American Swamp: Following The Dark Money Buying Our Elections | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC

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American Swamp: Following The Dark Money Buying Our Elections | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC

43 comments

  1. dont dare insinuate any of that dark money comes from AIPAC though, or you’ll be labeled an anti-semite.

  2. Why you gotta vote in a non bought person America, the government is not paid by you to cheat and lie to you…

  3. Make the Congressional term five years with one fifth of the Congress being voted in every year. and no reelections allowed.

    1. @Edward Lulofs The lobbyists will have no leverage…no reelection campaigns coffers to fill. Twenty percent will have 4-5 years experience, which is about all you need in any job. Candidates with 5 years experience from state legislatures and city governments could add that related job related experience to their resumes.

    2. To create a system that works , you first have to make sure that the voter turn out will change .

    3. @Perro dehont To significantly change the voter turnout will require an education project that starts in kindergarten, which, of course, is a long term solution. In the short term, voter education should be in our movies TV shows, on the news (which too few people watch), and social media. Hopefully voter turn out improves before we have gas chambers on the border and no more even semi free elections.

  4. We know that the Russians interfered in our elections. We know that the Russians reached out to Trump’s campaign. We know that Trump’s people had at least 150 meetings and contacts with Russian officials, Oligarchs and agents. We know that Trump and his people all lied about those meetings. We also know that Trump and his people encouraged Russian interference, lied about Russian interference, and ultimately they benefited from Russian interference. We know that Trump obstructed justice by telling McGahn to fire Mueller. We know that Trump obstructed justice again when he asked McGahn to write a false official white house memo stating that Trump never asked McGahn to fire Mueller.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that Trump is an illegitimate president, and a Russian asset, who is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.

    1. I wonder if Santa Claus ia a commie? He wears red he has a red sleigh and he gives away free toys….that would be a socialist

    2. @texas thunder good afternoon Russia…how is it there today? Hope the weather is good….but you really have to stop trolling…it is not nice….

    1. @Black American we want reparations for the 80% of crime committed by yall the 13% of the population.

    1. I would say so, but Antonin Scalia famously argued that money is speech, so if you’re allowed to say «Mr Congressman, please do this or that», you’re allowed to give him ten million dollars as a means of expressing yourself. Sort of like how you’re allowed to say that you’re always very generous to the women you sleep with as long as you don’t say «I will give you x if you do y for me». Hypocrisy, corruption, call it what you want.

  5. I live in Az. The dark money corruption is so bad that you can be fined for making your house completely solar and off the APS grid.

  6. *Notice how frantic the Trump trolls have been today..?* Their actions betray them. You can smell the FEAR.

    1. Tessmage Tessera –
      Yeah, but mostly the junior varsity. The first string are undoubtedly gearing up for the big show in 2020.
      Lock & load!

  7. Corporate America took over many many years ago. The U.S.A. is and has been for a while a Oligarchy/Kleptocracy. The people are owned and operated by design.

  8. People will have to rise up all over the nation like folks did in Puerto Rico– not solely to impeach 45, but to reject tyranny itself, to call for an end to the corruption of the ruling elite and to push for the realization of multiracial democracy in America.

    1. wake up america! stand up for your rights!
      we have to go into the streets like Puerto Rico to get trump out of the white house!
      Trump is just a wannabe dictator! he is a racist like hitler!
      We have to fight to keep our freedom! if we don’t react now, one day that will be too late!

  9. Oh No — The show sounds great ! Cannot wait to see where all the slime is coming from — and WHAT can be done about it. Cannot think of a more WORTHWHILE THING to do. Thank you SO VERY MUCH for this effort !

  10. Bernie, Tulsi, Gravel, Yang and Marianne are the only Dems who don’t accept corporate PAC money.

  11. And yet MSNBC is against Bernie?

    You just parroted Bernie’s message from dark money to solar but you bash the man who wants to do something about it.

    Face plant “Oh Brother”

    1. No listen to the words, dark money and money in politics aren’t necessarily the same things. Hillary often talked about dark money but she wasn’t about truly changing the system

  12. It’s NOT a “nuanced argument”, it’s FACT. The humanitarian crisis at the border is manufactured: enter Steven Miller

  13. The rich want us to fight amongst ourselves. We’ve been divided up along just about every line you can think of. And it all seems to come down to spite.

  14. We are going to have to show these politicians what Americans want . March on Washington and capitol and their offices.
    We have to stand up to this bully tYrant criminal in whitehouse.

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