There is a new cottage industry here in the US, and unfortunately it’s bad for all of us: the jobless political operative (funded by a shadowy billionaire) who has the presidential candidate who can solve the impasse or the political gridlock or the acrimonious tone of our current politics, but whose real purpose is to throw the election to TFG. (Well, except for the loony traitors at No Labels who seriously think they are going to have a role in what they expect to be a brokered Democratic convention next summer.)
Meet Dean Phillips, who has represented the 3rd District of Minnesota since 2019. If you’re wondering why you’ve never heard of him, it’s because there is nothing notable about him. He’s a white guy who comes from a super-rich family, so of course he thinks he should be president. He’s got a secret real estate LLC to buy property he hasn’t disclosed, even though he sits on the House Ethics Committee. Mmmhmmm. Oh, and he asked Harlan Crow for money in 2019.
Phillips is essentially the Democratic version of Ron DeSantis: a candidate with the uncanny knack for looking like a person with terrible social skills. Here’s a recent example:
A homeless woman approached me on the street tonight, so I bought shrimp fried rice & egg rolls for her Christmas dinner.
When I’m President, an America that spends almost $1 Trillion on its military will finally prioritize housing, feeding, and educating the very citizens it’s…
— Dean Phillips (@deanbphillips) December 26, 2023
Unfortunately for Phillips, President Biden did something similar, but he didn’t make the person he helped into a political prop:
Rashid has experienced homelessness for some time now and when he saw Biden exiting the movie theater last Thursday evening, he asked him for some money so he could buy a sandwich.
Biden obliged — and then he stayed to talk.
“He didn’t think I recognized him,” Rashid said of the former dignitary. As they spoke, Rashid shared of the struggles he has been experiencing in receiving assistance from the Department of Veterans Affairs, specifically with procuring a housing voucher that would enable him to receive decent, safe and sanitary housing — leaving behind a life on the streets.
It was then that Biden went back into the theater for a pen and paper and jotted down a phone number. It was a personal contact who could assist in helping Rashid. As Biden handed him the slip of paper, a bystander snapped a photo on his phone’s camera — and the rest, as they say in our digital age, is recent history.
Phillip’s single point campaign pitch is that he’s younger than Biden. Unfortunately he doesn’t have anything approaching an appealing personality, so this is how it’s going for him:
Imagine waking-up January 21, 2025 with a President who grew up listening to U2 and watching MTV on a color television.
— Dean Phillips (@deanbphillips) December 26, 2023
Yeah. You’re not going to believe this, but at a recent speech his team had to hand out $50 gift cards to get people to stay. And his personal political operative, Steve Schmidt, has also decided to take his money and connections elsewhere because since Phillips has no chance of winning the nomination, all his presence in the media does is weaken Biden.
It’s time for his 15 minutes of gift card fame to be over.
I’ll close with the meme’s origin, from Sex and the City:
Needz moar “Dean Scream”, otherwise hard NO.
Imagine waking-up January 21, 2025 with a President who actually grew up!!
Imagine waking-up January 21, 2025 with a President who grew up listening to U2 and watching MTV on a color television ~ that’s as scary as christians with guns
Didn’t he own a chain of discount stores? Wait , that was Dean Phipps.