The centrist plan to sabotage Joe Biden

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The centrist plan to sabotage Joe Biden
Centrist groups like No Label seek to undermine President Biden's re-election. Do they secretly want Donald Trump?

By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
Columnist
PUBLISHED APRIL 17, 2023 9:00AM (EDT)


(Salon) Here we go again. It seems as if every other election cycle or so for the past few decades has produced dreams of a centrist third party "unity" ticket that would appeal to all the Americans who say they want the partisan bickering in Washington to stop. The Beltway media gets excited at the idea of "the grown-ups" being in charge and the Big Money Boys lick their chops at the prospect of a party based entirely on their needs and their needs alone. This year it looks like the perennial group that calls itself No Labels has decided to throw a monkey wrench into our closely divided electoral college map and possibly send Donald Trump back to the White House in 2024 — in the name of unity, of course.

No Labels is already gathering signatures to get on the ballot and is trying to recruit a Democrat and a Republican to run as a bipartisan ticket. Joe Manchin D-W.V., Kirsten Sinema, D-Az., Susan Collins, R-Me., and former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan are the names mentioned most often. (At least they aren't pulling former Democrat turned Independent pain in the neck Joe Lieberman out of mothballs for another run.)

The New Republic obtained a video the organization is showing to donors to illustrate why this ticket is needed.

"With the extremes on both sides dominating the primaries," the video warns, "the two parties are on a path to nominating candidates most eligible voters will find unacceptable." Above these words, the video shows photos of four political figures—in order of appearance, Donald Trump, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren.

That's right. Nowhere in the video is that dangerous left wing firebrand, incumbent president and presumptive nominee Joe Biden even mentioned. It does give away the game, doesn't it? The only people who would respond to that message would be the rich Republicans who fund No Labels. It's not a mystery why this video has not been distributed publicly. Most normal people know that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren are not running for president and that the mainstream warhorse Joe Biden beat Warren and Sanders in the 2020 primary and Donald Trump in the general.

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No Labels was launched in 2010 when centrists like Joe Lieberman decided that President Barack Obama was failing to reach out to the Republicans and work toward common solutions to America's problems. The fact that this was complete and utter nonsense (remember the Grand Bargain?) didn't matter --- there was money to be made and this group was going to get a place at the trough. The group was launched by a former Democratic fundraiser named Nancy Jacobson a noted "radical centrist" who got billionaire funders Michael Bloomberg and Andrew Tisch to sign big checks right away. They were the first of many although we don't know exactly who they all are because it's a dark money group that is not obliged to name its donors. But there have been reports of fundraising appeals made to everyone from David Koch to PayPal founder Peter Thiel to associates of George Soros. Considering the mission, I wouldn't expect many liberal-minded billionaires to join up but I suppose you never know. .....................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2023/04/17/the-centrist-plan-to-sabotage-joe-biden/

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1. Clarence Thomas fairy godfather is

One of the biggest donors to NO LABLES.

[DonCoquixote]

2. what they want is chaos

Because they have a fantasy that as everything burns down, everyone will crawl to them as they say "See, you should have listened to us , and will do so from now on!" That way they can keep all the money tilting towards them, while throwing a few pets some crumbs.Of course, their arrogance overlooks that the right wing will simply use that chance to club them on the head, the same way the Nazis clubbed the Weimar Republic.

[Tetrachloride]

3. Independents who are right wing when it suits them

[Phoenix61]

4. There is nothing centrist about No Labels. They are exactly what

they seem to be, an anti-Dem, anti-democracy group.

[Walleye]

5. "No labels" is a label

[Mister Ed]

6. A Trojan Horse, whose real purpose is to sabotage Dems and get GOP in power. n/t

[Botany]

7. Daily Kos: No Labels is a Trump Super Pac, Funded in Part by Harlan Crow.

Even more scary, that the Trump Super Pac (Anything else they claim is bullshit) No Labels, will succeed in peeling off enough votes, to get Trump back to the presidency. Now for those that don’t know. No Labels claims it is an organization that supports centrist, bi-partisan policies and politics. It was established in 2010. It is a registered 501c(4) and does not disclose its donors. There is probably a good reason for that.

Because to close observers the supposedly sensible solutions often proposed by No Labels have an uncanny way of benefiting one particular element of our nation: the Hedge fund Billionaires , or more precisely, the finance industry. And when they aren’t looking for tax cuts for the wealthy, some of their brilliant “centrist policies” include things like requiring the unemployed to go the unemployment office to pick up their checks, and cracking down on disability insurance claimants. Nice huh?

Link to tweet

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/17/2164479/-No-Labels-is-a-Trump-Super-Pac-Funded-in-Part-by-Harlan-Crow

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8. So, they show Hitler, and 3 Dems

Because really, AOC, Bernie and Warren are "just like" Donnie Dipshit.

If they were really aiming to be "helpful", maybe they could work to defeat MTG, Bo-Bo, Gosar, Gaetz, Ron Johnson, Rick Scott, etc.

Let me guess. Their idea of someone "non-partisan", who can "lead above the fray" is De-SANTOS?

Fuck these no labels folks. They must think we're all as fucking stupid as Faux News viewers

[Autumn]

9. There are centrist Republicans? Color me surprised.