I hate Bloomberg.

But he’s gonna win. He’s the new and improved Joe Biden. He has money like Trump, but more! He buys ads! Kids memorize his commercials! So say CNN, MSNBC, Sunday morning shows and Joy and Whoopi!

Wow, his campaign is imploding way faster than I thought. I guess it WILL be Bernie.

Do you hate him more than you hate Trump? 'Cause that's what it may come down to.

It must be cold in your gulag tonight, OP

Please commit to voting for ANY of the Democratic candidates. Trump has got to go.

R5 he is as bad as Trump

He does great commercials. Much better than the Lincoln Project and other candidates.

He -- like Pelosi -- knows what gets Chimp crazed.

Best thing about him:. He has committed his staff until November to work for the Dems regardless of whether he's the nominee.

Bernie is at the bottom of my list but Trump's even lower than the bottom.

Love that best thing about him, r7.

The OP and R6 are trolls or dumbs as rocks or both.

HE IS NOT EVEN A REAL DEMOCRAT MORONS

Thanks, Boris. We didn't know. Is your wife hacked up in pieces in the fridge yet?

Then why are we rooting for a REPUG posing as a Dem?

We all love Bloomberg. Get over it.

Then why are you all always going on and on about Republicans if you’re voting for one? Hypocrites

I think many will approve of a more total takeover of Republicans. Sadly.

DL- "We hate Republicans!! We need to remove them from office"

DL- "We do not care that he is a Republican, we love him!"

But DLers are supposed to be taken serious? You all are hypocrites and two sided on everything. Mental illness is very real. I know where I stand.

And Trump was a Democrat, stupid.

I think its only fair he spends his billions chasing this presidency. Dump doesn't have the cash to do this

You stand in a puddle of your own vodka infused urine, r16. Get some sleep and troll tomorrow.

Bloomberg is as bad as Trump.

Doubtful.

r19 no. I am a grown ass man who knows where he stands Politically and his beliefs. I am not a transplant piece of shit that lives in a city they do not belong in and votes for whoever, whenever and wherever the wind blows that day.

We really, really, really don't r13. No one does. That's why he's going to have to buy the entire Dem party to get on the ticket.

Have you noticed that while every three minutes there's a Bloomberg ad playing, but that he never actually shows up places? He never gives rallies. Do you know why? Not just because he could not care less about the actual voters, but because voters don't give a shit about him either. He holds no rallies because he knows no one will show up until he pays them to show up.

That's not to say he won't be the nominee. He will, because he'll pay to be the nominee, and the DNC is more than happy to sell the nomination, even to a Republican.

A grown ass man never says they're a grown ass man, Alexei. Go to bed.

I truthfully believe he's the only one who can beat Trump. And I mean from start to finish. Bloomberg would never say, "Yes there were some voting irregularities, but I've decided to concede- for the good of the country". Mf would pay to have a nationwide recount. Mf would sue if they tried to steal the election.

And that's what it's going to take. Someone with balls of steel. And LOTS of money.

And my secret wish is for him to pick Hillary as VP. There would be a huge female turnout to get revenge on the misogynistic Rapist-in-Chief. Everyone knows she won in 2016, and we like to right the wrongs.

AH, Svetlana joined in, I see. Hit the sheets, you two.

r24 THIS grown ass man does. Do not tell a NATIVE NYer what he does. Transplant

Of course he's a Republican, has been for decades. And Bernie's not a Democrat either.

I don't care. I would rather a Rockefeller Republican technocrat or a Socialist windbag than a treasonous grifter, his fucked up family and his pondscum administration for another four years.

Anyone but trump means exactly that - ANYONE but trump. If that's Bloomberg or Bernie or even Bloomberg AND Bernie - I'm in.

There are many Russians in NY that consider themselves 'natives', true.

I would rather have Bloomberg as President than Sanders. Bloomberg did a great job of running the biggest city in the USA - NYC - and kept it safe and sound and its wheels turning.

Sanders has a cult following and promises everything for free but that's about it. Crazy Bernie...….

Bloomberg destroyed NYC in the long run. No one sees how all he did has had an affect on the city years later. A negative one.

I like Bloomberg a lot, he is not perfect, but SO MUCH Better than Bernie or Liz. He has the money to beat TRUMP

I will vote Bloomie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[quote] HE IS NOT EVEN A REAL DEMOCRAT MORONS

He’s been a lifelong Democrat. He switched for two seconds to run for office.

All kidding aside 'grown ass man' is a weak fucking expression and one best expelled out of your limited vocabulary, Boris. It's also as dated as a Ricki Lake episode. I don't take you seriously nor do I view you as an 'adult.' If you're over 25, get help. A college course, maybe?

Sorry you feel that way. I can't imagine that you have hated Trump since 2016 and you are going to hate Bloomberg till 2024 in the white house.

He's going to win

[quote]Do not tell a NATIVE NYer what he does.

You grew up ridin' the subways, running with people? Up in Harlem, down on Broadway? You're no tramp, but you're no lady, talkin' that street talk.

You're the heart and soul of New York City

^ Ha ha ha ha!

r36 I am the REAL DEAL, bitch, something you will never be. Know your fucking place.

Bloomberg has never been for the gays. NEVER. He has always been a racist and homophobe.

But the fact he is racist is probably why you all love him.

It's cute when Native NYer acts all tough!

The what? The REAL DEAL?! Such dated expressions, Boris. What intel are they feeding you? You know that New Coke didn't work out, right?

[quote] Do you hate him more than you hate Trump?

The list of people I hate more than Trump is amazingly short.

"The Real Deal" can not be dated. It means exactly what it says, you old, saggy white transplant with no balls. KNOW. YOUR. PLACE.

I started to write a bunch of shit that makes me loathe Bloomberg, but scrapped it because, I see the way the MSM has been pushing him hard this week and all the people referring to him as some kind of 11th hour hero and I can't help but think that it's already been decided. Its creepy how in such a short period of time, so many people are jumping on the bloomie train.

r40 baby you would never ever meet me in person. So please, sit in silence. Transplant

People still watch commercials? That's really weird.

He's OK - but I love his money, willing to spend "whatever it takes" to get rid of Trump. I don't care about his faults, I care about beating Trump and Sanders cannot.

[quote]Know your fucking place.

Several stations in life uptown from yours.

R45

Ay, papi! I bet that's the talk that makes all the hot gringos chase after you!

No one cares about gringos r49, no one but you, as you are the one bringing them up, fucking stupid ass transplant.

I still can't for the life of me understand why a person of color would vote for him because he apologized for his systemic racism tactics.

It's not okay.

'KNOW YOUR PLACE.' Alright, Boris. You told me. Assuming I'm old, saggy and a transplant? Wow. I'm hurt...or should I say 'butt hurt' in your sort of clued out 90's vernacular. Wait a minute! Were you in prison, 43? I was right about the gulag. Are you calling from inside the prison now? So glad tRump put you to work.

On a serious note, Bloomberg was always anti-gay, so to see so many gays back him up shows how self hating they are. Or how bad they wanna fit in with the straights, the str8s that look down on you.

Ok, this accusing everybody you disagree with as a Russian troll is beyond tired.

"Native New Yorker" is obviously not a native New Yorker. He's obviously a fucking trumpanzee-talking moron who watches too much bad tv from the 70's and 80's.

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R50

Oh man, more. More. MORE! Such a big tough keyboard warrior! A majestic beast of a man!

r52 I did not even finish reading what you wrote, as it makes no sense. But I am 32 and never been to Prison, but I will gladly go if you have the balls to take your transplant ass out from behind the computer and come see me. Lets see if you can use those hands in person puto

It’s hilarious to see the Bernie fans dramatically accuse Bloomberg of not being a “real Democrat”.

r55 oh, but I am born and raised in NYC, as were my parents and Grandparents..... and you?

Woof! R57

That's how you do it! Lay it down like a REAL man. A REAL NEW YORK MAN!

r58 I do not like Bernie either, but he is the lesser of two evils. Bloomberg hates gays.

r60 keep typing away, you won't do shit in person. Lmao.

r62 Facts. The wannabe NYer who moved into our turf but runs his mouth all day would never have the balls to see you in person. Might as well shut the fuck up already instead of running his mouth behind a computer. He wants to be NYC so bad, let him prove he is NYC.

Nah the police are on my side. You're the one jumping the turnstile every day. 😂

I never stated I was voting or even supporting Bloomberg for President. I will vote against the Orange Turd King no matter what. And, Jesus, r57. You are truly simple minded. I bet you really did do time in Rikers, you self loather.

r64 you already lost transplant. You bringing up jumping turnstiles out of nowhere, something the that nothing to do with the topic at hand. You look stupid. And you still won't come see me in person, so please.

And my family are the Police. Lmao.

I don't know much about Bloomberg. What's he done that's anti-gay?

I'd vote for him over Orange Hitler, regardless, but I'd like to know.

Idk why r66 even bothers. You know their weak white asses are all bark. That is all they do. None ever say all that shit to someone’s face. They wait until they get home and on a computer. They’re weak.

New Yorker here who despises Bloomberg and thinks the his time in office here was seriously damaging to the spirit of the city and made it unlivable for low-income and working-class New Yorkers. Plus, his third term was a travesty of justice.

That said, people who cannot see the substantial difference between a Bloomberg presidency and a second term for Trump don’t deserve the right to vote.

We should all get behind the idea right now that anyone who earns the Democratic nomination, whether it be Pete or Liz or Amy or Mike or Joe or Bernie, needs and deserves our support.

You want a perfect candidate? I don’t know what you’re smoking but perfect candidates on a national level do not exist.

If you HAD to pick: which of the almost-eighty candidates would you want to see nude: Bernie, Bloomberg or Biden?

Stop and frisk sounds like a good idea. You know you're going to find: 1) weed; 2) a gun; 3) an outstanding warrant. Like candy from a baby.

HA HA HA HA HA, r68 is talking to himself.

R66 and R68 clearly are JUST SO TOUGH and MANLY!

Native NYer, let's meet up! Name the time and place, livestream it too!

r67 If social media commentary is any indicator, the news was not received well among LGBTQ folks who are engaged in politics and activism.

“The only difference between him and Giuliani was he didn’t stick a finger in your eye,” said Tietz, who is currently the treasurer of the Lambda Independent Democrats, an LGBTQ political club in Brooklyn. Tietz has a long history in Democratic Party politics and running or working in social services agencies in New York City.

Bloomberg was the city’s mayor from 2002 through the end of 2013 and he continued many of Giuliani’s policies, though he was far less likely than Giuliani, the mayor from 1994 through 2001, to celebrate or defend policies deemed objectionable in some communities. Bloomberg also used his billions to effectively buy the silence of advocates who previously criticized Giuliani with large donations from his foundation.

Like Giuliani, Bloomberg continued to battle with the non-profits that were serving people with HIV. Bloomberg made cuts to the parts of the city budget that served that population. He also cut HIV prevention dollars at a time when new HIV infections were increasing among young black and Latino gay and bisexual men.

R71, the facts do not support that. One big reason it was stopped.

r71 the facts did not support your racism. Black and Hispanics were being frisked while doing nothing, sometimes just taking their kids to school. Meanwhile whites that do have weed etc. (ir harder drugs, because I see it every time I am out in the city) are never stopped.

r73 you said the same exact shit a few months ago, and guess what, you did not show. Please stop. Because you know you aren't gonna do shit. Please, sit in silence and know your place.

You know Native NYer is the biggest puss you'll ever meet in real life.

Bloomberg is:

1. Pro-Choice

2. Pro-Gay rights

3. Anti-gun (spent MILLIONS of his own $ on gun control)

4. Pro Environment/fighting climate changes (spent MILLIONS of his own $ on climate change)

5. Supportive of other Democrats in other elections

6. Committed to spending more millions on the Democrat nominee for 2020 even if it's not he

7.he was a republican for approx 4-8 years of his 50-60 year political career,, an Independent for about 4 years, and a REGISTERED DEMOCRAT for the remainder, i.e. the majority of political life

so all you assholes screaming that he is a "not a democrat" or he is as "republican"........... sorry but the facts are the facts.

He was NOT gay rights lmao

Never was.

Bloomberg continued to use the police to drive the homeless from public view, a practice that Giuliani ran on during his race for mayor in 1993. The police practice of addressing minor infractions, such as stealing subway rides or drinking in public, on the belief that addressing those minor crimes stopped more serious crimes began under Giuliani, but exploded under Bloomberg. Police were required to write a certain number of summons every month. Stop and frisk began under Giuliani. There were just over 97,000 stops in 2002 and 685,724 stops in 2011. In every year for which there is data, police mostly stopped young African-American and Latino men and well over 80 percent had committed no crime.

Bloomberg also continued Giuliani’s attacks on city porn shops, but in 2008, undercover vice officers began the practice of luring gay and bisexual men into consensual sex encounters in the shops then offering to pay the men after they agreed to the sex. The men were then arrested for prostitution. The shops were sued in nuisance abatement lawsuits that cited the arrests and the lawsuits were intended to shut them down.

Police enticed older men with younger officers, and of the 41 men police known to have been arrested for prostitution in six porn shops, 18 were Latino and 14 were African-American. Seven were white and two were Asian. Altogether, 78 percent of the men arrested were either Latino or African-American. While 14 of the 41 had criminal records, just two of the 41 had prior arrests for prostitution.

After Gay City News began reporting on these porn shop arrests, criminal cases were dismissed and some of the nuisance abatement lawsuits were ended.

While Bloomberg earned his reputation as an accomplished technocrat by consistently producing city budgets that had surpluses, what is rarely noted was that he saved billions of dollars in labor, benefits, and pension costs by not negotiating new contracts with the unions that represented city employees. The de Blasio administration has since signed those contracts.

For years, Bloomberg refused to take a position on same-sex marriage, but after Doris Ling-Cohan, a state judge, issued a 2005 opinion ordering New York City clerks to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, he endorsed marriage even as he announced that the city would appeal Ling-Cohan’s ruling. She was overturned by an appellate court in late 2005 and the Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, upheld the appellate court in 2006. It was five years later that gay and lesbian couples won the right to marry in the State Legislature.

[quote] he was far less likely than Giuliani, the mayor from 1994 through 2001, to celebrate or defend policies deemed objectionable in some communities.

That sounds like a good thing, unless I'm misunderstanding, but the AIDS funding cuts do sound bad.

Being Better than Guiliani does not mean it was GOOD

I hate him the way I hate Trump because he IS Trump!

Bloomberg was never for gay rights. Is he claiming to be this WOKE King now? OF COURSE!!! HE WANTS YOUR VOTES.

And NOT to my surprise, he has you all fooled. This is why gays will never make it far in the public, look how easy it is.

yes he was always pro Gay. spouting otherwise doesn't make it so.

but enjoy Trump for the next 4 years, cuz you assholes are bound to make that happen.

r87 HE WAS NOT ALWAYS PRO GAY. You are so fucking pathetic.

He did as much to harm gays as he did blacks, but as usual gays play stupid to reality.

And PS, he was not a Democrat for his entire career minus his being Mayor of NYC... he was also Independent for a while.

He was always pro-Gay because he IS gay. Michael Bloomberg is a closeted gay man. He's a technocratic, billionaire version of Ed Koch.

The decline and fall of NYC began before Bloomberg but he continued it. I preferred it in the old days, it was a lot more interesting and fun.

Bloomberg is a registered Democrat

Sanders is not and never has been a Democrat

anything to the contrary is bullshit lies.

If Bloomberg manages to buy this election, stick a fucking fork in us, we’re done.

You could make the argument that Trump’s election was a bizarro world one-off, that he managed to leverage American resentment against the elites in a race against an elitist Democrat with zero charisma. If there’s no repeat of an asshole billionaire taking office, Trump’s whittling away of what’s left of our democracy could, theoretically, be reversed.

But replacing one asshole billionaire with another asshole billionaire is not a solution. Bloomberg has no popular support. He’s disliked by the vast majority. He’s a manlet who speaks like a toddler. He has no policy positions that will speak to voters on the left or right, and, like Berlusconi and PUTIN, he directly controls a significant amount of the nation’s media, and most of the rest of the media is also sucking his dick.

The only way this fucker becomes president is by buying his way in and using the media (directly and indirectly controlled by him) to astroturf the shit out of his campaign. Yeah, sure, he’ll be better than Trump in the way that cancer is better than the plague, but it will be doubling down on the decline of our democracy.

Anyone who’s happily supporting him before he’s the nominee is a useful idiot.

I love Amy!!!

R91, There's a video of Bloomberg,portraying Marry Poppins and being lifted into the air on wires, being circulated on the internet. Bad enough he can't act nor sing, but he's wearing a very strange fitting blue suit.

Don't know what he was trying to accomplish but I can just see the video being constantly run in swing states by the RNC in November. Know it won't go over very well with some of the more religious voters.

Also an older Puerto Rican woman has revised her Twitter account where she parodies Bloomberg and his bad use of Spanglish. She has 80,000 followers.

R92: Sanders can't be, Vermont doesn't have partisan registration. Neither does my home state of IL which means Barack Obama is NOT a registered Democrat. Complain about something real, dear.

After reading this thread, I'm thoroughly convinced that Bloomberg has paid operatives on Datalounge.

Now for SURE, I'm not voting for him.

He's not going to buy my vote.

A white "all American" homosexual guy will be President eons before a New York jewish guy.

r96,presumably this twitter user has 0 complaints for a sitting president who tossed rolls of paper towels to citizens in distress after enduring a major natural disaster

Bloomberg endorsed Bush 2004. That's a dealbreaker for me. Fuck him. Trump is the lesser of two evils, at least we know what to expect

"Bloomberg is a registered Democrat"

Yeah since october 2018.

That Mary Poppins video is weird as fuck! Like some Bohemian Grove shit.

R102, Have you watched this linked video? Racist much?

R102. Yes I posted this linked article in the other anti-Bloomberg thread but it bears repeating.

[quote]"Bloomberg is a registered Democrat"

Yeah since october 2018.

and for several decades prior to 2001

facts>bullshit

R105, So was Trump? What's your point? His party affiliation 20 years ago isnt really relevant, is it?

Bitch! I cannot stand Bloomberg but how dare you post 19 seconds of a sentence mid thought?

There are problems with Bloomberg. There are problems with Sanders. But either would be a great improvement over DT. Must vote Democrat, this time. Must.

No one I know likes Bloomberg. And we are all irritated by his raping of the airwaves.

Well, R109, I know dozens of people who have all switched to Bloomberg over the past few weeks.

I am a NYC govt worker and have met Bloomberg 3 times briefly, the third time he recalled the Agency I was with after saying hello, which was so impressive. A very nice man and a real gentleman. He is so much better than the far liberal jackass that is now NYC mayor. The country could do a lot lot worse with someone else as President.

R110, We know you're a paid Bloomberg shill.

Completely wrong, R112. Not paid. Haven’t received a penny from Bloomberg. Happy to promote him, but I’ve not been paid.

So, what does Mike do? If he appears to be the same height as everyone else at the debate, people will say he's standing on a box. If he skips the box, he will look ridiculous.

He's Trump 2.0, you stupid bitches. There are no good options for the Dems at all.

Pod Save is going crazy today. They're incensed.

I like him because the Russiapublicans are shitting bricks, creating a massive internet smear campaign. They didn't count on him running. This messes-up their whole 20-yr., Pence-Pompeo plan.