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RandySF

(69,856 posts)
Wed May 27, 2020, 03:33 PM May 2020

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

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

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Tech billionaires are plotting sweeping, secret plans to boost Joe Biden (Original Post) RandySF May 2020 OP
Whatever it takes. Take no prisoners. mobeau69 May 2020 #1
What do they expect in return - that's what I worried about nt Fiendish Thingy May 2020 #2
When the zombies are coming RandySF May 2020 #4
What you said Hekate May 2020 #10
Amen! SallyHemmings May 2020 #19
You're lost at sea. Boat comes along and throws you a lifeline. Grokenstein May 2020 #7
lol.. But what will the Techies expect?! Cha May 2020 #18
What do they expect in return? The end of Trump? Isn't that enough? Doodley May 2020 #13
No, it's not enough. Ron Green May 2020 #29
What do we all expect if Trump is reelected. THAT'S SHOULD WORRY US ALL! usaf-vet May 2020 #14
BINGO !!!!!!!! groundloop May 2020 #20
The ones doing this probably hate Trump as much as we do. n/t pnwmom May 2020 #21
I don't worry about that at all. I worry about Trump winning. Demsrule86 May 2020 #22
They're Democrats. They want what Democrats want, otherwise they wouldn't be Democrats. betsuni May 2020 #25
Tech execs aren't uniformly Democrats, many are Libertarians nt Fiendish Thingy May 2020 #27
"And behind the scenes, Silicon Valley's billionaire Democrats are spending ten of millions ... ." betsuni May 2020 #28
I'd rather have them funding our side than trump's. Not liking owning them, however. badhair77 May 2020 #3
Well, they'll be playing catch-up, but at least they have finally recognized the problem. You Nay May 2020 #5
We need to blitz Falsebook and Twit; I am on neither but seeing tons of false memes. lagomorph777 May 2020 #11
Trump might still hold big rallies IronLionZion May 2020 #6
Who are these mystery billionaires? I don't believe any of this. infullview May 2020 #8
Who are they? The article says: Democrats. I guess you don't know that Silicon Valley ... Hekate May 2020 #12
these Dems may have money, but it's the people who control the media that have all the marbles. infullview May 2020 #26
Did you ever here of a place called Silicon Valley? There are tech billionaires. Demsrule86 May 2020 #23
The RepubliCONS DENVERPOPS May 2020 #24
Well I guess it's not a secret NOW!!! Alex4Martinez May 2020 #9
RWNJ have radio, we have the internet. AlexSFCA May 2020 #15
Orlando get LOTS of Trump TV ads aired every day. And full page ads in the Orlando Sentinel too. SargeXXX May 2020 #16
Thank You Techies! Cha May 2020 #17

Grokenstein

(5,813 posts)
7. You're lost at sea. Boat comes along and throws you a lifeline.
Wed May 27, 2020, 04:39 PM
May 2020

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

Ron Green

(9,839 posts)
29. No, it's not enough.
Wed May 27, 2020, 10:20 PM
May 2020

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.

betsuni

(27,255 posts)
28. "And behind the scenes, Silicon Valley's billionaire Democrats are spending ten of millions ... ."
Wed May 27, 2020, 10:05 PM
May 2020

The article is about Democrats.

Nay

(12,051 posts)
5. Well, they'll be playing catch-up, but at least they have finally recognized the problem. You
Wed May 27, 2020, 04:08 PM
May 2020

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

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
11. We need to blitz Falsebook and Twit; I am on neither but seeing tons of false memes.
Wed May 27, 2020, 04:49 PM
May 2020

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

infullview

(1,038 posts)
8. Who are these mystery billionaires? I don't believe any of this.
Wed May 27, 2020, 04:43 PM
May 2020

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

(94,218 posts)
12. Who are they? The article says: Democrats. I guess you don't know that Silicon Valley ...
Wed May 27, 2020, 04:49 PM
May 2020

...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.

DENVERPOPS

(9,850 posts)
24. The RepubliCONS
Wed May 27, 2020, 06:43 PM
May 2020

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

(2,805 posts)
9. Well I guess it's not a secret NOW!!!
Wed May 27, 2020, 04:43 PM
May 2020


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

This fucker is intolerable to anybody born with a brain.
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