I know I’ve been posting about this too much, but honestly this Bloomberg shit is kind of breaking me.
The fact that anyone anyone claiming to be a democrat is supporting him is such mask-off shit. Bloomberg escalated stop-and-frisk and got black and brown people thrown in jail for nothing. His NYPD had a “demographics unit” that spied on Muslims. He has 64 sexual harassment accusations against him (for horrible context, even fucking Trump has less at 48.) His policies as mayor of NYC were horrible and discriminatory. He is ON THE RECORD saying horribly racist shit about how he ran the NYPD, about how much he hates trans people, about how much he does not respect women as full humans. He is one of the very very few people in this country that might actually be as evil as Trump.
And yet somehow he’s an acceptable democratic candidate now? Somehow he’s not everything the party is supposed to stand against? Somehow if you point out how racist and sexist and generally awful he is, if you point out he was a republican only a few goddamn years ago, you’re hurting the democratic party? You’re being divisive, and actually you’re the racist sexist for pointing out how horrible this racist sexist is! Because we have to beat Trump, and we can do that by replacing him with someone functionally identical to him! VoTe BlUe No MaTtEr WhO!!
Like, I know that the centrist mainstream democratic party abandoned people of color and queer people and the working class a long time ago. I know that the core of the party is MLK’s famous white moderate, that they don’t care about helping people so much as looking like they’re helping people. I know,
After all, you can’t get billionaire donors by actually representing the material interests of the people you claim to care about.
But this Bloomberg thing makes it so clear. So fucking clear.
So clear I kind of can’t fucking take it.
Centrist democrats don’t see us as people so much as voting demographics they have an inherent lock on. After all, what are we going to do? Vote republican? The republicans are so much worse! And obviously yes, they are, holy shit they are…
But Bloomberg is a republican. A racist, sexist, billionaire republican. And if he’s an acceptable democrat now…if centrist democrats see him as more worthy of support than a (fairly tame, let’s be honest) democratic socialist…then fuck…
The democratic party needs to burn. And something new, something better, needs to rise in it’s place.
But hasn’t he APOLOGIZED for all of this? And openly admit that his privilege and wealth blinded him to the consequences of his actions (which, by the way, was a desperate desire to curb gun violence). This doesn’t make it any less horrible of course, but consider that our current president would never in a million years apologize for anything and is doing his damndest to break down any social programs designed to help non-white non-cisgendered individuals, as well as turn the United States into an actual oligarchy by making the powers of the executive branch uncheckable.
I’m a huge Bernie supporter. And yes if Bloomberg somehow buys the nomination I will be disgusted. But for fucks sake we can’t put our heads in the sand. Getting Trump out of office is priority #1 right now. So, in this particular election, vote blue no matter who.
Mike Bloomberg is a racist, paternalistic, Islamophobic, oligarch. And that’s without mentioning that Bloomberg has even more sexual harassment allegations against him than Trump does.
Don’t anybody dare @ me or tell me to “vote blue no matter who,” not when this billionaire racist isn’t even a Democrat. As a BLACK man, I shouldn’t have to pick between the racist Republican who wants to use the police to racially profile me, or the other racist Republican who also wants to use the police to racially profile me. That’s not even a false choice - it’s no choice at all.
My Bloomberg story isn’t nearly as horrific as those in the tweets above. My relatives living under Bloomberg’s racist regime simply instructed me to stay out of NYC if I didn’t want to risk being arrested and harassed and possibly inserted into the criminal justice system. And I listened to them.
Mike Bloomberg is an authoritarian who wants use big government to crack down on poor people and black people, but wants less taxes on the wealthy, and deregulation for billionaires. It is not hyperbole to say that Bloomberg is an existential threat to democracy.
Please don’t let him buy the White House.
He apologized???
Vote blue no matte-
Who got you OP? Who washed your brain so thoroughly that you regurgitate the DNC’s empty platitudes? Was it the Stephanie Miller Show? AMJoy? CNN? MSNBC? Were you even aware they were turning you out?? Did they have to knock you out, or did you go willingly?
The “differences” between the two are cosmetic, at best. If it comes down to Trump vs. Bloomberg, then we’ve already lost.
Trump is a racist Republican, Mike Bloomberg is a racist Republican.
Trump wants to use the government to spy on Muslims, Bloomberg has used the NYPD to spy on Muslims (while they were in church, no less).
Trump wants to cut Social Security, Bloomberg wants to cut Social Security.
Trump is a wealthy oligarch, Bloomberg is an even wealthier oligarch.
Trump has used ICE and the Border Patrol to racially profile Black and Brown people, Bloomberg has used the NYPD to racially profile Black and Brown people.
Trump has dozens and dozens of sexual harassment charges against him, Bloomberg has dozens and dozens of sexual harassment charges against him.
Trump is Islamophobic, Bloomberg is Islamophobic.
Trump has supported Republicans over Democrats, Bloomberg has supported Republicans over Democrats.
Trump is sexist and misogynistic, Bloomberg is sexist and misogynistic.
Trump is homophobic and transphobic, Bloomberg is homophobic and transphobic.
Trump hates teachers, teacher’s unions and public schools, Bloomberg hates teachers, teacher’s unions and public schools.
Trump wants tax cuts for billionaires, Bloomberg wants tax cuts for billionaires.
Trump was against the Central Park Five, Bloomberg was against the Central Park Five.
Trump supports deregulation for big businesses, Bloomberg supports deregulation for big businesses.
Trump supports housing discrimination and redlining, Bloomberg supports housing discrimination and redlining.
Trump supports mass incarceration, Bloomberg supports mass incarceration.
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