Bloomberg for President?

theprestige said:
I mean, he should release them from their NDAs. Let them decide for themselves what they want to do from there.
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And what Bloomberg said was there were two parties involved.

Blasting the gotcha at Bloomberg to announce a blanket release was clearly over-simplistic.
 
Dr. Keith said:
Yep. To voters in the 18-30 demographic you could have a picture of Bernie smoking a cigar with Castro and it wouldn't change their vote.
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I agree. Voters that age don't tend to be very realistic...not enough life experience yet and very idealistic. Many of Sanders' ideas are pie in the sky...at least for now. Maybe in 20 years. Not now
 
Trebuchet said:
So far.
Once Trump is reelected anyone will be fair game.
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Trump filed court documents stating that there never was an NDA. He'd find it very difficult to go back on that now.

As I say, it's very different circumstances, but if one or more of the women who have NDAs with Bloomberg came forwards and told their story he might not want to pursue them too aggressively, given that he's trying to run for president and has publicly said that the NDAs exist because the women want them to. Then again he might, and I could understand the women not wanting to take the risk, or even take the lesser risk of just coming forwards to say "I'd like to tell my side of the story, so Bloomberg is free to release me if he wants to".

But the point is that it is possible to get away with breaking an NDA, and the person with the potential to enforce the NDA being in the same kind of position as Bloomberg is helps with that.
 
PhantomWolf said:
You seriously think he is going to win either after his debate debacle?
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Hard to say. Right now I'd say he does well on Super Tuesday (where most people don't watch debates) and then we shall see.

He's still probably a long shot, but I doubt most voters care that all much how well he sounds on stage. I mean look at who won in 2000 and 2016.
 
Subcomandante Bloomberg

CJ Hopkins said:
Break out the pussyhats and vuvuzelas, folks, because the neoliberal Resistance is back, and this time they’re not playing around. No more impeachments and investigations. It’s time to go mano-a-mano with Trump, and they’ve finally got just the bad hombre to do it. No, not Bernie Sanders, you commies. A battle-hardened Resistance fighter. El Caballo Pequeño! El Jefe Mínimo! Subcomandante Michael Bloomberg!

Yes, that’s right, Michael Bloomberg, multi-billionaire Republicrat oligarch, has mobilized a guerilla army of overpaid PR professionals, Wall Street sociopaths, liberal racists, and anti-outdoor-smoking fanatics, and is steamrolling toward the Democratic convention to buy a brokered nomination and save America from “Putinism.” He’s had it with you sugary-soft-drink-drinking, chain-smoking, gun-toting, Oxy-gobbling, Hitler-loving, Putinist peasants and your infatuation with Donald Trump. So he’s decided to transform the entire country into a sterile, upscale, fascist themepark where you can rent a studio for $3,000 a month and the cops keep “the darkies” in their place, like he successfully did to New York City.

Although his campaign seemed to come out of nowhere (and sort of resembles a desperate attempt to prevent a Bernie Sanders nomination), the Resistance have been planning this corporatist Tet Offensive for quite some time. Apparently, Subcomandante Bloomberg and his inner circle of sub-subcomandantes have been hiding out deep in the mountainous jungles of Manhattan’s affluent Upper East Side (or in the Hamptons, or London, or in one of El Jefe’s other multi-million-dollar homes) since Trump and the Russians invaded the country, waiting for the perfect moment to start inundating the American people with television commercials and social media posts informing them of his “electability.”

Clearly, that moment has now arrived. [...]
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PhantomWolf said:
You seriously think he is going to win either after his debate debacle?
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He's got the money to compete on Super Tuesday, and has been on the air in those states and others for over two months now. FiveThirtyEight projects him finishing second in most of the Super Tuesday states and having more delegates than anybody other than Sanders. Ten days from now.
 
Money is great for putting a product on the market. It's not so great for guaranteeing enough customers to turn a profit.

Clinton may have "won the popular vote", but that margin wasn't at all proportional to the margin by which she out spent Trump

Bloomberg's money may have bought him enough hype to get a debate spot, but he's probably already entering the realm of diminishing returns.

If audiences think he blew it in the debate, there's probably not enough money in the world to buy back that lost enthusiasm.
 
theprestige said:
Money is great for putting a product on the market. It's not so great for guaranteeing enough customers to turn a profit.

Clinton may have "won the popular vote", but that margin wasn't at all proportional to the margin by which she out spent Trump

Bloomberg's money may have bought him enough hype to get a debate spot, but he's probably already entering the realm of diminishing returns.

If audiences think he blew it in the debate, there's probably not enough money in the world to buy back that lost enthusiasm.
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It also helps if you have a product people want, or in his case any product at all.

Has he put forward anything in his campaign that says what he is rather than what he isn't? Mostly he's been slagging Trump and pushing the Perot/Trump line that since he made a ton of money he must be good at managing stuff. He put up a billboard bragging that he doesn't like burned steak.

Of course, beyond this being really stupid he has no idea that this is a rather elitist take in some circles.

I mean, if can manage anything and he wanted to use his money to rescue a proud institution suffering abject mismanagement at the hands of a demented leader in order to earn lavish praise...

he should buy the Knicks.
 
Suddenly said:
It also helps if you have a product people want, or in his case any product at all.

Has he put forward anything in his campaign that says what he is rather than what he isn't? Mostly he's been slagging Trump and pushing the Perot/Trump line that since he made a ton of money he must be good at managing stuff. He put up a billboard bragging that he doesn't like burned steak.

Of course, beyond this being really stupid he has no idea that this is a rather elitist take in some circles.

I mean, if can manage anything and he wanted to use his money to rescue a proud institution suffering abject mismanagement at the hands of a demented leader in order to earn lavish praise...

he should buy the Knicks.
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I think his trolling or Trump does resonate with some. And that’s fine. But if he ends up losing the primary then no one can argue he was an effective campaigner who was just unlucky to have low exposure. This election could be an emphatic repudiation if the idea that enough money can buy you the presidency.
 
angrysoba said:
I think his trolling or Trump does resonate with some. And that’s fine. But if he ends up losing the primary then no one can argue he was an effective campaigner who was just unlucky to have low exposure. This election could be an emphatic repudiation if the idea that enough money can buy you the presidency.
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Trolling Trump is fine, but doing it from the elitist side and implying trump is low class (burnt steak, cheats at golf) might as well be Trump ads once you get into the rust belt.


Cooking steak extra-well done is a rust belt working class thing. He might as well be making fun of bowling. That and cheating is sort of a given in most working class golf. Those billboards are exactly why Trump is able to position himself as an anti elitist while fanning himself with money while sitting in a gold toilet in his New York tower.

You are right about the money. I think that sort of thing works when running for mayor or a small state governor, but the scale and attention in a presidential race is a different thing. Not the same advantage when your opponents are on TV every night anyway.
 
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I think someone here said that if he wants to do the best for the Democrats, he could buy FOX News and change their editorial line.
 
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