Intro

It's time for a reality check ...

Maybe we’ve reached the point of diminishing astonishment.

But I suspect that much of what we’re hammered with every day really doesn’t make much of an impact on most of us anymore. We’ve heard the same stories too often. We’ve been exposed to the same issues for so long without any meaningful resolution. We recognize that reality is rapidly becoming malleable, primarily in the hands of whoever has the biggest microphone. How else can we explain a society where myth asserts itself as reality, based entirely how many hits it gets online?

We know that many of the “issues” as defined are pure crapola, hyped by politicians on both sides pandering to “the will of the people,” which is still more crapola. Inevitably, it’s not the will of all the people they reflect, but the will of relatively small groups of people with disproportionate political influence.

Nobody wants to face up to the realities of the issues. Nobody wants to say what’s right or wrong – even when it’s obvious and there are numbers to back it up. Most of us are afraid to bring up the realities for fear of being accused of being insensitive or downright mean.

So we say nothing. Until now.

It’s time for a reality check on the fundamentals – much of which is common knowledge to many of us, already. But it might be comforting to know you are not alone …

Thursday, February 20, 2020

The Bloomberg mirage ...

Mike Bloomberg is an arrogant sexist pig. No doubt about that.

He’s a letch. He brags to other guys he’d “fuck her in a second” when he sees an especially attractive young female employee – even in front of her.  He says this so often he’s got it to shorthand – he just says “in a second” and all his fellow pigs know. 

He openly berates women who aren’t stunningly beautiful and sexy. He’s not beyond calling someone a “fat broad” to their face, or opining about “horse-faced lesbians,” calling transgender people men wearing dresses or simply “it,” or implying that all woman are essentially whores. 

It doesn’t end there. 

He once asked a female employee if she was giving good blowjobs to her boyfriend. When he learned one of his female employees was pregnant, he asked her: “Are you going to kill it?”

This is a truly abhorrent and insensitive human being. This is just a smattering. 

He makes Donald Trump look like Mr. Rogers and that’s not easy.   

Now he’s running for the Democrat nomination.  Well, he’s not actually running for it in the conventional sense as much as trying to buy it. 

He’s already spent about $400 million on a carpet-bombing campaign of self-promoting TV ads in key primary states coming up.  He’s also hired hundreds, if not thousands, of social media types to post positive things about him online to their friends every week for up to $2,500 a month; he also wants them to turn over their contacts to his campaign for future harvesting as well.  He’s rumored to be paying double the norm to campaign staffers while providing a bunch of other novel perks, like free Apple iPads and other goodies. 

He's getting endorsements, not surprisingly, from the same organizations he’s been funding and subsidizing for decades. They dare not step out of line; they’ve been bought.    

He’s told some Democrats he might spend up to $2 billion of his estimated $62 billion in wealth to win this election; he’s told others he will spend whatever it takes to win. Democrat party leaders are salivating over access to so much money to defeat Trump.  So much so that they were willing to change the rules for getting on the Nevada debate stage to accommodate Bloomberg – who skipped the first primaries altogether and isn’t even on the primary ballot in Nevada.

The other candidates may howl in outrage at the DNC’s actions to support Bloomberg, but in the end it won’t matter.  Bloomberg is this cycle’s Hillary: like her, Bloomberg has the money to play big; party leaders will do anything to stop Bernie Sanders; and they will do anything to defeat Trump, even if it means putting forth an amoral, sociopath scumbag like Bloomberg.

Democrat leaders know exactly who Bloomberg is.  They know his past. They know all about him.  But they are desperate.   

That’s how low the Democrat Party has gone.  They look at the current candidates and they know not one of them has the snowball’s chance in Hell to defeat Trump. 

So they are willing to make a deal with the devil. Unfortunately, it’s not going to work. 

They never learn.

Like Hillary, Bloomberg is a fake. Like Hillary, he doesn’t really like ordinary Americans – and it shows. Like Hillary, he’s a terrible liar; it’s so obvious when he lies and tries to weasel out of what he actually said or did.  And worse, like Hillary, his arrogance and condescension are always on display; you can just see from his expressions he’s thinking “how dare you” whenever he’s questioned by someone he sees as beneath him.  Which is pretty much everybody.      

Hillary proved it’s hard to get people you openly loathe to vote for you. I suspect Bloomberg will find the same is true for him. Although he’s so self-absorbed he may not see that.  

I’m sure he can lock down the looney left that hates Trump.  They’d bring Hitler back to life and run him if they were convinced he’d beat Trump.  But the same thing that tanked Hillary will ultimately tank Bloomberg: he can’t have an honest conversation with ordinary Americans.

He doesn’t really believe anything he says to potential voters. Like her, he says what he thinks voters want to hear, even though it's clear he's just reading from a script created by consultants. More importantly, because he doesn’t associate with ordinary voters – or apparently feel the need to – he doesn’t know firsthand what ordinary Americans really want.   Honestly, he doesn’t really care; they’re nobodies to him. 

In person he’s wooden, cold, and, quite frankly, unlikeable.  You always come away with the sense that he’s holding back something unpleasant he’d really like to say but won’t right now.  But you know he’d like to tell everybody to shove it – don’t they know who they’re talking to?   

Bernie Sanders may be nuts, but he’s the real deal. His supporters love him because of this. It’s why as crazy and unrealistic as Bernie’s ideas may be, they’ll follow him through Hell and back. They are as loyal a base as Trump supporters. Nothing shakes them. 

Bernie’s real. Trump is real.  The Mike Bloomberg being presented to the public now isn’t and all the slick ads and manufactured online support can’t overcome that. 

If Bernie doesn’t get the nomination this time, his supporters will burn down the party. And if DNC types think Bernie’s supporters will support any Democrat other than him, they’re insane. Bernie's supporters may hate Trump but they’ll hate getting screwed over by their own party again even more. They won't take it. 

I wouldn't be surprised to see Bernie run as an independent if the DNC screws him again.    

Then again, Bernie and the other candidates may be forced to support Bloomberg in the end. But his people won't. 

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