Breaking: Companies To Vote in Small Town in Delaware

追加: 2026-06-02

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[00:01:57]Good evening everyone and welcome to Overtime. We have two breaking stories we're covering for you. The first uh is Laura Kelly. She is an author uh at The Hill. She is actually the uh foreign policy reporter for the Hill and has been in Uganda uh reporting on the situation over there. She arrived at Delos airport on May 24th.

[00:02:20]Uh there were a number of the the flight that she took. First of all, uh as of a few days ago at least, I I forget when when Trump started his we're going to we're going to take uh Ebola seriously.

[00:02:34]uh all traffic from Uganda has to go to Dallasos. It doesn't go anywhere else.

[00:02:39]This is so that they can do all the screenings, quarantines, uh for the Ebola outbreak in one spot. That's why that actually makes good sense as long as you're doing the screenings. If you're not doing the screenings, I have no idea why you're sending people there.

[00:02:52]But at any rate, um so if you're coming back from Uganda, you have to go through Dallasos. Laura Kelly boarded the plane.

[00:03:00]It had already gone through Rwanda.

[00:03:03]um uh andbe and um Belgium and uh everybody on the plane noticed when she got on because they were in Uganda.

[00:03:15]Uganda's been in the news a lot recently. When they arrived in Dallas, uh she was not flagged for any extra screening. She was not taken out of the the the passengers. Um nothing happened.

[00:03:32]Uh she noticed that one of the passengers, very concerned and clear who she was, not necessarily that she was a reporter, but that she had gotten on in Uganda, actually went and notified security that uh she had boarded in Uganda, as in fact her boarding pass indicated.

[00:03:53]She was not taken aside. She was not given any extra screening. She was not asked any questions as to whether or not she had been in contact with anyone who had uh tested positive. There were uh they didn't even ask her where she lived or how they could get a hold of her or give her information on perhaps who to call if she should develop a fever.

[00:04:09]Speaking of which, they did not even take her temperature. Her entry into the United States was uneventful and completely different than that of any uh completely similar to every other entry she has ever had.

[00:04:21]We have found now at least three other people who are reporting the same thing.

[00:04:25]They came from Uganda and received no questions, warning, not even uh checking their temperature. Uh so these these health precautions that are in place, the United States is one of the few countries that has not actually issued a travel ban from Uganda. We have issued a a quarantine with these safety measures which appear not to be in place. Uh so this is obviously an important breaking story. ABC is also reporting that the CDC is reporting that they do not have enough screeners. Uh staffing shortages due to all of the cuts done by the administration earlier has meant that they don't have enough screeners to and people who are qualified to check people at the airport when they come in for Ebola. This is the kind of thing that happens which is during the last outbreak everybody said we can't bring people who are sick with Ebola into the US. Yes, we can. We know how to deal with it. There's it's science. If you follow very specific procedures, it's perfectly safe. Roller coasters are perfectly safe so long as everybody follows the safety guidelines and spec yada yada yada. You can do planes are very safe as long as everybody's We can do really crazy stuff as long as you follow, you know, the math, the science behind it. Uh, but when you don't, Ebola is going to get into this country if they don't do these inspections, which the CDC apparently at this point appears incapable of doing.

[00:05:55]It certainly isn't doing them.

[00:05:59]So, it gets into this country and everyone says, "See, this is why we didn't want it in here to study." We can study it. We know how. The problem is when people get into office, break government, and then say, "Oh, see, government doesn't work." Well, that's what happens when you deliberately drive it into a tree.

[00:06:19]At any rate, that is our first story, and uh we will stay on it. That is on our Discord. The second story is I I will say this, it feels like seeing the iceberg 15 20 minutes before the Titanic hit it. This is going to sound like a small thing.

[00:06:37]It's not.

[00:06:39]Uh, a Delaware sup, not supreme, sorry, superior court upheld that a small town, just one town in Delaware, the town of Fenwick Island could continue to allow businesses to vote. Now, what Fenwick Island did, for reasons we're going to speculate on in a little bit, what Fenwick Island did was say, "Well, we're going to let businesses vote."

[00:07:08]Okay?

[00:07:11]12% that that makes up businesses. If you allow corporate entities to vote on Fenwick Island, that represents about 12% of Fenwick Island. Now, the ACLU uh challenged this and said that no, this town could not permit people to vote. Now, this is just a the town actually voted on it. The town had a a um so it's it's uh what is it? A town um uh not an edict, but the the you know, the the town actually passed a bylaw saying people uh that businesses in that town could vote. So that represents again like I said 12% of the population of the town are businesses registered in that town. Uh the judge decided that uh well the ACLU argued that if you allow corporations to vote a it's like people getting two separate votes because somebody's voting for that corporation and B you're diluting the human vote.

[00:08:13]And what the judge argued was, well, no, it's only about 12% of the population.

[00:08:20]You're not diluting the human vote that much, so I'm going to allow it. So, a superior court judge ruled in Fenwick Island's uh favor, allowing um them to permit businesses registered in that town to vote. Now, again, that's 12% of the of the population. It's the dumbest argument I've ever heard because if it doesn't influence the human vote, if it doesn't affect the outcome, why do the why do the businesses want to vote?

[00:08:52]The only reason to vote for a corporation is to change what otherwise would have been the human outcome.

[00:09:00]So the the argument that the judge appears to have accepted is is preposterous on its face. That notwithstanding, it's one town and uh it's a a a state judge, not a federal judge, a state judge. And this was argued based on the uh Delaware Constitution. And the judge said, "Nope, this does not violate the Delaware Constitution." So, uh corporations again registered in that town may vote. Now, that's kind I mean, that's interesting, but it's a town. It's a small town.

[00:09:37]What's the big deal?

[00:09:39]Here's the big deal.

[00:09:44]This was based on the Delaware Constitution.

[00:09:48]A superior court judge, which is basically the state court judge, has now set a precedent that it's okay for businesses or for towns to allow businesses to vote in them. If it's okay for that, presumably there's no reason why you couldn't let that happen statewide.

[00:10:07]The precedent is now there. We This is We run our entire court system is set by precedent. And there's now a state judge going on record saying that it does not violate the Delaware Constitution for businesses to vote. And if you ask yourself, why Delaware?

[00:10:24]Why isn't this being done? I mean, if businesses wanted to vote, wouldn't they want to vote in New York? There's a lot of businesses in New York. Why Delaware?

[00:10:33]That's interesting.

[00:10:37]Delaware is the shell capital other than the Virgin Islands. It's basically the shell capital of the United States and of the world.

[00:10:46]As of today, there are roughly 2.2 million companies registered in Delaware. That's opposed to a population of about 1 million people. That means companies um outpace or there are more companies than actual citizens by 2:1 in the state of Delaware. Over uh 2thirds of all Fortune 500 companies are registered in Delaware. Who's registered in Delaware?

[00:11:22]Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, CocaCola, McDonald's, CVS, Walmart, American Express, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, DuPont, all registered in Delaware. Now, they're not registered in that town, so they can't vote yet. But my question is, why is somebody poking around in this town setting precedent in a small town nobody's ever heard of for businesses to vote unless it's to do it statewide?

[00:11:54]Why wasn't this challenged at a federal court using the US Constitution?

[00:12:03]This was deliberate.

[00:12:05]This was a test balloon to start the process of allowing corporations in general to vote in Delaware. And there is now precedent for that because they can already vote according to the state.

[00:12:19]The state itself has now said, "Yep, if towns want to let them vote, they can."

[00:12:23]And one town just did.

[00:12:29]What happens if every town does?

[00:12:31]And by the way, I'd really like to know who's behind who in that town was behind passing the legislation that said businesses could vote because Delaware is unique that way.

[00:12:48]Over 66% of Fortune 500 companies are registered in Delaware. And this this tiny town now says, "Oh, if you're registered in this town, you can vote again." And that town only has 12% uh uh in terms of at if you include the the corporations, it's only 12% of the population. It's not going to do anything.

[00:13:14]It's 200% if I'm getting my Well, it it's 2/3 of the population of Del uh of Delaware.

[00:13:26]There twice as many corporations as there are people in Delaware. If the state of Delaware allows corporations to vote, which in theory now they have just done, they've done it at a a city level, but there's no difference.

[00:13:41]If the cities can do it, the state can do it. And the state has ruled it is not against their state constitution.

[00:13:51]Now, the entire state of Delaware is going to go the way corporations want the vote to go cuz they each get a vote, presumably only one, but I don't know if that's going to change cuz this is completely unprecedented.

[00:14:09]So, uh I do not for a second believe that this was an accident that this happened in Delaware. This is the first time I've ever heard of any city trying to pass a law saying uh we're going to let uh corporations vote. Then the city actually got that law through the supreme uh the state court successfully.

[00:14:31]The ACLU was unable to block it and they did it in the state that has the greatest number of again more than half of all corporations in the United States are registered in Delaware.

[00:14:46]This is not an accident.

[00:14:49]Why, by the way, are so many registered in Delaware? Del. Uh, so Delaware has unique privacy laws that shield members of the board from prying eyes, makes life a lot easier.

[00:15:03]They have huge tax exemptions. So, even all you really need, my understanding at least, is basically a post office box in Delaware and you're registered in Delaware.

[00:15:14]uh you can then build your factories anywhere else you want to and you still have to pay taxes to Delaware, but the Delaware tax structure is much better than it would be if your business were registered in New York or anywhere else.

[00:15:27]This causes another problem. Of the roughly 2.2 million businesses registered in Delaware, a large number of them aren't US businesses, other countries seeking tax shelter create shell companies in Delaware. That means if Ping if if uh Xiinping wants to vote in the next election, the president of China wants to vote in the US election, all he's going to need to do is create a shell company. Right now, he can do it just by creating a shell company in what was the name of the town of Fenwick Island.

[00:16:01]That's going to become a very popular place. A lot of a lot of the companies that are are uh presumably uh run out of the capital or or something, they're going to go to Fenwick Island. I don't think they're going to have to though because what you're going to see next is other cities start to adopt this as corporations buy off city councilmen which probably isn't too hard and that has to be what happened here. This is not this looks like a small story. Like I said it's 12% of it probably isn't even going to change the outcome of the vote on that island or in Delaware. It's not an island. Sorry. It's called Fenwick Island. It's a a a strip of beach. It's not going to really change the outcome.

[00:16:43]But the problem is there's a reason they're doing this in Delaware.

[00:16:48]Somebody wants to make the entire state allow corporations to vote.

[00:16:56]Um, that's the only reason I can think of. Uh, let me see. Um uh in Delaware, certain felonies can disqualify uh uh people from ever voting again. Corporations can't be charged or convicted of felonies. Yeah. So I literally there there was an old trick that if you had lost your driver's license, what you could do is get an international driver's license. And an international driver's license is recognized by multiple countries. And no country can actually seize. It has to be seized by the UN or whatever organization was was running this system. So if you got drunk driving three or four times or whatever and and your license got pulled, you could just drive on an international driver's license and there's nothing anyone could do about it. Um this is roughly the same thing. If you're not allowed to vote for whatever reason, just get a shell company in Delaware and now you can vote.

[00:18:02]Um, we don't know as of this moment uh anything about what restrictions if any there would be. Uh what require the the um let's see the uh let's see the judge said okay uh it wasn't uh the group said uh entities so and here well okay here's the other interesting thing um the uh ACLU sued the town arguing it was in violation of the elections clause of the state constitution. It's sought in order to block Fenwick Island from counting votes by quote nonhuman artificial entities.

[00:18:50]That's not just businesses. Now, in this case, we're talking about businesses.

[00:18:57]They framed it that way because they see the next thing coming down the pike.

[00:19:06]Are we going to let AI vote?

[00:19:10]So, um, all right. Thank you. So, um, I I this has nothing to do with that per se.

[00:19:20]Nobody has suggested that, but I find it interesting that the ACLU said nonhuman entities. Basically, you're human and you can vote. That's it. If you're a business, if you're a an AI, if you're, you know, a a Lego um Millennium Falcon, whatever, you can't vote. Should go without saying. Uh they lost that argument.

[00:19:48]Wow.

[00:19:50]So, uh yeah. whether or not business. So, and this does get back to Citizens United.

[00:20:00]Now, I just got a notification here.

[00:20:03]Hawaii is ending.

[00:20:05]Um, Citizens United.

[00:20:11]All right. I hadn't I hadn't heard that.

[00:20:13]And we're going to need to um what I think we're going to need to do is uh obviously stay honest. Like I said, it on its face, it's a very small story.

[00:20:24]And right now it is small. And I want to I want to make crystal clear and we we had to make sure that this got into the cuz there was confusion even just making the thumbnail. Companies are being allowed to vote in one town in Delaware.

[00:20:38]It's a small town. They make up 12% of it. That's it.

[00:20:44]But why is this being done in Delaware?

[00:20:47]There can only be one reason. And that's because more than half of all companies are headquartered in Delaware. at least on paper because twothirds of the Fortune 500 companies are in Delaware.

[00:21:03]That's the one thing Delaware has that no other state has. And it's deliberate for by Delaware to that's how Delaware makes a lot of its money. It's aware that it's that none of these corporations actually work or hire people inside Delaware. It doesn't care.

[00:21:21]It's willing to give them extraordinary benefits and freedoms if they'll register there and and just pay a modocum of taxes and or registration fees, yada yada yada. That's why it's done. That's why a small town in Delaware just voted to and then voted a while ago and then had upheld by a superior court judge the right of corporations to vote.

[00:21:50]This is part of a bigger plan by somebody to make this statewide and they've done twothirds of the work because if it's in a local jurisdiction and it's just been approved by a state judge as not violating the state constitution, now all you need to do is get a state measure on the ballot.

[00:22:15]And if the the uh Fenwick Island gets to vote on it, I think I know where 12% of Fenwick Island's uh quote voters are going to land on the issue. That's going to be insane. So businesses will be able to get to vote on whether or not businesses can vote. Wow.

[00:22:34]Wow.

[00:22:41]All right, let's see. Um I do before I go.

[00:22:52]Oh yeah, I did I had missed this. Um uh Hawaii's law to All right. Well, I I will look into that and we will do either a show on that or some form of of uh breaking unless there's something.

[00:23:05]Let me just quickly go over that. Um yeah, I mean we're corporations are becoming a serious problem. The fact that they are quote people and that that's being taken literally is uh a serious problem and if that falls down in Delaware that can fall down in any other state, Delaware is where it's a problem and that's why this is a huge story. That's why we went breaking with this was because it's Delaware. If this had happened anywhere else, I'd be laughing my ass off. Um so that's what we've got. Um, for those of you just joining us, uh, let's see, Laura Kelly, an author at The Hill. She is the foreign policy correspondent, just returned from Uganda. She went through uh, Dallasos airport, as all uh, people coming in from Uganda are required to do. Uh, a passenger noticed that she had boarded at Uganda and was understandably a little worried.

[00:24:03]Notified security. Security did nothing.

[00:24:05]Nobody cared. She didn't even get her temperature checked. She was not required to do extra screening. It said on her um uh said on her passport or boarding uh ticket, everything that she got on in Uganda.

[00:24:18]Nothing.

[00:24:20]She wasn't told if you get a fever, call the CDC. She wasn't nothing. Nobody brought it up except the passengers.

[00:24:28]Um this mirrors the what we've learned from several people who said they've uh come through Dulles uh coming from Uganda and nothing. The CDC has reported to ABC News that they are underst staffed and do not have enough screeners uh due again to all of the C I mean I forget how much of the CDC was gutted but it was huge and I don't approve of that but if you're going to do it then you have to close the border to you anyone from Uganda even an American citizen you can't let Ebola get out here and um they're not closing the border they're not doing health They're not doing anything from what I can tell. And the CDC is not prepared for this. Uh the old CDC before Trump came into office.

[00:25:12]Yeah. After Doge with Elon Musk who I'll go on forever if I get started on that. So uh that's our first story. Our second story is uh a small town in Delaware uh Fenwick Island has uh uh allowed uh has has passed um uh like a bylaw saying that uh corporations registered in that town can vote. Uh that would represent about 12% of the vote if every person and every uh town every uh business voted. That's 12%. Uh the ACLU challenged this in state court. A Delaware judge said that this does not violate the Delaware Constitution and uh has now permitted it. So as of this moment going forward in Fenwick Island, corporations can now vote. This would not be a a problem except that it's in Delaware. Uh this has now laid a precedent for saying that in other cities this could happen. And the problem is there's over 2.2 2 million businesses registered in Delaware. That's more than twice the actual population of Delaware. Half of all businesses in the US are registered there and 2/3 of the uh Fortune 500 are registered there. So, and we covered a number of the McDonald's, Walmart, Amazon, you name it. So, um this would if it were adopted by um other uh cities andor the entire state possibly give most corporations in the United States and anybody who is outside the US and chooses to incorporate in uh uh Delaware the right to vote.

[00:27:02]Thought you should know. All right.

[00:27:03]Thank you all for joining us. Our next scheduled program is downtime with Commander Lance McMillan is going to have a field day with this one. Uh we are going to be keeping up with this and um the uh uh I'm going to have to read about the Assistance United thing. We're going we're going to be keeping up with all this. It's on our Discord. It's in the breaking news section. Uh thank you all for joining us. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow 900 p.m. Eastern for Downtime with Commander Lance McMillan.

[00:27:31]Have a good night.

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