Bloomberg takes credit for leading NYC through 9/11 — when Giuliani was mayor

https://nypost.com/2020/02/26/...-giuliani-was-mayor/

Presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg takes credit for leading New York “through” the 9/11 attacks in a campaign ad.

But there’s one problem: He didn’t become mayor until four months later.

Touting his leadership chops, the billionaire released a 30-second video including the claim.

“I led a complex, diverse city through 9/11 and I have common-sense plans to move America away from the chaos to progress,” Bloomberg, 78, is seen saying at a campaign rally.

But Rudy Giuliani was mayor during the attacks, and he didn’t hand Bloomberg the keys to Gracie Mansion until Jan. 1, 2002.

The businessman has so far poured $500 million of his $62 billion personal fortune into his campaign, including flooding the airwaves with campaign ads.

Bloomberg served three terms as mayor — twice as a Republican and once as an independent.

He was praised for leading the rebuilding of a decimated lower Manhattan in the decade after the attack, but was considered wooden when it came to connecting with victims’ families compared to his predecessor, Giuliani.

^^^^^
Think about all the 19 year-olds, who weren't even BORN on 9-11, that will hear that and associate it to some distant American tragedy they were BARELY educated on at their POS public school, and take that for the truth.

To paraphrase Daniel Kaffee, it's EASY to dupe the mind of the galactically stupid...

Tweet from Nate Silver yesterday regarding Bloomberg:

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Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
· Feb 26

Bloomberg is in quite a lot of trouble. His national polls have stalled out or begun to reverse themselves. He's fallen to 11% in our CA polling average. In other Super Tuesday states, we aren't seeing the leads we saw pre-NV debate; it's a lot of stuff in the teens and low 20s.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Tweet from Nate Silver yesterday regarding Bloomberg:

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Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
· Feb 26

Bloomberg is in quite a lot of trouble. His national polls have stalled out or begun to reverse themselves. He's fallen to 11% in our CA polling average. In other Super Tuesday states, we aren't seeing the leads we saw pre-NV debate; it's a lot of stuff in the teens and low 20s.

Obviously needs to spend more money on more TV adverts.

It's working so well...

The more Bloomberg speaks, the less people like him. These debates are what are sinking him, I just heard someone remark the other day that he had this expression on the entire time in Debate #2 (for him) of "Why do I need to be here? I'm buying my way to this nomination and this is silly that I have to stand here and pretend I care about these issues!"

The problem for the Dims is that got Nothing!

Bernie: Loony Commie who will scare the living tar out OD moderate Dims and independents. He has no chance.

Biden: Old loon with early stages of senility. Prone to make stuff up out of whole cloth and can’t even remember where he is. He has no chance.

Bloomie: Arrogant, autocratic, nanny-State asshole. Totally impossible to like. He has no chance.

Fauxcahontas: Horrible, nasty, fake as a three dollar bill, self-enriching skank. American’s mother-in-law. Possible the only person in the race harder to like than Bloomie. She doesn’t have an ice cube’s chance in hell of getting the nomination, much less doing well in the general.

The rest of them are non-entities that will be gone soon as they just can’t pull enough support to stay in the race.

I’m not the least bit worried that President Trump won’t totally humiliate whoever the Dims put up. I do think it is important to continue to support him and get the vote out to not only totally crush the Dims candidate for president, but also take back the house and expand our lead in the senate.

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Originally posted by PASig:
The more Bloomberg speaks, the less people like him. These debates are what are sinking him, I just heard someone remark the other day that he had this expression on the entire time in Debate #2 (for him) of "Why do I need to be here? I'm buying my way to this nomination and this is silly that I have to stand here and pretend I care about these issues!"

He is in reality the embodiment of the caricature that the left has painted of Trump - a egomaniacal billionaire who looks down on the little people.

Trump has shown an amazing rapport with the working people of this country - of all races - while every time Bloomberg opens his mouth he confirms that he is an elitist. "I shake hands with doormen in my building so that they can tell their families they shook the hand of someone important." He thinks this makes him sound like Joe Everyman? If the left would step back for just a second and truly face reality they would see that Bloomberg is everything they claim to hate about Trump.

I just got a text from the Mike Bloomberg campaign asking for my support. Rather than just block him, I decided to at least give him the courtesy of a response.

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Originally posted by PASig:
The more Bloomberg speaks, the less people like him. These debates are what are sinking him, I just heard someone remark the other day that he had this expression on the entire time in Debate #2 (for him) of "Why do I need to be here? I'm buying my way to this nomination and this is silly that I have to stand here and pretend I care about these issues!"

Something you never saw in Trump. And still do not, despite his string of successes in a job he'd never done before.

This is one of the defining differences between Trump and Bloomberg. Trump isn't arrogant, as the leftists and never-Trumpers proclaim. He's confident. His confidence may be a trifle (?) misplaced on occasion, but he's only human.

Bloomberg, OTOH, is down-right arrogant. You can see it in his face nearly every moment.

That was also a defining characteristic of Obama, which was probably the main reason I couldn't stand the man.

Bill Clinton, conversely, while I disagreed with his politics, I liked the man. I felt him a likable guy with whom I'd be more than happy to sit down with over a few beers and argue... well, pretty much anything.

I totally agree, ensigmatic.

Despite trump being a billionaire and all the rest, he relates surpassingly well to the average person.

He’s comfortable and not awkward around all groups, blacks, whites, workers, executives, Amish (he met with them), and the most challenging...children.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
I just got a text from the Mike Bloomberg campaign asking for my support. Rather than just block him, I decided to at least give him the courtesy of a response.

have you heard what's going on with this? He's paying people thousands of dollars to cold call and text people. They aren't volunteers, they are mercenaries.

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Originally posted by PASig:

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
I just got a text from the Mike Bloomberg campaign asking for my support. Rather than just block him, I decided to at least give him the courtesy of a response.

have you heard what's going on with this? He's paying people thousands of dollars to cold call and text people. They aren't volunteers, they are mercenaries.

I'm well aware. Hence my succinct response.

I got the same text. my reply: I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Pyker,

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
I just got a text from the Mike Bloomberg campaign asking for my support. Rather than just block him, I decided to at least give him the courtesy of a response.

That’s funny right there!

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Originally posted by wcb6092:
Bloomberg takes credit for leading NYC through 9/11 — when Giuliani was mayor

https://nypost.com/2020/02/26/...-giuliani-was-mayor/

Presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg takes credit for leading New York “through” the 9/11 attacks in a campaign ad.

But there’s one problem: He didn’t become mayor until four months later.

Touting his leadership chops, the billionaire released a 30-second video including the claim.

“I led a complex, diverse city through 9/11 and I have common-sense plans to move America away from the chaos to progress,” Bloomberg, 78, is seen saying at a campaign rally.

But Rudy Giuliani was mayor during the attacks, and he didn’t hand Bloomberg the keys to Gracie Mansion until Jan. 1, 2002.

The businessman has so far poured $500 million of his $62 billion personal fortune into his campaign, including flooding the airwaves with campaign ads.

Bloomberg served three terms as mayor — twice as a Republican and once as an independent.

He was praised for leading the rebuilding of a decimated lower Manhattan in the decade after the attack, but was considered wooden when it came to connecting with victims’ families compared to his predecessor, Giuliani.

Guiliani has undergone many changes in his reputation. I started reading about him in my teens when he was in the Southern District of NY going after Gotti. Fascinating stuff. Then he became mayor. I remember going into NYC in late 80's early 90's and seeing the garbage throughout the city and the seediness of 42nd St. I'm talking strip joints, drugs and prostitution. It was rampant. Guiliani cleaned it all up. 42nd St is unrecognizable from my youth. Crime went way down. The way he reacted and led during the tragedy of 9/11 was inspiring. He was on site and available for what seemed to be 24 hours every day. That is leadership. His reputation has seemed to take a hit since then but for Bloomie to suggest he led NYC through 9/11 is revisionist history. NYC is my backyard and I watched and followed 9/11 every day as I had lost friends and clients in the attack. What Guiliani did for the city is immeasurable. I have had personal interaction with Bloomie and my experiences have done nothing to change my opinion that he is nothing more than a self serving a-hole who thinks his money will always triumph. Can't buy me love? He doesn't think so.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:

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Originally posted by PASig:
The more Bloomberg speaks, the less people like him. These debates are what are sinking him, I just heard someone remark the other day that he had this expression on the entire time in Debate #2 (for him) of "Why do I need to be here? I'm buying my way to this nomination and this is silly that I have to stand here and pretend I care about these issues!"

Something you never saw in Trump. And still do not, despite his string of successes in a job he'd never done before.

This is one of the defining differences between Trump and Bloomberg. Trump isn't arrogant, as the leftists and never-Trumpers proclaim. He's confident. His confidence may be a trifle (?) misplaced on occasion, but he's only human.

Bloomberg, OTOH, is down-right arrogant. You can see it in his face nearly every moment.

That was also a defining characteristic of Obama, which was probably the main reason I couldn't stand the man.

Bill Clinton, conversely, while I disagreed with his politics, I liked the man. I felt him a likable guy with whom I'd be more than happy to sit down with over a few beers and argue... well, pretty much anything.

I watched the PBS extended interview with Steve Bannon a while back and one thing Bannon said really confirms this about Trump: he said that on the day that the "grab 'em by the pussy tape" dropped and people were going apeshit in the streets, Trump actually wanted to go downstairs and talk directly to those people...before everyone, including SS, put the kibosh on that idea. He literally wanted to walk down from his penthouse to the street and interact with the mobs that hated him.

That's not arrogance. A bit misguided, but surely not arrogant.

Trump is a strange, but oddly magnificent, bird.

Bloomberg would have been better off if he had just tried to buy the election and skipped the debates.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Tweet from Nate Silver yesterday regarding Bloomberg:

quote:

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
· Feb 26

Bloomberg is in quite a lot of trouble. His national polls have stalled out or begun to reverse themselves. He's fallen to 11% in our CA polling average. In other Super Tuesday states, we aren't seeing the leads we saw pre-NV debate; it's a lot of stuff in the teens and low 20s.

Nate Silver, LOL. That guy is still around pushing his predictions? He's an idiot who needs to go away.

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Originally posted by radioman:

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Originally posted by PASig:
Tweet from Nate Silver yesterday regarding Bloomberg:

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Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
· Feb 26

Bloomberg is in quite a lot of trouble. His national polls have stalled out or begun to reverse themselves. He's fallen to 11% in our CA polling average. In other Super Tuesday states, we aren't seeing the leads we saw pre-NV debate; it's a lot of stuff in the teens and low 20s.

Nate Silver, LOL. That guy is still around pushing his predictions? He's an idiot who needs to go away.

Yeah. Surprised he's still around after how badly he guessed regarding the 2016 election. He sucks at it.

....and a special thanks from Jerry