Bloomberg on Trump, perhaps he does have what it takes (Page 2): No, way more like BO and BC.

America 1 Loc: South Miami

Iamdjchrys wrote:

Hmm...just like DJT

No, way more like BO and BC.

America 1 Loc: South Miami

America 1 wrote:

No, way more like BO and BC.

HC.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

byronglimish wrote:

His greed and arrogance is finally paying off.

Well deserved too!!!!

son of witless

lindajoy wrote:

Well we know Bloomberg doesn’t have what it takes so there’s your answer...

If Mike wins the Nomination, how will Crazy Bernie get his $ Billionaire Hating Posse to support Money Mike ? How can Bloomberg possibly unite all of the factions ? I say no way.

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

lindajoy wrote:

Well deserved too!!!!

Yes ma'am

Roger jr

[quote=Kevyn]“Donald Trump is the world’s biggest schoolyard bully – with no respect for civility or decency, or facts or honesty.” We know many of the same people in NY. Behind your back they laugh at you & call you a carnival barking clown,” Bloomberg said in a posting. “They know you inherited a fortune & squandered it with stupid deals and incompetence.” Bloomberg has over twenty times the wealth Trump claims and he actually made his. Who gives a rat's ass what kind of garbage comes out of Mini-Mike's dirty mouth

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[quote=Roger jr]

Kevyn wrote:

“Donald Trump is the world’s biggest schoolyard bu... (show quote)

Kevyn eats it up.

Mikeyavelli

lindajoy wrote:

Well we know Bloomberg doesn’t have what it takes so there’s your answer...

He's not tall enough to ride in Airforce One.
Disqualified already.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

son of witless wrote:

If Mike wins the Nomination, how will Crazy Bernie get his $ Billionaire Hating Posse to support Money Mike ? How can Bloomberg possibly unite all of the factions ? I say no way.

Times of mouths running and Bernie not caring about party.. Only defeating Mike..A good thing....👍😁

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

son of witless wrote:

If Mike wins the Nomination, how will Crazy Bernie get his $ Billionaire Hating Posse to support Money Mike ? How can Bloomberg possibly unite all of the factions ? I say no way.

Hell he couldn't unite his employer who fired him for lack of performance to his stop and.check b****s and Hispanics search, seige and arrest..Took the State Supreme court telling him unconstitutional to stop the racial profiling and discrimination... I remember when he implemented it to clean up crime...Lots of racial tension....

Randolph doesn’t hold back from discussing Bloomberg’s failures. One biggie was the West Side Stadium debacle. Many of Bloomberg’s infrastructure projects proved farsighted, like the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the High Line park in Chelsea and the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island. But the ill-conceived scheme to erect a monstrous sports arena would have disrupted life up and down the West Side of Manhattan and handed a multibillion-dollar gift to the New York Jets. Only its defeat by the State Legislature in 2005 defused public anger. (Randolph is admirably candid about the hedging of the Times editorial board on the issue.)

Controversial, too, was the huge rise in what the police commissioner Ray Kelly called “street stops,” more commonly known as “stop and frisk.” Because the police targeted high-crime neighborhoods, these stops, which climbed from 97,296 in 2002 to 685,724 in 2011, disproportionately affected black and Hispanic residents. Bloomberg defended Kelly’s methods, which may indeed have helped reduce violent crime in minority communities, but in 2013 a district court judge found the application of the policy to be unconstitutional. Compared with the raw antagonism of the Giuliani years, racial conflict in the city subsided substantially under Bloomberg, yet his overly aggressive policing would remain a sore spot.

The other major disgrace was his suspension of mayoral term limits. In 1993, New Yorkers had restricted their mayors to two terms. But as 2009 approached, Bloomberg — who had called a previous bid to undo term limits “an outrage” — strong-armed the City Council to allow him a third term. The body v**ed yea, Randolph notes, “as the crowd booed and someone yelled ‘Shame on you.’” The power play highlighted what people disliked about Bloomberg: his higher regard for himself than for the people. In November 2009, despite two accomplished terms, Bloomberg barely beat the humdrum William Thompson, the city comptroller, by just 4.4 percent — a drop of more than 15 percent from 2005.

One critic who thundered against the power grab was an obscure Brooklyn city councilor named Bill de Blasio, who in 2013 rode the issue to the mayoralty himself. Now, of course, de Blasio is roundly disliked. His two appearances on the Democratic p**********l debate stage have invoked in many a surge of nostalgia for Bloomberg.

But make no mistake: Bloomberg’s data-driven, pragmatic style of governance is increasingly falling out of favor, as both political parties, to varying degrees, embrace a rigidly moralized politics. Indeed, in today’s fiercely partisan climate, Bloomberg probably couldn’t get elected mayor. That this idiosyncratic and flawed but ultimately highly effective technocrat served for the 12 years between 2002 and 2014 was the strange result of a man being unexpectedly aligned with the historical times — or, we might say, something of a fluke.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/books/review/the-many-lives-of-michael-bloomberg-eleanor-randolph.amp.html?0p19G=3248

Mikeyavelli

lindajoy wrote:

Hell he couldn't unite his employer who fired him for lack of performance to his stop and.check b****s and Hispanics search, seige and arrest..Took the State Supreme court telling him unconstitutional to stop the racial profiling and discrimination... I remember when he implemented it to clean up crime...Lots of racial tension....

Randolph doesn’t hold back from discussing Bloomberg’s failures. One biggie was the West Side Stadium debacle. Many of Bloomberg’s infrastructure projects proved farsighted, like the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the High Line park in Chelsea and the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island. But the ill-conceived scheme to erect a monstrous sports arena would have disrupted life up and down the West Side of Manhattan and handed a multibillion-dollar gift to the New York Jets. Only its defeat by the State Legislature in 2005 defused public anger. (Randolph is admirably candid about the hedging of the Times editorial board on the issue.)

Controversial, too, was the huge rise in what the police commissioner Ray Kelly called “street stops,” more commonly known as “stop and frisk.” Because the police targeted high-crime neighborhoods, these stops, which climbed from 97,296 in 2002 to 685,724 in 2011, disproportionately affected black and Hispanic residents. Bloomberg defended Kelly’s methods, which may indeed have helped reduce violent crime in minority communities, but in 2013 a district court judge found the application of the policy to be unconstitutional. Compared with the raw antagonism of the Giuliani years, racial conflict in the city subsided substantially under Bloomberg, yet his overly aggressive policing would remain a sore spot.

The other major disgrace was his suspension of mayoral term limits. In 1993, New Yorkers had restricted their mayors to two terms. But as 2009 approached, Bloomberg — who had called a previous bid to undo term limits “an outrage” — strong-armed the City Council to allow him a third term. The body v**ed yea, Randolph notes, “as the crowd booed and someone yelled ‘Shame on you.’” The power play highlighted what people disliked about Bloomberg: his higher regard for himself than for the people. In November 2009, despite two accomplished terms, Bloomberg barely beat the humdrum William Thompson, the city comptroller, by just 4.4 percent — a drop of more than 15 percent from 2005.

One critic who thundered against the power grab was an obscure Brooklyn city councilor named Bill de Blasio, who in 2013 rode the issue to the mayoralty himself. Now, of course, de Blasio is roundly disliked. His two appearances on the Democratic p**********l debate stage have invoked in many a surge of nostalgia for Bloomberg.

But make no mistake: Bloomberg’s data-driven, pragmatic style of governance is increasingly falling out of favor, as both political parties, to varying degrees, embrace a rigidly moralized politics. Indeed, in today’s fiercely partisan climate, Bloomberg probably couldn’t get elected mayor. That this idiosyncratic and flawed but ultimately highly effective technocrat served for the 12 years between 2002 and 2014 was the strange result of a man being unexpectedly aligned with the historical times — or, we might say, something of a fluke.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/books/review/the-many-lives-of-michael-bloomberg-eleanor-randolph.amp.html?0p19G=3248

Hell he couldn't unite his employer who fired him ... (show quote)

The kommiecrats must crush Bernie and convince Berniebots to v**e for Bloomberg, who is now the candidate of choice for the DNC.
Berniebots will not take this lightly again. Look for Berniebots to v**e for Trump out of spite.
Good.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Mikeyavelli wrote:

The kommiecrats must crush Bernie and convince Berniebots to v**e for Bloomberg, who is now the candidate of choice for the DNC.
Berniebots will not take this lightly again. Look for Berniebots to v**e for Trump out of spite.
Good.

I suspect so too... Either v**e for Trump or not at all if the Iowa caucus was a sign??

Mikeyavelli

lindajoy wrote:

I suspect so too... Either v**e for Trump or not at all if the Iowa caucus was a sign??

If Bernie doesn't get the nomination, the kommiecrats will have some yuge problems.
The kommiecrats have yuge problems already, but Bernie is their biggest dilemma, run Bernie and lose, not run Bernie and lose.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Mikeyavelli wrote:

If Bernie doesn't get the nomination, the kommiecrats will have some yuge problems.
The kommiecrats have yuge problems already, but Bernie is their biggest dilemma, run Bernie and lose, not run Bernie and lose.

True statement right there!!!💫✨

son of witless

lindajoy wrote:

Hell he couldn't unite his employer who fired him for lack of performance to his stop and.check b****s and Hispanics search, seige and arrest..Took the State Supreme court telling him unconstitutional to stop the racial profiling and discrimination... I remember when he implemented it to clean up crime...Lots of racial tension....

Randolph doesn’t hold back from discussing Bloomberg’s failures. One biggie was the West Side Stadium debacle. Many of Bloomberg’s infrastructure projects proved farsighted, like the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the High Line park in Chelsea and the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island. But the ill-conceived scheme to erect a monstrous sports arena would have disrupted life up and down the West Side of Manhattan and handed a multibillion-dollar gift to the New York Jets. Only its defeat by the State Legislature in 2005 defused public anger. (Randolph is admirably candid about the hedging of the Times editorial board on the issue.)

Controversial, too, was the huge rise in what the police commissioner Ray Kelly called “street stops,” more commonly known as “stop and frisk.” Because the police targeted high-crime neighborhoods, these stops, which climbed from 97,296 in 2002 to 685,724 in 2011, disproportionately affected black and Hispanic residents. Bloomberg defended Kelly’s methods, which may indeed have helped reduce violent crime in minority communities, but in 2013 a district court judge found the application of the policy to be unconstitutional. Compared with the raw antagonism of the Giuliani years, racial conflict in the city subsided substantially under Bloomberg, yet his overly aggressive policing would remain a sore spot.

The other major disgrace was his suspension of mayoral term limits. In 1993, New Yorkers had restricted their mayors to two terms. But as 2009 approached, Bloomberg — who had called a previous bid to undo term limits “an outrage” — strong-armed the City Council to allow him a third term. The body v**ed yea, Randolph notes, “as the crowd booed and someone yelled ‘Shame on you.’” The power play highlighted what people disliked about Bloomberg: his higher regard for himself than for the people. In November 2009, despite two accomplished terms, Bloomberg barely beat the humdrum William Thompson, the city comptroller, by just 4.4 percent — a drop of more than 15 percent from 2005.

One critic who thundered against the power grab was an obscure Brooklyn city councilor named Bill de Blasio, who in 2013 rode the issue to the mayoralty himself. Now, of course, de Blasio is roundly disliked. His two appearances on the Democratic p**********l debate stage have invoked in many a surge of nostalgia for Bloomberg.

But make no mistake: Bloomberg’s data-driven, pragmatic style of governance is increasingly falling out of favor, as both political parties, to varying degrees, embrace a rigidly moralized politics. Indeed, in today’s fiercely partisan climate, Bloomberg probably couldn’t get elected mayor. That this idiosyncratic and flawed but ultimately highly effective technocrat served for the 12 years between 2002 and 2014 was the strange result of a man being unexpectedly aligned with the historical times — or, we might say, something of a fluke.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/books/review/the-many-lives-of-michael-bloomberg-eleanor-randolph.amp.html?0p19G=3248

Hell he couldn't unite his employer who fired him ... (show quote)

Michael Bloomberg is trying to balance or finesse the competence verses ideology dilemma that Democrats are in. Sanders has the passion to win the nomination, but general e******n v**ers are not going to let a crazy Liberal C*******t ruin what is left of their health care and bankrupt the country.
He is an incompetent.

Bloomberg is running on his Mayoral Record of Competence, but as he distances himself from stop and frisk and other policies that made his New York City years a success, he weakens his Competence argument.

Trump is running on two themes. Among his base his strict attention to staying on message with Social and Economic Conservative Policies has anchored them to him. To the swing v**ers, many of whom dislike his abrasive style, he represents a competence the Democrats lack. Obama burned them. His policies and racial guilt trips wore out their love.

Liberals thought that Obama had ushered in this new era of liberal ascendancy, where they could threaten everyone with r****m labels to control them. That worked really really well in 2008 and 2012. By 2016 it had backfired. The result was Trump. They still have not adjusted their minds to this new reality. Their witch hunts against Trump and Kavanaugh would have worked well pre 2016. That is why they were sure they still worked. They don't and they are lost. The Obama Black Magic is gone. He is just another ex _President. The best he can hope for is one day to get his picture on US currency. Maybe a three dollar bill.