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Michael Bloomberg’s Secret Plans to Take Down Trump
the atlantic.com ^ | 1/31/19 | Edward-Isaac Dovere

Posted on 02/01/2019 6:26:12 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda

Michael Bloomberg’s Secret Plans to Take Down Trump

Whether or not he runs for president, the former New York City mayor is building the most powerful political organization in America.

Michael Bloomberg has bigger plans for 2020 than running for president. The billionaire and former New York City mayor has been openly dreaming of the White House for 25 years, and spent huge amounts of time and money four times over the past 10 years trying to figure out a way to get himself there.

But he has hesitations about this race, too. He’s not sure there is a realistic space in the Democratic primaries for his centrist record. And he almost certainly won’t run if Joe Biden does, members of his team believe.

While no final decision has been made, his aides have been working on a fallback that only a man worth $40 billion can afford. Bloomberg is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into a data-centric political operation designed to ensure one goal: crush Donald Trump.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: collusion; fecmia; idiots; michaelbloomberg; mikebloomberg; nannybloomberg; newyork; newyorkcity; oneweirdtrick
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Now that makes sense!


21 posted on 02/01/2019 7:25:06 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: nikos1121

I’m sure the MSM approves. I can’t think of another entity that profits as much from high dollar campaigns.


22 posted on 02/01/2019 7:26:38 AM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

He has already been buying the Government he wants. He donated a few million to Rep Katie Hill (D-CA, and a proud bisexual) in the last election. She had more than twice the amount of campaign cash than the Republican incumbent and also had the ballott harvesting to help her amass more votes, after election night. Bloomberg, Soros, et al, what a black mark on the conscience and culture of our country!


23 posted on 02/01/2019 7:26:49 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: AndyJackson
his centrist record

That billionaire Starbucks guy is displaying "centrist" ideas and the left can't wait to crucify him.

Yeah, they don't want anyone less than HIllary or someone like her who promises to do exactly what she would have done.

24 posted on 02/01/2019 7:31:53 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

With all that loot you’d think AOC would be having demonstrations in front of his office/residence. /s


25 posted on 02/01/2019 7:34:10 AM PST by Vinnie
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Bloomberg occasionally sounds sane, but then he outputs his leftist garbage (which is inherently irrational)... and, despite his somewhat cool demeanor.. he is as arrogant as is possible (just look at how he throws around his money trying to buy elections...including in states he considers vulnerable to such manipulation...states he’s never even visited?)


26 posted on 02/01/2019 7:35:19 AM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians arent born, they’re excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

The FEC is okay with hundreds of millions of dollars being spent to influence the election?

Disband the feckless FEC. It only exists to hound Republicans.


27 posted on 02/01/2019 7:36:02 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: AndyJackson

A centrist is a billionaire who is also a Marxist (when it comes to YOUR money).


28 posted on 02/01/2019 7:36:56 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: allendale

Trump ran because he is fearless, Bloomberg let his fear of losing stop him from running.


29 posted on 02/01/2019 7:40:27 AM PST by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: faithhopecharity

What do I know? Not much.

But I have a wild idea of the Dem strategy.

They are going to take their playbook from the Republican election of Trump.

They are intentionally going to run a bunch of radicals that are unappealing which would make a candidate like Tulsi Gabbard appear the candidate of reason, moderation and values and nominate her as a woman and antidote to Trump. If elected, of course, she would shift hard left just as FDR ran on a small government platform.


30 posted on 02/01/2019 7:43:01 AM PST by WayneLusvardi (It's more complex than it might seem)
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To: WayneLusvardi

I wonder if some of the strategy is to encourage Republican “Never Trumpers” to vote for a guy like Bloomberg in the Democrat primaries.


31 posted on 02/01/2019 7:45:06 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

DRUMPFH IS FINISHED THIS TIME!!!11!


32 posted on 02/01/2019 8:03:03 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: dfwgator

Hell, half of the Democrat Party won’t vote for a Jew.


33 posted on 02/01/2019 8:08:27 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

What is a southside Chicago Republican? Do you perhaps hold the Milton Friedman Chair in Economics at the University of Chicago?


34 posted on 02/01/2019 8:09:07 AM PST by humbleexpert
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To: WayneLusvardi

Very likely. They definitely need someone far more saleable than their current bunch of loonies and commies and tired old worn out retreats of failure — I’m pretty sure their soroznazi/Arabian founders/puppetmeisters will want as winnable a nominee as possible


35 posted on 02/01/2019 8:10:45 AM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians arent born, they’re excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: humbleexpert

No, nothing like that. I like to think of myself as being like the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker — believed to be extinct, but with occasional, unconfirmed sightings.


36 posted on 02/01/2019 8:27:48 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: ProudDeplorable

The joining of those two would cause every gun in the world to spontaneously combust.


37 posted on 02/01/2019 8:32:50 AM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: VTenigma

Yep, that’s what I was thinking. He’s got all the strikes against him. The Rats are at war with white people, especially older white males which they call the “patriarchy” and then you have their blatant antisemitism all of which will come out when he campaigns against other Rats, especially female non-whites like Kamala Harris. So he’s going to spend $100 million if not a billion and he might as well burn it in the street


38 posted on 02/01/2019 9:24:30 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

The fact that they claimed he is a “centrist” tells you all you need to know about this BS article. Bloomberg is the epitome of everything that is wrong with America. He’s an elitist, gun grabbing, hypocritical, Leftist authoritarian.

Also none of his crap is going to sell outside the Northeast and Left Coast. I would LOVE it if he got the Democratic nomination. Trump would eat him alive.


39 posted on 02/01/2019 9:36:54 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Citizen Kane has been openly dreaming of the White House for 25 years.


40 posted on 02/01/2019 9:40:35 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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