com/the-secret-recordings-netanyahu-wants-censored/
thelevernews.com
podcast: #MasterPlan : Legalising #Corruption
"Instead, they see exactly what you just pointed out which is; here are billionaires giving to Democrats, here are billionaires giving to Republicans, it's all a racket. Nobody's interested in me, to hell with it, let's vote for the biggest disruptor.
And that's why you end up with a charlatan criminal like Trump as .. next President."
US Senator #SheldonWhitehouse, Nov 5, 2024
https://www.levernews.com/the-master-planners-election-with-senator-sheldon-whitehouse/
"Maybe [Biden's] contradictions prove that even if people inside the system can see the corruption all around us, and lament that it's destroying our county, and really want to do something about it, maybe they still can't singlehandedly do much. If we keep swimming along, and don't force them to act."
#DavidSirota, 29 Oct, 2024
https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-11-are-we-doomed-to-a-master-planned-future/
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Me:
> Even organised labour can't see enough sunlight between the candidates to express a preference
"Lever Time senior podcast producer Arjun Singh unpacks the cultural and economic trends that have turned working-class voters away from the Democratic Party and explores how the Republican Party is now working to win them over."
"Those of us privileged to hold a public office have ourselves to blame for the sickness in American public life today. And we are the defenders of a campaign finance system that is nothing less, than an elaborate influence peddling scheme, in which both parties conspire to stay in office by selling the country to the highest bidder."
Senator #JohnMcCain
https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-5-how-corporations-became-people/
"This is a circus. It is a national disgrace ... it is a high-tech lynching for uppity-blacks ... and it is a message that, unless you kow-tow to an old order, this is what will happen to you..."
US Supreme Court Justice #ClarenceThomas, 1991
https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-7-the-federalist-society-strikes-back/
A reminder that it's not new for conservatives to use accusations of racism, to deflect attention away from their corruption and hidden agendas and smear anti-corruption activists and officials.
"One of the things they need to do the implement Powell's memo, is destroy the laws that prevent them and their financial backers, from spending unlimited amounts of money to buy elections, politicians, and political power."
#DavidSirota, 2024
https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-5-how-corporations-became-people/
"America's corporate titans are sitting at a giant table, in a roman-columned fortress just one block from the Oval Office, where their pal Jerry is now literally the 'leader of the free world', and somehow they perceive themselves as the victims struggling for acceptance.
Imagine Darth Vader and the Emperor at the control panel of the Death Star, lamenting that they're unpopular and have no power."
https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-4-the-task-force-that-took-over-america-2/
Master Plan: Legalizing Corruption
https://the.levernews.com/master-plan
* Investigative podcast
* how political ideologues/corporations spent years orchestrating legalized corruption in USA
* narrated by David Sirota, an investigative journalist, Oscar nominee, fmr speechwriter for Bernie Sanders
@RickiTarr It's really corrosive, right?
#TheLever has done great coverage on this!
https://www.levernews.com/lever-weekly-how-billionaires-shape-the-news-they-own/
Big Oil Is Trying To Buy Its Own Texas Court. #shorts
Short but informative video from #TheLever on the #derailment in #EastPalestine. Sums up the events to date in just over 2 minutes.
https://youtu.be/wEqV0h08ZbU
