Bloomberg: What the hell is his problem?

El Bloombito will now try some monetized blackmail on the City Council:

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/mayor_bloomberg_decides_to_spend_some_money_to_save_stop_and_frisk/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/nyregion/stop-and-frisk-practice-violated-rights-judge-rules.html?hp&_r=2&

boom

this is so infuriating

http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2013/aug/12/homeless-more-lucrative-landlords-their-own-paying-tenants/

60 Clarkson was notorious when I lived in Flatbush. It was def regarded as a "problem building" on that block.

wtf at kumar defending stop and frisk http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/08/why-kal-penn-defending-bloombergs-stop-and-frisk-policy/6539/

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/

http://gothamist.com/2013/08/18/watch_fran_lebowitz_hilariously_psy.php

link above is new video of fran lebowitz as part of the nyt thing--very classic as always on miguelito

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/

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

http://www.theonion.com/articles/bloodsoaked-mayor-bloomberg-announces-homelessness,34224/

saw that and thought "Morbius" immediately

coming to a town near you!

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.

“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.”

the big soda ban is dead

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/court-reinstate-york-citys-big-soda-ban-24314227

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...

he was going to his soda mansion to chug soda

de Blasio backed the ban btw, tsk tsk

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1041458/original.jpg

Still don't get what about the soda ban turned everybody into a libertarian

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.

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.

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

Wait, what's he doing in Bermuda?

he has dedicated the rest of his life and his entire fortune to studying the bermuda triangle mystery

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.

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.

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.

okay I am done talking to you

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

Wait, what's he doing in Bermuda?

― how's life, Friday, June 27, 2014 1:13 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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, June 27, 2014 10:45 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think we all know what it means not to play golf.

ive heard all those whispers, but his gf never seemed like the beardo type

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

at that height is he really near anyone?

Bloomie, fuck you you fuckin fuck

pic.twitter.com/12AwAY2cWA

— Jason Adam Katzenstein (@JasonAdamK) November 7, 2019

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

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

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.

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.

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

he also wants to come after your guns and soda and vape pens spy on yr Muslim ass.

I don’t like to dunk on my short kings (hell I’m barely 5’9”) but fuck this elf

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

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.

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

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"5'4" mass of dead energy." Say what you will about Trump, but his game is still strong.