Authored by Eric Margolis via The Unz Review,
Good work, Democrats! In the Las Vegas debate, you blasted every target but Donald Trump. Instead of quivering in his Gucci loafers, the man who would be king was left dancing on air.
The man who should have been king, newcomer Mike Bloomberg, was left looking like a beaten-up cigar store Indian. He had not prepped for the debate and failed to dodge the obvious incoming missile attacks on him launched by a hissing Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg.
Many veteran Republicans fear that TV promoter Trump will steamroll Warren, Buttigieg, Biden and Amy Klobuchar. They may be right. Trump had to be delighted by the no-prisoners Democratic debate that bloodied his opponents before he could even get to them. Bloomberg was totally unprepared for the savage attacks launched against him. He looked like a neophyte suffering from camera fright.
I got a good read on Bloomberg when I had an intimate dinner with him some years ago. Rather than the stiff, unsmiling man we saw on TV in Las Vegas, in real life Bloomberg is clearly brilliant yet understated, charming, and endowed with a sharp sense of humor and quick wit.
Bernie Sanders, who has three homes, blasted Bloomberg for being ‘rich.’ This is a big sin to the Democrats who, like Hillary Clinton, pocketed millions in political support from big banks, unions and businesses under the cover of night or via bogus speaking fees and her fake foundation – a scam emulated by Trump.
The deeply corrupt Democratic National Committee, controlled by Hillary Clinton, rigged the vote that blocked Bernie Sanders during the last election. When news of this scandal emerged, Hillary kicked off the anti-Russian hysteria to divert attention from her chicanery.
Yes, Bloomberg may be the 9th or 10th richest man in the world. But his net worth comes from ownership of one of our most successful and reliable financial news organizations that he built up from nothing, and that employs important numbers of men and women. The use of Bloomberg terminals saves forests of trees.
Ignore Elizabeth Warren’s cheap shots about women being called names like ‘horse-faced lesbians’ or ‘fat’ at his firm. Many men speak this way to one-another in casual talk. Women often do the same regarding men. The answer to this is to totally segregate the sexes, as in Saudi Arabia. Trying to whip up a war of the sexes is not going to make angry Elizabeth Warren president. She should stick to her commendable work with banking and voting rights.
It’s pretty clear after the shootout in Vegas that Joe Biden has used up his last chance. Black voters and unions won’t save him. He looked old and very tired. But not as tired or off the mark as Mike Bloomberg. By contrast Bernie looked old, to be sure, but was full of beans.
As a foreign affairs specialist, what really dismayed me was that there was only one significant mention of international policy. That’s when the abrasive, loud-mouthed Sen. Amy Klobuchar could not remember the name of the president of Mexico. For God’s sake, she on a senate committee that deals with Mexico.
While our presidential debate focuses on overweight women and health care, the US and Russia have come terrifyingly close to open war in the Mideast.
But barely any mention of this in the debates. Trump and his big money men from New York and Las Vegas are trying to push Iran into an air war. The US is seeking to overthrow the governments of Venezuela, Cuba, Syria, and Iran. Clashes between China and the US are a major danger. Former defense chief Sam Nunn warns the US and Russia are closer to a nuclear conflict than any time since the 1960’s Cuban missile crisis. No matter.
Americans want entertainers for their made-for-TV politicians. Poor, dignified Mr. Bloomberg didn’t know he would face professional actors, not legislators.
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HAHAHAHAHAHA
“Poor, dignified Mr. Bloomberg…”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
you forgot to add HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Don’t encourage him, Dr. Peqqer.
The author is doing a fair bit of ass kissing for Bloomberg.
“Poor, dignified Mr. Bloomberg…”
Yeah right! There is nothing dignified about a Billionaire whoring the electoral process and getting his minions of bought off apparatchiks to shill for him all the way to front runner status.
Margolis should hang his head in shame for in any way enabling yet another vanity project for POTUS…
Meanwhile
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/477541-panel-did-bloomberg-buy-a-stacey-abrams-photo-op
Is Margolis a homosexual too?
“I had an intimate dinner with him…”
“Bloomberg is clearly brilliant yet understated, charming, and endowed with a sharp sense of humor and quick wit.”
WTF?
I’m not saying they dated, but that was an odd little passage. Has anyone ever seen Bloomberg behave in a charming fashion with a quick wit? He’s dry as toast and never has any expression other than angry and petulant plastered on his face.
Exactly!..
There was an almost mournful, lost in love high school crush tone to the article.
Excuse me, is this poetry hour? The Canadian Caliban dares shove Coleridge aside to make room for his churlish chimes?
I just submitted a review of a pbs documentary that everybody should watch. I don’t know what, if anything, we can do about the mess we find ourselves in, but I prefer we all we armed with as much knowledge as possible.
Mike Bloomboig has all the warmth and charm of an undertaker plus the charisma of a rutabag.
What do knuckle-dragging farmers know about nuance? You think an appreciative assessment is rife with homosexual tendencies. Your no poet, you told obvious jokes to drunks and fancied yourself an actor, albeit a poor one, strutting and fretting your hour upon the stage in a Shakespeare play. You and that Winnipeg loser, Rintintin think Margolis is kissing Bloomberg’s ass, shame on you!
you’re
You’re no poet, either.
I’m sure he’s regular lumberjack.
I wonder why he never married.
You know I’m kidding, right? I’ve given up flaming the noobs, they are so thin-skinned. They must be from Idaho or Texas.
I read you like a book.
Honestly, sometimes the things you write are almost word for word the things I think when I’m reading, so twin sons of different mothers and all that jazz.
Varmit.. implying I’m from the Peg is a step too far!
They all seem like they need to go to school and grow up some more. And so old looking! They also make Trump look like a much better choice.
Democrats are a Globalist Socialist Party of theft, death, incompetence, perversions, and treasons; they are not a Party of American Statesmen and Patriots (and neither are the Cabalist NeoCons and RINOs).
Bloomberg is still the one, but not for the reasons stated by this author. If you look at the results in Nevada, Sanders only got 33% of the vote on the first pass which shows people’s real preference. That is his ceiling. He essentially tied Buttigieg in Iowa and barely won in NH (a state that he won big time in 2016). Sanders has no path forward to the nomination. None.
As an aside, Nevada does tell us that the Invaders (oops, “Latinos”) are Communist/Socialists. Kind of ironic since that is what they ran away from. The demographics for the future of this country are not good. But for this election that is not the primary issue.
The DNC must force the proven losers (Biden, Warren, Klobacher, Buttigieg, Steyer) to drop out. Promise Buttigieg a Senate seat and Cabinet positions for the others. That support ALL goes to Bloomberg. After the humiliation he suffered in the first debate, presumably Bloomberg will up his debate skills and focus only on Sanders. That, combined with BILLIONS in advertising should get him over the top for the nomination. For the election – Add a black female VP and put a full court press on Trump. The outcome is not preordained, but he could do it.
Centsless.
You act like this is a real election campaign in a democratic republic.
Flea Infested – Please improve your reading skills. I am saying exactly the opposite. The fix is in for the guy the with big dollars.
By the way, I never insult another commenter…unless they insult me first.
I don’t find anything seriously wrong with your analysis.
The Latino vote did surprise me though-either they are clueless or had not taken time to learn about Mini Mike’s “charms”.
Kind of like African Americans supposedly do not favor abortion, yet they still seem to vote for abortion advocates. Who will they vote for in the Carolina primaries?
Cents.
Are you sure it’s my reading skills? What I read was someone describing blow by blow what should or would happen if this or that happens etc. as if you were on the 5 as if this were a real election. But go for it and enjoy your handicapping.
I think you have a good sense for what’s coming down the pike for America, it will definitely undergo a Marxist style communist revolution, but there’s a few years left while the flow of human capital that continues to pour across the border helps them build their Red Army.
That said, Bloomberg- even with all the vote rigging and ballot stuffing the DNC can muster doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell. You underestimate the innate human ability to identify a homosexual, and right now, despite what the TV tells you, the vast majority are still not down with the homos.
Who’s down with gay pp?
The millennial generation has been heavily propagandized to believe all the horseshit about LGBTXYZ so going forward twenty years it probably won’t make a difference.
But that’s not now.
Saw the big city newspaper over at the library today; its Lifestyle section had a 2 page spread on some purple haired witches event-all in living color. Did not waste any time to see if it was a tranny celebration or wtf. Death to America-I swear-is their warped objective.
LBJ recruited the blacks and Clinton rounded up the gays. The new expansion seems to be illegals as voters. They have also floated the prison vote. That would be a mistake, in Mexico it led to the policy of silver or lead and politicians soon knuckled under rather than get shot by cartel assassins.
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.
Bloomberg can’t be *that* bright.. I’ve gotten four separate pieces of campaign mail from him just in the last two days.
I have yet to see or hear a single Bloomberg ad.
450 million and I pay attention to current events.
Someone knows there’s a cow to be milked.
HF- I see Bloomberg ads frequently, the same one basically. It is a couple of black guys praising Bloomberg for his wonderful work in helping to keep the prison population down. I guess they had a short list of accomplishments in his column.
I don’t watch television so it’s a blind spot for me, but youtube is generally crawling with political ads. My guess is that ads are targeted and they know by my search history I’m not a good candidate for their entreaties.