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jcmaine72

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22. Thank you! It sure did.

Reply to Sympthsical (Reply #5)

Tue Feb 18, 2020, 11:17 AM

Feb 2020

I actually find myself checking the URL in the address bar occasionally while reading some of the comments here excusing this man's extensive (and recent) history of racism just to make sure I'm still at DU.

Like you, I'm positively gobsmacked by this rapid about-face and what people are now willing to tolerate and excuse within our party.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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Bloombergs - Racial Profiling, Multiple Racist statements about crime & Minorities, CP5 .. [View all] uponit7771 Feb 2020 OP

Bloomberg commercials on radio as well as tv is 24/7 . . . Iliyah Feb 2020 #1

Ask Corbin from the UK, "the other guy is evil" wasn't enough to overcome Corbins lack of appeal uponit7771 Feb 2020 #3

It's what he will do in the future that matters. TheCowsCameHome Feb 2020 #2

Mike was defending racial profiling just last year, I'm supposed to believe he's changed his mind.. uponit7771 Feb 2020 #4

Let him take his platform straight to the minority community TheCowsCameHome Feb 2020 #6

I am one of they and the polling already says he's doing horrible among Minority voters. I'll uponit7771 Feb 2020 #8

"Black voters are our base" got thrown out the window awfully fast Sympthsical Feb 2020 #5

Yes cherryinpa Feb 2020 #7

Amen cherryinpa! Devil Child Feb 2020 #19

No. See post 11. Squinch Feb 2020 #12

Thank you! It sure did. jcmaine72 Feb 2020 #22

I'll cast a vote for Biden to keep him in Sympthsical Feb 2020 #24

Bloomberg's policies on 'public school reform' up for posting: appalachiablue Feb 2020 #9

Jus damn, uponit7771 Feb 2020 #14

I predict that Bloomberg will be Teflon - everything will bounce off him. patricia92243 Feb 2020 #10

Bloomberg's money needs to talk louder then cause he's doing horrible among blacks. People uponit7771 Feb 2020 #15

On the other hand, Bloomberg reduced the number of murders of young black men by 50% at a time Squinch Feb 2020 #11

He could've done that without the racism, that's what gets me he didn't need it. uponit7771 Feb 2020 #13

They all could have done it without racism. None of them did. Squinch Feb 2020 #18

... and all of them have SHOWN to have changed minds Bloomberg has not apologized for uponit7771 Feb 2020 #21

And the fact that 50% more young black men are alive and 40% fewer New Yorkers are in jail Squinch Feb 2020 #23

I wish Biden would do an ad LeftTurn3623 Feb 2020 #16

+1 uponit7771 Feb 2020 #17

+2 n/t Devil Child Feb 2020 #20