'President Zuck' fundraiser opens for business A fundraising vehicle to help get the world's fifth richest man Mark Zuckerberg elected as President of the United States will now take your money. The Super Political Action Committee (PAC) is called (inevitably) 'Disrupt for America' and describes itself as "a progressive advocacy group focused on pragmatic, grassroots …
As president he'd own the NSA, FBI and CIA too. Spooks + Feds + NSA + Facebook = we're all owned, all the time, everywhere... Like?
Oh, and from the article:
"Zuckerberg said he'd been moved to tears by juveniles in detention..."
Hmm, so how about the children in the paedophilia unearthed by the BBC in a Facebook private group that Facebook then, reportedly, did nothing about for quite a long while. Is that what being moved to tears does?
When Palin was first thought of as a a potential president, I thought Oh God, they've actually managed to find someone worse the GW Bush. I thought that was scraping the barrel but then Trump turned up, and actually got elected. With Zuck I think they'd be through the bottom of the barrel and looking at ship's bilge water. When oh when will these rich idiots realise that politics is not for the amateur, that loads of money does not make you a good president. And if he does run, what on earth would he be offering the US population?
[Make that: successful American politician]
Hilarious.
When faced with a hard decision, don't use critical thinking or evidence to aid the process. Just wait until 'god' 'tells' you what the 'right' decision is. No blame that way, and your justification can be "I was looking out a window and saw a pretty tree, hence I signed the executive order". Trebles all round!
most of the "religious" politicos I've come across spew the verbiage but fail to walk the take. So God talks to them? No, I hear money/sex and in some cases, drugs does."<
Which, considering the sort of distorted deities they usually worship, is quite an improvement!
You know where you are with a corrupt, stoned swinger...
Ah, sorry. I was being sarcastic. I was mocking the idea that you would *want* a religious politician, for the reason I outlined. It implies poor decision making (to me). (yes, of course there are many religious people who are excellent decision makers - but it isn't their religion that gives them that skill)
Indeed, the fact most politicians fail to walk that line is simply further evidence that they are liars. Liars pretending to be bad decision makers, who therefore can't be blamed for *actually* being poor decision makers < great.
As for '...unbeholden to special interests.' - jaw dropped at the audacity of this statement
Yes, as deceptions go this one is a doozy - it seeks to gently skip over the fact that Facebook ITSELF is a special interest. But hey, the peasants like that sort of stuff.
"First Trump then over to Zuckerberg - could it get any worse? (Rhetorical question - I'm pretty sure it could)"
Well, the Koch brothers could decide to stop paying the middlemen (buying politicians) and buy the presidency/vice-presidency directly, running for the gig together so that, even if one died the asset would stay in the family. (For anyone not familiar with the Kochs -- Charles and David Koch each have net worths of $47+ billion. They are the heads of the second-richest family in the U.S. and funders of assorted far right-wing/christian dominionist "think-tanks" and pressure groups. The current leadership of the U.S. Congress are only in place because the Kochs couldn't find anyone more loathsome to support.)
Usually a product of the "What's in it for me" culture.
I like the start of "The Social Network"
Soon-to-be-ex-GF "Mark, I know you will do great things but people don't like you. It's not because you're a geek. It's because you're an as**ole."
I think it was the former head of EDS who started this "Tech Billionaire wants to be President" meme. At least Gates has just got on with spending his money in places that can use it.
"At least Gates has just got on with spending his money in places that can use it."
I've had to seriously re-evaluate my opinion of Gates. Politician, or serious philanthropist aiming to help the very poorest out there? I think he's chosen wisely.
And with the way Trump is heading, Gates might be all that's left of the American overseas aid effort.
"In addition to a set of steadfast liberal principals, Mark shares (perhaps more legitimately) many of the qualities of Donald Trump that resonated with everyday Americans – a wealthy, anti-establishment outsider unbeholden to special interests."
a) Because that is working out so well.
2) Unbeholden? You're pulling my war wound mate.
þ) As for special interests, why, aren't both Trump and El Zuckface the very definition of special interests in and of themselves?
Cthulhu's Aquatic Anus, do we really have to recapitulate the 1900-1930 period before we remember why we said "never again"?
Despite what you may think, this probably has nothing whatsover to do with Mark Zuckerberg. See the line:
"to convince Mark Zuckerberg to consider a Presidential run in 2020"
PACs get founded all the time by people who claim something like that, their only objective is to get the money into their own pockets.
Real candidates end up sending lots of 'Cease and desist' letters to them to stop using their names, but in the meantime the founders get their money.
Hardly a disqualifier, compare to Trump's antics during the campaign.
However, we are finding out what a disaster it is having someone in office who has zero political experience. Zuck may be much less an autocrat than Trump, but someone who says we should "get over" wanting privacy will never have my vote!
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