March 01, 2020 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
I just watched Mike Bloomberg’s $1.5 million three minute teevee whatever the hell that was.
So he told us two things that we already knew. That you need a smart, sane person leading this country and we don’t have that.
Okay Mike, whatcha gonna do about that? What’s your idea? Where should we start? We can’t fart around until January just waiting to see what you’d do.
What a waste of one point five million dollars.
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By Tuesday he may find out the same thing that Steyer did: this whole exercise was no different from piling up your money on your backyard patio and setting fire to it.
1Missed it. I was watching the Julia Child special on PBS. Probably a lot more informative, and I got a great recipe for rotisserie chicken. With bacon. Lots of bacon.
2Sun 1 Mar 2020 17.04 EST
Edit: Mike Bloomberg faced a small but tense protest at the historic Brown Chapel in Selma, Alabama, on Sunday, a handful of people standing and turning their backs on the former New York mayor as he spoke in the pulpit.
Even before Bloomberg began speaking, it was clear his presence at the black church, which was the epicenter of the civil rights movement in Selma, was controversial.
Pastor Leodis Strong prefaced the mayor’s speech by saying that when he first invited Bloomberg, he rebuffed the invitation only to later change his mind.
“It shows a willingness on his part to change,” Strong said, before adding that he wanted Bloomberg to come to Selma to listen to people.
But several in the audience could be heard whispering in contempt – referencing the stop-and-frisk policing policy he pursued in New York and his immense wealth.
One of the people who turned his back to the mayor was Ryan Haygood, president and chief executive of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice.
As Bloomberg spoke, he said, he thought about the kind of police brutality the civil rights organizers faced in the chapel 55 years ago as they protested for equal voting rights.
Bloomberg, Haygood said, presided over the same kind of tactics as mayor of New York. As he realized the Democratic candidate was not planning to address that issue, Haygood said, he decided to turn his back.
“I thought this would be the place where he could finally say once and for all, ‘Let me own what I did, let me atone for it,’” Haygood said. “He didn’t even touch it which is more disrespectful. And some of the foot soldiers were in the building, who were brutalized.”
Bloomberg, who apologized for stop-and-frisk in November, was one of several high-profile figures to attend a nearly four-hour service Sunday, including former vice-president Joe Biden, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate and voting rights campaigner Stacey Abrams.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/01/bloody-sunday-selma-mike-bloomberg-backs-turned
3Bloomberg has no plan other than being Bloomberg. Make no mistake: Bloomberg is a slightly more honest, slightly more sane Donald Trump. What we would see in a Bloomberg presidency would be exactly what we saw with Bloomberg as mayor of NYC. So blatant discrimination, while turning the country into even more of a police state.
My suggestion would be to stop watching TV. It should be called Oligarchy Vision, because that’s all there is on corporate media, no matter what you are watching. Oligarchy propaganda, framing your every thought. Do yourselves a favor and cut the bloody cord.
4@ Barb #1:
Absolutely! Imagine how far that money would have gone, had it been used to feed and house the homeless, Or, even, if Bloomberg had just given it back to his exploited workers.
But Bloomberg is so rich he CAN light half a billion dollars on fire in his backyard, and to him it’s just a bit of heat and light.
5People’s Choice ~
‘Absolutely Remarkable’: Poll Shows Democratic Voters in Texas and California View Socialism More Positively Than Capitalism
“Did not see those Texas numbers on socialism coming,” tweeted HillTV’s Krystal Ball.
Edit: Likely Democratic presidential primary voters in Texas and California—the two states with the most pledged delegates to award on Super Tuesday—view socialism more positively than capitalism, according to a CBS News/YouGov tracking poll released Sunday.
The survey showed 56% of Democratic primary voters in Texas and 57% in California have a favorable view of socialism. Just 37% of Democratic voters in Texas and 45% in California have a positive view of capitalism, the poll found, signaling widespread discontent with the vastly unequal economic status quo.
Political Polls
@PpollingNumbers
Positive view on…#Texas:
Socialism 56 (+19)
Capitalism 37#California
Socialism 57 (+12) Capitalism 45
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/02/absolutely-remarkable-poll-shows-democratic-voters-texas-and-california-view
6Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote
Guardian analysis finds that places where black and Latino population is growing by the largest numbers experienced the majority of closures and could benefit Republicans.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/02/texas-polling-sites-closures-voting
7Sorry if this has already been posted here at the Salon, but there’s a good visualization of the comparative wealth of the candidates:
http://rossblocher.com/hosted/candidatewealth.html
Keep in mind that 1.5M is just one and a half of those little blue boxes. Bloombery probably blows that much just on cigars every year. Also, note that 1.5M is 60% of Sanders’ net wealth, and 15 times Buttigieg’s (yeah, I know he’s out but he was the poor man on that totem pole).
8He just wanted the money laundered – sod the commercial .
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