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It's a sin to spend that kind of money on these "ads". We could find cure for cancer with that money, help the mentally ill, the list goes on and on.
Maybe you should research the 100 million Bloomberg donated to the Gates Foundation to eradicate polio around the world. There is something called the Chronicle of Philanthropy which is essentially a list of those billionaires that are in the top 50 of giving. Bloomberg has been on the list 15 times in the 20 years it was started. Trump? Zero. Rather he started a foundation for his own personal use and was sued for it forcing him to close the foundation. Bloomberg has donated 3.3 billion, more than Trump's net worth. He's donated 1.8 billion to Johns Hopkins for student financial aid programs and another 1.5 billion for research, professorships, and scholarships. Trump?
Bloomberg's ads are effective. He's transferring black support from Biden to him via his ads. They are very effective. He's also blasting every available media, including Facebook, with anti Trump rhetoric.
Think about what he's accomplished getting into the race late and having only 1 debate under his belt. Yes Sander's leads but he has a small base with only about 30% of the Democrats and Independents. Bloomberg polls in the 2nd to 3rd position. He's achieved all that with just ads. He has also qualified for the next debate in North Carolina, without taking a dime in contributions.
Look, what he is spending on ads is like you or I spending a couple of hundred bucks, for him, it's chump change. If he is the nominee he plans on spending one billion dollars of his own money to try and beat Trump.
Remember how he got the rules changed to get elected to a third term as mayor of New York? He's doing the same getting the D's to change the rules so he could participate in the debates. Also understand that Bloomberg spent over 30 million to help the Democrats take back Congress in 2018 and we all know how effective that was. He also donated to Susan Collins in Maine, but I think not so much this time areound. She's polling about even with her Democratic rival. Guess who Bloomberg will spend his money on this time?
One of you stated that you thought he would graft from our tax payer dollars. Why? The guy is mega rich unlike the wanna be billionaire with multiple bankruptcies and criminal grafts like Trump U and Trump foundation. So who would I rather vote for? A real billionaire who gives away more than Trump is worth several times over, who hasn't been successfully sued for graft for a fake foundation and university, and who spends his own money on a campaign vs taking dark money through the NRA?
Bloomberg is only running to try to stop Sanders, anyone with common sense knows this
Not true.
He is running for a single reason only. Sure, you could list 100 smaller reasons for that big reason.
The single reason is to save the country and world from the likes of the Carnival Barking Clown, who would be entertaining normally (on TV) but who, when sitting in that office, has absolutely zero idea of what the job should entail, let alone how to do it.
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As of late February Michael Bloomberg has spent more than $450 million on political advertising since entering the Democratic presidential race in late November.
Some of these ads are really juvenile:
'Trump Cheats at Golf'
'Trump Eats Burnt Steak'
Just think of what alternative good all that money could have done for truly charitable purposes! But NO, Bloomberg needs to buy himself some more power! And if Bloomberg can blow hundreds of millions of his own money on a personal power trip, just think of how much of our taxpayer money he would waste if, God forbid, he became President!
Trump is right - "Mini Mike' has some manhood issues he needs to work out!
Maybe you should research the 100 million Bloomberg donated to the Gates Foundation to eradicate polio around the world.
Bloomberg is a Republican oligarch who hates labor unions, hates a living wage and uses prison labor as part of his scorched earth tactic to buy the election with his billions.
He is the epitome of what is wrong with our election system.
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Not true.
He is running for a single reason only. Sure, you could list 100 smaller reasons for that big reason.
The single reason is to save the country and world from the likes of the Carnival Barking Clown, who would be entertaining normally (on TV) but who, when sitting in that office, has absolutely zero idea of what the job should entail, let alone how to do it.
Bloomberg loves the tax cuts that the cheeto gave him, and he knows that Sanders will take them away. Again, his motive is pretty clear. He may not like tRump, but he likes his own $$$$
One day you will be sick, old or both. So maybe you pay in to the system to help others when you are young and healthy. But then you get old or sick and you are covered, partially by what you paid in and partially from healthy people younger than you. That is how insurance works, whether it is from a private company who profits off of your illness or a non-profit government insurance program. Nobody is proposing a system for "making the government the arbiter of whether I should live or die."
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hahahahahaha....... talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Trump is in a league all by himself when it comes to juvenile.
Who's more juvenile? Bloomberg's truthful billboard ads or Trumps asinine tweets and namecalling ten times a day? And the $450M was not spent on those billboard ads. But, once again, let's not deal in facts when lies will do. His TV ads are very effective - and not particularly disparaging. But the billboard ads are a hoot. Mike doesn't tweet insults, he buys billboards! Love it.
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