Tech billionaires are plotting sweeping, secret plans to boost Joe Biden

[RandySF]

Joe Biden has a problem. Silicon Valley billionaires think they have a solution.

Election Day is less than six months away, and Democrats are scrambling to patch the digital deficits of their presumptive nominee. And behind the scenes, Silicon Valley’s billionaire Democrats are spending tens of millions of dollars on their own sweeping plans to catch up to President Donald Trump’s lead on digital campaigning — plans that are poised to make them some of the country’s most influential people when it comes to shaping the November results.

These billionaires’ arsenals are funding everything from nerdy political science experiments to divisive partisan news sites to rivalrous attempts to overhaul the party’s beleaguered data file. They are pushing their favored, sometimes peculiar, fixes to a political ailment just like they might if on the board of a struggling startup.

This is all unfolding as the pandemic forces campaigns to pivot away from door-knocks and packed rallies and toward data mining and influencer marketing — which in many ways play to the strengths of these tech titans, making them even more influential at a time when many in the Democratic Party are uneasy with just how powerful some in tech have become.

Their investments matter all the more because of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee they inherited. Biden is rushing to hire more aides, create more engaging content, and build better ties with the Silicon Valley donors and talent that evaded him during the primary.



https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/5/27/21271157/tech-billionaires-joe-biden-reid-hoffman-laurene-powell-jobs-dustin-moskovitz-eric-schmidt

[mobeau69]

1. Whatever it takes. Take no prisoners.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. What do they expect in return - that's what I worried about nt

[RandySF]

4. When the zombies are coming

I don't question the motives of the person handing me the gun.

[Hekate]

10. What you said

[SallyHemmings]

19. Amen!

[Grokenstein]

7. You're lost at sea. Boat comes along and throws you a lifeline.

"Ehhhhhhhh, I dunno, you might be kinda sketchy? I'll wait for another boat."

[Cha]

18. lol.. But what will the Techies expect?!

[Doodley]

13. What do they expect in return? The end of Trump? Isn't that enough?

[Ron Green]

29. No, it's not enough.

We’ve been fooled into thinking the end of Trump, the return to “normal” and the preservation of the status quo are enough for all the people. It’s certainly enough for the tech billionaires (and that’s why they’re glad to pay for it), but it’s not enough for all the people.

[usaf-vet]

14. What do we all expect if Trump is reelected. THAT'S SHOULD WORRY US ALL!

[groundloop]

20. BINGO !!!!!!!!

[pnwmom]

21. The ones doing this probably hate Trump as much as we do. n/t

[Demsrule86]

22. I don't worry about that at all. I worry about Trump winning.

[betsuni]

25. They're Democrats. They want what Democrats want, otherwise they wouldn't be Democrats.

[Fiendish Thingy]

27. Tech execs aren't uniformly Democrats, many are Libertarians nt

[betsuni]

28. "And behind the scenes, Silicon Valley's billionaire Democrats are spending ten of millions ... ."

The article is about Democrats.

[badhair77]

3. I'd rather have them funding our side than trump's. Not liking owning them, however.

[Nay]

5. Well, they'll be playing catch-up, but at least they have finally recognized the problem. You

can't expect results unless you are out there on talk radio, TV, Twitter, Facebook, all that shit.

[lagomorph777]

11. We need to blitz Falsebook and Twit; I am on neither but seeing tons of false memes.

I have family members who absorb Putin's sewage without any thought.

[IronLionZion]

6. Trump might still hold big rallies

to really spread it around

[infullview]

8. Who are these mystery billionaires? I don't believe any of this.

So the biggies in the business are FB and twit. Both of these companies are deeply indebted to Russian venture, so I doubt that they are involved in this mystery plot. Even if they are in the tech business, that doesn't mean they can buy ads. If drumpf wants them gone off twit, he can snap his fingers and Dorsey and puke-face Zuckerberg will do his bidding because their Russian masters will force them to.

[Hekate]

12. Who are they? The article says: Democrats. I guess you don't know that Silicon Valley ...

...has a lot of big donors, and that Dems come a-courtin' there too.

You only know two names, and you think they're all the same.

[infullview]

26. these Dems may have money, but it's the people who control the media that have all the marbles.

[Demsrule86]

23. Did you ever here of a place called Silicon Valley? There are tech billionaires.

[DENVERPOPS]

24. The RepubliCONS

have the majority of U.S. Billionaires, not to speak of the billionaire oligarchs assisting them from Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, ETC ETC ETC

"I'll see your millionaire, and raise you ten billionaires".........

Even if this is true, I don't put much faith in Wealthy Dems, or even any national leadership from the Dems anymore....

BTW: Has anyone heard anything from "ANONYMOUS" for a while? What is up with them?

[Alex4Martinez]

9. Well I guess it's not a secret NOW!!!

Seriously, K and R and thanks for the good news.

This fucker is intolerable to anybody born with a brain.

[AlexSFCA]

15. RWNJ have radio, we have the internet.

[SargeXXX]

16. Orlando get LOTS of Trump TV ads aired every day. And full page ads in the Orlando Sentinel too.

[Cha]

17. Thank You Techies!