Dem Debate: Bloomberg Implodes, Bernie Hits His Stride

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Feb. 20, 2020

Bernie Sanders' rants about billionaires buying our political system are a lot more powerful when he's standing on the same stage as Michael Bloomberg.

Maybe it's time for the working class to have a little bit of power instead of Pete Buttigieg's billionaire donors. pic.twitter.com/mdkf4Gsho8
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 20, 2020

Sanders' rhetoric on our rigged system was on point:

We have a grotesque situation where billionaires like Mr. Bloomberg have an effective tax rate lower than the middle class. #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/HzzWUAj05T
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 20, 2020

When Donald Trump gets $800 million in tax breaks and subsidies to build luxury condominiums, thats socialism for the rich.

I want a government that works for working people, not corporations and CEOs. #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/MnvfiuOc64
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 20, 2020

I'd vote for Bernie if he was just running as a Huey Long candidate without all the social justice crap (of course, he's not and so I won't).

I'm getting really sick of billionaires like Bloomberg and Adelson outright buying our political system.

Amy Klobuchar getting called out for not knowing the president of Mexico's name was hilarious:

Though Warren and others tried to bail her out, the reality is she didn't know anything about him:

When the NY Times endorsed Amy Klobuchar, they said:

“Ms. Klobuchar promises a foreign policy based on leading by example.”

Any Klobuchar does not know the name of Mexico’s President.

Unclear as to who should be more embarrassed, Klobuchar or the NYT.pic.twitter.com/KjntR4721F
— Bryan Dean Wright (@BryanDeanWright) February 16, 2020

Can we clarify something. Klobuchar didn't simply forget the name of the Mexican president in that interview. She knew *absolutely nothing about him.* It wasn't just a momentary mental mishap -- it exposed her humiliating lack of knowledge about basic foreign affairs
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) February 20, 2020

Bloomberg was a total disaster:

Warren’s opening salvo on Bloomberg set the tone for the rest of the debate. He was unable to come back from this. pic.twitter.com/tHwoRL7Soc
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 20, 2020

Bloomberg on women in his company being bound by non-disclosure agreements:

“Maybe they didn't like the joke I told."

pic.twitter.com/GYNsW0v62N
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 20, 2020

BLOOMBERG: We will not end NDAs because they were agreed to “consensually”

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— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 20, 2020

His handling of stop and frisk was terrible:

He had plenty of time to rehearse a solid response but he just straight up choked.

The one silver lining for Bloomberg? "Conservative" Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin loved him.

Bloombefg calm and not scrapping . smart to go high
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) February 20, 2020

I don't think Bloomberg is finished quite yet.

The people who supported him prior to this debate seem to have done so because they watched his political ads, so we're dealing with the lowest common denominator.

This debate likely will be forgotten in a week and billions of dollars can buy you a lot of influence.

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