Michael Bloomberg 2020 campaign megathread

[Fuzzy Bear]

The first 4 contests are for a relatively small amount of delegates.  The difference between Giuliani and Bloomberg is that Giuliani was an early entry into the race, whereas Bloomberg is a strategic late entry.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Honestly I wonder what he's hoping to accomplish. He's not stupid not to realize chances of him becoming the nominee, especially at this stage, are pretty much nonexistent. Even if Biden were to magically drop out it won't result in his voters just flocking to Bloomberg. His appeal is very limited.

Instead of playing an important role in financing campaigns he's ending his career on a joke note.

500th-dimensional shogi to help Biden, wherein Bloomberg runs so that Biden is contrasted with a billionaire who's hated by progressives, thereby making him more appealing to said progressives.

I firmly believe that Bloomberg has been approached by key elements of the Democratic Party who are extremely concerned about the quality of their field.  The most electable candidates can't catch fire in the polls.  The leaders all have massive flaws, as do the candidates just below the leaders.  The Democrats should be favored to beat Trump, but they're being perceived as blowing it, and no one on the Democratic side wants to be responsible for blowing it.

Bloomberg is a guy with both political and business gravitas.  He was a RINO who always was a social liberal who was a Democrat, then a Republican, then an Independent running on the Republican line, and then a Democrat again.  He's not supported the GOP national ticket in eons, and he supported Obama in 2012 and Hillary in 2016.  His achievements are formidable, and no one will accuse him of being an empty suit.  He's ready to be President on day one, and no one really doubts that.

I have said this before:  The Democratic field is unimpressive.  The Democratic interest groups that are the real stakeholders in the party see the 2020 election slipping away from them.  They need to be proactive and airlift a candidate with gravitas into the process.  There are few available.  Hillary Clinton isn't wanted and Al Gore is likely unavailable.  Joe Biden is collapsing, and people know this.  People also don't want to find out everything about Hunter Biden and Burisma; it may be a nothingburger, but it may not be, and what then?  Bloomberg is a fix to all this; he's Tom Steyer with political chops.  He's John Delaney with more business chops.  He's 77 years old, but he's sharper than Biden and healthier than Sanders.  And, as an added bonus, he'll be the first Jewish President in history, bringing forth a positive "first" buzz.  If the Democrats had to airlift a candidate into the race, Bloomberg is one of the best they could come up with.  

[Fuzzy Bear]

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Former-NYC-Mayor-Michael-Bloomberg-Officially-Announces-2020-Presidential-Bid-565396161.html

He's in for good now. 

What's his effect on the race now that he (and his endless money) are in?

[Fuzzy Bear]

A picture is worth a thousand words.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Not surprising. Trump is a better person than Bloomberg & is more liberal on issues on a personal level. Bloomberg is an oligarch who hates poor people & is racist to his bone.

Most Dem voters would stay home if this guy gets nominated. Bloomberg will get destroyed in the Industrial Midwest. As bad as Biden or Pete is, they are way better than Bloomberg. Can't wait to see Trump call out the Dems for nominating a racist.

Bloomberg is my last choice for the nomination, but your first paragraph is such complete bullsh**t it doesn't even warrant a snarky "citation needed".

You're a Republican.  You can't vote in the Democratic Primary. 

[Fuzzy Bear]

That was then . . .

Wow, what an entitled prick. Hope he goes down in flames, but the mainstream media will probably prop him up so we'll see about that...

This is now!

Dem voters don't give a damn. As long as he can beat Trump...

I don't know about that.

Not all Dem voters, obviously, but the ones who are backing him don't really care what he's said in the past or what policies he used to back. It's like how Trump used to give money to Hillary and other Democrats, his voters didn't give a crap about that.

ElectionsGuy is one of the sharper folks here on elections and strategy, so I'd ask him how we got from "there" to "here" in a mere 3 months?  It is kind of strange that this guy, Bloomberg, is the leading candidate in terms of Vegas odds as we speak when he hasn't even had a primary.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Bloomberg is probably worse than Trump, more racist, more sexist & more of an oligarch. He treats women like scum.

If Trump was running on a D Ticket & was surrounded by Democratic politicians, he will 100% better than Bloomberg, far more liberal. Bloomberg, a racist & a sexist buying the nomination probably should be followed by a Trump 2nd Term, filling the Court with conservative judges so that Democrats don't even think of nominating a racist, sexist, evil oligarch.

https://youtu.be/uq-v1TTUyhM

Bloomberg has been sued by 40 women in 64 cases of sexual harassment. If that is who Democrats want to nominate, then they deserved to die as a party.

How do 40 women have 64 cases against him? Also aren't most billionaires sued by disgruntled people  trying to cash in.

Like Bezos' girlfriends brother

Wow. You truly are a horribly ignorant sexist..

No politics involved here. Your post just demonstrates a fundamental lack of character and real world comprehension.

You do this every time someone doubts a sexual assault case.   While some horrifying sexual assault cases exist, a lot of super rich businessmen entertainers, and athletes are accused of sexual assault just for a pay day.  Not everyone is Bill Cosby or Jeffrey Epstein.  There are many super rich people accused of sexual assault or rape that have been extorted by women with whom they've had consensual sexual relations, especially men that are married.  

Kobe Bryant is one of many athletes that had to settle a civil case in which the accuser refused to testify against him in criminal court.  She admitted to giving Kobe Bryant consent to make out, but didn't consent to sex with a married man at a hotel.  Roethlisberger is another athlete where the accuser went to police, but didn't want to bring criminal charges against the athlete.  Instead she sought a settlement after her lawyer's filed a civil suit.  This the reason rich people make women sign non-disclosure agreements.  

Bryan Singer was also civilly sued for sexual assault/rape that occurred in Hawaii after previously being accused for sexual abuse of a minor, but his lawyers proved he wasn't in Hawaii at the time the accuser claimed.  Kavanaugh was falsely accused by Julie Swetnick after Blasey Ford came forward.  It was found out that she falsely accused four other men of sexual harassment at a company called Webtrend after she was fired, but human resources had her fired cause they received two reports from male co-workers stating that Swetnick had engaged in unwelcome sexual innuendos.  

So Badger believes Kobe actually sexually assaulted a woman, and that all the allegations against him are true?

If he's got any character, he'll make it plain on Atlas what he things of that.  Otherwise, if Badger has any character, he can apologize, online, in this thread, to JacksonHitchcock for his uncalled for ad hominem personal attack.

I'm sick of Badger having it both ways.

[Fuzzy Bear]

1) That tweet doesn’t say anything about him actually releasing anybody from an NDA but even IF it did:
2) Now do the other 60+ who have NDAs.

To my understanding, these are the 3 NDAs that actually involve Bloomberg himself.

The other NDAs are between Man X and Woman Y, neither of whom is Bloomberg, and there is no reason to demand Bloomberg release either party from their mutually-consensual NDA.

Why these other NDAs that don't involve Bloomberg, himself, should even be relevant is beyond me.  Other than to give the self-righteous fraud Liz Warren talking points to keep her afloat as she runs out of money.

The truth is that no matter what one thinks of Bloomberg, he is more competent and more able to actually BE President than any other Democrat right now.  The comparison of Bloomberg versus Mayor Pete, Liz Warren, Amy Klobuchar, or even Joe Biden is kind of ridiculous.  He's not warm and fuzzy, and he's not humorous.  He's super serious and kind of driven.  But he's COMPETANT, and he's liberal enough to run as a Democrat. 

Bloomberg had an awful debate performance, but he made it through the night.  The Democrats, if they are serious about winning, need to deal with the fact that none of these other candidates generate any enthusiasm.  Bloomberg doesn't do much in that score, either, but he has a track record and money upon money.  The Democrats are on the verge of blowing an election they should be winning.  Bloomberg provides a strategy to resolve this.