Andrew Yang is a great candidate. He's authentic, he has good policy ideas and he doesn't jump on the social justice controversy of the week.
Plus he's not 70+ years old.
He also knows how to get attention. Most other candidates (even Bernie) are barely visible at this point. The YangGang is already everywhere.
It's important to tell people the reality that those truck drivers... who had their jobs replaced by automationAt least they aren't out there turning more people into conservatives with their bad driving.
https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/1101701990860513280
How Little Known Andrew Yang May End Up on the 2020 Debate Stage by Gaming the System
You’ve probably never heard of him. And yet, he’s about to bust through the DNC’s debate entry threshold.
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Andrew Yang has been a Democratic presidential candidate for well over a year. But chances are, you’ve never heard of him. He’s not a lawmaker. He has just over 90,000 Twitter followers. As of Dec. 31, 2018, his campaign committee had $38,730.78 cash on hand. He’s spent a grand total of $33,000 on Facebook ads. And has not run a single TV ad.
And yet, the self-proclaimed “entrepreneur who understands the economy” has somehow managed to get more than 47,000 individual donors to his campaign as of Wednesday night. It’s a figure that’s caught the attention of Democrats on other campaigns. But, more importantly, it’s one that places Yang close to a critical threshold. If that number rises to 65,000 over the next two months, he will qualify to participate in the first primary debate.
Dem long shots crash 2020 debate stage
Andrew Yang and Marianne Williamson, who have never held public office, could qualify for the first Democratic primary debate.
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Under newly crafted rules, two little-known candidates with no governmental experience are poised to qualify for the first debate later this year. The extraordinary shift from past campaigns will squeeze the amount of time on stage for candidates looking to the debates for breakout campaign moments. And it will force the senators and governors — and maybe even a former vice president — running for president to contend with and respond to the outsiders’ ideas on national TV.
Andrew Yang and Marianne Williamson, a pair of little-known 2020 contenders, both say they are on track to meet the grassroots donation threshold set by the DNC to get into the first debate in June. They’d join Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, both African-American ministers and civil rights activists, as the only non-elected officials to make the first Democratic presidential debate in the past 40 years.
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https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/1101701990860513280
The point isn't to win. It's to move UBI into the mainstream again.spoiler (click to show/hide)Probably not.[close]
My mother explained the magic with this machine the very, very first day. She said, “Now Hans, we have loaded the laundry; the machine will make the work. And now we can go to the library.” Because this is the magic: you load the laundry, and what do you get out of the machine? You get books out of the machines, children’s books. And mother got time to read for me. She loved this. I got the “ABC.” This is where I started my career as a professor, when my mother had time to read for me. And she also got books for herself. She managed to study English and learn that as a foreign language. And she read so many novels, so many different novels here. And we really, we really loved this machine. And what we said, my mother and me, “Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.”
People can't do math. Don't say $1k a month, say $12k a year. Say $24k a year for two parent households.That's why the nice round $1,000 a month is better. If the yearly total worked out to to some other round figure like $20,000 then that would be different. The rounder your figure the better it performs in hypotheticals. If another candidate comes out and says $1138 a month because they've legitimately crunched the numbers using some think tank type deal the actual figure won't be remembered as much as Yang's simpler and rounder figure even though it's objectively lower and arguably more arbitrary. That candidate would expend far more resources to sell their message while also looking like they're just trying to one-up him.
Because of his ability to breach the left/right divide, Yang has much more appeal in the general than in the primary - assuming the cold day in hell that he'd make it there. Curious as to how frontrunners -- particularly Bernie, will frame their opposition to UBI. If Yang's popularity increases and UBI actually enters mainstream discourse, he'll need a convincing opposition strategy ..but I can't see Bernie actually disagreeing with UBI. Yet, waffling on that could be a big problem for him.
Would you support a bill for the establishment of our own unconditional basic income, and if so, have you even already considered sponsoring such a bill?
It does seem to be one of those rare ideas drawing support from both conservatives and liberals alike, and being that we stand to lose half of our jobs to automation within 20 years, it seems like an inevitable choice between technological unemployment causing great suffering or great liberation.
shosta don't let your yangfluenza make you defend the dang electoral college. That would be Peterson and the red lipstick all over.
https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1107806800613646337
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https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1107806800613646337
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I would not have shared that view lol
https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1107806800613646337
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I would not have shared that view lol
Why? Mutilating children for absolutely no reason should probably stop. And btw, before you try to argue the point - does your dad have a PhD in physics? No? Sit this one out then, champ
https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1107806800613646337
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I would not have shared that view lol
Why? Mutilating children for absolutely no reason should probably stop. And btw, before you try to argue the point - does your dad have a PhD in physics? No? Sit this one out then, champ
It’s a perfectly fine view to have but I don’t understand what sway that’s supposed to have as a candidate, you know? It’s more likely to lose him votes than gain him anything. And it’s not like other candidates have made statements on it, so it needlessly affects him is all.
Also: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-andrew-yang-could-win-the-2020-democratic-primary/
I have a feeling Yang is trying to cast a wide net. But yeah, the immigration stuff and electoral college he loses me a bit.Just grab the bag and focus on the money.
sounds like Spyro yikes
sounds like Spyro yikes
what did I miss, Spyro is bad now?
The immigration policies, the electoral college support, not giving UBI to people in jail, verbalizing that "being white doesn't mean you're suffering any less", all of it is an intentional appeal to white people. It's not accidental!
it's still a strategic move to get UBI into the mainstream :mafThis guy seemed sort of maybe ok until he started getting endorsements from literal nazis. :-[
So apparently he’ll be debating Ben Shapiro on circumcision. I don’t think Ben Shapiro is smart or anything, but I feel like there’s no way this won’t hurt Yang overall.You've absorbed way too much ResetERA.com Optics juice.
So apparently he’ll be debating Ben Shapiro on circumcision. I don’t think Ben Shapiro is smart or anything, but I feel like there’s no way this won’t hurt Yang overall.You've absorbed way too much ResetERA.com Optics juice.
Again, you're wringing your hands about the "optics" while talking about a guy who pollsters won't even ask about.
Lol then what’s the point of this thread?
Again, you're wringing your hands about the "optics" while talking about a guy who pollsters won't even ask about.
Lol then what’s the point of this thread?
https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1109064065966579712 (https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1109064065966579712)Synthesis ending sucked.
We should move to a ranked-choice/instant runoff voting system, a system that has recently been implemented in Maine and is being explored by many other localities.
In ranked choice voting, each voter ranks their top three candidates, from 1 to 3. After this is complete, every voter’s first choice is tallied. If one candidate received over 50% of the vote, they win the election. If no candidate hit the majority threshold, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. Then, everyone who listed that eliminated candidate as their first choice has their second choice considered. These second-choice votes are added to the totals for the remaining candidates. If a candidate at this point has received over 50% of the votes, then they win; otherwise, the process repeats itself until someone does receive a majority of votes.
Election experts almost universally agree that ranked-choice voting is superior to plurality voting. The benefits include:
Better capturing voter preferences. Since each voter is allowed to express how they feel about more candidates, the outcome tends to reflect the choices of voters better.
Allows for more moderate candidates. A candidate that has broad, cross-aisle appeal is more likely to win using a ranked-choice voting system since voters can express their preference for a more partisan candidate as well as the more moderate choice.
Lowers levels of negative campaigning. Since each voter can potentially vote for a candidate as well as their opponent, candidates shy from negative campaigning that would alienate the supporters of other candidates, instead trying to appeal to those voters as their second or third choice.
Joe Biden 74
26%
Bernie Sanders 50
18%
Kamala Harris 31
11%
Hillary Clinton 31
11%
Elizabeth Warren 15
5%
Beto O'Rourke 13
5%
Cory Booker 9
3%
Andrew Yang 5
2%
Pete Buttigieg 4
2%
Amy Klobuchar 3
1%
Julian Castro 3
1%
As President, I will…
Create a federal agency tasked with the distribution of 1,000 dogs per month to every American.
Implement a tennis ball tax credit.
Direct the Bureau of Land Management to set aside 50% of federal land for dog parks.
Encourage the introduction of the 28th Amendment: The Right to Bear Dogs.
Someone Else is creeping up on the field, don't count them outthe OPPO DROPPO will take care of them :punch
Suprised at the rise of Pete.
Morning Consult is setting a new standard for surveyyet they continue to refuse to report results for Andrew Yang, what are they hiding? follow the money
research.
On a daily basis, Morning Consult interviews over
5,000 registered voters across the United States.
Along with 2020 presidential election data, Political
Intelligence tracks the approval and electability for all
governors, senators, House members, the President,
and more at the national, state, and congressional
district level.
Each week, this report will use that data to deliver key
new insights on where voters stand.
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it's asian keanu
https://twitter.com/BiggerMacXXX/status/1113082302979018753I didn't know Pakman's audience was so stupid. That's some idiocy.
https://twitter.com/Jackson23562740/status/1113063024909201415
https://twitter.com/mib452/status/1113065253380608001
https://twitter.com/elvenzero/status/1113070858627702784
oh wait this guy asked one of my questions already:
https://twitter.com/skyhook86/status/1113070271529959425
oh shit, he just opwned the doors for a Yang/McAffee ticket:ohhh
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it's asian keanu
https://twitter.com/darrensands/status/1113474339440070657fake, no throng of reporters would be waiting for Julian Castro
I just saw this guy on Chris Hayes and his canned intro is really getting on my nerves. "Why do you want to be president?" "We're in the fourth inning of the third industrial revolution."
I just saw this guy on Chris Hayes and his canned intro is really getting on my nerves. "Why do you want to be president?" "We're in the fourth inning of the third industrial revolution."That doesn't matter it's all about the $1000. In fact every interview with this guy ends in: "So... am I getting this money?"
I just saw this guy on Chris Hayes and his canned intro is really getting on my nerves. "Why do you want to be president?" "We're in the fourth inning of the third industrial revolution."
Yikesers!
https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1114932915102728192
https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1115617457262166017they just ignoring the black dude speaking behind them smdh
Swalwell is a crypto fascist!
https://youtu.be/pyjK1wIvRVQ
a fair criticism, but they glossed over Yang also being pro Medicare For All. Free healthcare + keep your current welfare or opt in for UBI. It doesn't sound perfect, but a hell of a lot better than what we have now.
edit: they make a good point about vat taxes as well
I agree with that. The big problem I see is why does it have caveats for the people that actually need help the most?
not everyone on disability has large families or families at all. They lack a support mechanism which is why they need help in the first place. Yeah, it's great that in your scenario the kids receive the UBI, but why does the disabled parent have to give up their benefits to subsidise the UBI? They are being treated as second class that has to give something up for their freedom dividend, while the upper middle class and above get theirs no questions asked.
Also that Nevada poll on the previous page is pretty scary. Biden and Bernie better not be the top2 candidates for the democrats or they're going to fucking lose in 2020. Biden has waaaaay too much baggage and Bernie Sanders is old as shit.
everything I see from this guy seems like he's basically a smarter liberal Trump? He just makes up shit on the fly whenever people ask him things and promises everyone the moon and everything he says seems delusional and unrealistic, but because he's promising free money to everyone, all the kids love him and the internet is getting all behind.You could have at least provided some examples! I do think he has a propensity for ad libbing policies, but his ideas don't usually seem unrealistic to me. What I appreciate is that, for me, it's the opposite: there's someone who, apropos of nothing, regularly brings up small but reasonable ways to change American society for the better, if only we willed ourselves to do it. Ranked voting makes for better democracies. Our transit sucks. Filing taxes is immiserating! He underlines something that progressives have been complaining about for a long time, which is that America is slowly falling behind other countries.
I'm all for bringing basic income discussion into the mainstream and debates and things, but I hope when he doesn't win the primary it doesn't just disillusion all these internet/young kids and they become apathetic like with Bernie in 2016. Just feels like it's that same thing all over again. Bernie was also mostly unrealistic and just said things people wanted to hear without having a real plan to back it up. Trump also said things people wanted to hear. I don't like this era of politics where people running just say whatever they want without needing to stay realistic and people just eat it up.I don't remember Bernie saying anything unrealistic. I voted for Hillary in the 2016 primaries but I think Bernie's positions and policy proposals were pretty clear, even in implementation. By realistic, do you just mean likely to happen anytime soon? Because I get that complaint, but it kind of misses the point of public advocacy. As an activist you propose what you really believe in and try to move public opinion in that direction. Compromising your beliefs because of the political conditions of the moment stalls the conversation entirely. What you are trying to do as an activist is change what people think is even possible.
Also that Nevada poll on the previous page is pretty scary. Biden and Bernie better not be the top2 candidates for the democrats or they're going to fucking lose in 2020. Biden has waaaaay too much baggage and Bernie Sanders is old as shit.You better believe it, dude. I think you got it wrong earlier. We're not in the era of people getting suckered by politicians saying whatever people want to hear. Politics has always been about who people relate to and like the most, not policy differences. It explains why a lot of people can tell pollsters with a straight face that they're trying to decide between Biden and Bernie, two polar opposite candidates.
Fair point on specifics, I’ll have to fill some out.
I just remember reading his reddit AMA and it read like someone would ask: What will you do for Zelda fans and his answer would be like: Zelda is a national treasure and I will make Zelda the videogame representing our country and change the national flag to include the tri-force.
It was like every answer was making up some batshit insane thing that would fit UHF better than reality. I assumed he was just joking and trolling people but if some of his positions are trolls/jokes and some are real how can you even tell what his positions are?
Dude's polling at what, 1%? He is not getting nominated you guys.
there is a 5% margin of error in these polls. I'm cautiously optimistic, but it's way too early. One of the other candidates will pick up a lot of points once the race is consolidated. Biden might not even run and Harris will pick up most of his supporters.There are many polls, use the central limit theorem :ufup
https://youtu.be/pyjK1wIvRVQ
a fair criticism, but they glossed over Yang also being pro Medicare For All. Free healthcare + keep your current welfare or opt in for UBI. It doesn't sound perfect, but a hell of a lot better than what we have now.
edit: they make a good point about vat taxes as well
Kyle Kulinski is on the UBI train and points out that Andrew Yang is the only one talking about it, and it needs to be a main issue alongside Medicare for All, and why it isn't just a 'right' political talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7vgdq14WMo
finland - small, extremely wealthy nation(https://i.imgur.com/YVTzfNu.png)
united state of 'murica - large, wealthy nation
Young, sincere and raised on the edge of poverty, Sukhi Samra has a mother who worked two minimum-wage jobs when she was a kid — days at a gas station and nights at a Subway. Her father is disabled. She knows what an extra $500 a month would have bought her family.
“I spent a lot of 5th and 6th grade just, like, in those tables at Subway so that I could keep my mom some company and spend some time with her,” Samra said. “Five hundred a month would have meant that my mom spent a couple more hours at home with us every night.”
At 23, Samra is now head of the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration, a pilot program to test a universal basic income. For the next year and a half, 130 residents of this struggling Central Valley city will get $500 every month, with no strings — such as employment or sobriety requirements — attached, in a social experiment that is as much public relations as rigorous research.
there is a 5% margin of error in these polls.So he's really a -2% then. :teehee
Good point Shosta, that's something I haven't considered. That's another strike against Tripon's argument that impoverished families benefit from his Freedom Dividend if they have kids. That's not true if the kids only start receiving their $1,000 once they turn 18.
What if the adult child is already receiving SSI benefits or disability benefits on his or her own record?
An adult child already receiving SSI benefits or disability benefits on his or her own record should still check to see if benefits may be payable on a parent's earnings record. Higher benefits might be payable and entitlement to Medicare may be possible.
How do we decide if an adult "child" is disabled for SSDI benefits?
If a child is age 18 or older, we will evaluate his or her disability the same way we would evaluate the disability for any adult. We send the application to the Disability Determination Services in your state that completes the disability decision for us.
What happens if the adult child gets married?
If he or she receives benefits as an adult disabled since childhood, the benefits generally end if he or she gets married. However, some marriages (for example, to another adult disabled child) are considered protected.
That's what singlepayer is. There's a public insurance company everyone pays for and uses and then there are private insurance companies that offer cadillac plans. The very existence of public insurance drives private companies completely out of the market for many types of healthcare.
it's kind of weird how mad yang makes trent doleNazis suck :yeshrug
lol, that word filter Dog, not a good look
damn you guys are thicc
The recent circus surrounding Amazon’s HQ2 project should highlight how damaging the practice of allowing localities to ‘bid’ for investment from corporations can be to our country, and how important it is for us to find a solution to this problem.
You can’t blame the corporation for trying to save money, and you can’t blame the localities for trying to attract investment and new jobs. Because no one has an incentive to stop this practice, it continues unabated.
However, it amounts to up to $90b a year of tax breaks and cash grants. Since states and other localities can’t run a deficit or print money, these subsidies amount to money that could otherwise go to school, road repair, and other important functions. These incentives are meant to steal jobs and investment from other states, not from offshoring or to entice businesses to expand when they otherwise wouldn’t.
There’s also evidence that corporations start with an idea of where they want to move, and then use a public bidding war to get tax breaks from those locations. Considering Amazon’s business, DC and NY were likely locations for HQ2 even before they received 238 proposals from cities across the country.
This form of corporate welfare needs to stop, and only the federal government has an incentive to do so. We must end it by considering any financial benefit provided to a company to entice local investment, or relocation, to be special income that is taxed at 100%. General investment by a locality to be more business-friendly is fine, but no more bribing companies to do something they were already planning to do. The only ones who win are the companies.
so going into [redacted] was an act of career retribution
post your asvab scores :-[I accidentally submitted a practice test blank and it says I've qualified for a five year tour.
post your asvab scores :-[
https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1131901042759819265
Can we get some guerilla marketing up in this shit?!
isn't that illegalIt's all very cool, all very legal. Who's going to sue him?
It's all very cool, all very legal. Who's going to sue him?The FEC could prosecute?
The FEC going after the first asian american presidential candidate?It's all very cool, all very legal. Who's going to sue him?The FEC could prosecute?
CandidatesI only answered Yes or No rather than the more specific answers, in 2016 doing that that boosted Bernie up to like 55-60% with Gary Johnson around 80%
Here are the candidates ranked from most to least similar to your beliefs.
65% Andrew Yang
63% Beto O’Rourke
58% Cory Booker
58% Julian Castro
54% Kirsten Gillibrand
53% John Delaney
52% Tulsi Gabbard
49% Bernie Sanders
49% Pete Buttigieg
47% Amy Klobuchar
46% Elizabeth Warren
46% Kamala Harris
42% Donald Trump
40% Joe Biden
39% Marianne Williamson
So this website is totally a libertarian front group, right?yeah, it was at one time, not sure how much it's worked that out of its system as they added requested stuff
https://youtu.be/cFkzHK3I9-0
Can't wait to see what the Biden campaign think is "a popular, hip podcast in touch with the zeitgeist" when they'll want in on that train.
Can't wait to see what the Biden campaign think is "a popular, hip podcast in touch with the zeitgeist" when they'll want in on that train.
Does seniorforums.com have a podcast?
Seder is also very pro-Warren.
Sanders wants to keep the filibuster.
https://www.isidewith.com/elections/2020-presidential-quiz
Can't wait to see what the Biden campaign think is "a popular, hip podcast in touch with the zeitgeist" when they'll want in on that train.Joe Biden on Joe Rogan :lawd
Just curious, how much of your time does a post like that take?Just about as fast as I can type it. So about a minute I guess?
https://www.isidewith.com/elections/2020-presidential-quiz
Google says 174cm which is pretty average...
Google says 174cm which is pretty average...
Yang is 5’7, which is less than that...
Google says 174cm which is pretty average...
Yang is 5’7, which is less than that...
174 cm is roughly 5'7".
Wouldn't be the first time height is misreported or inflated though...
Google says 174cm which is pretty average...
Yang is 5’7, which is less than that...
174 cm is roughly 5'7".
Wouldn't be the first time height is misreported or inflated though...
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Google says 174cm which is pretty average...
Yang is 5’7, which is less than that...
174 cm is roughly 5'7".
Wouldn't be the first time height is misreported or inflated though...
:confused
Scaramucci is supposedly 5'8" (as per article) or 174cm (per Google suggestion) which translates to 5'7" according to the converter I used online.
Google says 174cm which is pretty average...
Yang is 5’7, which is less than that...
174 cm is roughly 5'7".
Wouldn't be the first time height is misreported or inflated though...
:confused
Scaramucci is supposedly 5'8" (as per article) or 174cm (per Google suggestion) which translates to 5'7" according to the converter I used online.
Did...you convert 174cm to inches, get 68.5, then divide 68.5 inches by 12, get 5.7...and then think that was 5'7....?
lol, if you Google Scaramucci height 5'9" is what comes up in big bold letters.Shapiro is like 5ft .9" :teehee
I think Shapiro lied about being 5'9" also :lol
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That's his point, get rid of the bureaucratic nightmare.
Fuck it, just do UBI. Blow up all these fucking programs and just give people a thousand a month. Trying to convince old people to sign up for programs they're eligible for is the god damn worst.
Fuck it, just do UBI. Blow up all these fucking programs and just give people a thousand a month. Trying to convince old people to sign up for programs they're eligible for is the god damn worst.
replace welfare and co. with Freedom Dollars™?
Another thing that may or may not happen : some form of inflation (rent, for instance) because of a sudden widening of the pool of people with some disposable income.
Also I would venture accession to citizenship in first world countries stiffening significantly. Imagine how strident the people currently admonishing "welfare queens" and immigrants coming over to "leech on social programs" will get if universal, guaranteed benefits become the norm. Especially in countries where citizenship is granted if born on national soil.
https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1185700279804514304
https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1185700279804514304
People still pretend they listen to Arthur Chu?spoiler (click to show/hide)For a year or two, I used Chu's face as a facebook avatar because I unfortunately look similar to him. It is my greatest shame.[close]
People still pretend they listen to Arthur Chu?Take a look at how much nonsense the guy tweets and retweets a day. :lol
Katie: We have to talk about the circumcision thing.
Andrew: OK. That’s cool.
Katie: We got to cut to the chase.
With regards to Yang. Our boi needs to step it up. But I'm losing confidence in his ability to stay in the spotlights.I was Yang Gang for a short while but he never got passed the launch phase of his campaign.
https://twitter.com/alexburnsNYT/status/1228114876222013443
Businessman and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang has filed paperwork to run for mayor of New York City, the city's Campaign Finance Board confirmed on Wednesday.
Yang's filing has the potential to immediately upend a race that was shaping up as a contest between long-entrenched city politicians. It comes just days after a new poll giving him a slight lead among his fellow Democrats running for mayor.
Andrew Yang is facing blowback after comments made during an LGBTQ+ mayoral forum that some are criticizing as out of touch and insensitive.
Yang was invited to appear Wednesday at the Stonewall Democrats of NYC, the city’s largest Democratic LGBTQ+ political club, for the group's endorsement screening — and told members he’s now getting his education on gay bars, citing Stonewall and the nearby Cubbyhole.
“Well, first, let me say that if I go to Cubbyhole, I think I'm going to be accompanied by at least one of my two campaign managers who are both gay,” the Hell’s Kitchen resident laughed. “So there's like a lot of, you know, familiarity with, with the community, at the head of my campaign leading it.”
Yang added that he asked one of his campaign managers and Council Member Carlos Menchaca, who endorsed Yang this week, whether the LGBTQ community liked him — a difficult question for any politician to ask of a group of people who do not vote as a monolith, said Rose Christ, president of SDNYC.
“He came across like he was a tourist in New York and said he wanted to visit a gay bar," she said.
“I genuinely do love you and your community," Yang told the club Wednesday night. "You're so human, and beautiful. You make New York City special. I have no idea how we ever lose to the Republicans, given that you all are frankly, in like leadership roles all over the Democratic Party. ... We have like this incredible secret weapon, it's not even secret. It's like, we should win everything because we have you all."
Yang’s campaign managers defended his comments.:supergay
“If other campaigns want to minimize the importance of visiting and supporting LGBTQ businesses, they’re welcome to do so. But gay bars are an essential part of our City and its history,” Sasha Ahuja and Chris Coffey, Yang’s co-campaign managers, said in a statement. “They are quite literally safe havens for our community, and keeping them here and open is critical. This is why Andrew has prioritized meeting with LGBTQ business owners who invited him in — because he understands that we need to protect and lift up those spaces if we want our recovery to be inclusive and meaningful.”
I'm surprised some goof like Don Jr or some other Trump affiliated idiot isn't running for something like this :dogeThey wanted to, but they've set their sights on Florida instead.