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Oligarch Buys Political Party – Seeks to Become President
Mike Bloomberg is the world's ninth richest person. An oligarch known for strong racism and insulting sexism who once was the Republican mayor of New York City. He since decided that he wants to become president.
As he saw no chance to run for a Republican party that is happy with Trump he filed to run as a Democratic candidate. Bloomberg has since bought the Democratic Party in every state as well as the DNC:
The DNC told Mike Gravel they wouldn't change the debate rules for any candidate. "That's our #1 rule – we can't change the rules for anybody."
A few months later, they changed the debate rules to let oligarch Bloomberg into the debates… after he gave the DNC $300K.
His political tactic is very simple. He does not talk about issues, as people would not like what he has to say, but simply spends tons of money:
He’s dropping huge sums of money: on staff and resources, on TV advertisements, and on Facebook ads, where Trump has long dominated. And he’s attempting to overcome his stodgy public image with the help of a meme army and through well-catered campaign events seemingly designed to convince voters that life under a wealthy technocrat might not be so bad. “I think it’s classy,” one supporter told the Times at a Philadelphia campaign rally complete drink station and a selection of cheesesteaks, hoagies, and brie-and-fig appetizers. “I feel like it’s a nightclub in here. This is what he needs to get people going.”
To this date Bloomberg has spent more than $350 million for his campaign. He is willing and can afford to put several billions into it. Over the years Bloomberg has given more than $10 billion to build a political and philanthropical empire. He used that money to suppress voices critical of him:
In 2015, Center for American Progress researchers wrote a report on U.S. Islamophobia, w/a 4300-word chapter on the Bloomberg-era NYPD.
When the report was published, the chapter was gone.
By then, Bloomberg had given CAP ~$1.5mm. That number has grown.
The really bad thing is that it works:
3 months ago, polls found Mike Bloomberg “widely disliked” with the highest negatives in the race. Now he’s a top 3 contender for the Democratic nomination. One of the richest humans ever is trying to upend every part of the process. And this is just the stuff we know about.
The Democratic Party and lots of its bought off functionaries seem to be happy with this. They do not mind that it makes the U.S. look worse than the Ukraine. Yes, U.S. politics are always corrupt. But outright buying one's way into office is exceeding the usual stench.
But would Bloomberg, with Hillary Clinton as running mate, really be able to bring out the votes that are needed to beat Trump? I for one doubt it.
Atrios is appalled by the whole scheme but still falls for it:
Bloomberg is bad for lots of reasons, and one of them is PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE SO WILLING TO EMBRACE A BILLIONAIRE WHO IS BUYING (not just ads, but people) THE ELECTION WITH HIS ABSURD FORTUNE. I mean, ok, sure, if it's BLOOMBERG OR TRUMP I'll choose Bloomberg, but why are people establishing this as the choice? It's absurd. The only person who can beat an asshole (fake, I know) billionaire is another asshole billionaire? Broken brains everywhere.
"[I]f it's BLOOMBERG OR TRUMP I'll choose Bloomberg" is, in my view, exactly the wrong response to this hijacking of a party and election. It is this behavior that makes Bloomberg's move possible in the first place.
Any good response to billionaires hijacking elections must demonstrate that campaigns by rich people have a high risk of failing. To vote for a third party or to abstain is the only responsible reaction to it.
Any good response to billionaires hijacking elections must demonstrate that campaigns by rich people have a high risk to fail. To vote for a third party or to abstain is the only responsible reaction to it.
REALLY? Helping to re-elect another equally if not more corrupt Ziofascist billionaire is the ONLY responsible reaction??!🙄👎
I’ll get back to this whatever near the end of this comment.
@ Open thread 297 sarz
Thank you for your thoughtful, much-needed encouragement.
@295 OT Walter
It’s obvious 1st in Iowa, now Nevada, ironically both caucus states, Zionists are stalking and harrassing Sanders, and you know, it’s so much easier to get away with dirty tricks when the process itself is rigged against the Left with both parties. The right has winner takes all, but, fact; you’re never going to have a left-leaning candidate on the right EVEN on foreign policy who’s viable, so there’s a built-in firewall already. That’s why the right’s process can appear more transparent, but it’s not. Just ask Ron Paul.
The firewall against the Left on the Dem side; I refuse to call it Left, is multi- pronged: caucuses, weird-math proportional allocation of automatic delegates as opposed to winner takes all, and of course the totally undemocratic super-delgate bias and their 1st vote alignment at the Convention.
THANKS TO BERNIE SANDERS EXPERIENCE IN 2016, SOME CHANGES WERE MADE AND THERE IS MORE TRANSPARENCY IN CAUCUS VOTE ALIGNMENTS, PAPER TRAIL AND IT HELPS THAT HE INSISTED SUPERDELEGATES DON’T GET ALLOCATED UNTIL THE 2ND VOTE AT THE CONVENTION.
Both parties electoral strategies ensure that Left-leaning activism is CONTAINED to going nowhere and far removed from the seat if power. UNTIL NOW. And this is why this moment is a gift we might never see again.
To think Democrats would choose Billionaires like Bloomberg or stomach another 4 years of Trump might have appeared unthinkable heresy years back, but as you can see the rot on the Dem side is as deep as with Ziofascist Trump’s party. ANYTHING, BUT NEVER BERNIE SANDERS.
Curiously, b, also resorted to ERASING SANDERS.
If Bernie as an Independent in Congress managed a few changes even to the Dem electoral process, just imagine how much more transparency and change a Bernie Sanders Presidency can influence and demand from the Democratic hierarchy and Congress with the power of people having his back.
Yes, but alas challenges remain and Zionism is still ubiquituous in the process.
Now we all know how the Buttigieg-funded app developed by a wealthy Zionist apparatchik skewed the outcome in Pete the Cheat’s favor, THE NIGHT OF THE IOWA ELECTION, when a sizable chunk of the precincts got conveniently jammed in the unholy, programmed pandemonium just when Buttigieg was conveniently leading by almost two points and quickly took the stage to claim victory so he could get the bounce and media accolades that come with a first-state victory. But as we then learned, TWO WHOLE DAYS LATER, yeah, it took that long to untie a knot! Bernie was actually only behind by a miniscule .1 difference, and then short of an exact tie or Sanders victory, the Party came up with a wacky excuse to stop counting and gave Buttigieg 2 extra Iowa delegates for a less than razor-thin edge.
So to add the fist to the initial thumb on the scale you have the incessant machinations of Zionist meddling, be it through BIG MONEY, Facebook, SuperPacs churning out disgusting deceitful ads, or as in Iowa, more shadowy, innovative strategies added on.
Today, Zionists are back in Nevada, and the difference between Iowa and Nevada is early paper voting. BUT, there’s a catch: When you early vote your candidate on paper, you STILL have to choose other candidates in order of preference ie your 2nd, 3rd, 4th choices in case your candidate turns out not to be viable, BUT you have no idea at the time who will or won’t be viable like you would if you were physically present to caucus, and are unable to make strategic choices.
They complicate the process so much you need a degree to figure it out, and people in the service industry there might not even have a high school diploma. Added layers of complication are always undemocratic and discriminatory.
OF COURSE EARLY VOTING BENEFITS BERNIE, for several reasons, and he will most certainly get above 15% making him viable if his people show up and they will. BUT, can the Nevada Democratic Leaders be trusted with the early votes, although they dropped the app used in Iowa, but they’re still going to be using tabulating software? We’ll see. Bernie’s team is vigilant.
The whole caucus thing stinks.
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Now I wanna emphasize again: Bloomberg AND Buttigieg and even Klobuchar who used to be a prosecuter pretend a sudden black/latino conversion, but the truth is that in their past political and/or prosecutorial lives, they acted very badly with the black and latino communities and their records speak for themselves. So now in their time of political need they’re resorting to opportunistic pandering and using blacks as political props. They strategically place every stray black and latino person that walks into their rallies behind them facing the camera. You can tell when it’s so staged.
Bloomberg, Buttigieg and Klobuchar however are the choices the DNC establishment, Zionists, billionaires who also fall into the latter and former categories and their bought fake media gatekeepers want everyone to choose from. Bernie Sanders, WHO IS WINING is demonized, marginalized and just plain erased from their discussion except to fear-monger, smear and undermine. But people are starting to get it! Bernie has captured something so powerful they just want to make it disappear, but you can’t unring that bell. It’s WOKE TIME.
So, PARDON ME, but your 3rd Party or abstention solution at this critical moment ripe to be seized with Bernie winning, Trump the most detested man on the planet, and Bloomberg, the anathema of the poor and the working class hero that Sanders wants to elevate and empower, is unrealistic insofar as 3rd Party and at this moment would be THE HEIGHT OF ALL IRRESPONSIBILITY!
Only NUMBERS. VAST NUMBERS of people showing up for Bernie Sanders can mess with their game. They count on people’s apathy and cynicism like you prescribe; they count on close results they can fix, but what they can’t control is passion and excitement leading to overwhelming voter turnout for Sanders, what they can’t control is the truth reverberating online, and what they can’t control is the youth vote. They think they have the process so gamed people will fall in line with the establishment’s choices or stay home in hopeless retreat, or go 3rd Party to advantage the side they really want to win.
YOU CANNOT BUY WITH BLOOMBERG’S BILLIONS OR THE BIG MONEY BILLIONAIRES SHOWER ON BUTTIGIEG THE PASSION THAT SELF-EMPOWERMENT, WHICH BERNIE IS SETTING FREE IN PEOPLE ENSLAVED IN A SYSTEM RIGGED AGAINST THEM THAT BENEFITS AN ENTITLED MINORITY OF 1%, GENERATES!
YOU CAN’T BUY THAT KIND OF WOKE PASSION!
HOWEVER, POWER MANIFESTS IN ACTION AND STRENGHTH IN NUMBERS THAT TOGETHER TRANSLATE INTO A SHELLACKING AT THE POLLS.
A SPECTACULAR SHELLACKING WILL CATAPULT PEOPLE POWER STRAIGHT INTO THE WHITE HOUSE OBLITERATING EVERY ROADBLOCK ON THE WAY INCLUDING BANKING ON UNPRODUCTIVE CYNICISM.
THERE IS ONLY ONE VIABLE HONEST CHOICE AT THIS HISTORIC TURNING POINT: PRESIDENT BERNARD SANDERS.
NEVER RETREAT. BERNIE MUST WIN THE NOMINATION, AND WHEN HE DOES, TRUMP SHOULD ALREADY START CALLING FOR ACME MOVERS.
Posted by: Circe | Feb 15 2020 22:04 utc | 59
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