BTW, if you were curious who this RW venture capitalist guy throwing money at 'left' people like Glem (who vehemently, angrily insists he is NOT being paid by Peter Thiel), well surprise, it's another Peter Thiel ally, who co-wrote an anti-diversity book with him.
But how dare you say he's paid by Peter Thiel or any other RW billionaire types. It's just a coincidence that he funds this platform...and What a smear.
Also completely a coincidence that I prop up all the faux-populists he's funding for Senate.
I'm sorry but this is all so fcking funny to me.
Glem: You are a paid shill beholden to XYZ donor who gave $500 to your non-profit
Also, Glem: Actually, Mr. Thiel is a benevolent and wise investor who just wants to maximize his profit. He has no bearing on my work.
I AM ACTUALLY LAUGHING. It's so ridiculous to even think this, I can't stop rolling on the floor "lmao'ing." Wow, these people are crazy for this one.
(BTW please do not notice that I did not answer the question).
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Sigh. Ok. As the #1 Pod Bro Bullshit caller, I guess I have to weigh in on this @jonfavs (not actual) mea culpa monologue, where he takes zero ownership of his own role and then spends the rest of the time 'whatabouting' the people who got Platner right and then saying that the Platner campaign was actually totally great, and that everyone who thought otherwise was out of touch.
Let's dig in...
Part 1- the 'mea culpa' is solely acting if they were 'fooled' by Graham. "I'm so angry that Graham lied to us (about the rape allegation). We had no clue that this was coming. Shame on him for being dishonest. I am ashamed I believed him.'
But this COMPLETELY just white-washes their own role in the campaign. They were an integral part of it from day one. They were the spot where the campaign dropped the Nazi tattoo story and did a ridiculous whitewashing of it to help the campaign (which we are supposed to believe based on Jon's continue insistence, that they were completely neutral) move past it.
And then they did it AGAIN during the next critically bad news cycle, when Platner rt'ed holocaust denier Stu Peters and then said he was a big fan of the alt-right antisemitic podcaster guy.
If you think this was a coincidence, then you were probably born yesterday.
So Morris Katz threatened (former campaign political director) Genevieve McDonald before she came forward. Jesus Christ man...
What a piece of shit.
You can pretty much tell exactly who is involved with the campaign (in ways they have not disclosed publicly) because they all immediately pushed out the exact same, "this story is REALLY about Genevieve McDonald. Shame on her. How DARE she??"
i just want to say i got it a bit wrong....it's actually WAY more dishonest than it appeared at first.
I was only shown a snippet of an FEC report but luckily a follower who actually understands this stuff sent me all the reports and Annie has actually been on the campaign payroll much longer than I initially thought. Seems like she's been there since day 1. Just from the FEC disbursements alone, she's already made like $15,000 off the campaign. And I'm sure much more now.
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"I never lied, I just never told anyone and tweeted out like I was unbiased party."
This is essentially no different than lying. It's a lie by omission.
There are a bunch of campaigns in Annie's profile but she willfully left this out. Because she was LYING by omission.
Really scummy, disingenuous stuff. The opposite of 'transparency.'
So when Annie was tweeting stuff like this, she was literally being paid by the campaign.
I am not a politics expert, but that seems pretty dishonest to me!
Frankly, it's fairly obvious that there are a lot of people who are financially involved with the Platner (and Steyer) campaign, without disclosing it.
The reason he 'survived' his uhhh scandals is because there were too many people financially invested in the campaign. All the consultants and influencers had money in this. The Katz Agency alone is going to bank millions on this shit.
There was too much money involved for people to bow out, despite obvious disqualifying things being disqualifying.
On a day where the current president of the united states (age 79) walked out wit his grotesquely disfigured hand, bragged for the 10th time about taking his dementia test and did an Orwellian purge of Jan. 6th, what is this muppet focused on?
Of course, for the 150th time, how right he was about Joe Biden Old. This is basically mental illness.
This guy, after making Presidential Age/Cognitive Fitness the SOLE issue of the last presidency, has gone the past 2 years just completely ignoring Trump. Like a fucking caricature. Literally started a podcast to talk about 'anything but Trump.'
And after getting tons of pushback for his head-in-the-sand avoidance, he promised that he would 'gladly' call it out if it ever became an issue with Trump.
And......that was a lie. Never misses a chance to relive his glory days of Biden Old, as Trump's brain is completely gone and he has various unexplained health problems.
Had a great day in DC yesterday and crashed hard when I got home, so here are some of my thoughts on the PA-03 race.
1. The outcome was not really that surprising. I thought Rabb would probably win with a divided field. He got a little more of the vote share (44% to 'progressives' and 48% to the 'mods') than I expected but it was basically the same dynamic.
2. The turnout was just pathetic. 21% of eligible voters voted in the primary. Average voters were just not at all tuned in (and probably barely even knew there was an election).
Low turnout in a blue environment is the type of race the left/progressives THRIVE in.
3. Rabb way outspent the other candidates. They had the 'big money' advantage. His ads were everywhere. All over TV...you couldn't watch anything without seeing his ads towards the end of the race.
I also got tons of mailers for Rabb and maybe 1-2 combined for the other 2 candidates.
Just getting your name/face out there in a low turnout primary is a massive advantage.
Again, zero mention of the fact that Maine is the whitest state in the country. Alex doesn't want to mention it because it makes the state look bad and as a Real Salt of the Earth Mainer (who moved there a few years ago) he's extremely defensive about it.
Instead it's 'authenticity and realness'...with no mention that the 'authenticity' was completely manufactured by DC Consultants and turned in to a very, very well funded (again by outside money) ad campaign creating the 'realness.'
That doesn't mesh with The Narrative.
The attention economy stuff is spot on but also zero mention that the Pod Save America guys, who helped him moved past it, were very obviously a part of the campaign push.
Anyway, it's so great to have the same horse race journalism slop that emanates from every soulless DC politico journo hack, but on a local level.