Posted on 02/20/2020 4:53:19 AM PST by EyesOfTX
On the bright side, at least he wasn’t standing on a box. – On the down side, he was the shortest person on the stage, and the visuals were not good. But, by god, he wasn’t going to let Trump be right about that box thing, which is exactly the reaction the President wanted to get, by the way. Hilarious.
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The big, big, big winner of last night was without any doubt at all President Donald Trump. While Mini-Mike was getting his butt handed to him by every other candidate on the stage in Las Veges, Mr. Trump held a massive rally of his own a couple of hours down the road in Phoenix.
The contrast between the two events could not have been more stark: The Trump rally a celebration of America in all her great, booming glory, and the Democrat debate a nasty, depressing series of complaints about societal wrongs, most of which are either imaginary or created by the very policies supported by the people standing on the stage yelling.
In a stark change from the demented Democrats’ prior debates, most of the yelling was directed not at President Trump, but at the little munchkin huddled behind his podium at the left end of the stage. Fauxcahontas kicked things off with this brutal take down of the tiny former Mayor:
Brandon Wolf @bjoewolf The moment Elizabeth Warren ended Mike Bloomberg. #DemDebate
Embedded video 6,063 8:12 PM - Feb 19, 2020 · Orlando, FL Twitter Ads info and privacy 1,540 people are talking about this Ouch. For Bloomberg, things only went downhill from there. Despite an embarrassingly pre-planned, softball question on “stop and frisk” lobbed at him by an obviously paid-off Lester Holt, Little Mikey’s answer was disjointed, insincere and filled with complete lies about his record.
When both Warren and Quid Pro Joe, of all people, went after him on the hundreds of non-disclosure agreements he has in place with aggrieved women and minorities who have filed complaints and lawsuits against him over the years, Bloomberg was obviously completely unprepared to address the question. He was similarly unprepared to answer a softball question lobbed at him by paid-off Chuck Todd about his tax returns.
This is a guy who has literally thousands of advisors working on his campaign – quite a contrast to the dozen or so Trump employed in his own campaign in 2016 – and he is so filled with hubris that he couldn’t be bothered to take the time to really prepare himself for a debate against 5 seasoned opponents. But we’re supposed to believe that a man this lazy and arrogant would be just great dealing with the Putins and the Xi’s of the world.
The other mistake Mr. Excitement made repeatedly was tossing out lame attempts at humor, all of which fell completely flat in an auditorium filled with radical leftist activists and career political hacks. The worst example came when he made a reference to The Commie being, well, a commie, a crack that would have worked just fine at any business conference in America – venues where Mini-Mike is used to speaking – but which elicited boos and I’m pretty sure even some hisses from last night’s crowd.
It was, in other words, just a terrible night for the multi-multi-times-multi-billionaire, a night that will not be helpful at all in advancing his attempted leveraged buyout of the Democrat Party. He’d have been much better off tucked into bed like Little Lord Fauntleroy and having his man servant bring him a nice bedtime snack consisting of Cristal champagne, canapes and caviar.
While his performance will not be helpful, the big question is whether or not it will do the former Mayor any long-term harm. The debate audience consisted of maybe 6 million people, and while Little Mikey will have to deal with some short-term criticism of his performance, a fawning and largely paid-off press corps probably won’t allow that to last very long.
Bloomberg’s real problem – and the problem for the Democrat Party as well – is that no one laid a glove on The Commie, who is on the verge of being the actual winner in each of the first three contested states, and who is surging in the polls in next week’s contest in South Carolina. As was discussed at one point during the debate, unless there is some major shift in momentum, Sanders is on a trajectory that will see him come out of the Super Tuesday contests on March 3 with a very large and potentially insurmountable lead in the delegate count.
Nothing that took place last night will do anything to slow that momentum. So, other than the President, The Commie came out as the biggest winner of this particular event.
The biggest loser tag must go to Amy Klobuchar. The lady from Univision who served as NBC’s token Hispanic moderator, there to ask questions only about Mexico and immigration, obviously had been assigned to take Klobuchar out, and did a pretty solid job of it in her attack on the senator’s inability to recall the name of Mexican President AMLO last week. When class nerd Preacher Pete chimed in on the attack over that silly non-issue, Klobuchar became visibly flustered and angry and never really recovered.
My question about Univision Lady and Univision panelists in general is, why does NBC always insist on stereotyping them, restricting them to asking only Latino-specific questions at these debates? Isn’t that kind of racist? Why do the folks at Univision continue to allow this pidgeon-holing take place?
Preacher Pete was his usual slick, totally-scripted, automatonic self, and no doubt scored points with Democrat voters who are susceptible to scripted talking-points robots. His big problem was of a visual nature: Like Nixon in 1960, Buttiegieg suffers from a bad case of 5 o’clock shadow, and obviously failed to shave right before the event. Not a good look under the bright lights of national TV.
Biden was Biden, yelling and ranting and claiming to have been the guy who wrote every bill, negotiated every treaty, and did every political deal that has been done since the Nixon Administration. Mainly, though, he just confused everyone watching. He is going nowhere with a bullet in this race.
Lieawatha, as previously mentioned, had some solid moments, mainly when she was attacking Bloomberg, and she had obviously been coached to be more assertive in this debate. But she is just so condescending and annoying, and all her BS stories about her fake childhood do more to harm her now than help her. She might get a slight boost in Nevada out of this performance, but is ultimately riding on the Going Nowhere train with Quid Pro Joe.
In the end, the most salient question of the night came not from any of the moderators, but from Preacher Pete, who, midway through the night, asked, “Why don’t we put forward someone who is actually a Democrat?” With the race now boiling down to a fight between a Commie and a guy who was a registered Republican while serving in his only elected office, it’s a good question.
In the post-debate analysis on CNN, it was Van Jones who correctly noted that the fact that none of the “actual” Democrats are likely to become this year’s nominee most likely means that the public believes there is something wrong with being an “actual” Democrat. You don’t say.
Jones – who is really the only person on CNN worth listening to these days – also had this to say about Bloomberg: “It was a disaster for Bloomberg. Bloomberg went in as the Titanic. Billion dollar machine, Titanic. Titanic, meet iceberg, Elizabeth Warren.”
He should’ve stayed at home.
That is all.
Little Petey is also a runt.
It was hilarious seeing him stand next to Steve Ducey looking up at him. Way up.
These Democrats are a frickin’ laugh riot.
Micro Bloomberg got his scalp handed to him by a fake Indian...
Fauxcahauntas went on the warpath and spewing her class warfare crap, scalped the mini wannabe...
Last week Michael Bloomberg was telling Trump that “we measure a man from the neck up”.
And my 1st thought was “Not if your trying to get on a ride at Disney Land”
At age 78, many people have lost an inch or two in height. Perhaps this is true for Bloomberg.
Bloomberg got his butt kicked and came across as arrogant and elitist. Warren was desperate for attention all night long (”Me! Me! Call on me again!”) Biden kept fumbling around for words, and kept correcting himself as he talked about his relationship with his close personal friend Barack Obama. Butt boy maintained a relatively low profile, which was probably for the best last night. Amy didn’t do as well as she had in previous debates, but survived. I think Bernie was the winner last night. He took a lot of hits, but did a good job of hitting back. The big winner last night: President Trump.
Klobuchar did not like fun being made of her by Mayor Buttplug for not remembering the Mexican President’s name. The phony smile could not conceal her genuine anger in asking if he thought she was dumb. I can see this woman abusing her staff. If she and Buttplug were in an alley rather than onstage she would have beat the living hell out of him.
She didn’t like his swipe about her qualifications - that we would have had “President Mondale”...
So you are saying he is really 4’11’?
Would love to see what someone with expertise in gestures, make of Bloombergs eye movement when he stated all non-disclosure agreements would remain sealed. My view of it was he was saying, “FU”.
A great cartoon would be a sign..
‘You have to be this tall to destroy a republic’
All the Billionaire had to do was survive and he won the debate by standing out.
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Yes, Bloomberg gained overall because now the public will recognize his name and face. And there’s a certain glory behind taking arrows to the back and maintaining your composure. His debating style will improve.
CNN and their ilk have to have a winner and loser narrative and this time it was Bloomberg. They could have written their scripts in advance because you knew people who be gunning for Mini Mike.
So now, the expectations of Bloomberg are low, so if he shows some success on Super Tuesday, he has a chance.
But I think his gamble to run a last minute sprint to win the nomination will fall short. His only chance is a brokered convention.
It’s getting interesting.
The ‘Bloomberg Bombardment’ of ads the last couple of days have all been directed toward black people.
I’ve met him. Maybe he peaked at 5’5” in his youth, but correct, he truly is very short and very sensitive about it.
But he may be yet another diminutive man driven to succeed and dominate out of a Napoleon complex. I don’t care how tall my president is—male or female, though history suggests that it may be a perhaps subconscious negative factor for voters. Kinda makes sense in a primal way.
I was trying to figure out where Liz gets her wardrobe, T. J. Maxx, Ross Dress for Less or Burlington Coat Factory. Her outfits are even worse than Hitlery’s “Ole Krusty” pantsuit collection.
I thought it was hilarious that the fake Indian was wearing wide toe boots underneath her slacks. Probably had steel toes. Mini Mike is missing his gonads this morning, probably from the kicking he took from Liz.
Mike pays his doctor.
He is maybe 5'5" with Cuban heels and maxi pads.
Size doesn't matter to me, but it is women that judge candidates by height.
Women, for all of their "freedoms" by and large, are still genetically pre-historic.
Big guy, big hands, better sex, more kids, more food, safer cave...what's not to like?
I'm not being critical of women, I'm only observing what they do {not all, but most}.
It has always been a matter of survival of the species, bigger men reproduce bigger off spring, ax Jimmy the Greek.
My Presidents have ALWAYS been taller than me and over the last 27 years I’ve gotten used to being older than them. I see no benefit in reversing that trend at this time.
I’ve heard that he is actually 4’11”.
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