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Bloomberg to spend $100M on anti-Trump ads in battleground states

Dans La Lune said:
The corporatists are panicking that Joe Biden and Buttigieg will not beat Warren or Sanders. So they're sending in Bloomberg, Deval Patrick, and possibly Hillary Clinton. They feel that if they get the right combination of words and woke-identity the rubes will fall in line.

This is what it sounds like
when billionaires cry

~Prince

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Interesting. So you're saying Bloomberg may be running in self-preservation, attempting to save himself from Warren?
 
Chomsky said:
That's what's diabolical about this. Most Americans have a single vote, influencing only their immediate district in local terms. Plutocrats & political parties can go into any locale district they want, including yours, and paper the place with money and other resources to attempt to over-weight their influence on it.
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Yep, and getting those pesky state and local governments out of the way saves them loads of time and cash. Nationalizing large segments of the US economy (e.g. M4A and "free" college) and already having federal control over the highly profitable MIC and big agriculture makes it get easier and easier for them to basically print themselves money. They will leave most of the manufacturing and retail alone to preserve a reliable tax base (passed through to the end consumer) to pretend to fund the government, but the sheeple will eventually demand that those sectors (will real estate be next?) be "better regulated" giving the plutocrats even more power.
 
As soon as Trump supporters figure out, or get told that Bloomberg is Jewish, and fabulously rich, it's over for his run. He has zero crossover appeal. At least Bernie can sound like he's had no money.

Bloomberg? Hahahahahaha.

Sent from the Matrioshka in the WH Christmas tree.
 
Chomsky said:
I'm at a loss to understand what it is Bloomberg is trying to accomplish here.
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Twice during his tenure as mayor of NYC, Trump embarrassed Bloomberg. First when outbidding Bloomberg's consortium for the purchase of what would become the Hudson Yards, and afterwards Bloomberg personally thwarted Trump's development plans in concert with Jerry Nadler, and second with the reconstruction of the Prospect Park Carousel in Brooklyn. Nadler had earlier been refused by Trump for the usual political extortion baksheesh by Trump during another private development project in his district on the upper westside, starting their feud. Bloomberg stomped his little foot down, and refused Trump the rebuilding of the Forest Park Bandshell, arranging a no bid contract to his friend Andy Storms. Andy never did the job, ending up in prison for bribery, having bought city construction contracts from the Brooklyn and Queens democratic clubs. Bloomberg never forgave Trump for dropping a dime on Andy, even tho it was an FBI burn thanks to one of Meade Esposito's Court Street cohorts in Brooklyn the FBI picked up in a securities fraud, Max Hans a patsy for his former law practice partner, and flipped.

People should not forget, it was Bloomberg, after being refused the democratic candidacy for mayor, a lifelong democrat, Bloomberg entered the race as a Republican candidate. Setting the pattern for Trump, another lifelong democrat, to enter the presidential race as a Republican, another billionaire pissed off at the democratic machine.

"What a tangled web we weave." :)
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Somehow, I doubt many of the "get big money out of politics" folks will object to this. ;)
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According to the conservatives on the Supreme Court, who ruled on the Citizens United case, money is speech. One can spend one's own money on a campaign. What goes around comes around.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Much of the MSM "news" content is an anti-Trump ad now, this will just fill a few more of the commercial gaps.
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True, unbiased reporting the news of the day, using facts, is anti-trump. Reporting what Trump says word-for-word, verbatim, is anti-trump.
 
OldFatGuy said:
Twice during his tenure as mayor of NYC, Trump embarrassed Bloomberg. First when outbidding Bloomberg's consortium for the purchase of what would become the Hudson Yards, and afterwards Bloomberg personally thwarted Trump's development plans in concert with Jerry Nadler, and second with the reconstruction of the Prospect Park Carousel in Brooklyn. Nadler had earlier been refused by Trump for the usual political extortion baksheesh by Trump during another private development project in his district on the upper westside, starting their feud. Bloomberg stomped his little foot down, and refused Trump the rebuilding of the Forest Park Bandshell, arranging a no bid contract to his friend Andy Storms. Andy never did the job, ending up in prison for bribery, having bought city construction contracts from the Brooklyn and Queens democratic clubs. Bloomberg never forgave Trump for dropping a dime on Andy, even tho it was an FBI burn thanks to one of Meade Esposito's Court Street cohorts in Brooklyn the FBI picked up in a securities fraud, Max Hans a patsy for his former law practice partner, and flipped.

People should not forget, it was Bloomberg, after being refused the democratic candidacy for mayor, a lifelong democrat, Bloomberg entered the race as a Republican candidate. Setting the pattern for Trump, another lifelong democrat, to enter the presidential race as a Republican, another billionaire pissed off at the democratic machine.

"What a tangled web we weave." :)
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Yep. Another billionaire likely out for his-self. Quite honestly, and with no dis-respect to one of my favorite cities, we don't need any more NYC billionaires running the country.
 
Chomsky said:
I'm at a loss to understand what it is Bloomberg is trying to accomplish here.
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He apparently wants to drag Trump down so that a Dem wins in 2020. The ads are said not to mention him, only anti-Trump.
 
JacksinPA said:
He apparently wants to drag Trump down so that a Dem wins in 2020. The ads are said not to mention him, only anti-Trump.
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Hm. Now isn't that interesting. But that still begs the question:

"Then why run?"

No need to run for office to run ads ...
 
JacksinPA said:
Bloomberg to spend $100M on anti-Trump ads in battleground states | TheHill

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to drop $100 million on anti-Trump ads in key swing states during the 2020 election.

The digital ad campaign will focus on Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, four states Democrats are eager to flip into their column next year, and will run starting Friday through the end of the primary season. The ads will not feature Bloomberg himself.
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Rich people buying political office reminds me of the final stages of decline of the Roman Empire. You don't need to be either qualified or popular - you just have to have saturation quantities of money.
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Why doesnt he do something useful with that $100 million, like donate it to charity or help the poor. Negative ads against Trump arent going to move a single vote.
 
Greenbeard said:
If voters are making key decisions about the future of the republic based on the contents of 30-second ads, maybe we've found the problem.
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The working people in the key battle-ground states who voted Trump into office tend to be under-educated.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Much of the MSM "news" content is an anti-Trump ad now, this will just fill a few more of the commercial gaps.
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If you're alluding to the media not buying Trumps lies, I'm not sure what's the problem. The problem with Trump is truth is his enemy, therefore the media is his enemy.
 
Rexedgar said:
Politics in the US has been money driven for generations. There is just no attempt to hide it any longer. Our representatives spend more time trying to get re-elected than legislating.
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Trump spent little on his campaign because the TV networks gave him so much free air time.
 
Fletch said:
Why doesnt he do something useful with that $100 million, like donate it to charity or help the poor. Negative ads against Trump arent going to move a single vote.
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I'd much rather see him put that money into a GOTV effort. That is something that can cause palpable results.
 
Rexedgar said:
Politics in the US has been money driven for generations. There is just no attempt to hide it any longer. Our representatives spend more time trying to get re-elected than legislating.
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Far longer. When George Washington ascended the first presidency he was among the wealthiest men in the new republic, if not the wealthiest. The revolution was fomented by the wealthy who wanted to control their own taxation and expenditure of the tax revenues. American politics has always been driven by wealth and the accumulation of greater wealth. Anyone using common sense, realizes the spending of $billions for a job that pays $400k annually means much more is at stake, and principles are secondary.
 
Chomsky said:
Yep. Another billionaire likely out for his-self. Quite honestly, and with no dis-respect to one of my favorite cities, we don't need any more NYC billionaires running the country.
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Trump is now a Florida billionaire. :golf :rofl
 
Chomsky said:
Hm. Now isn't that interesting. But that still begs the question:

"Then why run?"

No need to run for office to run ads ...
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Bloomberg is only spending what amounts to a rounding error in his daily cash flow.

The ads that I want to see are in the big southern border markets like Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso, etc.: soldiers installing razor wire on the Great Wall of Trump - in Spanish. No need for English - perhaps sub-titles only for that.
 
I have read that when Mr. Bloomberg was mayor of the Big Apple, he was responsible for reducing horrible crime by having the police stop and search young men who looked suspicious.


At the time, he was commended for this effective action.


In 2019, this action does not endear two certain groups to Mr. Bloomberg. He is being wise in leaving his name off the advertisements.
 
JacksinPA said:
Bloomberg is only spending what amounts to a rounding error in his daily cash flow.

The ads that I want to see are in the big southern border markets like Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso, etc.: soldiers installing razor wire on the Great Wall of Trump - in Spanish. No need for English - perhaps sub-titles only for that.
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Fair enough. But that still doesn't speak to why he's running?
 
Chomsky said:
I'd much rather see him put that money into a GOTV effort. That is something that can cause palpable results.
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Dude, every major news organization except FOX denounces him 24/7. There is an impeachment hearing going on in the House. Why on Earth would anyone think ads are going to do a damned thing? What you need is a message, not dollars. Bloomberg would get far more mileage by announcing that he was sending that $100 million to help the kids at Shriners Hospital than throwing it political ads that no one wants to hear.
 
Chomsky said:
Hm. Now isn't that interesting. But that still begs the question:

"Then why run?"

No need to run for office to run ads ...
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He wants to destroy Trump before Trump destroys the country.
 
OldFatGuy said:
Far longer. When George Washington ascended the first presidency he was among the wealthiest men in the new republic, if not the wealthiest. The revolution was fomented by the wealthy who wanted to control their own taxation and expenditure of the tax revenues. American politics has always been driven by wealth and the accumulation of greater wealth. Anyone using common sense, realizes the spending of $billions for a job that pays $400k annually means much more is at stake, and principles are secondary.
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As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

Alexis de Tocqueville
 
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