It means that he’ll own it and throw us some crumbs for ourselves, as all billionaires do.
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UPDATE : The Bloomberg campaign has stated unequivocally this apparent parody logo/tagline is not theirs, nor do they have anything to do with it, or with the creation or sharing of it.
Ok Bloomer.
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I believe Bloomberg’s would be the same as the Pete Buttigieg plan.
But I’m guessing.
it’s apparently the work of a Mike Bloomberg fansite
he has fans?
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Nope. More like 0.001%. Otherwise, carry on! 
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Just to emphasize how low that bar is most of us here would consider a sack of hammers or a rabid wombat better than trump.
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VOTE FOR ME
YOU WON’T LIKE WHAT I DO
BUT I’M SMART AND YOU’RE DUMB
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Yes. That’s the problem.
https://twitter.com/muni_d1/status/1075066689732042752?s=20
https://twitter.com/slurmslurper/status/1123222481467334656?s=21
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That’s a woman out protesting Trump. Actively out protesting Trump.
I think it’s pretty ugly to hold her up as some kind of “not caring liberal” just because she mentions Clinton on her protest sign instead of Bernie fucking Sanders. (Who would be a great progressive president if he can find a way to win).
I see a person who would have voted for Sanders if he was the candidate, not someone it would be good to tear down for protesting Trump by wishing he lost to Clinton in the election that actually happened.
Those tweets are a good example of Bernie support that feels toxic and distracting to some people who would actually prefer Bernie finding a way onto the ballot.
It’s not 2016.
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The problem with that sign is not the “Clinton”; it’s the “brunch”. It’s an overt statement that they are unconcerned by injustices that do not impact them directly.
Black Lives Matter. Deporter in Chief. Mass incarceration. Kids dying from rationed insulin. Poverty wages. Rampant plutocracy and corruption. Forever War. Climate Apocalypse.
All of this pre-dates Trump.
None of the horrors of the Trump era are truly new; they’re just louder and cruder expressions of what was already happening. Which is why very many left activists (including many who are not Bernie supporters) were infuriated by that sign.
Trump is the symptom, not the disease.
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First let me say that if the next election goes the way you want, I’d be absolutely happy.
Do you know what is an overt statement? Being out on the street protesting Trump putting people in cages (or, in this case, protesting Trump’s sexism). Ignoring that is taking the words of the jokey protest sign more literally than the human being who obviously cares enough to actually protest. It reeks of bad faith.
Tearing down a vocal protestor of Trump for “proving they don’t care” is twisted.
I’ve seen, in person, a lot of examples of “I’d rather not be protesting this shit” protest signs over the years. I’ve never thought to myself, “Oh I guess they’re not really out here today” or “I guess after today, they’re so cold and callous they’ll never protest anything except today’s issue.”
It’s literally taking a protest sign as solid evidence that a person doesn’t care about political issues. That’s a bad faith reach. It’s a sign trying to say that Clinton would have been better than Trump and that a Women’s March wouldn’t have needed to happen to specifically protest a rapist-in-chief (true), not that issues would never need protesting.
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We may be overlooking the possibility that that sign was made with a sense of, you know… irony.
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I rather liked the idea that (Steyer and now) Bloomberg pay off the residual court costs for 10K newly “enfranchised” ex-felons in Florida, who are still barred from voting until their costs are paid. That would move Florida handily out of swing-state status, and be a lot cheaper than a vanity presidential campaign.
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How do you do, fellow liberals?
Are you the hack who designed this abomination of a logo?
That’s a bad thing, if you give it a lot of thought and not much pre-judgment. Democracy is a participatory process, not a four year set and forget. I would not be content to vote Democrat, go to brunch for four years, vote Democrat again, rinse and repeat, only to realize that the people I’ve been voting into office have been secretly (or not so secretly) fucking me over the entire time.
Of course, this assumes I’m a middle class white person who is not disenfranchised in any way. Everybody else feels every little bump in the road.
But the goal of a smooth polished politician is to keep the status quo as much as possible, so the people voting don’t realize how badly they’re getting fucked.
Whoa whoa whoa. One of those things is not like the others. Just because I don’t want people to continue to be gunned down in the street doesn’t mean I want a nanny state.
Besides, it is not practical to run a country like a city.
I would say there’s not much difference between billionaire and con man, but maybe that’s just me.
I knew a data driven woman who had four kids. She would have had a fifth, but every fifth child born in the world is Chinese and she didn’t want to have to learn the language.
Much like trump.
Everybody owes everybody else. Anyone who has ever lived in a community as part of civilized society realizes this.
Remind me again why I should vote for this guy?
It doesn’t matter if he’s “shoveling snow” or not. If there’s an emergency, he should cut his vacation short and come into the office, end of story. Plus, it’s incredibly bad optics if he’s in the Bahamas and everybody else who doesn’t have that option is digging themselves out like the working class schmucks he thinks they are.
You don’t say! Why didn’t you tell us sooner?
This shifted my opinion on Bloomberg from “ahaha look at this clown” to “I hate this guy”.
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Or a business.
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I can’t tell if that is a condemnation of a slacker on welfare, or a 1%er tilting the game in their favor through donations and gaming the system.
All those billions the 1% is raking in is value workers created, and did not get a fair share of.
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William Dudley “Big Bill” Haywood (February 4, 1869 – May 18, 1928) was a founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and a member of the executive committee of the Socialist Party of America.
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