Team Bloomberg: That moment when every candidate agreed with Mike.

[highplainsdem]

Posting this to show how Bloomberg will be going forward.

Btw, Bloomberg spoke at a rally in Salt Lake City this morning.

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Tweet with some video of the rally, for the Bloomberg supporters here:

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[W_HAMILTON]

1. Team Bloomberg would make a better candidate than Bloomberg himself.

[mr_lebowski]

3. $60,000,000,000 buys a lot of talent indeed (nt)

[GanjaGrower]

2. I thought it was interesting how everybody attacked him last night

He did a great job defending his record and explaining his position. The fact that he’s already on the debate circuit and surging to second place in polls is amazing!

Go Team Mike!

[SayitAintSo]

4. I thought Bloomberg tanked

Warren owned him from the outset, what debate were you watching?

[PatSeg]

5. I don't think most people

saw that as "a great job defending his record".

[Amishman]

8. Shitting the bed would be a more colorful and accurate description

Everyone got some hard and largely uncontested hits on him, he seemed incapable of coherent defense.

I wonder if he is so accustomed to subservience from everyone that he didn't know how to handle the attacks.

[NedBraden]

11. This

After years of watching this clown as a NYC resident , that is exactly what it was.


He bought everyone off in NYC. Al Sharpton, the city council etc. Etc. Etc.


It's good to see the other candidates go after him. Some of them may just be holding out for a bigger number. Cough cough Bernie.


Once MIKE ( all propaganda , no relative substance to being a Democrat) writes the checks he'll be in. Disgusting racist mysoginist or not.



Hey he's got money! Shiny objects! Let's forget what we stand for!!!!

[PatSeg]

15. Voters outside the NYC area

really don't know a whole lot about Bloomberg, other than he is extremely wealthy and banned large soft drinks. The way he tends to buy who or whatever he wants is terribly disturbing. With all the excellent Democratic choices we have, why would voters settle for him?

[PatSeg]

14. Yes

And his defense of the NDAs was just ridiculous. What on earth did the man think would happen?

[Cuthbert Allgood]

6. Define "great job."

Because that's not what I saw.

Oh, and also explain how he defended his position on stop and frisk and his horrible record/comments on women.

[democrattotheend]

7. I don't think he did very well in the debate

But for some reason, I am liking him a little better than I did before. Maybe it's because his stumbling made him seem a little more human. I also thought Warren's demand that he release people from NDA's right then and there was a little unfair - he's right that many employees want confidentiality, and while he might be able to release them from their confidentiality obligations while continuing to hold himself to his confidentiality promise unless the employee breaks it, that's something that would have to be negotiated in writing in each case, as most agreements have clauses saying they can only be modified in writing, and there may be other parties counting on confidentiality whom he can't just waive it for.

I do wish he had given a more nuanced answer like that, though, instead of a blanket "no."

[thesquanderer]

20. All he has to say is, "If you choose to break the confidentiality agreement...

...I will not take you to court to enforce my side of it." Then those who want to keep it confidential can, and those who want to speak, can.

[pfeiffer]

12. Warren humiliated Bloomberg last night...

She knocked Bloomberg down and mopped the floor with him. And then she handed him his balls on a paper plate.

Go Elizabeth!!!

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[Sloumeau]

16. Warren essentially took out a flamethrower and lit Bloomberg on fire. :) nt

[pfeiffer]

21. You bet she did!

And our Joe gave her a nice little assist as well!

[msongs]

18. bloomie opposes legalized ganja lol nt

[cynatnite]

19. It's a bought and paid for second place...

He was weak and not as electable as many think, IMO.

[NedBraden]

9. Bloomberg

He looked like a real republican last night.

His body language after the NDA back and forth betrayed what's in them. It must be some real nasty stuff.


Nice gas lighting thread ya got here though!

[BlueIdaho]

10. Very effective ad...

Perhaps unfairly edited but effective.

As fast as most on DU want to dismiss him after one debate, I want to hear more about his plans.

[jmg257]

13. Yep - if only the US of A was a business. But hey, trump is a business man, too.

[Skya Rhen]

17. I hope we can all agree now just how dangerous this man is. This is disinformation that dictators

like to spread.