Bloomberg Shredded in his First Democratic Debate

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First off who is this Mike Bloomberg, well to state he's the man behind the Stop n' Frisk policy, and has shown consistent support for other racist policies like redlining. The former New York City mayor is currently using his immense funds to buy online advertisements on YouTube, Instagram, FaceBook, Google, and countless other platforms. From Feb. 9 to 16 he spent over 5.4 million dollars on Google ads. alone, which is about 10 times the amount his competition spent on ads. for the same platform! This year alone, “Google and Facebook have served up 2 billion Bloomberg ads, which works out to 30,000 a minute...Since joining [Bloomberg] the race in November, he has outspent all other candidates combined on Google [advertisements] by more than $10 million,”(The Washington Post). Normally using your own wealth to fund your campaign and get ahead of your competitors wouldn’t be such a point of controversy, I mean Ross Perot did exactly that when he ran for the presidency in 1992, but the problem arises when you use that money to buy your way into debates even when you don’t fit the DNC’s criteria.

The Democratic National Committee required candidates to prove their grass-roots support by earning a certain number of unique donors to qualify for a debate. But in the most recent debate, the DNC changed this rule allowing Bloomberg to participate for the first time. This was very suspicious considering how the DNC only let Bloomberg in, despite there being other candidates like Tulsi Gabbard who had already met the donation requirements but were still not invited. Well this is in fact because Bloomberg actually paid off the Democratic national Committee to let him on to the debate. During the debate all of the presidential candidates were quick to criticise Bloomberg for past sexism and scandals with women, and how he forced many to sign non-disclosure documents about incidents involving him. They also proceeded to attack him for his background of being a billionaire even comparing him to Trump. A great example of this was when Elizabeth Warren stated in the debate that the, "Democrats take a huge risk if we just substitute one arrogant billionaire for another," and Buttigieg later commenting about how, "Most Americans don't see where they fit if they've got to choose between a socialist who thinks that capitalism is the root of all evil and a billionaire who thinks that money ought to be the root of all power," (clarification: Buttigieg was referring to Sanders and Bloomberg, not Trump, I know there are too many evil billionaires running for president these days).

Personally I believe that the democratic candidates didn’t crucify Bloomberg enough during that debate, considering that he not only had connections to the late Jeffrey Epstein, but he [Bloomberg] was also one of the contacts found in Mr. Epstein's black book of names. He was also photographed socializing with Ghislaine Maxwell who was deeply involved with human trafficking and the pedophile rings that Epstein had set up. Actually I know why they didn’t mention any of this, because all of them most likely have connections and donors that were also part of this conspiracy. So I guess this little section is more food for thought, but I do encourage you all to look into this stuff because dear lord does this rabbit hole not end!

1. What are your thoughts on the DNC's actions regarding this most recent debate? Should there be any punishment for these actions, especially because of their unfair treatment of candidates?

2. Should there be any limits on candidate's personal spending on their campaign? Or should we require platforms to give each candidate a certain amount of free ads. (or airtime on TV)?

3. What do you you personally think about Bloomberg?