Yeah I pretty much agree with all you said.
I can only hope the children of today can have a better tomorrow. Assuming they're not on fire.
Andrew Yang suspending his campaign
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Yeah I pretty much agree with all you said.
I can only hope the children of today can have a better tomorrow. Assuming they're not on fire.
I liked him at first, but after reading about how he'd implement UBI re: cutting safety nets, I couldn't get behind him. I believe in UBI and it may be needed in the future, I'd just rather not screw over the poor to help the middle class.
It's politics in 2020. If you don't like my guy you aren't worth being treated with respect. It's the trump/Bernie MO and it's destroying political discourse that used to be a hallmark if this country.
Yang wasn't a good candidate overall, but I'm glad that he got UBI into the discourse. It's something to continue to consider going forward.
Folks -- Yang is not getting any cabinet positions. Get real. He's a disruptor, he's not interested in being in a bureaucratic government position, his ideas are bold transformative controvercial ideas that would overshadow whoever the president would be. Cabinet positions usually go to institutional allies in your party or path to the white house, they almost never go to disruptive short-lived candidates.
Elizabeth Warren is a candidate for a white house cabinet position should she eventually drop out and endorse the winner of the primary / election. Or at least a post heading up something like the CFPB. She's been involved in federal politics for several decades now, she was considered for a position in tbe Obama administration, she has had a successful run as senator, and importantly she's not a disruptor in the Democratic party.
If he does I'll eat a whole can of whipped cream.
Elizabeth Warren is a candidate for a white house cabinet position should she eventually drop out and endorse the winner of the primary / election. Or at least a post heading up something like the CFPB. She's been involved in federal politics for several decades now, she was considered for a position in tbe Obama administration, she has had a successful run as senator, and importantly she's not a disruptor in the Democratic party.
If he does I'll eat a whole can of whipped cream.
Yang got a lot of his early support from communities that supported Trump in 2016. #YangGang became a trending topic on Twitter because it was picked up by 4chan.
Many people don't care about issues or the nitty gritty of policies. A candidate who tells someone that their life sucks because of immigrants, so they're going to build a wall to make their life great again, is not offering wholely dissimilar promises than a candidate who tells everyone their life sucks so they're going to get $1000/mo for life. They're two unrealistic controversial promises that are both based on the same appeal: the reason you think your life sucks is because the system is screwing you and I'm here to buck the system. In republican politics that's enough to win an elective. In democratic politics it's enough to get you to the first primary.
And I no longer care about American politics.
The biggest scandal of the modern world.
The biggest scandal of the modern world.
Read multiple people on twitter commenting that now that Yang is gone they are going back to Trump.
The fuck?
The fuck?
That's on par with the Bernie or Bust myth.
They were never going to vote Dem in the first place or even vote at all
Well. Good luck with that.
(UBI is a fine idea but Yang's implementation left much to be desired)
Yang was a weird candidate for me. At first he seemed like the most personable candidate of them all, and I REALLY liked him having an answer to automation. He ran a good campaign, but as I dug into him he didn't have M4A or student loan answers. HE did have cool propositions I think other candidates should take on, but they were either small or didn't affect many people. He wanted to get rid of the penny 'cause it cost us 5 cents to make something worth 1 cent. He wanted to pay Division 1 college athletes. IF I remember right he wanted to make voting a proper holiday, and even offer a tax bonus that could be used on any charity you wanted.
Those are all cool things, but they're super minor compared to the major issues we needed solving. In any case, if we could get Klobucher and Biden to give up now that'd be great.
Those are all cool things, but they're super minor compared to the major issues we needed solving. In any case, if we could get Klobucher and Biden to give up now that'd be great.
Seems like a great guy with some good ideas, I am sure he has a bright future in someones admin. I'm glad what he brought to the table but its time he dropped out.
Awesome take on this that I hope most of the YangGang take to heart:
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Then it's better for someone to not do that just for his endorsement, more to lose rather than to gain
Seems like whoever set up the CFPB had her in mind when doing so - it's destiny.
I'm kidding - not mentioning her role in establishing it was a weird omission in your list of accomplishments
Political discussion in the USA was always frowned upon.
It's one of the three things you don't talk about even. Someone's partner. Religion and politics?
Part of the issue that democracy requires talking and at times, hurt feelings. People taking their ball and going home end up with fascism. We thought we were better/above/civil than say, how passionate other nations are when discussing politics.
I'm gunna miss my 1000 bucks. This is bullshit.
I don't get why some don't like Yang, he pushed his own ideas and I thought that to be 1000x more interesting than the post-it Ted Talk lines that Pete spews.
his sit down with ABC News showed a human side to him that other candidates lack.
Yang was a likeable guy
his sit down with ABC News showed a human side to him that other candidates lack.
Yang was a likeable guy
Yang was able to take away Trump supporters away from Trump.
I was convinced by Scott Santens' argument for Yang's UBI. Yang's fault was being weak on healthcare. He initially was for M4A, but then went back on it which cuts into his UBI plan.
https://medium.com/basic-income/the...an-andrew-yangs-freedom-dividend-72d3850a6245
https://medium.com/ubicenter/distributional-analysis-of-andrew-yangs-freedom-dividend-d8dab818bf1b
I've yet to be convinced it wasn't a good policy.
https://medium.com/basic-income/the...an-andrew-yangs-freedom-dividend-72d3850a6245
https://medium.com/ubicenter/distributional-analysis-of-andrew-yangs-freedom-dividend-d8dab818bf1b
I've yet to be convinced it wasn't a good policy.
Partly due to that, but also because he was able to paint a picture of potential loss of jobs via AI. This means those communities will suffer economically. And he was able to paint that picture through evoking fast food restaurants, and malls. Malls showcase how Amazon takes away jobs from a community. Restaurants are more and more relying on electronic kiosks? which is one less worker. He had a lot of policy positions that were common sense.
However, as someone who is more leftist, he needed to be better on healthcare. He wasn't so his UBI was less attractive to me. They needed to be coupled.
How can Yang supporters go to Trump? Yang supports civility and respect. When has Trump ever given respect and civility.....
THANK GOD
Woah.....I'm actually impressed and has a good laugh at this.
Woah.....I'm actually impressed and has a good laugh at this.
Wtf?
Bernie is Jewish, there are two women left, and Pete is gay
More likely we see a brokered convention and the DNC hands it to Petey Boy.
Yang was a bad candidate. His UBI was regressive and would've destroyed programs like SSDI, SNAP and medicaid. He was misleading about what he actually supported, had a lot of bad policy proposals, apparently his staffers are now having a hard time getting severance when fired and they found out through losing their email accounts.
Sorry but giving people $1000 a month while taking away all their social services and not accounting for their children wasn't going to help anybody who lost a job. Especially not in cities where 1k a month wouldn't even cover 1/3rd of your rent.