Dear Michael Bloomberg,
Just shut up already.
Signed,
The American people.
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I wish that were hard for me to imagine.
Sadly, it isnât.
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Another rich, old, white man enters the race. Whoop-de-doo!
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âI find the level of discourse and discussion distressingly banal and an outrage and an insult to the voters,â Bloomberg told the financial publication.
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So then donât soil yourself by running Mike. To get votes you hafta abase yourself and grovel for the rubes. There are herds of epically stupid folk out there Mike, who wouldnât know they had been splattered by Trumpâs shit filled buffoonery. And youâd hafta compete with that.
Itâs better to hold onto your money, Mike.
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Ya think?
But wouldnât he have wanted to do the same thing before Iowa? Oh wait â He did!
I wonder how many more times the media will let him pull the same routine?
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as many times as they need him toâŚ
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On point four, that group is now called Everytown for Safety and Bloomberg is committed to putting $50 million of his own money into it. On one hand heâs about as idealistic as they come, on the other hand heâs staked out losing positions that appeal to only liberals as you point out. So heâd be a Nader or Perot for a new century.
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Oh great. The Ralph Nader 2000 candidate in 2016⌠Hand the election to the incompetent, repulsive Republican⌠He would be doing MORE to help Trump or Cruz by running! Oh, the ironyâŚ
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I may be alone saying this, but Billionaire Bloomberg running a third party campaign doesnât actually scare me all that much.
I highly, HIGHLY doubt many democrats would vote for him. First, Nader, W, and the 2000 election. Thatâs a scar thatâs still fresh in near everyoneâs psyche. Second, who the hell is Bloombergâs constituency? Rich folk who arenât that progressive or that conservative? I mean, who the heck would vote from him outside of NY?
Psssssht. No way would he subject his finances to the scrutiny of a National Presidential Campaign.
This is just a shot across Hillaryâs bow to try to keep her from sliding further left on Bank Regulations.
He is worth 20 times what Trump is and would be WAY more dangerous. Trump is a rich buffoon. Bloomberg is a Wealthy Man.
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Uh, how is it a âshot across Hillaryâs bowâ when heâs saying heâll only run if Bernie wins the nomination? (Has he changed his position on that since a couple weeks ago, when he launched his first trial balloon?)
Seems more like a âshot across the bowâ of Bernie supporters, with Bloomberg threatening to jump in and act as spoiler and hand the election to the Republicans.
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As far as Bloombergâs actual chances as a Presidential candidate, I think Josh M sums it up just about perfectly in his brief EdBlog piece:
I will say that I have serious doubts that Bloomberg for President will survive first contact with the Hudson RiverâŚI strongly suspect that a Bloomberg for President insurgency would create a movement on the scale of Lieberman for President. After all, he wants your gun, your soda and your union card. Should go great.
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Its a fâing parody of itself (and a true sign of our collective gullibility and stupidity) that another billionaire is wringing his hands- closely weighing whether we need saving from Sanders, who is the lone candidate of either party without billionaire backing and conversely with a consistent, plain vanilla idea that -SHOCKINGLY- most peoples interests donât align very well with the well represented, uber funded and wildly immediately self benefiting favored policies of billionaires.
Note to the chicken little, ooooh what will we do if the rich canât demand nice things crowd; About 72% of the US annual economy/GDP is driven by downwardly weighted consumer spending, federal taxes when Social Security and Medicare are included are collected overwelmingly from non-Billionaires. Our economy and our currency is more threatened (with plain as day current and historical examples) by affording the super wealthy their self interested policy preferences than it is by actively placing friction against their continual and growing self imposed financial dominanceâŚF Billionaires is a perfectly reasonable policy. Who really gives a shit what they want- donât go away mad, just go away. We donât live in a jungle, homeless people are on average about 90% as physically capable of fighting for survival as anyone, but the kind of battle they need to wage is usually against people just a few percentage pionts above them in the socio economic stratum and billionaires are happily taking a passive and compounding cut out of all classes wagers of resources to suceed.relative to each other. Okay Iâm done ranting.
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Just what we need, another spoiler billionaire like Donald âthe draft dodging cowardâ Trump.
Nationally, Bloomberg couldnât win election to the Water Commission in Flint.
What a conceited asshole. Oh, well, heâs from NYC.
Ted? Ted Cruz, is that you?
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Thatâs what we need. Another narcissistic schmuck billionaire running for president.
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Perfect another billionaire, with the twist that he doesnât even try to be an entertaining asshole.
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Yes, just what the voting public is clamoring for, another billionaire running for President.
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He did win three elections for Mayor in NYC, which happens to solidly Democratic otherwise and he was already a Billionaire when he did it. Heâll pull votes from Democrats and could even beat their candidate, opening the door to Trump, Cruz, or whoever on the right.
Donât tell Mariah.