RFK Jr. Running Mate Unboxing: It's Sergey Brin's ex wife / Elon Musk paramour Nicole Shanahan

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It's Shanahan, officially

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You get used to his voice quickly. It's not a big deal

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Here are a few excerpts from her Wikipedia:

Shanahan grew up in Oakland, California,[7][8] In a 2023 interview with People magazine, Shanahan said that she had a "very hard" childhood marked by traumatic experiences; she described her father, who died in 2014, as a sufferer of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.[7] She said that her mother, who was born in China

In the 2010s and 2020s, Shanahan made various contributions to left-leaning organizations and Democratic political candidates.[11] In 2020, Shanahan was a "major donor" for Measure J, a criminal justice reform referendum in Los Angeles County.[27] Also in 2020, Shanahan contributed $150,000 to support George Gascón in his challenge to incumbent Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey.[28]

During the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, Shanahan contributed $2,800 each to the campaigns of Marianne Williamson and Pete Buttigieg.[21] She co-hosted a fundraiser for Buttigieg in December 2019, along with other wealthy Silicon Valley figures.[21][29] After Joe Biden became the presumptive nominee, she supported the Biden presidential campaign, contributing $25,000 to the Biden Victory Fund.[21][2]

So she’s a Soros donor

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I heard through my patent law circles that RPX Corp.'s HR department put out an APB to its male executives to be alert and stay away from Shanahan as she was a serial seducer and was having many affairs with executives in the patent law industry. My boss did a patent deal with her and said she is as crazy as reported in the news.

“Heels up Harris” is immediately infracted and labeled as misogynistic on this site. But this post is fine. Please make that make sense

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https://nypost.com/2024/03/27/opinion/rfk-jr-s-progressive-vp-pick-nicole-shanahan-will-doom-bidens-re-election/

RFK Jr.’s progressive VP pick Nicole Shanahan will doom Biden’s re-election

On Tuesday, Kennedy made himself more lethal to Biden by naming as his running mate the well-divorced California attorney and tech investor Nicole Shanahan.

Shanahan, who calls herself a “progressive through and through,” is the radical-left millennial ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who divorced her after she was rumored to have had an affair with Elon Musk. (Shanahan and Musk deny it.)
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For most of her adult life, Shanahan has contributed to radical-left causes and candidates that have brought California to utter ruin.

She donated $700,000 to support Measure J, a post-George Floyd Los Angeles County criminal justice initiative that defunded law enforcement and diverted local revenue to “alternatives to incarceration.”

We all know how well that turned out.

She gave $150,000 to support George Gascón’s 2020 bid for LA district attorney despite his disastrous record in the same job in San Francisco.

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Lest anyone think Shanahan is truly “independent,” she donated $25,000 to Biden’s 2020 victory fund after having initially supported Pete Buttigieg and Marianne Williamson for that year’s Democratic nomination.

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The fact that this guy is polling as well as he is tells you a lot about the state of American politics.

I guess most people don't know about him other than he's a Kennedy (even though is entire family backs Biden). And there's a decent junk of voters outside partisan Democrats and Republicans with a low appetite for a rematch. Nonetheless, I doubt he finishes above two or three percent of the vote (hopefully he gets out of the race before the election).

He's going to take more from Trump than Biden in the end so I wouldn't worry about it.

You know how everyone knows that's not true? ... you never see Republicans attack Kennedy, you don't see Republicans calling him names like anti-vax weirdo, you don't see Republicans dreaming that he'll finish under 3%, you don't see Republicans calling for RFK Jr to drop out.

But you see all of that from the Democrats. The DNC even has a whole division focused specifically on trying to sabotage RFK Jr, Stein, and the others by legal actions and public messaging. The RNC isn't trying to pull off those stunts