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Oprah can donate her time for free, which she apparently did.

There's no evidence that Harpo paid money to Oprah or the $2.5M paid wasn't the actual production cost.

“I didn’t give money to Bill Gates, I just donated $2.5M to Microsoft.”

Harpo is Oprah. It’s literally the same letters, just backwards.


When you set down that water you’re carrying for the Dems, remind us all what Trump paid Rogan’s production team.

Cope harder.

You are so full of shit your eyes are brown and I don't even know you.

I'm carrying water for the Dems? Did I mention you're full of shit?

Your ability to think outside of your very tiny mental box is rather limited because if you step back and look at facts you'd see that there is a distinct possibility that you're wrong. And that little possibility is exactly why you're wrong.

Oprah founded Harpo? That must be news to you because the rest of the world knew it in 1986.

Harpo was paid for the production costs. FEC required it. There's no evidence, whistleblower or insider info, anonymous, Woodward & Bernstein reporting that says she was paid, either in deferred compensation, outright, backdoor or anything else. Print media is looking into it and they have produced nothing to say Oprah was paid or received anything of value.

The Rogan example is piss poor. Trump showed up in Rogan's studio. There was no production cost incurred by Trump to sit with him for 3 hours.

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Originally posted by oddball:

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Originally posted by bionic218:
Harpo is Oprah. It’s literally the same letters, just backwards.

Yes, from what I read in various sites and documents, Oprah owns Harpo Productions, it is not a publicly traded company and she has no partners. As a multi-media production company, charging the Harris campaign a couple of million dollars for a one-off "townhall" event is unbelievable- production costs for a rock concert in a arena for 10,000 people will cost less than that, and that includes sound, lighting, roadies, union stagehands, transportation, hotels, facility costs, security, etc. etc.

Oprah made money on this, no doubt.

More accurately - the company which Oprah is the sole owner of, made money and at the end of the day when Oprah sells the company, or goes public, she will realize those monies.

Oh, and Oprah may authorize the owner of Harpo to get a bonus at the end of the year for the bump in revenue due to profits seen from sales and invoices paid by Harris' campaign.

This business reminds me of John "We don't own a private jet" Kerry fresh off his trip on a private jet.

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This business reminds me of John "We don't own a private jet" Kerry fresh off his trip on a private jet.

Exactly right.

"But technically...technically..."

Stay mad, Flashlightbro. I said what I said. Oprah took the money and lied about it.

the other point is: $2.5 Million

Full length "indi" films are typically less than $100k

What on earth took $2.5 Million to produce that little town hall episode?

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Oprah made laundered money on this, no doubt.

FIFY…

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Originally posted by radioman:

What on earth took $2.5 Million to produce that little town hall episode?

Maybe everybody got a car.

Harris campaign endorsement money is one more opportunity to move on from identity politics

Rooftop Revelations: Forget Harris and Sharpton’s craven endorsement money. We’re moving on from identity politics, America

Pastor Corey Brooks

I have never taken a donation or any other form of payment from President-elect Donald Trump. Aside from my salary, I have never received any payment or kickback for the work I do on the South Side of Chicago. When I heard the news that Rev. Al Sharpton was paid $500,000 by the Kamala Harris campaign, I was insulted. This is a man, a man of God to boot, who claims to care so much about Black people and yet he charged Harris a pretty penny for his time.

Sharpton was not the only identitarian-based advocacy group to receive a paycheck. The Harris campaign paid a whopping $5.4 million to multiple Black and Latino advocacy groups.

If you want to go further, you can add the celebrities who also advocate for Sharpton and these types of groups. And consider the nearly $2.5 million Oprah’s company, Harpo Productions, received for the vice president’s town hall.

Sharpton and others didn’t care enough about their causes to get behind the Harris campaign. They didn’t see it as a chance to better their community. They only moved to action when handed money and a script.

People always ask me what the Al Sharptons and Kamala Harrisses of America have done for my community and I always say the same thing: nothing! Not one positive thing. In fact, it was Harris who let in millions of people through the southern border and then asked us, myself included, to take care of these folks. I stepped up. Did she?

The only time I ever heard Harris talk about Chicago was when she praised that fraudulent victim, Jussie Smollett, and prayed for his recovery from this "attempted modern day lynching." Has she ever said anything about the young lives that were taken far too early and that I have to eulogize too often?

Al Sharpton has made some efforts and I have to give him some credit. He tried to replicate Martin Luther King’s Chicago campaign by visiting my city every week but then he eventually disappeared. His lasting impact over the last ten years or so has been leading the Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and George Floyd campaigns which inflated Black Lives Matter at the expense of my community. There was money to be made there and we lost far more lives that we should have — thanks to Defund the Police.

What bothers me, especially about this $500,000 payment, is how it reveals race is only about money and power and that’s all these two people care about. How are they any different from the white segregationists who exploited Blacks for money and power? I will tell you what the difference is here and that is, they are exploiting their own color for money and power.

But then again, none of this should surprise us, should it? Identity politics never helped anyone in my community. If you consider affirmative action, who does it help the most? Middle to upper class Blacks, multiracials, and Africans. Not poor Blacks. And these well-to-do kids never needed racial preferences in the first place.

We have to stop giving power to race. We have to stop believing that it means something. We simply have to. And I practice what I preach every day on the South Side. When I hear, "white man," I squash it. When I hear "the Black man can’t," I jump all over it. Identity politics has no place here. It teaches us weakness. Real strength lies in developing our own character and seeing character in other people. That’s the truth that we need to get back to.

Al Sharpton can keep his money. Kamala Harris can keep up her lie that she’s doing something for us Blacks. Game recognize game and we are moving on past them.

We’re moving onto to a better America where people deeply care about their communities and one another and to a better America where we face our real problems without fear. The shame on us is that we gave so much power to the Sharptons and Harrisses of America but no more.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinio...ve-identity-politics

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Harris campaign endorsement money is one more opportunity to move on from identity politics

This may be the best thing I've read on the internet in a very long time. Thanks for sharing it.

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A new survey shows that she is still the preferred candidate for 2028 - ahead of Newsom or Shapiro. The article also discusses popular Republican candidates.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...154ae4a0196a6&ei=114

Kamala Harris Should Run Again in 2028, Democratic Voters Say

Kamala Harris is by some margin Democratic voters most favored candidate to be the party's 2028 presidential election candidate, according to a new poll.

Echelon Insights surveyed 1,010 likely voters between November 14 and 18 with a 3.5 point margin of error. Of the 393 polled who said they support the Democrats 41 percent stated that "if the 2028 Democratic presidential primary were being held today" they would vote for Harris, well ahead of second placed California Governor Gavin Newsom on eight percent.

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro came third with seven percent, followed by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Harris's 2024 running mate, with six percent each.

Harris lost the 2024 presidential election on November 5, picking up just 226 Electoral College votes against 312 for Donald Trump. The Republican candidate also won the popular vote and picked up a clean sweep of the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.

The other named potential Democratic primary candidates included House Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on four percent, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer on three percent, and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker on two percent each.

They were followed by Maryland Governor Wes Moore and Colorado Governor Jared Polis at one percent a piece, then by Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman and Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock last on less than one percent. Another 16 percent of likely Democratic voters surveyed said they were unsure, while one percent chose a generic "someone else" option.

Of the 390 Republican-supporting voters polled by Echelon Insights Vice President-elect JD Vance was by some margin the most popular potential GOP candidate for 2028.

Asked "if the 2028 Republican presidential primary were being held today, for whom would you vote?" 37 percent replied Vance, ahead of former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy on nine percent each.

Trump appointed Ramaswamy, who stood against him for the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, to colead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency along with business tycoon Elon Musk. However he said Haley, Trump's last credible rival for the GOP nomination, would not be joining his administration.

Trump appointed Ramaswamy, who stood against him for the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, to colead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency along with business tycoon Elon Musk. However he said Haley, Trump's last credible rival for the GOP nomination, would not be joining his administration.

^^^ So meaninglessly dumb. The smoke hasn't even cleared from this last election, and people change their minds so often, but they already surveyed for the next one that is 4 years away.

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A new survey shows that she is still the preferred candidate...

What a ridiculous poll not worth even being published. Sample size and results are so minuscule they are of no value. Do the math and 161 people said she was the favorite in their minds.

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Kamala Harris Should Run Again in 2028, Democratic Voters Say

I agree! Fingers crossed…

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A new survey shows that she is still the preferred candidate for 2028

That's what we Republicans call a gift that keeps on giving.

We all know this bimbo isn’t getting any smarter and she’s far too lazy to think for herself. She is eminently unelectable as evidenced by her abysmal candidacy. She is completely cringeworthy any time she opens up her idiot mouth. I say let her run in ‘28

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We all know this bimbo isn’t getting any smarter and she’s far too lazy to think for herself. She is eminently unelectable as evidenced by her abysmal candidacy. She is completely cringeworthy any time she opens up her idiot mouth. I say let her run in ‘28

Ironic. She got where she is by opening her mouth.