Delaware ruling is blowing my mind. In a bad way.

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]I'm just going to say straight up front that this video is not going to be like the kind of pep talk that I generally do. I'm pretty pissed actually. There is a ruling that came down in Delaware that just I'm It blows my mind. It It blows my mind that a court has made this decision. Guys, my husband just had to bring me a scotch on the rock so I can get through this video. As many of you know, I am a proud ACLU member. My Tik Tok revenue goes to fund a number of charitable organizations. And one of those is the ACLU doing such such important work to defend our civil liberties in court against the Trump regime, against corporations, against any anybody who wants to trample on the rights of the American people. So, sorry, I just kicked the camera stand.

[00:00:44]You guys, it's so late at night. Okay, so there is this case that came down yesterday. It was filed back in December and I've had my eye on it. But the ACLU sent me an email update late yesterday and I was real pissed about it. I was so pissed about it. I couldn't talk about it yesterday, but I've calmed down a little bit. I want to talk about it today. So, um, it was filed back in December. ACLU of Delaware versus the town of Fenwick Island. The ruling that just came down is not is not good. Is not good at all. Basically, the Superior Court of Delaware said that corporations can continue to vote in elections.

[00:01:24]Corporations, not people, right?

[00:01:27]For-profit corporations can vote in these elections in this town in Delaware. So that I don't lose my temper and go off script, I'm going to read here from a piece that came out yesterday in Reuters. It's by Tom House.

[00:01:40]A judge in Delaware, a state where many US companies are incorporated, ruled that a small town that allows corporations to vote in municipal elections was not violating the state's constitution. Okay. Uh the Delaware Superior Court Judge Craig Carz said that the beach town of Fenwick Island was not diluting human votes by allowing companies and other legal entities that own property to cast votes in municipal elections.

[00:02:09]The ACLU of Delaware sued, arguing that it violated the elections clause of the state constitution. The group sought a court order blocking Fenwick Island from counting votes by, wait for it, nonhuman artificial entities.

[00:02:25]You guys, those non-human artificial entities, those corporations, make up 12% of registered voters in the town.

[00:02:34]We're not talking like one business. 12% of all voters in this town are not human beings at all. They are business entities. They are corporations.

[00:02:45]The town's mayor did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but told Reuters back in March, again, the lawsuit was filed in December, that she believes a property owner who pays taxes and is subject to our ordinances should have a say in who represents them on our town council. Sorry, but that is a [ __ ] wild take to say that what a hedge fund, an outofstate corporation should be able to vote in elections where representatives are supposed to represent the people who live in that town or district or county or state or entire country. Right? We already know.

[00:03:20]We already know that Citizens United has done more harm to democracy, has done more to dismantle democracy and to put Donald Trump an absolute tyrant would be dictator in the White House than anything else. Citizens United has said that corporations have a right to influence our politics. They have a right to give obscene quantities of money. Foreign governments have a right to give obscene quantities of money. And here in Delaware, we're being told, "Oh, yeah, corporations can vote in elections.

[00:03:49]Nonhuman entities can vote in elections where our representatives are supposed to represent who? Us, the people." In 2008, Delaware's General Assembly amended the charter to its constitution to allow non-resident voting by artificial entities, including corporations, partnerships, trusts, and LLC's, which must be chartered in Delaware. Do you want do you want a billionaire in another state to get to vote for who is on your city council? Do you think that that would lead to a city council who prioritizes your needs, the needs of the residents over mega outofstate corporations? Okay, quoting again from the judge's ruling, Carson said he appreciated that the ACLU of Delaware might agree with the concept of corporate voting. Visions of faceless large corporations or even how controlling a small town are frightening and the stuff of science fiction he wrote referring to the computer at the center of two. Yes, we know who Hal is of Reuters. Thank you for that clarification.

[00:04:57]Howal the computer in 2001 Space Odyssey. However, the plaintiff has not demonstrated that this policy violates the principle of one person slash one entity slash one vote. Why the [ __ ] do we have a principle of one entity one vote at all? Delaware. Why? Why are you all doing that? Who benefits by that? It only It only serves the power of the oligarchy, the control of large corporations. It only harms citizens, constituents, and our collective people power to give corporations the same power to choose our elected officials as human beings. and even more power because they have billions of dollars that thanks to Citizens United and other kind like complete lack of campaign finance law. We already know that large corporations have undue influence in our politics. Elon Musk, the richest man in the entire world, bought the 2024 election. I know I made a whole long video about his baby mama, Ashley Sinclair speculating, right?

[00:05:55]Being like, "Oh, Elon was texting me about like lasers and Starlink zapping, whatever." No, you guys. Elon Musk didn't steal the 2024 election by switching votes in tabulating machines.

[00:06:05]That didn't happen. He stole the 2024 election by spending more than $250 million buying propaganda that convinced people on their own to show up and vote for Donald Trump. Propaganda works. Look at the what is it? $4 million that Big Crypto just spent in Al Green's district in Texas getting him voted out in the primary. Look at all of the money that was used in um in Massiey's district in Kentucky. All of the money that Apac spent in that race trying to get Thomas Mass success successfully getting Thomas Massie voted out in the primary. Foreign entities, corporate entities, the Epstein class already runs our elections. They already steal the power of elections from the people because they have money. They buy elections.

[00:06:53]They they don't need to Starlink zap the votes. They don't need to get up to other hanky. I mean, Republicans get up to gerrymandering, right? Absolutely.

[00:07:01]They absolutely get up to disenfranchising voters. But the primary reason that elections in the United States are not are not free and fair, are not representative of the will of the people is because of Citizens United. It's because money from corporations from the richest man in the entire world can just [ __ ] buy our elections, buy all of our government.

[00:07:20]And now Delaware is like, not only can you guys throw all your money around, but like you can actually just vote. You corporations, you can vote and have the same power at the ballot box as real human beings. This is so [ __ ] dystopian to me. I don't actually appreciate the judge being like, "Oh yeah, visions of faceless large corporations." Like, it's not it's not catastrophic. It's not fantastical.

[00:07:40]That's what you've literally said can happen. Absentee landlords, mega out ofstate corporations can vote in your elections in Delaware. I can't help but think of the giant freight warehouse at the end of my street that was put in by a mega outofstate corporation, Prologess, and how we all went the neighborhood who wanted a community center there. We went to city council and we were like, "Please stop this. We don't want this. We don't want this coming in. This is going to harm our neighborhood." Right? One of the most diverse and disenfranchised neighborhoods in Portland. You're going to put a giant Amazon freight warehouse across the street from the high school.

[00:08:14]and the members of city council who we've all voted out except for one by the way um led by lumberbearing Ted Wheeler were like there's nothing we can do guys we have to prioritize business Mayor Ted Wheeler Mayor Ted Wheeler sat there and told me and other community members we have to think of the rights of businesses over the livability of people who have to live across the street from a giant [ __ ] diesel freight warehouse for the rest of our lives. Ted Wheeler was like, "Who will think of the giant multi-billion dollar outofstate corporations?" Prolocologist, by the way, is the largest owner of industrial land in Portland. So, that tells you why everybody on city council was so, you know, like, you know, anxious anxious to support this project.

[00:08:58]And this is what happens when you have corporations who can funnel endless quantities of money into your government. the undue um influence of the Portland Business Alliance and entities like them that are funded by these giant corporations. And then this ruling in [ __ ] Delaware, which again is just just for Delaware. It doesn't apply to other states, but like it sets a precedent. Why the [ __ ] do you guys want corporations having power at the ballot box? They need less power. Our corporations are not human beings. They are entities set up by the state and they only have powers because people in government grant them those powers. And look at Hawaii. They took away the power of corporations to have undue influence in their elections. We have to overturn Citizens United on a state level. We we have to decide that there's no reason for us to give corporations this kind of power. The power has to be in the hands of the people and not Yeah. Okay. Okay, I'm going to go drink my scotch