You have to admit, if the subreddit hadn't been banned, the Buttigieg bros would be rightfully dunking on us in it.
Any evidence that it was a grift and not garden-variety incompetence? If it was, let's call it out as such, but he may have just run a shit campaign.
clearly a grift dude, this guy was online 24/7 posting cringe leftist memes with an issues page that made no sense whatsoever and abandoned his entire online presence a day before the ballot deadline. we have to stop assuming that everybody who fucks us does so in good faith. a lot of really messed up and broken people see the left as a way to feel included because of how welcoming it is compared to the alt right and then they fuck us and make it worse for everyone. shahid buttar, david silverstone, joshua collins, etcetera, etcetera
all the irony poisoned depressed motherfuckers saw it coming, because we've been taken for a ride plenty of times ourselves. trust your gut instincts
A grift involves tricking credulous people out of money. What you're describing -- a cluttered issues page, a scatterbrained campaign style -- is certainly poor execution of a political campaign, but it doesn't really suggest he was grifting. Did he just take all (or most) of the money he raised and pocket it? Was he spending lavishly on personal "campaign expenses"? Was he insincere about what he was saying, or was he just a bad candidate?
Either way we need to vet candidates better, but there's a big difference between someone who can't build a winning campaign from the ground up and someone who's only in it for the cash.
all i can say is there's poorly run campaigns and there's raising nearly 300 G's and then getting less than a thousand votes and losing to a motherfucker running on the fucking "Congress Sucks Party," what are you gonna call that other than a grift ?
what are you gonna call that other than a grift ?
People giving someone who's incompetent too much money? If my friend who's bad with money has an idea for a business, and I give him a bunch of money for it, and it blows up in his face, that doesn't necessarily mean he was swindling me. Maybe he just has no idea what he's doing and I made a bad choice to give him money.
Here's a campaign interview he did over a year ago. 100K split four ways and spread out over a year does not scream largess.
He ran a trash campaign, no doubt, but suggesting that all he was ever doing was bilking people out of money is a stretch.
Wait, what happened with Shahid Buttar? I'm not American, all I know was that he was running a campaign against Nancy Pelosi
turned out to be a huge dick who harassed and gaslit some of his top campaign staff and not only permitted but encouraged an atmosphere of sexism and abuse towards the female members of his campaign. he was never gonna win anyway but he got a lot of attention and it sucks that that's what he'll be associated with because nobody bothered to vet him
I didn't see him winning either but I'm disappointed as well hearing this.
He was tabling and gathering signatures at the Bernie rally with serious candidates from other districts. He was doing town halls with Kshama Sawant. Seems like a shit campaign is all.
I don't get why people donate to out of state campaigns anyway. You've never been there. You have no way of knowing the political landscape. And if you're a PMC frantically donating to Amy McGrath, you might even be screwing over a good candidate. I'm in Washington and even I wouldn't presume to know who's who or what's viable way down in Thurston County.
