Posted on 06/28/2017 12:51:43 PM PDT by mac_truck
Greetings from lovely Aspen, Colorado, where I am attending the Aspen Ideas Festival as part of their scholar program. I have no idea how I ended up in this program, as I did not apply for it, and my relationship with the Ideas Festival over the years has been mostly made up of mocking their event subject matter on Twitter (“Rotary: rediscovering the beauty of a phone which expects something of us, as opposed to the reverse” #aspenideas). But I am here nonetheless, ready for the live recording of PodSaveAmerica and the session on whether Robots are the future of Jazz. Already I have had a lovely conversation with a fellow attendee about one particular Aspen Idea: That Mark Zuckerberg would actually be a great candidate for president in 2020.
I am serious. Or at least, they were. But there is an internal logic to it, if you think of the problems plaguing America as being the lack of a leader who balances technocratic globalism with a more attuned sense of voter priorities and West Coast communitarianism. Zuckerberg has been traveling across the country of late meeting with all sorts of communities, making for increasingly odd pictorials of the young tech billionaire chatting with people very much unlike him. But we shouldn’t assess Zuckerberg’s awkwardness as a crippling defect in a field that is likely to be made up of people almost 40 years older than he is. Zuckerberg would enter such a contest with the greatest knowledge of the electorate and analytics of any candidate. (He also comes with his own deep state, and enough blackmail for half the country: “Mr. President, why no nominee for AG yet?” “I dunno, Jim, why do you spend so much time looking at those old pictures of Tammy from Waco?”)
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Personally, I despise Mark Zuckerberg, he is little more than a thief.
Well heck yeah. We KNOW he believes in walls.
No thank you, though. I'll pass.
We do not need more evil.
Now every billionaire in the country wants to run for president...just like after Reagan ran, every actor wanted to be president.
Yeah, middle class America loves technocratic globalism.
It can imagine that Dems might be smart to nominate Zuck, but he’s a “cis straight white male”, so it’s highly unlikely.
Hence the reason why a lot of powerful Democratic donors want Disney CEO Robert Iger. Iger is very well-known to many Democratic Party donors and Iger has many connections to Wall Street fund managers. Yes, we all know of Iger's potential shortcomings but his executive-level managerial experience and his ability to "network" with the majority of Democratic donors from multiple sources puts him potentially way ahead of everyone else.
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I can see the facebook guy making a run for president.
But I don’t think he would get far.
He’s ....wierd.
He’s a very strange bird in person. He wouldn’t go over very well with the majority of people — especially in a debate.
Hopefully he can buy the nomination.It’s not like there’s a bench.
Can you imagine the “ZUCKERBERG FOR YOU, ZUCKERBERG FOR AMERICA” banners on top of every facebook page?
So Zuckerberg wants to make Facebook into Meetup?
Why doesn’t he just have Facebook acquire Meetup—there’s no need for him to run for president.
“Personally, I despise Mark Zuckerberg” even more than I despise his website.
I thought he already held that position...:^)
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