11. Big Oil Wants to Psy-Op You into the Boom Boom Room

This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about lobbying, how the Tea Party was a psy-op campaign, and how to care about the little stuff when the big stuff seems so much more pressing! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://represent.us/action/5-facts-lobbyists/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/04/16/what-we-get-wrong-about-lobbying-and-corruption/ https://www.politico.eu/article/why-lobbying-in-america-is-different/ https://tinyurl.com/44c933e6 https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2017/10/11/lobbying-is-growing-in-the-us-more-information-may-be-the-best-regulation/ https://www.healthline.com/health/do-cigars-cause-cancer#cigars-and-cancer https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0912/the-differences-between-bribery-and-lobbying.aspx https://sunlightfoundation.com/2016/04/19/what-is-shadow-lobbying-how-influence-peddlers-shape-policy-in-the-dark/ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/shadow-lobbying-complex/ https://tinyurl.com/jk8d3jb8 https://theconversation.com/the-scale-of-us-election-spending-explained-in-five-graphs-130651 https://www.brookings.edu/testimonies/campaign-finance-reform/ https://www.cnn.com/2012/01/24/world/global-campaign-finance/index.html https://www.mic.com/p/a-group-of-capitol-cops-just-sued-trump-for-the-jan-6-insurrection-84170698 https://tinyurl.com/3fp2h86c https://represent.us/action/private-prisons/ https://newint.org/features/2011/01/01/10-worst-corporate-lobbyists https://www.rollcall.com/2020/04/14/pentagon-looks-to-undo-parts-of-revolving-door-law/ https://www.opensecrets.org/news/reports/capitalizing-on-conflict https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7054854/ https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/03/big-pharma-insurers-hospitals-team-up-to-kill-medicare-for-all/ https://tinyurl.com/yx7j4m4b https://www.statnews.com/feature/prescription-politics/prescription-politics/ https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R42728.pdf