Bury Me In One Of Elizabeth Warren's Withering Glares At Michael Bloomberg

[ehrnst]

For months, there have been memes and jokes about Senator Elizabeth Warren’s incredible level of energy: the way that she enters every event with the quick jog of a person who is doing a 5K for charity but also as a personal quest, her indefatigable selfie skills, and more. Last night, like Scott Summers taking off his sunglasses in X-Men, she turned that blast off energy toward presidential hopeful and (have you heard?) very rich man Michael “Mike” Bloomberg. And reader, RIP me.

Elizabeth Warren made it clear that her plan for last night’s debate included one bullet point: “reduce Bloomberg to a pile of salt like Lot’s wife,” which is very specific but turned out to be accurate. The minute I realized what Warren had in mind I immediately ascended to the Heaviside Layer. (Yes, Grizzabella was the Jellicle choice, but the Cats recently instituted ranked choice voting and that’s how I—and we all—win.)



Elizabeth Warren at Wednesday’s Democratic debate had big “What you’re not going to do...” energy. She stood there giving her best Dikembe Mutumbo impression. There was almost an indignation in the way she laser-focused on whether Bloomberg should be on the stage at all. Elizabeth Warren is the only person whom I would unequivocally support if she asked to speak to the manager. Early on, she started taking down Michael Bloomberg using the billionaire kryptonite of “facts” and “things he’s said and done” and though she made it look as effortless as Maria teaching the Von Trapps the scales, I was at home straight up sweating. The Mortal Kombat “Finish him!” started flashing above Bloomberg’s head, but Warren was like “cool yer jets, pally!”

I think the moment I truly left the physical realm to go live in that big Parasite basement in the sky was when Warren started talking about who the Dems on stage were up against and turned it into a reveal that would have made RuPaul explode into glitter. "I'd like to talk about who we're running against,” she said. “A billionaire who calls women 'fat broads' and 'horse-faced lesbians,' and, no, I'm not talking about Donald Trump.” Me, at home: “WHAT?!!!”

Warren continued, "I'm talking about Mayor Bloomberg." Me, at home: “OH SHIT!!!”

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[jimfields33]

1. I thought the look on her face was priceless when

After discussing NDAs, he said, there was nothing from the women on me except some jokes.


To me. That’s an amazing moment. He thinks joking about women is not a big deal. The reason I say this is because of how caviller he said it. Like that’s no big deal.

[ehrnst]

3. The "women just can't take a joke" trope. He brushed off accusations of sexism with a sexist remark.

[Doremus]

2. Finish him! lol

If he gives her another shot at it, I'm sure she will.

[counting]

4. anybody seen

the look on warren's face when bloomberg said communism? it was like.. "I know you didnt go there"

[BlueMTexpat]

5. Sanders gesticulating like mad

in your second photo is priceless.

[jmg257]

6. I watched the debate again last night: both the initial

...not trump... and NDA moments were handled, framed and presented perfectly by Warren.

The ‘not trump’ was her 1st comment only a couple moments in!

The way MRB handled it? not so much