While Americans were distracted by gay marriage and Confederate flags...

[ShoulderRoll]

Obama joined with Republicans to pave the way for fast track authorization of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.

Why should you care, you ask? Well this is a piece of legislation that will set rules not only on trade matters but also on food safety, internet freedom, medicine costs, financial regulations, and the environment. Basically everything that affects our day to to day lives.

The text has been crafted with the help of over 600 corporate "advisors" but so far has not been allowed to be seen by Congress, state politicians, the press, and the general public.

If you ever got the feeling that Big Business and the bankers have too much influence behind the scenes this would seem to be proof of exactly that.

[SlySlickSmooth]

They passed the USA Freedom Act during that Caitlyn Jenner crap.

[PlasterWraps]

They slick doe

[SlySlickSmooth]

TPP links 40% of the world economy but so far China isn't on board yet and all the major players in Asia obviously compete with China.

[Jc8804]

The government uses the shoulder roll.

[Elroy1]

The government uses the shoulder roll.

Good one.

But just like the boxer who uses the shouder roll, the fans of that government are weak!

[Rockin']

Corporations will now make our laws.

[SlySlickSmooth]

Corporations will now make our laws.

We're going back 100 years to 1915

[Mukuro]

The only thing I don't like about the TPP is the manner in which it lowers the standards for food quality on imports. The rest is fine with me. I am more interested in the TPP as a means of leverage against China.

[squealpiggy]

This is a weird meme. The implication is that the powers behind the throne deliberately engineer events in order to distract the populace, so you're saying in this case that "confederate flags" and marriage equality were deliberately put into place so that people weren't shocked and stunned into outrage by a dry and tedious bit of trade negotiation?

More than one thing can happen at a time, and people prefer news that is interesting to news that is not.

By the way, that confederate flag distraction was actually a shithead murdering people in a church.