Ed Oscuro wrote:Peter Daou looks to be just another useless weirdo who wants an in to the pocketbooks of gullible "anti-corporate dem" donors.
Daou has a book to promote—Digital Civil War: Confronting the Far-Right Menace, which he only mentions when prompted—but aside from that, there’s no obvious way he’s cashing in on the Sanders campaign. “I wrote a book last year, and it came out in April, but I’m not selling anything,” Daou says. “You don’t grift to the left, you grift to the right or the center, you grift to the corporations. A guy like me, if I wanted to grift, you go do major corporate work—$100,000 a month and you’re just wallowing in the mud.”
Sorry you lost someone on your team. Man actually cares about fighting fascism and getting kids out of cages, realized the lesser evil compromises he made weren't only unnecessary, but were actively harmful to his core goals.
The only thing he's done besides playing the piano on twitter is advise four house candidates back in 2019. They all lost, which is almost always what happens when you take a swing at god. Here is how much money they had on hand sorted highest to lowest:
$1.1 M
$0.3 M
$0.17 M
$0.16 M
So most had less than two months worth of salary of a David Brooks, total.
The incumbents all had over 2 million on hand, except one loser who only had 1.8 million. (P'ft, 1.8 million. Pathetic, huh?) Outside support likely far more than doubled that.
.... god, "Daou is doing a grift" is so cartoonishly obviously wrong. The man was six hundred miles up the butt of the most powerful and wealthy people in the entire world, and he pulled out to... beg for some coins broke hippies might have laying between their couch seats? What? You'd have to be one of those "too far gones" to actually believe any of this pablum.
And I thought ->I<- was the cynic, whoo boy. Even I know it's possible for some people to have terminal goals that aren't "accumulate money and social status"....
Great timing, shortly before the best climate change legislation ever got passed.