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2019-12-07 Home Front: Politix

CHOMP! Bloomberg on Trump: "I watched all the Democratic candidates. And I thought, 'Donald Trump would eat 'em up.' "

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Posted by Lex 2019-12-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 An honest man.

Posted by Lex 2019-12-07 00:55|| 2019-12-07 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Yep, but with Warren or Sanders left standing as the party leaders, it would mean he and his caste would be powerless.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-07 07:56|| 2019-12-07 07:56|| Front Page Top

#3 And you would be just a small appetizer Bloomy.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-12-07 08:59|| 2019-12-07 08:59|| Front Page Top

#4 He must have some kind of alternate strategy.
Maybe seeking a cabinet post + promises not to go after his billions if he acts as a stalking horse for the DNC and ...

H I L L A R Y ? ?

Posted by Lex 2019-12-07 09:47|| 2019-12-07 09:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Mr. Wife thinks Mike Bloomberg is running for the vice president spot on the Democratic ballot. He pointed out that other very rich men have done so over the years, mentioning Nelson Rockefeller and Theodore Roosevelt, both of whom were previously governor of New York and both of whom took the spot intending to subsequently become president.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-07 16:15|| 2019-12-07 16:15|| Front Page Top

#6 TR and Rocky: But those guys lived when cis-gender hetero-normative male white northwest European Protestant elite scions were cool.

Bloomie doesn't even tick one identity box. Not one.

For that reason, if he were to go to the Democratic Party registration site and try to sign up as a volunteer, he wouldn't even get past the landing page (no joke).

Posted by Lex 2019-12-07 16:59|| 2019-12-07 16:59|| Front Page Top

#7 I looked up Mr. Bloomberg’s Wikipedia page. BS electrical engineer, Harvard MBA, partner in Salomon Bros. before going out on his own. Currently worth about $58 billion. Clearly opportunistic about political parties:

A lifelong Democrat before seeking elective office, Bloomberg switched his party registration in 2001 to run for mayor as a Republican. He won a second term in 2005, and left the Republican Party two years later. Bloomberg campaigned to change the city's term limits law, and was elected to his third term in 2009 as an independent on the Republican ballot line.

He announced on November 24, 2019 that he is seeking the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2020 presidential election.

Oh, and Jewish is no longer a tick-able identity box for the Democrats. Nor is unmarried. Being 77 years old makes him a year younger than Bernie Sanders...

Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-07 20:06|| 2019-12-07 20:06|| Front Page Top

#8 He and Bernie should debate the Jewishness... I think there's a little too much self-hate that would be fun to expose

Posted by Frank G 2019-12-07 22:26|| 2019-12-07 22:26|| Front Page Top

#9 A cute little shmeckle from Brighton
Turned money and media titan,
So clean and well-spoken,
And... I'm gonna stop right there.

Plucked me right in the heartstrings to learn (or be reminded, which is about the same thing, lately) where he came from. Er, from whence he came.

Posted by Victor Emmanuel Whinert8537 2019-12-07 23:58|| 2019-12-07 23:58|| Front Page Top

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