October 19, 2016
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1h 1m
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Mark Koernke discussed campaign finance in the 2016 election, examining how small-dollar donors have become less influential over time despite claims that internet fundraising would democratize politics. He noted that large donors giving over $100,000 increased from less than 10% of contributions in the 1990s to 23% by mid-2016, while small donors dropped from over 50% to 34%, arguing this concentration of wealth allows the wealthy to buy election outcomes. The show also featured extended discussion of fall food preservation and gardening in Michigan, including canning techniques for tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins, and apples, with practical advice on storage and experimentation.
- campaign finance
- small donors
- 2016 election
- super pacs
- corporate influence
- food preservation
- canning
- michigan gardening
- preparedness
- self-sufficiency
- julian assange
- clinton emails
- bernie sanders
- trump
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I'm supposed to say five letter word that is so offensive. Well, Bill's out banging everything he could. but it's okay for a Democrat but not for a so-called Republican. I don't care anymore. It's all crap. But several of them, we've heard a lot about small dollar donors. Obama found a way to skirt around the issue when he opened up the credit card, the donation situation. $25 was the cap of the donations. And of course the cap meant that the donations did not have to be reported. Senator Bernie Sanders mounted in the season of surprisingly competitive primary campaign fueled by their contributions. And it promoted his reliance on their dollars as a signature campaign issue. Now Trump as well has attracted legions of small dollar contributors. And although major Republican donors appear divided over Trump, he's had more success with small donors than any prior Republican nominee. and he's raised as much as $100 million from individuals giving less than $200 a piece. But here's campaign having ended in defeat. And there's more and more come to mind about all of that. Trump's campaign is nearing its conclusion. 16 really herald a new age of small donor influence in politics. It's argued that the possibility of using the Internet to rely on millions of small donors means that campaign donation limits become irrelevant. that candidates' ability to depend on readily available small donor money means that we don't need to cap the biggest donations to restore balance to our political system, but a historical review of data describing all the money that individuals have put into the campaign finance system, whether to candidates, to parties, to political committees like Super PACs, tire analysis for small donors over time, the money they give is made up of smaller and smaller share of total individual contributions over the past two decades. The power of the internet is no match for the unlimited giving allowed by today's lax campaign finance rules. You remember just a few years ago when they completely overhauled the campaign finance rules that was going to, you know, corporatocracy owns these elections today. But it's not just corporatocracy in America, but corporatocracy from all over the world. I mean, one only has to witness these millions upon millions of dollars that have been contributed to this campaign through international PACs Foundation. A couple of days ago I read a story of party candidates in 2000. Obama's startling success. 3.6% of small donors aren't as important to campaigns as they were before internet fundraising became popular. While the very biggest donors have become significantly more prominent in recent years. Throughout the 90s, small donors giving $350 or less in 2016 dollars provided more than half of candidates and parties and other political committees over the entire course of each election cycle. In August 4, the year many commentators began to talk about the promise that such donors were responsible for 41% of all individual contributions. This year, through the end of the second quarter, they were responsible for only 34%. And while large donors giving more than $100,000 supplied less than 10% of the money throughout the 90s, by the end of this June that relative handful of donors provided a whopping 23% of all individual contributions. Which means they're trying to buy the outcome of the election. What they do, it's what this system allows and we wonder why we're so damn screwed up. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat and, speaking low to me, he said, We've fought a revolution here, our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. 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You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and simply farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail, harass your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn holds they've sworn. And your daughters visit. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you will fight to save? Or do you wish your children fear, sons of the republic, arise? Defend the Constitution, the supreme law of the land. Preserve our great republic and eat God's given right. And pray to God as I awoke he vanished in the midst of whence he came. His words were true. 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Something that doesn't help and let it start to burn. You know, things you want to do with pumpkin as far as coming out and canning. Pumpkin butter is staple and I'm going to have to do this year for sure because we ran out. And I think I'm going to have to buy some jelly jars because I've bought up so many wrappers this year. Just pickled peppers that I'm running low on my jelly jars, which is simply what I do this. something apple butter, pumpkin butter. It's the time of year to make that good stuff. Stairs, stairs are getting toward the end of the run here as far as Bartlett in Michigan. But the apples are coming in like crazy as pumpkin. Very busy for people to see this as the end of tanning season. I don't. I look for those markdown in the markdown rack. My own cranberries, put it on the same pan as that. that's right there. If you add up, expand, they tell you to scrape. My mom taught me many years ago that she would say not a lot. She ended up in heating that, whether you add in your, however you want to do, she'd keep it covered. Now, see your hard squash. Make up your own recipes. Now, here's your best. Run from your garden. We had no crew. It's very interesting that that's just an over camp talk about goodness, like, going on about it, are they're doing so well this year. There's no reason not for them to go to the groceries right now. They are very inexpensive. I've seen them as little at a hard winter, you know, right around the 70s. Again, this is something you want to individually and newspaper in your garage for a long time through the winter. So something, once you see somebody who doesn't have to be something new, you can be, you know, one of the little five, you know, probably full bushels of new old food stuff. So wash them out and put them in the freezer. funny but drop them in one at a time and take a twist shot. It sounds strange at a time and re-uses. Again, shelf life of content down. 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