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Old 02-18-2020, 11:48 AM
 
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And don't just take my word for it on Bloomberg being a worse version of Trump in friendlier media wrapping, ask the New York Times' Ross Douthat what he thinks.

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...Democrats considering this sales pitch should be very clear on what a Bloomberg presidency would mean. Bloomberg does not have Trump’s flagrant vices (though some of his alleged behavior with women is pretty bad) or his bald disdain for norms and rules and legal niceties, and so a Bloomberg presidency will feel less institutionally threatening, less constitutionally perilous, than the ongoing wildness of the Trump era — in addition to delivering at least some of the policy changes that liberals and Democrats desire.

However, feelings can be deceiving. Trump’s authoritarian tendencies are naked on his Twitter feed, but Bloomberg’s imperial instincts, his indifference to limits on his power, are a conspicuous feature of his career. Trump jokes about running for a third term; Bloomberg actually managed it, bulldozing through the necessary legal changes. Trump tries to bully the F.B.I. and undermine civil liberties; Bloomberg ran New York as a miniature surveillance state. Trump has cowed the Republican Party with celebrity and bombast; Bloomberg has spent his political career buying organizations and politicians that might otherwise impede him. Trump blusters and bullies the press; Bloomberg literally owns a major media organization. Trump has Putin envy; Bloomberg hearts Xi Jinping.
You partisan hypocrites better be real careful about what you ask for.

 
Old 02-18-2020, 11:59 AM
 
Location: Unperson Everyman Land
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So far with Bloomberg we have.
  • Disdain for Black men 16 - 24
  • Farmers compared to idiots
  • Manufacturing workers lack "grey matter"
  • Goes to a BBQ and looks like he's gonna vomit.
  • Love for Hillary Clinton.
He's really racking them up and hasn't won a single delegate yet. But some Democrats including many Black mayors & politicians it seems, love him for his Billions.

And don't forget he supported the Iraq War, endorsed GW Bush in 2004, was a Republican (2001-2007) and an independent (2007-2019).
 
Old 02-18-2020, 12:01 PM
 
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And don't forget he supported the Iraq War, endorsed GW Bush in 2004, was a Republican (2001-2007) and an independent (2007-2019).
Bloomberg is the bizarro Trump.

Where Trump is a Democrat who ran and won as a Republican, Bloomberg is a Republican who is running and trying to win a s Democrat. Besides twitter bombast and verbal diarrhea, whatever Trump does, Bloomberg does more and turns it up to 11, which is one more than 10 (Nigel Tufnel shout out!).
 
Old 02-18-2020, 12:09 PM
 
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Bloomberg is the bizarro Trump.

Where Trump is a Democrat who ran and won as a Republican, Bloomberg is a Republican who is running and trying to win a s Democrat. Besides twitter bombast and verbal diarrhea, whatever Trump does, Bloomberg does more and turns it up to 11, which is one more than 10 (Nigel Tufnel shout out!).
Trump can make a convincing argument that the Democratic Party changed so much, and in the wrong way, that he had to leave.

A lot of other Americans could make the same argument.
 
Old 02-18-2020, 12:16 PM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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Interesting that nobody is disputing what he had to say - just trying to weasel out of the topic.
I noticed that, too. Seems Dem voters are conceding Bloomberg's point: Black and Hispanic males don't know how to behave in the workplace.
 
Old 02-18-2020, 12:21 PM
 
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I noticed that, too. Seems Dem voters are conceding Bloomberg's point: Black and Hispanic males don't know how to behave in the workplace.
Of course, that wasn't Bloomberg's point at all.
 
Old 02-18-2020, 12:23 PM
 
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https://twitter.com/Breaking911/stat...749946880?s=20

So we really want this guy in office? Who assumes all black and brown young males can't do anything? Not even behave?

What's this guys beef with black and brown young males? Did one of them date his daughter or something? This obsession is strange.

Edit: Since racists here like to cover for Bloomberg, here's the full interview: https://youtu.be/4KX6swK-JoU
Please - I won't vote for him but you have a 19 sec excerpt taken out of context. That's something the Democrats do. Bloomberg was talking about the amt of money he has donated to employment programs for those less fortunate who are the individuals he was describing and he's right on the money.

Let's not start making things up like the liberals and taking things out of context.
 
Old 02-18-2020, 12:25 PM
 
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he has a point, it's cool not to be mainstream. Why would anybody expect an 80 year old, incredibly wealthy white guy to view this any differently?
lol I love the racism, sexism, ageism, wealthism in a thread about bigotry.
 
Old 02-18-2020, 12:29 PM
 
Location: Texas
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So when Bloomberg told the truth like this "Elsewhere, in the interview he asserted that 'blacks and Latinos score terribly in school testing compared to whites and Asians' and that minorities make up a majority of those incarcerated in the city's jails.

He went on to add: 'If you look at where crime takes place, it's in minority neighborhoods. If you look at who the victims and the perpetrators are, it's virtually all minorities. This is something that has gone on for a long time'. "


why should people be upset? He should be applauded if he brought up the high percentage of single parenthood in those groups as the cause and how their children are much worse off.
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