Bloomberg 2020, the (Five) Hundred Million Dollar Man!

To all those with Instagram accounts: For the low, low price of endorsing Michael Bloomberg for President, you too can win yourself a new car a tropical vacation 150 dollars!

The Bloomberg campaign is using the social marketing agency Tribe to recruit influencers. A post on Tribe’s platform – which matches influencers with paid opportunities – asks influencers to apply for the gig by explaining “why Mike Bloomberg is the electable candidate who can rise above the fray, work across the aisle so ALL Americans feel heard & respected”. The advert specifies influencers should “be honest, passionate and be yourself!”
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Sadly, nudity has been barred from potential hiring. So, alas, no 'Bloomberg 2020' cheesecake/beefcake shots...Which, honestly, would have been about the greatest thing to come out of a US presidential election since ol' John Adams and T-boy ya' boy Jefferson were accusing each other of excessive French-ness and hermaphroditism, respectively.

Slightly more seriously...Bloomberg and Steyer seem, between them, intent on demonstrating once and for all whether American elections can withstand millionaires with personal money-dropping willingness. In the case of Steyer, the answer seems to be 'yes', because nobody seems to like him. In Bloomberg's case...Well, much as he seems to get universal mockery, recent national polling has him tied with Warren in third, DNC rule-changes mean he might be at a debate in February, and polling/prediction outfits are tossing him into the mix as a legit possibility to earn delegates at the least.
And if that becomes the case, the likely result is looking to be 'Contested Convention HO!' Because this season's writers of 'America' apparently decided to turn the drama up to 11.
 
Yokkiziikzekker said:
I like the anti-establishment candidates but as of this moment it looks like it'll be Bloomberg vs. Trump unfortunately. Would love to see a left-vs.-right smackdown lmao
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Doubtful. Bloomberg would have to do extraordinarily well to outright win the nomination (or even have the delegate lead heading into the convention).

If they head into the convention with Sanders having the most delegates then the Dem's handing the nomination to Bloomberg would ensure open revolt from the left against the party.

More realistically, you are going to have Biden, Bloomberg, and Buttigieg splitting the moderate vote three ways. Biden will almost certainly win South Carolina, which means that he will still be in the running come Super Tuesday. Buttigieg probably gets second in NH which means that he will still be in the race, and Bloomberg's entire strategy is to massively over perform on Super Tuesday.

That means all three of them are competing for those votes. Maybe with Klobuchar as well still in.
 
Yokkiziikzekker said:
That is almost exactly what I think will happen. Note I never said Bloomberg would beat Trump lol (in fact he's liable to lose in a landslide)
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You'd probably have a better idea of this. From the outside looking in it seems like a lot of the anti-establishment will only vote the anti establishment candidates while the corporate dems will mostly only back a corporate dem. Is this true or do you think the vast majority from one camp or the other would be able to unify behind a single candidate?
 
In something that probably belongs in the Media thread as much as it does here...
'Writer/author' Benjamin Dixon--who runs an online progressive podcast show in similar vein to The Young Turks (but much smaller)--dug up an audio recording that was apparently too much trouble for any of the other major media networks (Bloomberg News especially) to bother finding...


Taken from a 2015 speech he gave in Aspen Colorado*, Bloomberg defends rather foot-in-mouth-y the NYC stop & frisk policy and the specific targeting of black communities and individuals by law enforcement.

Bloomberg News yet to report on the matter ( :p )...
Le gasp! That shows me for just looking at their front-page. They did do a story on it! No word yet on Mark Niquette's continued employment status ( :p ).

*A speech that's previously been used against him by gun-rights groups, as a fun, cross-ideology overlap in Bloomberg-criticism.
 
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So I stumbled across this and figured the whole thing belonged in the thread:


The extent to how much this guy has spent in so many different ways on trying to become the democrat candidate is mind boggling. That bit about poaching staff by giving them an Iphone and Macbook on top of everything else is particularly impressive
 
Isem said:
So I stumbled across this and figured the whole thing belonged in the thread:


The extent to how much this guy has spent in so many different ways on trying to become the democrat candidate is mind boggling. That bit about poaching staff by giving them an Iphone and Macbook on top of everything else is particularly impressive
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His fellow candidates don't like it that it's affecting their campaigns against GOP's in their district.
theintercept.com

The Bloomberg Effect: Local Campaigns Are Starving for Help

“This is hands down the toughest time I’ve ever had finding field staff,” said one operative, reflecting on the sweeping impact of Bloomberg’s spending.
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I do not believe Bloomberg is considering Hillary as a running-mate for a second. For one, he already knows she doesn't do well in the Midwest. For two...That's insane in general. Even folks who might, hypothetically, be all excited for a 'rematch'...Hillary not being top-billing kills any and all enthusiasm.

If it really is being considered (and I don't believe for a second it is)...I don't know. It's some kind of kink thing, I assume. The campaign must just have some masochistic need to have that quarter of the population who despise Hillary to make themselves known.

In other Bloomberg news, as with Trump, the dude has a record of scumbag-New Yorker behavior in general.
And, to stand on my own personal libertine soapbox (full of baby formula, flavored juul pods, and salt-packets), the guy 'served' NY as a modern, finger-wagging church-lady who mde himself a busy-body barring any enjoyment or potential unhealthiness from life.
I am utterly horrified there's even the chance a technocratic billionaire is gaining traction.
 
Husky_Khan said:
Granted he is a billionaire whose done fundraisers, superpacs, special interest groups and in charge of corporations but still... now that Michael Bloomberg is in the double digits in polling, surpassing clearly inferior minority candidates like Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang who are hawking for donations largely from small time donors, is this a sign of what is to come.

I'm not sure how much money Trump used for financing his campaign but I don't think it was that much IIRC. Bloomberg meanwhile hasn't taken any donations. He just needs ads and polling results... taken via ads. This is a good insight into the future dystopias of science fiction where giant banners advertising Coca-Cola and Google and Bloomberg for President will haunt the commercialized airwaves.
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It's only a sign of things to come if he wins. Theres nothing dystopian about a world where assholes throw a billion dollars at an election and still lose. If anything, your enemy wasting money on wonderwaffles is a good thing, because they have less money to spend on practical efforts.

The Dems have never recovered from how much they spent losing to Trump.
 
Random Username said:
To beat Trump they must look for a Trump wannabe who lacks the charisma to reach through others and deprived citizens their right for affordable soda.
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They also need crudeness and casualness, it’s the difference in tone between CNN newscasters and FOX newscasters

The latter don’t seem to be actively practicising that cultured deep and enlightened “tone”
 
FriedCFour said:
You'd probably have a better idea of this. From the outside looking in it seems like a lot of the anti-establishment will only vote the anti establishment candidates while the corporate dems will mostly only back a corporate dem. Is this true or do you think the vast majority from one camp or the other would be able to unify behind a single candidate?
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Sanders seems like he's doing alright, so long as Pete Buttigieg and Klobuchar are unable to cut in on his minority lead (although it looks like Bloomberg is already doing that especially after he gets done with Biden's older Black supporters) and Bloomberg turns into a paper tiger. But it really looks like its going to come down to Bloomberg vs. Sanders, and Bloomberg would not only be able to monopolize the moderate plurality, but likely buy entire states at this point.
EDIT: Honestly looks like Warren is screwed, so the progressive vote goes to Sanders, along with Gabbard and Yang thus enabling Sanders to further consolidate the anti-establishment vote as well. Ironically, at least according to Twitter, seems like a lot of Yang and Gabbard supporters have turned on Sanders, so maybe not. This primary is an utter clusterfuck
 
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prinCZess said:
I do not believe Bloomberg is considering Hillary as a running-mate for a second. For one, he already knows she doesn't do well in the Midwest. For two...That's insane in general. Even folks who might, hypothetically, be all excited for a 'rematch'...Hillary not being top-billing kills any and all enthusiasm.

If it really is being considered (and I don't believe for a second it is)...I don't know. It's some kind of kink thing, I assume. The campaign must just have some masochistic need to have that quarter of the population who despise Hillary to make themselves known.

In other Bloomberg news, as with Trump, the dude has a record of scumbag-New Yorker behavior in general.
And, to stand on my own personal libertine soapbox (full of baby formula, flavored juul pods, and salt-packets), the guy 'served' NY as a modern, finger-wagging church-lady who mde himself a busy-body barring any enjoyment or potential unhealthiness from life.
I am utterly horrified there's even the chance a technocratic billionaire is gaining traction.
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This is desperation on Bloomberg's part. He's go a lot riding on the international global system. The one that Trump is aiming to bring down. Tossing away three hundred million to foil Trump and bring back globalism is actually avoiding a bigger loss in his book.
 
The Original Sixth said:
This is desperation on Bloomberg's part. He's go a lot riding on the international global system. The one that Trump is aiming to bring down. Tossing away three hundred million to foil Trump and bring back globalism is actually avoiding a bigger loss in his book.
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Say, correct me if I’m wrong, but I’ve heard that Trump himself is a globalist BUT of a much more international trade sort than casually throwing off lots of local jobs without thinking of longterm problems of a now unemployed and disgruntled people
 
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