Posted on 02/17/2020 2:20:53 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Bloomberg, all the stuff thats being discovered about Bloomberg. Folks, this myth that billionaires are brilliant. They may be at one or two things, but they are not massive, triumphant examples of a brilliant IQ. This guy says some of the stupidest stuff and has said some of the stupidest stuff and done some of the stupidest stuff over the course of his political and business career that you can imagine, and its all been kept under the radar. Now its starting to surface.
Ignorant and Arrogant Bloomberg Insults Farmers
Feb 17, 2020
RUSH: Bloomberg, all the stuff thats being discovered about Bloomberg. Folks, this myth that billionaires are brilliant. They may be at one or two things, but they are not massive, triumphant examples of a brilliant IQ. This guy says some of the stupidest stuff and has said some of the stupidest stuff and done some of the stupidest stuff over the course of his political and business career that you can imagine, and its all been kept under the radar. Now its starting to surface.
You talk about misogyny. There isnt a conservative in the country that can hold a candle to the misogyny of people on the left like Weinstein and Bloomberg. Now his comments about farmers, that he could teach anybody to be a farmer. Yeah, all you gotta do, you grab a seed, you go get some dirt, you dig a hole, you put the seed in the dirt, you pour water on the dirt, and up comes the corn, and youre a farmer.
He doesnt even know that there are agricultural universities teaching farming. He puts it down, slams people who do it, but claims if youre in information technology, why, that requires real intelligence, like Bloomberg, who will then talk about how a Chinese communist dictator has to answer to his constituents, his voters. A communist dictator doesnt have voters or constituents. Hes got political prisoners, essentially.
Theyre called citizens sometimes. But people who live in dictatorships are political prisoners. Theyre certainly not constituents, and hes out there talking about Xi Jinping, the Chinese premier, as though hes no different than an American president in terms of having to keep his people happy. Its amazing.
Now Bloomberg is trying to overcome all this misogyny by talking about maybe putting Hillary Clinton on the ticket? And no matter where you look, Crazy Bernie is still cleaning up in every poll I know, Biden was too. But that party is an absolute mess. And dont you think its somewhat fascinating that a true groundbreaking candidate like Mayor Pete has to sort of be sequestered? I mean, its a little curious.
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RUSH: Theres a story on Drudge: Betting Odds Soar for Bloomberg Winning Nomination. Bidens Number Plunge. The source is The Daily Wire, but its Real Clear Politics and they monitor the betting sites. But theyve buried in the lede.
Do you know what the lede of the story is? Betting Odds Soar for Bloomberg Winning Nomination, but what doesnt change is Donald Trump is leading everybody to win the presidency in these betting markets, no matter who the Democrat nominee is. With each passing day ahead of the 2020 United States presidental [sic] election, Donald Trumps odds to spend another four years in the White House continue to improve. At Bovada, Trump is now the -170 favorite to win the election an all-time high, and yet thats buried. The headline is: Betting Odds Soar for Bloomberg Winning Nomination.
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RUSH: Bloombergs making news for all kinds of things. Hes spending money like Isnt it fascinating to watch how rich guys spend their money? Bloomberg is spending his money on TV ads to try to get rid of Donald Trump. Jeff Bezos is buying mansions to impress his girlfriend. Well, he is. You take a look at the transformation of Bezos. When he started Amazon, he was a nerd. He was a warehouse geek nerd wearing too-large khakis and everything else.
He gets married. His wifes name is MacKenzie. Her parents live near here. Nice people. He scores big with Amazon, huge and everybody knows what happens. He buys the Washington Post, and then starts having an affair with some Hollywood type, and thats it divorce and here he comes buying the Jack Warner estate, buying yachts, all these other houses, dressing like youre a hipster on the red carpet. Bezos is spending his money on a woman.
Bloomberg is spending his money trying to get rid of Donald Trump. Im gonna tell you: Im already hearing from people who are sick and tired of Bloomberg ads, where they live. We got a guy on hold here whos gonna talk about that. Bloomberg is just smothering people with TV ads. Now, among the things that Bloomberg has talked about and, folks, look. Im gonna mention this again. This is not insignificant.
Heres a guy who ostensibly, theoretically is running for president. But he still has to get delegates. He still has to do the things that anybody wanting the Democrat nomination is gonna have to do. Hes gonna have to win some primaries to win delegates. Hes gonna have to do well on Super Tuesday. He hasnt done anything yet but buy a bunch of political ads, and since people are fascinated by billionaires, the Drive-Bys are examining him and reporting on him as though he is something special and unique.
I think there is a large myth surrounding wealthy people, and the myth is that they are smarter than everybody else. Now, I dont deny that they may be brilliant in a particular area that worked out where they created their wealth. Im not trying to impugn anything there. But look, theyre just like actors and Hollywood people. They dont know what they dont know. But their wealth gives them license to pretend they know all kinds of things, and I think Heres Michael Bloomberg.
Now, he used to be a Democrat, then becomes a Republican after Giuliani to get elected mayor of New York. Now, what did the guy do? Among many things, what did he do? He starts running a Nanny State. He starts putting a limit on the size of soft drinks New Yorkers can buy. Why that didnt disqualify him immediately as one of the greatest encroachments of personal liberty and freedom, I dont know.
And then after putting limits on the size of soft drinks, then he started talking about banning certain kinds of soft drinks that had things in there that he didnt like, like sugar or aspartame or whatever. This is not smart stuff. Then when I heard him talk about the dictator of the ChiComs, Xi Jinping, as (paraphrased) having to satisfy his constituents like any other politician. He cant go crazy. He cant do things that are going to cause problems with his constituents because hes like all of us; he has to answer to his constituents.
Xi Jinping especially has set himself up as Mao Tse-tung Jr. Xi Jinping has essentially taken over the Communist Party apparatus. He is attempting to become the most powerful dictator in China since Mao. He doesnt have constituents! He doesnt care about constituents. He doesnt get elected. He takes out he kills, like other communists do any potential rival or enemy within the Communist Party. Now, theres a downside to doing that, though, and Mr. Xi Jinping is discovering it now.
When you set yourself up as the authority, when you are the lone powerbroker and something like the coronavirus happens, its all on you, buddy. Theres nobody left to blame because youve taken out all of your rivals. You cant go blame the Republicans, per se, because youve killed them. Youve eliminated them. So something coronavirus happens; its on you, buddy. That matters in terms of the rest of the world, not inside China.
Because no matter what happens inside China, no matter what happens with the coronavirus, nobody inside China is gonna get rid of Xi Jinping unless they take him out with a bullet. But nobodys gonna take him out with votes. Nobodys gonna take him out with constituents being upset and angry. To me, folks, this matters! Were gonna elect somebody president who doesnt even know what communism is, doesnt even know how it is structured?
Then he teased Hillary Clinton as a potential vice president. Now, everybody knows thats a trial balloon. Bloomberg has to act fast if he wants to overcome Mayor Pete and Klobuchar (and her Klobmentum) and Crazy Bernie. If he really wants the Democrat nomination, hes gonna have to do something fast to start getting enough delegates where he can at least try to broker a convention, if not win it outright and Crazy Bernie isnt just gonna sit there and stand aside and let it happen, although everybody needs to know Crazy Bernie is not a brawler.
Crazy Bernie will not be able to stand in the same ring with Donald Trump. No. Do not doubt me on this. Look at what Hillary did to him! He allowed Hillary Clinton to walk all over him to steal the nomination from him, to rig the election. All the while, he knew it. Hes not a brawler. He is a full-fledged, communist ideologue. Theres a difference. Hes not an organizer. Hes none of these things.
Hes trying to survive strictly on the power of his ideology resonating with people and that thats whats gonna keep them energized. But nobody thinks Crazy Bernies a fighter. You ever heard that aspect of him described that way? No. Nobody thinks of him as a fighter. But everybody knows that Trump is. So Bloomberg has gotta do something here to get noticed. Hes gotta do something. So they float the trial balloon that hes considering Hillary Clinton as vice president.
Now, theres so many possibilities here, and lets just examine one of them for the moment. Every one of these people hates Donald Trump personally and viscerally, because he has done something they never thought he would be able to do. Donald Trump has always been seen by the glitterati in New York as a friendly but sort of stupid huckster. Hes been underestimated throughout his entire life. Hes gotten his share of respect, and he has earned his place in the New York hierarchy.
But the real New York City, the real Manhattan elite despise the guy, they hate the guy. And when he went out and ran for president and got elected, that humiliated them, because they think they should be able to be doing that. Theyre the ones qualified to do that. Not Trump. Hes never run for anything and he gets elected? So it is personal. They despise him. Now, they know Hillary has already lost her mind with hatred over Trump, and Bloomberg is a close second here.
All the money in the world will not make Bloomberg happy if Trump does something that he, Bloomberg, cant do. So something has gotta give here. So he floats Hillary. One possibility is that if that were to ever work, and if Bloomberg would ever get elected as president with Hillary as the VP, a lot of people would think that the deal is that she actually gets to be president while Bloomberg goes off and does what he does after having won the election.
Hell be there in Washington, but shes gonna have the power. Thats a theory I have heard bandied about over the weekend, that in order for her to do this, Bloombergs gonna have to promise her that she is gonna be the de facto president. She gets to implement the ideas and the agenda while Bloomberg is the figurehead and knowing the people on this side of it, I wouldnt be surprised if something like that happened.
But lets think about this another way. Lets think about how this plays out. You have a multibillionaire, Doomberg, who it can be demonstrated is not I dont know how to say this cause Im not trying to be insulting. Im not. How do you politely say somebodys not as smart as they think? Say they got holes in their head? What do you say about em?
Anyway, you have a multibillionaire who is trying to buy the presidency, wants the help of the swamp creature who purchased the Steele dossier, who cofounded a sham charitable organization that served as cover for the biggest pay-for-play scam the countrys ever seen, the Clinton Foundation. And not only that, remember Hillary Clinton cheated Crazy Bernie out of the nomination in 2016.
So lets imagine this alliance, Doomberg and Hillary, who will be vaulted to this position not having had to win anything because shes proven that she cant. She becomes Bloombergs veep after entering no primaries, after having spent no money, after having not gotten a single vote. She has the baggage with the Russians all the way back to 2016. How do you think this is gonna play with the Crazy Bernie, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wing of the Democrat Party? A billionaire teaming up with a corrupt cheat who kicked Crazy Bernie to the curb in 2016.
You think Crazy Bernies people just gonna sit there, stand idly by? Crazy Bernie may not be a fighter, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and The Squad certainly are. If Bloomberg buys the nomination, if he goes out there and does this and puts Hillary Clinton on his ticket as his running mate, if he goes in there and floods the market and buys it, hello third party. Theyre not gonna put up with it this time.
Crazy Bernie may have to be dragged kicking and screaming to third party, but they are not going to put up with. But lets not forget who Hillary thinks that she is. You think that she would literally play 2nd fiddle to Mini Mike? I doubt it. I dont think she would do this if she literally had to be vice president. Were watching a party literally implode. The Democrat Party is imploding and disintegrating. It is a mass of chaos.
It has an identity that it is trying once again to hide because it has not worked being open and up front and honest about being socialist and communist. So theyre once again trying to hide it. They dont have anybody Im telling you, the Democrat Party hierarchy is looking at their list of candidates, starting with the first 23 down to however many are left, and they dont see one of them who can win. Not one.
Now, guess what the prepub is on the Nevada caucuses? Its gonna be just like Iowa. Were not expecting results the same day. Were not expecting results in a day or two. How can that be accepted by Democrats? You run a caucus, you announce the winner. What do you mean, were not gonna know for couple days? What do you mean its the same sort of chaos we had in Iowa? Why? Whos in charge of this show? And the answer to thats the Democrat National Committee.
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RUSH: By the way, folks, before we go back to the phones, one thing. We have the audio sound bite. Michael Bloomberg now, this is at Oxford. This is nothing. Ive been invited to speak at Oxford twice and Ive turned it down both times cause I thought it was a setup. Yeah, way back in the nineties, way back in the nineties before Fox News started. They invited me twice, and I thought it was a setup. It was during the Clinton years. I thought it was a total setup.
I regret not doing it. I didnt go. Well, if they invited me to Oxford today I probably Im not angling for an invitation to Oxford. Im just telling you, you know. I regret that I didnt accept the invitation, but its not something I regret, regret, regret. Im just saying I wish Id done it now looking back on it. But I thought it was a setup like everything else. I mean, its left-wing university extraordinaire, Oxford. But I should have seen it as an opportunity to get their minds right, and I saw it instead as a anyway. Bloomberg was there.
Bloomberg was addressing Oxford in 2016. And, folks, this is classic. I tell you constantly what leftists, Democrats and liberals think of you. Now, Bloomberg has come along, he said all of this stuff publicly, and it has never made it into public media until now when he seeks this stuff didnt even surface when he was running for mayor of New York. So here he is putting down farming.
BLOOMBERG: Ninety-eight percent of the world worked in agriculture, today its 2% of the United States. Now comes the information economy. And the information economy is fundamentally different because its built around replacing people
Michael Bloomberg: farmers cant work in information technology
RUSH: Okay, stop the tape. This is not the good stuff. Hes talking about how easy it is to be a farmer. So all you gotta, get some dirt, and you get a seed, and you put the seed in the dirt, and you pour water on all that, and here comes the cornstalk. And thats all you have to do. I can teach anybody to be a farmer in five minutes. He doesnt even know there are entire universities devoted to agriculture. He hasnt the slightest idea what it takes to farm. He hasnt the slightest idea what it takes to start a farm.
All he thinks is that its dirt work. Its dirt work, it doesnt take much brain power, and its easy. But when you do what Bloomberg does, when you report the news, when youre in news and information technology, why, thats where you need the big brains. I just think this is classic of the way leftists look at people in flyover country. He says, I can teach anyone to be a farmer. The skill for information technologys completely different. You need more gray matter.
This is why he gravitates to the Democrat Party. Hes a condescending elitist. He doesnt think that you have the brains to get through the day without his instructions, without him putting limits on how much Coke you can drink. He doesnt just think farmers are stupid. He thinks youre too stupid to be trusted with salt shakers and sodas, not to mention guns. Thats the big one. And so Bloomberg is making it abundantly clear, the Democrat Party is the home for people that want to control you and your daily life because they dont think you can do it.
Its a dangerous, authoritarian political party. Its why it has to buy votes. Its why they have to fix elections and weaponize intelligence agencies and spy on political opponents, because they do not, I dont care what anybody says, they do not represent the majority thinking in this country. This was at Oxford, 2016. So four years ago.
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RUSH: I got one more comment about this farmer business from Bloomberg and how easy it is and how he could teach anybody to do it. That is the height of arrogance, by the way. Its so easy, even I could teach anybody, meaning a nonfarmer. Some of the most brilliant people I know are farmers. Do you know who one of the most famous farmers in America is? (interruption) Well, hes dead. Im talking about people that are alive. (interruption)
Victor Davis Hanson! Exactly right. He is a farmer in the Central Valley of California. He has been his family has been in the farming business for a long time. He is also one of the most noted scholars at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. It is a conservative think tank. He is the expert on the Peloponnesian wars. He is the expert on Ancient Greek history and philosophy. He can even tell you who the Greek version of Bill Clinton was, a man by the name of Alcibiades. Same kind of guy.
Farmers today are some of the most You know what they have to know? GPS. They have to understand global positioning satellites. They have to understand how to use computers. They have to be internet savvy. They have to use cyber tools hourly to plant, to irrigate, to harvest. You just cant say, Im gonna grow some corn in the backyard. You cant say, You know, I love rice; Im gonna put some right in my backyard. Do you know how water intensive rice is? Well, most people dont and its a hit-or-miss proposition every year.
I dont care whether were talking about corporately owned agriculture or family farms, its hit or miss, and Bloomberg doesnt even realize Stop and think of it this way: 2% of the people in this country now produce what 98% use. That sounds pretty special to me. Two percent of the population produced 98% of the food! How does that happen? If its so easy to do, why isnt everybody doing it? Why isnt half the country in agriculture feeding the rest of the country and profiting to the heavens from it, hmm?
I wonder why. What is it that makes Bloomberg think putting something in the ground is always gonna grow, or is going to grow and produce profitable food? I happen to know Victor Davis Hanson. He has spent his entire life on a farm while commuting to academia. He has found He lives in both worlds. He lives in the world of academe with supreme intellect, elitist intelligence and what have you.
And he has told me that farmers, in his experience, are more inventive. They are more canny, they have far more challenges to deal with every day than simply thinking about what you think about a specific issue. They have to be expert in markets. They have to be as informed as possible on the weather, on pests, on labor. These are things that the elites never deal with, they never have to come in contact with. The closest they get to it is when it arrives on their dinner plate and yet hes Bloomberg putting em all down like this.
Its classic.
Literally classic.
Heres Deborah in Detroit. Deborah, Im glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Thank you very much. Longtime listener. Here in the Detroit area, we are bombarded with Bloomberg commercials showing him and the wonderful work hes done with Obama. Hes coming across like Obama is totally backing him for all of the years that hes done things with him. Im getting sick and tired of it, and Im getting sick and tired of friends who are liberals saying, Oh, hes backed by Obama, and I say, No, hes not. (laughing)
RUSH: Well, no, Obama hasnt backed anybody. But dont let that frighten you. Obama ends up backing people that lose. Obama endorsed Hillary big time. What happened to her?
CALLER: I know. But Bloomberg wants to give the impression that he has the Obama endorsement so that he pulls Michigan.
RUSH: Yeah, well, but South Carolina is the next step here. He ought to be running Why are you tired of the ads? Is it the frequency, you just cant get away from em, or what?
CALLER: Oh. Yeah. I wake up in the morning to watch the news; hes there. You know, Im retired. I watch the news in the afternoon; hes there. At night, if I happen to watch a program thats not on Netflix, hes there. Its like 24/7.
RUSH: Well, you know, the theory is that money is what wins in politics. Its an age-old phrase that was begun by a California politico named Jesse Unruh: Money is the mothers milk of politics. People believe it, and thats why they think its the answer to everything. A lot of political consultants really think that whoever has the most money is guaranteed to win cause they got the most ads to run negative ads on opponents; negative ads work.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: So its become almost conventional wisdom and yet, weve not had somebody like Bloomberg spend this kind of money this far out, and it is an interesting laboratory-type experiment because it is irritating people. I dont think youre alone in being irritated by these ads.
CALLER: Yeah, and its frustrating, because hes riding Obamas coattails.
RUSH: Okay, you keep So that Look, I have a keen ear, and when I talk to people, I hear what they say, and no matter my attempts to steer your call into various directions I do it on purpose you keep doubling back to what really irritates you about this, is that this guy is trying to tie himself to Obama.
CALLER: (chuckling)
RUSH: So you really dont like Obama, right?
CALLER: No, I dont.
RUSH: And you are afraid of Obama? Youre afraid Obamas got some mystical powers in the next election?
CALLER: No. Not afraid of him. Just disappointed in friends who think hes so magical and if Obama thinks that Bloomberg can win, then hes for him.
RUSH: Well, he was. Hes the magic Negro. I mean, that was a column in the Los Angeles Times, Obama the Magic Negro.' I quoted the piece. They think I wrote it, by the way, but I didnt.
CALLER: I know. (laughing) Ive listened to you for 25 years.
RUSH: (laughing) Yeah. Al Sharpton. Barack the Magic Negro.' Thats one of my favorite all-time parodies that weve done on this show.
CALLER: And, believe me, Ive been harassed for 25 years. (chuckles)
RUSH: By?
CALLER: People I work with, cause I listen to you on my iPod.
RUSH: Oh. Youve been harassed because youre a Dittohead.
CALLER: Yes. Yes.
RUSH: But see? Youve hung in there. Youve hung in there and you probably dish it right back.
CALLER: I do. I do. But sometimes it gets a little frustrating.
RUSH: Can I guess why it its frustrating?
CALLER: Thats why I keep telling people, Obama didnt endorse anybody. He hasnt.
RUSH: Ill bet you its frustrating because from the things they say, you know theyve never listened. You know they dont even know what theyre talking about. Thats what frustrates you.
CALLER: A family member from Boston that came for Thanksgiving two years ago, I mentioned your cochlear implant because a member in the family was having surgery and was going to lose their hearing. And I was saying nothing political, but it changed your life because you got to continue to do what you loved. And later in the evening, a member of the family said, who lives in Boston, You know what we people in Boston say about people that listen to Rush? And I said, No. Tell me. And they didnt finish their sentence.
RUSH: Hmm.
CALLER: You know?
RUSH: Hmm.
CALLER: It wasnt political. It was this was something that changed your life, because this is your livelihood. And thats a good thing.
RUSH: Well, that ticked em off, though.
CALLER: Whether youre Republican or Democrat or any
RUSH: Ah, let me tell you, they were praying that I would stay deaf. They were praying it would be the end of the EIB Network. Thats just what they do. Anyway, dont worry about these ads. These ads are probably affecting a lot of people the way they are affecting you. Understand that Bloomberg has to do this because he doesnt have a delegate yet. He hasnt entered this thing. Is he even going to debate these people? Have they built the box for him to stand on at the debate? These are questions to which we dont yet have any answers.
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RUSH: Ray in Detroit, great to have you, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush, its an honor to speak to you, man.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: Just got a quick one for you. If by some chance Bloomberg were to take the nomination and pick Hillary as his running mate, what do you think his life expectancy would be?
RUSH: Dont make me laugh. Ha. I think hed be fine because he would willingly, I think, transfer enough power to her to keep her placated.
CALLER: Okay. Well, I tend to differ
RUSH: Because I think Bloomberg just wants to go down to his houses in the Bahamas or wherever and play golf and sit there and fume about Trump or whatever.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: I dont think he wants the gig so much as he wants to kick Trump out of it.
CALLER: Sounds good.
RUSH: And if he has to end up empowering Hillary Clinton to do that, then hell do it. I get your point. I get your point. Ill leave it for you to answer in your own way. Sometimes I have to hold back.
No Farmers .... No food
What people who aren’t up on modern ag don’t know is that it’s become a very high-tech industry. Farmers rely on the internet and smart devices, modern equipment is GPS guided and applies just the right amount and type of fertilizer to fields based on geolocation, down to the square foot. Modern dairies are automated milk production factories.
In fact, one of the biggest problems agribusiness has is finding qualified people, thanks to Obama all the vo-tech programs were trashed so every kid could write code, but some would rather roll up their sleeves and fix stuff, or program the machines that make food happen at lowest cost and highest quality on earth.
Bloomberg will not be able to set foot in ag states after these clips go viral. He is the epitome of what we despise about costal city elites.
Haha, I love the mini-Mike photo.
He insults everybody blacks, women , farmers, teachers.
What farmers lack in formal education they more than make up for in common sense.
I have an agri-business degree and have been working with them for more than 40 years. Amazing group up people as a whole and far more astute than most folks realize.
They all think that food comes from the kitchen.
Photo with obama 6’1” and not standing straight. No way Mini is 5’7”
Do not pay any attention to them.
Bloomberg is 5’8”—go to google.
Anyone who has tried to grow _anything_ in their backyard know it is _not_ easy.
(Insects, bunny rabbits, birds think vegetable gardens are their picnic grounds.)
Bloomberg just dumped on suburbanites as well.
He has blown past stupid at ludicrous speed!
You believe Google. His doctor just wrote a statement that he is 5’7”
Good for you !!! Your chosen lifes profession has made a difference for everyone .....
I was shocked when I heard Mini Mike define farming as, and I paraphrase. “You stick a seed in a hole, add water, and you’re a farmer.”
He’s a clueless elitist.
I think MiniMike is 4’11”. Insider info.
Getting shorter by the day. If no box, he can stand on his wad of cash.
Are you trying to tell me that GOOGLE might be wrong?
Isn't that come kind of Internet heresy?
When I get up in the morning I am 5'7" but by the time I get to bed I'm closer to 5'61/2. Go figure.
You were older at bedtime so you must have shrunk
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