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Attention depheater'd and Mr. Timpy and everyone else, too.... There is hope for the progressive wing to have influence in developing the new Biden administration and Cabinet.

Sen. Ted Kaufman is co-chair of the transition team, and he fought Obama on how to treat big banking after the recession. He teamed up with Elizabeth Warren to fight the good fight. Ted will help point the admin and agenda in the direction you want.

 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-progressives-love-ted-kaufman-joe-bid...

 

Why Progressives Love Ted Kaufman, Joe Biden’s Alter Ego

As Biden’s replacement in the Senate, Kaufman was tough on Wall Street. Now he leads the Democratic nominee’s transition team.

Ted Kaufman, the co-chair of former Vice President Joe Biden’s transition team, fits neatly into the Democratic presidential nominee’s small inner circle.

Like most of its members, he’s old for a political operative ― 81. As a Philadelphia native, Wharton School of Business graduate and former engineer for DuPont, he shares Biden’s geographic grounding in Pennsylvania and Delaware. And like most of Biden’s closest allies, he’s worked with the candidate for decades.

Kaufman is often seen as Biden’s alter-ego, and was even selected to take over the Senate seat Biden vacated shortly after winning the vice presidency in 2008. The two men live within walking distance of each other, and allies inside and outside the campaign say the pair are ideologically simpatico. 

“I think it’s fair to say that Ted is Biden’s closest political adviser and friend outside of his family,” said Alex Mackler, who has worked for both men and was Kaufman’s deputy chief of staff in the Senate. “He has an overriding trust in Ted’s judgment.” 

There is one crucial difference between Kaufman and the rest of Biden’s closest allies, however. While progressives look askance at the corporate ties of many key Biden advisers, the left-wing of the Democratic Party’s ideological spectrum has little but ebullient praise for Kaufman. 

“He thinks Wall Street has too much influence in our government, he thinks that corporate America is too powerful and he thinks workers don’t have a seat at the table,” Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio said in an interview, summarizing a consensus view. “He’s a strong progressive.”

Congrats on your boy, Ned. Rock that Biden Harris tank top like there's no tomorrow. I don't know this guy Ted but he might be surprised to know that Wall st gave 70% of their pac to Bidens campaign. Enjoy your special day.

Read the article if you have a few minutes, Timpy. That's the point of this thread.

Whimpy  Timpy is the undisputed Zoner sour grapes champion

congrats 

 

have a good life

Thanks for the link, Ned. Good to know more about him.

Oh boy, hope!

America’s new power couple: Mitch and Joe

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/05/biden-mcconnell-relationship-43...

"Biden’s entire Cabinet will be at the whims of whether McConnell even puts his nominees up for a vote, and his appointments are sure to be more centrist than if Schumer were in charge of the Senate.

There’s no hope of liberal icons like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren winning Cabinet confirmation"

If Ds can win the two run-off elections in GA in Jan., they will have 50 plus Kamala. Fingers crossed.

<<<>>>have a good life

haha -- this is hilarious. 

don't worry, you are right there with him mr haha

And they call baby boomers angry and old. Viva's "progressives" seem much older and angrier with every day that passes.

 

Like some displeased and  vexed flora maturing and showing off their blossoms.
OK "Bloomer"

^What are you even saying? Lol

Six, did you know that it's anti Semitic to call our Progressives old and angry?

>>^What are you even saying? Lol

We are all well aware that you don't get things very quickly - so you don't even need to post that.

You're speaking gibberish, Six. Take a step away from the keyboard for a little bit. Come back when coherent. You're a sloppy mess like always.

I hear that a good night's sleep might make you feel better

It's okay, Timpy, maybe your wife can explain it to you. We know that your broken phone doesn't pick up on nuance.

I forgot about the broken phone. Oh my!

<<<>>>And they call baby boomers angry and old. Viva's "progressives" seem much older and angrier with every day that passes.

yeah well maybe if your generation didn't completely destroy the world and continue to do so, we'd be a little less angry. 

there, there

Your insecurity issues aren't even worth making fun of, BK. 

Must blame someone...

Go ahead and blame our generation for legalizing weed for you. Did we do that wrong, too?

Whippersnappers...lol

ungrateful little bastards

lol

ned, they got that one way wrong. i am sure as a vape pen guy you fully enjoy the custie rec. 

Timpy, once again doing that projecting thing that you're so good at. Look it up, champ.

I LOVE my vape pen. OG Kush for $25 a cart is a great deal, convenient and fuck you :).

I smoke bud (flower lol), too, my little friend.

Based on examples available in this very thread - I am beginning to realize what else baby boomers got wrong - all the ungrateful Gen X and millennial children they birthed. Many of those offspring are very wrong. Very wrong. lol

<<<>>>$25 a cart is a great deal, convenient and fuck you :).

sounds like a biden bro pitch. 

6, what do you have, like 20 years left? you're good man. 

you're leaving us left for dead man! 

You still have some time to absorb my wisdom before you are cast adrift without me, dude

You better stop twiddling your thumbs

biden bro...lol. Shall we make shirts?

well then you have to come around more. 

teach me. 

Hey now! As soon as I feel it is safe to travel to Covid Town I will bring some mushrooms for us to make a pizza pie with!

is that a vermont thing? 

you bring your own toppings to the pizzeria? 

It would be a VT thing if he brought his cow.

>>is that a vermont thing? 

>>you bring your own toppings to the pizzeria? 

 

Not if you already have the correct variety mushrooms on hand. I was just being neighborly and sharing if needed.

Hey Bk, am I projecting when I say that you're a washed up old piece of shit with a horrible tatoo on your calf?

 

Anyways, for Ned and other Biden lovers, I have a serious question for you. If the dems win the senate and they still end up fucking over the middle and poor class communities with SS cuts and tax raises, will you be ready for a reform of the Democratic Party? There won't be any Republicans to blame just the 94 crime bill. 

 

 

I'm already ready for reform of the Democratic Party. I'm for reform of the entire political landscape. I'm a motherfucking socialist when you get down to it. Let's do it! 1-2-3-4...

Timpy now projecting hypotheticals...LOL. Please stop, you're embarrassing yourself (again).

Did you read the article, Timpy, or are so isolated within your ego you can't see outside of it?

His phone must be broken again, Ned

Once in the Santa Cruz Mts while mushrooming in a 2nd growth redwood forest I came upon a 100+ year old redwood with a cavity in its trunk almost big enough for me to comfortably stand in.

Since it was raining I decided to take cover a smoke a bowl. After lighting up I decided to light the lighter and look above me inside the redwood. Staring back at me was a pod of 30 big brown bats looking down at me a mere feet above my head.

Thoughts of the movie The Lost Boys filled my head(the movie was filmed in and around Santa Cruz)

I quickly removed my self from the redwood and stumbled away from the tree and into a small grove filled with over 80 chanterelles!!  Knowing a gourmet chef I took them to him and he made pizza with some of them.

^cool. 

very cool

I love chanterelle mushrooms

Ned, your copy and paste article is nothing but trash. Wall st donated 74 million to Bidens campaign. If this man Ted really thought Wall st had too much influence then he wouldn't have backed Joe Biden. Once again, you fail to read between the lines and connect the dots. It's redundant speaking to close minded people but I still try sometimes. Bidens whole campaign is built upon hypotheticals lol. That what politicians do. They say what you want to hear to get your vote with no evidence that what they say and promise will ever happen.

Soooo...you didn't read it. Got it.

>>Hey Bk, am I projecting when I say that you're a washed up old piece of shit with a horrible tatoo on your calf?

Somewhat projecting, but mostly coming off as someone with some serious issues to work through.

why is your tattoo so damn fucking important to him? 

Jesus - it's YOUR tattoo not his

>>> yeah well maybe if your generation didn't completely destroy the world and continue to do so, ...

 

how does something continue to be destroyed if it is already completely destroyed?

not sure man -- wild, right. 

they're kinda just rubbing it in at this point. 

Rubbing it in? I offered to make pizza with you. Jesus! lol

I read the article, Ned. It's based on a hypothetical  question in "could this guys help Biden's presidency be more progressive?"

The answer is no and for a guy who doesn't like hypotheticals you seem be pushing a lot of them here.

 

Six, why is BK obsessed with my wife, a person he's never met and knows nothing about?

Should he get a tattoo of your wife on his other calf?

I'm not much of a tattoo kind of guy, so I'm not sure.

Thick, as a brick.

I don't care about your wife. I think it's pitiful that you, who for months has been a douche to anyone who has had anything positive to say about Biden, ended up voting for him. It's even more pitiful that you blamed it on her.

And Christ, you're still being a douche to people about it, yet you are absolutely no different.

Brian - whatever you do - do NOT get a tattoo of a douche on your other calf, please!

No desire to rub it in

I am honestly sick of the vitriol and endless name calling and insults  ( some if the humor on here has been entertaining)

 

I would also like to mention that

Wall street is a reality

as are redwood trees

 

kindness can be

psycho out = good.

repub senate = bad

this is going to be a frustrating time.

oh well.

at least their whole fucking clown car family of kooks and crooks are bounced.

 

Neo liberals and centrists still caught up in their own hypocritical ways of the thinking. Nothing new to see Ned leave a thread like a coward when he is wrong. I guess he is the only one allowed to post hypothetically induced stories on the zone. Please keep enlightening everyone with your trash. 

 

BK, don't worry about me and who I voted for or my personal life. All you try to do is start these boring internet arguments with people who you don't know. Get a fucking life, guy.

I'm right here, Timpy (wrong again lol)

Ha ha, says the guy who has literally been arguing with everyone here.

Again, hoss, look into that "projection" thing, and maybe stop huffing paint.

why isn't timpane celebrating the candidate he voted for today instead of attacking people? 

Because he's a whiny little twit who has spent the last year being wrong?

Great story, Blackrock. 

>>> not sure man -- wild, right. 

 

you fucking said it and you're not sure what it means?

um, yeah, wild

 

I dont really appreciate losers on internet boards posting about my wife and they haven't the faintest idea of what they are talking about, JR.

You're such a hypocrite it's ridiculous. You're the idiot who stated that you voted for Biden because she made you. Other than repeating that, I haven't said shit about your wife.

For someone who can dish it out like you, you sure as hell can't take it.

I handed the ticket to my wife and let her cast the vote in my name. I'm fair game but keep my wife out of it, you jerk off.

How many times have you brought up my wife, dipshit? Keep in mind, I never mentioned her in any post.

I'm enjoying your 4.8, troll-boy.

Hey, go get your ya-yas out some other way. Change your strains, celebrate regime change! 

pelosi's gamble on the stimulus is just incredible. 

liquidmonkey can't see or feel. 

GET Your YA YAS OUT!!

 Congrats  judit and America 

 

respectful discussion and dissonance and listening leads to evolution 

perhaps to enlightenment 

every perspective is valid  and can be shared without yelling

>>> liquidmonkey can't see or feel. 

 

i see what you wrote.

i feel that you don't know what you are talking about.

 

>>> I handed the ticket to my wife and let her cast the vote in my name. 

 

voter fraud?

My chef friend is a baker. He hand crafted the pizza dough from his sourdough bread dough.

Not sure you know about starters for dough but he has kept his alive since 1988

During a visit to Germany he was gifted some starter that has been kept alive for 500 years

In New Zealand he got some too but I can't remember the provenance of that starter

Since then he has incorporated those starters with his.

That's the crust that went under the chanterelles

There was a crowd that night so I think he made 10 pies?

Pesto chanterelle was a good one but my favorite was the gorgonzola chanterelle

hahaha. he "kinda" and "barely" voted for Biden because his wife dropped it through the drop box for him. 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/19/dear-joe-biden-are...

 

Yeap...

Michael McCabe, a former employee of Biden and a former deputy Environmental Protection Agency administrator, later jumped ship to work as a consultant on communication strategy for DuPont during a time when the chemical company was looking to fight regulations of their star chemical perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) also known as C8. 

Dise, they may hire some republicans to. And, they may hire generals to run the military.