Who was that billionaire talking to Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC

[Baitball Blogger]

He doesn't like Democratic leaders saying nasty things about billionaires and will stop donating if he hears it again. He says that we should be the party of success and we should not be catering to the left. But he is struck dumb when asked why it appears that Republicans are successful striking a nasty tone. Good question.

So that's our problem. We're getting hijacked by wealthy Centrist Republicans.

[freemay20]

1. Stephen Cloobeck n/t

[flamingdem]

2. His message was a garbled mess but

I agree that the Democratic party needs to identify as pro business. Somehow the pubs have that one on their side simply by offering massive tax cuts to corporations and how the media wants to give them some meaning other than pure greed.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. I don't see where he qualifies as a Democrat.

Except, maybe he's a Republican who wants gun control.

Left leaning causes are the future, however. So, he might provide money, but, he isn't going to draw lower and middle class voters to the election box because he represents the past.

[flamingdem]

6. Dems need money

He qualifies

[Baitball Blogger]

7. He's ready to take his ball and go home.

I don't want a billionaire to set the pace for the Democratic party, unless he can prove he understands the social issues that bring voters to the ballot box.

[gratuitous]

11. Democrats are pro business

Responsible businesses, that is. If a business busts the unions and doesn't pay its employees enough to live on, they'll get a chilly reception from Democrats. If a business is a bad citizen, polluting the environment then skipping away from its clean-up obligations, they're not going to find friends in the Democratic party. If a business squirrels away its money overseas and refuses to support the communities it does business in with its fair share of tax dollars, Democrats should say fuck 'em.

The scammers, the moochers, the robber barons, the chiselers, the cheats, the polluters and the monopolists have their party: It's the party of Roy Moore and the Republican molesters.

[lagomorph777]

3. Fuck him. Dems need millions of voters, and reliable voters must be earned,

not purchased.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. +1

[BootinUp]

8. We Dems hurt his wittle feewings.

[HughBeaumont]

9. Ah, yes . . . because Re-branded Feudalism has worked wonders for the USA's middle/working/poor.

News flash, Stevie - if this country doesn't start expanding the social safety net, raising wages and taxing the wealthy, you're not going to have a country. It's going to be a hulking, smoke-billowed ruin.

Re-branded Feudalism is like a religion, in that if you question it's glaring distribution flaws, you get taken to task and insulted . . . sometimes by people in your own party.

[Sentath]

10. From what I hear in the YouTube clips I have seen his tax plan

is to go after someone else's business model and he doesn't get social stuff.