How Lawmakers Profit Off Our Broken Political System

[@pierrepence9876]

The sickness is the system, as Richard Wolff says.

[@selalewis9189]

This is what defunding social programs looks like, while hundreds of millions of dollars get pumped into policing in every district in the country. Look up your city budget and see how much is going into policing vs., senior in-home care, emergency rental assistance, or food stamps. Cities and states depend on this federal money, and when they don't get it (because its been whittled down to nothing of real impact), citizens become desperate, then incompetent officials hit the "easy" button of overpolicing.

[@racewiththefalcons1]

Someone is actually developing an ETF that tracks House and Senate stock trades. Big brain idea, right there.

[@TheAnticorporatist]

Wonder if they'll get busted for "insider trading" for using it, la-mao

[@lavaq9593]

Excellent! Thank you.

[@racewiththefalcons1]

The system isn't broken. This is how it's been designed to function. The system itself is the problem.

[@hanneloreclemenson1228]

It's freaking ridiculous!

[@jmalko9152]

Fascinating!

[@davesuth8424]

Gutting the things that make a difference in working class Americans

[@nebuler1]

The child care portion literally changes nothing for us in Florida

[@TheAnticorporatist]

Jail Manchin now! And Sinema too, if she's dome anything wrong. We sure that we can't recall senators?

[@electrosonicnebula]

Well done. It's indeed perfectly correct to assume that even progressive lawmakers will respond to incentives diametrically opposed to the progressive agenda, and that it's ridiculous to expect politicians not to act predictably in obvious self-service despite being called public servants. One check on them could be a growing middle class with influence of its own and solidarity toward the poor. But the middle class is shrinking fast.

[@TheAnticorporatist]

Oh, and THEY'RE JUDGES! I bet you could find at least one quote of each of then informing a defendant that "ignorance of the law isn't an excuse (against breaking it)" The law is actually written such that they MUST avoid even the APPEARANCE of impropriety!

[@VernonNickersonSCHOOLCOACH]

Chris Josephs. Remember that name! Watch as he flies every closer to the sun-- no fatal burns, barely a suntan! Voila! A One Percenter pipeline is born!

[@QuizmasterLaw]

congresscritters: the ULTIMATE inside trader!

[@deelee4639]

Dns errors on the page

[@tylerhackner9731]

No insider trading!

[@VernonNickersonSCHOOLCOACH]

" They are personally invested in profitable corporations." The corporations want to maximize their profits. When profits are prioritized first, last, and always, people perennially suffer. Yep! Voila! OF COURSE! This is the final " missing" puzzle piece. Frankly, because it was actually a step in the right direction towards the common shared concerns of the people united to form a more perfect union, BUILD BACK BETTER always felt like it was being held back, i.e., intentionally allowed to fail epically. What little may eventually be passed will hasten the dissolution of the American Experiment in Democracy. My thing is living in a fascist theocracy was NEVER THE ANSWER.

[@glm4054]

I can't be sadder at what our country has become.💔💔💔🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲💔💔

[@PrincessLuna131]

Second! 😋 Sorry I missed 2002 🤣

[@thosethatcan]

That's .. like what I posted..about FL $ ... elections etc. Boy those fbi raids tho..👀

[@808zhu]

Incredible isn't it?

[@JemLeavitt]

Messed up...

[@numbersix8919]

Why is AK a regular on Jacobin? She is a liberal, not a radical. So why?

[@nebuler1]

So you disagree with her reporting? Please explain.

[@numbersix8919]

@@nebuler1 That's not the problem. Any liberal can sympathize with systemic problems, that's Job #2. Job #1 is preventing systemic change. Job #2 exists to hide Job #1. So I naturally wonder: what is going on at Jacobin?

[@sargamwadhwa]

Lol why is ana here to say this? She's literally a part of the same club. TYT is corporate media ffs, does she think Jacobin viewers are dumb?

[@brucehunter8235]

Ana is turning to revolutionary politics. That's good, that's what we need.

[@updogysl]

You look like Elon Musk, I dislike Elon Musk

[@sargamwadhwa]

She does this to get leftist cred while taking corporate money and going back to TYT which is corporate media. She's a sellout and always has been.

[@sargamwadhwa]

Also this is not "revolutionary" Politics lmaoo

[@alcosmic]

Hey waitiasecond... I am starting to think our elected officials don't have the average American's best interests at heart...

[@throeawae2130]

Ew ana kasparian

[@jimmcgettigan4826]

Until such time as a force for systemic reform arrives, nothing will change because it is for better or worse, “The American way.”

[@peteremwells]

If people choose not to invest in the stock market that’s on them. Everyone is free to do so or not to do so. I’m hardly rich but I invest in the stock market each month.

[@michaelkulman7095]

Are you using insider information and investing 11 million?