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So I imagine by now, most folks have heard that Willard proclaimed at the Iowa State Fair that corporations are people. In light of this (and SCOTUS rulings on corporate personhood), I and some other folks on an email thread started identifying various political movements, documents, songs, and other bits of popular culture that need to be revised to reflect this equivalency. I have gleefully and willfully stolen most all of the following from these friends.
Let my corporations go! — Moses (or maybe it was Charlton Heston)
Government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations — Abe Lincoln
Little corporations say the darndest things! — Art Linkletter
We the corporations, in order to form a more perfect union . . . Constitution Preamble
Corporations. Corporations who need corporations, are the luckiest corporations . . . Barbra Streisand
Ordinary Corporations — movie about a merger breaking up
Guns don’t kill corporations; corporations do. — See NRA and Bain Capital
Romney’s Corporations — John le Carre spy thriller
Corporation’s Republic of China — Mao
“Mitt Romney, he’s good corporations.” — KagroX tweet
Up With Corporations! — Subject of Firedoglake Movie Night this past Monday
Corporations get ready, there’s a train a’comin’…” — Curtis Mayfield
Power to the corporations — John Lennon
Corporations are corporations, so why should it be, that you I should get along so awfully? – Depeche Mode
He was a one-eyed, one-horned flying purple corporation-eater, sure looked strange to me. – Sheb Wooley
Short corporations ain’t got no reason to live. – Randy Newman
Listen… to what the flower corporations say. – Spinal Tap (60s edition)
Soylent Green is Corporations! — Paul Krugman
Come on corporations now, smile on your brother — Youngbloods
Short Corporation got no reason, Short Corporation got no reason, Short Corporation got no reason – to live — Randy Newman
You can fool some of the corporations all of the time, and all of the corporations some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the corporations all of the time. — Abe Lincoln
Corporations are strange, when you’re a stranger — The Doors
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corporations…Corporations who need corporations….(Barbra Streisand)
Also: “We The Corporations of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union ….
And an update to Zinn: The Corporations’ History of the United States
LOL! Recc’d
American spiritual, written down for The Contrabands at Fort Monroe in 1862:
The Lord, by Moses, to Pharaoh said: Oh! let my corporations go.
If not, I’ll smite your first-born dead—Oh! let my corporations go.
Oh! go down, Moses,
Away down to Egypt’s land,
And tell King Pharaoh
To let my corporations go.
The Corporations vs. Elliot Spitzer — NY state criminal case.
The Corporations’ Court, starring Judge Judy.
this year’s half-time Super Bowl entertainment: Up With Corporations!
Oscar Wilde: “Corporations who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.”
George Bernard Shaw: “Reasonable corporations adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable corporations attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable corporations.”
(Wow, Shaw could have a place on many corp boards or in government!)
Before it went bankrupt, I flew Corporations Express.
These are all fantastic. I hope that Mitts doesn’t spend the next week trying to explain what he “really” meant like TardChute Palin always does.
From April 1, 2010, when I posted this:
Apparently Mitt Romney reads FDL, and I am a man ahead of my time.
“I don’t get it. What’s so funny?”. — justice Scalia
I pledge allegiance to the corporations of the United States of America and to the facism for which they stand. One nation without a minimum wage with liberty and justice for none.
No corporation shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime…
Ammendment V, The Constitution of the United States
“This is very disrespectful!”. — Justice Alioto
People aren’t really born evil.
Corporations aren’t really more decent.
Adam Smith has been misquoted “muchly” by the
scapegoaters and the arrogant determined to
rig the game and now wanting you to buy all
their mistakes.
(He advocated safety nets, providing for the public common good–corp’s good at efficient assignment of assets but little else and together possessing too much power if unchecked.)
But, of course, I’m religion-light, seeing a potential
CONVEYED lesson in morality, history and science that, possibly,
SURPRISE! — informs how to travel to the stars.
http://krunchd.com/forgivetransferenc
The Virginia Company failed and was taken over by the King. The Tea Party was dumping tea belonging to the East India Company. Taxes were raised because the King was financing a war with France. Too bad the current Tea Party, in typical ignorance, blames the government that was founded to give them democracy that they ruin because they are unable to do more than demand what they want. Too bad the evangelicals ignore separation of church and state. They war on personal rights especially related to womens’ health. They probably could not pass a basic citizenship test.
Here are three tweets I created on the topic:
@spockosbrain
If corps are people, do they poop? I mean everyone poops. #corpsRpeople2
Do corps have gender?I think insecure male. They care about how big they are vs. how good they are. #corpsRpeople2
Do male corps have small penis syndrome? e.g. Oracle, Halliburton. News Corp, #corpsRpeople2
I say. Disempower the corporations and go for the flesh and blood people who profit from them Repeal the Corporate tax altogether. That removes a huge layer of corruption and obscurity. Pay for it by repealing all subsidies and raising the income tax rates progressively.
Think about it. Just might work. Just might call the Randoids bluff.
Really an amazing answer by Romney.
It’s all you need to know about b-o-t-h parties. Obama couldn’t agree more with Mittens.
Ask not what your Corporation can do for you, but what you can do for your Corporation. – JFK
NPR – Brought to you by the Corporation for Corporate Broadcasting
Do corporations chartered on other countries have to carry green cards here?
And the Corporation in the back said, “Everyone attack!” and it turned into a Corporate Blitz.
“Comfort ye, my corporations”. — famous aria from Messiah and Old Tstwment
“Corporate Friends Fly Free”
“Taxes are for the little corporations.”
–Leona Hemsley
Let my corporations go!
Power to the corporations!
When do I get to try them for corporateslaughter? Imagine: Koch Industires, c/o Cell Blocks 5-9, Oxnard, WI.
LOL! Recc’d
All great ones Pups!
Blessed be the corporations for they shall inherit the earth. Or what’s left of it.
This call and response is one of the funniest I have ever read. Thanks, everyone.
Excellent!
Same sex corporations can get married.
Love it, LAL.
So anytime a republican says, “themurrkanpeeple” they are talking about Corporations.
How could you forget:
“¡Las corporaciones, unidas, jamás serán vencidas!”
LOVED this diary DK! GREAT!
Still grinnin, too . . . *G*
Kinda like a Pre Ramble huh . . . ;-)
And, if they’re hermaphrodites, they can marry themselves.
Nice.
In that grim, thin lipped half smile kinda way.
WELL done . . .
STELLAR!!!! *G*
“Waist deep in the big corp and the big fool says push on.”
Dennis: “Oh but if I went ’round sayin’ I was the Corporation, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away.”
Plagiarized from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (1975)
“That’s some Catch that Corporate Catch.”
“The best there ever was.”
I should say I hate to rain on everyone’s parade … but … it JUST struck me –
Given that Mittens & 0bummer & Alito & Bernanke & Raygun & Bush & Cheney & … define PEOPLE as:
the top 1/2%,
unaccountable,
not responsible,
getting ALL the rewards,
having ALL the authority –
THEN corporations ARE people!
(pst! we’re just serfs.)
rmm
Heh, ‘marry’ . . . everyone’s got a nickname for it, I guess ‘marry’ is as good as any . . . ;-) Great one, VB.
“As god as my witness, I thought corporations could fly.”
Oh, wait …
And would bring new meaning to the phrase “go fuck yourself.”
Instead of none I should have said for the chosen few.
or “for some”
Better
*applause*
*G*
Romney sounds much like the guy from the Chicago Tea Party, who got up on a soapbox recently and asserted corporations are people because they are free associations of people. I recorded video of him at annual event a Chicago library puts on called the “Bughouse Square Debates.”
FDR:
“I believe that in every country the corporations themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.”
http://quotes.dictionary.com/I_believe_that_in_every_country_the
I mean, that’s what he REALLY meant, isn’t it?
I am still appalled by the ruling that corporations are people. To any logical mind this sounds absurd. They have shown time and time again they have no morality or compassion. By any stretch of the imagination they do not have the qualities of a human being. I would certainly question whether they have a brain! No heart, no soul, no living, breating embodiment. We have certainly seen the horrible results of the Citizen’s United decision, our government has been bought and elections are no longer representative of the people’s will. I fear for our democracy.
Abraham Lincoln’s words, November 21, 1864, have never been truer, “Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow…”
The Corporations have Spoken!!!! (statement made after every election, especially over the past three decades, by the winning corporation that got elected)
If Romney = Willard, then can Gingrich = Buckethead?
He is a one eyed, one horned, flying purple corporation eater!
Religion is the opiate of the corporation – Marx
One thing is that corporations will not carry the energy of the intellect once we have finally shit the bed. In the end the fucking hippies win.I know that’s an odd statement but it is about right.
Gaia is not physical.
Oh, but I do, I do!
(Romney’s first name is Willard, Mitt is his middle name)
tune in this Sunday for
The Corporate Choice Awards
hosted by Piers Morgan and Andrea Mitchell