2020 Democratic presidential primary

i know exactly who we could've stuck in Obama's empty wal mart FEMA re-education camps

When we look back at 2019, I think people will ask why the moderate rescue plan was a Bloomberg candidacy and not, like, Bloomberg giving $100 millon to a Booker super PAC.

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) November 7, 2019

Without a landslide where Democrats decisively retake the senate and increase their majority in the House enough to shut out the blue dogs, M4A would still be on hold until the 2022 mid-terms at the earliest, but try selling that idea to voters, including both those who love M4A and those who fear it, and 90% of the electorate would just look blank. The legislative process is mainly a mystery to them; they think presidents just wave a wand and things happen. Even the president seems to think that.

*looks at aura left behind by magic wand*

but trump did build the wall...and mexico is paying for it..

Would be a nightmare if he runs third party but I’m ok with him in the primary, likely to siphon off Biden’s most loathsome supporters but seems highly doubtful that he’d get above single digits in many states, and he’s a useful foil for Bernie and Warren.

nobody supports this idiot

wants to burn another giant pile of money

― Οὖτις, Thursday, November 7, 2019 3:31 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's like when i, non-weed-devotee, sees a "FEDS BURN 10 TONS OF SEIZED MARIJUANA" headline, and i'm, 'well, that's a fucking campfire to chill next to.'

enough people apparently care about him to make dent in the overall election, if he stays in. here's how he was doing last time around, january 2016

https://i.imgur.com/MsVF7bZ.png
https://i.imgur.com/ONw6fi6.png

about half of people had no idea who he was, but he still pulled in 13% as a hypothetical alternative to trump or clinton

hopefully he'll continue to equally entice moderate democrats and republicans

he still pulled in 13% as a hypothetical alternative to trump or Clinton

I'd attribute that more to Clinton aversion than to Bloomberg attraction.

probably could have gotten even more if fewer people knew who he was xps

When people learn that he's 5'3", that'll be the end of that.

a further reminder, after today's fracas in the Bernie thread, that she knows how to sass the competition:

Welcome to the race, @MikeBloomberg! If you're looking for policy plans that will make a huge difference for working people and which are very popular, start here: https://t.co/6UMSAf90NT

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) November 7, 2019

Orlando Bloomburpz for presidetn

Shocked to find out this guy is not a bot

Bloomberg’s here. There is a real player on the field.
Time for you to crawl back under your rock. pic.twitter.com/oH7zi80G3d

— Lewis Feldman (@lwsfldmn) November 7, 2019

who would support this guy?

"Morning" Joe.

other billionaires

and millionaires, don't forget them

People who are rude to all their servants, not just minorities.

Do individual dollar bills get to vote?

Nate's right! https://t.co/6ukzzjQhHW

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) November 7, 2019

I’m a 67 year old moderate Democrat. I want to water the tree of liberty with the blood of billionaires. We don’t need Bloomberg.

— Nancy Minter (@NncyRuth) November 7, 2019

god damn he sure didn't earn his billions by reading the room

On those Beltway attacks on Warren.

that warren link in her tweet up there is cool - it goes to a calculator. you can plug in different people to see how much they'd pay under her proposal:

MIKE BLOOMBERG WOULD PAY $3.079 BILLION NEXT YEAR UNDER ELIZABETH’S WEALTH TAX.
Mike Bloomberg has a net worth of $52,000,000,000.

Don’t worry too much about Mike Bloomberg - if history is any guide, if billionaires do nothing other than invest their wealth in the stock market, it’s likely that their wealth will continue to grow.

Elizabeth’s wealth tax, which only impacts America’s 75,000 wealthiest families, would generate enough revenue to cover universal child care, quality public education, forgive student loan debt, provide free public college, and help finance Medicare for All.

https://elizabethwarren.com/calculator/ultra-millionaire-tax

if you say you're bill gates:

WOW — YOU’VE GOT A LOT OF MONEY!
Your wealth puts you in the top 0.0002% of Americans.

Now you have the opportunity to invest some of it back into our society so everyone has a chance to succeed.

You’d pay $6.379 billion next year under Elizabeth’s wealth tax. This amount, which you likely won’t even feel, will help us invest in education from birth through college and help finance health care for everyone.

Good news - you’ll still be extraordinarily rich! And if history is any guide, if you do nothing other than invest your wealth in the stock market, it’s likely that your wealth will continue to grow.

civil war, probably

— Christopher Hooks (@cd_hooks) November 8, 2019

Lol that calculator is great

It’s crazy they can generate that kind of revenue from taxing only 75,000 families

Also crazy is how many middle-class Americans would fight to the *DEATH* to allow billionaires to continue to hoard their megawealth.

Who else is going to consolidate things for us?

I've been pretty flip about the extent to which Bloomberg has a built in constituency among cable pundits, but this clip of a roundtable staring blankly as Todd explains how Bloomberg could do well in the primary and general is something else. pic.twitter.com/6emZOle8LR

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) November 8, 2019

It seems pretty clear that Bloomberg has been tempted to run for a while, and the weakness of Biden has opened up a lane for him. Seems like he will also suck up some of the oxygen from Buttigieg. He might actually help Warren by offering the perfect foil.

lol

"There's no one else he can pick but Stacey Abrams."

"Why?"

bloomberg running on the "when i say subway, you say hero" platform.

It seems pretty clear that Bloomberg has been tempted to run for a while, and the weakness of Biden has opened up a lane for him. Seems like he will also suck up some of the oxygen from Buttigieg. He might actually help Warren by offering the perfect foil.

― o. nate, Friday, November 8, 2019 9:31 AM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Peter Beinart makes exactly this point about Bloomberg helping Warren and hurting Buttigieg:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/bloomberg-campaign-would-only-boost-elizabeth-warren/601660/

I know Bloomberg has long had a constituency in the pundit class as a benevolent technocrat monarch figure who would solve climate change through consensus and logic.

Yeah, the fivethirtyeight podcast talked a lot about how M4A really was the weakest point for the left candidates, since it really is unpopular, and has become a litmus test, and that it might be why Warren has stalled. But lo and behold, a bunch of billionaires bring the focus back on the fight against inequality and on the wealth tax, both of which are overwhelmingly popular. Good job, billionaires, you're really showing why you deserve all your money.

lord make it stop

Michael Bloomberg is the Antidote to Trump

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/07/opinions/michael-bloomberg-running-for-president-wierson-honan/index.html

I know many middle class nominal Democrats in NYC who like Bloomberg a lot better than the leftier DeBlasio but it’s hard to see how he wins a Democratic primary, even in his home state. As long as he doesn’t run 3rd party I wish him luck.

lol

"There's no one else he can pick but Stacey Abrams."

"Why?"

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, November 8, 2019 10:32 AM (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

really begs the question of whether Chuck Todd is just so breathtakingly stupid as to think Abrams would ever in a million years agree to be Bloomberg's running mate, or whether he just can't comprehend black people having even the slightest bit of agency.

no it's truly Abrams duty to sign on with whatever dork wins the nomination

Always nice to spend time with supporters on the campaign trail. https://t.co/dCGncnhqZr

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 8, 2019

lol

That clip is amazing. Todd is in total missionary mode; he's rung these three's doorbell and is now asking them if they have heard the good news about Michael fucking Bloomberg as they make polite noises and slowly back away.

raises the question, too

ornaldo bloompberg

got his ass