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https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/26/politics/dean-phillips-presidential-campaign-launch/index.html

OTOH I hate Biden, OTOH I hate amerikkka and him losing to trump would be extremely funny

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 years ago (4 children)

He later completed his Master of Business Administration at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management in 2000. After graduation, he was named the president and CEO of his family's organization, Phillips Distilling Company.

lol

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Another hard working millionaire lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

He's literally one of the wealthiest members of Congress with a net worth of like $80 million.

OTOH he unseated Erik Paulsen who was a snake, but OTOH he's a centrist DINO

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

🎶"Started from the bottom, now we're here."🎶

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

MBA's shouldnt.

That's a complete sentence I didn't forget anything.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

MBA's are worthless as an education, but they're even more worthless (for ghoulish jobs and stuff) when you don't get them from one of the prestigious universities. And this dude goes and gets one at the university of Minnesota.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (2 children)

According to FiveThirtyEight's congressional vote tracker at ABC News, Phillips voted with President Joe Biden's stated public policy positions 100% of the time

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

Meet the new lib / Same as the old lib

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

“I think President Biden has done a spectacular job for our country, but it’s not about the past. This is an election about the future. I will not sit still, I will not be quiet in the face of numbers that are so clearly saying that we’re going to be facing an emergency next November,” Phillips told CBS News in a clip posted online.

Literally the opening line of the piece. Dude is just a polls-guy. He looked at the polls and said "Biden stock is down! Sell, sell, sell!" And when the rest of the party didn't sell, he decided to put his money where his mouth was.

He's a member of House leadership, a party loyalist, and a bourgeois fuck, but he's got a pair of eyes and knows how to read the writing on the wall. Biden is going to underperform 2020 and has a very real opportunity to tank the rest of the ticket. Phillips probably couldn't explain why, except to say "Old is Bad. Doesn't poll well." But he can still see what the rest of the party is too blind or senile to accept.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He looks like the mental picture I have of the phrase "policy wonk."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

warren-snake-green is offended.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not crazy, right? That's just Clark Kentified Ron DeSantis.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

My first thought was "budget Ron DeSantis isn't real, he can't hurt you", but there he is.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

No, that's CEO Rachel Jake

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

He's running for president so clearly he's Solidus Brace

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My guess is he’s a corporate plant put in there with the intention of pushing Biden further right, or at least providing a justification for moving right.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

He's being primaried by a Biden defender for opposing renominating Biden and was pressured to resign as a co-chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee after intra-party criticisms. This campaign is probably just publicity attempt to get his name "out there" so he can crash land into another do-nothing grift. Total speculation, but who cares, the dude is a loser like all the rest of them.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Is that Kingpin's lawyer from the Daredevil TV show?

edit: holy shit, lmao it was just an offhand comment, but the guy is legit a doppelganger https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ff/78/51/ff7851bb986b65842c956a09d37cd1c4.jpg

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Lmao holy shit

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Wesley..."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Casting call for whitest boy

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's The Last Week Tonight guy right?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Yeah, not many people know this but if you're married to a war criminal for the empire they'll let you run even as a foreigner.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

American Starmer by the look of it

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

He looks like an overinflated Fox Mulder

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

If dems wanted to win they'd probably primary someone like Prtizker

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Looks like he could be brace-cowboy's brother

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

he's a russian psyop

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

david duchovny x justin trudeau's illegitimate large son

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

He's probably mad Biden isn't doing enough for Israel.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It's Office Jim!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It's the sus guy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Is this desantis in a shitty disguise?