Bloomberg Rips Trump and Trump Backs Down

“I have had enough of Trump.” —Mish
Just curious: what was “the last straw” for you?

Like any basketball game only the last 2 minutes really matter. I wish I could turn the off and back on Nov. 1st.

Christopher Hitchens surprisingly similar – though eruditely expressed- foreshadowing of the ‘MiniMike’ meme, actually making it far more substantive. Trump might be onto something much more than height…

“In fact, the law these days is very clear. It states that New York City is now the domain of the mediocre bureaucrat, of the inspector with too much time on his hands, of the anal-retentive cop with his nose in a rule book, of the snitch willing to drop a dime on a harmless fellow citizen, and of a mayor who is that most pathetic and annoying figure — the micro-megalomaniac,” Hitchens wrote.

It remains to be seen if Bloomberg can galvanize support and turnout for his side. Trump’s side is going to be having too much fun with the MiniMike memes to take anything he says seriously AT ALL. They guy is a ‘stiff’ through and through as anyone without TDS (Type A) can see clearly.

Actually, I suspect the ‘fun factor’ is what this election will turn on. Trump’s people are generally having fun even though they feel very strongly about certain core issues; whereas the other side is continually dwelling in morbid anxiety and in search of some sort of pain-free utopia (which is why Comrade Bernie is so appealing). The yearning is understandable and has a certain energy to it, but the foundation is a morbid fascination with negativity. Not good for turnout.

In any case, Clinton was right: elections are won by those who best define ‘we’. So on the one hand we have ‘we the victims of a corrupt, patriarchal, racist, sexist evil empire’ and on the other we have ‘we the proud people of this country we love.’ May the best side win!

Trump may be tiring, understandably, but suspect that any Dem administration at this point in time will be far, far worse. The Republic as such is probably already beyond repair or recovery, but a determined conservative renaissance not entirely beholden to Big Business has a chance, whereas the more totalitarian tendencies of the liberal styles spells inevitable doom. Bloomberg has what it takes to face down Trump psychologically, and I agree that calling him out as a bully will be effective (for those already perceiving him that way of course – in fact he’s the weakest President procedurally speaking since JKF who paid for that weakness with his life, no doubt thanks to the same sort of forces which have successfully hobbled Trump thus far given he’s been playing pretty much nothing but defense since Election Day 2016.

But I disagree with you about the woman’s right to choose issue. Put another way: if it is only up to the woman, then any notion of male child support should be eliminated immediately. You can’t have it both ways.

Secondly: ultimately it does come down to choice in any sort of ‘free’ society, but that doesn’t mean that you have to have taxpayer-funded abortion on demand presented as some sort of ‘right.’ It’s never a ‘right’ and always a choice. For many it’s the right – if painful – one. But for many it’s the seemingly easier but also wrong one. A young life is still a life, and taking life without consent is called murder. So there are the rights of the child in the mix, and I don’t think leaving it all up to the mother is necessarily the best thing.

But there will be many differing opinions on something like this so it seems there should be many differing solutions & options versus a one-size-fits-all paradigm enforced by an over-arching Law. In the US, that means devolving such issues down to the States level, but really it could devolve much further to a family-by-family level. In any case, I think most of the government-funded initiatives are inappropriate and should be scrapped. That is more the nub of the debate rather than who gets to decide. But again: if men don’t get to decide, then they cannot be held responsible, either financially or otherwise.

Twitter is becoming a problem. Elected officials should have to pay $100K per character to use it. We’d retire the national debt and those congenitally prone to it’s over-use would have a reason to quit.

It’s somewhat enjoyable watching these two NY billionaire egomaniacs bash each other because they both deserve it.

However, in terms of an election, neither of them has any intention of fixing what ails us. It’ll be more easy money, more status quo either way, media hyperventilation notwithstanding.