Billionaire Bill Ackman and his rich friends want someone, anyone, to bring down Zohran Mamdani. Their pitch: take our money, it won’t be much time and energy, and maybe you’ll get famous enough to use the campaign as a stepping stone to higher office.

Billionaire Bill Ackman and his rich friends want someone, anyone, to bring down Zohran Mamdani. Their pitch: take our money, it won’t be much time and energy, and maybe you’ll get famous enough to use the campaign as a stepping stone to higher office.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Hedge-fund billionaire Bill Ackman said he and his wealthy associates are ready to pour “hundreds of millions of dollars” into the campaign for an aspiring politician looking to position themself on the national stage: “The risk/reward of running for mayor over the next 132 days is extremely compelling as the cost in time and energy is small and the upside is enormous.”

    You fucking prick. Willing to overwhelm the will of the people to subvert the election.

    If I lived in NYC, I would reach out to Zohran and pledge to run against him as a dyed-in-the-wool Dem with the understanding that I’m trying to appear to try win without winning. And should I win, I will switch policies the day I take office and execute my own socialist agenda with Zohran as my chief of staff.

    Gimme those hundreds of millions of dollars, Bill, you sniveling cunt.