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Some people think she may be thinking about running against Trump in 2020 - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/21/kevin-oleary-thinks-meg-whitman-will-run-for-preside

Some people think she may be thinking about running against Trump in 2020 - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/21/kevin-oleary-thinks-meg-whitman-will-run-for-president-in-2020.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/21/kevin-oleary-thinks-meg-whit...

junkscience2017 9y ago
Silicon Valley is trending for like-ability about where Wall Street was in 2008. But of course she should run, as should Zuckerberg, Thiel, Altman etc because it would be a hoot watching them go down in flames.
- cat199 9y ago
  but just imagine all the jingly-jangly campaign videos featuring $candidate doing yoga in the california sun and doing meet and greats while eating farm-to-table food in faux-rustic casual eateries!
  - rsynnott 9y ago
    She’d presumably be running as a moderate Republican primary challenger, so... probably not that.
- 013a 9y ago
  If Clinton's 9-figure campaign couldn't get a handle on what the average American voter wants from their government, it would be downright hilarious to watch someone from Silicon Valley try. The region is so far out of touch, they aren't even on the same planet.
  - dragonwriter 9y ago
    The problem wasn't Clinton's campaign, it was the candidate; it's amazing that a candidate that widely hated and whose negatives were rock solid from decades of political exposure still managed to get more votes than Trump, who came in with slightly higher negatives, but about whom voters had far less firm opinions.
    - specialist 9y ago
      Uh huh. Overt racism & sexism, foreign meddling, systemic disenfranchisement, Johnson & Stein pulling a Nader (+2m votes over 2012), $3b of free earned pro-Trump media, Comey’s sabotage, the electoral college, and 300k opioid addicts voting for the Big Chief were all totally irrelevant. Nope. HRC was unlikeable. It’s all her own fault.
      - passwordqq 9y ago
        > 3b pro-trump media Look up "wikileaks piedpiper candidate" and decide whose fault is it
        specialist 9y ago
        How about you just tell us.
      - Mountain_Skies 9y ago
        >300k opioid addicts voting I'll ask the same thing I ask when people claim homeless citizens voting steals elections: why do you think opioid addicts do not have the right to vote? If they registered legally, why shouldn't they have the right to vote like everybody else?
        specialist 9y ago
        I’m for 100% enfranchisement. No taxation without representation. I mention the opioid addicts specifically because their poster child Rush Limbaugh is a hard core fruit cake. I believe, but cannot yet prove, that pickling the brain turns people “conservative”, by which I mean absolutist and authoritarian.
      - vturner 9y ago
        > the electoral college How inconvenient that the minority vote of states without mass populations centers is valued. > Johnson & Stein I voted for Johnson, it was not a "Nader." If we don't like the system, then we must force pressure upon it.
  - goialoq 9y ago
    You think that the person who created the system that controls most middle-aged Americans news and emotions doesn't have a handle the electorate's feelings? What's next? A movie star running for President?!
    - rconti 9y ago
      Ronald Reagan? The actor???
    - 013a 9y ago
      The systems they build and own might have a handle on the feelings of the electorate, but the people don't. Zuck builds walled hundred million dollar mansions on "stolen" land in Hawaii, while the people he "stole" it from complain about it on Facebook. Its one thing to know what people are mad about; its another to empathize and try to fix it, and you can't fake empathy. People see right through it.
      - splitdisk 9y ago
        > you can't fake empathy I disagree partly, faking empathy and goodwill is a cornerstone of manipulation in politics. However, I agree it's not a long-term strategy and over the medium-term (months not years) people will learn to see through it. Some people are more transparent than others in this regard.
  - kenshi 9y ago
    I think people could be persuaded to overlook the negative Silicon Valley sentiment if they believed the candidate knew how to make money and do good deals and improve their lot in life. Pretty much the "Yeah but..." argument I have heard from people who voted for Trump. The press is doing a good job of highlighting the shortcomings and flaws of the Silicon Valley elite, but enough voters in the right places have shown they don't trust the press. Of course, anyone coming from the Silicon Valley elite is going to have answer the question of how they are going to create new jobs... which would be interesting to see.
    - rayiner 9y ago
      “Instead, we’re hard at work making you obsolete.”
    - sheepmullet 9y ago
      > negative Silicon Valley sentiment if they believed the candidate knew how to make money and do good deals and improve their lot in life. Of course but I don't think they can convince the average voter - they have been concentrating huge amounts of wealth in a couple of cities. Why would I trust them to be able to spread the wealth?
  - adventured 9y ago
    10 figure campaign. Total spending on Hillary Clinton 2016, at all levels and by all sources, was at least $1.7 billion. They spent $1.2 billion just trying to defeat Trump and half a billion dollars versus Sanders in the primary.
- heedlessly2 9y ago
  Altman is peanuts in terms of influence compared to Zuck and Thiel
murph-almighty 9y ago
It's interesting that you bring this up, because she gave a quite politically charged speech at my graduation ceremony (CMU '17). She made a lot of subtle jabs at the Trump presidency by referring to their dishonesty towards the public, then turned around and gave a generic "stop acting like snowflakes" bit that I felt was a little too broad. Perhaps a week later, the latter part of her speech popped up on a right wing FB page with a clickbaity caption kinda like "HP CEO TELLS SNOWFLAKES TO GROW UP" or whatever. Curiously, the seemingly anti-Trump part wasn't mentioned at all.
- heedlessly2 9y ago
  Michael Bloomberg did something similar at mine (UMich '16) He condemned Trump and Bernie (without naming), but then also condemned political correctness and safe spaces.

junkscience2017 9y ago

Silicon Valley is trending for like-ability about where Wall Street was in 2008. But of course she should run, as should Zuckerberg, Thiel, Altman etc because it would be a hoot watching them go down in flames.

cat199 9y ago
but just imagine all the jingly-jangly campaign videos featuring $candidate doing yoga in the california sun and doing meet and greats while eating farm-to-table food in faux-rustic casual eateries!
- rsynnott 9y ago
  She’d presumably be running as a moderate Republican primary challenger, so... probably not that.
013a 9y ago
If Clinton's 9-figure campaign couldn't get a handle on what the average American voter wants from their government, it would be downright hilarious to watch someone from Silicon Valley try. The region is so far out of touch, they aren't even on the same planet.
- dragonwriter 9y ago
  The problem wasn't Clinton's campaign, it was the candidate; it's amazing that a candidate that widely hated and whose negatives were rock solid from decades of political exposure still managed to get more votes than Trump, who came in with slightly higher negatives, but about whom voters had far less firm opinions.
  - specialist 9y ago
    Uh huh. Overt racism & sexism, foreign meddling, systemic disenfranchisement, Johnson & Stein pulling a Nader (+2m votes over 2012), $3b of free earned pro-Trump media, Comey’s sabotage, the electoral college, and 300k opioid addicts voting for the Big Chief were all totally irrelevant. Nope. HRC was unlikeable. It’s all her own fault.
    - passwordqq 9y ago
      > 3b pro-trump media Look up "wikileaks piedpiper candidate" and decide whose fault is it
      - specialist 9y ago
        How about you just tell us.
    - Mountain_Skies 9y ago
      >300k opioid addicts voting I'll ask the same thing I ask when people claim homeless citizens voting steals elections: why do you think opioid addicts do not have the right to vote? If they registered legally, why shouldn't they have the right to vote like everybody else?
      - specialist 9y ago
        I’m for 100% enfranchisement. No taxation without representation. I mention the opioid addicts specifically because their poster child Rush Limbaugh is a hard core fruit cake. I believe, but cannot yet prove, that pickling the brain turns people “conservative”, by which I mean absolutist and authoritarian.
    - vturner 9y ago
      > the electoral college How inconvenient that the minority vote of states without mass populations centers is valued. > Johnson & Stein I voted for Johnson, it was not a "Nader." If we don't like the system, then we must force pressure upon it.
- goialoq 9y ago
  You think that the person who created the system that controls most middle-aged Americans news and emotions doesn't have a handle the electorate's feelings? What's next? A movie star running for President?!
  - rconti 9y ago
    Ronald Reagan? The actor???
  - 013a 9y ago
    The systems they build and own might have a handle on the feelings of the electorate, but the people don't. Zuck builds walled hundred million dollar mansions on "stolen" land in Hawaii, while the people he "stole" it from complain about it on Facebook. Its one thing to know what people are mad about; its another to empathize and try to fix it, and you can't fake empathy. People see right through it.
    - splitdisk 9y ago
      > you can't fake empathy I disagree partly, faking empathy and goodwill is a cornerstone of manipulation in politics. However, I agree it's not a long-term strategy and over the medium-term (months not years) people will learn to see through it. Some people are more transparent than others in this regard.
- kenshi 9y ago
  I think people could be persuaded to overlook the negative Silicon Valley sentiment if they believed the candidate knew how to make money and do good deals and improve their lot in life. Pretty much the "Yeah but..." argument I have heard from people who voted for Trump. The press is doing a good job of highlighting the shortcomings and flaws of the Silicon Valley elite, but enough voters in the right places have shown they don't trust the press. Of course, anyone coming from the Silicon Valley elite is going to have answer the question of how they are going to create new jobs... which would be interesting to see.
  - rayiner 9y ago
    “Instead, we’re hard at work making you obsolete.”
  - sheepmullet 9y ago
    > negative Silicon Valley sentiment if they believed the candidate knew how to make money and do good deals and improve their lot in life. Of course but I don't think they can convince the average voter - they have been concentrating huge amounts of wealth in a couple of cities. Why would I trust them to be able to spread the wealth?
- adventured 9y ago
  10 figure campaign. Total spending on Hillary Clinton 2016, at all levels and by all sources, was at least $1.7 billion. They spent $1.2 billion just trying to defeat Trump and half a billion dollars versus Sanders in the primary.
heedlessly2 9y ago
Altman is peanuts in terms of influence compared to Zuck and Thiel

murph-almighty 9y ago

It's interesting that you bring this up, because she gave a quite politically charged speech at my graduation ceremony (CMU '17). She made a lot of subtle jabs at the Trump presidency by referring to their dishonesty towards the public, then turned around and gave a generic "stop acting like snowflakes" bit that I felt was a little too broad. Perhaps a week later, the latter part of her speech popped up on a right wing FB page with a clickbaity caption kinda like "HP CEO TELLS SNOWFLAKES TO GROW UP" or whatever. Curiously, the seemingly anti-Trump part wasn't mentioned at all.

heedlessly2 9y ago
Michael Bloomberg did something similar at mine (UMich '16) He condemned Trump and Bernie (without naming), but then also condemned political correctness and safe spaces.