Andrew Yang Dems only shot

Sounds like it might be over for Andrew Yang

DerekJohnson said:

HoustonHusky said:

Great...lets push the guy to the Left of Pocahontas but to the right of Sanders. That will work...

The guy is a moron...according to him (https://www.yang2020.com/meet-andrew/), automation has eliminated 3MM jobs (yet the unemployment rate is at historic lows) so the answer is give everyone free money. Its an unaffordable solution in search of a might-maybe problem decades upon decades out from now, but ok! And his solution to pay for this $2-$3 trillion a year in additional spending is to try and tax companies that automate...I'm sure that won't drive them out of the country which will really help the tax base...

God what a group of fucktards the left has to choose from when somebody thinks this guy makes the most sense. Howard Shultz may be the only sane Democrat left (a sad commentary on all), and look where that is getting him and the party...

I listened to him for over two hours. Yang is not a moron.

He's a pretty big moron if he believes anything he is actually saying...and apparently has trouble with math if he doesn't see how his UBI matches up with revenue generation. Best part about it is that he's also pushing it via a VAT, which is basically the most regressive way possible to raise revenues.

Goes with another favorite saying I have...just because somebody says something with a British accent it doesn't mean what they are saying is correct. Its amazing how people get influenced by how something is said over what is actually said.

This guy is extremely passionate and pretty eloquent, but he's a fucking moron when it comes to economics...he's crazy passionate about UBI to the point its a religion to him. He's convinced its the future, and every piece of data he sees validates it and any contrary data he sees he discounts, and what doesn't add up he make shit up to fill in (UBI will decrease prison population saving hundreds of billions, it won't impact people's desire to work, etc).

But its free shite so he'll fit in nicely in the primaries, and least until the Left realizes his program actually screws the poor more than any policy the left think Trump could ever propose in their nightmares would (his UBI factors in current benefits, so poor won't actually get much if any money, just everyone else will, and then those poor will suddenly be paying 10% higher on everything they spend money on via the VAT tax).

Don't think he'll make it far enough in the primaries for that to come out though, and if it does it will just evolve out to a bigger handout program...

ramenduck said:

DerekJohnson said:

HoustonHusky said:

Great...lets push the guy to the Left of Pocahontas but to the right of Sanders. That will work...

The guy is a moron...according to him (https://www.yang2020.com/meet-andrew/), automation has eliminated 3MM jobs (yet the unemployment rate is at historic lows) so the answer is give everyone free money. Its an unaffordable solution in search of a might-maybe problem decades upon decades out from now, but ok! And his solution to pay for this $2-$3 trillion a year in additional spending is to try and tax companies that automate...I'm sure that won't drive them out of the country which will really help the tax base...

God what a group of fucktards the left has to choose from when somebody thinks this guy makes the most sense. Howard Shultz may be the only sane Democrat left (a sad commentary on all), and look where that is getting him and the party...

I listened to him for over two hours. Yang is not a moron.

I listened to him on the JRE. He lost me early when he did the politician thing and said "you know, I met with a trucker named Terrance in Davenport, Iowa, and he said..." He did it a few more times. As a rule, I'm skeptical of all these town hall anecdotes.

Joe also never challenged him on how the economy would adjust upward for everyone's new $12,000 salary.

Listened to most of it as well...it’s a religion to the guy. Liked how contrary to all known information on the subject he went on a long monologue of how UBI will help low birth rates before Joe called him out on it.

Reminded me of the random crazy guy most people know who started taking some herbal supplement and can’t shut up telling you about all the serious problems they had before they started taking it, how it “fixed” everything wrong in their life, and how you just need to start taking it too...