Your next 2020 Democratic presidential primary thread: Now we're serious

lol sorry

naw that's also at least as appropriate a soundtrack to that tweet as the curb theme

i dislike performative pronouncements of rage but listening to tom perez’s bullshit “we’re learnin!” wankoff made me wish for an atrocity of extreme violence.

Maybe there'll be a scene in this season of Curb where Larry and Ted Danson debate about Buttigieg vs. Bloomberg.

*moment of clarity* nah, pronouncements of rage, cool i guess.

problematic fave #7652

He just doesn't want to have to do the sanders impression through 2024 and who can blame him

Bloomberg has smothered Florida with ads. I mean, I can't click on YouTube or turn on the teevee without, I must say, a sophisticated Bloomberg ad in my face. They're good. It's obvious what his strategy is.

Pareene's tweet largely right w/ the obvious outlier of the 2016 GOP primary.

lol these people:

A bad night for Warren would come as good news to market participants, who view the combination of her potential to unite the party, detailed regulatory plans, and proven record of efficacy in government as a threat to stocks.

In the eyes of investors assessing the political risks from the Democratic field, those qualities all distinguish Warren from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the candidate who has captured liberal momentum.

Warren and Sanders largely align on economic policy, with both backing a wealth tax, tougher anti-trust enforcement, repealing President Trump’s corporate tax cut and breaking up the big banks.

But Sarah Bianchi, an analyst at research firm Evercore ISI, notes that securing policy changes through executive action, for example, “really take[s] a lot of sustained attention and leadership... You need sustained leadership to get the hard ones across the finish line. As she demonstrated in her time working for the Obama administration, Warren would really drive those issues through the government in a way that I think would be meaningfully different from Sanders's approach."

“There is more interest among investors about Sanders questions now, but not with the fervor of the interest that surrounded Warren," Bianchi said.

Ian Katz, of Capital Alpha Partners, agrees that “there will be a lot of investors who will be relieved if she’s not the candidate… There’s more concern about Warren if she gets the nomination, because she’s seen, at least by some people, as having a better chance against Trump” than Sanders.

I get Bloomberg ads CONSTANTLY in my FB timeline. Partly, I'm sure, because a friend is an organizer for his Ohio campaign, so the algorithm thinks I GAF.

no i get bloomberg ads on fb too and i have no fucking idea why

the bUt Bernie’s nOt a eVeN a DeMoCrAt crowd aligning with Mike stop&get frisky-w-it Bloomberg in 2020 will be so perfect and beautiful

the only ads i have seen so far this primary cycle are steyer

i am getting bloomberg fomo

Pareene's tweet largely right w/ the obvious outlier of the 2016 GOP primary.

― Chris L, Tuesday, February 11, 2020 10:13 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

And 2000 Bush v. McCain
And 2008 Clinton v. Obama (maybe he'll get assassinated)

The billionaire’s self-funded 2020 campaign pumped out more than a half-million dollars' worth of ads across 11 new, state-specific Facebook pages between Thursday and Sunday, according to the company’s public ad archive.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxegdw/mike-bloomberg-is-spending-stupid-amounts-of-money-on-facebook-before-super-tuesday

sounds right

ol' stupid amounts of money spender mike bloompberg

the only presidential ad ive seen on tv or heard on radio is bloomberg

(south tx, a super tuesday state)

it’s his right as an american to buy a nom, the founders said so in their podcast.

the only presidential ad ive seen on tv or heard on radio is bloomberg

― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison),

and Steyer down here

I'm going to be grateful for small mercies here and mention that Bloomberg spent roughly $0 in Iowa

saving that iowa cash for the general

the more I think about it, I'm not buying that this Bloomberg thing really has legs. he's doing pretty well in some polls but how much of that is just a function of the fact that a whole lot of respondents haven't heard anything about the other candidates? it's one thing to have someone call you, a Democratic voter who doesn't care for Trump, and ask which candidate you prefer and you remember the name of the guy who's running 10,000 commercials a day. it's another thing to actually get off your ass and stand in line and vote for that person. I'm very skeptical that the former is going to turn into the latter with Mike. I think a lot of the people who say they favor him now are either going to find a new candidate before their primary or just not show up to vote at all.

exactly and I think this is kind of what you're gonna see with Biden

I'm not sure what Bloomberg's base is. He has no policy ideas. He's just a dude running a zillion ads who irritates Trump and for a lot of people that's enough.

why are you assuming that one of the wealthiest men in the world who owns a major business and media juggernaut and was mayor of the most populated city in america would be unknown except for his commercials?

did none of you know anything about him before he started running

out here in flyover he’s mostly known as the guy who’s going to take away your big gulp

Wait is he the same Michael Bloomberg with the face that did New York

I can vouch that 90% of the people I see every day only have a notional idea of who Bloomberg is. They might remember he was mayor of NYC, and they might know he's the Bloomberg news guy, but that's about it

I live in the Midwest and I would not say people here (excepting my fellow East-raised Jews) particularly know who Bloomberg is, and I think it's weirdly NYC-provincial to think they would or should know who he is, beyond "some rich guy" and "former mayor of New York." I would say people here, as in New York, also don't know who Warren Buffet is beyond "some rich guy" or who Anthony Villaraigosa is beyond "former mayor of a big city."

I think the ad-blanketing will up his name rec here fast, though!

the sound of a one-on-one debate btwn Bernie and Bloomberg would be an argument in an Upper West Side kosher deli

Neither of those guys keep kosher, they'd be at a cheaper kosher-style place 100% for certain

RECOVERING NYC METRO KID WANTS TO REMIND FELLOW FLYOVERS THAT THE LAST NYCER YOU TRUSTED IS TRUMP, AND FUCK WE TRIED SO HARD TO TELL YOU AND SOME A YOU STILL DONT FUCKING GET IT.

Wait wait, I thought Mayor NYC was BFFs with the president, now I'm v v confrused

I'm not sure what Bloomberg's base is. He has no policy ideas.

he's a proven competent executive, which has an appeal to people who simply don't want to hear about a new trump crisis every goddamn day

there are so few actual billionaires out here that, after decades of seeing Trump presented in media as a walking parody of what a rich person is like in movies and tv, we assumed that was good

Old Lunch, I see where you're confused: Giuliani is the mayor of 9/11

i just meant Bernie's rough sandpaper vs Bloomie's droning whiiiine, eephus

no one who sounds like Bloomberg could beat Trump

I thought Bloomberg’s gambit was dumber than dogshit but it’s going better than Giuliani or DeBlasio so hey wtf do I know

*daddy trump to infant trump in torture-crib* “Donnie you little maggot, remember ‘crisis precipitates change, and you can exploit that.”

is it any wonder his governing style is as it is?

I'm not sure what Bloomberg's base is. He has no policy ideas.

Anyone who thinks businessmen are all admirable individuals / role models who simply know how to run things better than anyone else, this seems to be a lot of people for some reason, it's possibly because they are all fucking idiots.

do we think voters pick candidates based on policy ideas? some do, but I'm not convinced it's a majority

I guess there must be a lot of people who've never worked with or for a businessman, who just gaze upon them in their nifty suits and ties, swingin' that briefcase, and think, 'hey, wow, now there's someone who looks like they could run anything, a company, a country, just anything'.

tall white guys in suits can basically do anything they want. Bloomberg is intent on challenging this conventional wisdom

simply know how to run things better than anyone else

tbf, effectively running an enormous organization like the nyc or us government takes skills that many ppl lack (and that a legislative career doesn't necessarily prepare one for). in contrast to de blasio's flailing, bloomberg had some shit he wanted to do in nyc and set forth to do it. i don't *like* some of the shit he did, but i think competency has a constituency, particularly if one finds bernie/warren too pinko

might be a stronger bet if he weren't a 78-year-old jewish guy tho

might be a stronger bet if he weren't a 78-year-old jewish guy tho

― mookieproof, Tuesday, February 11, 2020 11:44 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

kids love those!

I don't understand why every presidential candidate has to be older than my oldest living relatives.

small family?