DaveC
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edit: never mind, the tweet i posted is apparently bullshit. my bad
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Have watched just a bit of the debate, but Buttigieg's defensive stance about accepting money from billionaires is really bizarre. He says that Donald Trump raised $25M today alone and you need these moneyed interests to beat him.
If that's his argument, then Mayor Billionaire who could literally fund his entire campaign with JUST the interest made off his $62B principal is standing thattaway.
I'm not sure why that's a bizarre answer. It's a true answer.Have watched just a bit of the debate, but Buttigieg's defensive stance about accepting money from billionaires is really bizarre. He says that Donald Trump raised $25M today alone and you need these moneyed interests to beat him.
If that's his argument, then Mayor Billionaire who could literally fund his entire campaign with JUST the interest made off his $62B principal is standing thattaway.
I’m so sorry about their penises.
I'm not sure why that's a bizarre answer. It's a true answer.
The game sucks. I'm as in favor of overturning Citizen's United as the next guy. But those are the rules of the game, so if you want to win the game, you should probably play by what the rules are and not what you wish they were.
Bizarre in the sense that if his argument is that you need to have more $ (from moneyed interests) in order to have a fighting chance then by his own logic he’s not the guy, but Bloomberg is.
Yea about that "I'm Bernie and I don't take money from corporations" thing...I think like most politicians, he was given the non-answer, answer. Or at least deflecting it a bit.
Up to this point, Pete hasn't been able to get the same amount of individual contribution as Sanders or Warren. He knew he would have to do high dollar fundraisers to stay in the race.
And I think that he was right to do it. I wish that Booker and Harris would have done more of it, so we would have had a more diverse field these last couple months.
But you're right. It puts him in a pickle with Bloomberg. Because he has to take the big money to stay in, which looks bad in relation to Sanders and Warren, but Bloomberg has all the money in the world to spend and he doesn't need to take money from anyone, including moneyed interests.
So in the end, Bloomberg really is as pure as Sanders and Warren. He can't be bought. But Pete, just to stay in the race will have that blemish on his fundraising .
There was really no good answer that didn't either give Sanders and Warren a win ,or Bloomberg a win.
Yea about that "I'm Bernie and I don't take money from corporations" thing...
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/6...ions-andrew-yang-amazon-google-facebook-apple
RIGGED!!! Saint Bernie can do no wrong. It’s why his supporters are so calm when you are critical of him
Yeah!!!.....Except the lack of dead people
I think like most politicians, he was given the non-answer, answer. Or at least deflecting it a bit.
Up to this point, Pete hasn't been able to get the same amount of individual contribution as Sanders or Warren. He knew he would have to do high dollar fundraisers to stay in the race.
And I think that he was right to do it. I wish that Booker and Harris would have done more of it, so we would have had a more diverse field these last couple months.
But you're right. It puts him in a pickle with Bloomberg. Because he has to take the big money to stay in, which looks bad in relation to Sanders and Warren, but Bloomberg has all the money in the world to spend and he doesn't need to take money from anyone, including moneyed interests.
So in the end, Bloomberg really is as pure as Sanders and Warren. He can't be bought. But Pete, just to stay in the race will have that blemish on his fundraising .
There was really no good answer that didn't either give Sanders and Warren a win ,or Bloomberg a win.
Says the guy who shit on Bloomberg self finalizing because some special interests most have bought something from him at some point.someone donating their own money to a political candidate means their employer actually made that contribution. lol okay sure, great take bro.
You have difficulty figuring out that not all Democrats are socialists. Time to turn off the Fox news.I love how now a billionaire is pure! He’s a capitalist, earned his own money, pulled himself up by his bootstraps, we like that now!
Some of you guys are truly classics!
Says the guy who shit on Bloomberg self finalizing because some special interests most have bought something from him at some point.
I love how now a billionaire is pure! He’s a capitalist, earned his own money, pulled himself up by his bootstraps, we like that now!
Some of you guys are truly classics!
Yeah!!!.....Except the lack of dead people
Tupperware, after you store spaghetti in it.
Yeah!!!.....Except the lack of dead people