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Do you hate sodas? Think Hillary Clinton isn't close enough to Wall Street? Feel that Donald Trump is just too poor to deserve your vote? Boy, do I have a candidate for you!  Michael Bloomberg is planning an independent presidential run if Trump/Cruz and Bernie Sanders are nominated, or even if he considers Hillary Clinton weakened by the primary. What better way to stump Trump than to run as an independent that would mostly take votes away from the Democratic candidate? As someone who thinks that the U.S. should just dispense with voting and elect whoever is highest on the Forbes billionaires list that wants to be president at the time, I can't wait! pyrotek has issued a correction as of 21:30 on Jan 23, 2016 |
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I love how scared these Third Way scum are of Bernie.
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Jan 23, 2016 17:39
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If this happens, does the left put Biden in as an independent to counterbalance Bloomberg?
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Jan 23, 2016 18:10
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Bloomberg makes gun people really angry so I can't get too mad at him even though he's a poo poo
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Jan 23, 2016 19:40
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He's gonna be centrist Nader and throw the election to Trump.
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Jan 23, 2016 19:41
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Sweet you guys have your own Parliamentary Labour Party. 'Bernie is too left-wing to win' was a threat, not an observation.
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Jan 23, 2016 19:46
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He threatens to do this every four years or so and never does anything about it. If he's serious this time he needs to get out in the storm today and start collecting signatures for ballot access because he's got a steep hill to climb and there's not a lot of time left.
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Jan 23, 2016 19:56
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Peachstapler posted:He threatens to do this every four years or so and never does anything about it. The article claims he'll make up his mind in early March. For the record, the first filing deadline is late April, but some of those early filing rules are ludicrously strict (especially TX in early May).
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Jan 23, 2016 20:04
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Didn't some states already close their primary ballots for candidates? Or does that affect only Rep/Dem presidential candidates? Seems like if he ran it's to late to even bother. People already watched the circus debates. we had for the past few months so unless he jumps in offering a new level of crazy no one might bat an eye to him.
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Jan 23, 2016 20:04
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lol And Cruz already blew his "New York values" attack on Trump
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Jan 23, 2016 20:07
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BouncingBuckyBalls posted:Didn't some states already close their primary ballots for candidates? Or does that affect only Rep/Dem presidential candidates?
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Jan 23, 2016 20:23
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poo poo now I'm worried.
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Jan 23, 2016 20:26
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All this would do is lead to Trump winning by even more states.The Kingfish posted:He's gonna be centrist Nader and throw the election to Trump. Being a Nader would imply the dems aren't going to get destroyed regardless.
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Jan 23, 2016 20:31
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Does anyone even like Bloomberg outside of
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Jan 23, 2016 20:55
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What reasons are there to suggest that Bloomberg would play spoiler to Sanders instead of playing spoiler to Trump? Wouldn't Bloomberg appeal to establishment republicans who don't like Trump but might hold their nose to vote against the socialist?
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Jan 23, 2016 22:14
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Nimbus posted:What reasons are there to suggest that Bloomberg would play spoiler to Sanders instead of playing spoiler to Donald "To the victor belong the spoils" Trump? Because the right hates him so much they've literally had the NRA running ads LONG before this saying "BLOOMBERG ISN'T RUNNING FOR ANYTHING...BUT WHAT IS THAT drat JEW UP TO??? STOP BLOOMBERG GIVE US MONEY!!!!" While the left mainly hates him for just being a generic scumbag.
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Jan 23, 2016 22:17
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/691005057526059008 Article actually seems to hate on Bloomberg much more than Bernie, despite that quote...
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Jan 23, 2016 22:24
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Optimus Subprime posted:Does anyone even like Bloomberg outside of i have an aunt whose a person finance corps hire to come in and fire people, whose "liberal" but despises bernie for being anti-business and supports hillary. she took lessons to remove her southern accent to rise up the corporate ladder, and pretends to be italian cus she thinks its classy. thats the kind of person who'd vote bloomberg in a trump-sanders-bloomberg election.
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Jan 23, 2016 22:58
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This is 100% a threat aimed as Sanders supporters. I wouldn't be surprised if he's a Hillary doner.
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Jan 23, 2016 23:51
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mcmagic posted:This is 100% a threat aimed as Sanders supporters. I wouldn't be surprised if he's a Hillary doner.
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Jan 23, 2016 23:58
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Grouchio posted:Wait, so this could be a ruse aimed at terrifying Sandernistas and not much else? Like somebody posted earlier, for a certain class of people, saying "sanders is too far left to win" is a threat.
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Jan 24, 2016 00:51
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The current lovely DNC would have have a republican in the white house than let the socialist Sanders win. Even though Sanders follow many part of the current democrat party platform
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Jan 24, 2016 02:14
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 : "Hey guys, we haven't pissed away enough of our own money yet on joke candidates. Better get Bloomberg in the race!"
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Jan 24, 2016 02:49
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Lord of Pie posted:
Trump/Bloomberg may make me actually move
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Jan 24, 2016 03:02
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At least in Russia the oligarchs strike a deal with a powerful head of state (who supposedly is a secret oligarch), now we might have two in a race for president against the guy running against wealth inequality who is "too extreme" - a definite sign of the times. This poo poo is slipping away.
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Jan 24, 2016 03:07
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thethreeman posted:https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/691005057526059008 Either way gently caress you Paul Krugman
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Jan 24, 2016 04:03
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the billionaires should form a coaltion to bribe every american with 1 mill if they vote for their guy
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Jan 24, 2016 04:50
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i just want the shadow console to reveal themselves
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Jan 24, 2016 04:51
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In the Joementum-described "Earth 2" where Sanders vs. Trump is a thing (it's not going to be a thing), Bloomberg would enter the race polling 20% and probably climb to 40% pretty quickly, Trump would have a lock on 200 EVs but pretty much zero chance of anything past that and Bernie would struggle to break 50.
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Jan 24, 2016 13:58
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Adar posted:In the Joementum-described "Earth 2" where Sanders vs. Trump is a thing (it's not going to be a thing) toxx for it, will you
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Jan 24, 2016 14:11
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Adar posted:In the Joementum-described "Earth 2" where Sanders vs. Trump is a thing (it's not going to be a thing), Bloomberg would enter the race polling 20% and probably climb to 40% pretty quickly, Trump would have a lock on 200 EVs but pretty much zero chance of anything past that and Bernie would struggle to break 50.
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Jan 24, 2016 14:50
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Oiled and Ready posted:Trump can't win the nomination but a fundamentally unlikeable (outside NY) globalist anti-2nd amendment but "fiscally conservative" 3rd party candidate "would quickly poll at 40%" in a 3 person general. The delusions are getting so absurd I'm not sure who's trolling anymore. All it takes is unwarranted confidence in one's not-as-substantiated-as-they-used-to-be opinions, and a knack for sounding certain, and you too can join the ranks of Something Awful's own Very Serious People!
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Jan 24, 2016 15:37
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I'm hugely bearish on Trump, maybe 2nd to Joementum on the forums, but if he increasingly looks like the nominee I expect Hillary's argument to shift to beating Trump at all costs. That line of attack is much better than her 2008 version of the same thing because Candidate Bernie is no Candidate Obama and it will take her off the current half assed attack path that she's terrible at. At any rate the SEC primary is far worse to Bernie than Iowa/NH is, almost as bad as it is for all the GOPe's. As for Bloomberg, he starts with the ~1/4 to 1/3 of the GOP that will cross over from a Trump nom given an acceptable candidate and about the same number of Dems that cross from a Bernie nom, mostly in the south. Then he adds a billion dollars + anti-Trump superPAC money. If you think that gets him as far as Jeb, maybe. On the other hand it's two billion dollars in ads and he's a better campaigner than Jeb (this is admittedly a very low bar). He can buy higher national numbers and probably poll leads in 280 EVs for a month or two. The main question is if he can sustain it for six months which is at least plausible in the world where the other two options are that abhorrent to that many people. This whole paragraph doesn't matter because it's not going to be how it works out, but it's what he's thinking right now and the thread is named after him so whatevs.
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Jan 24, 2016 16:38
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Awfully nice of the billionaires to freak out and preemptively redistribute all their wealth to needy ad agencies in the face of the looming Sanders presidency. Bloomberg would just be joke candidate #328183 in this cycle.
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Jan 24, 2016 17:05
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I enjoy the idea that if both parties express that they don't want some slimy establishment politician with ties to Wall Street, Bloomberg will see that as his chance.
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Jan 24, 2016 17:11
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Can one of the impeccable Hillary supporters buy this emote with all of their predictit winnings? Lol
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Jan 24, 2016 18:53
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Trump/Bloomberg may make me actually move or more optimistically a great pretext for a communist uprising 
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Jan 24, 2016 19:17
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Adar posted:I'm hugely bearish on Trump, maybe 2nd to Joementum on the forums, but if he increasingly looks like the nominee I expect Hillary's argument to shift to beating Trump at all costs. That line of attack is much better than her 2008 version of the same thing because Candidate Bernie is no Candidate Obama and it will take her off the current half assed attack path that she's terrible at. At any rate the SEC primary is far worse to Bernie than Iowa/NH is, almost as bad as it is for all the GOPe's. Literally no one gives a poo poo about Bloomberg outside of new York city
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Jan 24, 2016 19:24
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rscott posted:Literally no one gives a poo poo about Bloomberg outside of new York city It's all  has left. Bloomberg MUST be the next Trump!!1
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Jan 24, 2016 19:32
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The fact that they are considering such a Hail Mary shows how desperate and lovely the democrat establishment is getting.
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