Posted on 06/16/2024 7:49:36 AM PDT by DFG
Allison Huynh bought into Silicon Valley’s woke idealism.
The co-creator of Willow Garage, a company that designed robotics and AI systems that were sold to Google, Huynh helped to raise millions of dollars for Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign. She and her husband at the time, early Google programmer Scott Hassan, helped organize elaborate fundraisers and dinners for tech bigwigs.
“My role was to bring in Silicon Valley people for the $50,000- and $100,000-per-plate dinners,” Huynh said. “[We] brought in [Google co-founders] Sergey [Brin], Larry [Page] and Eric [Schmidt]. Obama was a hopeful candidate who was outside of the system.”
She was so passionate about the left that, in 2005, she and Hassan bought a rocking chair that once belonged to Democratic icon John F. Kennedy for nearly $100,00 at auction.
In 2008, she acquired the Shepard Fairey mixed-media artwork that the iconic Obama “Hope” posters were based on, paying more than $1 million for the work on canvas.
Now, as President Biden’s term draws to a close, Huynh feels that she had been sold a bill of goods. “I think Biden has been out of touch,” she told The Post. “He’s asleep at the wheel.”
Exasperated by violent crime and illicit drug use in America, the 48-year-old Vietnamese immigrant, who helped build some of the world’s first e-commerce websites and once lived down the street from Steve Jobs in Silicon Valley, has done a total 180 when it comes to her politics.
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The left won’t miss her, there are lots more lemmings.
Dumb leftist:
“Obama was a hopeful candidate who was outside of the system.”
omg.
You can’t get more Deep State than Obama.
“I think Biden has been out of touch,” she told The Post. “He’s asleep at the wheel.”
Reminds me of the joke: I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather. Not like the passengers in his car who died in a fiery wreck, crying and screaming.
Who does she think is in charge? Oh no - it can’t possibly be Obama…
What’s a Dr. Jill worth?
That wasn't as obvious in 2008 as it became later. The public believed the Deep State insider was John McCain - which is hard to argue against. It was easy for the politically inattentive (which includes 95% of Asian immigrants) to think Obama was some kind of cool, hip outsider who would change the world.
My wife is an Asian immigrant and back in 2008 before I met her her ignorant US-born son convinced her to vote for Obama because McCain was likely to take away her green card and deport her. Now she is a rip-roaring Trump supporter who thinks Obama is the biggest jerk in history - thanks to my influence. :)
Was it that the Libs destroyed your precious San Francisco?
Or is it that your husband is using LawFare to engaging in “divorce terrorism,” using legal tactics to drag out the proceedings. In an interview, Huynh, 46, said Hassan had told her that he planned to “bury her” and make sure that she “gets nothing.”
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
What part of that did she not understand?
What's your stepson like nowadays? Full-fledged TDS?
Just because you have money does NOT mean you are necessarily brilliant. Fairly obvious. Then again, if you have “that” much money to squander, most of what the (b)administration subjects the peons to will have minimal impact.
He's starting to get it. He pretends to be a political agnostic, now, but he isn't stupid and sees what Democrat rule has led to. It takes a while to overcome government school programming but by 2028 he should be voting right. :)
“No longer identifying as a left-leaning Democrat, she calls herself an Independent — and she’s vocally backing Donald Trump.
She recently traveled from her home in Palo Alto, Calif., to Florida to show support for the former president at a fundraiser at Mar-A-Lago and hopes to attend more. “
Maybe some leopards do change spots.
The proof that Obama was Deep State was there in the 2008 Democratic primary.
Hillary refused to seriously attack him.
That was a dead giveaway.
Getting out of the money laundering biz?
Comatose at the wheel would be more accurate but just doesn’t roll off the tongue…
Wonder what the hand gestures mean?
No much. Oh..you meant monetarily.
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