wtf at kumar defending stop and frisk http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/08/why-kal-penn-defending-bloombergs-stop-and-frisk-policy/6539/
― "Dave Barlow" is the name Lou uses on sabermetrics baseball sites (s.clover), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link
he knows that to the extent there are any busts they're gonna be for weed, right
http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/08/18/reshaping-new-york/
― k3vin k., Sunday, 18 August 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/2013/08/18/watch_fran_lebowitz_hilariously_psy.php
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 18 August 2013 20:06 (ten years ago) link
link above is new video of fran lebowitz as part of the nyt thing--very classic as always on miguelito
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 18 August 2013 20:07 (ten years ago) link
Bloomberg is not actually trying to defend the constitutionality of his NYPD’s tactics, because it’s clear that he doesn’t actually care about constitutional policing. He’d have fired Ray Kelly after the RNC if he did. His point is to argue that it’s not racial profiling, because blacks really do commit more crimes, and that racial profiling is necessary, because blacks commit more crimes. See, “it’s not racial profiling” is the thing you say to make white liberals more comfortable with your actual pitch, which is, “we all know racial profiling works.”
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/19/new_york_citys_frisking_twins_meet_the_press/
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 August 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
Now Bloomberg is defending himself with that same logic in a Washington Post guest editorial too:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/michael-bloomberg-stop-and-frisk-keeps-new-york-safe/2013/08/18/8d4cd8c4-06cf-11e3-9259-e2aafe5a5f84_story_1.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 August 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/bloodsoaked-mayor-bloomberg-announces-homelessness,34224/
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
saw that and thought "Morbius" immediately
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 16:32 (ten years ago) link
coming to a town near you!
― spread to fuck the fruit (Eisbaer), Sunday, 15 December 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
I think I will always remember this quote as the quintessential Bloomberg phrasing:
“But look, graffiti does ruin people’s property and it’s a sign of decay and loss of control. Art is art and nobody’s a bigger supporter of the arts than I am. I just think there are some places for art and there are some places [not for] art. And you running up to somebody’s property or public property and defacing it is not my definition of art. Or it may be art, but it should not be permitted. And I think that’s exactly what the law says.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Sunday, 15 December 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link
“I am telling you if there is a God, when I get to heaven I’m not stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It’s not even close.”
― goole, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
the big soda ban is dead
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/court-reinstate-york-citys-big-soda-ban-24314227
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 June 2014 14:06 (nine years ago) link
it's amazing what they were able to keep in the closet about Bloomberg's personal life...he wasn't going to Bermuda every weekend to play golf, if you know what I mean...
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 27 June 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
he was going to his soda mansion to chug soda
― iatee, Friday, 27 June 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
de Blasio backed the ban btw, tsk tsk
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 June 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1041458/original.jpg
― iatee, Friday, 27 June 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
Still don't get what about the soda ban turned everybody into a libertarian
― 龜, Friday, 27 June 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
Too arbitrary.
Suppose a convenience store started a promotion: "Buy a 31 oz. soda and get a free 1 oz. soda with it!" If they put them into two cups, would that violate the ban? Anything that could be so publically ridiculed and circumvented is not ever going to make a good law. It was either empty posturing, or a total failure to foresee its unenforceability.
― Aimless, Friday, 27 June 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
the point is to make it marginally more difficult to sell massive amounts of soda, not impossible. stores wouldn't give people 1 oz cups of soda because that would look make the store and the consumer look ridiculous, and nobody would actually miss that 1 oz of soda anyway, which is the bigger point.
― iatee, Friday, 27 June 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
people just want 'the biggest' and tend to finish what they order they don't have some innate desire to consume 32 oz of something
― iatee, Friday, 27 June 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
Wait, what's he doing in Bermuda?
― how's life, Friday, 27 June 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
he has dedicated the rest of his life and his entire fortune to studying the bermuda triangle mystery
― iatee, Friday, 27 June 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
the point is to make it marginally more difficult to sell massive amounts of soda, not impossible.
bingo! there can't be a compelling state interest to reduce soda consumption, if that interest can be satisfied by a regulation that can't be shown to accomplish anything.
― Aimless, Friday, 27 June 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
what. this is like arguing against gun regulations because you can kill people with knives. changing peoples behavior by making things marginally more difficult to do is not accomplishing nothing.
― iatee, Friday, 27 June 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
this is like arguing against gun regulations because you can kill people with knives.
No. This is like arguing against a regulation on soda because the proposed regulation doesn't actually regulate soda.
changing peoples behavior by making things marginally more difficult to do is not accomplishing nothing.
But there is no requirement here that people change their behavior, only an inference that they might. so, the regulation cannot be shown to accomplish anything. One may infer that it might possibly accomplish something, which is different.
― Aimless, Friday, 27 June 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
okay I am done talking to you
― iatee, Friday, 27 June 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link
thinking that there are plenty of stupid laws and that the soda law was one of them doesn't make you a libertarian. the soda law struck me as arbitrary and dumb in the same way you can't buy alcohol on sundays in some states
― marcos, Friday, 27 June 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link
Wait, what's he doing in Bermuda?― how's life, Friday, June 27, 2014 1:13 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― how's life, Friday, June 27, 2014 1:13 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Iago Galdston, Friday, June 27, 2014 10:45 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 27 June 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
I think we all know what it means not to play golf.
― Aimless, Friday, 27 June 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
ive heard all those whispers, but his gf never seemed like the beardo type
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 June 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
which of these guys is most thrilled to be near the other three?
http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-HI513_NYEGAN_H_20150310152901.jpg
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link
at that height is he really near anyone?
― goole, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
Bloomie, fuck you you fuckin fuck
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 November 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/12AwAY2cWA— Jason Adam Katzenstein (@JasonAdamK) November 7, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 November 2019 01:14 (four years ago) link
I regret to inform you that Mike Bloomberg attempted to shake a dog’s mouth. pic.twitter.com/hKsagJ4xAf— Christopher J. Hale (@chrisjollyhale) January 28, 2020
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 23:07 (four years ago) link
icymi
Bloomberg has explicitly argued that “our interpretation of the Constitution” will have to change to give citizens less privacy and the police more power to search and spy on them. In fact, he does not seem to believe that certain people have innate civil rights that the state must respect. If the NYPD wanted to spy on Muslims, even if they lived outside New York City, solely because of their religion or ethnicity, Michael Bloomberg thought it was a great idea. And as Jack Shafer recently pointed out, his dedication to ensuring submission began before he was an elected official—when he was the boss at a company notorious for its tyrannical treatment of employees.
Bloomberg’s three victorious mayoral election campaigns are depressing evidence that a substantial number of Americans are amenable to authoritarian politics and uninterested in protecting civil liberties. So long as the person overseeing the police state claimed to be surveilling people for their own good, it was easy to turn a blind eye, especially if the surveillance was concentrated in certain neighborhoods. ...
https://newrepublic.com/article/156560/michael-bloombergs-polite-authoritarianism
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 February 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
I genuinely don't know if Bernie can win the general, but I feel confident that Bloomberg would lose it. I'm upset by his entry into the race. He's a spoiler.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 13 February 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
He is exactly the worst of both worlds -- he will dampen enthusiasm among the democratic base, but he also wants to come after your guns and soda and vape pens.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 13 February 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
thread worth reading, this dude is almost as terrible as Trump is
What 2020 Presidential contender said the following?- "I'd fuck that in a second," - "I’d do that piece of meat…”- “If women wanted to be appreciated for their brains they’d go to the library instead of to Bloomingdale’s”- Called women: “fat broads” & “horse-faced lesbian.”— Sarah (@sarah_in_ny) February 12, 2020
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 February 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
he also wants to come after your guns and soda and vape pens spy on yr Muslim ass.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 February 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
I don’t like to dunk on my short kings (hell I’m barely 5’9”) but fuck this elf
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, 13 February 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
What "unlimited resources" buys you:
Trump was in rare form during his post-acquittal speech. pic.twitter.com/jq8NTTn5yd— Team Bloomberg (@Mike2020) February 6, 2020
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 13 February 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
this asshole is in my state today and apparently a lot of prominent Dem politicians here are backing him. clap real good for Daddy Mike and maybe he'll toss you a tasty million or two bucks as a treat.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 13 February 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
These people do not have the poster’s spirit. They’ve dishonored themselves and our noble profession https://t.co/uvfo7VthFD— Sweetie in chief (@InternetHippo) February 13, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 13 February 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
https://scontent-bos3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/85201041_10158054592688328_2214866749956816896_o.jpg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_ohc=MfguhyMlcZgAX_hjorl&_nc_ht=scontent-bos3-1.xx&oh=7a02d78962925d95a5760acfe43c4d02&oe=5EBDC401
"5'4" mass of dead energy." Say what you will about Trump, but his game is still strong.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 13 February 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
wishing for an asteroid for each of em
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 February 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
from that list of Bloomberg quotes
"If I were a woman, I would wear high heels."
of course you would, dude, you're super short and probably have considered it anyway
― mh, Thursday, 13 February 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
Trump otm?
I'm not sure I would actually vote if Bloomberg was the nominee? I guess I would because of the Supreme Court, but there is a 50-50 chance Bloomberg selects a Federalist Society ghoul anyway.
― We're jumping on the road with @Nickelback this summer! (PBKR), Thursday, 13 February 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
Actually I doubt that. He's a Republican at heart, but he's not a FedSoc Republican.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 13 February 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link