A Facebook friend in Dallas pointed out that it isn’t reasonable to complain that Michael Bloomberg is trying to buy the election. In his view, so are the other [tax-more-and-spend-more] Democrats, but they’re trying to buy the election with our money. “At least Bloomie is spending his own.”
(this guy can’t be dismissed as a hater/Deplorable because he doesn’t refer to Mr. Bloomberg as “Mini Mike”)
How is the Bloomberg campaign going? The ads that I’ve seen on Facebook seem targeted at coastal elites who want to feel better about themselves via Trump-hatred and the hatred of Trump voters. Trump and his fans are stupid, racist, etc. Usually there will be a quote from Trump that set the New York Times and its readers on fire, but that Trump voters interpreted in a different way. It is tough to imagine these ads persuading anyone who voted for Trump in 2016 to switch allegiance. But maybe that is the point? It is primary season so the only people who need to see the ads and be persuaded are Democrats?
Separately, I heard that the latest debate among the Democrats involved some sharp exchanges. If the real enemy is Trump, shouldn’t the opposition candidates all be at least as polite as tennis competitors at Wimbledon? The message is that any Democrat is far better than Trump, right? If true, why say something harsh about a fellow Democrat? It would be a personal disappointment to lose the primary round, but saving the country from a Hitler-style dictator is surely more important.
Related:
- “The Radicalism of Warren’s Unapologetic Aggression” (New Republic); Warren is part of the tribe, so to speak, of Democrats saying we’ll all be infinitely better off if Trump is defeated. Why wouldn’t she at least appear to celebrate the possibility of Mayor Pete or Michael Bloomberg winning in November?
“shouldn’t the opposition candidates all be at least as polite as tennis competitors at Wimbledon?”
They need to filter out the weak to maximise their chances.
SF: Your idea makes sense in ordinary times. But we are informed that Donald Trump is not ordinary and that the U.S. faces far more dire consequences from his continued dictatorship than if a conventional Republican were to be elected. The situated is “unprecedented” (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/14/opinion/sunday/trump-impeachment.html ). How can it be Politics as Usual among the Democrats in an unprecedented situation that required impeaching the president, for example?
The opposition candidates?
…and some I assume are good people.
And when the DNC
… sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us.
Bloomberg is only in the race to be the Tyco jam car that insures a brokered convention. He can’t win, even with massive cheating. The DNC convention resultant vapors and gnashing of teeth is going to be hilarious.
The ads that I’ve seen on Facebook seem targeted at coastal elites who want to feel better about themselves via Trump-hatred and the hatred of Trump voters. Trump and his fans are stupid, racist, etc.
This sounds unlikely. Do you have a link?
Bloomberg is apparently not proud enough of his Facebook ad efforts to put up a page aggregating them all (at least not one that I could find with the Google). So these portraits of Trump with quotes along the bottom third of the photo are lost to history. You can find a lot of them in pages such as
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/16/politics/trump-top-lines-2019/index.html
“Some of the most dishonest people in media are the so-called ‘fact-checkers.'” is a perfect example of something that will be interpreted differently by those who believe that the “news” section of the NYT is neutral and free of opinion/bias and those who don’t.
But if Bloomberg hasn’t been targeting you with these ads, I think you should question the righteousness of your Facebook presence. Thanks to my friend network and my advocacy of religious orthodoxy with resepect to LGBTQIA+ issues (where the “religion” of course is Rainbow Flagism), I am a fat target for all of the Democrats!
How dare you refer to the glorious other-sexuals with a puny abbreviation of 7+ characters? LGBTQIA+, huh? please learn how to make use of all 26 characters of the colonial English alphabet.
Don’t ever tell these people about variatios in human karyotype.
Libs are either totally uneducated (or should I say “miseducated”) or at best half-educated – enough to make them smug about themselves but not enough to actually understand the reality around them. This is, in fact, the defining feature of American academia – it’s total mediocracy.
That is a clever remark by the guy from Texas about Bloomberg trying to buy the election with his own money while the other rascals try to buy the election with other people’s money. Too bad Mini-Mike is not quick enough on his feet to think of that sort of response.