If you look into it, Abrams is more likely to be on Team Bloomberg.
Context: This was in January after Bloomberg donated $5 million to Abrams' Fair Fight organization.
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Democratic Presidential Primary |February OT| It Can't be Worse than Iowa, Right? (Discussion Guidelines in OP)
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If you look into it, Abrams is more likely to be on Team Bloomberg.
Context: This was in January after Bloomberg donated $5 million to Abrams' Fair Fight organization.
Bloomberg's campaign is a deeply depressing example of the amount of people who will happily sell out for money.
Yup. Says a lot of these "leaders" going to bat for Michael fucking Bloomberg.
Book One - Those videos serve as a reference point for the "power rankings" segment. And you're reading too much into that single screen-cap.
That was a pretty straightforward and harmless as expected. People were working themselves up over nothing.
That was a pretty straightforward and harmless as expected. People were working themselves up over nothing.
You're right, my original statement is laughable because it's too nice.
I'd say they're traitors. To ERA, to minorities, to women, to poor people, and to basically anyone who isn't a rich white guy.
The 26 people who voted for Bloomberg as "their pick" for the Democratic nominee are traitors.
man the more that comes out about bloomberg the sillier the people who said they will vote for him look
And the worst people like Abrams and others look for entertaining him at this point. Just shameful.
Just cast my early vote for Bernie in California. Vamos!!!!
Also y'all got to pay attention down ballot.
Also y'all got to pay attention down ballot.
If it comes to being between Bernie and Bloomberg as it looks like, and further from that being Bernie vs Trump, being forced to choose between socialism and fascism will show a lot of people for who they really are.
Man, there are multiple Saurons running around disguised as elves.
As someone that campaigned hard for Stacey in 2018. This fucking hurts bruh.
100% agree. People shilling and bating for Bloomberg are approaching MAGA people levels.
I don't know if it's on purpose, but the fact that "Free-for-All" is just under Bernie's portrait is very appropriate.
There's a shared desire for authoritarian restoration. It's almost exactly the same motivation.
we are reaching new frontiers with some of these takes re: Bloomberg being an oligarch
Seeing people defend Bloomberg makes my stomach churn. I can't believe I used to think that a Trump style candidate would have no traction in a dem primary.
Heaven forbid, if the two frontrunners in the dem race become Bloomberg and Sanders, people are still going to call Bernie the Trump of the democratic primary. Folks will look you in the eye and tell you Bloomberg is the pragmatic choice.
Yeah, same.
I've been "blue no matter what" for this entire cycle but if Bloomberg is the guy it'd be Horrible Racist vs Horrible Racist...
Curious if we will see those in the Lib blue checkmark "vote blue no matter who" brigade on Twitter who had been explicitly including Bloomberg in that chant despite people telling them why they shouldn't turn around and act like they haven't been. Gary Whitta i'm looking at you. I'll take a change of heart, but boy does it not speak very highly of their stupid politics and they will probably learn nothing from it.
Yeah, for Bloomberg to be an oligarch, he'd need to have been heavily involved with government in some capacity.
Such as being mayor of a major city, or running for President.
Oh.
I understand Bloomberg sucks, but, people, seriously. He's not Trump levels of bad. For one, he's not going to try to ban a religious group from America.
Jordan is probably texting him asking wtf hes actually thinking
Youre right hes potentially worse.
Bloomberg isn't beholden to McConnel, but he also has similar views to McConnel and a similar history to Trump. He's bad.
Its really not when you have the leader of the alt right, a neo nazis, tweeting out that Mike, not Trump, is the person his people should be voting for
And also isnt stupid like Trump, and will know how to operate within the system.
He is bad. But he'll be better on almost everything. Especially climate change and the judiciary. He'll also probably won't try to ban religious minorities and build an insane wall. He would be an improvement over Trump overall.
Why would he be better on the judiciary? Why would he not ban brown people when he's already been proud of sweepingly racist legislation?
he won't build the wall that Trump also isn't building I guess
Spending an inordinate amount of time trying to paint Sanders as being fascistic because of some superficial similarities to Trump while completely ignoring the legion of fascist and prejudiced tendencies exhibited by Bloomberg is exactly the kind of vapid life-negating realpolitik I've come to expect!
Also his stance on climate change isn't doing anything to save the world so its really a moot point that its better than Trumps.
No. You're just ignorant.
At one point during Bloomberg's tenure as Mayor of New York City, Stop & Frisk resulted in 600,000 arrests a year. That's 2,000 arrests per day. In a limited area in NYC. All of them minorities (mostly Black people I believe). He's literally claimed that we're being too harsh on White people, and too easy on Black people. He set up surveillance cameras throughout the city in areas where homeless people live. He literally spied on the homeless.
He's harassed many women in very crude and violent terms that easily rival Trump's words.
And that's just his offenses in bigotry. He notoriously hates the poor too. I'm sure other in the thread will be happy to provide examples. But you can find some over in the Bloomberg thread.
He's also literally the 9th wealthiest person in the world, and has $55 billion, i.e. he's worth 20 times more than Trump. He buys people and organizations left and right.
He's an insane bigot with financial power that dwarfs that of the most corrupt president in recent history.
Bloomberg is at least as bad as Trump.
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Holy cow this forum is like left wing political Twitter on steroids. Bloomberg is worse than Trump? You'd rather sit an election out even if it means second Trump term rather than Bloomberg? And the one minority member who pushed back gets banned for pointing out the craziness. Make it two minority members getting banned, since I imagine I will get banned for pushing back on this crazy narrative. And whichever well meaning white mod bans me should maybe pause and think what it signifies that they think they know better than me what is good for me when all I'm pushing back on is the notion that Bloomberg won't be better than Trump for people of my skin color and there's no way I would sit out this election. I don't have that privilege to throw an electoral tantrum because I didn't get the far left candidate of choice.
Are you serious? Bloomberg will ban brown people? He will appoint the same justices as Donald Trump, McConnell, and the Heritage Foundation?
Plus, you conveniently left out the most pressing issue. Climate change. If everything were identical to a Trump presidency, but with a better plan on climate change, it would be a significant improvement over the current turd in office.
Bloomberg doesn't have a better climate change plam. And Bloomberg is a huge racist that is proud of using racist legislation in the name of "keeping people safe". Why wouldn't he keep the Muslim ban? It fits his history, there's a reason he was a Republican for so long. He donated to Republicans in 2018 so Trump could keep the senate!
So far I'm counting a quintuple entendre with that tag line.
I'll vote for every Dem in this election that isn't Bloomberg. Every single one. Bloomberg is my limit. At that point democracy in this country is dead and buried and we have much bigger problems on our hands.
I'll repeat: 2,000 arrests of minorities every day for an entire year in one part of one city under Bloomberg's Stop & Frisk policy. Coming from a man with 20 times the financial might of Trump.
Those two facts alone should make you at least consider the possibility that Bloomberg might be as bad as Trump. Just because he doesn't look and sound as ridiculous in public as Trump doesn't mean he is any less awful underneath the civility.
Whether he's worse, I don't know. But if he's as bad, how can you not understand if people don't want to choose between the two?
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