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.
Bloomberg is the reason i left New York. He created and waved lax laws that allowed realestate developers full control of an already segregated city,allowed them to destroy communities of color for the wealthy children of out-of-towners . and he is the very reason the word “ HyperGentrification” was created. he spearheaded it.
Also...the FUCKING Racism. We didnt think it could get much worse after Guiliani, then this fucker said “hold my weak jaw”.
Thankfully, I don’t think he has any chance of winning; if he gets any traction his opponents can escalate all this to the level of national attention it should have gotten already.
(I’ve been seeing his ads nonstop on the work tv (I hate the work tv) for the last two weeks and wondering why this guy bothers when he’s not in the news or polls otherwise. But I didn’t have any idea how horrible he made things in NYC. :( Many thaks to the posters informing us.)
Remember when nobody thought Donald Trump would win? And Bloomberg has tons more money than Trump. He even has dozens of Democratics who have endorsed him. The DNC changed their own rules to allow him into the primary debates.
And, here’s the important thing, Bloomberg doesn’t necessarily have to win. All he needs to do is shave off enough super delegates, and he can deny Bernie Sanders (or Elizabeth Warren) a clear cut win. Bloomberg can make it a contested convention, where another conservative, “moderate” Democrat is selected by the spineless DNC.
So please: don’t casually dismiss the very real danger Bloomberg represents. He is literally the 8th richest person on planet earth, with virtually inexhaustible funds. He can buy the news and rewrite his own history. An oligarch with that many billions to throw around should never be taken lightly. Ever.