Harlan Crow, the billionaire political donor with controversial links to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has given the maximum contribution to Cornel West’s campaign for president.

Crow has previously called the longtime Princeton professor a “good friend,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

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    Harlan Crow is an example of why income taxes are ridiculously low and why there are too many loopholes.

    And West is an example showing why the IRS needs more enforcement and compliance personnel.

    To Crow and West: Both youse need to pay yer taxes, ye deadbeats.

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      Which will immediately be forgotten about by the “Enlightened Centerist voters”

      There is no planet on which “Enlightened Centrists” vote or even pretend they would vote for Cornell West. He’s as left as left gets.

      This is about siren-songing leftwing voters to go third party. See @jimmydoreisalefty for an example of what that looks like.

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        See @jimmydoreisalefty for an example of what that looks like.

        It looks like a really obvious spammer?

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              I just think its important to acknowledge that for these people, they believe the reality they are engaged with.

              It doesn’t matter that literally every one knows Jimmy Dore is a grifter and a pariah. There is a cult of secret knowledge that people will always want to be a part of. There always has been.

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                It’s also important to acknowledge that if someone constantly posts links to something regardless of context, they’re spamming.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Harlan Crow, the billionaire political donor with controversial links to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has given the maximum contribution to Cornel West’s campaign for president.

    West received a $3,300 donation from the Republican megadonor in August, according to the latest Federal Election Commission filings.

    Crow has previously called the longtime Princeton professor a “good friend,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

    West’s presidential run has spurred concern among Democrats that it could pull votes away from President Biden in a general election.

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who recently left the Democratic race to launch his own independent bid for president, has raised fears on both sides of the political spectrum.

    A large portion of voters aren’t excited about voting for Biden or former President Trump, the leading contender for the GOP nomination, according to polls.


    The original article contains 308 words, the summary contains 136 words. Saved 56%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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    Hmmmmm. Opensecrets says Harlan Crow has donated: 14,700,000.00 to Polical canditates and parties over 30 years.

    In 2022 Crow gave $184,400 to the National Rep. Congr. Comittee, and $750,000 The Congressional Leadership Fund ( a Rep. pac), and $150,000 to ‘take back the house 2022’, and $725,000 to Mitch McConnels pac, and $175,000 to the Rep. Party of Texas, and $96,000 to other Dem. candidates/groups.

    2 Questions…

    He donated how much to this guy?

    and why is it news?

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      I think it should be news when a guy with a supreme court justice in his back pocket is giving someone else campaign money. But then I think that sort of thing is pretty important.

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    I don’t mind billionaires paying to platform West. This was an amount of money that this guy honestly didn’t even think about though.

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    Cornel West is an antisemitic piece of garbage, it’s no surprise he’s crooked as fuck

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      It’s probably because it’s google, and I didn’t spend more than five minutes on it, but all I could find to back him being anti-semitic is his criticism of Israel and occasionally sharing a stage with Louis Farrakhan. Is there something other than that supporting your thoughts on it?