Mike Bloomberg suspended his presidential campaign a day after his dismal showing on Super Tuesday – and will endorse former Vice President Joe Biden whose campaign surged to win nine states.
The billionaire former New York City mayor spent hundreds of millions of dollars on his failed campaign.
“I’ve always believed that defeating Donald Trump starts with uniting behind the candidate with the best shot to do it.
After yesterday’s vote, it is clear that candidate is my friend and a great American, Joe Biden,” Bloomberg said in a statement released Wednesday.
He said he has always used “data to inform decisions.”
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I would refuse to accept any endorsement from Mike. A lousy mayor and a very poor debater. Go home and count your money. Mike.
❝People spend so much time mocking President Donald TRUMP, or waiting for him to be impeached. And, the danger with that kind of obsession with a single person is that you don't see the system that produced him.❞ —Arundhati Ray, Indian novelist, human rights and environmental activist
❝When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.❞ —Socrates
(That would be the ‘do nothing, know nothing’ Democrats—all of whom would rather re-elect their purported nemesis, TRUMP, instead of working for a living for We, the People—and, the ever languishing public be eternally duped, bilked, scammed and damned!)
❝It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.❞ —Jiddu Krishnamurti
❝One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.❞ —Carl Sagan
❝It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.❞ ―Thomas Sowell
❝Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.❞ —Adam Smith, ‘Wealth of Nations'
❝They got you fightin' white against colored, native against foreign, hollow against hollow, when you know there ain't but two sides in this world: Them that work and them that don't. You work, they don't. That's all you got to know about the enemy.❞ —Joe Kennehan (Chris Cooper), in John Sayles’ ‘Marewan’
❝The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.❞ —Albert Einstein
❝The illiterate of the 21st century will NOT be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.❞ —Alvin Toffler
❝Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness ... When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in whom instinct has learned nothing from experience.❞ —George Santayana
PART Two:
❝Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.❞ ―Robert LeFavre
❝It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his NOT understanding it.❞ ―Upton Sinclair
❝A nation of sheep soon begets a government of wolves.❞ ―Edward R. Murrow
❝Everything the state says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.❞ ―Friedrich Nietzsche
❝Always beware of the fact that the only thing hindering an all out revolution is your fear of losing the scraps they throw at you.❞ —Gore Vidal
Lee Camp (of 'Redacted Tonight' fame) says:
❝...we have an economy that, at its core, is based on death, misery and hardship. It’s not based on health and happiness and life. When it’s humming along, that means our obliteration of the planet is running full steam ahead, and average workers are being appropriately repressed and held down, hoping to collect enough food stamps to papier-mâché a cast on their broken arm. In fact, The Washington Post admitted it this week—but acted surprised when they said it: 'Many analysts pointed to a seemingly unusual cause for the turbulence: rising wages.'❞
❝No, it’s not an “unusual” cause at all. When we start doing better—when wages start going up–Wall Streeters shit themselves.❞
❝The forest was shrinking, but the Trees kept voting for the Axe, for the Axe was clever, and he convinced the Trees that because his handle was made of wood—he was one of them.❞ —Turkish proverb
❝Nobody in the world, nobody in history has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.❞ —Assata Shakur
❝We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.❞ —James Baldwin
❝If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed—and loving the people who are oppressing them.❞ —Malcolm X
❝It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty—and, how few by deceit.❞ —Noël Coward
❝The media have become the propaganda arm of the very wealthy.❞ —Brian Eno
❝Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt.❞ —Mahatma Gandhi
❝The Earth isn't dying. It's being killed. And, the people who are killing it have names and addresses.❞ —George Bernard Shaw
❝The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.❞ —Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931)
❝Propaganda works best when those being manipulated are confident that they're acting of their own free will.❞ —Joseph Goebbels
❝The people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens long enough to notice what’s happening❞ —George Orwell (Big Brother character from Orwell's book, '1984')
❝The self-righteous rule out the possibility that THEY are what has gone wrong.❞ —Mason Cooley
❝No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.❞ —Mark Twain
❝There's simply no polite way to tell people they've dedicated their lives to an illusion.❞ —Daniel Dennett
❝This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.❞ —George Bernard Shaw
Half a billion dollars. It only got him a win in American Samoa.
It makes me wonder...did he really think he had a shot at winning the nomination? Or was the whole point to stop Sanders? Because if mini-Mike thought half a billion was worth it, then it means that the amount of money at stake should Sanders get the nomination is a number the average American can't fathom.
Mike Bloomberg is a smart man and capable of running the country efficiently.
He should have used all that money to help the homeless.
You can't manage what you can't measure and you can't buy what you can't sell.
Love the Picture !
The Nanny State is sad today ....
Remember, in 2008, when Mike was suddenly "allowed" to extend his mayoral term for four more years. A third term, while previously, New York mayors had been "allowed" to serve only two terms.. How he cried to the heavens when Rudy Giuliani asked for a few more weeks after his second term and directly after 9/11, to clean up some things before leaving office. America has temporarily dodged a bullet on this one. Don't forget this conniving fellow, New Yorker's. He'll be back spreading his mirth, just like he did to your City Council in 2008. $$$$$$$
I'm sorry but I liked Mike as mayor and I liked him as a candidate for the presidency too. He was the only one of the Democrats who actually had any brains.
To last Anonymous:
Empowered idiot Mike Bloomberg got away with murdering New York (right after Giuliani flat lined the pulse Gotham City with impunity), but NOW there's a NEW murderous, massacring sociopath/psychopath in town——and, his crooked name is Bill de BLASS-hole!
Ever wonder how he keeps getting away with heinous, lawless crimes for which everyone else who did business with him (like Negendra Singh, among others), have been tried, indicted and soon on their way to lockup——but, NOT the dirty handed kingpin HIMSELF? Likewise, Governor 'CUOMIGULA,' who runs an openly practicing, money laundering Ponzi scheme out of that haunted ski lodge up in Albany, better known as the Capital.
First rule of thumb is to banish any and all billionaires from running for ALL publicly elected contests nationwide. Second rule is to lock up all criminally insane shitheads like City Hall's Wild Bill (a/k/a 'Tall 'N Stupid'), when their glaring crimes against an entire city begin to bleed the coffers dry (with millions in legal fees and reckless, unconscionable misconduct, for which the police are used to cover up the openly practiced tyranny), and to restore order by honest, ethical leadership (that leads by example).
Honestly, I've never seen my once proud, strong and independent city of self sufficient workers look more like an abandoned homeless shelter of entrenched SQUATTERS, where the endless loop of corruption, graft and monstrous never-ending greed are all propagated: From the TOP on DOWN! And, the public be damned!
❝Every time we suggest to accomplish something good for the general populace, and attempt to use the decision process afforded by government to implement that public good, you capitalist scums assume we want you to pay for it, being forced to do so, by stealing what you hold.
As if we could not, by collective decision, manage the affair without your assistance or involvement at all.
It is offensive, abusive of the decision process, and untrue, by reason of fact and evidence.
You simply control and influence the narrative to prevent any common decision to accomplish our goal of providing nurture to the people, that are discarded and ignored contemptuously by your own greed, avarice and criminal behavior.❞ ——Frederic Bastiat:
❝The self-righteous rule out the possibility that THEY are what has gone wrong.❞ ——Mason Cooley
❝Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.❞ ——Adam Smith, ‘Wealth of Nations'
❝They got you fightin' white against colored, native against foreign, hollow against hollow, when you know there ain't but two sides in this world: Them that work and them that don't. You work, they don't. That's all you got to know about the enemy.❞ ——Joe Kennehan (Chris Cooper), in John Sayles’ ‘Marewan’
❝The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.❞ ——Albert Einstein
FINALLY, keep people as slaves and pets LONG enough——and, eventually they will SEE their kidnappers as saviors!
Scientists find link between people impressed by wise-sounding, 'profound' quotes and low intelligence
Ever get annoyed by people on social media who share 'profound' quotes, or use meaningless, intelligent-sounding soundbites in arguments?
A new study has shown that there is a link between these people and low intelligence.
It found that those who are receptive to pseudo-profound, intellectual-sounding 'bulls***' are less intelligent, less reflective, and more likely to be believe in conspiracy theories, the paranormal and alternative medicine.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/12031212/Scientists-find-link-between-people-impressed-by-wise-sounding-profound-quotes-and-low-intelligence.html
Not as smart as he thought he was.
@I'm sorry but I liked Mike as mayor and I liked him as a candidate for the presidency too.
Buying a 3rd term, what is not to like?
@He was the only one of the Democrats who actually had any brains.
Was he a Democrat? When you liked him he was a Republican. Funny all that money doesn't buy him a backbone.
Mike Bloomberg is a smart man and capable of running the country efficiently.
Practically destroyed NYC after his hissy fit when he did not get his congestion pricing scam approved.
Bought a 3rd term, ignoring the law, the voters, yeah he would have been a great President - for himself.
There should be one daily 500 limit character for a post.
Endless rants might make the poster feel good, but people skip over them: it takes away the credibility of the site.
It gives this blog that 'out there fringe' feel when what is needed is serious discussion.
Last anon: re character
duly noted
Anon: re quotes
While they are great and relevant, please ease up on the quotes. Or at least find new ones, because you posted these ones about hundreds of times before. This is Queens Crap, not Bartletts.
I think your own observations are good enough.
THree old me. Three old men.
Tried to keep that crazy old hen
out of the Great White Pen
She chopped their ting with a carving knife
Messed up their whole darn life.
Three old men.
To Bloomberg apologist-sycophant, Alfred Dunhill:
Scientists just found link to a genetic mutation——and, his pseudo name is Alfred Dunhill!
Not ONLY has this unremarkable, 'simple life form' (and, 'shielded' coward) proven irrefutably how to suspend all cognitive function, AT WILL——but, it also reveals how oblivious that this deeply flawed organism IS, with regard to his own unqualified criticism of superior life forms like ME (with a proven track record in Constitutional Law, humanity and philanthropy, to boot)!
But, what was it, I shouldn't wonder, that our heavily burdened misfit-at-large, Alfred has failed at so miserably in life, that he now revels in all of his unsuccessful attempts to jab and mock virtual strangers on this thread (unprovoked, and outnumbered, no less), with such venomous portent? Alas, the plebeians will never know, as BOTH Alfred (and his ancient, broken crystal ball) fade away into oblivion, where they rightfully belong, forevermore ...
FOR EMPHASIS ADDED:
❝The forest was shrinking, but the Trees kept voting for the Axe, for the Axe was clever, and he convinced the Trees that because his handle was made of wood——he was one of them.❞ ——Turkish proverb
❝The self-righteous rule out the possibility that THEY are what has gone wrong.❞ ——Mason Cooley
❝Terrorism, first and foremost, is an instrument of statecraft.❞ ——Neil Kramer
❝The truth will set you free——but, first it will piss you off.❞ ——Gloria Steinem
❝No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.❞ ——Mark Twain
TRUTH is TREASON——in an EMPIRE OF LIES!
To JQ, and the second to last Anonymous:
There should be one daily 'lottery' to eliminate any and all objectors of other people's free speech. Frankly, I LIKE hearing the RICH quotes from Anonymous, because it reinforces why all of the 'OTHER' paper tigers and reactionaries on this thread are satisfied with the garbage that passes for political leadership. The person who generously uses quotations here, as his medium for good message conveyance is possibly overlooked by some of the obvious, disgruntled trolls on this site, or, quite possibly political allies of those who are rightfully denounced by Anonymous, whose public attacks are a thin cover for their own complicity in epic government fail!
Keep 'em comin', Anonymous - if only to piss the other little nuggets off!
I would have happily supported Bloomberg if he hadn't become such an anti-guns, anti-salt, anti-soda nannycrat. He was a competent, effective mayor and I have no doubt he'd be a competent, effective President - but I don't want competence and effectiveness when it's pushing repressive laws I strongly disagree with.
❝The Earth isn't dying. It's being killed. And, the people who are killing it have names and addresses.❞ —George Bernard Shaw
Isn't this a quote from Utah Phillips? Personally I like the quotes, just be judicious with them. One or two in a post is enough.
Maybe we can get Bloomberg to run for governor and get rid of Sonny Cuomo?
St Vincent’s Hospital closing - Long Island College Hospital closing -the privatization of
Mitchell Lama buildings during his administration
Mike’s refusal to help extend UI benefits for people unemployed due to 9/11
See Mike - we didn’t forget how you crapped all over NYC
Sonny Cuomo
LOfuckinL
To third Anonymous from bottom: Yes, the quote is from Utah Phillips. When I copied and pasted the quote from my library, I accidentally attached George Bernard Shaw's name to it. I stand corrected.
Those inane quotes debase this blog. This is one of the few places in Queens with fresh air.
Those in favor of that blather prob work for the Machine who would like to see Crappy with its unscripted frank discussions, tinged by that blather, perceived by the public as marginal and batty.
Enough of those wacky rambling quotes, please! Start your own blog and howl at the moon for all we care.
To last Anonymous: Save your bad breath, troll! You want fresh air? Open a window (preferably from 12 stories above, or higher), and take a refreshing leap downward!
"Enough of those wacky rambling quotes?" Really? REALLY?? Those men and women from whom I have honorably quoted have accomplished MORE in a New York hour, than you and your 'do nothing, know nothing,' elitist-apologist cronies (ALL of them 'MADE' members of the Bill de-BLASSHOLE AND Sonny Cuomo OPENLY PRACTICING government crime family rings), have never even BEGUN to accomplish! That's why an educated people (the REAL, generational, born and raised NYC & NYS residents), are leaving this raw sewage plant of a state, EN MASS, Captain Obvious! Even the ACTUAL Newtown Creek Waste Treatment Plant, located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, doesn't stink so noxiously like ALL of New York State government bought henchmen!
So, take a HARD look in the mirror, 'SHEEPLE': The pathetic source of ALL of the REAL blather and bloviation that emerges is staring right back at you——and, it's an UGLY MESS of patronage politics that has already (and, so very long ago), destroyed all pretense of honest, ethical leadership (that leads by example).
Now, BLAST OFF, outer space cadet——and, find another galaxy to spew your never-ending trail of toxic Noise Pollution!
❝Democratic Party: Stop scapegoating, look in the mirror, and ask yourself why you cannot landslide the worst, the most ignorant, the most corporate indentured, the cruelest Republican Party in history.❞ ——Ralph Nader
❝The brilliance of Bill Clinton is that he transformed the Democratic Party into the Republican Party, and he pushed the Republican Party so far to the right——that it became insane.❞ ——Chris Hedges
Finally: Power to the People! And, NEVER 'Power to the Party': The two-party-machine-failed duopoly is likewise finally DOA——but, not before the (mostly) DemonRat scourges murdered New York——TWICE: Once, under the twelve-year Bloomberg administration (the last four years of which were illegal), and now the latest, Deja Vu, NYC murder (that has been committed in broad daylight), under the intensely corrupt, incompetent and monstrously self-serving de BLASS-hole, karmic disaster administration of epic government, humanitarian, ecological, fiscal and spiritual fail——and, the ever languishing public be eternally duped, bilked, scammed and damned!
"Public be eternally duped, bilked, scammed and damned!" The Truth Brother !
Crapie let him speak we need to hear this no one writes as well about the "Crap" going on here in New York and with-in the Democratic Party !
Mini Mike the Anti-Soda President, but hey pizza is OK.
I don't cry for you, NYC! You asked for it. But, not to worry, in 50 years, (or less) the whole damned country will be one big NYC. I won't be here, so good luck millennials, keep voting democrat. You deserve what you vote for.
I don't mind the quotes, but dude get a new writer, I already know all your quotes by heart.
Any chance you have some new material?
To last Anonymous:
The 'NEW' material would be YOUR activism, protest, rally and resistance in order to PUNCH BACK——TWICE AS HARD! Your 'NEW' material would be to read 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky and to never give up, never give in, and never take 'NO' for an answer (whenever public goodness is at stake). Because, the public good must ALWAYS outweigh the crushing weight of all private (and, now public AND political) gain.
ALAS, adversity is the first path to action, and without challenge, there can BE no change.
Keep people as slaves and pets LONG enough——and, eventually they will see their kidnappers as saviors.
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