Saturday, August 31, 2019

Bernie Picked The Wrong Fight With Andrew Yang



Obviously, the Democrats can't have both Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang. So who is it gonna be?

To Bernie's credit, the idea of a shorter work week is not that bad. How about you work four days a week, not five? But a reduced work week is not an argument against the UBI. They are apples and oranges.

Andrew keeps coming at Universal Basic Income from the technology angle, the artificial intelligence, and robotics angle. And I believe his projections are valid. But projections are projections. Many of those things have not happened yet. The retail jobs are mostly still here. Truck drivers are still driving their rigs.

But what is already here is inequality. I like Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax idea. Marry that to the UBI idea. The inequality that already exists and keeps getting wider every year is extremely harmful not only to democracy but also capitalism. And the best way to narrow the gap is by applying a wealth tax to fund a UBI.

And if the technology arguments come to be, we will also use that Value Added Tax (VAT) to expand the UBI. I can see the UBI going up to $2,000 a month down the line. Technology could give economic growth rates of 50% in future years. You don't want all of that to end up with the top 1%. They will just end up fat and lazy.

This is a fight Andrew must relish. That is the only way for him to go into the double digits.

Unless he wins either Iowa or New Hampshire, he is toast. He is perhaps Secretary of Labor and not the president. More likely speaker and author and CNN talking head in 2021.

Universal basic income, and universal health care are two ideas that belong together. Andrew Yang does need to own Medicare For All if he has a fighting chance.

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Friday, August 30, 2019

Andrew Yang: A Contender

Andrew-Pete Ticket
#YangMediaBlackout
Steve Bannon, Hong Kong, 1989, And The CCP
Biden's Resilience: Health Care?
Blatant Racial Bias Against Andrew Yang In The Mainstream Media
Andrew Yang Clocking At 4% And Fifth Position
Could Andrew Yang Become President?
Andrew Yang's Eureka Moment And The Political Work That Remains Doing
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Andrew Yang's Eureka Moment And The Political Work That Remains Doing



You don't get to become president for having a eureka moment on the Universal Basic Income (UBI) idea. The concept has been talked about in the tech circles for much of this decade. Just check out the tech blogs. You do the math. You crunch the numbers. You extrapolate. There is no escaping it.

Andrew Yang might look like a rocket scientist on the campaign trail, but to the techies it might come across as, well, looks like he has been reading the tech blogs.

I like his rebranding of it. Freedom Dividend, or tech check. They sound better than UBI. Whatever works.

The implementation could happen in phases. Phase one, let's just cover the bottom 50%. Phase two, lets' put Elizabeth Warren's two cents to use and cover 100%. Step three, let's get those two cents from everybody on the planet and make UBI truly universal. Americans are merely 300 million out of more than seven billion. Tell everyone at the Mexico border, you can get $100 per month per person, or you can come to the US. Nobody will want to come to the US.

You don't get to become president for "getting" the idea. You get to become president for selling it. That is the political work that needs to be done.

The racial bias in mainstream media against Andrew Yang is palpable. CNN and MSNBC might as well be Breitbart News when it comes to Andrew Yang, who is not even Chinese, by the way.

Yang 2020 should go deeply digital and global. Micro target with video. Involve people. If the people want him bad enough, they will google him up. But mainstream media is still how most voters in the US get their news. That glass prism has to be broken.

Andrew Yang can't be window-shopping for president. He needs to get inside the store. He needs to break the glass, if necessary. Or, better, dissolve it.




Andrew-Pete Ticket
#YangMediaBlackout
Steve Bannon, Hong Kong, 1989, And The CCP
Biden's Resilience: Health Care?
Blatant Racial Bias Against Andrew Yang In The Mainstream Media
Andrew Yang Clocking At 4% And Fifth Position
Could Andrew Yang Become President?

Create an online game. What will you do with an additional one thousand dollars per month? Let ordinary people answer that question. Regularly curate and release the best answers.

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Thursday, August 29, 2019

Andrew-Pete Ticket

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Steve Bannon, Hong Kong, 1989, And The CCP



This is the one time, the very first time I find myself agreeing with Steve Bannon. This is not saying he thinks the CCP should collapse, although he might feel that way. This is analysis. Should Beijing make the mistake of trying to pull a 1989 on Hong Kong, the CCP will collapse inside of China.

That is also my analysis that I posted a while ago. On August 13, precisely. And I tweeted at him.

Although I disagree with those who think Beijing is itching to send troops into Hong Kong to put down the protests. That would be stupid. I don't think they are stupid. I don't think Beijing cares about the protests or the extradition bill. The only thing that would bother Beijing is if the Hong Kong protests were to declare independence. At that point, Beijing will very likely send in troops. And if they do, it is my analysis, that would start a chain reaction that will lead to a collapse of the CCP inside China. What happened in Eastern Europe in 1989 will happen in China in 2019.

That is why it has been puzzling to me as to why the Hong Kong leadership is in no hurry to meet the five basic demands, all of which keep the one country, two systems intact.

13 weeks of protests participated by millions in a city the size of Hong Kong. It is not that big, geographically speaking. When was the last time something like this happened? It has not happened anywhere in my living memory. This is tectonic. This is huge.

90% of Hong Kong is out in the streets, and Carrie Lam will not budge! Da what now!? Well, it's called not democracy. When you are appointed by Beijing, which might be 10,000 miles away, and not directly elected by your citizens, you can be, not tone-deaf, but deaf.

Hong Kong Protests: The World Should Not Watch A Possible Massacre
Why Hong Kong Needs A Directly Elected Chief Executive
The Hong Kong Protest Lacks Political Sophistication
Hong Kong: The Shenzen Angle
Could Andrew Yang Become President?



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