@Wally
His ads make it look like Obama endorsed him, which helps huge in the south.

The real questions are 1) does Obama approve of Bloomberg using him in this manner (maybe he really does support him in private)?, and 2) will the other candidates point out that Obama did not endorse Bloomberg (adn when)?

If I didnt vote for Hillary sure as shit not voting for this racist capitalist pig. @TomPerez maybe this time I vote for Trump instead instead of 3rd party. Double tap you. https://t.co/UaXbkf4ahU

— dkmich (@dkmich) February 13, 2020

@moneysmith

You can't turn on hardly any channel without being bombarded with Bloomberg ads. For low info voters, that makes him the logical choice.

Had lunch yesterday with a low-info friend who I'd been preaching Bernie to for the past year. She kept saying she thought he really cared about people and had good ideas, and she even wanted to go to a local rally he was doing last month, so I thought she was solid.

But yesterday she tells me she sent in her mail-in ballot and voted for Bloomberg. She claimed she didn't know why she did that, but it was done. I suspect she heard something on MSNBC/CNN etc. that changed her mind. But FFS,Bloomberg?? Seriously?

So I share your concerns about Super Tuesday:-( Now off to the Twitter machine!

@Wally
Elated to see that he didn't pull any punches on taking it to Bloomberg, especially that high-ranking member of the Black MisLeadership, Al Sharpton, was seated right next to him. Curious to hear what he said.

This morning on WBAI's morning activist show they were talking about the horrendous plight of Ramsey Orta, who filmed the Garner murder, and how he's been targeted by the NYPD and now back in solitary confinement on bogus trumped-up charges. One person was talking about how Sharpton had led his family to believe he would take care of them but sold out to the establishment. I saw evidence of his pernicious effect on quelling legitimate activism and fronting for the cops. Wrote about it here for the Pestilent Neoliberal Cesspool.

Fucking NYPD thugs.

This whole Bloomberg thing is going to remind a lot of folks here about all the shit he so callously did and was dismissive about.

Bloomberg singlehandedly disproving several decades of bullshit lefty postmodern theory about race and identity guiding political choices and confirming that money and class has primacy.

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) February 13, 2020

[video:https://youtu.be/kwjYsWjG-7A]

Michael Bloomberg is every bit as big a threat to American democracy as Donald Trump. Don't @ me.

— Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) February 13, 2020

Michael Bloomberg would be an even more racist and authoritarian president than Donald Trump but wouldn't be obnoxious or open about it so liberals would mostly be fine with it as he carried out the same agenda but more effectively

— WillMenaker (@willmenaker) February 13, 2020

Fact check: It was the banks https://t.co/Uax1vwNoA1

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) February 13, 2020

Disturbed to see Black leaders back @MikeBloomberg— There’s a history of callous policies harming NYers of more color on housing, education & of course #SQF.

As I said to @KatyTurNBC & @TheRevAl on @MSNBC, the revelations aren’t a surprise to all who know the Mayor’s work best. pic.twitter.com/NZbjqsWUFz

— Jumaane Williams (@JumaaneWilliams) February 13, 2020

@konondrum “Yeah, he’s a racist Republican oligarch but he’s OUR racist Republican oligarch.” (Except he really isn’t. Sigh.)

It bummed me out that people think this way. At least I can appreciate the irony in that many of the “deplorables” gave a very similar reason for supporting Trump. (He may be a entitled elitist billionaire twit, but he’s MY entitled elitist billionaire twit.)

Here we are, watching the very people who have been saying "Bernie isn't even a Democrat!" The people who who say "Vote Blue no matter what!" The people who supposedly care about and represent the views of minorities. And their answer? Our racist Republican is better than their racist Republican.

These people should be ashamed to say these things publicly, and yet they act as though they are the reasonable people in the room. Just a stunning lack of self awareness.

@WoodsDweller
but bloomie has billions, plus the media
plus very expensive thought control
minions on his 'campaign'

flooding the voters with manufactured
temporary solutions to problems most
had not even considered

it's all about the almighty capitalist consumption
not democracy, not voter integrity
not even representation of
shared values or concerns for common
interest

the super rich won't share their spoils
money trumps democracy again

We've got Steyer spending nearly as much (in the same stratospheric neighborhood anyway) yet getting single digit returns in the first two states.
We saw Biden leading the polls for a year, yet collapsing once the actual voting started.
I believe, with no more evidence than the rest of you have, that there's a relatively low cap on the number of Democratic primary voters that are interested in being represented by a billionaire, and further that Bloomberg is sharing that lane with Steyer.
People may or may not know that Bloomberg is a racist, or that he used to be a Republican, but they all know he's stinking rich.
So we'll run the experiment and see if democracy was nothing more than a marketing slogan to promote plutocracy.

@Wally
It has the potential to break Twitter, if blacks even give a shit to tell them on social media or even have the time to get on Twitter (many young ones are though). I hope this fucking EXPLODES (and think it will).

I can't type fast enough to recount all the shit that he's fucking lorded over in his pampered palatial position of power which has ruined this city.

Heard firsthand stories of it from people and from going to all these powerful marches and speeches that sprung up during a prolific time of BlackLivesMatter here.

There was another great Twitter outpouring during the time of the police murder of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner that blew up the totally lacking in awareness decision by the NYPD to promote a hashtag of something like #MyNYPD. Started collecting tweets for an essay at TOP but never got around to it. Some really brutal photos and videos of hospital beds with young men shown with their heads disfigured and on tubes, etc.

That needs to happen again. Their racist Stop & Frisk (part of the larger discredited Broken Windows bullshit) is psychological warfare.

Personally, and I've said this from the very beginning since this racist oligarch Neoliberal douchebag with the personality of a soggy pretzel's announcement:

He's. Absolutely. Going. No. Where.

Many, many, many thanks and kudos to Benjamin Dixon for digging up that now viral Bloomberg video and now racheting up the hashtag:

Wow. #MyBloombergStory https://t.co/3Wl8avt2R9

— Benjamin Dixon (@BenjaminPDixon) February 13, 2020

For those of you who are tweeters, go for it. This needs to be BIG and pronto.

I wish I could transfer to u the terror of raising teenage boys in NYC city when Bloomberg was bragging abt xeroxing the description of minority boys & throwing them against walls. In the later years it overlapped with black live matter. They were being hunted. Death was possible

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) February 12, 2020

@Wally

Michael Bloomberg’s Campaign Is an Insult to Democracy

But the audio also shows us a second thing, which is a sense of his governing philosophy. Bloomberg believes it’s necessary to use brute force to address social problems. If you juxtapose this audio with his justification for his other signature policy, the soda tax, you notice the same level of paternalism. In order to address the bad eating habits of the impoverished, Bloomberg proposed to tax them for those habits. It demonstrates a particular view of government. We can either use the government to promote general welfare by addressing the underlying systemic issues that cause poverty and violence, or we can use the government to punish populations for their own good. For Bloomberg, it’s the latter.

Members of the black caucuses across the country are endorsing Bloomberg. Smh.

Lots of people came into Blow's tweet and said that Bloomberg apologized and it's time to move on because We Have To Beat Trump! Sure just move on from being physically assaulted by cops and living with the stress from it. Or reading day after day how another cop got away with murdering an unarmed black person. If you didn't live through it shut the f up and listen to those who did and how it affected them. There are plenty of people telling their tales of what happened to them. And Sandra Bland should never be far from anyone's mind. That would never have happened to a rich white person.

Many, many, many thanks and kudos to Benjamin Dixon for digging up that now viral Bloomberg video and now racheting up the hashtag:

Wow. #MyBloombergStory https://t.co/3Wl8avt2R9

— Benjamin Dixon (@BenjaminPDixon) February 13, 2020

For those of you who are tweeters, go for it. This needs to be BIG and pronto.

I wish I could transfer to u the terror of raising teenage boys in NYC city when Bloomberg was bragging abt xeroxing the description of minority boys & throwing them against walls. In the later years it overlapped with black live matter. They were being hunted. Death was possible

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) February 12, 2020

@boriscleto @boriscleto

Can you possibly upgrade to the 21st century, or should we leave you stuck in the past with all your bad rich-bastard ideas?

Oh by the way, how many here remember Allan Sherman's "Bye Bye Bloomberg"?

Mike Bloomberg: 'I Apologize For The Damages My Past Policies Have Caused To The Negro Community'

@Pluto's Republic

had repeated just after winning the NH primary that he'd support anyone who becomes the nominee! as to your comment about the Dems wanting to Crush the Left, i'd submit that the D party has contained the actual dissident radical left, or in the parlance: 'the democratic party, where all good social movements go to die'.

imagine that the disaffected had voted Green decades ago. where might we be? one actual-factual socialist ran last time: ajamu baracka. one is running for the nomination this year: howie hawkins, admittedly his spirit's not on fire...

There's no real workaround to push back on the Bloomberg strategy, which has been precisely configured from Day One. I've been hesitant to mention it because I don't want to discourage the People's growing identity with the Authentic Left — the Left that exists outside the Democratic Party — just as Bernie Sanders exists outside the Democratic Party. The Left at-large needs to reorient itself as the "Outsider."

Within the polarized, non-consensus design of US politics. it is not really possible to create a new, major political powerhouse without tearing another one down, and stomping on it, with prejudice. After the election, turning the Democratic Party into a pile of rubble will be a top priority. Historically, that Party is a suppression chamber for the Left and carries the forever-stench of corruption. Beginning in 2021, the 'outsiders' or the true Left must immediately coalesce into voting-coalitions in order to vote-block Democratic candidate into losses and tip the Party into systemic failure. Meanwhile, the People's (replacement) Party will be open to former Democratic candidates who would like to win elections for a change. An authentic People's Platform will be front and center, defining the Party's purpose and vision.

Meanwhile, the Left should fully support Bernie. Although we're working with probabilities (rather than possibilities) at this stage of the game, certainly not every possibility has been accounted for. There could be a Black Swan out there that lands on Bernie's podium and flies him to the White House. If you're delegate-counting and checking the odds, well then you know the bar is very low for keeping Bernie under 50 percent in the Primaries. And, by my count, there are at least twelve primary states that will proactively make sure this is the case. Something tells me, also, that Super Delegates will deploy earlier that anticipated. Mr. Bloomberg is not investing to lose. He's investing to purchase the Presidential nomination, which happens to be for sale to the right candidate.

It is admittedly demoralizing to consider the Trump-Bloomberg race. The major players in the sitting government (largely consisting of former intelligence agents and assets) will defend Bloomberg's right to do so. Of course, either way, Israel wins, and the mad dream of global Empire is still intact. Until the facts and goals behind this top-heavy operation (government) are perfectly clear to every American, we will all continue as mere passengers on this cruise ship.

@orlbucfan I do not have tv...we cut the cord ten years ago, so I have not seen Bloomberg's ads in my own home, but when I recently visited my elderly mother in central Florida, Bloomberg's ads were all over the tv. And while his ads may insult knowledgeable voters, they are very compelling to the elderly and casual voters.

I think people underestimate the power of Bloomberg carpet bombing the air waves with his ads. It is very frightening to consider, but the reality is that Bloomberg could carry the Florida primary as well as some other super Tuesday states.

his crapo commercials down here in Florida for weeks. They are low rent in quality and insult the viewer's intelligence. But, looking at my state's governors and senators, corrupt stupidity is in. Rec'd!!