https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/26/politics/dean-phillips-presidential-campaign-launch/index.html

OTOH I hate Biden, OTOH I hate amerikkka and him losing to trump would be extremely funny

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    He later completed his Master of Business Administration at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management in 2000. After graduation, he was named the president and CEO of his family's organization, Phillips Distilling Company.

    lol

      • ditty@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        He's literally one of the wealthiest members of Congress with a net worth of like $80 million.

        OTOH he unseated Erik Paulsen who was a snake, but OTOH he's a centrist DINO

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      8 months ago

      MBA's shouldnt.

      That's a complete sentence I didn't forget anything.

    • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      MBA's are worthless as an education, but they're even more worthless (for ghoulish jobs and stuff) when you don't get them from one of the prestigious universities. And this dude goes and gets one at the university of Minnesota.

  • LocalMaxima [she/her]
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    8 months ago

    According to FiveThirtyEight's congressional vote tracker at ABC News, Phillips voted with President Joe Biden's stated public policy positions 100% of the time

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      8 months ago

      “I think President Biden has done a spectacular job for our country, but it’s not about the past. This is an election about the future. I will not sit still, I will not be quiet in the face of numbers that are so clearly saying that we’re going to be facing an emergency next November,” Phillips told CBS News in a clip posted online.

      Literally the opening line of the piece. Dude is just a polls-guy. He looked at the polls and said "Biden stock is down! Sell, sell, sell!" And when the rest of the party didn't sell, he decided to put his money where his mouth was.

      He's a member of House leadership, a party loyalist, and a bourgeois fuck, but he's got a pair of eyes and knows how to read the writing on the wall. Biden is going to underperform 2020 and has a very real opportunity to tank the rest of the ticket. Phillips probably couldn't explain why, except to say "Old is Bad. Doesn't poll well." But he can still see what the rest of the party is too blind or senile to accept.

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    8 months ago

    He looks like the mental picture I have of the phrase "policy wonk."

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    I'm not crazy, right? That's just Clark Kentified Ron DeSantis.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      8 months ago

      My first thought was "budget Ron DeSantis isn't real, he can't hurt you", but there he is.

  • pooh [she/her, any]
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    8 months ago

    My guess is he’s a corporate plant put in there with the intention of pushing Biden further right, or at least providing a justification for moving right.

    • dragongloss [she/her, they/them]
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      8 months ago

      He's being primaried by a Biden defender for opposing renominating Biden and was pressured to resign as a co-chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee after intra-party criticisms. This campaign is probably just publicity attempt to get his name "out there" so he can crash land into another do-nothing grift. Total speculation, but who cares, the dude is a loser like all the rest of them.

  • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    Is that Kingpin's lawyer from the Daredevil TV show?

    edit: holy shit, lmao it was just an offhand comment, but the guy is legit a doppelganger https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ff/78/51/ff7851bb986b65842c956a09d37cd1c4.jpg

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    That's The Last Week Tonight guy right?

    • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      Yeah, not many people know this but if you're married to a war criminal for the empire they'll let you run even as a foreigner.

    • prismaTK
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      7 months ago

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