If only we could invent something as brilliant as the Bloomberg Terminal (Reply #5)

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Tue Feb 25, 2020, 03:10 PM

Mike 03 (15,903 posts)

5. If only we could invent something as brilliant as the Bloomberg Terminal

I bet we could!

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

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111 replies	Author	Time	Post
While Sanders was underemployed & a Liberty Union candidate in the 1970s, the mother of his child [View all]	highplainsdem	Feb 2020	OP
Has Bernie ever had a non govt. job as an adult?	HarlanPepper	Feb 2020	#1
I found this, but don't know the validity.	zackymilly	Feb 2020	#3
I believe he worked as a journalist and had a company producing short films	democrattotheend	Feb 2020	#12
Re: I believe he worked as a journalist and had a company producing short films	NoDakLinda	Feb 2020	#78
Being a journeyman carpenter isn't usually something someone just falls into or does for a little	braddy	Feb 2020	#14
Here's some info on the jobs he held:	highplainsdem	Feb 2020	#4
Great record...	IluvPitties	Feb 2020	#13
Message auto-removed	Name removed	Feb 2020	#26
want to compare to Trump	azureblue	Feb 2020	#65
Is this directed at me?	HarlanPepper	Feb 2020	#69
Here's his resume. From 1964 through 1981 nothing significant:	George II	Feb 2020	#71
Made it to forty without doing much. Then three decades in congress and not much there either.	LizBeth	Feb 2020	#77
As i've said in another thread, politics was Bernie's career	onetexan	Feb 2020	#80
I read that his first	BlueMTexpat	Feb 2020	#74
I'm sure Bloomberg was enjoying the high life	IronLionZion	Feb 2020	#2
If only we could invent something as brilliant as the Bloomberg Terminal	Mike 03	Feb 2020	#5
Sanders didn't need to be a billionaire to provide for himself and his family. He chose not to.	highplainsdem	Feb 2020	#7
Exactly.	BlueMTexpat	Feb 2020	#75
And this has what to do with Sanders being basically a bum?	Rorey	Feb 2020	#9
If you hear Sanders tell it, this is why he wants a social safety net	IronLionZion	Feb 2020	#20
I support safety nets when someone needs them through no fault of their own	Rorey	Feb 2020	#21
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Not a Bloomberg fan	Skidmore	Feb 2020	#34
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Yup. I was married to a deadbeat	Skidmore	Feb 2020	#50
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A different kind of born in a log-cabin story? "Eccentric and precarious lifestyle" needs to end	emmaverybo	Feb 2020	#6
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Oh boy	RandySF	Feb 2020	#8
I think Bloomberg wasted his money on this Oppo shit.	Autumn	Feb 2020	#10
You bet. Sanders, as a sly career politician with millions, knows better.	LanternWaste	Feb 2020	#11
He's worth several million dollars less than either Biden and Warren.	Autumn	Feb 2020	#37
2.5 million more than I have.	ahoysrcsm	Feb 2020	#72
Hey, welcome to DU.	Autumn	Feb 2020	#84
Why thank you, been lurking since 2004.	ahoysrcsm	Feb 2020	#85
You must have been absent from 2015 on.	Autumn	Feb 2020	#86
Nope, supported "teh great one" through ** primary.	ahoysrcsm	Feb 2020	#88
I'm glad Bloomberg is spending his money on it, actually	democrattotheend	Feb 2020	#16
You're a respectful voice of reason	Rorey	Feb 2020	#22
Thank you!	democrattotheend	Feb 2020	#64
I agree with you.	Lucky Luciano	Feb 2020	#67
This isn't coming from Bloomberg.	highplainsdem	Feb 2020	#18
Where ever it comes from it's the same attempted smear used the last time.	Autumn	Feb 2020	#27
Are you impressed that Sanders did not support his child?	mcar	Feb 2020	#19
I read the article, his wife nor Levi's mother made that claim, And the author didn't attribute it	Autumn	Feb 2020	#31
Completely against gun control.	TexasTowelie	Feb 2020	#15
Yes, that was part of the Liberty Union platform.	highplainsdem	Feb 2020	#17
This is not what I call pro woman.	showblue22	Feb 2020	#23
I believe Sanders didn't pay child support either. That is more troubling for me.	LizBeth	Feb 2020	#24
The facts will definitely catch up with him b4 it's all over. Nt	BootinUp	Feb 2020	#25
to be honest	evertonfc	Feb 2020	#28
He was on unemployment for a while in the 1970s but reportedly could not answer questions about what	highplainsdem	Feb 2020	#33
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Levi Sanders' mom was bravely fighting to survive the Baby Scoop Era.	StevieM	Feb 2020	#29
Easily dismissed and excused by his "followers" and "fans" and "supporters". BUT NOT...	NurseJackie	Feb 2020	#30
How many people will be pissed he was privileged enough to go to a good University.	LizBeth	Feb 2020	#39
I don't know.	NurseJackie	Feb 2020	#41
Ugh. nt	LexVegas	Feb 2020	#32
This is what we call baggage.	MontanaMama	Feb 2020	#35
Baggage... steamer-trunks... AND a millstone or two.	NurseJackie	Feb 2020	#51
Don't forget cement shoes.	MontanaMama	Feb 2020	#53
Honestly, you'd think he'd know better. You'd think he'd be man enough to at least TRY to ...	NurseJackie	Feb 2020	#54
Millstone is more like it...	ehrnst	Feb 2020	#111
my exhusband was a nonprovider. We had 3 kids. This guy was always out of work or had a job	CTyankee	Feb 2020	#36
I have a very hard time with a capable man putting his child in that situation, myself.	LizBeth	Feb 2020	#40
How are things looking for Joe in SC?	Act_of_Reparation	Feb 2020	#38
Upside-Down And Backwards, Per Usual	corbettkroehler	Feb 2020	#42
Let's read together .	Skidmore	Feb 2020	#46
K&R	betsuni	Feb 2020	#49
The GOP is going to have a field day with this shit.	SunSeeker	Feb 2020	#52
Yeah, because when you have a baby to feed,	Mr.Bill	Feb 2020	#61
Abolition of all laws that interfere with the right to bear all arms.	boston bean	Feb 2020	#56
It clearly	MyNameGoesHere	Feb 2020	#57
I'm not putting Bernie down for this.	blueinredohio	Feb 2020	#58
Nobody is knocking the mom	Sea Turtle	Feb 2020	#83
Muckraking any republican could be proud of. Why not speak highly of your own choice instead?	Magoo48	Feb 2020	#59
Keep digging. I'm sure he spit puteed beets back at his mom	Warpy	Feb 2020	#60
"she was a single mother on welfare"	left-of-center2012	Feb 2020	#62
Ronald Reagan wants his smears back.	BlueWI	Feb 2020	#63
So now being poor is a crime?	krny9	Feb 2020	#66
Bookmarking.	rzemanfl	Feb 2020	#70
might be laundry time	Celerity	Feb 2020	#81
oki, I will play. You, on your 8th or less post, are accusing a 15 year long DUer of being a RW	Celerity	Feb 2020	#82
No, but not supporting your children	Kermit the Prog	Feb 2020	#106
Masterful expos.	dchill	Feb 2020	#68
You should probably stop this now	Sympthsical	Feb 2020	#73
Better to get it out now than wait for the Republicans to do it.	RandySF	Feb 2020	#76
+1,000,000	highplainsdem	Feb 2020	#87
We likely won't know who the nominee is until the convention.	showblue22	Feb 2020	#79
Are you posting this shit from the '70s as a public service? eye roll	cry baby	Feb 2020	#89
It's part of Sanders' background. It's relevant to whether he should be our nominee.	highplainsdem	Feb 2020	#91
Public service, then.	cry baby	Feb 2020	#92
It's discussion of a candidate's background. Which happens constantly here.	highplainsdem	Feb 2020	#94
It was an old story at the turn of the CENTURY.	cry baby	Feb 2020	#95
If you don't think Trump, the GOP, and the Russians had this info on Sanders long ago	highplainsdem	Feb 2020	#96
I'm sure they do have it...	cry baby	Feb 2020	#97
I'm not "tainting" this website. These are facts about Sanders' background, and he and his	highplainsdem	Feb 2020	#98
I didn't see them. 50 yr old info is ridiculous/desperate on DU no matter	cry baby	Feb 2020	#99
This info on Sanders' background is likely to turn up all over TV and social media ads. A message	highplainsdem	Feb 2020	#100
You have no idea of what the unintended consequences might be.	cry baby	Feb 2020	#102
Yeah, it's not like Bernie is calling himself a Democratic Socialist...	ahoysrcsm	Feb 2020	#103
50 yr old story. It's not like we all don't know this info already. nt	cry baby	Feb 2020	#104
It was a 45 minute video, did you not want to hear Sanders own words on being a Democratic Socialst?	ahoysrcsm	Feb 2020	#105
His MLK March story goes back longer than that, and he considers it relevant.	ehrnst	Feb 2020	#108
omg look at this picture they found of young Lincoln!	KayF	Feb 2020	#90
Lincoln grew up much poorer than Sanders. But before Lincoln was the age Sanders was	highplainsdem	Feb 2020	#93
Sanders is no Abe Lincoln. Nice try.	ehrnst	Feb 2020	#109
This message was self-deleted by its author	Fresh_Start	Feb 2020	#101
If this was any other candidate...	ehrnst	Feb 2020	#107
His veneer is a mile wide and a millimeter thick	Blue_Tires	Feb 2020	#110

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