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

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.)

I've had daily robocalls from "Re-elect President Trump". I've blocked them all but they just keep coming. I've never registered as a republican in my life

I absolutely cannot fault DJP's approach, but in case you have time/patience enough, I recommend following the guide I posted earlier if you really want to fuck their operation up.

Does the Bloomberg campaign pay people to text? I’d like to sign up and see how long I can get away with texting “Legalize dogfighting vote for Mike Bloomberg” before they stop me.

AFAICT they have no actual volunteers

https://www.mikebloomberg.com/volunteer

they're doing it because they love mike

https://reclaimthenet.org/bloomberg-campaign-website-caught-faking-volunteer-signups/

I just answered the door and spoke with a defeated Bloomberg canvasser.

He said, in a resigned tone, that he was "getting paid $300 to go door to door and listen to why everybody doesn't like Mike Bloomberg."

— Jeff Lake (@jeff_lake) February 21, 2020

not nearly enough imo

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-02-21/twitter-suspends-bloomberg-accounts

that's some lazy work right there.

Lol at the covers of Michael Bloomberg's daughter's novels pic.twitter.com/wbmzL9CY2T

— Bloomberg Debate Coach (@lib_crusher) February 22, 2020

Horsey porn?

there's another word for that

bloomberg’s links to jeffrey epstein were bad enough but now mr hands too? nagl imo

I had to go out of town, but here's the situation I described upthread as of Friday afternoon. Will report back on Monday to see if there's been any changes.

https://i.imgur.com/7u9MVNL.jpg

God that logo is awful

I (was paid to) LIKE MIKE

might be a good time to see if this person still subscribes to the broken window theory

Twitter suspended about 70 accounts on Friday that were part of a coordinated, paid effort to push out positive messages about Michael R. Bloomberg on the grounds that the accounts violated the social media platform’s rules.

The suspensions, confirmed by Twitter on Friday and first reported by The Los Angeles Times, came just days after The Wall Street Journal reported that Mr. Bloomberg’s campaign had been hiring workers to frequently post supportive messages about the former mayor of New York on their personal social-media accounts.

Clint Eastwood Ditches Donald Trump for Mike Bloomberg in 2020 Election https://t.co/rCgYzwK66K

— Variety (@Variety) February 22, 2020

i believe the penalty for ever supporting donald trump once, in your entire life, is being forced to admonish an empty chair named donald trump on live tv

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/21/bloomberg-is-a-climate-change-con-man/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERfgygBWsAA87So?format=jpg&name=medium

UPDATE: signs are still up, unmolested.

omg shut up colleen

for sure a troll account

Colleen Gibson Wilted flower
@ColleenGib_NYC
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Feb 21
Boom! There it is! Bloomberg released 3 women from their NDAs. Case closed, issue settled, show over, move along folks, nothing more to see here!

As for the dozens of other NDAs he’s going to keep in effect, let’s just all agree to forget about those.
#MeToo #Bloomberg2020

The Bloomberg 2020 operation is hiring more than 500 people at a rate of $2,500 a month to text friends and post on social media in support of the former New York mayor and billionaire media mogul. These “deputy field organizers,” as the campaign calls them, are focusing their efforts on California and its 415 delegates up for grabs. It has not been picky in choosing messengers.

A look inside the strategy — based on documents reviewed by The Times, interviews with five of these organizers and an examination of the operation’s social media output — shows that many have been using accounts created within the last month for their Twitter posts. At least two had openly posted in support of other candidates. And unlike the high-profile influencers the campaign recently hired to create viral memes, the vast majority of these organizers have modest personal audiences. On Twitter, many have fewer than 20 followers.

Rather than create their own content, organizers often use the exact text, images and links provided to them by the campaign. The result has been a stiff outpouring of tweets, Facebook and Instagram posts with little to no engagement and sometimes half-hearted text messages. Some organizers were so robotic in their tweeting, Twitter suspended their accounts Friday evening after The Times inquired about whether their behavior complied with the platform’s rules on spam and manipulation.

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-02-23/mike-bloomberg-paid-twitter-social-media

I would consider getting back on twitter for some of that sweet payola tbh

1: a bloombot may not injure an oligarch or, through inaction, allow an oligarch etc

don't think this was posted

Michael Bloomberg in 2010 on government: He begins with, "I'm not suggesting we shouldn't have democracy, BUT...," lamenting the lack of qualifications required to seek public office. Then he says progress depends on executives having "far and away" more power than legislatures. pic.twitter.com/1HlPsmtMuz

— Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) February 17, 2020

Have we discussed the recordings of Bloomberg calling progressives scary and saying his buddies are th bankers?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/audio-bloomberg-slammed-warren-scary-023635538.html

can we change thread title to "If Mike Bloomberg catches on fire, will you piss on him?"

That might be the one time I wouldn't.

I endorse Shakey's title change because it also makes the results funnier. Bunch of ILX softies saving the billionaire vampire.

Wouldn't piss on Bloomberg if he was on fire, would still vote for any Democratic nominee over Trump.

huge if true

https://66.media.tumblr.com/f28343fdc7f0634d8c77519d60fd4a6e/e6ddf81fc3f710d8-39/s1280x1920/92c79285b675d35d12758814ec82820ae13c0789.jpg

that's a typo, should read "Moist"

Bloomberg could've just skipped all the ad buys and instead sent $1M checks to every American, and he would've been dictator for life.