Just yesterday he was saying they’re longtime friends and how dare people insinuate < obviously true things > about money corrupting democracy.
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"I'll take any motherf***er' money if he givin' it away."
Thank you for that. Great show.
I have to watch this show again. One of the best.
Yes! That's one of the best callbacks!
Well that 180 didn’t take long.
Something something spineless something…
He seems like someone whose values align with mine but he’s got zero chance. System rigged something something…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“How sad that perceptions so quickly triumph over truth in our decadent culture,” West said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“This holds in our major catastrophe in the Middle East where the rich humanity of Palestinians is rendered invisible.
The news comes after West received a $3,300 donation from the Republican megadonor in August, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
“As an independent candidate and a free Black man, I accept donations within the limits of no PACs or corporate interest groups that have strings attached,” West said in a Thursday post on X.
“Despite my deep political differences with brother Harlan Crow (who is an anti-Trump Republican), I’ve known him in a non-political setting for some years and I pray for his precious family,” West’s post continued.
The billionaire has been in the spotlight most recently for providing flights and gifts to Thomas, which were undisclosed until a ProPublica report made it public.
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Brother West does not, in my opinion, belong as the President.
I think he has many things to say in public life that are challenging and thought provoking, but most of what a president does is boring boring shit.
On another discussion I was following, a commenter mentioned that John Stewart would be a good president because he's able to speak truth to power and all that.
But why would John Stewart want that? Not that he wants to be that; I'm pretty sure he's given no indication of wanting to be president. Probably even the opposite, that he NEVER wants to be president. Because if he were president, there's no way he'd be able to say and do the things he does today. The power of the presidency may be mighty, but the office is also rather restricting. And like you said, filled with boring, boring shit. The holder of the office doesn't have the freedom to say and do whatever they want. Even Trump had to back-off or vacillate at times on things he initially said he'd do. Every president has. And it's not just because they're lying to get elected. Well, not always.
All they to say...I don't know much about Cornel West, but given the little I know, I agree with you. Not being the president surely isn't as powerful. But you get way more latitude and freedom to say and do what you want. And for someone as outspoken as West, it probably makes more sense this way.
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
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Too bad; he could have used it to pay his child support
This whole debacle is so dumb, If Harlan Crow was going to manipulate West it's not gonna be with the 3000 dollar public donation. We're keeping this energy for the horrible people who end up bankrolling Biden too right?
Youre right, it's not about the 3k. Its with the other hidden perks that come with a friendship with the billionares Crow. Clarence thomas got a free house for his mom, decades of 100k vacations, "tuition" for his grand nephew to be tortured in a "fix kids with jesus and abuse" camp, a 300k motorhome, a million dollar job for his wife as a consultant, and im sure there are more "perks" we dont know about.
The 3k isnt the problem. The problem is that Crow has deep, deep, deep resources, and is utterly opposed to the policies West represents, yet there is clearly money changing hands, and West is defending it and his "friendship" with Crow. Is the 3k all of it? It certainly not all Crow is willing to give to his useful "friends."