dagblog - Comments for "Bloomberg"

The tweets can list

ocean-kat — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 18:18:20 +0000

In reply to NEWS: Looking at 2020,

The tweets can list candidates who apologized for political reasons but all of them are different in context. Bloomberg actually supported the racist policy of stop and frisk. Biden really did treat Anita Hill in a sexist way. Warren took a DNA test to attempt to fight back against a bogus political attack. We can all form our opinions whether they are all equally bad or which is worse, but they are different.

Never Trumper Charlie Sykes

artappraiser — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 18:03:12 +0000

In reply to NEWS: Looking at 2020,

Never Trumper Charlie Sykes retweeted this:

The degree to which Bloomberg’s potential bid has been covered as a potentially serious shakeup of the 2020 race shows just how badly many media elites misread what Dem voters/the electorate are looking for. https://t.co/wUCormcnfn
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 17, 2019

NEWS: Looking at 2020,

artappraiser — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 17:44:49 +0000

In reply to Bloomberg

NEWS: Looking at 2020, BLOOMBERG apologizes for stop and frisk: "I was wrong – and I'm sorry"

Story from the church where he did it: https://t.co/SOOLeujR3i
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) November 17, 2019

Maybe but same could also be said about several candidates in the race. Early months were filled with Dems apologizing for stuff they had long avoided

-- Biden on crime bill
-- Biden call to Anita Hill
-- Warren on DNA test
-- Gillibrand on her House immigration/gun stances https://t.co/Xg0JrYN6Zi
— Steadman (@AsteadWesley) November 17, 2019

from February https://t.co/yJu3wmI6vt
— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) November 17, 2019

Oh well George always wrote

Flavius — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:43:53 +0000

In reply to The Greeks knew that the

Oh well George always wrote good tunes even though not everyone likes Ira's lyric,

The Greeks knew that the

rmrd0000 — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 14:49:24 +0000

In reply to They all laughed at

The Greeks knew that the world was round. No one laughed at Columbus.

Edison was a successful inventor, so people were impressed by the phonograph. No laughter.

Bloomberg is toast. Giuliani tried to win by avoiding Iowa and New Hampshire. Bloomberg will be Giuliani campaign 2.0.

Block that metaphor

Flavius — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 12:32:17 +0000

In reply to I'll be nice and help Flav

Block that metaphor department.

Is it better to have several irons in the fire; or to put all your eggs in one basket-and watch that basket?

Next let's nod to the Brits and bring in "horses for courses."

If Bloomberg were running again for Mayor I'd certainly vote against him . For Governor, ditto . Certainly if Tom DiNapoli threw his hat in the ring.

But accepting God doesn't play dice with the universe .what makes us think we should .

When someone get's stop and frisked wrong as his NYPD certainly did, mayors are like street cars. There's another one every five minutes

Going on to Global Warming ,. next November's Presidential choice is going to have hit the ground running . Or there ain't gonna be

A second Act

Dropping the tiresome metaphor schtick I'm reminded of the election in CP Snow's " The Masters". Reflecting afterwards the narrator realizes the winner wasn't the most popular candidate, nor the smartest , nor the most qualified. The one who wanted it the most.

Like Bloomberg!

revised

They all laughed at

Flavius — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 12:06:46 +0000

In reply to Just keeping y'all up with

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round They all laughed when Edison recorded sound

They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother
When they said that man could fly

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But ho, ho, ho, Ha,ha ha , Who's had the last laugh now?

~~not~~ Auden

To quote Hagbard Celine, not

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 07:10:44 +0000

In reply to Block that metaphor

To quote Hagbard Celine, not only does God play dice - he cheats.

If he'd supported Hillary in

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 07:05:32 +0000

In reply to If we ignore his racist

If he'd supported Hillary in 2016 rather than again mulling his walk-on role as Hamlet, maybe we wouldn't be here. Then again, Biden did the same goddamn thing.

If we ignore his racist

ocean-kat — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 06:59:06 +0000

In reply to Block that metaphor

If we ignore his racist policies and his misogyny Bloomberg has a few position I agree with, like gun control and climate change. But I see no evidence his climate policy is any better than some of the other candidates nor that he's the only one who can save the earth. I don't need another, "I alone can fix it" Trump like candidate.

And let us remember, he's not running on climate change nor thinking about entering the race because he feels the other candidates won't work on it. He's running because he's worried that Warren will beat Biden and take too much of his 52 billion dollars.

Taxing him and using that money to work on climate change will do more than not taxing him and electing him president.