Posted on 11/15/2019 6:22:38 PM PST by karpov
Elizabeth Warren, during the Democratic debate last month, said she was “really shocked at the notion that anyone thinks I’m punitive. Look, I don’t have a beef with billionaires.” This week Ms. Warren’s campaign began selling a $25 coffee mug emblazoned with the words: “Billionaire Tears.”
The accompanying description mocks “former Goldman Sachs executive Leon Cooperman, ” who “was brought to tears on live television” by the prospect of President Warren. Mug buyers are jokingly directed to “savor a warm, slightly salty beverage” as they “contemplate all the good a wealth tax could do.”
A new video ad from Ms. Warren goes further and personally names and shames Mr. Cooperman, as well as Joe Ricketts, the founder of TD Ameritrade ; former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein ; and tech investor Peter Thiel. The words “Insider Trading” are slapped over a photo of Mr. Cooperman, though he fought an insider-trading lawsuit brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission and prevailed in a penny-ante settlement in which he admitted no wrongdoing.
Calling out private citizens like this as part of a political campaign is very Trumpian—or shall we say Rooseveltian. It brings to mind FDR’s attacks on Samuel Insull, the utility magnate whose company once supplied power to millions of Americans. In the early years of the Great Depression, the overleveraged business collapsed. Though later acquitted in three different trials, Insull was a convenient scapegoat for a rising politician looking to assign blame.
During the 1932 election, Roosevelt assailed “the great Insull monstrosity.” He boasted that the utility barons saw their opponent FDR as “a dangerous man.” In another speech he said the public must prevail over “the lone wolf, the unethical competitor, the reckless promoter, the Ishmael or Insull whose hand is against every man’s.”
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It’s the communists who are promising more free lunches than they can ever deliver who need to be shamed. Warren isn’t worthy enough to lick the boots of a wealth-creating billionaire like Bill Gates.
She’s definitely not right in the head and nothing she says carries any weight unless she gives up all her money to charity or the IRS and lives only on the income she gets as a senator.
They all have mansions in other countries. They swear loyalty to that country, they lose their American citizenship.
How does the govt. collect taxes from foreigners?
The billionaires should use their money to destroy this bitch and anyone who supports this communist witch.
The best part is that Wall Street will not support her nomination so she is dead on arrival.
Warren would make the economy come to a grinding halt.
Liz had best watch her azz. When this current party is all over, and she loses big time, those billionaires will make for a unforgiving enemy - for life.
Her future, as I see it anyway, is going to be more than interesting....
I will never understand why anyone would want to drink someone else’s bodily fluids, including tears.
Let these jerks tear each other apart. I wish Trump would back off until later, after they’ve drained funds fighting amongst themselves.
Thanks for that link.
How dare people complain when the government steals their money. /S
You weren't breast-fed, I assume.
Regards,
She’s a jittery nutcase.
One thing I notice about tax-the-rich politicians...
They always seem to put the confiscation threshold well above their own net worth/income levels.
Naming and shaming that what she is including bernie
I think it is disgusting that any grand scheme for a presidential campaign should be to have:
ANY GROUP OF PEOPLE IN TEARS. WHY SHOULD ANY GROUP BE TARGETED TO BE MISERABLE. ALL PEOPLE...EVERYONE...SHOULD BE THE RECIPIENTS OF A HEALTHY, PROSPEROUSS ECONOMY AND ENJOY A HEALTHY, PROSPEROUSS QUALITY OF LIFE.
What is it with the Left that HAS TO...MUST HAVE...MISERY???
And I am NO million/billionaire.
Oh, sure! Next, I guess you'll be trying to tell me this other guy shown here is a fake Indian too!
(By the way, would that be considered the equivalent of wearing blackface?)
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