ANDREW YANG FOR PRESIDENT

Et *al.

The Breakfast Club. Look at the comments.

Joe Rohan. He blew up with this.

Nixon considered Universal Basic Income, and I think the Swiss are experimenting with it now.

Sorry Russian troll, we're not falling for this like we did for Jill Stein

Fox News — also blew up from this.

R5, he's a Dem. He's going to beat Cheeto. He has the gamers behind him.

His face is not presidential.

Campaign slogans:

HUMANITY FIRST (Cf. robots)

And

MATH

I'll vote for anyone who condemns anti-Jewish bigots. Otherwise, he's just another bigot enabling bigotry.

Alaskans get a monthly check. Oil and gas dividend.

If Yang wins, at least the White House cuisine will greatly improve.

The incels, nerds, gamers, and meme creators are over maga. They've moved on.

MATH!

So? You can't live on $1,000 a month unless you're in a slum so it won't help anyone.

You'd need at least $2,000/month minimum for it to help. And even then it wouldn't because every business would just jack up the prices and you'd be right back where you started.

Like in IL they are raising the minimum wage to $15/hour which won't happen for five years, and in five years, the increase will be negated by inflation anyway. End result inflation with no help for anyone.

Meme analysis.

Secure the bag, yo.

Ezra Klein recently.

It's blowing up. Look at the comments. 😲🤑👍🤣💰💵

😂😂😂😂😂

Vox explains.

R15, are you a Boomer? You don't get it.

It means we can play Fortnite and order pizza and Monster as much as we want.

Over Blumph.

Yang Gang!

Sam Harris's show.

Iowa.

Retail

Call centers

Food service

Trucking

All being automated. Like financial services and manufacturing. When people get angry, they vote red. UBI will ease the anxiety and stress.

His message seems to be resonating with a certain demographic

[quote]So? You can't live on $1,000 a month unless you're in a slum so it won't help anyone. You'd need at least $2,000/month minimum for it to help. And even then it wouldn't because every business would just jack up the prices and you'd be right back where you started.

There are many people who could use an extra $1,000 a month.

In Ontario, Canada it was somewhat successful (with their small group test) but "new mothers" and teenagers were the ones who worked "less" because of the money. The good news was that there was a drop in hospital visits from work related injuries, psychiatric visits from mental illness and more people managed to graduate from school.

In Finland they only did it with 2000 unemployed people. Out of that group of 2000 they found that it made people healthier and happier but no more likely to find work than their control group which was composed of 2000 unemployed people (that didn't get payments) they kept track of. They just finished the program and they said they'll release all of their data in 2020.

However, as you mentioned, if everyone is getting it then businesses being what they are would simply inflate prices to account for it and employers may realize that all of their employees are getting that extra grand a month and then you'll have a whole set of other problems.

The Joe rogan podcast with him is extremely interesting. I would highly suggest it for those who are serious about choosing a decent democratic nominee. The whole U.B.I. Is way more than just getting "free money", so ignore trolls like r5 and beyond. It's not a be all end all solution or instant fix,and he acknowledges that.

I feel like universal basic income needs to be paired with mandatory military service. The US needs a boost in civic participation. People always want something without sacrifice.

I agree r30.

Yeah, he's got a great chance. Where are all these nut cases coming from?

[quote]I feel like universal basic income needs to be paired with mandatory military service.

National service for everyone, two years of giving back, whether it be military, hospitals, veterans, forestry, firefighting, elderly, disabled (mentally/physically), shelters/half-way homes (homeless/women's/men's/ex-crims), immigrants (especially for those who speak a second, third language), shut-ins, tutoring, etc. etc. etc. Doing good for your country and that warm/fuzzy feeling of performing good deeds for others.

How many Democratic candidates does this make now?

Yangman Style

R32, can you explain why he's a "nutcase"? We'll be waiting.

The Dems socialist leaning is going to blow up in their faces. No one, outside of far left liberals is going to vote for a socialist agenda. It's a loser, and disturbing to hear.

[quote]National service for everyone, two years of giving back,

Fine, as long as I don't have to be around people while I'm doing it.

[quote]that warm/fuzzy feeling of performing good deeds for others.

Puke.

[quote]When people get angry, they vote red.

No.

Red=Big business.

When big business take away peoples' retail, call center, food service, and trucking jobs in the name of big profit, people don't vote for big business.

R37, he's not a socialist.

R15: So never raise the minimum wage and let people toil in poverty? That's not an answer, babe.

R40 Mayor Pete has mentioned that throwing all these meaningless labels at each other are confusing and harmful to candidates with real ideas worth listening to. I don't see Yang as Predental but I applaud his willingness to think outside the box.

I heard about him and his platform for UBI months ago and completely dismissed him. It only took listening to him for a short while recently to get me on his side. His messaging is perfect and will appeal to Democrats, and yes, even conservatives. He knows exactly how to get his message across in ways I haven't seen from any politician before. With math!

R43: Alright, then President Warren or Buttigieg can appoint him Secretary of the Treasury and he can work to write the legislation to enact this. Win-win for all.

I'm rooting for Pete or Andrew right now. Pete seems like the kind of guy who can look at Andrew's proposals, see the benefit in them, and take them on as his own. If Pete were to get the nomination, I think he should immediately adopt Andrew's platform.

Glad he and Mayor Pete are blowing up.

Change your life. John McAfee.

👍👍👍👍💰💰💰💰

Just more 4chan fuckery, the intent of which is force mainstream Dems so far left that Mafia Don is guaranteed a second term.

Don’t fall for it!

R39, those processes were well underway in 2016, and just look at whom the red staters chose as President.

R50, he's not far left. Alaskans have a monthly dividend check because of a GOP governor. He's not left or right. He's forward. You haven't even listened to him.

... and to the 3 incel freaks who have posted about 2/3 of the comments on this thread, don’t even bother - you’ve been blocked.

Sadly r54, most people aren't going to take time and listen to what Yang has to really say. They'd rather just gobble up the bullshit fed to them by the competing MSM giants (i.e. CNN and Fox) who are only interested in making $$$$$$.

He'll be able to convert people in just one debate or interview. More in another. Then so on and so on. His messaging is pitch perfect. He's not even a real politician yet he's hitting all the right notes and sounds authentic. He also explains exactly why Trump won the swing states. Hint: it wasn't racism or sexism, something many Democrats would have figured out by now if they bothered listening to anybody besides themselves.

Wouldn't that cause corporations like Amazon to raise prices if they had to pay taxes to supplement the $1000/month Universal Basic Income?

[quote]If Fascist Won’t Enforce American Law, Americans Will

Fixed.

R57, excellent question. UBI doesn't have to cause inflation.

For R57.

Eliminate minimum wage, unemployment benefits, disability benefits, welfare, etc. and replace all of this with a Universal Basic Income of $XXX (pick a number). The Universal Basic Income needs to be tied to cost of living. Areas with higher costs of living receive higher Universal Basic Income. Institute a national sales tax to pay for all of this. By the way, Universal Basic Income is meant to supplement--not replace--regular income. People who don't work at some job won't be eligible to receive the monthly check (under this plan).

R61,

I like your moxy. However, I'd argue that having no minimum wage will lead employers to believe that they can pay [italic]anything[/italic] for a job due to your UBI plan which will lead to more issues.

Will children also receive a UBI? Welfare accounts for people with children.

Disabled people are limited in the jobs that they can do. If they're severely disabled then they can't work at all which means they wouldn't be getting your UBI plan or disability.

Unemployment benefits are meant to be used between jobs based upon the income you had during a certain period of time at you job. So you're saying someone who isn't employed won't receive your UBI plan but they also wouldn't be getting unemployment benefits if they're not working?

It's not really universal basic income if it's not [italic]universal.[/italic] By eliminating minimum wage, UC, disability, welfare, etc. you'd also then need to compensate for all of those grey areas. Also, I'm referring to people who use the systems like welfare and disability correctly/legally.

[quote]People who don't work at some job won't be eligible to receive the monthly check (under this plan).

That's odd -- it could help those who lose their jobs to automation/immigration

His type of policies could be implemented in a very small country. The USA is far too big to do anything like he wants. He'll never get enough people in Fed. government/Congress to go along with this lunacy. The young folks are all for this because too many of them think the government owes them a living just for existing. I'm a liberal democrat from the word go, but that's just ridiculous. If you're young and you want to be paid, get up, get dressed, go to work somewhere. Nobody owes you anything unless you work for it.

This would be for every adult 18-64 regardless if they were working or not.

MSNBC refuses to even show his face among the candidates. 20-ish others when they show the lineup of faces.

The media will crush him by in ignoring him. Memes can't overturn the media.

You're kind of right r66, I've only seen him shown in one picture of all the candidates. I don't remember what station it was though. He's still got a chance though to get "noticed".

He has more donors than Buttigieg.

PBS shows his face because it's a non-profit organization.

Life with YangBux

Too true

I think it's for life . $1000 On top of social security.

Finally a reasonable primary thread besides the 4 Beto threads by those Beto fanatics. They even took over the primary thread. Beto is nothing but empty words and a good looking face

I think his Freedom Dividend is an idea worth discussing. We all know the huge tech companies are making billions, driving small stores out of business, and causing huge lob losses. The heads of these companies aren't just the 1%; they're a fraction of the top 1%.

Here's an article from today on CNBC.

The college admissions scandal isn't great optics for a guy who made name in business running a test prep center.

Unless his company is found to have done the same thing, I don't think it's going to matter.

Rick Scott is a senator after bilking Medicare of millions.

Jordan Peterson, a Canadian psychologist and professor, states that income inequality drives crime and violence based on empirical evidence. This explains why America is more violent than other First World countries. Most First World countries have universal health care or social safety nets to buffer the income inequality.

Jordan Peterson is a right-wing cultural conservative pseudointellectual hack. Incels and other MAGAts adore him.

Military service is more of an expense than it is beneficial.

R79, Andrew Yang says something similar with stats to back it up and he's running as a Democrat.

At 5:34, Yang said that the underdog is the mainstream America worker shoved to the side and no one is confronting their problems honestly.

[quote] the underdog is the mainstream America worker shoved to the side

Jews are bullies

Andrew Yang is the new Lyndon LaRouche.

R79, smart people are tired of this mantra. Jordan Peterson is far from right wing, but keep believing the bullshit you've been fed. Just because someone may have some slightly different views from you does NOT mean they're right wing. You're part of the problem.

And you're a cunt too r79.

This is currently the banner story on Yahoo. The comments are what I expected since it's Yahoo.

Thanks r87. He's right about GDP.

R59 R60 Thanks

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He's the only candidate that's really talking (in depth) about the economic disaster automation has already begun to cause.

And he's also the only Democratic that's pointed out that Trump won in swing districts that lost jobs to automation in the mid west. Why did it take this long for someone to point it out? Instead, we just get constant talk of nazis being the reason why he won.

Anybody but Plump!

R75, there's nothing wrong with college prep centers, Kaplan and Princeton Review help many people.

The New Yorker did an article in the 90s about the SATs. At that point (maybe 1995), when the Ivies were trying to deal with the tsunami of Asians battering on the doors of their universities, the new Yorker reminded us that the SATs were devised when Jews were doing the same thing in the 40s and 50s.

The colleges' view was that they found themselves dealing with ambitious people who educated themselves beyond their intelligence, and they wanted to make sure they got truly smart, rather than socially ruthless admits. The Jews countered this new test with prep centers such as Kaplan, services the Asians use today.

In the 90s, the colleges countered the Asians and the prep services with requirements above and beyond SATs, ACTs and APs -- now kids have to join a myriad of after school activities and perform as volunteers for "worthy" causes. In 2000, I served as an alumni interviewer and was gobsmacked by all the activities my candidate presented. In the 70s, I hadn't joined a single thing and that didn't make any difference. Again, the colleges say they are not interested in those educated above their intelligence, but fear all Asian freshman classes.

Very attractive campaign manager.

Nice

R96 he looks like Richard Spencer.

Check out his policy proposals on his website.

Go Asian!

There are so many things the US needs to do, student debt, infrastructure, health care, balancing the budget and begin paying down the debt, cleaning up the environment, just handing out $1000 a month to everyone would be such a waste of money. Much of it would be spent on things made in China, not the US.

Those wanting to tie a UBI to some sort of mandatory service have never had to deal with people who don't want to work. The military doesn't even want a draft because they don't want to have to deal with people who don't want to be there, they are just a waste who need constant supervision.

Community service organizations would quickly feel the same, having a bunch of people who really don't want to be there or provide any worthwhile service are just a drain on the system and drive away people who really are interested in volunteering.

Andrew should steal Bernie's rhetoric where he scolds "corporate millionaires and billionaires" to make his idea for UBI an easier sell.

Tucker Carlson destroys Amazon & Jeff Bezos' business "practices".

Is he the uncircumcision guy we read about here last week?

The very one, r105.

No military aid to Israel? Don't tell Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi that!

How did we get to 105 posts before his uncircumcision stand was mentioned again, I wonder.

I liked him until he talked about circumcision. Fatal tactical error.

He seems okay from what I've seen, but I'm inherently distrustful of anyone the 4chan shitlord pseudo-libertarian sector supports. And anyway I find it hard to imagine him getting the nomination.

Hillary's loss makes perfect sense after hearing this man speak.

He was self conscience about his dick size, could becoming president be a form of Napoleon complex?

Yang is not getting a lot of exposure from the mainstream media because he’s not a Corporate Democrat. He doesn’t serve the needs of corporations. He’s more focused on helping the working class eliminate poverty. It’s the unrest of the working class which is causing the division between the Left and the Right. He’s trying to eliminate income discrepancy in order to alleviate violence.

It was the same with Sanders in 2016 but then he became too big that they had to talk about him. Despite that they did consider him a joke throughout the whole 2016 primary process.

Another East Coast elite. Sigh.

$2,520,000,000,000 a year, every year. Sounds legit.

R30

That's easy for you to say. Your'e on DL. You're well over the military age limit.

r115 far from it. And yet you r115 probably rooting for establishment picks Beto, Pete, and Kamala.

His campaign manager is very cute.

R118, we are rooting for anyone who can beat Trump. He ain't it.

I like UBC. It is easily managed if it is elective and not mandatory. Most Americans will refuse it and take the tax benefit.

[quote]Democratic candidate. Wants every citizen 18 and up to get $1000 a month

Yes please !!!!

I love Andrew Yang. He's very smart on the issues including his rational argument against mutilating males.