Can other Republicans funnel money through Mitch McConnell? "Mitch, I love your tie pin so much, I will pay you a million dollars for it." "Here you go. I'm off to donate the proceeds to pay off the national debt."

SNAP!

FTA: "We need a tax system that takes very good care of people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market system, and to capitalism, but are nevertheless just as good citizens, and are doing things that are of use in society," he said.

Can't be emphasized enough. We've gone way too damned far down the "me first" road, and we do need to figure out how to reverse that.

Funny, I submitted the same exact link and at the time it said there were no matches in the system. Now, well over hour later... boom, green light of same link by different person.

Ambivalence: I'm sure it won't be difficult for him to come up with the $12 and used, santorum-covered condom the GOP will put up.

FTFY

/go Buffett

republican response: Deficits don't matter!

$0 * 2 = $0.

This won't cost Buffet a cent.

Sadly, I could probably make the same offer and I only have maybe a couple hundred to my name right now.

deadcrickets: Funny, I submitted the same exact link and at the time it said there were no matches in the system. Now, well over hour later... boom, green light of same link by different person.

I suggest coming up with better headlines

deadcrickets: Funny, I submitted the same exact link and at the time it said there were no matches in the system. Now, well over hour later... boom, green light of same link by different person.

No, in fact that is not "funny"

MY GUESS AS TO REPUBLICAN RESPONSE:

"Now why would you need us to want to pay down the debt? It's something you should just be doing because you want to! You're the one who brought it up! Don't drag us into your little hissy fit!"

Vodka Zombie: LOL! Like the Republicans will ever donate a damn thing. Those greedy pricks have no souls.

Fark off. Republicans give more to charity than Libs do. (Of course, we have all the money, so that helps too.)

/St. Jude Children's Research Hopsipital , FTW!

This won't cost Buffet a cent, it's all free trolling of the GOP, free grandstanding and free publicity that even a multibillionaire can't pass up.

H-he's the AntiNorquist!!!

He's the one who thinks he doesn't pay enough taxes but he wants the total and combined much poorer than he republicans to join him in his quest? weird.

Tyee: He's the one who thinks he doesn't pay enough taxes but he wants the total and combined much poorer than he republicans to join him in his quest? weird.

Aww those poor poor souls. They don't have any money at all.

BKITU: Dinki: When you think about this, Buffet is actually doubling up on the smack down- He's calling out the GOP as a bunch of selfish, self-centered, un-American assholes, AND he's pointing out to everyone that he's richer than all of the GOP politicians combined. Pretty slick.

My favorite way to illustrate how rich Buffett is:

If he were to liquidate into straight cash, and put that cash in $1 million bundles, and stick those bundles in briefcases, and put one of those briefcases on every single seat in PETCO Park as a gift to every fan at a Padres game... he would still have $7 billion in his pocket.

Since everyone knows exactly how many seats Petco Park has, this really helps.

Tyee: He's the one who thinks he doesn't pay enough taxes but he wants the total and combined much poorer than he republicans to join him in his quest? weird.

I believe the answer you were looking for was "The Republicans are always biatching about the debt and have done shiat to help combat it, here let me help".

Guess_Who: BKITU: Dinki: When you think about this, Buffet is actually doubling up on the smack down- He's calling out the GOP as a bunch of selfish, self-centered, un-American assholes, AND he's pointing out to everyone that he's richer than all of the GOP politicians combined. Pretty slick.

My favorite way to illustrate how rich Buffett is:

If he were to liquidate into straight cash, and put that cash in $1 million bundles, and stick those bundles in briefcases, and put one of those briefcases on every single seat in PETCO Park as a gift to every fan at a Padres game... he would still have $7 billion in his pocket.

Since everyone knows exactly how many seats Petco Park has, this really helps.

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The bet isn't even the best thing out of the article, just the funniest.

FTFA: "We need a tax system that takes very good care of people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market system, and to capitalism, but are nevertheless just as good citizens, and are doing things that are of use in society," he said.

BKITU: Dinki: When you think about this, Buffet is actually doubling up on the smack down- He's calling out the GOP as a bunch of selfish, self-centered, un-American assholes, AND he's pointing out to everyone that he's richer than all of the GOP politicians combined. Pretty slick.

My favorite way to illustrate how rich Buffett is:

If he were to liquidate into straight cash, and put that cash in $1 million bundles, and stick those bundles in briefcases, and put one of those briefcases on every single seat in PETCO Park as a gift to every fan at a Padres game... he would still have $7 billion in his pocket.

I heard an illustration of how fast Bill Gates's wealth was increasing at the height of his earning (before he met and married his conscience Melinda):

If he saw a $100,000 bill on the ground (largest denomination of U.S. currency ever printed, used only for between-bank transactions), and was told that it was his to keep under the condition that he'd have to agree to forgo all money from all other sources obtained during the time it would take him to bend over, pick it up, and put it in his wallet, he'd walk off and leave it there. It wouldn't be worth it.

RumsfeldsReplacement: deadcrickets: Funny, I submitted the same exact link and at the time it said there were no matches in the system. Now, well over hour later... boom, green light of same link by different person.

I suggest coming up with better headlines

Or better, not allowing a mod to re-insert a link that we can't. If no one else is allowed to submit the same link, why can they and get credit?

BKITU: Dinki: When you think about this, Buffet is actually doubling up on the smack down- He's calling out the GOP as a bunch of selfish, self-centered, un-American assholes, AND he's pointing out to everyone that he's richer than all of the GOP politicians combined. Pretty slick.

My favorite way to illustrate how rich Buffett is:

If he were to liquidate into straight cash, and put that cash in $1 million bundles, and stick those bundles in briefcases, and put one of those briefcases on every single seat in PETCO Park as a gift to every fan at a Padres game... he would still have $7 billion in his pocket.

That's not exactly true. If he started liquidating all his assets they would be worth quite a bit less by the time he got done.

jbc: deadcrickets: Funny, I submitted the same exact link and at the time it said there were no matches in the system. Now, well over hour later... boom, green light of same link by different person.

Buffett matched your submission 1-to-1. If you were Drew, who would you give the green to?

Again, the system doesn't allow us to submit links already submitted. It's BS to allow a mod to take credit for a link already submitted and with a better headline.

bighasbeen:

Darn, almost a simulpost.

Tyee: This won't cost Buffet a cent, it's all free trolling of the GOP, free grandstanding and free publicity that even a multibillionaire can't pass up.

So call his bluff.

It's refreshing to see there is still no shortage of idiots who will cheerlead for the kleptocrat GOP. But I get it, it isnt that they are not wealthy, they are simply in a rough patch and will soon be just as wealthy.