Andrew Yang to Launch Third Party

[applegrove]

Andrew Yang to Launch Third Party

September 9, 2021 at 10:04 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 14 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/09/09/andrew-yang-to-launch-third-party/

"SNIP.......

Andrew Yang, who unsuccessfully sought the presidency and the New York City mayoralty as a Democrat, will launch a third party next month, Politico reports.

......SNIP"

[applegrove]

1. Don't split the vote.

[Still Sensible]

2. I think this would be horribly counter productive. n/t

[50 Shades Of Blue]

3. Fuck.Him.

[Captain Zero]

7. I was never that impressed by him.

Now, even less so.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. Same here

I never understood how he gone onto the debate stage

[Cha]

13. lol.. I Never did like him.. and now

this.

[Grokenstein]

4. How to crap away 95% of the good will you ever accumulated

in one move!

[Tadpole Raisin]

5. Oh dear God talk about selfish. This has got to be the most classless act you could think of!

[Cha]

14. & EGO-Centric.

[Dream Girl]

6. Ralph Nader redux. I'm sure there will be a lot of support from the right.

His new party would only have to shave off a few points around the margins.

[leftstreet]

8. Sounds like it's also to help him sell his book

Apparently coming out in October

[cadoman]

9. put another way, Andrew Yang needs to get into the news cycle ahead of his book release

[applegrove]

10. British Columbia Basic Income Panel report was mentioned in

https://bcbasicincomepanel.ca/

the Canadian federal debate tonight. I have not read it but thought it would be interesting so I looked it up. BC is a province that typically elects people from all parties so I think they would be fair. Since Andrew Yang was such a supporter of the idea, I post it here.

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. wtf.

Just say no to him.

[PJMcK]

16. Voters already did (n/t)

[Backseat Driver]

12. Shaking the mobile over the the crib

to keep baby overstimulated, awake, and kickin' doesn't sound like the way for Mama to get much sleep. To be sure, I've escaped the virus and did really appreciate the stimulus checks to spread around our local community during Lock Down prison - how Yang's direct payments (does he still advocate that?) We got every $'s worth of heating and cooling bills; the North 40 Inches got planted, and my cup ran over with lettuce, chard, and cukes; the tomatos not so much - it also helped keep some of small restaurants open for at least take-in meals; even managed to pay off some important payment plan debts, but I must admit I had no problem with the leisure time--that was good for the cooped up cabin fever as well, but the car is still broken and a new surge is upon the land.

Good for Joe for strong bold action on the vaccine and testing issues!

Not sure I like Yang's ambitions for the Presidency but I did listen last primary - it just doesn't spell unity to me...and going after the youthful tech savvy progressive(s)? is still likely to split some away from solidarity and attract few, if any rational conservatives and/or nut case GQPs.

[Doodley]

15. He could put Trump or a Trump pretender back in the Whitehouse.

[PJMcK]

17. Does he have that much of a following to make an impact?

It doesn't seem like it based on his presidential and NY mayoral efforts.

Yang is selling a book. He'll fade.

[herding cats]

20. Yep. It's marketing for his book.

He lost the presidential nomination by a huge margin, and then lost the nomination in NY for mayor badly as well. He's fine until people get to question him up close and in person. Which means he has zero future in Democratic politics.

We tend to want to climb in every aspect of your present life, your past life, and actually inspect your social validity... not to mention question the viability of your platform, motives and interactions with all of our various fractions.

We're basically fact based a-holes who don't want pipe dreams without peer reviewed analysis proving you're point. He couldn't hang with that - I get it, we're harsh - and now he's back to marketing himself for profit. I deeply disrespect the way he chose to make his money here, it shows how little respect he has for the rest of us out there and what harm he could inflict on us.

Personally, I'm over pseudo politicians pulling stunts like this for attention. He's never even been elected!

[Doodley]

21. In a tight election, states could be won or lost by hundreds of votes.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. Yang seems to be lazy and he is going to have to work hard to get onto the ballot as a third party

I doubt that Yang has the work ethic to do this

[MineralMan]

22. What new party? The "Don't Care" party?

Because I sure don't care what Andrew Yang does. Not one bit.

[NurseJackie]

23. It's a stunt! Showboating. Grandstanding. It's part of a book-launch gimmick...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/andrew-yang-no-longer-considers-himself-a-democrat-and-is-planning-a-3rd-party-politico-report-says/ar-AAOiE9e?ocid=msedgntp

The platform of the new party is unknown, and will be tied to the launch of Yang's book.

It's a stunt! Showboating. Grandstanding. It's part of a book-launch gimmick... he just wants more book sales. He's a con-man just like all other "liberals" and "progressives" who refused to be loyal to the Democratic party.

[sunonmars]

24. This guy is nothing but a grandstanding charlatan. Thank God he got kicked to the curb in NY.

[Patton French]

25. Dumb idea...

A sore loser response.

[Thtwudbeme]

26. Do we not learn a MOTHERFUCKING thing from history?

Wtf is his contact information?

We all need to contact him to remind him what a stupid fucking idiotic idea this is.