Billionaires Line Up Behind Biden for 2024: 'Stakes are higher than ever'

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  1. kazenatsu

    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Billionaires Line Up Behind Biden for 2024: 'Stakes are higher than ever'

    Billionaires across big business sectors like finance, tech, and media are gearing up to throw millions at President Joe Biden’s reelection bid in 2024.
    After Biden announced his reelection bid last week, left-wing billionaires immediately started plotting to get behind the 80-year-old in the 2024 presidential election. According to interviews and sources who spoke to CNBC, billionaires across many industries want in on helping to reelect Biden.​

    https://joemiller.us/2023/04/billionaires-line-up-behind-biden-for-2024-stakes-are-higher-than-ever/

    The Dem's have a money tree.


    A major donor to recent Republican candidates has decided to sit 2024 out. Megadonor Peter Thiel is concerned that Republicans are talking about social issues like abortion bans and transgenders in bathrooms instead of issues like the economy, innovation, and China. There is too much focus on the culture war and not enough on other issues. He doesn't think that Republicans are clearly communicating what they are in favor of.
    https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2...ibuting-to-2024-republican-candidates-n546687
     
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  2. Lil Mike

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    Makes sense.
     
  3. Endeavor

    Endeavor Well-Known Member

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    Well, one of the GOP potential candidate wants to put prison next to children theme park ( Disney) just because Disney disagree with his political view.

    Very good demonstration by party of Limited Government and Free Market.
     
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    Under Biden, we witnessed the largest transfer of wealth from the middle class to the wealthiest 1% in the history of our country. Color me not surprised.
     
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    Is that just an issue under Biden, though?
     
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    Not just Biden. Republicans get large donations as well. The news will anoint our new leader based on who gets the most donations.
     
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    I wish the Republicans would leave the abortion issue alone. It is a loser for them politically.

    As for the bathroom issue, I wish the women from both parties would rise up and complain. It’s a matter of privacy, safety and decency. The Republicans should not have to bear that issue alone. The Democrat women should get involved, but, so far, they have rolled over with respect their rights and interests.
     
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    BIllionaires are abandoning the republican party and throwing in with the Democrats?

    That should be ringing alarm bells at the RNC.
     
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    Nope. It only shows that the new fascist order is getting in line with the Democrat program. Government officials will give big corporations a leg up in return for their election support. That’s what fascism is all about. Its government aligned with big business with both entities getting wealthier and more powerful. This is “the new socialism.”

    Some of kids who think the Democrats are cool will finally see through this, but by then it will be too late. The government will use the Justice Department and the FBI to crush them and anyone else who gets in their way.
     
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    The explanation is right there in the OP, in the words of the money-men themselves.

    Willful blindness is the worst kind.
     
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    yeah, the GOP should be conservative on economic issues ,zealous in the defense of constitutional rights and agnostic on social issues
     
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    Although the Democrats complain all the time about money in politics, who’s donating to Republicans, the Democrats have held a huge lead when it comes to being donated to by corporations, wall street firms, lobbyist, special interest, super, mega, individual donors etc.


    In 2020 Biden raised and spent 1,624 billion dollars to Trump’s 1.08 billion


    https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race


    In 2016 it was Hillary Clinton raising and spending 1.191 billion to Trump’s 646.8 million


    https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/...campaign-fundraising/?leadSource=uverify wall


    In 2012 it was Obama raising and spending 722 million to Romney’s 450 million


    https://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/


    2008 Obama 750 to McCain’s 250 million. You have to go back to 2004 to find the last time a Republican raised and spent more than the democrat. But it was close, 350 million for Bush 340 million for Kerry.


    For the 2022 midterms, one donor, George Soros donated 128.5 million to the democrats cause. I don’t think the Democrats should be complaining about money in politics anymore or money coming from super mega rich individual donors.


    https://www.yahoo.com/news/10-biggest-donors-midterm-elections-154657192.html
     
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    yet Republican are concerned more about the working class making more and want to stamp that out
     
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    How so. Under Trump working class wages went up relative to inflation for the first time in 20 years.
     
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    Republicans have been complaining about wages going up, that is the number one concern of the Republican run FED under Biden
     
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    so why did Republican give then huge tax cuts again?
     
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    I assume you are referring to the Trump Era "Tax Cuts" which brought in more money than the previous tax regulations. The very same regulations that Biden and the DNC have made no efforts to repeal.

    The cuts brought in more money because they eliminated / capped deductions.
     
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    Don't forget that Trump (along with Republicans) eliminated the SALT tax exemption.
    (it allowed persons in higher tax states to pay less tax to the federal government)
     
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    Sure, brought in so much money the FED had to bail out the Trump economy... BEFORE COVID

    that the economy was great pre-covid is one of the biggest lies the Republicans ever told.


    "Fed Ups Its Wall Street Bailout to $690 Billion a Week as Media Snoozes" Oct 2019

    https://wallstreetonparade.com/2019...ilout-to-690-billion-a-week-as-media-snoozes/

    and

    "The Federal Reserve Has Already Pumped $9-Trillion into Wall Street in the Past Six Months, and Now Is Offering Banks Another $1.5-Trillion"
    March 2020

    https://needtoknow.news/2020/03/the...d-now-is-offering-banks-another-1-5-trillion/
     
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    They know Trump is no friend of multinational corporations. Republicans are now the party of the working man, and democrats are the party of Big Business, who's main expertise has been offshoring American middle class jobs.
     
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    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    And also, what will people in big cities like New York do when there are no immigrants to work for minimum wage?
    In a city where normal Americans can't really afford to live doing those jobs.

    I mean when the average apartment rent cost is $2500 to $3500 a month, there's no way someone who bags your groceries is going to be able to live there.
    Unless they're an immigrant, working 65 hours a week and crammed into a tiny room sleeping with three other people.

    And there's actually some people stupid enough to think that if they only got government to raise the minimum wage that would solve the problem. No it wouldn't. It would barely begin to make a scratch. There's an imbalance between existing space and the number of people wanting housing in these areas, that's what's pushing housing prices up.
     
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    I would have agreed with that at one time, but at this point, "social issues" just can't be avoided. You can't be agnostic on schools trying to indoctrinate kids into the idea that there is no gender or you can be any gender. You can't be agnostic on them teaching a fraudulent version of history in school. Otherwise you'll find out you no longer have any constitutional rights to defend, and at that point, the economics won't matter because "conservative on economic issues" will have long since vanished.
     
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    I have said for years abortion bans are a losing issue for the GOP. bans on early abortion rape, incest of medical necessity might be intellectually consistent but abhorrent to most independent voters. as less and less people follow organized religion, that issue will only get worse for the GOP
     
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    Those are called purchases - they happen all the time.
     
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    The “billionaire donors” are not stupid neither are they sucking in the teat of Faux news. But it says something that even the traditional republicans are saying “for heavens sake get back to real issues”. I don’t think the republicans are exactly doing themselves a favour with the debt ceiling antics either. These bits nd girls ply o the international stage they are very very well aware of what it means if America defaults on its debts
     
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