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AltWorlder
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« on: January 26, 2021, 02:30:36 PM »
This might be a troll, but venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya has thrown his hat into the ring if Newsom is recalled



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamath_Palihapitiya
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« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2021, 04:15:26 PM »
Quote from: Tucker/DeSantis 2024 on January 26, 2021, 02:38:35 PM
Quote from: AltWorlder on January 26, 2021, 02:30:36 PM
This might be a troll, but venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya has thrown his hat into the ring if Newsom is recalled



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamath_Palihapitiya

Sounds like the Vermin Supreme of this election.

Not really. Andrew Yang would be the obvious comparison, but Palihapitiya is an actual billionaire and is more akin to a Michael Bloomberg or Ross Perot figure.




The CNBC segment did reach some notoriety with him bashing airline bailouts.

First news article:
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« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2021, 09:08:15 PM »
In retrospect, I probably should've said Tom Steyer instead of Perot. The latter had national ambitions and sweeping policies to boot. Steyer's "bleeding-heart hedge manager" act is more like what Chamath is doing.
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« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2021, 06:34:11 PM »

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AltWorlder
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« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2021, 09:35:51 PM »
I'm raising awareness. Tom Steyer and Joe Sanberg are being boring and not backing the quixotic recall effort so some other billionaire pretending to be a progressive needs to step in.
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« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2021, 11:23:04 PM »
Quote from: President Johnson on January 30, 2021, 03:00:58 PM
Quote from: AltWorlder on January 26, 2021, 02:30:36 PM
This might be a troll, but venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya has thrown his hat into the ring if Newsom is recalled

https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1354104976457355265

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamath_Palihapitiya

Color me skeptical if someone promises giant tax cuts and wants to raise teacher salaries. Where's the money supposed to come from? Radical cuts in social services? Deficit spending? That's straight out of the same voodoo economics playbook.

Oh no doubt, I'm really just tracking him because he's attempting to do an Andrew Yang "techbro with a conscience" thing, minus Yang's actual singleminded focus on an actual policy. He's basically fulfilling the Elon Musk lane, since Musk already moved to Texas and won't be running.
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« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2021, 10:55:26 PM »
I just read about Matt Gonzalez. How can we get the CA Green Party to be competent enough to make him a candidate? Rematch!!!
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