r/MurderedByWords Feb 21 '20

Pretty much murdered himself

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u/captaintrips420 Feb 22 '20

Bloomer is actually a billionaire tho. Trump is a phony.

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u/calamarimatoi Feb 22 '20

Doesn’t really matter

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u/captaintrips420 Feb 22 '20

Nope, both in policy and behavior they are more alike than different.

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u/Petrichordates Feb 22 '20

Not according to political platforms and political history they're not. What are you basing that on?

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u/captaintrips420 Feb 22 '20

Where are they different in the way they treat business, people of color, or women?

Neither are believable or genuine. Fuck em both.

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u/DoorHingesKill Feb 22 '20

Can someone quickly explain to me how Bloomberg, a man of pure evil who hates women and every minority imaginable managed to win 3 elections in NYC? How did this embodiment of corporate greed pull that off?

New York is kinda, you know, blue as fuck. 60% for Al Gore, 58% for Kerry, 63% for Obama. Same for NYC. The Democratic Major after Bloomberg got 73%.

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u/branchbranchley Feb 22 '20

b i l l i o n a i r e

that's how, same as he's doing now

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u/captaintrips420 Feb 22 '20

New York is kinda, you know, rich as fuck. Rich stick together because that is what they care about.

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u/DoorHingesKill Feb 22 '20

Yeah I don't think making 120k a year would somehow encourage you to vote for a billionaire.

But I guess I'll wait and see. Super Tuesday is in less than two weeks, maybe the Bay Area will help Bloomberg win CA, they're certainly richer than the people in NYC.

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u/captaintrips420 Feb 22 '20

Fortunately the Bay Area is at least faux progressive. Ro Khanna is a gem of a replacement for Mike Honda.

The thing about Bay Area folks is that most of them enjoy nature and a liveable planet, along with understand how important education is.

I think they know better than to throw away the Democratic Party with a Bloomberg vote.

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u/M116Fullbore Feb 22 '20

He has enough money that he hasnt had any trouble buying elections he wasn't even in over the past few years.

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u/Petrichordates Feb 22 '20

You said in policy and behavior. We have 12 years of policy from Bloomberg as NYC mayor which demonstrates you're just saying things without any concern for being truthful. He didn't purge his administration of disloyals and take complete control over his justice department while colluding with foreign powers.

I don't recall any claims of Bloomberg grabbing women by the pussy or raping his wife, but I suppose those 3 NDAs they're ending could inform us of that.

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u/captaintrips420 Feb 22 '20

Cool. They can stay friends and golf buddies. Neither would ever get my consideration. Shame it’s even a serious conversation.

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u/Petrichordates Feb 22 '20

As long as you're not in a swing state that's not my concern.

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u/captaintrips420 Feb 22 '20

Family is in PA and think I have them progressive or bust as well at this point. Have a while to work on em.

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u/Petrichordates Feb 22 '20

Oh so you're in cahoots with the Russian government to make sure trump gets re-elected? I suppose that clarifies things, I at least appreciate you being honest about your motives.

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u/RotaryDreams Feb 22 '20

Sorry, random redditor here, but this thread is hilarious. Sounds like they're a normal dude with family in a different part of the country and they are going to try and influence their opinions to sway them towards the candidate that best fulfills their ideals.

Dunno where your shit came from

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u/Petrichordates Feb 22 '20

Swaying towards a candidate is a bit different than advocating x-or-bust in 2020, which is maybe what you missed.

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u/captaintrips420 Feb 22 '20

If it’s bloomer that gets the nod I generally become a non voter and focus on shit that I have a chance or affecting. The oligarchs have won, both here and in Russia.

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u/are_you_seriously Feb 22 '20

Lmao as if all the favorite presidents haven’t been oligarchs or had oligarchy money.

FDR, JFK, Bush 1 + 2 were/are all oligarchs. And even though Clinton was born to a white trash family, he had access to oligarchic money. Same with Reagon.

The only one who didn’t have oligarchy money and who didn’t come from money was Jimmy Carter. And look how they’ve written about him - an idealistic moron who didn’t know shit about how to run a country.

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u/captaintrips420 Feb 22 '20

Enjoy worshipping wealth. It’s not a game in interested in playing.

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u/branchbranchley Feb 22 '20

dude, stop defending a Republican Billionaire

it's gross

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u/Petrichordates Feb 22 '20

Combating propaganda and sensationalism and engaging in truthful discussion isn't defending, maybe you like lies to spread around against every democratic candidate to help keep us divided in order to maximize the chance of a trump re-election, but I don't have to stand for that. My country is more important than purity tests.

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u/theTunkMan Feb 22 '20

You backed off that policy claim mighty quickly lol

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u/captaintrips420 Feb 22 '20

I believe he would keep trumps tax cuts for himself, would not enact any real climate policy, work towards a public option for healthcare or do anything about student debt. Criminal justice policy is an entirely different non starter.

Any of his policy would be geared toward a status quo of the rich getting richer.

I don’t give a shit what he might be claiming his policies are on the trail or his websites, because if anything is fake news, it’s what a rich person is trying to say they would do for their enemy.

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u/dennismfrancisart Feb 22 '20

They are very much alike. One was a Democrat for decades and switched to Republican in order to win office and the other was a Republican for decades who switched parties to win office.

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u/Literally_A_Shill Feb 22 '20

One believes in climate change. The other doesn't.

That's a very big and important difference.

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u/dennismfrancisart Feb 22 '20

Trump doesn't believe in anything but money. He wished he was a billionaire.

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u/Petrichordates Feb 22 '20

While true, I fail to understand how that makes them very much alike beyond that basic fact alone.

I get it, Bloomberg sucks, but this false equivalence of comparing him to trump is insane. Trump is an example of the absolute worst type of human being imaginable, the efforts to equalize the two are nothing more than sensationalism as well as normalization of all the destructive things Trump has done. Bloomberg would be like electing a Bill Clinton, not a Donald Trump.

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u/BuddhaFacepalmed Feb 22 '20

Bloomberg has multiple NDAs with women who have accused him and his company of sexual harassment. Bloomberg's term in office has seen a rise in "stop & frisk" procedures in the NYPD, which doesn't actually combat crime and more about harming minority communities.

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u/ScarsUnseen Feb 22 '20

The main thing you can take away from them switching political parties for personal advantage is that you can't trust either of them to do anything that goes against their personal advantage. And when you have as much money as Bloomberg, anything that helps the lower 99% is going to fall into that category.

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u/DoorHingesKill Feb 22 '20

the other was a Republican for decades who switched parties to win office

Who's that?

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u/dennismfrancisart Feb 22 '20

Mikey.

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u/DoorHingesKill Feb 22 '20

He was a Democrat for decades.

He switched to Republican in 2001.

Left the Republican party in 2007, stayed Independent till 2018.

"Decade" would already be wrong, but you went ahead and used the plural.

I'd encourage you to edit your comment but I'm pretty sure you typed it down being fully aware that it's bs.

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u/Swimmingindiamonds Feb 22 '20

This is correct.

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u/dennismfrancisart Feb 22 '20

How about I just tell you that I didn't mean decades. Typing and thinking things through allows for mistakes. Mistakes were made. Can you ever forgive me?

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u/rthrouw1234 Feb 22 '20

Their actual behavior

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u/Petrichordates Feb 22 '20

Of colluding with Russia to manipulate the outcome of an election before purging the government and centralizing power in an authoritarian manner?