The Supreme Court legalized bribery for only one very narrow and very specific group of people in the United States: politicians & if America is to survive as a republic, we must end the legal bribery.

Why don't we have gun control?

It's because our Supreme Court, or, more correctly, five Republicans on our Supreme Court, legalized bribery.

Not the bribery of store clerks or bank tellers or people who work for airlines. You go to jail for that.

Not the bribery of judges or police or people who work in government offices. That's still very much a crime.

Not even international bribery; if your company does business overseas and you execute a bribe to conduct that business, you can still go to prison here in the United States.

The Supreme Court legalized bribery for only one very narrow and very specific group of people in the United States: politicians.

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-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "When Was Bribery of Politicians Legalized In America?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Uvalde Community Calls for Gun Control in Heartbreaking Hearing" by Abigail Weinberg.

Article: "G.I. Bill" by History.com.

Article: "GI Bill of Rights: A Profitable Investment for the United States" by Labor Party.

Article: "Great Depression (1929 - 1930s, Republican Great Depression) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Powell Memo".

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Law: "Glass-Steagall Act", 1933.

Article: "American Revolution (1765 – 1784)" by Wikipedia.

Book: Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich by Kevin Phillips.

Article: "Fox News Channel Will Not Carry Thursday’s Primetime Jan. 6 Committee Hearing" by Kipp Jones.

Article: "Fox News is bringing back its caravan coverage playbook from the 2018 midterms, but the circumstances have changed" by Jake Lahut.

Article: "When Texas was the national leader in gun control" by Brennan Gardner Rivas.

Article: "Santa Cruz County, California, Measure D, Branch Line Rail Corridor Greenway Trail Initiative (June 2022)" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "Railbanking" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Warned of ‘massive’ climate-led extinction, a US energy firm funded crisis denial ads" by Geoff Dembicki.

Article: "Millions in Southwest bracing for 'dangerous and deadly heatwave'" by David Knowles.

Article: "Bob Woodward criticized for not releasing Trump's COVID-19 comments sooner" by Dylan Byers.

Law: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed..

Article: "Pro-choice activists protest in front of Kavanaugh’s home after man arrested for threatening to kill him" by Bradford Betz.

Article: "Michigan candidate for governor, Ryan Kelley, arrested by FBI for Jan. 6 involvement" by Acacia Squires.

Article: "D.C. chiropractor being sued in officer’s assault is charged in Jan. 6 riot" by Rachel Weiner and Peter Hermann.

Article: "Michigan gubernatorial election, 2022 (August 2 Republican primary)" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "Michigan gubernatorial election, 2022 (August 2 Democratic primary)" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "They were killers with powerful guns. The president went after their weapons." by Ronald G. Shafer.

Article: "Steny Hoyer: ‘NRA Stands for No Republican Action’" by Grabien.

Article: "House passes tough new gun measures hours after wrenching testimony" by Mike DeBonis.

Article: "197 Republicans – all but 10 – vote against raising minimum age to buy semi-automatic assault rifles" by David Badash.

Article: "John Cornyn says bipartisan gun legislation won’t include weapons bans or expanding background checks" by Abby Livingston.

Article: "Indiana's 'red flag' law should have prevented the FedEx shooting. Here's what else you should know about these laws" by Leah Asmelash.

Article: "Nearly 1,100 Segments on Benghazi, But 'Of Course' Fox News Won't Air Jan. 6 Hearing" by Jessica Corbett.

Article: "2012 Benghazi attack" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jason Chaffetz Admits House GOP Cut Funding For Embassy Security: 'You Have To Prioritize Things'" by Sarah Bufkin.

Article: "More U.S. Embassy Attacks Under Bush and Reagan than Obama?" by David Emery.

Article: "Shoppers, guard among 10 dead in Buffalo supermarket attack" by AP.

Article: "2021 United States Capitol attack" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2nd militia member pleads guilty in plot to kidnap Mich. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer" by Don Jacobson.

Article: "2019 El Paso shooting" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The families of those involved in the Texas school shooting were asked to give DNA swabs to help identify victims: report" by Cheryl Teh.

Article: "Nearly 1 million COVID-19 deaths: A look at the US numbers" by Carla K. Johnson, Nicky Forster.

Tweet: "Has anyone on the left apologized for their rhetoric that inspired a lunatic’s attempt to assassinate a Supreme Court Justice?
Or does heated rhetoric only lead to violence when Republicans say it?
Just trying to understand the standards, or lack thereof." by Dan Crenshaw.

Tweet: "Just Put One Door On Kavanaugh’s House And Arm His Family Problem Solved" by Patton Oswalt.

Article: "Justice Sonia Sotomayor was targeted by gunman, federal judge tells '60 Minutes'" by Ariane de Vogue.

Article: "Hitler sentenced for his role in Beer Hall Putsch" by History.com.

Article: "Donald Trump Spent Almost a Year Playing Golf During Presidency" by Lauren Victoria Burke.

Site: Randi Rhodes Show.

Article: "Supreme Court Upholds Controversial Ohio Voter-Purge Law" by Nina Totenberg.

Article: "The Jan. 6 Committee Has Already Blown It" by David Brooks.

Article: "What the 2020 electorate looks like by party, race and ethnicity, age, education and religion" by Pew Research Center.

Article: "Biden talks gun control, Trump, abortion access in interview with Jimmy Kimmel" by Melissa Quinn.

Site: Mediaite.

Article: "The Black Sea blockade: mapping the impact of war in Ukraine on the world’s food supply – interactive" by Kaamil Ahmed, Garry Blight, Liz Ford and Lydia McMullan.

Article: "Peddler's martyrdom launched Tunisia's revolution" by Lin Noueihed.

Article: "Arab Spring" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Quote: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" - Thomas Jefferson.

Article: "French Revolution" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). "...To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years..."

Article: "Burning of Washington" by Wikipedia.

Article: "US gun sales spiked during pandemic and continue to rise" by Edward Helmore.

Article: "Gun Ownership by Country 2022" by World Population Review.

Article: "Living in a house with a gun increases your odds of death" by Dylan Matthews.

Book: Trump on the Couch by Dr. Justin Frank MD.

Article: "AR-15 style rifle" by Wikipedia.

Article: "M16 rifle" by Wikipedia.

We Know How to Stop Monkeypox. But Will We?
- Melody Schreiber, Columnist at New Republic and editor of the book What We Didn't Expect: Personal Stories about Premature Birth

Article: "There Is a Right Way and a Wrong Way to Respond to Monkeypox" by Melody Schreiber.

Article: "How much medicine does the U.S. actually have to fight monkeypox?" by Rachel Cohrs.

Article: "Smallpox vaccine" by Wikipedia.

Case: "District of Columbia v. Heller", 2008 (2nd Amendment).

Quote: "If I were writing the Bill of Rights now, there wouldn’t be any such thing as the Second Amendment." - Warren Burger.

Article: "A Supreme Court justice’s solution to gun violence: Repeal Second Amendment" (John Paul Stevens) by Frederic J. Frommer.

Law: "Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act" (PLCAA) (Child Safety Lock Act of 2005).

Article: "Cavitation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Wound ballistics of military rifle bullets: An update on controversial issues and associated misconceptions" by Stefanopoulos, Panagiotis K. et al.

Article: "Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting", December 14, 2012 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Columbine High School massacre" (April 20, 1999) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Federal Assault Weapons Ban" (1994-2004) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Assault weapon ban significantly reduces mass shooting" by Marla Paul.

Bill: "H.R.1808 - Assault Weapons Ban of 2021" by Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1].

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