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

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.

Settling into his CNN pundit role, I see.

Bloomberg is the only candidate to be mentioned in an LCD Soundsystem song, checkmate commies

technically they're all north american scum but point taken

Also a !!! song.

Leave Canada out of this k thx bye.

nah we are definitely also scum

pvmic

Settling into his CNN pundit role, I see.

― jaymc, Thursday, February 20, 2020 7:57 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

If Bernie was the frontrunner coming into this debate - which he was - then he’s got to feel good about tonight.

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

embracing his role as 'politics magic johnson'

this is always a tough place to play, but after a battle of the titans, he left it all on the field, there's no question about it

lol

Still seems the most likely outcome of Bloomberg getting in is to further fragment the moderate vote and ensure Sanders gets a dominant plurality.

oh jesus god

🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕https://t.co/kG6SUfKfs9 pic.twitter.com/0tSPFzThlD

— albino rage (@pawgbertREAL) February 19, 2020

cool!

is being sexually attracted to your daughter a prerequisite for being a billionaire or is it something that just gradually creeps up on you as the wealth accumulates

Pretty sure men who acquire that kind of wealth are sexually aroused only by money, and try to cover that up by talking about women in a way they think sounds convincingly sexy a la Steve Carell in 40-yo Virgin -- "check out the bags of sand on my daughter"

ABAP

I think there's a threshold that the super-rich cross as they become the ultra-rich where the perspectives of old are rendered insufficient for processing such a vast new scale of existence and, in order for the human mind to cope, the constituent components of the world are simply amorally abstracted into a series of interchangeable objects that one either can or cannot stick one's penis into.

Diamond-encrusted cufflinks? No. Splay of marble tile samples for the upstairs kitchen backsplash? No. Half-empty can of Coke Zero? Let's find out.

It's pretty hilarious to watch every major publication in the US whiplash from "Bloomberg is the great white hope" to "Bloomberg is FINISHED" a day later, when I'm pretty sure neither is correct.

he'll be finished on March 4th after he comes out with zero delegates

Of course not. The people responding to Bloomberg's ads are largely not debate watchers. The main shifts I think we'll see out of the debate is Warren clawing out of the black hole that news media were ostracising her to, and a substantial deflation of the Buttigieg bubble.

Biden's lead in SC narrows.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/483939-poll-bidens-lead-in-south-carolina-drops-to-5-points

*me reading the article*

biden dropping but still leading in south carolina, makes sense...bernie surging, ok...in third place with 15% is tom steyer???!?!?!?!

he's surging bcz he loves bernie so much

Key sentence in that South Carolina poll article: "While most respondents to the poll — 55 percent — said they are “very sure” who they will vote for, 43 percent said they might still change their mind ahead of the primary."

Steyer was the only democrat running ads in SC for quite some time.

steymentum

NC (in just 5 days ugh) debate will be interesting

Bloombito's 'apology' for s&f sounded as about as convincing as Trump saying "I meant I didn't see how it COULDN'T be Russia"

NC (in just 5 days ugh) debate will be interesting

― Οὖτις, Thursday, February 20, 2020 6:35 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

he's going to not completely embarrass himself and barely get any of the same heat from everyone else (because that's what last night was for) and the media will treat it like a huge comeback story

nah