I can’t imagine that happening. It seems wildly improbable.
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As he already mentioned, he’s in CA. Voting 3rd party in CA is signaling that one understands the election system. I hardly think it shows not caring- I’d say the opposite, as you have to actually care to find out anything below the top two parties.
That can be in the $10B level easily if you earn it in a non flashy way.
Recognize this guy?
https://imgix.ranker.com/node_img/41/808848/original/dangote-all-people-photo-1?w=650&q=60&fm=pjpg&fit=crop&crop=faces"
Tripartisan consensus.
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I’ve never seen someone get Twitter ratio’d by a poll before…
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That seems like a big assumption; personally, I know of people who would vote 3rd party without knowing anything substantial about the candidate, especially if that person were rich or famous.
Hell, there was even a relevant comedy in the early 90’s, about how some people will just blindly vote for a recognizable name without even bothering to check the candidate’s policies (or if that person is even still alive);
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Same here, see my recent post on another BB thread:
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Weird how a fake centrist posing as a progressive while loudly trashing Democrats and making “billionaire rights” his platform would unite everyone in common loathing… 
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Hey, every oppressed minority needs a voice. Won’t someone please think of the poor rich white men?!?!
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Oh, I loved that movie…
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Yeah right! That is like asking someone to boycott their coke dealer.
Why is American politics so dysfunctional? Whatever the deeper roots of our distress, the proximate cause is ideological extremism: Powerful factions are committed to false views of the world, regardless of the evidence.
Notice that I said factions, plural. There’s no question that the most disruptive, dangerous extremists are on the right. But there’s another faction whose obsessions and refusal to face reality have also done a great deal of harm.
But I’m not talking about the left. Radical leftists are virtually nonexistent in American politics; can you think of any prominent figure who wants us to move to the left of, say, Denmark? No, I’m talking about fanatical centrists…
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/opinion/howard-schultz-president.html
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Until I clicked on the article I thought you might be talking about one of the Sacklers. TIL that it’s Sackler, as in Sackler*.
(*Not to excuse how they and their company have behaved – I meant that, reading the news today, the “Sackler” connection occurred to me)
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Speaking of Mr. Buffett,
many of you must remember
the Gates/Buffett interview
some years ago. possibly on PBS?
(Maybe accessible via YouTube now).
Buffett’s most memorable remark was
explaining how he paid a higher rate in taxes
than his secretary…
…and that having personal wealth
accumulation was never his goal, he just
enjoys “playing games with the numbers”.
He likes the challenge and actual wealth
happened to be a by-product.
Mr.Gates had a similar drive, but different
motivations.
Thankfully both are inclined to put
some/most of their wealth to work
for the good of humanity.
Too bad they are the exceptions.
Can you imagine the difference the Top 1%
could make in our country
if they followed the same example!?
Ooops, I forgot…there are those folks
who have no alliegence to our country because
The World is Their Oyster"
and they’re boarding ALL the pearls.
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In the sink, I hope.
Money, my friend. A guy I know from Holland read about lobbyists and said to me, “But that’s bribery!”
And I said Yep.
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I thought he’d said the opposite, that he paid a lower rate than his secretary, despite his vast wealth…?
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And this:
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