If Mike Bloomberg is the Democratic nominee, will you vote for him in November?

is it james a. garfield

Young Obama, young Bernie and old Bernie would be good hangs. Can't imagine wanting to spent 15 minutes around anyone else who's run for President in my lifetime.

I think I could enjoy hanging with George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, Lloyd Bentsen, Jerry Brown, Paul Tsongas, Bill Clinton, Dennis Kucinich, Jon Huntsman, Jeb Bush, Liz Warren, and Tim Steyer, though obviously drinking to unseemly states would be out of the question with some...

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Teddy Roosevelt, Bill Bradley, Paul Wellstone

xp: missed opportunity for infinite regression.

Most politicians are probably ok in person. Not trump bc he has a severe personality disorder and at some level I feel compassion for him, but otherwise.

Like, I’d get coffee with Hillary why not

at some level I feel compassion for him

pvmic

Dude imagine what it would feel like to be as needy as he is.

Not a good lifestyle

If he's running against Trump, of course I will vote for him. It's not a hard question.

― jaymc, Thursday, February 13, 2020 1:44 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Jesus Christ, this post was only five days ago? Anyway, I am willing to admit now that it was premature. I don't think I realized at the time exactly how much Bloomberg sucks.

Even Biden knows

I don’t endorse Republicans. https://t.co/uQMjLdxHA3

— Joe Biden (Text Join to 30330) (@JoeBiden) February 19, 2020

Biden on Bloomberg

“The truth is he’s basically been a Republican his whole life. The fact of the matter is he didn’t endorse Barack or me when we ran. This is a guy using Barack’s pictures like, you know, they’re good buddies. I’m going to talk about his record” pic.twitter.com/m0MXsVksUL

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) February 19, 2020

joe's a wreckin' machine!

tempted to watch tonight's shitshow just to see everyone unload on bloomberg

but not really

Warren's campaign tanking is her and her team's fault, the same way Bernie not winning last time was his and his team's fault. You can whinge all you like but her numbers were in decline long before any "erasure" set in

I don't blame her, her campaign, or the media, quite honestly I blame my fellow Democrats for not understanding that she's what they're looking for, but that's democracy for ya.

Mookie and i are on the same page

Xps

i almost gave the 'not really' an ®

Heh

Warren lost voters to Buttigieg and Klobuchar when she unveiled her M4A plan. I gather she thought her support was a bit more to the Left than it was. It would have been more politically savvy to push a heavily subsidized public option (Medicare buy in), that wouldn't have raised concerns among those who already have private health insurance they're content with.

Still the most progressive candidate in the race.

handy guide on what to do in case Bloomberg texts you

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Dude imagine what it would feel like to be as needy as he is.

No thanks!!!

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I stayed away from Twitter for my own mental health but am I correct in gathering that Bloomberg basically showed his entire ass

yeah. after getting thrashed by every candidate he tearfully screamed that bernie was a communist at one point, prompting warren to call him a piece of shit. (basically).

good television.

Warren eviscerated Bloomberg. Like not just if you’re a Warren stan, the crowd booed him! It was clear he hadn’t even thought about her.

ready for bloomberg to go away forever now

i think it was clear how at odds he is with the core values of the democratic party

so that's good. the illusion that he is just a moderate like klobuchar or something hopefully is deflated.

the problem is that his ads won't stop, and most people don't watch the debates

but yes, hopefully he'll go away now anyway

hopefully it's clear to him that everyone thinks he's a giant fucking prick

he's the one candidate on that stage who i am certain would not beat trump

on one hand, debates have less impact than we think, but on the other hand, where is this dude's groundswell of support going to come from? other than the labored "brokered convention" discussion earlier, is there anybody really 'excited' about this guy, even before tonight?

true, I've seen a few Dem voters support him because they've bought the "he's the only person who can beat Trump because he's rich, see" lie, and many of these people also seem to either a) not realize he was mayor of NYC, or b) know he was mayor, but little to nothing of his mayoral legacy. I've heard far more people chatting in fear that Bloomberg WILL become the nominee. Obvious his polling numbers shot up, but I don't see this dude catching lightning in a bottle. Trump, the cancerous prick he is, managed to invigorate a quickly growing base with nasty nicknames and catchphrases, and he joined the primaries/caucuses from the beginning.

i don't know that Bloomberg's gambit of abstaining from the early primaries/caucus is going to pay off when his first televised debate was an unmitigated disaster, with him coming across as a out of touch rich asshole. the candidates banding together enough to all flyswat him simultaneously at times was better than the Republican party managed, where they seemed to eat each other more than actual coalesce to knock Trump out.

tl;dr lol Bloomps is fueked

Biden might even get a bump from feeling Bloompers

one simple issue is that if he gets his ass roundly kicked by Liz Warren, he is in no way ready to go up against Trump

I've heard far more people chatting in fear that Bloomberg WILL become the nominee. Obvious his polling numbers shot up, but I don't see this dude catching lightning in a bottle. Trump, the cancerous prick he is, managed to invigorate a quickly growing base with nasty nicknames and catchphrases, and he joined the primaries/caucuses from the beginning.

i agree with this. a lot of the republican base just flat-out loved trump right from the start, he was the genuinely horrible candidate they'd been wanting for years. the democratic base basically doesn't have any reason to like bloomberg beyond daydreaming about the idea of pitting "our" billionaire against theirs, an idea that's more likely to appeal to centrist op-ed writers than actual democratic voters. he can spend all the money he wants but i can't see him developing a dedicated following like trump (or bernie, or obama in 2008 for that matter).

mike bloomberg: some kind of... bizarro gazzara?

Mike Bloomberg looks and acts like Ben Gazzara's character from Road House

— Laurie Crosswell (@lauriecrosswell) February 20, 2020

RIP, that was a short inevitability

pour one big gulp out

why does the guillotine have USA on it in Helvetica?

Bernie's revolutionary rhetoric rightly makes Americans afraid! We need Bloomberg on the ticket or it's four more years of Trump! pic.twitter.com/36qnLOamzy

— Workers For Bloomberg (@Workers4Mike) February 18, 2020

and is that Notre Dame on the right?

Because Times New Roman already beheaded, duh

torture scene where all the serifs get chopped off one by one

That image owns

a swing and a miss

This is going to be the Mike Bloomberg debate. He’s new and rising.

— Andrew Yang🧢 (@AndrewYang) February 20, 2020

one simple issue is that if he gets his ass roundly kicked by Liz Warren, he is in no way ready to go up against Trump

― symsymsym, Thursday, February 20, 2020 1:52 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

^This. All other glaring issues aside, nothing I saw up on that stage last night indicated that he's in any way prepared for this shit. A smarmy smirk and a 'may I finish?' ain't gonna get it done, son.

Yang there demonstrating the sound judgment and foresight that we all look for in an ex-presidential candidate.