Tonight’s Debate Drinking Game: Who Has and Has Not Been Bought off by Mini-Mike?

DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

[EyesOfTX]

Quick: What’s the first thing you will be looking for at tonight’s Democrat debate? – Be honest: Won’t you be trying to see whether or not Mini-Mike Bloomberg will be standing on a box?

Thank you, President Trump, who hilariously issued this pair of tweets on Tuesday after it was announced that Bloomberg had miraculously “qualified” for the debate, thanks to a very convenient fake poll dummied up by NBC/Wall Street Journal:

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump · 17h What Mini Mike is doing is nothing less than a large scale illegal campaign contribution. He is “spreading” money all over the place, only to have recipients of his cash payments, many former opponents, happily joining or supporting his campaign. Isn’t that called a payoff? .....

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump .....Mini is illegally buying the Democrat Nomination. They are taking it away from Bernie again. Mini Mike, Major Party Nominations are not for sale! Good luck in the debate tomorrow night and remember, no standing on boxes!

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“No standing on boxes!” I’m still laughing.

But seriously, if you want to understand how short Mini-Mike really is, all you have to do is look at this photo, if you can stand it:

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There he is in all his glory, standing with the Fainting Felon, who was listed as being 5’5″ when she was young – before gravity began taking its toll, as it does on everyone. These days, she is almost certainly no taller than 5’4″.

If you’re thinking, hey, she’s wearing heels, think again. The Coughing Crook can barely stand upright in flats – she probably hasn’t put on a pair of heels since she was First Lady. Of Arkansas.

Meanwhile, it has long been rumored that Mini-Mike wears loafers with lifts.

So, yeah, he will most likely be standing on a box tonight, or employing some other trick of stagecraft to make him look at least as tall as Amy Klobuchar. Look carefully. In fact, if you focus only on that and completely ignore all the utter crap that Mini-Mike and the other candidates will be spewing tonight, you might just survive the ordeal.

The real question for Bloomberg here is why he wants to be in this debate at all. While he did manage to “qualify”, it’s really hard to see any real advantage for him to be a part of this particular event.

First of all, he is seriously the most boring individual on the planet. It’s not as if he is going to say a bunch of stuff tonight that will set Democrat voters hair on fire with desire to go out and write-in his name at Saturday’s Nevada caucuses.

Second, the moderators of this event – even those who are already in Bloomberg’s deep pockets – will be absolutely obligated to ask him pointed questions about all the videos that have surfaced in the past 10 days of him making demeaning comments about a vast variety segments of American society, most of whom are traditional Democrat voter groups. The parade of these videos continued on Tuesday, with Bloomberg now adding the LGBTQ community to the list of offended Democrat constituencies:

MICHAEL SHERIDAN @TWlTTERMlKE 🔥Oh my! Mike Bloomberg doesn't think America cares about LGBTQ issues

"If your conversation during a presidential election is about some guy wearing a dress and whether he, she, or it can go to the locker room with their daughter, that’s not a winning formula for most people,”

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Third, unless he has already bought all of his opponents off – which, admittedly, is entirely possible – he will become the target of their aggressions. All of this, and he isn’t even on the ballot in Nevada or the next contest in South Carolina.

Back to President Trump’s tweets: He hits the tiny nail on the head when he points out that Mini-Mike is “spreading money all over the place, only to have recipients of his cash payments, many former opponents, happily joining or supporting his campaign. Isn’t that called a payoff?”

Well, yes. Yes, it is a payoff, and yes, that’s exactly what Bloomberg is doing. It’s exactly what he has done throughout his entire professional life.

For example, tonight’s debate will be held on NBC. The moderators, according to The Intelligencer, will be:

NBC anchor Lestor Holt, Meet the Press host Chuck Todd, NBC News White House correspondent Hallie Jackson, Noticias Telemundo correspondent Vanessa Hauc, and the Nevada Independent editor Jon Ralston.

So, five moderators, and you can be sure that at least 2 of them have been paid off in some way, shape or form by Mini-Mike. Those who, like Holt and Todd, are based in New York City, have without doubt benefited from Bloomberg’s largesse, if only by being on the regular guest list for his various parties, galas and other major events, where they get to hobnob with Mini-Mike and all the beautiful people of New York society.

While Bloomberg’s generosity is famous, he is also famous for his vindictiveness. Do you think either man will want to give all that up by asking an overly-aggressive question of their benefactor, or by following up to demand that he actually answer the question directly when he tries to obfuscate? Please.

This is precisely why the intertwining over the last half-century of the big media establishment with the big political establishment has been so utterly destructive of our society. It is precisely why we no longer have anything resembling an independent press in our country, why the media is so utterly corrupt and fake.

So, Bloomberg and all he represents will be on stage tonight, and you will be able to easily identify which moderators and candidate have and have not already been bought off. Because that’s what Mini-Mike does.

That’s why, at the end of the day, tonight’s debate is likely to look an awful lot like this:

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That is all.

[HighSierra5]

I haven’t watched any of the Rat debates but this one I’ll watch. I want to see the battle between Burnme and Mikey.

[Psalm 73]

"Won’t you be trying to see whether or not Mini-Mike Bloomberg will be standing on a box?"

Pure genius that Trump has everyone focused on his height (or lack thereof) - everyone watching the debate will have that in the back of their minds.

[sanjuanbob]

Could Bernie have a “health relapse” forcing him to have to drop out....only to retire in the Cayman Islands with $100 million in his bank account?

[wiseprince]

Bernie is also corrupt. They asked him if Bloomberg decided to give his campaign 500 million if he would refuse it and he wouldn’t say that he’d refuse it. Hypocrites, all of them.

[1Old Pro]

the moderators of this event – even those who are already in Bloomberg’s deep pockets – will be absolutely obligated to ask him pointed questions about all the videos

They can ask, but his answers will be muddled and they will NOT follow up, and neither will the other losers on the stage. At this point Amy and Pete and Liz must know they are the 3 in LAST place and if they don't shake things up they will all be also rans. But they won't, Buh Bye. Biden is on life support, mini-Mike is in the race because ole creepy Joe is so weak, so Joe either steps it up or it's a two old White man race to the finish, Bernie and Doomberg.

[Ken H]

Waiting to see if anyone calls him Mini Mike.

[rhinohunter]

Expect mini will cut a deal with Sleepy J to drop out before Super Tuesday. The pay off being that mini will take care of Hunter and the rest of Biden’s family. Hunter’s Ukrainian grift will pale in comparison to what mini is about to shower down on him.

[IWONDR]

yesterday, i saw that the latest poll having bloomberg in 2nd place in the democrat race behind bernie sanders was paid for by NPR/PBS/Marist not NBC ??? everyone knows that these entities have always been in the tank for the value signaling p.c. crowd. are they trying to hide the orgs that have been paid off to qualify bloomberg for the debate?

[Liz]

hat tip chris37

A) MicroMike is an absolute nightmare of a human being
B) the Democrat Party is a bunch of soulless whores
C) Dims would elect mini-Genghis Kahn if they thought he could beat Trump.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Is there a Trump rally at the same time?

[mewzilla]

I hope not.

Never get in the way of your enemy when he’s shooting himself in the foot.

[Liz]

TRUMP RALLY SCHEDULE

Feb 19 Phoenix on Wednesday, 7pm
Feb 20 Colorado Springs Thursday 5pm
Feb 21 Las Vegas on Friday. 12 noon
March 2 Charlotte, NC Mon 7:00 pm

[Ken H]

He’s got them surrounded!

[Liz]

Yup.......great strategy.

[DIRTYSECRET]

I dunno. The rat food fight might be more entertaining than a revival.

[Be Free]

So what's the REAL plot-line behind tonight's episode of "Desperate Dems"?

1. The ratings for their debates are suffering badly, so they needed to create some intrigue to attract viewers.
2. It's not so much a debate as a public execution. ALL of the other Dems on stage will attack and pummel Bloomberg.
3. Bloomberg is positioning as the spoiler and/or king-maker. He'll use his mighty treasure-chest to buy it for a winner he can then own. (Interesting tid-bit: if his net-worth is $70B, then he could make $700 million per-year in interest, if only invested at 1%. This spending isn't hurting him at all.)
4. The Dem establishment (read: "DNC") needs a free-for-all, all the way to the convention so they can broker (read: "select") the candidate THEY want.
5. The Dem establishment figures the only way to beat a sometimes-crass 70-something NY billionaire is with an always-crass, 70-something NY billionaire.
6. Pelosi, Schiff & Nadler all but destroyed the Dem's chances for November with their crazy sham impeachment hoax. They're desperate to get something else on the front-page. Afterall, the average attention span for their preferred voters is less than that of a Border Collie. They need to get to November where these potential voters are thinking: "Impeachment? What impeachement?"

Feel free to add your own my FRiends!

[cgbg]

_Somebody_ on stage needs to lose it.

We have a stage full of sociopaths, half of them senile, in a high stakes and high tension moment—time for it to get physical!

[1Old Pro]

Bloomberg is positioning as the spoiler and/or king-maker. He'll use his mighty treasure-chest to buy it for a winner he can then own. (Interesting tid-bit: if his net-worth is $70B, then he could make $700 million per-year in interest, if only invested at 1%. This spending isn't hurting him at all.)

The Dem Party is licking their chops to gain access to his funds for other races and will likely cut a deal with the devil for that access. They only care to beat Trump and keep the house. The ONLY thing that can get in the way is Bernie and Bloomberg. If Berne can keep his lead his supporters will peal off if Doomberg gets the nod at a brokered convention and risk losing to Trump. And Doomberg himself, he does have to get some delegates or the sham will be quite noticeable and Doomberg is not at all likeable.

[cgbg]

Normally the candidates consolidate, but in this case game theory suggests that it is in the interest of every remaining candidate (of the top seven) to stick it out until the convention.

There are no winner take all states (_big_ f&^%ing mistake by the Dems), so everybody can be picking up some delegates a few at a time...and then trying to exert whatever leverage they can at the convention—when there is a good chance there will not be a first ballot nominee.