Hey buddy, can you spare $100?
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wrote on 11 Nov 2024, 21:26 last edited by
Oddly enough, I received one of those.The subject line was “Please Let Us Explain”
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wrote on 11 Nov 2024, 21:39 last edited by
It is interesting how long it takes CA to count votes.
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wrote on 11 Nov 2024, 23:13 last edited by
How would you like to be the jamoke who donated $50 to the Harris campaign only to learn that she paid Oprah, Oprah, a cool million for a "town hall?"
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wrote on 11 Nov 2024, 23:30 last edited by
Oprah denies she got paid.
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wrote on 11 Nov 2024, 23:38 last edited by
In other words, she received nothing directly, but did not deploy her production company for free.
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wrote on 12 Nov 2024, 00:02 last edited by
Kamala-lama-ding-dong could have gone on Rogan for free. Instead, she spent six figures on a podcast set (in a hotel room)...
BTW, Harpo Productions got $1M.
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wrote on 12 Nov 2024, 02:22 last edited by jon-nyc 11 Dec 2024, 02:23
@Horace said in Hey buddy, can you spare $100?:
It is interesting how long it takes CA to count votes.
Surely they’re figuring out how many votes they need to invent for Kamala to be president. I mean, that’s the reason there are delays in blue cities, right? I learned that here. From you, as well as others.
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wrote on 12 Nov 2024, 02:24 last edited by
Nah. They know that's a lost cause.
They're rigging House races.
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wrote on 12 Nov 2024, 02:27 last edited by
So they’ve inserted themselves in the process to rig ballots, but skipping the important races.
Alrighty.
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@Horace said in Hey buddy, can you spare $100?:
It is interesting how long it takes CA to count votes.
Surely they’re figuring out how many votes they need to invent for Kamala to be president. I mean, that’s the reason there are delays in blue cities, right? I learned that here. From you, as well as others.
wrote on 12 Nov 2024, 02:35 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Hey buddy, can you spare $100?:
@Horace said in Hey buddy, can you spare $100?:
It is interesting how long it takes CA to count votes.
Surely they’re figuring out how many votes they need to invent for Kamala to be president. I mean, that’s the reason there are delays in blue cities, right? I learned that here. From you, as well as others.
I think I made a math joke when someone asked how many votes they'd find, and I said (Trump Votes) - (Kamala Votes) + 1. It was pretty hilarious, but nobody lol'ed. Other than that, I've been very consistently on the side of those who think there was no meaningful election fraud in 2020. But the more I've looked into no-ID states, the more I realize beyond any doubt, that abuse of that system is non-zero. But as you say, it doesn't easily scale.
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wrote on 12 Nov 2024, 13:09 last edited by
Fair enough yours was a joke.
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Kamala-lama-ding-dong could have gone on Rogan for free. Instead, she spent six figures on a podcast set (in a hotel room)...
BTW, Harpo Productions got $1M.
wrote on 15 Nov 2024, 19:51 last edited by@Jolly said in Hey buddy, can you spare $100?:
BTW, Harpo Productions got $1M.
The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board has questions
Appearances alongside the likes of mega-celebrities like Beyoncé and Bruce Springsteen did not work out well for Kamala Harris, as endorsements from the superrich were not necessarily helpful in an election where polls had said from the start that voters were primarily worried about their own economic fortunes.
Now, as part of the ongoing Democratic postmortem, eyebrows are being raised over how much money the Harris campaign appeared to shuffle to Hollywood as part of its eye-popping $1 billion campaign spend, some of which was raised from ordinary Democrats without a lot to spare. Part of the problem with celebrities is that they tend to come with entourages or, to put that in a more friendly way, “production needs.” Having someone with a large following simply stand next to a candidate at a podium and say a few words, solo, is one thing; doing a whole livestreamed event with, say, Oprah Winfrey, is another.
Winfrey this week found herself having to deny that the campaign had paid her a “personal fee” of $1 million following some media scrutiny of the public accounting of campaign expenses, saying instead that the money went to her Harpo Productions, once famously headquartered in Chicago’s West Loop and now based in West Hollywood. Winfrey did a town hall meeting, or, depending on your point of view, a starry infomercial, with Harris that included virtual appearances by such A-listers as Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Bryan Cranston and Jennifer Lopez. Campaign reports indicate the Harris campaign paid Harpo $1 million to handle the event. In total, those campaign reports indicate, the Harris campaign spent more than $15 million on “production fees.”
It’s true that production workers need to be paid and that’s fair enough; they’re not donors. And, frankly, $1 million is not all that much to Winfrey and so we very much doubt that she was seeking any kind of personal payday from her chosen candidate. But she does own Harpo and serves as its chairwoman and CEO. The production fees should have been a campaign donation.
Better yet, rather than do such events, the Harris campaign would have been better advised to let its candidate answer questions from independent journalists and give her more of a chance to explain herself and lay out her plans for America’s future. Celebrity osmosis did not work; voters wanted to hear more about what Harris would do for them.
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@Jolly said in Hey buddy, can you spare $100?:
BTW, Harpo Productions got $1M.
The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board has questions
Appearances alongside the likes of mega-celebrities like Beyoncé and Bruce Springsteen did not work out well for Kamala Harris, as endorsements from the superrich were not necessarily helpful in an election where polls had said from the start that voters were primarily worried about their own economic fortunes.
Now, as part of the ongoing Democratic postmortem, eyebrows are being raised over how much money the Harris campaign appeared to shuffle to Hollywood as part of its eye-popping $1 billion campaign spend, some of which was raised from ordinary Democrats without a lot to spare. Part of the problem with celebrities is that they tend to come with entourages or, to put that in a more friendly way, “production needs.” Having someone with a large following simply stand next to a candidate at a podium and say a few words, solo, is one thing; doing a whole livestreamed event with, say, Oprah Winfrey, is another.
Winfrey this week found herself having to deny that the campaign had paid her a “personal fee” of $1 million following some media scrutiny of the public accounting of campaign expenses, saying instead that the money went to her Harpo Productions, once famously headquartered in Chicago’s West Loop and now based in West Hollywood. Winfrey did a town hall meeting, or, depending on your point of view, a starry infomercial, with Harris that included virtual appearances by such A-listers as Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Bryan Cranston and Jennifer Lopez. Campaign reports indicate the Harris campaign paid Harpo $1 million to handle the event. In total, those campaign reports indicate, the Harris campaign spent more than $15 million on “production fees.”
It’s true that production workers need to be paid and that’s fair enough; they’re not donors. And, frankly, $1 million is not all that much to Winfrey and so we very much doubt that she was seeking any kind of personal payday from her chosen candidate. But she does own Harpo and serves as its chairwoman and CEO. The production fees should have been a campaign donation.
Better yet, rather than do such events, the Harris campaign would have been better advised to let its candidate answer questions from independent journalists and give her more of a chance to explain herself and lay out her plans for America’s future. Celebrity osmosis did not work; voters wanted to hear more about what Harris would do for them.
wrote on 15 Nov 2024, 22:47 last edited by@George-K said in Hey buddy, can you spare $100?:
The production fees should have been a campaign donation.
Umm, that would have been an illegal campaign donation.
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wrote on 17 Nov 2024, 23:47 last edited by
Time to retract the $1MM claim.
