2020 Election Thread (formerly: 2020 Presidential Candidates Thread) (Part 1)

Ah, but is Bloomberg running against Trump, or against Sanders?

  • Sanders wins: Rich guy might have to pay more taxes.
  • Bloomberg wins: Rich guy gets to be president.
  • Trump wins: Rich guy keeps on riching.
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Seems there was something about lying as well

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And breaking of sacred hospitality laws.

If Christianity, Islam or Judaism is correct then the Republicans are so fucked.

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Ikr? Heck, even in that picture of Beck wearing a maga hat and a cotton polyester jacket shown a big one about about not mixing fabrics

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Right - but did he pay them a boatload to sign another NDA which outlined what they would say about the previous one?

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Releasing a select few is not terribly different from releasing none at all, maybe worse. He is a shitstorm in progress.

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His guy working on this has an impeccable reputation.

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I wonder how many layers of NDA there are?

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If you get too many NDAs you wind up on double secret NDA.

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It’s a “freind attack”. When someone unsavory says they’re your friend, it makes you look worse even if you had nothing to do with it.

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Reposting from upthread:

Bloomberg doesn’t care who wins, so long as the plutocratic status quo is maintained. How better to do that than by ensuring both parties run plutocratic candidates and/or sabotaging any non-plutocratic alternatives?

Bloomberg’s twitter for the last week has been a constant stream of attacks on Bernie, btw.

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Or for the high-octane version:

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This is a truly great headline. Classic, vintage red-baiting, with a hint of modern plausible deniability for Snopes. Solid, workmanlike if unimaginative, example of the yellow journalism school of propaganda.

Four stars out of five.

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nice to see cnn reporting the russian honeymoon trope as if it were fact

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I’d only give that headline about three stars. Overall very similar to the other one, with a little bit more of a nod towards superficial neutrality, but somehow unpleasantly smarmy and insinuating.

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Honestly, that’s how I found my current physician.

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:joy:

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Bernie is pretty popular amongst computer animators

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looks like you gotta click on it to embiggen it

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the one thing mike bloomberg has going for him is how much he makes me like pete buttigieg

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