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Nice Guy Eddie

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lot of hyperbole over the debate performance. First off, the entire debate format of asking adults to constantly raise their hands, can't be taken seriously. Second, anyone that supports one of the other candidates were already prepared to say that Bloomberg had the worst performance of all time because they're all afraid of him and his bankroll.

I do think Bloomberg has to decide whether the debates are worth his time if the point of the debates is to allow the noncompetitive candidates to score hits on him. Bloomberg might just be better off to buy TV time for interviews.

 

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If Bloomberg really wanted to use his money to help the country he would buy Fox News and change the programming.

HenryJames
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Well you Republicans have one guy running, and he's pretty much the biggest piece of shit in presidential history so...

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I guess the recent boners for Bloomberg in here negates the claim that the CR is a leftist echo chamber. I think it also highlights the class divide the Bros keep bringing up. The whole thing feels gi

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Or because he did have the worst performance of the night and seemed wholly unprepared for the debate. You're welcome to go find some media that says he wasn't the one up there who came in dead last as most everything I've seen post-debate said he got his ass handed to him. If he can't handle the heat from Elizabeth Warren, how will he handle Trump throwing heat at him? He could turn it around at the next debate but he seemed to not be able to handle getting hit until the 2nd hour. He seems unable to justify his own positions. 

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8 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I do think Bloomberg has to decide whether the debates are worth his time if the point of the debates is to allow the noncompetitive candidates to score hits on him. Bloomberg might just be better off to buy TV time for interviews.

Yeah, this isn't how it should work.

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14 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

I thought the Bloomberg people had NDAs? Saw somewhere it's like 9 pages long.

Oh they certainly do, but he's hired so many people and it's been rumored that younger people who are more desperate for jobs are taking positions but aren't committed to him at all as an actual candidate. It would not be surprising to see tons of leaks coming from his campaign. Ken got a copy of the NDA they sign the other day.

 

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If he skips future debates the other campaigns will hammer him for being a loser coward (which he is) who got dominated (which he did) and laugh at him.

If he doesn't skip them, he will get savaged again.

It's beautiful.

Also, I hope someone on stage challenges him on his "I'm giving my money away!" BS.

https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1230605235351146496

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2 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

If he skips future debates the other campaigns will hammer him for being a loser coward (which he is) who got dominated (which he did) and laugh at him.

If he doesn't skip them, he will get savaged again.

It's beautiful.

Also, I hope someone on stage challenges him on his "I'm giving my money away!" BS.

https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1230605235351146496

It's all about preventing Bernie Sanders from getting 1,991 delegates.

That's it. That's all they are trying to do.

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31 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

lot of hyperbole over the debate performance. First off, the entire debate format of asking adults to constantly raise their hands, can't be taken seriously. Second, anyone that supports one of the other candidates were already prepared to say that Bloomberg had the worst performance of all time because they're all afraid of him and his bankroll.

I do think Bloomberg has to decide whether the debates are worth his time if the point of the debates is to allow the noncompetitive candidates to score hits on him. Bloomberg might just be better off to buy TV time for interviews.

 

No it was truly awful, and not just for people who strongly support another candidate. I don't have a specific candidate that I really support (my general favorite had been Yang), but I thought it was absolutely horrendous. A guy at my office who desperately wants Trump beaten was full-on Bloomberg until last night, and now is totally off of him. 

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41 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

lot of hyperbole over the debate performance. First off, the entire debate format of asking adults to constantly raise their hands, can't be taken seriously. Second, anyone that supports one of the other candidates were already prepared to say that Bloomberg had the worst performance of all time because they're all afraid of him and his bankroll.

I do think Bloomberg has to decide whether the debates are worth his time if the point of the debates is to allow the noncompetitive candidates to score hits on him. Bloomberg might just be better off to buy TV time for interviews.

 

He was horrible.  I went into it with low expectations and an open mind and he was so much worse than I thought possible.

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2 hours ago, mdmost said:

Or because he did have the worst performance of the night and seemed wholly unprepared for the debate. You're welcome to go find some media that says he wasn't the one up there who came in dead last as most everything I've seen post-debate said he got his ass handed to him. If he can't handle the heat from Elizabeth Warren, how will he handle Trump throwing heat at him? He could turn it around at the next debate but he seemed to not be able to handle getting hit until the 2nd hour. He seems unable to justify his own positions. 

Everybody knew that questions about his past conduct, the NDAs , etc. were going to come up last night.  

Well, everybody except him.  

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Bloomberg Shares Doctored Debate Video To Hide Dismal Performance 

by David Moye

 

HuffPostFebruary 20, 2020, 1:59 PM CST

Mike Bloombergflopped during Wednesday night’s Democratic debate, and now he’s accused of playing a shell game with a video clip of the event.

On Thursday morning, the billionaire businessman released a deceptively edited video that falsely suggested he rendered the other candidates speechless at one point.

The video begins at the moment when the former New York City mayor declared: “I’m the only one here I think that’s ever started a business.”

During the actual exchange, his comment was greeted with about four seconds of silence, but the video below falsely implied it was more like 20.

It seems whoever edited Bloomberg’s video tweet took moments from other parts of the debate to make it look as if his declaration was so powerful candidates like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and former Vice President Joe Biden had no response...

[video tweet and responses follow]

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/bloomberg-shares-doctored-debate-video-to-hide-dismal-performance-195915130.html

 

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13 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:

That performance last night felt Trumpian.

It was like he had to restrain himself from sounding like Trump but it kept leaking out everytime he got flustered. I guess it is inevitable that the Trump persona manifests considering his whole schtick is "I am what Trump pretends to be."

 

 

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14 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

Bloomberg Shares Doctored Debate Video To Hide Dismal Performance 

by David Moye

 

HuffPostFebruary 20, 2020, 1:59 PM CST

Mike Bloombergflopped during Wednesday night’s Democratic debate, and now he’s accused of playing a shell game with a video clip of the event.

On Thursday morning, the billionaire businessman released a deceptively edited video that falsely suggested he rendered the other candidates speechless at one point.

The video begins at the moment when the former New York City mayor declared: “I’m the only one here I think that’s ever started a business.”

During the actual exchange, his comment was greeted with about four seconds of silence, but the video below falsely implied it was more like 20.

It seems whoever edited Bloomberg’s video tweet took moments from other parts of the debate to make it look as if his declaration was so powerful candidates like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and former Vice President Joe Biden had no response...

[video tweet and responses follow]

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/bloomberg-shares-doctored-debate-video-to-hide-dismal-performance-195915130.html

 

Also very Trumpian.

 

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38 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

I was just watching a Bloomberg commercial where he says:

” I led a complex, diverse city through 9/11...”

W...T...F...?!?!?!

He’s implying that he was the mayor of NYC during 9/11.

Holy Shit!!!

The Bloomberg campaign needs to be burned down to the ground.

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50 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

I was just watching a Bloomberg commercial where he says:

” I led a complex, diverse city through 9/11...”

W...T...F...?!?!?!

He’s implying that he was the mayor of NYC during 9/11.

Holy Shit!!!

He took office on January 1, 2002. I'll give him a break on this one. He led the city during the long aftermath of 9/11.

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7 hours ago, David Dennison said:

He took office on January 1, 2002. I'll give him a break on this one. He led the city during the long aftermath of 9/11.

Yep. 9/11 didn’t end on 9/11 and the election was less than 2 months after the exact date. Bloomberg perhaps should have been more clear, but he was mayor for the rebuild.

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If we're going to be ruled by an oligarchy, I would rather have *Steyer. He's not as rich, but he does seem a little less evil.

 

*I'm not voting for either of them, but Bloomberg is not a nice man. The people who say the world is not a nice place and therefore we need someone 'not nice' have never paid any attention to history with respect to despots and tyrants.

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12 hours ago, F250 said:

“I’m the only one here I think that’s ever started a business.”

And?

Starting a business does not make qualified to run as a presidential candidate. That's been sort of a mantra on Planet Corporate Looney Bin for a while. I've heard it so many times. "We need a successful businessman to be president." Well ladies and gentlemen, this is perhaps the most corporate administration in US history, going probably even past the Kennedy administration (essentially nothing but Council on Foreign Relations types), and they also happen to be the greatest disaster with zero real accomplishments to their credit.

This reeks of an absolute obsession with Make Believe. Bloomberg is a fool, his policy positions are absolutely atrocious, there's no doubt that Liz was correct in pointing out the very blurred line between him and Trump, and his candidacy has no value/benefit for society in the slightest. 

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20 minutes ago, hpslugga said:

And?

Starting a business does not make qualified to run as a presidential candidate. That's been sort of a mantra on Planet Corporate Looney Bin for a while. I've heard it so many times. "We need a successful businessman to be president." Well ladies and gentlemen, this is perhaps the most corporate administration in US history, going probably even past the Kennedy administration (essentially nothing but Council on Foreign Relations types), and they also happen to be the greatest disaster with zero real accomplishments to their credit.

This reeks of an absolute obsession with Make Believe. Bloomberg is a fool, his policy positions are absolutely atrocious, there's no doubt that Liz was correct in pointing out the very blurred line between him and Trump, and his candidacy has no value/benefit for society in the slightest. 

Trump is not a successful businessman.   We've never had a successful businessman as president.

Not sayin.  Just sayin.

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19 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

lot of hyperbole over the debate performance. First off, the entire debate format of asking adults to constantly raise their hands, can't be taken seriously. Second, anyone that supports one of the other candidates were already prepared to say that Bloomberg had the worst performance of all time because they're all afraid of him and his bankroll.

I do think Bloomberg has to decide whether the debates are worth his time if the point of the debates is to allow the noncompetitive candidates to score hits on him. Bloomberg might just be better off to buy TV time for interviews.

 

I didn't realize that the Bloomberg campaign's sponcon is this extensive, going so far as to pay people to post this hilarious shit on Texas Football message boards. 

 

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23 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Trump is not a successful businessman.   We've never had a successful businessman as president.

Not sayin.  Just sayin.

Wasn't Hoover a mining magnate prior to becoming President? I think Bush Sr. also qualifies as a former successful businessman along with Carter.

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49 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Trump is not a successful businessman. 

It's not just Trump, it's the people with which he littered his cabinet. 

He either had or has:

A former Goldman Sachs CFO
A former Exxon-Mobil CEO
A GC for Verizon
A guy whose resume includes names like Thayer Aerospace and Sentry International
An associate lawyer for Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
Whatever positions Sonny Perdue held (started small firms, IIRC)
Wilbur fucking Ross 

Those are just some of the more prestigious secretary positions that either are or were occupied since January of 2017, and the rest of them are either "career government" people whose records are so flagrantly right wing that it's impossible to distinguish them from the private sector (since all their policy positions have the odd consequence of favoring private power), and the rest are lobbyists from think tanks like the Heritage Foundation. In that regard, it doesn't really matter that Trump's business record has been terrible because even if he was the legit success he pretends to be, the output of his administration would be the exact same as it has been. 

Seriously, suppose that the USFL thrived, that he never had any bankruptcies, that he still held on to those hotels and casinos he used to own, that Trump University was a legit thing, etc. Would that have changed anything he's done since January 20th, 2017? Not in the slightest.

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 We've never had a successful businessman as president.

Without splitting too many hairs, here's a number: 41

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4 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

How does that make him a bad person?  I mean, he’s not going to win because he’s a midget and has negative charisma and will probably be out of this long before the convention.   But what he is doing is what every candidate would do at a brokered convention.  Or is Sanders not going to lobby anyone else’s support, and instead just concede defeat?

And LOL at bad_teammate’s screed about Bloomberg saying he’s donated to Democrats and Republicans being an admission that he’s bribed and bought all the politicians and we all need to wake up and pay attention to the things that were (not actually at all) said right there on national television!  

The irony is that in 2016 Trump actually did say things much more akin to, “I’ve bought these slimy politicians before, they come beg me for money and will do anything, blah blah blah”.  

Yeah, this is how it's done.  At a brokered convention, every candidate is going to be doing something similar, even (gasp!) Bernie.  That's what it's called a "brokered" convention.

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2 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

And LOL at bad_teammate’s screed about Bloomberg saying he’s donated to Democrats and Republicans being an admission that he’s bribed and bought all the politicians and we all need to wake up and pay attention to the things that were (not actually at all) said right there on national television!  

Why did/does Bloomberg give so much to all these politicians in both parties? Is he just a nice guy who wants them to be happy?

What is the impact of major donations on a politician's voting habits?

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11 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

How does that make him a bad person? 

Because it guarantees a Trump victory if he's successful. You're giving all these people a good excuse to sit out. The last time this happened was I think in the 50s and Eisenhower won easily.

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Ha ha

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—In an apparently successful attempt to get under the skin of Donald Trump, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has purchased Greenland from Denmark.

In an official statement released on Tuesday, the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, would not disclose the price that Bloomberg paid for Greenland but indicated that it was an “all-cash offer.”

“Mr. Bloomberg has a lot of money,” Frederiksen added.

 

News of Bloomberg’s purchase of Greenland reportedly infuriated Trump, who immediately ordered his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to make an offer to buy the Faroe Islands from Denmark.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/bloomberg-enrages-trump-by-buying-greenland

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2 hours ago, Skipper said:

Oh the Irony

lol yes Bernie's holdout actually forced Super Delegates off the first ticket, he was smart and that was good. He had no chance of securing the nomination and knew that but wanted reforms. Bloomberg basically just doesn't want Sanders to win, he doesn't give a shit about Trump.

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