This is next-level trollery from one of the President’s favorite meme accounts, Carpe Donktum.
Remember when Bloomberg tried to hit Trump with that low-rent dancing cookie meme that totally flopped?
Well, that meme has been weaponized against… Mini Mike Bloomberg himself. (Which is another reason the Left Can’t Meme line is still relevant today.)
And it’s being unloaded on him for his birthday, no less.
https://twitter.com/CarpeDonktum/status/1228207791371767808
I suppose this is an example of Political hacks getting what they deserve for having their lemmings do stupid song and dance routines in support of their candidates.
It hits him where it hurts.
Not only does it play off the ‘short’ motif, (watch for the Lord Farquod dig) and turn the ridiculous dancing cookie against him… reminding us all of his past failures, which should itself be inexcusable in a billionaire head of a MEDIA corp…
[He is a billionaire with such top-notch judgment that he is enlisting the help of the spectacularly-failed Fyre Festival promoters to make his memes.]More than that, it also exacerbates the natural fault lines in the Democrat party… the class warfare and the rift between the Ivy League Wall Street insiders and pundit class vs. the populist true-believers in big government socialism.
https://twitter.com/bernybelvedere/status/1228327781785853957
Nancy Pelosi has spent the last couple of years telling us that her brand was to oppose money in politics. What’s she going to do if Bloomberg emerges as a real contender? How is she going to walk back all of her rhetoric?
This would be a good place to introduce an excellent tweet-thread explaining just how Mini Mike has thrown his money around to buy his way into political prominence, not just the old-fashioned way of buying ads, but in the far more morally dubious way of trading money for favors.
It’s a longish thread, but comprehensive.
It lobs a grenade into the already-fractured Democrat party. Be sure to pass it along to your favorite Democrat talking-point spouters.
Bloomberg saw himself above the standard process of wooing voters by getting in the fray and throwing his ideas into the arena against the other twenty-some-odd contenders who have to earn every vote the hard way.
Also, he literally owns the ‘free’ press, which continues to hammer Trump, but will not raise a finger against Bloomberg.
Stalin could only DREAM of having such an openly partisan tool appear as though it were NOT an overt organ of the state.
But come on, it’s not like he can do that in *this* campaign. Sure he’s compiling a ton of random endorsements nationwide despite merely being a former mayor. But that’s because they loved his soda ban. Or his speaking style. Or…👇 3/17 https://t.co/vupRr0uMqp pic.twitter.com/ZSDzho8YD6
— Blake Zeff (@blakezeff) February 13, 2020
You may also see “community groups” back Mike's candidacy. As mayor, non-profits supported him when he reversed a voter referendum on term limits & made a backroom deal to help himself get a 3rd term. How’d that happen, you ask? He applied himself.👇 5/17 https://t.co/oISYWjWap4
— Blake Zeff (@blakezeff) February 13, 2020
Forget endorsements: This campaign has grassroots support! Mike held events in various states recently & got huge crowds. They were clearly inspired by that “Mike Will Get It Done” energy. But *this* probably didn’t hurt, either…👇 7/17 pic.twitter.com/CzWXR4MMVR
— Blake Zeff (@blakezeff) February 13, 2020
Mike's wealth even affects his rivals’ fundraising. Using his relationships with other rich donors, he’s personally asking them to sit the election out, so his rivals can't raise cash. Because having $61b to spend, versus $20mil for the other Dems, is too close for comfort 9/17 pic.twitter.com/7Nrl8lTmBY
— Blake Zeff (@blakezeff) February 13, 2020
OK, let’s discuss the non-stop ads. Saturating the airwaves gives you the huge advantage of never needing media coverage – which means rarely having to submit to interviews or scrutiny. If they want, they can make sure this👇 never happens again 11/17 https://t.co/7iwvPbrCNc
— Blake Zeff (@blakezeff) February 13, 2020
The issue’s not just that Mike’s ads help him “get his story out more.” It’s that they enable him to *craft* whatever story he wants, blast it to every voter 1000 times, & bypass the media. And if the story takes creative licenses, oh well. How will viewers ever find out? 13/17
— Blake Zeff (@blakezeff) February 13, 2020
For example, they know Mike has real vulnerabilities in the primary on issues & his GOP past. But they also know Dems hate Trump. So, that’s where the campaign turns all its focus. This achieves several things. First, makes him seem “above” the internal primary bickering. 15/17
— Blake Zeff (@blakezeff) February 13, 2020
3 months ago, polls found Mike Bloomberg “widely disliked” with the highest negatives in the race. Now he’s a top 3 contender for the Democratic nomination. One of the richest humans ever is trying to upend every part of the process. And this is just the stuff we know about. /END
— Blake Zeff (@blakezeff) February 13, 2020
The Left has buried the seeds of their own destruction in precisely the class-warfare and identitarian politics on which they have built their brand.
Those cracks in their foundation are finally starting to take their toll.
