Tom Steyer

Quite the catch. 

Exeter, Yale, Summa Cum Laude Economics and Political Science Phi Beta Kappa and Wolf's Head Society. Captain of Yale soccer team MBA Stanford business, Arjay Miller Scholar

Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Hellman & Friedman.

Founded Farallon Capital, headquartered S.F. engineered "absolute return" investments spread so profit no matter what happens.

Stepped down to focus on political activism. He's tried all his life to organize a 'business voice for advanced energy and he wants to "focus on how to find a way to move the needle in some way having to do with thought or policy. And I don't know what shape that's going to take" 

Successful person, wants to do good. Made billions. Gives millions. Now gives millions to political causes. 

This is what drives the right insane. They are all for advanced energy as you know but against government picking winners and losers. Too much room for graft. Invites graft. But Tom Steyer, billionaire, wants to do good things. He is frankly, obsessed. He will use his talents which are considerable and his connections and his money to bring this about. He knows his best shot is to involve government. To use public money in his personal/public obsession to parlay his personal wealth into government programs that he cannot do by himself before he leaves this Earth. His best shot at government is by Democrat Party not Republican Party so he hooks up with Democrats and now holds court in Senate all-night session on global warming. This drives the right insane. 

If you're care to, here's how they talk:  

Democrats talk about climate, rake in billionaire bucks.

I didn't read that. I know what it says, that was recapped,  I think what it didn't say is more important. 

Here's the thing. We know Tom, I'll call Mr. Styer Tom, since he wants to use all our money for his obsession and it seems he really doesn't care what form that takes as long as it "moves the needle"  "in thought or in policy" those are fairly vague goals for a number man, don't you think? Can Tom be more specific than that? You don't make billion dollars by being clever and hold ill defined goals such as these 

I don't buy it.

He wants to change government. Permanently. To advance his cause of environmentalism. Forever. He offers vague goals and a whole lot of money. To Democrats. He is distorting our political system with his money, he has plans, clear plans and he offers us agreeable innocent anodyne vagueness.  

With those vague goals I can proclaim them already achieved, Tom Steyer, the needle has already moved and your money and your graft and your personal influence on Democrat politicians has already affected thought and already affected policy. Well done!

So now I move to what caught my attention about this thing in the first place.I sent this post in an email to friends and I was told to post it. So I am. Apologies if this shocks you but it how I talk to my friends. We take a nasty turn to depravity after the dealio.

Because here's the part of all this that kills me, I mean kills me all over the place. 

Here is the comment section of another site. It's Insty comment section. The comments give the best insight. They're better than the article that simply linked without comment, actually.  So that's what I'm reading. Apparently all readers there are aware of who Tom Steyer is, they know how outstanding his CV. I mean, come on, the guy did well for himself. There is no denying that. You cannot say he is stupid, you cannot say he is an ideologue, you cannot say from what is presented he is particularly partisan, but you can say he is exceedingly clever and you can say he picked the Democratic Party to advance his obsession. And you can say he wants to use everybody's money through government to achieve his aims whatever they really are beyond the vagueness he offers.  And that is why a guy like Tom Steyer, and others like him, drive people on the right absolutely nuts. Commenters there are usually reasonable, knowledgeable too, conservative by nature, in thought, politics and in speech, but things like this cause them occasionally  to come out of character with comments like, 

This kills me: 

"Only Tom Steyer can tell us what it's like to have his **** sucked all night long by 28 different people."

ORLY?  Why 28? Is it February?  I thought that was it. Just that one oddball remark. Oh, boy. Everybody else was reasonable, then this guy, it sticks out with a bizarre sexualization. I thought that would be it. But no, a rejoinder. 

"Trust me, he aint the only one, you got the the money, there are at least 536 people ready to kneel and suck."  

?  How one for each day makes sense eludes me but the point is taken. No wait, that's 356. No wait, 364. 365 Whatever. And it is a wrong point, both are thoroughly wrong. It does not take money for that. 

Even as I read that and confusion splits off about it appearing like that so out of place among normal analysis in a normal place, a grin appeared on my face and grew beyond my facial muscular capacity to form one, that I somehow displayed 4X more teeth than I posses until my whole face became all grin.

For my mind was suddenly flooded with stories. Real ones. Episodes. Stories that were heard. Stories that were lived.

The remark and the retort to it blew my mind. For being so wrong. Politically, economically, socially, wrong. The  two odd commenters must respect the man for what he accomplished and we see they do but they process all that information with the  conflicting values those thought evoke, the resentments they feel for having accomplished so little, and him so much by comparison, the humiliation of that comparison, his using government in ways they cannot even think of, the cleverness that is beyond them, the snapping of fuses that occurs and short circuiting is apparent in processing all that as sexual prowess. And passive prowess at that. All he has to do is stand there and (women?) are ready to blow him. They think like that. And then post a comment so revealing of their own psychology. Of all the things to say, observations to make, that is the thing that comes out.  (The other comments are more rational, this one is not characteristic at all. It sticks out. It got me.) 

I fought back the impulse to remark there are kids all around who view that a slow weekend. Not really, but those two can can deliver facile hyperbole unchallenged so can I.