What goes on in the the wine cave...

[reACTIONary]

....stays in the wine cave?

Sen. Elizabeth Warren ask[ed] darkly what the “closed-door” dinner conversation among us “billionaires” was about. Allow me to lift the veil. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg took questions for about an hour before departing (from what I could see, without so much as a sip of the prized wine). A physician asked what the mayor would do to expand access to primary care for the uninsured. A woman across the table asked what he would do to extract us from seemingly endless military entanglements in Afghanistan and elsewhere. The college dean wanted to hear more about the mayor’s plans for higher education, including to reduce dropout rates. There was a question about the crisis of climate change.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/21/about-that-wine-cave-dinner-i-was-there/

[madaboutharry]

1. Warren calling it a "smoked filled room" was disingenuous and she knew it.

There is much to be gained for politicians to draw comparisons between themselves and others running for the same office. The attacks that were launched by Warren and Klobuchar were derisive and misleading.

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3. Yeah, I called that out yesterday.. trying to

use the worst analogy she could for a wine CAVE.

Link to tweet

[oldsoftie]

2. The GALL of those people!!

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4. Thank you for this..

Sen. Elizabeth Warren ask[ed] darkly what the “closed-door” dinner conversation among us “billionaires” was about. Allow me to lift the veil. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg took questions for about an hour before departing (from what I could see, without so much as a sip of the prized wine). A physician asked what the mayor would do to expand access to primary care for the uninsured. A woman across the table asked what he would do to extract us from seemingly endless military entanglements in Afghanistan and elsewhere. The college dean wanted to hear more about the mayor’s plans for higher education, including to reduce dropout rates. There was a question about the crisis of climate change.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/21/about-that-wine-cave-dinner-i-was-there/

[betsuni]

5. Like how Hillary's speeches at Goldman Sachs must've been about hammering out the details of

the evil Wall Street/Illuminati/Hillary plot to take over the world and make us all wear pantsuits because they paid her to speak and she had to do everything they wanted forever. Oh no, I see that UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham is going to speak at Goldman Sachs. Now he has to do whatever they want forever and assist them in their nefarious activities.

People have such imaginations! Scaring people by creating an old-fashioned Monopoly-style cartoon billionaire villain behind closed doors in smoke-filled rooms who only seem interested in corrupting Democrats.

Republicans actually conspiring to wreck the government and the country who receive legislation already written by think tanks with unlimited funding from industrialists who want the U.S. to be a banana republic ... . Why bother trying to corrupt Democrats when Republicans are right there? Doesn't make any fucking sense.

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6. Kick