Allegations Of Misogynistic Remarks Come Back To Haunt Bloomberg

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2020 candidate Michael Bloomberg seems to have more in common with President Donald Trump than he’d like to admit.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1291567
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I have this nagging feeling that billionaires are the problem not the answer. Any body else?

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I agree with you one billion percent.

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Not that comments like that are acceptable in any context (and that goes double for a boss talking to his subordinates), but the contrast between the effect of this disclosure on Bloomberg, compared to Trump’s Access Hollywood [non] fallout, will be very stark.

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What’s the problem here? I don’t see the problem.

Oh… Now I see… He’s running as a DEMOCRAT. Yeah, this kinda shit ain’t gonna fly. /s

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Netflix™ says that if billionaires aren’t solving your problems, you’re not using enough of them.

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My mood

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This story and the Bassett story might not matter, but Trump got over because of the ‘two scuffed baseballs’ theory.

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I’ll bet evangelicals are rushing to argue “Nobody expects their president to be a choir boy!”

And “G-d often uses flawed vessels for his purposes!”

Maybe “King David wasn’t perfect! King Saul wasn’t perfect! King Solomon wasn’t perfect!”

Probably deafening right about now.

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We’re gonna need a bigger locker room.

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A whip smart 38 year old gay mayor with a husband doesn’t have these issues.

Just sayin’…

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Well, at least Bloomberg is a real billionaire. That ought to count for something…

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I don’t care, I just really don’t care. We’ve got a Lawless monster in the WH, a corrupt AG and a bunch of complicit GOPers running the Senate putting RWNJ Judges in every minute.

I really don’t give a fuck about this shit. Win in 2020 nothing else matters to me.

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I live in Michigan and didn’t know much about Bloomberg before he joined the race. I read the article in the Post today and was deeply disgusted. Surely we can do better than a Republican billionaire with a long history of disparaging remarks against women and minorities. A candidate shouldn’t be able to get away with winning the nomination with millions of dollars in slick ads and virtually no contact with voters and the press. We are picking a president not a laundry detergent.

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We are very likely at a point where the choice will be between Bloomberg and Trump. And that’s such an easy choice that it’s virtually none at all. So stories like this are pretty much irrelevant.

(When Germany invaded the Soviet Union, someone asked Churchill if England and the USSR would now be alliesm to which Churchill responded, “If Hitler invaded Hell, I should at least make a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.” That is where we probably are now.)

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The question is not whether Bloomberg is better than Trump. The question is whether the Republicans will use this to depress turnout. Spoiler: they will.

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During the 2001 NYC mayoral campaign I was a volunteer and helped out on a policy paper on the Mark Green for mayor campaign. It was well known about Bloomberg’s misogynistic history and settlements where it came up during debate but the maelstrom of 9/11, with a rescheduled primary, divided Democratic base and a Giuliani endorsement allowed Bloomberg to squeak in.

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Clearly it is demonstrated they are not the solution.

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short-sighted AF

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Surely it’s too big already

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