2020 Presidential election

[Archie Moses]

I don't like his handout ideology, but Andrew Yang is pretty likable or no?

I'm sure he has no chance to be a candidate of a party, but he's a likable guy talking politics. I disagree with his policies, but he's not a **** about them.

 

[One Brow]

She's probably a lil more than 1/1024 like Hillary which is still absurd to compare.

I was wondering if it had been too long since someone had posted about that false meme. Turns out it's not.

 

[RJF]

I was wondering if it had been too long since someone had posted about that false meme. Turns out it's not.

What’s false about it?

 

[Archie Moses]

I was wondering if it had been too long since someone had posted about that false meme. Turns out it's not.

Is 1/1024 false?

 

[Archie Moses]

What’s false about it?

Like the WWE guy said, damn it, it's real to me.

 

[gandalfe]

I don't like his handout ideology, but Andrew Yang is pretty likable or no?

I'm sure he has no chance to be a candidate of a party, but he's a likable guy talking politics. I disagree with his policies, but he's not a **** about them.

Yang has all the charisma of a wet paper towel. I love his ideas, though.

 

[candrew]

Yang has all the charisma of a wet paper towel. I love his ideas, though.

Yang has the charisma of a wet paper towel? The guy's tag line is "the opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian who is good at math" lol.

Yang's a long shot but I tell you he's a breath of fresh air - he doesn't play identity politics, you know exactly where he stands on the issues (the policy page on his website would take you literally about a day to read) he's gone on Fox and Ben Shapiro's Sunday Talk and he's more than held his own.

Most importantly he's willing to face the tough questions - like what is going to happen when we start replacing millions of jobs with AI and automation. And that speaks to the millions of people in middle America that got Donald Trump elected in the first place.

As far as his "hand-out" is concerned - we already live in a welfare state. There are over 60 federal entitlement programs that costs billions of dollars a year just to administer - his plan would consolidate them into a handful.

 

[gandalfe]

Yang has the charisma of a wet paper towel? The guy's tag line is "the opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian who is good at math" lol.

Yang's a long shot but I tell you he's a breath of fresh air - he doesn't play identity politics, you know exactly where he stands on the issues (the policy page on his website would take you literally about a day to read) he's gone on Fox and Ben Shapiro's Sunday Talk and he's more than held his own.

Most importantly he's willing to face the tough questions - like what is going to happen when we start replacing millions of jobs with AI and automation. And that speaks to the millions of people in middle America that got Donald Trump elected in the first place.

As far as his "hand-out" is concerned - we already live in a welfare state. There are over 60 federal entitlement programs that costs billions of dollars a year just to administer - his plan would consolidate them into a handful.

I hadn't actually watched anything from him in a few months, probably his first campaign video. I just watched an interview from MSNBC (just googled his name and found the first decent video link) and he's definitely gotten better. Again, I think a UBI (or, as he calls it, Freedom Dividend) is a necessity if we actually care about our fellow citizens. I'm not so sure that we, as a country, actually do.

 

[Archie Moses]

Yang has all the charisma of a wet paper towel. I love his ideas, though.

So, we're pretty much the opposite.

I respect that.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Nothing would stir Trump supporters to come out in droves to re-elect their guy more than giving Joe Biden the ticket. Not only is he seen as a wishy washy establishment lackey, he was the Vice President under Obama. The last thing Dems want to do is harken back to the Obama administration that got Trump elected in the first place.

 

[gandalfe]

Nothing would stir Trump supporters to come out in droves to re-elect their guy more than giving Joe Biden the ticket. Not only is he seen as a wishy washy establishment lackey, he was the Vice President under Obama. The last thing Dems want to do is harken back to the Obama administration that got Trump elected in the first place.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/30/clinton-era-politics-joe-biden

 

[Red]

But you know, Warren isn't likable enough... Because that's how we decide who should be President.

Presidential candidates are marketed. Like any other product. And marketing means slinging the bull, mischaracterizing rivals, etc. We do indeed decide, at least many do, based on emotional responses, and the campaigns that market their candidates understand that. So they aim to make their brand, their product, likeable, and through negative ads, make all those other brands unlikable. Come campaign season, all politicians running for office, or vying for nominations, are products to be marketed.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimber...-insight-from-a-marco-rubio-campaign-insider/