'Still 'n' all', as they say 'over there', so has Trump! Not that it matters in this day and age because nobody, least of all the top ranking, political participants gives a flying fig for political principles. 'Once upon a time', as they say in every fairy story, American politicians at least pretended to believe in something. Today they don't bother and if you don't believe me, check out the latest political con-artist to enter the race for the Presidency, the man with a thousand different cloaks pretending to be, well, whatever you want him to be!
Mr. Freddy Gray of The Spectator understands the nature of the beast as represented by Mr. Mike Bloomberg (Dem., or Ind., or maybe Repub.) depending on the circs!
Bloomberg has taken to calling himself the ‘un-Trump’ — the sort of clunky political branding that only the most expensive consultants can create. But Bannon calls him a ‘Republican oligarch’ — and you don’t have to be a national populist to see his point. Like Trump, Bloomberg has been a Republican, an independent and a Democrat — depending on what was expedient to him at the time. More than Trump, perhaps, he fits the traditional left-wing caricature of a right-wing villain: a plutocratic media-finance baron with terrifying levels of access to private information. He’s never been recorded saying ‘grab ’em by the pussy’, but he has reportedly made all manner of similarly lewd remarks — and been taken to court by a number of female employees.
I gather from different sources that the Democrat, er, 'debate' yesterday was a shambles and that Bloomberg came out of it 'bottom of the class'. If you can't win a debate against a collection of third-raters like that, what can you do? Well, I suppose 'Bloomers' will do what he does best, throw shed-loads of money at the problem until they all go away!
Dammit, I feel genuinely sorry for my American friends. What a collection of deadbeat nincompoops they have at the top of their political trees!
At least America has 2 guys who actually succeeded in competitive markets and rose to the top to choose from. Trump turned 1m bucks into 3.5bn. I wish my effing pension fund manager was that good.
Blighty had a Marxist student protester with 2 E-grades at A-level who never had a proper job in his life, and an Oxbridge antiquities tit whose only proper job in his life was as a hack (which he almost never did coz he was too busy getting his leg over during business hours according to everyone who worked with him).
Which state will fare best over the next couple of decades do you think?
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Friday, 21 February 2020 at 19:33
It may be that Bloomberg's main goal is to deny Sanders the nomination even if it takes a brokered convention in Milwaukee. Trouble will arise. Bernie's voters are devoted but ole Bern can be bought off.
Posted by: Whitewall | Friday, 21 February 2020 at 19:46
Well Gawrsh, SoD, ya really had me goin' there for a second. That's that world famous Brit sense of humor at work, ain't it? Haw, Haw, Haw.
Posted by: Bob | Friday, 21 February 2020 at 21:22
Get the laughs in while you can Bob, from your perspective you've got another 4 years of the Don coming up to wipe the smile off your fizzog.
Make America Great Again Already Always!
MAGAAAAAAAA HAHAHA!
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Saturday, 22 February 2020 at 10:23
Funny meme:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/02/bloomberg-has-spent-400-million-so-far-to-buy-the-election-but-mini-mike-meme-is-priceless/
Posted by: Whitewall | Saturday, 22 February 2020 at 12:53
Laugh while you can, SoD. It's no more likely Briton's status in the world is going to improve than that you're going to build a fleet of wooden ships to retake it.
Brrrrrexit! Bwaaaaa ha ha haaaaaaaa!
Btw, I assume you were trying to troll me, but if you actually think you've described Trump's financial history, you're not even wrong.
Posted by: Bob | Saturday, 22 February 2020 at 14:44
Bloomberg is too short. No good will come of it.
Posted by: Andra | Saturday, 22 February 2020 at 21:28