Courtesy of NYT:
Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, spent at least $30 million on Friday for a single week of television ads, a show of financial force that signals his willingness to use his vast personal fortune to reshape the Democratic presidential race.
The 60-second biographical commercials will begin on Monday in more than two dozen states and roughly 100 news media markets from California to Maine, a preview of a 2020 campaign budget that could easily stretch into the nine-figure range.
The scope of Mr. Bloomberg’s ad buy is staggering. It is more than all of Mr. Bloomberg’s potential rivals — other than the other billionaire running, Tom Steyer — have spent on television ads all year, and about double what Senator Cory Booker had raised in donations from February through the end of September.
“Mike is prepared to spend what it takes to defeat Donald Trump,” said Howard Wolfson, a top adviser to Mr. Bloomberg, whose formal announcement of his candidacy appears imminent.
Trying to buy your way into this race is so antithetical to where the Democratic party is these days that it is surprising it does not doom Bloomberg’s campaign right out of the gate.
Or perhaps it does.
Just speaking for myself I am insulted that a billionaire believes he can erase all of the hard work done by oue current crop of Democratic candidates and jump to the head of the line simply because he has a seemingly bottomless reservoir of money.
American votes should not be for sale.
Period.
30 million to him is chump change. I’ve seen his ad at least four times since I got out of bed today.
No. Just NO.
What I find odd. The USA Today op-ed by Judge Judy last month, then her Bill Maher appearance.
Now he’s running……
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/10/16/judge-judy-michael-bloomberg-presidential-race-2020-column/3984012002/
“We need a no-nonsense president who’s sane, competent and honest, someone who can’t be bought and has no skin in the game. As he showed during 12 years as mayor in New York City Hall, Michael Bloomberg fits the bill. He’s a self-made billionaire, a man who made a lot of money in a very straightforward, transparent way. He’s an advocate for strong action on climate change. He believes in reasonable gun control, like the vast majority of Americans. He believes in making certain that the criminal element in our society — which scars the life of so many — is treated firmly, swiftly and fairly.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/russian-trolls-are-planting-feel-good-stories-in-your-social-media-feed-in-a-new-effort-to-subvert-us-democracy-report/
“Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren, pair of experts on social media and propaganda, believe that account was set up by the successors to Russia’s Internet Research Agency (IRA) to harvest followers for another round of divisive political messaging.” “The IRA was indicted as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s election interference in 2016, and Linvill and Warren have identified the Tyra Jackson account as part of a new effort to exploit American biases.”
““Professional trolls are good at their job,””
I hate to say this, I really do, but in my opinion this country would rather re-elect the most corrupt bastard ever in the Oval Office than give it to a Jew.
And, no, I am not kidding.
Stop & Frisk? Hear This Truth
https://www.pbs.org/video/martha-minow-forgiveness-us-legal-system-nvzfrf/
17m 54s
Harvard Law School Professor and former Dean Martha Minow has taught generations of lawyers – including former President Obama – about the power of the law and how a sentence can best match a crime. She sits down with Michel to discuss how the American legal system, whose rate of incarceration is the highest in the world, could use a little compassion.
“Who has the right to forgive? Who should be forgiven? And under what terms? Minow tackles these foundational issues by exploring three questions:
What does the international response to child soldiers teach us about the legal treatment of juvenile offenders in the United States?
Why are the laws surrounding corporate debt more forgiving than those governing American student and consumer debt, and sovereign debt in the developing world?
When do law’s tools of forgiveness, amnesties, and pardons strengthen justice, peace, and democracy (think South Africa), and when do they undermine law’s promise of fairness (think Joe Arpaio)?’
https://www.amazon.com/When-Should-Forgive-Martha-Minow/dp/0393081761
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/sanders-campaign-charges-mike-bloomberg-2020-run-is-against-bernie-not-trump/
On MSNBC Monday, anchor Katy Tur wondered if Bloomberg has another candidate in mind to take down.
“Is this a real campaign, is he really running?” wondered Tur. “Or is he running to torpedo Elizabeth Warren?”
They’re all so self-important, hard to say.
Is he ever pushing hard with this commercial, it’s all over the place, and it’s only day one?
What I see is same ol’ same ol,’ Have we not learned empty promises by now?
Everyone has “a plan,” and of course he had to throw 9/11 in for good measure.
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/11/25/top-house-republican-uses-russian-stock-footage-pro-trump-campaign-ad.html
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/472014-new-mccarthy-ad-praising-trump-mistakenly-includes-russian-stock-footage
Kaczynski pointed out that another clip of a farmer within the ad was uploaded from a user in Israel.
The Hill reached out to McCarthy’s office for comment.
Can we cure AIDS? If he can’t cure AIDS then he has no reason to run.