Election 2020

[McParadigm]

Apparently the beauty of local politics is that your constituents factually know if you’re doing your job. They can see for themselves whether or not you fixed the pothole outside their house. It’s not like, say, proving you weren’t born in Kenya. Pause for laughs.

It’s not the worst thing ever. It’s just another moment like the stock photo: tone deaf at best. And it’s from 2017, ffs. A year into the Trump administration, while the rest of the nation was discussing the White House’s use of racist rhetoric to justify family separations among asylum-seeking immigrants, Pete thought it was funny to joke about how the first non-white president was accused of being a secret non-citizen sent to destroy America.

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have no fear it’s only a matter of time before Mayor Mike swipes most of Mayor Pete’s supporters

really would like to watch a Bloomberg v Bernie debate wonder if we will ever get that chance

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And here comes Scott Stapp with a solution in search of a problem

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ga-mergers

Senator Elizabeth Warren is drafting a bill that would call on regulators to retroactively review about two decades of “mega mergers” and ban such deals going forward.

if passed, this would instantly tank markets in the U.S., plunge the U.S. and with it the world into a recession, result in mass layoffs, encourage corporations to re-domicile outside the US to escape this constraint, leading to more U.S. employment problems, and investment capital flight out of the U.S., and make pearl jam have to re-evaluate everything they know about how to ticket their live events

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Quick go tell Bloomy to stop this corporate persecution!!

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Note: presumably this is intended toward 'big tech' which in fairness to Mr. Stapp is the problem the solution is searching for but the post needed a catchy intro

the U.S. has existing anti-trust laws though

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Quick go tell Bloomy to stop this corporate persecution!!

oh he already knows I clipped the article from his newspaper

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Quick go tell Bloomy to stop this corporate persecution!!

oh he already knows I clipped the article from his newspaper

You are cattle

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Quick go tell Bloomy to stop this corporate persecution!!

oh he already knows I clipped the article from his newspaper

You are cattle

nah brah

Spoiler: show

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seriously though the DNC needs to get Bloomy on stage so they can debate this and stop wasting time air time with tulsi gabbert and bruce vilanch

[doug rr]

you can't spell bloomberg without RM

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you can't spell red mosquito without koyaanisqatsi

Spoiler: show

phonetically

Spoiler: show

sort of

[Bi_3]

And here comes Scott Stapp with a solution in search of a problem

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ga-mergers

Senator Elizabeth Warren is drafting a bill that would call on regulators to retroactively review about two decades of “mega mergers” and ban such deals going forward.

if passed, this would instantly tank markets in the U.S., plunge the U.S. and with it the world into a recession, result in mass layoffs, encourage corporations to re-domicile outside the US to escape this constraint, leading to more U.S. employment problems, and investment capital flight out of the U.S., and make pearl jam have to re-evaluate everything they know about how to ticket their live events

I thought you were trolling because who would be so ignorant of the competitive nature of the globalized economy to propose such a thing....

[Superblood Wolfmoon]

And here comes Scott Stapp with a solution in search of a problem

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ga-mergers

Senator Elizabeth Warren is drafting a bill that would call on regulators to retroactively review about two decades of “mega mergers” and ban such deals going forward.

if passed, this would instantly tank markets in the U.S., plunge the U.S. and with it the world into a recession, result in mass layoffs, encourage corporations to re-domicile outside the US to escape this constraint, leading to more U.S. employment problems, and investment capital flight out of the U.S., and make pearl jam have to re-evaluate everything they know about how to ticket their live events

Wow what a surprise, a token gesture from someone full of ideas that will never be implemented! She should be president, I bet lots of things would get done.

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look at this fucking patriot in action

https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-bl ... ds-2019-11

even if he doesn't get the Dem nomination, because he is personally self-funding and not using PACs, he is entitled to buy TV ads at the cheapest rate possible - which means he can dominate the airways with anti-trump ads before the election

Federal Communication Commission regulations require TV stations and networks to offer a price referred to as the "lowest unit rate" possible to presidential candidates based on the timing of their ad spot and how likely it is to be "pre-empted" or bumped by a higher-paying advertiser during "political protection" periods, which take place 45 days before a primary and 60 days before a general election, according to the veteran TV sales rep Mike Fuhram.

But none of those considerations apply to PACs' and super PACs' ad purchases, meaning stations can charge virtually as much as they want to PACs and aren't required to offer them the lowest price possible in the weeks leading up to an election.

For someone, like Bloomberg, who plans to purchase a lot of anti-Trump ads, this means he could save a lot of money by buying ads as a presidential candidate instead of through a PAC.

In the 2016 campaign cycle, for example, the Sunlight Foundation found that while Hillary Clinton's campaign was charged just $1,500 per ad to air three spots in the 10:00 p.m. hour on the CBS affiliated station KCCI in Des Moines, Iowa, KCCI charged Right to Rise, the super PAC affiliated with the Republican candidate Jeb Bush, double that amount, at $3,000 per ad, to also air ads during the 10:00 p.m. hour.

If Bloomberg's top priority in the 2020 cycle is to help beat Trump, using his position as a candidate to air as many TV ads as possible for the best price could achieve a lot toward that end.

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He's not going to get the nom. You are going to have to settle for stalking him, killing him and making a tiny lampshade out of his skin.

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Are tv ads really moving the needle in 2020? A lot of people I know don't even have cable.

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there are plenty of dum dums in this country who still watch TV

eventually Bezos' robot army will render them unnecessary

but for now

they are mostly employed, malleable, and seeking a presidential candidate

[Mickey]

More astute political analysis from Benjy Compson.

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When I do see political ads on tv they just wash over me in a Charlie Brown teacher voice. Even if I like the candidate.

[Mickey]

Frontrunner dusting off the ol' 2016 playbook of never articulating a positive vision of the world and relying on vague middle-class shibboleths like dignity, folks--you just absolutely love to see it.