2020-02-04 BILLIONAIRE PRO-ISRAEL BUTTIGIEG BACKER SETH KLARMAN FUNDS GROUP BEHIND IOWA’S DISASTROUS VOTING APP
The delay in reporting is the result of a failed app developed by a company appropriately named Shadow Inc.
This firm was staffed by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaign veterans and created by a Democratic dark money nonprofit backed by hedge-fund billionaires including Seth Klarman. A prolific funder of pro-settler Israel lobby organizations, Klarman has also contributed directly to Pete Buttigieg’s campaign.
The delay in the vote reporting denied a victory speech to Senator Bernie Sanders, the presumptive winner of the opening contest in the Democratic presidential primary. Though not one exit poll indicated that Buttigieg would have won, the South Bend, Indiana mayor took to Twitter to confidently proclaim himself the victor
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2020-02-03 HOW HUGE MEDIA HYPE ABOUT PETE BUTTIGIEG OBSCURED THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HIS DEEP-POCKETED BACKERS
Buttigieg has remained silent about what made the ascent of his campaign possible—the early, major and continuing support from extremely rich people enmeshed with powerful and destructive corporate interests—enabling the Pete for America campaign to get off the ground and gain altitude. Buttigieg’s rise was propelled by the rocket fuel of funding from—and bonding with—wealthy corporate operators, who bundled big checks from other donors and provided an establishment seal of approval that resonated with mainstream media.
The deft spin from the Buttigieg apparatus and the huge media hype about him have obscured the significance of his deep-pocketed backers. Key information about those ties has rarely gotten into the mass-media echo chamber. Yet, occasional reports have offered a window into the big-money support for Buttigieg that he is eager to leave unmentioned.
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2020-02-03 THE CREATION MYTH OF THE BUTTIGIEG CAMPAIGN
This weekend, Pete Buttigieg told supporters that he became a viable candidate for president “on the strength of our vision” and “the urgency of our convictions.” And Buttigieg offered reassurance to those concerned about big money in politics, saying: “What we built in 2019 we were able to put together without any contributions from federal lobbyists, or from fossil-fuel executives, and not one dollar from corporate PACs.” But, as Aldous Huxley wrote in the introduction to his classic novel of dystopian technocracy, Brave New World, “the greatest triumphs of propaganda” are accomplished by maintaining “silence about truth.”
Buttigieg may have started his presidential campaign a year ago “with a few volunteers” and “zero dollars in the bank” — but it wasn’t long before plenty of millionaires and billionaires flocked to back him with their own money and piles of checks from wealthy associates.
2020-02-03 The Creation Myth of the Buttigieg Campaign
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2020-02-03 THE CREATION MYTH OF THE BUTTIGIEG CAMPAIGN
Buttigieg may have started his presidential campaign a year ago “with a few volunteers” and “zero dollars in the bank” — but it wasn’t long before plenty of millionaires and billionaires flocked to back him with their own money and piles of checks from wealthy associates.
2020-02-03 The Creation Myth of the Buttigieg Campaign
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2020-01-02 WHY JOE BIDEN AND PETE BUTTIGIEG CAN’T BE TRUSTED
Watch Buttigieg long enough and you notice that he uses abstraction as an escape hatch.” Evasive platitudes are also routine for Joe Biden, the other major Democratic presidential candidate running in what mainstream journalists call “the center lane.”
They’re incapable of giving a coherent and truthful account of power in the United States because they’re beholden to corporate-aligned donors. Those donors want to hear doubletalk that protects their interests, not clear talk that could threaten them.
“Forty billionaires and their spouses have donated to Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign, according to an analysis of federal election filings, making the South Bend, Indiana mayor a favorite among America’s richest people,” Forbes reported last month.
2020-01-02 Why Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg can’t be trusted
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2019-12-18 THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS A RACE PROBLEM IN THE 2020 ELECTION
Kamala Harris’ departure from the 2020 election drew cheers from many on the left who had associated the California senator with the most heinous policies of the mass Black incarceration state. Harris’ campaign was stocked full of billionaire donors in the earliest stages of the election. Kamala Harris was at one time the darling of the elite and an odds-on favorite to win the hearts and minds of Black American voters.
More and more people are realizing that diversity does nothing to fundamentally change the white supremacist character of the Democratic Party. Thus, the Democratic Party’s race problem extends beyond Harris’ failure. The 2020 election cycle is an anti-Black political affair. Wall Street’s new favorite candidate Pete Buttigieg is polling at 0 percent approval with Black voters and for good reason. Buttigieg has time and time again shown his disdain for Black America, whether by telling a Black woman in South Bend he didn’t need her vote when she questioned him on his support for racist policing or by faking Black political support in South Carolina . Joe Biden is the co-author of nearly every piece of legislation behind the mass Black incarceration state, including the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act and the 1994 Crime Bill .
The Democratic Party is principally responsible for the crisis, which culminated in the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential election. Bernie Sanders’ meteoric rise in popularity was predicated upon his willingness to challenge the American exceptionalist ethos that presumed neoliberal capitalism to be the most effective means of economic governance worldwide. Democratic Party elites have fiercely defended the racist logic of neoliberal capitalism and have made life more insufferable for key sections of its captive base in the process. Democratic administrations are just as much to blame for the end of welfare, the near end of public education, and the rise of mass Black incarceration as their Republican counterparts. Since as far back as the 1960s, the Democratic Party has operated as the most effective branch of the War Party by finding more covert, yet no less bloody, methods from which to devastate and annihilate humanity. Black Americans and other oppressed people owe nothing to the Democratic Party. The ruling class’ duopoly system won’t let up its white supremacist and imperialist grip on power unless met by the organized wrath of the people.
2019-12-18 The Democratic Party Has a Race Problem in the 2020 Election
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2019-11-13 JUSTICE DEMOCRATS ACCUSES BUTTIGIEG OF ABANDONING MEDICARE FOR ALL AFTER TAKING ‘TONS OF CASH’ FROM CORPORATE INTERESTS
According to a Business Insider analysis published in August, Buttigieg—who is now running on a public option plan called “Medicare for All Who Want It”—has received more campaign cash from the healthcare industry than any other 2020 presidential candidate aside from President Donald Trump.
Shahid suggested Tuesday that industry cash played a role in Buttigieg’s decision to ditch Medicare for All and go on the attack against the popular proposal in campaign ads and the presidential debates.
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2019-08-07 FREEDOM RIDER: WHO’S A WHITE SUPREMACIST?
Americans have an openly racist president, racist foreign policy, racist law enforcement and racist corporate media. The heirs of the slave patrols promise not to give up their guns and politicians either agree with them or cower in fear of the well organized lobby.
American domestic and foreign policies were moving closer and closer to a definition of fascism before Trump ran for office. The United States threatens the world with nuclear annihilation, kills thousands with sanctions, and covers the world with military bases. At home the mass incarceration state created the largest prison system in the world. The surveillance state steadily diminishes civil liberties and human rights. Fascism is nothing new in this nation.
Buttigieg proves that much of the hand wringing about violence is phony. The same people who may shake their fist at the National Rifle Association, or call Trump the dreaded F- word will shrug their shoulders or openly support killing if it is carried out by someone wearing a U.S. military uniform. Those who steadfastly oppose American imperialism and all of its violence are few and far between. At the same time, racism is at the heart of domestic violence. A settler colonial state depended upon gun carrying white people to uphold the social order. The militias referred to in the second amendment were slave patrols needed to enforce the peculiar institution. Those militias continue in the modern day police force and in the minds of millions of people.
Speaking of the police, all the talk of hate crime is a reminder that they commit more of it than anyone else does. Every day one black person and two others of different races will be killed by the police. Yet the term hate crime is rarely applied to the people who kill at will and with complete impunity.
White supremacy is foundational to the United States. Rooting it out requires more self-awareness than this country is currently able to muster.
2019-08-07 Freedom Rider: Who’s a White Supremacist?
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2019-06-26 2020 DEMOCRATIC PARTY DEBATES ENCIRCLE SANDERS WITH WALL STREET’S POLITICAL DOGS
Bernie Sanders was placed on the debate with Wall Street’s three favorite candidates: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Pete Buttigieg. Far from a randomized selection process, the debates show that the ruling class is encircling Sanders with its political dogs with the hopes that the trio can collectively weaken his chances for the nomination.
2019-06-26 2020 Democratic Party Debates Encircle Sanders with Wall Street’s Political Dogs
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