Posted on 02/04/2020 5:49:33 PM PST by grundle
Candidates, members of Congress, and activists are outraged over debate rule changes that bow to a billionaire.
Grinnell, Iowa—Michael Moore could barely contain his fury.
After the Democratic National Committee signaled Friday that it would abandon a grassroots-funding requirement that ensured candidates had to prove their appeal by attracting tens of thousands of small donations, Moore told a crowd of 2,500 that had packed into a cavernous concert hall near Des Moines, “You had to show you had a certain number of Americans that would give you a buck, that’s all the rule said, to show you have support. And that’s how they determine who would be on the debate stage. Today they removed that rule because [of] Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire, the Republican Mayor of New York City.”
As Moore described the rule change, his rage was echoed by the crowd, which booed the DNC and cheered the filmmaker’s stark assessment of the party’s motivation.
He doesn’t have to show he has any support among the American people, he can just buy his way onto the debate stage, and I’m going to tell you what’s so disgusting about this.
I watched the debate in Iowa here two weeks ago—the all-white debate—and the fact [is] that the Democratic, the DNC will not allow Cory Booker on that stage, will not allow Julian Castro on that stage, but they are going to allow Mike Bloomberg on the stage? Because he has a billion fucking dollars!
A roar of progressive populist outrage shook the venue.
Another day, another thing for the lefties to be outraged by.
Bloomberg is Republican?!
Suffer.
He ran for NYC mayor as an R because it was expedient
> Michael Moore could barely contain his fury. <
This is significant. Michael Moore is rather unique among lefties in that he usually knows what he’s talking about. So when AOC talks, I laugh. When Al Sharpton talks, I laugh. But when Moore talks, I give it some weight (no pun intended).
The GOP was happy to sell him the "R" brand in 2001 so he could replace Rudy.
The GOP will sell the "R" brand to ANYONE!
Evil Purple Minions....
I wonder which “Mike” is the real El Macho?
And democrats say that big money shouldn’t be able buy privileges, power & position.
And democrats say that big money shouldn’t be able buy privileges, power & position.
He does swerve into the truth sometimes....
“Another day, another thing for the lefties to be outraged by.”
yeah, but this time they’ve finally turned their outrage against themselves!
Musk should find a way to utilize populist outrage to charge batteries.
This pushing of Bloomburg by demonrats is an excellent opportunity for Republicans to show how the Demonrats rigg elections. They were trying to blame Trump for election rigging of the last election. The Demonrats got busted coming out of the gate. I hope they get sued.
boy little mikey hates being white.
I’m sure there must be a way for him to change his skin color.
Then he can REALLY hate white people :)
Why isn’t he mad at black and brown people who voted for white dudes?
Had they ALL voted for ONE black or brown person that person would be on the stage.
But he’s too afraid of them.
He knows no white person is gonna shank him for the constant insults :)
It's a hefty opinion (pun intended).
I was wondering what Cory Booker had to say about it, after he petitioned the DNC to change the rules because there was a lack of "color" on the Democrat debate stage and was rejected.
Booker should realize that the DNC did listen to him, but the color they responded to was green.
-PJ
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