Stuff like that really scares me. And Bloomberg is a vindictive asshole so he would absolutely do something like that.
Does Bloomberg suddenly become an orange tornado screaming at all disloyalty with a cultish base? Only guy honestly i could see pulling off that bully pulpit on the dem side is Bernie. He already as that passionate, loyal base there. Bloom support would basically come from a desire to beat Trump. Not a cult of Bloomberg.
Yup. I guess to be fair there's not much to talk about, but seeing people rushing in to try and justify him is just such a bummer. I don't even want to think about how far it'll go if he starts winning delegates.
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Deep breaths. They are not the same. No matter how much you mistrust the establishment, there's no one on the Dem side as corrupt and enabling as McConnell. And the Dem electorate is not a cult - though the single-mindedness and paranoia of some Bernie folks makes me wonder.
Anecdote: I only know a few people who have Bloomberg as anywhere but their bottom tier and they literally all work in finance.
I could see the party doing something like this, but only after 1) he wins the presidency and 2) we win the senate in large part due to him substantially funding marginal races. But we have a long ways to go before we cross either of those bridges. Personally, I don't see how Bloomberg wins the Democratic nomination without crippling our turnout in the fall. But I thought that about Trump, too!
No, he signed a law that increased his term limit for another term.
I'm not sure if everyone knows that Y2Kev sometimes comes into threads and jokes about wealth related things. It's a long running joke not to be taken seriously in my experience.
I don't get this sort of thought process
Look, in this hypothetical scenario, President Bloomberg is trying to advance an anti LGBTQ+ agenda with court nominations. The Dems move to stop him. I doubt we will ever see this play out, but if it did, and he IS the type of person to want to force his anti LGBTQ+ agenda forwards, he has the money to use the same tactics Trump has used to bring the GOP to heel more than I think most of us thought he'd be able to if we're honest with ourselves.
So he's also joking about wanting a thoroughly documented racist, sexist and transphobe billionaire who is buying his way up the polls to win the nom over Warren?
I didn't. That was a GOP talking point and complete bs. Why would the man who rigged the judiciary and blocked election security moderate the lunatic in charge? If anything, he wants a wild executive to provide cover for his own antics.
This is basically what happened to the Republicans that stood against Trump's agenda in 2017 too. They're gone now and basically Mitt Romney is the only one "holding him in check".
New hotness: DOJ and Roger Stone
ok veto is coming out
Yes.
For real. I recognize it's a bit of trolling in good fun, but it's not really something you should troll about imo
How do we get President Bloomberg without democrats supporting him? We don't. Either his money is good enough to win primaries or it isn't. Hopefully it's not.
My thought process is this: Bloomberg sucks, but he would probably not have kids in cages and about-face support for the Dreamers and other undocumented people, so even if I don't like him, I'm going to vote for him for their sake if I am forced to make that unfortunate choice come November. And I'm not going to get high and mighty about it, waste a vote to a third party or not vote, because I realize the realities of our shitty electoral system, and my "compromise" vote to help those kids in cages and undocumented families outweighs the disdain I have for Bloomberg and whatever moral high I'd have for saying "hey, at least I didn't vote for Bloomberg". If we get to a Bloomberg v Trump election, then that fucking sucks, but it's not going to change the reality that it will then either be one of those two, and pretending they are the same is a farce.
Then he needs to work on his material, because people in this very thread are already prepping to support Bloomberg (known bigot) if he picks up steam.
I swear it's impossible to discuss hypotheticals and future potentials in this thread anymore. We are constantly inundated with takes that can't understand the nuance of talking about a WORST CASE BLOOM vs TRUMP scenario, and can only boil it down into simple binary 'oh now you like bloom huh, wow this thread!'
Its impressive that we're coming up with scenarios where we win and then the party collapses. Peak Dems in Disarray.
Call me when the subpoenas hit.
Okay so we're supposed to vote for a richer climate change denying, transphobic, islamophobic racist over the poorer one?
Wasn't being totally serious lol
But instead of being an antisemetic scapegoat it will all actually be completely true
Voting out one Trump just to put another one in, just with a D next to his name, isn't as strong of an argument as some people seem to think it is.
