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

nah

I like Steyer, I think he might be my third choice now too.

Bloomberg quietly plotting brokered convention strategy

Mike Bloomberg is privately lobbying Democratic Party officials and donors allied with his moderate opponents to flip their allegiance to him — and block Bernie Sanders — in the event of a brokered national convention.

The effort, largely executed by Bloomberg’s senior state-level advisers in recent weeks, attempts to prime Bloomberg for a second-ballot contest at the Democratic National Convention in July by poaching supporters of Joe Biden and other moderate Democrats, according to two Democratic strategists familiar with the talks and unaffiliated with Bloomberg.

luv 2 leak what I'm quietly plotting to politico

12D chess, with the plan public the hordes who love Bloomie will force the moderates into doing his bidding.

mini mike lookin' pretty fly, honestly

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERSsUyZXYAAscMm?format=jpg&name=900x900

Was Bloomberg in Animal Collective? I may have reassess my assumptions!

No but Paul Simon was briefly

we had a lot of fun
we had a lot of money

incredible

A Bloomberg staffer sent me the campaign’s post-debate talking points.

If you work for Bloomberg, you can text me at 202-510-1268 (use Signal) pic.twitter.com/0KGth6MPm6

— Ken KlippenSTEIN (@kenklippenstein) February 20, 2020

You know you are a winner when the slamming car door breaks all the bones in your hand. No one here can claim to have more broken carpals or metacarpals, because I've broken all of them. This thing is fucking ruined. I win.

joke's on you; i actually love being body slammed by one dozen perfect wrestlers. and my mouth isn't filled with bloodm, it's victory wine

— wint (@dril) April 28, 2014

I see the plan to offer absurdly high-paying gigs to people with no particular attachment to you as a candidate is working out great.

Neighbors who own a $4M mansion around the corner from us put up Bloomberg posters last night ("paid for by Mike Bloomberg" printed on the bottom, no less).

Interestingly, all 4 of the posters are posted on their gate that is next to the sidewalk; that is to say, completely accessible to the sidewalk/public land.

Is there any reasonable/ethical recourse here?

Also found it funny they put them up the day after he got shredded alive.

Feel it would be frankly criminal to ignore the obvious poetry of likewise shredding these posters.

Leave them up, imo. Bloomberg posters on a gated $4 million mansion make a nice picture.

if my study of Kant's ethics is correct, i believe the only defensible recourse is to write "SUCKS" after "Bloomberg" in sharpie on the signs

Yes we Kant

Kant's commentary on situations like this is fairly open ended, such that KM's read, while valid, is just one possible interpretation. My personal take is that Immanuel would prefer that we encircle the head of the subject with a crown of crudely-drawn penises, but ymmv.

I believe that's in "A Prolegomena to any Future Metapenises."

The one unambiguous element is that a Sharpie is involved (although I can't recall how that was related in the original German atm).

although, i do believe it was Locke who would advocate for vandalism along the lines of "michael poopberg"

there is no "correct answer" here

sharpie addition should be: "Because us rich assholes have to stick together" imo

Maybe take a photo of whatever vehicle they have in the driveway, or maybe like a snapshot of a fancy new grill in their backyard, and paste it over his face. Just above the 'Paid for by Mike Bloomberg'.

Or maybe a photoshop of the residents at the voting booth. There are just so many delicious opportunities for vandalism here. It feels like they're pretty much inviting people to engage with the process here.

Neighbors who own a $4M mansion around the corner from us put up Bloomberg posters last night

now I'm kinda curious how many millions yours cost, though..

Aren't we all living in shanties cobbled alongside the fences of mansions at this point?

Like little pilot fish

what the fuck are these billboards

This man would lose to Trump by double digits pic.twitter.com/oF7C0YcU7e

— Bloomberg Debate Coach (@lib_crusher) February 21, 2020

curious how many millions yours cost

Nothing telling about that. My neighborhood is well along in the process of converting to $1.5 to $2 million mansions, but our house is undistinguished, built in 1930, is under 1000 sq. ft., has very old plumbing and inadequate wiring, and a tiny kitchen that hasn't been upgraded for at least half a century. The lot under the house is valued at 3x more than the house itself.

now I'm kinda curious how many millions yours cost, though..

― beard papa, Friday, February 21, 2020 11:24 AM (twelve minutes ago)

$10M

Hey there Mike, here's a way more effective and persuasive version of what you're trying to do (inasmuch as it appeals to people's sense of decency as opposed to their inner snarkmeister's desire to snicker at clowns), created by the campaign of the previous Democrat defeated by Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrX3Ql31URA

Why don't y'all have a chat about how well this tack worked out for her.

He's used to just throwing money at every obstacle he's ever encountered, isn't he. Although it doesn't seem to be working with that whole 'make me less of a fucking idiot' problem, does it, Mike?

When he started to tank during the debate, I half expected him to start reaching into his bulging pockets and throwing fistfuls of wadded hundreds into the crowd.

those billboards are so lame. where is he getting these jabs? the Rolling US Politics threads?

Not sure about this one pic.twitter.com/PPRBmYdg4E

— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) February 21, 2020

lol

oh man, those are just too easy

yeah the design firm maybe should have considered something a little less 'shoppable

Nothing telling about that. My neighborhood is well along in the process of converting to $1.5 to $2 million mansions, but our house is undistinguished, built in 1930, is under 1000 sq. ft., has very old plumbing and inadequate wiring, and a tiny kitchen that hasn't been upgraded for at least half a century. The lot under the house is valued at 3x more than the house itself.

― A is for (Aimless), Friday, February 21, 2020 7:35 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Given that we apparently live in the same house, it's a wonder I don't bump into you in the living room once in a while at least.

lol @ Epstein shop

These stupid billboards are so goddamn tonedeaf that I'd be genuinely surprised if at least one of them didn't wind up being some esoteric billionaire dick-measuring contest that the little people could never relate to in a billion years.

DONALD TRUMP ONLY HAS OLYMPIC-SIZED POOLS IN FOUR OF HIS YARDS

'Mr. Bloomberg, as a senior adviser to your campaign, I feel that I'd be remiss in failing to point out that these billboards are really...'
'Excuse me. Excuse me. Son? I am a billionaire. Buh. Buh. Billionaire. The one that starts with a b. Now shoo.'

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s momentum in the Democratic presidential race has stalled in the wake of a lackluster debate performance in Las Vegas this week, according to a new poll.

The Morning Consult poll released Friday shows Bloomberg falling into third place behind Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Vice President Joe Biden, dropping 3 points compared to a similar Morning Consult survey from before the debate.

The former mayor is still registering double-digit support, at 17 percent, but Bloomberg’s post-debate dip was the largest of any candidate.

Sanders, meanwhile, held onto his first-place position in the poll and even gained 2 points compared to the pre-debate survey, rising to 30 percent support. Biden stayed steady at 19 percent.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) finished in fourth place in the survey with 12 percent support – a 2-point gain since earlier this week – while former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg fell into fifth place with 11 percent support and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) trailed at 5 percent.

The Morning Consult poll, which was conducted entirely after this week’s debate, suggests that Bloomberg’s performance has slowed his rise in the Democratic presidential race.

Throughout Wednesday night’s forum, the former mayor struggled to fend off rapid-fire attacks from his rivals, who targeted his political record, allegations of sexual harassment and willingness to spend his immense personal fortune to outdo his competition.

The bungled performance also appears to have eroded Bloomberg’s favorability numbers, according to the Morning Consult poll.

Before the debate, 61 percent of respondents said they had a favorable view of the former mayor, compared to 25 percent who said they had an unfavorable opinion of him. After the debate, Bloomberg’s favorability dropped to 52 percent while his unfavorability climbed to 35 percent, the poll found.

I know there's more nuanced stuff going on there, but the fact that debate was enough to knock Bloomberg back to third place but not enough to propel Warren higher than fourth says some shit about the respondents.

It says only some of them watched the debate?

And everyone else modulated their opinions over watercooler discussion of the debates, presumably.

Bloomberg And Me: A Short Story pic.twitter.com/PQbCGqw3mu

— DJP (@djperry1973) February 21, 2020

fyi if you want them to remove you from their roll you have to tell them directly "stop texting me and remove me from your system" or something like that, they absolutely will not remove you otherwise

lol djp

Kuuudos.

I've been getting 1-3 robocalls/per day to my work phone for like the past month and a half, just constant garbage from the same number over and over and me never picking up because I know it's nothing legitimate so why waste my time? Until finally today I felt compelled to pick up, and I whispered 'hellllooooo' in a low + creepy monotone and the voice on the other end says 'hello, sir, I'm with...' and I break in with a creepily-whispered 'never call this number again' and there's a pause and he says 'well, sir, I'm not sure you...' and I interrupt with a slightly creepier slightly hissier 'never call this number again' and each subsequent time he tries to speak I deliver another 'never call this number again' with a little more sibilance, a little more phlegm in the throat, until it's just this incessant rasp in his ear, over and over and over until I finally hung up, a call from hell he's hopefully telling friends about at the bar rn before he tenders his resignation on Monday because fuck that creep-ass noise. So that's one way to deal with unwanted solicitation.

(Frankly, dude was lucky that I spared him my classic 'befuddled septuagenarian keeps audibly exasperated telemarketer on the phone for 90 minutes over-explaining every facet of a fairly straightforward service' routine.)