You people are exaggerating when you say Bloomberg is bad as Trump

[Bucky]

Mike Bloomberg caught on camera mocking father and son who died of overdoses

[Squinch]

1. This again.

[Bucky]

2. First time I saw it

Glad to hear the word is getting out

[Squinch]

7. He said a father and son who ODd on heroin at the same party were not a good family.

That's not mocking. That's stating the obvious.

Or is it not obvious to you? In your world is it a mark of a well-adjusted family to have a father and son OD on heroin together?

[Bucky]

11. It's clearly delivered as a snarky aside

And I can tell from your response that you do understand snark.

[Squinch]

14. I do. And no, it was not. It was relating a newspaper story. A tragic one.

A story that highlights the need to address the dangers of heroin abuse.

Why is that a problem? Are you pro-overdose?

[Bucky]

16. Your constant overreach and childish posturing tells me you don't want to have a serious conversatio

adieu

[JudyM]

20. The fact that his reaction was to make an insulting "joke" rather than say something compassionate

is the difference between a republican and a Democrat, generally.

[Squinch]

22. He didn't make a joke. He said, "Not a good family." The room laughed. He seemed

surprised by the laughter.

[redqueen]

29. What was the purpose of saying "Not a good family"?

[Squinch]

30. He was commenting on two people who went to a party and OD'd together.

That is a rather extroadinarily bad sign when considering the functionality of a family.

[redqueen]

33. And the reason for speaking I'll of the dead that way is...?

What was the purpose of the comment?

[comradebillyboy]

3. Bloomberg is grossly insensitive but he's vastly better than

Trump.....or Bernie Sanders for that matter.

[Bucky]

9. Well sure, anyone not Trump gets my vote

But there more I find out about Mike, the less I like him.

[SCantiGOP]

12. Of course

Do you have to think about it to choose between:
Blatant racism and racial insensitivity?
Stupidity and intelligence?
Gross incompetence and considerable experience?

Bloomberg would fall somewhere between Hillary and Trump, but would be 100% improvement on Trump.

[HarlanPepper]

4. I'd vote for him if the only choice were between him and Dump

Even then it would be an easy choice.

[Tom Rinaldo]

19. THIS. Sad, but still true n/t

[empedocles]

5. Bloomberg is not currently a viable Prez candidate. MB and his dollar

commitment, provides some insurance against November disaster.

[Bucky]

8. Agree with this

Unless he gets in a his about the Democrats not nominating him and takes his dollars of the table.

[zackymilly]

15. If MB doesn't get the nomination, I wonder if he may take his ball (of money) and go home? nt

[Bucky]

18. Another good argument why we should get money out of the process

Of course you can't really "get money out of the process", but it's not gonna be a fair vetting of who our national leader should be if one candidate gets treated differently because he has such overwhelming financial resources that he, as one citizen, can manipulate the system and demand favorable treatment.

[Squinch]

23. He has already said he wouldn't. Unless BS won, because BS has already said he would

reject any assistance.

[zackymilly]

25. He said he wouldn't, but if he loses, going back on his word won't hurt him.

He's got all the money he needs, and I don't think he will run again in 2024.

[Squinch]

28. Why would he say he would do it when he wasn't planning to? He has been working

for years on climate change and gun control and creating opportunities for kids from poor neighborhoods. He will still be working on those things if he loses.

Why would he lie about his willingness to support the eventual candidate, when lying would turn away the very people who help him with his lifelong pet projects?

[empedocles]

6. Bloomberg is not currently a viable Prez candidate. MB and his dollar

commitment, do provide some insurance against a possible November disaster

[Bucky]

13. And Trump hasn't?

No, let's keep one thing clear. Short of someone reanimating Nathan Bedford Forrest, no one is worse than Trump.

Bloomberg is a dilletante and an arrogant billionaire, but he's not a traitor and he believes in science

[Jirel]

31. Pretty much this.

But having at least some state government experience and not suffering from dementia is a pretty low bar.

[dumptrump1]

21. agreed!

[emmaverybo]

24. A good test to apply to figure out how Bloomberg might react in a crisis (since crisis is on our

minds right now) is to look at how he reacted to a) crime b) terrorist attack.

Better or worse than Trump? Is that the question? I don’t think it is and if it is, wow.

We can do better than Bloomberg.

He is not even our most viable candidate.

[Bucky]

27. Oh Lord no

Republicans are already gearing up to suppress the black vote in Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North Carolina. Nominating Bloomberg would make their job 10 times easier

[Act_of_Reparation]

26. It's a good thing we don't have to settle for "not as bad as Trump"

At least not yet. Until then, I'm gonna talk about how fucking awful Mike Bloomberg is.

[Jirel]

32. Exactly.

We have to prevent him from being nominated. He'd be a not-quite-Bush-level disaster.

[Baked Potato]

34. From the link, his stance on cannabis is stuck way in the past

I bet he will gladly do business with the cannabis industry as soon as he can.