2020 Democratic presidential primary

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

Asked which 3 African Americans she’d want in her White House, @ewarren says she won’t name any current politicians, but drops @DevalPatrick’s name, adds “someone like” @MelodyCBarnes pic.twitter.com/wkDOwuUNRS

— Zak Hudak (@cbszak) November 7, 2019

He's against investing in tech education in public schools because -get this- "we invest in computers and then they're used for porn and to plagiarize homework" , verbatim.

I could spend a whole thread just on this but there's more to cover.

— Federica Pelzel (@federicca) November 8, 2019

is he wrong tho

Yeah that's ironclad tbh

If porn and cheating is wrong, do we want to be right?

I gotta say, my middle schooler is pretty adamant that the "every kid gets a school laptop" policy at his school leads to 75% of kids dicking around playing games all through class

school laptops should have screens on both sides so everyone can see what everyone else is doing

They have this at my son's high school and it's a fucking disaster. Not least of the problems is that the teacher's aren't adequately trained and have varying levels of tech savvy, which leads to online tools being used in very inconsistent and confusing ways.

I think the "handing out iPads" approach to Ed tech really sucks

it's also really shameful when some districts have money to had out iPads and in many others the teachers are forced to pay for their students' supplies

chromebooks, tech etc works fine in some classrooms (sometimes great), it really depends on implementation etc etc