Daily Take: Bribery Unleashed: The Supreme Court's Wealth-Driven Corruption Crisis
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 15 May 2024
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Congress must stand up for what’s right and consistent with American values: Legally bribed politicians and judges isn’t that...
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| 0:00.0 | Bribery Unleish |
| 0:02.0 | The Supreme Court's wealth-driven corruption crisis. |
| 0:06.0 | Americans are watching with increasing shock and dismay. |
| 0:10.0 | President Biden tried to knock up to $20,000 off the debt of every person in the country with a student alone. |
| 0:16.0 | Republicans decided this might somehow someday mean fewer profits for banks who financially support the GOP, |
| 0:22.0 | so they sued at the Supreme Court. |
| 0:24.0 | The Republican appointees on the court over the objections of the three Democratic appointees |
| 0:29.0 | killed the President's effort without providing any cogent constitutional rationalization. |
| 0:34.0 | Scientists have developed lab-grown meat that is healthier, easier on the planet |
| 0:39.0 | when manufactured at scale cheaper than beef, pork, or chicken. |
| 0:42.0 | The animal ag industry freaked out and threw |
| 0:44.8 | a bunch of cash at Republican members of Congress who are now trying to outlaw the product |
| 0:49.1 | before the company's developing it can get to scale. Even the bug you |
| 0:52.7 | manufacturers back in the day didn't think the way to protect their |
| 0:55.8 | industry was to buy off politicians. Of course that was |
| 0:58.9 | before five corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court |
| 1:01.2 | legalized political bribery. |
| 1:04.0 | Climate change is devastating our planet and fine particle emissions from trucks cause hundreds |
| 1:08.5 | of thousands of deaths and illnesses from heart disease, COPD, asthma, and cancer every year. |
| 1:13.0 | To solve the problem, the EPA put forward new truck emission standards that will phase in between |
| 1:18.0 | 2027 and 2032. |
| 1:21.0 | This week, 27 Republican-controlled states whose politicians take money from the fossil fuel industry, |
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