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[Tesseract]

Barstool Founder Dave Portnoy was criticized by the San Francisco Chronicle after raising over $20M and saving countless businesses. #FoxNews #Tucker

Barstool founder Dave Portnoy on CNN small business aid snub: 'Everyone should care about this'

Barstool founder Dave Portnoy says he 'doesn't know why CNN would not mention' his fundraising effort to help struggling small businesses because 'the more publicity we get, the more donations we get, the more businesses we can help.'

finance.yahoo.com

https://twitter.com/barstoolfund?lang=en

 

[Maiden Voyage]

I dunno anything about barstool sports (not a sports fan), but good on Musk.

 

[DESTROYA]

Dave Portnay has always been a standup dude .
Good for him , why exactly was he criticized for raising money to help struggling small businesses?

 

[jufonuk]

Already better than Jeff

 

[teezzy]

I dunno anything about barstool sports (not a sports fan), but good on Musk.

I kept reading this as "not a sports fag" and almost started yelling at you

 

[triplestation]

 

[DeepEnigma]

Barstool Founder Dave Portnoy was criticized by the San Francisco Chronicle after raising over $20M and saving countless businesses. #FoxNews #Tucker

Wait, what? How do you criticize that?

 

[Maiden Voyage]

I kept reading this as "not a sports fag" and almost started yelling at you

I don't use that word, mate. All good here. Also, extremely pro-LGB.

 

[triplestation]

elon one bite pizza review incoming

 

[INC]

Wait, what? How do you criticize that?

They werent diverse businesses

 

[Tesseract]

I don't use that word, mate. All good here. Also, extremely pro-LGB.

 

[teezzy]

I don't use that word, mate. All good here. Also, extremely pro-LGB.

Likewise. I'm also a total sports fa*.

Spoiler

i blame the n) looking like a g to my dumb brain

 

[Tesseract]

this seems good, small business needs massive cash infusions

good ideas and authenticity are in short supply

 

[teezzy]

Elon Musk is everything an American should be. Haters be damned. Dude is gonna be remembered for initiating the largest change we've seen in the automobile industry in decades, in addition to potentially leading us to becoming a multi-planetary species.

Lefties wanna give him guff for a few trollish tweets, or apparently not paying his workers enough. Get bent. Dude is a revolutionary. Work somewhere else if your skills are marketable enough.

Wish him and his family well.

 

[DESTROYA]

Elon Musk is everything an American should be. Haters be damned. Dude is gonna be remembered for initiating the largest change we've seen in the automobile industry in decades, in addition to potentially leading us to becoming a multi-planetary species.

Lefties wanna give him guff for a few trollish tweets, or apparently not paying his workers enough. Get bent. Dude is a revolutionary. Work somewhere else if your skills are marketable enough.

Wish him and his family well.

Yeah I really don’t get the hate he gets
So he’s filthy rich but the dude worked hard for everything, nothing but respect.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Elon Musk is everything an American should be. Haters be damned. Dude is gonna be remembered for initiating the largest change we've seen in the automobile industry in decades, in addition to potentially leading us to becoming a multi-planetary species.

Lefties wanna give him guff for a few trollish tweets, or apparently not paying his workers enough. Get bent. Dude is a revolutionary. Work somewhere else if your skills are marketable enough.

Wish him and his family well.

He would make a killer President. Shame he's not eligible.

 

[John Day]

What is the criticism behind Portnoy, anyone knows?

 

[CrankyJay™]

I actually like Dave Portnoy. Normally someone of his kind would annoy me but he’s made lucid thoughts on COVID, the fallout, and his pizza reviews are hilarious. He’s not a perfect dude by any stretch but I think he’s honest, which is more than we can say for most celebrities. The barstool fund has helped a lot of people already, including a local restaurant right down the street from me.

I think he’s getting unnecessary shit for his interview with Trump and supposed softball questions. Dave’s not a professional interviewer.

How much did Elon commit?

 

[INC]

Elon Musk is everything an American should be. Haters be damned. Dude is gonna be remembered for initiating the largest change we've seen in the automobile industry in decades, in addition to potentially leading us to becoming a multi-planetary species.

Lefties wanna give him guff for a few trollish tweets, or apparently not paying his workers enough. Get bent. Dude is a revolutionary. Work somewhere else if your skills are marketable enough.

Wish him and his family well.

Whats not to like?

hi I'm a billionaire, what do you want me to make? A flamethrower? Sure fuck it
Or
Hi im a billionaire we've made this awesome new tech, heres a neural link/reusable rocket/self driving car, here look at it, learn from it, better it

Not many tech companies show you exactly what theyre working on.

As far as eccentric billionaire go, he's one of the few decent ones

If he turns out to be a evil genius, at least he did it with style

 

[Tesseract]

I actually like Dave Portnoy. Normally someone of his kind would annoy me but he’s made lucid thoughts on COVID, the fallout, and his pizza reviews are hilarious. He’s not a perfect dude by any stretch but I think he’s honest, which is more than we can say for most celebrities. The barstool fund has helped a lot of people already, including a local restaurant right down the street from me.

I think he’s getting unnecessary shit for his interview with Trump and supposed softball questions. Dave’s not a professional interviewer.

How much did

thanks for this, didn't get a chance to deep dive the guy

i'll try to plunge the depths in future threads (sporadic they may be)

 

[CrankyJay™]

What is the criticism behind Portnoy, anyone knows?

People think he’s the poster boy for toxic masculinity plus he interviewed Trump. Oh, and he’s a Patriots fan. I like him though.

He definitely leans right but every argument I’ve seen him make this past year has been reasonable in my book.

 

[teezzy]

"toxic masculinity" is the wimpiest accusation I've ever heard, and I'm far from the most masculine dude

 

[DESTROYA]

What is the criticism behind Portnoy, anyone knows?

Not sure but I’ve seen him on Tucker Carlson’s show a few times so maybe its a left or right thing and they don’t need much reason to hate each other .
But raising money for struggling business’s should be embraced by both sides

 

[John Day]

Oh so it’s a Right thing ok, from the sound of it i thought he raped someone or some shit like that.

 

[CrankyJay™]

Not sure but I’ve seen him on Tucker Carlson’s show a few times so maybe its a left or right thing and they don’t need much reason to hate each other .
But raising money for struggling business’s should be embraced by both sides

He’s doing what politicians fail to do, and at the same time this is what politicians would prefer we do anyway: foot the bill ourselves.

 

[ArtemisClydeFrog]

Elon Musk is everything an American should be. Haters be damned. Dude is gonna be remembered for initiating the largest change we've seen in the automobile industry in decades, in addition to potentially leading us to becoming a multi-planetary species.

Lefties wanna give him guff for a few trollish tweets, or apparently not paying his workers enough. Get bent. Dude is a revolutionary. Work somewhere else if your skills are marketable enough.

Wish him and his family well.

He can troll all he wants. Dude's a fucking American hero.

 

[teezzy]

I'll never understand people bitching about the money they make. They agree to take a job at an agreed-upon rate. If their skills were worth more then they'd be able to get picked up elsewhere. It's basic supply and demand.

 

[Pagusas]

Saw Aaron Rodgers kicked into this too. Looks like it’s taking off

 

[Shadowplay1979]

Publicizing this would mean the media would have to acknowledge that small businesses were destroyed from lockdowns and Antifa all year...and you know certain media outlets would never acknowledge that.

 

[GeorgPrime]

Elon Musk is everything an American should be. Haters be damned. Dude is gonna be remembered for initiating the largest change we've seen in the automobile industry in decades, in addition to potentially leading us to becoming a multi-planetary species.

Lefties wanna give him guff for a few trollish tweets, or apparently not paying his workers enough. Get bent. Dude is a revolutionary. Work somewhere else if your skills are marketable enough.

Wish him and his family well.

AOC wants to get rid of airplanes, dont start with private space flights lol

Butvit shows the true evil here. The Media.

 

[diffusionx]

Dave Portnay has always been a standup dude .
Good for him , why exactly was he criticized for raising money to help struggling small businesses?

Because the whole point of all this is to destroy small businesses and funnel the money to Walmart and Amazon.