I think Yang made an enormous contribution to normalising and making more visible the Asian American communitys voice in the political sphere and setting an example for future Asian American candidates.
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Enjoy your upcoming suspension.
apart from discussing UBI and automation, Yang brought up/brings up the necessity of talking about the non-material dimension of American life: happiness, sense of purpose, the value of work that does not have economic value. does that not seem obvious now that I say so? yet, it took an outsider candidate to even bring that into the discussion. (Williamson touched on this as well but did not last as long or get as far.)
Gosh, I dunno–I hear this sort of thing from pretty much all candidates. Obama, for one, certainly talked about the non-material dimensions of life and the need for a sense of purpose a heck of a lot. This does not seem like anything Yang-specific to me.
There’s some discussion on that topic in post #600 and more in the UBI thread that is redirected in post #606
The history of the acronym is from a joke that Yang used to tell that “the opposite of Donald Trump is an asian man who likes math.” That turned into the MATH hat, which was a play on the MAGA hats. The acronym Make America Think Harder evolved from that.
One of his key points is that pushing people into college to go into STEM fields when only 8% of the jobs reside there is not useful. There is already an underemployment rate for college graduates topping 40%. Adding more college graduates from STEM fields to vie for 8% of jobs would not help the economy as much as some other propositions, like apprenticeships and trade schools.
Some talk has been had about Yang joining an administration in some capacity to help with technology, but that’s not the same as STEM education.
iguanas.com might have been referencing Yang’s American Scorecard policy.
Past Presidents and most of the other candidates have been using GDP, the unemployment rate and the stock market as indicators of their success. But that success doesn’t always reflect how the country as a whole is doing in some important ways. Yang wanted to change the measurements of success of the country by using other indicators of success.
Even though the 2020 campaign is officially suspended, I’m posting this here because I think it still fits into the campaign.
Andrew Yang joins CNN as a political commentator
The cynical think this is him selling out. The faithful think this is him elevating the message in another form. We’ll see.
Yang also says he’ll be live tweeting during the debate. I’ve seen him do that before. It was awesome, so I’m looking forward to that.
After Yang suspended his campaign, he went to a last rally that was planned. In that rally, he was interviewed by Daniel Negreanu, a professional poker player who is OG Yang Gang and was holding an event as a fundraiser. In that interview, Yang said that there was something big planned that would happen in about 2-6 weeks’ time.
When Zach Graumann was asked today if the CNN announcement was the big news, he replied:
So supposedly, there’s something else in the works.
In other news, an Emerson poll released on 2/18/20 showed Democratic voter picks for VP had Yang in 2nd place at 18% and 1st place for Bernie Sanders’ VP at 31%. Interestingly to me, in that poll, Abrams was at 8%. Given how much her name has been thrown around on the media, I thought that would be higher.
Yang is also in double digits for Biden and Warrren supporters as VP pick.
To me, this shows 2 things. First, people do know his name for him to be in double digits for anything. And second, people generally are favorable to him. If the polls are to be believed, it also shows that his support is not solely online as some media claim.
As for the Yang Gang, it’s been a rough ride. The second that Yang suspended, there was a flood of mostly Bernie supporters showing great support for Yang, despite those same people having smeared him relentlessly for weeks. One of those people was AOC.
When some of the Yang Gang showed resistance to jump onboard the Bernie train, some of the Bernie supporters were trash talking the Yang Gang. A verified account called People for Bernie put out a tweet saying that Scott Santens was a grifter, compared to Stephanie Kelton, the Bernie economist. Scott Santens is a UBI advocate and one of the pillars of the Yang Gang. The tweet was later deleted, but I saw it live.
When the Yang Gang saw that, many of them turned around and decided to still vote for Yang. They trended the hashtag #stillvotingYang. This got a lot of people angry.
On the night of the suspension, it was reported that the subReddit had 95K people online at one time. The sub only has 105K subs, so there were a lot of people there to ??. For the next weeks, the mods shut down the sub to only things about Yang because the sub was getting flooded with posts about the other candidates. That slowed things down. The sub is still active and growing again.
Yang’s twitter actually grew from the night of the suspension. And oddly enough, there are people just now hopping on the Yang Gang and announcing on twitter.
The media took a friendly turn immediately after the suspension was announced. Vanity Fair wrote a piece on it. The Media Suddenly Can’t Get Enough of Andrew Yang
Hopefully the positive press continues for the issues in Yang’s campaign, especially now that he has a voice in the media.
Sorry, I posted at the bottom liket his, (new to this forum) It’s crazy that Andrew had to drop out after these stellar performances. I think alot of his plans could be picked up by Bernie though. Here’s hoping that Bernie wins the nomination and UBI makes it through. I’m a small biz owner in TX and could definitely use the money to grow the business. How are you guys processing him pulling out?
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Yang might run for NYC mayor next year. The current mayor is a Dem so he would have to win a primary first.
Andrew Yang Says He’s ‘Looking’ at Running for New York City Mayor
Haha. I thought you beat me to the announcement tomorrow. The cat is mostly out of the bag, but I’ll wait until it’s revealed tomorrow on The View on 3/5/20. The rumblings I’ve seen/heard don’t have to do with the mayor’s race, but you never know.
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this is his new idea
Yang just endorsed Biden. I would think many of his fans are not happy.
Though Yang was clear that he said he would support the nominee and the math makes it clear Biden will win. And if anyone knows math, it’s Yang.
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Paget Kagy, Yang Gang youtuber, did a poll a couple weeks ago on who the Yang Gang support. The result out of 1K people was literally 50/50.
From Zach Graumann, Yang’s campaign manager and Humanity Forward leader:
Andrew Yang’s tweeton his endorsement of Biden. He was live on-air when he made the decision to endorse, so there was no tweet at the time. He’s endorsing Biden as President. The video clip of the endorsement with a fuller explanation is in the tweet.
Bill de Blasio, who is a Bernie endorser, agreed with at least a portion, if not all, of Yang’s endorsement.
Mitt Romney and others are saying every adult should get $1000 now to help the economy due to the virus.
If this virus hit last year UBI probably would have been a lot more popular and maybe Yang gets more votes.
Some Andrew Yang political updates.
Yang has been doing a lot since he suspended his campaign.
As noted previously in the thread, he created Humanity Forward. He was gong to use it to fund UBI trials, but as it turned out, it was helpful in giving people some money as aid for Covid. In the early days of lockdown and maybe even before, lots of people were getting laid off quickly without the CARES Act in place. People needed money to tide them over. Yang’s organization was giving people $500-1000 to help out with the immediate need. They gave out over $1M when I last checked, which was a while ago.
Yang was consulted by the White House for his expertise in UBI before the stimulus package went out. Popular sentiment about UBI has risen since coronavirus and the stimulus payment.
Yang also sued the State of New York and won. They had taken him off the ballot, along with all the other Democratic nominees for President except for Biden, effectively cancelling the Primary in New York. Yang sued to get his name back on the ballot along with all the other nominees. I think the case is getting appealed to a higher level court. Part of his reasoning for suing was to help down-ballot candidates. Many of the people he’s supporting in lower races support UBI.
He started a podcast called YangSpeaks. I haven’t listened to any of them yet, but it looks like the guests have been Ken Jeong, Krystal Ball, Sam Harris and Ian Bremmer. Just heard a minute of a trailer with Ian Bremmer where Bremmer says that China wants Trump to win a second term because they see how messed up the relations are with the other countries that they have a better chance with Trump than with Biden.
I did see a conversation that Yang had with Pete Buttigieg. He also had a conversation with Biden.
Biden has a podcast called Here’s the Deal. Biden and Yang talk about the 4th Industrial Revolution. I just listened to it. I liked Biden’s interest and knowledge about Yang’s ideas, for the most part. But Biden wants to return to better times. Yang wants to go forward to a better time. As Yang has said, if people wanted to go backwards, they would have voted for Hillary, not Trump. Many people don’t want to go back. That said, Biden does consider the plight of small business and banking loans to them, the need for more vocational training and the idea that big ideas will be required to get the country past the coronavirus. In the interview, Yang says “Economists project that 42% of the jobs we are losing right now are gone for good. That’s 15 million jobs. That’s the size of the hole we have to fill.” Biden says he’s more optimistic than Yang that those jobs will come back.
As the coronavirus has accelerated Yang’s predictions of joblessness and growing economic inequality, his ideas have become more relevant with every passing day.
Jack Dorsey from twitter is giving $5 mil to Humanity Forward
Nice! That’s awesome! Thanks for posting that.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey gives Andrew Yang $5M to fund microgrants for those who recently lost jobs
The article says that Humanity Forward has already given away $2M in microgrants before the Jack Dorsey money. They will be giving away this money in $250 increments.
I listened to Yang’s first podcast on YangSpeaks. In it, he says that he now thinks that $1K mo. might be insufficient and is leaning toward Bernie Sanders’ higher amount of $2K/mo. Yang says that when he proposed the $1K, he thought that people could supplement that income with gig jobs but is realizing that gig jobs might not be as readily available with so many people unemployed as he was originally thinking.