Bloomberg poised to enter 2020 Presidential election as a Democrat

[blues]

Yesterday the Guardian published a fairly blistering oped from the far left about Bloomberg silencing the press:
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ing-press-2020


Today the left is basically calling Bloomberg a racist for saying Booker was "well spoken."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...er-well-spoken

It's a one-way street. Anything one says can be manipulated into virtual blackface.

If he told Hillary Clinton he liked her pantsuit, (hey, there's no accounting for taste), it'd probably pass by unnoticed.

If he said the same to Kamala Harris...not so much.

We have become a society of mealy mouthed, finger pointing, whining, spineless creatures whose sole joy in life appears to derive from finding unfounded or unintentional fault with others.

It's pretty damn sickening.

(And I can't stand Bloomberg.)

[CCT125US]

I'm finding a bit of joy in watching these clowns pick each other apart.

[Baldanders]

I expect Bloomberg to win both the nomination and the general election. I think the media will slew behind him hard, and I think he can pose convincingly as a populist because he doesn't have the stain of congress. I think public opinion is entirely driven by the media and the media is NYC-centric.

"The media" was pretty much proven to not have nearly as much sway as thought when Trump barely won. With all the voices to pick from today, major media outlets have less and less power, proportionally, every day.

I can't see Bloomberg winning the nomination, let alone the presidency, in North Carolina.

Running vs. Trump he would be "the guy who wants to take your big gulp." And he would lose.

A media machine behind a paywall is next to useless for shifting mass opinion.

[Bergeron]

"The media" was pretty much proven to not have nearly as much sway as thought when Trump barely won. With all the voices to pick from today, major media outlets have less and less power, proportionally, every day.

Hmmmm. Media profits are roughly 1/3 greater now, than they were before the 2016 election. I have no doubt, zero, that almost every member of "the media" strongly, actively, disliked Trump; but those were the same people who got Trump elected. Anything he said, or did, was quickly translated into an op-ed, an expose', or an article packed full of derision. The net effect was that Trump was handed a kind of permament "bully pulpit" full of endless attention.