The case against Bloomberg
Trevor Noah breaks down why stop and frisk was so bad.
This clip is absolutely powerful from @Trevornoah. And to hear him reference “the audio” from Bloomberg makes it extra meaningful.
David vs Goliath.
— Benjamin Dixon (@BenjaminPDixon) February 15, 2020
If you can't watch tweet videos here's Trevor on u tube
[video:https://youtube.com/watch?v=hVzWqGAUFeI]
Trump is coming for social security and Medicare? So is Bloomberg.
Racist sexist fascist $54 billion oligarch @MikeBloomberg thinks the poor, elderly, disabled, children, homeless, the most disenfranchised, and most vulnerable should find a way to do more with less. Any person supporting him should re-examine their values and world outlook. https://t.co/TNOUxkd65k
— Myrna Lim (@Myrnastwit) February 16, 2020
A Bloomberg administration would be like Obama's was. There wouldn't be much change from Trump to Bloomberg, but the centrists could live with it because he's just not Trump.
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
How Bloomberg uses his money to buy people off
That is not money being wasted. It is money being spent, with deliberation and calculation, by an oligarch to buy political control and end republican self government in USA
I think Bloomberg will kick Bernie's butt. You heard it from me first. In fact he will drop out once his affair becomes known.
https://t.co/X2ZmfxclmL Neera Tanden was 80,000 votes away from being the WH Chief of Staff. Now we've learned she was paid off by Bloomberg and helped bury a story for him. Corrupt. https://t.co/yfQKpHggKD
— aaron j (@afoolsaaron) February 15, 2020
The establishment wing of the Democratic Party - its elite think tank and lobbying institutions - are indescribably corrupt. That's what Bloomberg is counting on.
And, as usual, the Center for American Progress, led by @NeeraTanden, leads the sleaze. Just look at this: https://t.co/2FUQk5bl07
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 15, 2020
Remember the news from a few days ago that @emilyslist was working on a smear ad against Bernie Sanders despite his 100% record on the issues to which they claim to be most devoted? Check this out, from the NYT:https://t.co/283ScKxaJc
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 15, 2020
With trauma, first you have to stop the bleeding, stabilize the patient. Then you can take care of the broken bone. First we have to get rid of Trump.
People are saying that the most important thing is to remove Trump and then we can start fixing the country. Well guess what? We did this after Bush's tenure and we voted in Barack Obama. And 8 years later here we are with Trump because of what Obama failed to do.
D.C. Mayor Browser praises Bloomberg for "doing everything they can to correct" stop-&-frisk. Issue is he didn't "stop sooner," as if he ever did.
Stops went from 97K in his 1st year as mayor to 685K his 10th year. Did drop 11th/12th year amid court rulings... he was fighting. pic.twitter.com/3We6x9Sr2x
— Taniel (@Taniel) February 15, 2020
How Bloomberg made poor people lives hell
Bloomberg is a more house-broken and much richer and smarter version of drumpf.
This is how Bloomberg is corrupting the democratic process. He is buying people out.
"It's a big club and...." thank gawd
It's a sleaze club pic.twitter.com/PgIPoBW2yR
— Caroline Davison (@Carolin75054091) February 15, 2020
The rich buy people who will do their bidding.
Over the last decade, half of all donations to Super PACs came from just 25 people.
If this isn’t the mark of a kleptocracy, I don’t know what is.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) February 15, 2020
Bottom line.
the DNC is so suicidally devoted to destroying Bernie, they don’t even care how bad they make themselves look while squashing him down. The whole point of Russiagate, we will recall, was to suspend any discussion of the contents of the leaked DNC emails: the plot to derail Bernie in 2016. That part of Russiagate was successful, even though Mueller was a historic flop – We forgot about the 2016 chicanery, as if it never happened. But it did. Now it’s happening again, only with even less competent subterfuge.
Bernie would need to pick a running mate who could kick HRC’s ass in the VP Debates.
Raise your 
if your watched Trevor's video
Comments
How many groups or politicians have endorsed him as a result?
I'll bet it was quite a few.
Open secrets has some info on it
Open secrets
Bloomberg has given lots of money to state democratic parties. And you see what happened to Emily's group and Neera after he gave them $$$$. This is wrong on so many levels, but as you see people don't care because they just want Trump gone. No big deal if you get someone just like him.
Moon of Alabama has a great essay on Bloomberg
Putin isn’t going to make you homeless or kill you or deny you health care.
Your government will allow it to happen though.
Let's take a look at Soledad O'Brien
Bloomberg will fight for the 99%.
Just like this.
Egotistical slut.
Likely narcisistic as well.
All hail the next new wonder. A one tenth of a one percenter tramp.
Oops. I almost typed trump.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
lol
You could have and it'd fit.
Putin isn’t going to make you homeless or kill you or deny you health care.
Your government will allow it to happen though.
Black people for Bloomberg is off to a great start.
LOL
I am sure that more information about this will come out.
The internet sleuths will get to the truth about this.
While I typically dislike The Daily Show
and am not a particular fan of Trevor Noah, I did watch that video clip, and he did a good job.
Also, Greenwald is all over Bloomberg, isn't he?
Will Bloomberg be able to do what the Kochs couldn't do?
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I am seeing so many people telling others
to just get over what Bloomberg did to them because of Trump. People died because of it. They went to jail for no reason and many had their lives ruined. Jobs lost. Anyone who says that have either been bought off or just don't understand how bad it was.
The Kochs have done enough damage to the DP already. They funded the Clinton creatures and have been working behind the scenes on some very terrible laws.
Greenwald thinks we should send out an amber alert for Neera. She hasn't been seen on twitter since the news broke on what Bloomberg got her to do.
Putin isn’t going to make you homeless or kill you or deny you health care.
Your government will allow it to happen though.
But but but
it’s amazing to me how we are only two small primaries into primary season and people are already willing to roll over for Bloomberg. HE DIDN'T EVEN PARTICIPATE IN THESE TWO PRIMARIES!!! And yet I’m all ready seeing the resignation from some people.
My favorite justification I’m hearing so far isn’t just that he’d be better than Trump but “what about the SCOTUS? We can’t have another Kavanaugh!” Does anyone with a pulse really think Bloomberg would nominate anyone worthwhile for the SC?
Unfuckingbelieveable.
It wasn’t that long ago, the idea of Bloomberg at the top of the Dem ticket would be seen as ridiculous. But people are already trying to justify voting for the fucker. Do people really not see that he’s probably even worse than Trump in many ways? This would be a heads they win/tails we lose for the Republicans. Ffs.
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
Bewildering is it not?
It's like the primary is over and it's just down to Bernie or Bloomberg and writing off all of the other candidates. That Bloomberg is rising in the polls even though he hasn't had to answer any questions on his policies or been in a debate. This is why money in politics needs to end. The open secrets link shows how much money he has given to most states. Buying off the DNC and then they changed their debate rules shows even more how big a farce this is.
Speaking of Kavanaugh I've seen articles on how Bloomberg's supporting republicans over democrats cost democrats the majority in the senate and whola we got Kavanaugh.
Bloomberg is Trump. Both have money and have no idea how regular people are dealing with this rigged economy. But as people did during Obama's tenure they will overlook the bad things Bloomberg does just because he has a D next to his name even though he has been a republican and has a long history of supporting republicans.
"Bernie's not a democrat!" Neither is Bloomberg you doofuses! The centrists would rather vote for Bloomberg than Bernie. Go figure.
Putin isn’t going to make you homeless or kill you or deny you health care.
Your government will allow it to happen though.
Mind boggling.
Unfuckingbelievable. I have no (more) words.
This shit is bananas.
Their reaction, like
my husband’s is, “Oh thank god! A rich bully to protect us from that other crude rich bully! We’re saved!”
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
What makes anybody think Bloomberg will
protect them from anything once he gets what he wants?
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
So many examples so little space for them all.
Here is just one of them.
I will not get carried away with these as you get the idea.
Bloomberg has seen the light now that he is running for President.
So now everything is hunky dory
Can we please ban "essays" that are just a bunch of twitter
images? Please?
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
This is not just Twitter pictures
I posted a video and links in both the body of the essay and in my comments. Along with commentary in the body.
The tweets on Emily's list and CAP came from the article I linked above them.
Putin isn’t going to make you homeless or kill you or deny you health care.
Your government will allow it to happen though.
Why not just use links without showing
the twitter content and its images and videos? Tired of embedded twitter in what goes under 'essays'. Readers can't click on links anymore?
https://www.euronews.com/live
Apparently not
If you don't like the content feel free to skip the essays.
Do you have anything to say on the content of the essay?
Putin isn’t going to make you homeless or kill you or deny you health care.
Your government will allow it to happen though.
no, you misunderstand me,
I like the content of your essay very much and appreciate it, I just feel it is difficult to follow the comments you make in between all the imagergy and videos of the embedded twitter posts. It is the formatting of your essay. And I speak only for myself. I am easily overwhelmed by images and comments in between and therefore easily tired and confused.
Sorry, didn't mean to sound as harsh as I did. It's just me. And I am an outsider here and so Forget about me. Please.
P.S.
I am guilty myself in that regard as well. But for me it is, because I can't write, I am not an author, and don't want to be one, but sometimes I like to point something to the readers here and then do it by showing the videos. Can't tell you how tired I am doing this from Germany.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Where's Neera? MIA on Twitter after serious coverup allegations
'Grotesque Corruption': Emily's List, Center for American Progress Sold Out to Michael Bloomberg (It was “disconcerting” to be asked to remove the chapter “because of how it was going to be perceived by Mayor Bloomberg.”)
Related stuff here (too tired to opine myself)
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
I'm not a member of twitter
So I appreciate seeing what is going down there. If it bothered me , I would just skip that essay.
And some of the videos are really good.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Same here
please keep on doing what you’re doing snoop!
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
I've never registered
with Twitter but can always see the tweets and the comments to each thread. It's open to all, free.
As to reposting of tweets here, my tendency is to look at the first one, maybe the second, but to skip all the rest as more of the same redundancy.
one case against Bloomberg
Excellent presentation by Trevor Noah. However, he's South African and not AA, and therefore, may not fully appreciate that for decades the Clintons have exploited AA politicians who in turn exploit AA voters. To cite a few instances, Sister Souljah and Ricky Ray Rector (1992), both espousing tough on crime (aka black kids) and welfare reform (further impoverish AAs) in the 1990s -- then they turn around an mouth an apology to a black leader or politician and find a few coins to drop in their charity bucket and their forgiven. Well except in 2008 when Hillary dismissed her black opponent and Bill lost his cool when in response to Hillary, they withdrew their endorsement of HER.
The Clintons and AA leaders/pols kissed and made up after 2009 and were all in with HER for 2016. But a funny had happened. Fewer AAs, concentrated among younger voters, were willing to follow the lead of those AA leaders. Enough in MI that HER lost the caucus to Bernie. (The poison Flint water that HER and Obama ignored for over a year and did nothing about it was part of it.) One among HER many excuses for losing to a nincompoop was the AAs in WI (or did she say MI?) didn't show up and vote for HER (conveniently forgetting that she needed MI, PA, and WI).
So, AA leaders and pols have a lot of experience forgiving white politicians who may be able to do something positive for AA communities or at least for the AA leaders. Bloomberg has the bucks to skip all the sweet nothings promises and put cash in their pockets for services rendered: "Stop and frisk wasn't that bad, and Mike has apologized for it. Now let's all get aboard the Bloom-mobile." I look forward to some AAs coming up with a term to describe these bribed leaders and pols.
I do too ...
"... look forward to some AAs coming up with a term to describe these bribed leaders and pols."
[video:https://youtu.be/LLn3FT9BsRs]
Lots of the black folks who have endorsed him
did so after he gave their communities money as this article Janis linked shows.
The Clintons did so much damage to the AA community I can't believe anyone who was affected by them would ever vote democrat again. From welfare reform and the crime bill to the deregulation of the banks, blacks have suffered tremendous damage.
I have been having fun with people who keep posting on Bernie talking up 'dictators and war criminals. I've been posting a this picture of him and war criminal, Hillary.
Hillary was supportive of every war and military intervention Bill was involved with as well as her vote for the Iraq war. And of course Libya was her baby and she was involved with the Syrian coup attempt and the successful Ukraine coup. It's getting lots of likes and retweets.
Putin isn’t going to make you homeless or kill you or deny you health care.
Your government will allow it to happen though.
I can't see it where I am
Is there anywhere else with the same clip?
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
You can't see the YouTube video either?
Is that what you mean? Can you access it from the link?
I hope you can find a way to watch it because it's really good.
Putin isn’t going to make you homeless or kill you or deny you health care.
Your government will allow it to happen though.
It still doesn't work
I am presently (as I will continue to be for the better part of this year) in Australia.
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
Here's an article on his show
https://www.thedailybeast.com/daily-show-host-trevor-noah-takes-mike-blo...
This might give you an idea what it's about.
Putin isn’t going to make you homeless or kill you or deny you health care.
Your government will allow it to happen though.
happens to me all the time, say thanks to
the frigging google folks.
https://www.euronews.com/live
What I don't understand, it could all be different, if
the money were not worth anything. When Germany reached bottom, they had to start over and it started with a "Währungsreform" Currency reform 1948 (West Germany). (this wikipage is an automatic translation of the German language Wikipage and I don't know how bad or good a translation that is).
Basically, if Bloomberg's money can't buy anything anymore, his power would be over, and the 99 percent became powerful.
https://www.euronews.com/live
BTW, this is the famous Gore Vidal quote:
But, yeah, fuck Mike Bloomberg.
"The enemy is anybody who is going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on." Yossarian
Eugene V Debs said it in 1904
" In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move. -- Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy "
Can't help but wonder why Trevor Noah
is deciding to fight on the side of the angels here. Maybe he's better than I thought. I figured they'd give The Daily Show to whoever was acceptable to the Dem "liberal" establishment.
Or maybe he just has a limit, and Bloomberg/Giuliani's "Stop and Frisk" racial profiling program is a little too much for him.
Not too much for the largest Black caucus in Alabama, apparently.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
I tried watching
Trevor in April of last year I think, made it through about 30 seconds of his diatribe about Trump being the liar he is and turned it off. I'm sorry Trevor, but if you are going to scream about the lies Trump tells then perhaps look at the liars you tell us all we need to vote for.
My cynical side says going after Bloomberg and his racism is acceptable to those who write Trevor's paycheck, after all, talking about racism hardly makes a real dent in the power of our owners as long as one does not touch that pesky issue of class and just how interwoven that is with racism. Corporate America has every incentive to portray itself as anti-racist and they've been pandering about that for decades, never mind their real policies and just who they bleed money from and how their media stokes the division, talk about the racism of Repugnants and you'll get big ratings from the neo liberal pink pussy hat crowd. And God knows, the Repugnant racism is low hanging fruit, so easy to go after that while doing nothing to change the policies that help it along.
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
True about Repubs, certainly
(at least the racist ones; to my amazement, there's still some Republican voters who don't treat black people like they're lesser--so how do those Republicans manage to stay in their party?)
But I think the point here is that we're not supposed to see Bloomberg as a Republican. Because he saw the light and became an indie and gave money to some Dems as well as enough Republicans to keep the Senate in Republican hands in 2018. And now he's running as a Dem, so we're supposed to see him as a Dem. Just like Dick Painter, the Bush Administration ethics lawyer who ran as a Democrat in 2018. He's a Democrat too.
/smh
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Why is there any discussion?
Is there any question in anyone's mind?? I am stumped by the thought that any sane person could like the likes of Trump and/or Bloomberg.
RIP