2020 U.S. Presidential Election - Took place November 3, 2020. Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assumed office January 20, 2021.

[He Who Points And Laughs]

 

[It's HK-47]

Romney-Bloomberg: The Unity Ticket America Deserves - The Bulwark

In casting his singular vote to impeach and remove Donald Trump from office, Mitt Romney made history. Now it’s time for him to take a step further. For the good of the country, Senator Romney should run for president as an independent. With the democratic-socialist Bernie Sanders now the...

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In casting his singular vote to impeach and remove Donald Trump from office, Mitt Romney made history. Now it’s time for him to take a step further. For the good of the country, Senator Romney should run for president as an independent.

With the democratic-socialist Bernie Sanders now the Democratic frontrunner and the political arsonist Donald Trump as the Republican incumbent, there is a yawning chasm that has never before existed in American politics. By retreating to their poles, our two major parties have left tens of millions of independents and moderate Democrats and Republicans unrepresented.

Senator Romney’s entrance into the presidential race wouldn’t just give the vital center of the electorate a home—it would stand a chance to break a system that is stacked against independents and third party candidates. The last major third-party run was in 1992, when Ross Perot won 19 percent of the vote—and he accomplished this while running against two party centrists, in Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush.
Against two polarizing fringe candidates with no claim to the middle of American politics, we have no idea what Romney’s ceiling might be. And as Emmanuel Macron showed in France, standing up a new party and winning a presidential election in one motion is not impossible.

In America the odds are extraordinarily long for any independent candidate. That is largely a problem of access and funding, which both the Democrat and Republican parties have been unified in blocking. But even if Romney didn’t win, his candidacy could bring enough public pressure to force the parties to give up their duopoly as citizens realize that until the possibility for a viable third party exists, we’re going to keep being forced to choose between unpopular candidates beholden to their party’s extremes.

Under the current system, presidential candidates in the general election need at least 15 percent support in select polls to make the debate stage. Since this arbitrary benchmark was enacted, no third party or independent candidate has been able to qualify. Much of this is due to a lack of access to capital. Estimates show that it would cost $266 million to achieve this benchmark in the general election phase of a presidential run—a feat only an independent candidate who is self-funded is likely to achieve.

Another barrier to entry that independent candidates face is they do not have the name recognition that affiliating with a major party grants.

Mitt Romney would solve both of these problems.

As the Republican party’s nominee for president in 2012, Romney’s name recognition is already high. He has the credibility and trust of moderate Republicans who see him as a sane alternative to the insanity of the president’s Twitter storm and Bernie’s socialist utopia. He could easily cross the 15 percent polling threshold.

And given Romney’s strong private sector background, he has access to ample funds to seed a nascent campaign operation off the ground before building momentum that would bring in outside donors: traditionally conservative organizations that find Trump erratic and pro-business Democrats who are fearful of Sanders’ espoused socialism.

But the biggest opportunity comes with the other half of the ticket: Because Romney would have the chance to select Michael Bloomberg as his vice president.

Think about that for a moment: Bloomberg is the last Republican to be elected mayor of one of the country’s most liberal cities. And while he has since switched his party affiliation, he has demonstrated that he has the ability to build big tent coalitions across partisan divides.
A Romney-Bloomberg ticket would be a first in modern American politics: A bipartisan unity ticket running under the banner of an independent third party.

It would give both disgruntled Republicans who feel their party has become lost in Trump’s personality cult and Democrats who feel their party is lurching too far left towards a socialist revolution a voice on the ballot that reflects a popular idea of how the country should be run.

Never-Trump Republicans are the most pathetic people I have ever seen.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

Romney-Bloomberg: The Unity Ticket America Deserves - The Bulwark

In casting his singular vote to impeach and remove Donald Trump from office, Mitt Romney made history. Now it’s time for him to take a step further. For the good of the country, Senator Romney should run for president as an independent. With the democratic-socialist Bernie Sanders now the...

thebulwark.com

Never-Trump Republicans are the most pathetic people I have ever seen.

Do Never Trump Republicans have a humiliation fetish or something?

Because it can't get more embarrassing than supporting a Romney-Bloomberg Presidential ticket.

 

[Polyboros2]

Do Never Trump Republicans have a humiliation fetish or something?

Because it can't get more embarrassing than supporting a Romney-Bloomberg Presidential ticket.

It's more the bargaining phase of knowing they'll lose in 2020. "Weld and Walsh failed to primary him, but if Romney can syphon off Republican votes with a third party ticket, and use Bloomberg's money to do it, we can still win. US political opinion pieces are becoming fanfiction at this point.

I wonder if there journalists know something we don't about Bloomberg preparing an independent run if the DNC doesn't cheat him in. Double down on the fantasy by having Bloomberg take second seat in the campaign he's wasting his billions on so that it hurts Trump instead.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

Romney-Bloomberg: The Unity Ticket America Deserves - The Bulwark

In casting his singular vote to impeach and remove Donald Trump from office, Mitt Romney made history. Now it’s time for him to take a step further. For the good of the country, Senator Romney should run for president as an independent. With the democratic-socialist Bernie Sanders now the...

thebulwark.com

Never-Trump Republicans are the most pathetic people I have ever seen.

Please clap for our corrupt uni-party stooges coming out into the open.

 

[Bani]

Someone might already mentionned it, but Bernie had made some anti-dairy protesters angry.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...testers_interrupt_bernie_rally_in_nevada.html ( http://archive.ph/c1ej8 )

"After castigating Bernie for daring to support those American farmers who raise animals for tard cum..."

Word filter never fails to be funny.

Is the average poster on this site really so young they don't remember all the Bush=Hitler shit of the early 2000's?


No, the census isn't conducted by counting the number of people that turn out to vote. It's not even based on the number of US citizens. It's based on permanent residents of the state. Which is part of why California has a shitload of votes.

I don't see the interstate popular vote compact doing anything given it's been around so long and a state that joined up twenty years ago isn't necessarily still into it now.

Even if all of California's undocumented residents got counted by the census and they got an extra seat because of it, citizens' votes in that state would still be disproportionately weak. This isn't a partisan issue-- the exact same is the case for Texas. See my post upthread about how electoral votes are allocated for more on that.

Also, undocumented residents (and even their documented friends and family members) are terrified of the census this year because of the proposed citizenship question, even though it isn't going to be on the form at all, and the government isn't legally allowed to give that information to ICE anyway. The likely undercount of Latinos as a result is going to hurt states like Texas, California, and Florida. It's clear to me that the media circus about the citizenship question was a very much intentional way to scare Latinos away from the census, but the idiots who cooked it up clearly weren't thinking it though, because it's going to affect red states just as much as it will blue and swing states.

In case anyone here subscribes to the quack notion that undocumented residents are voting-- they're not, even in places like California. You require a valid, state-issued ID to register to vote in all fifty states. Most voter fraud actually involves legal residents voting on behalf of dead people, and is actually quite rare.

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Man, of all the unfortunate names for a gay guy to have, "Buttigieg" has to be one of the worst. I don't care for the guy's policy, but it takes balls of steel for someone with a name that unfortunate to run for president.

 

[Syaoran Li]

So, it's become kind of obvious that Bloomberg is the DNC's last ditch candidate for 2020 since Biden has tanked badly, but I'm curious about what would happen if Biden somehow scrapes up enough wins in the Southern states on Super Tuesday to be a contender again. How will this affect Bloomberg and the DNC?

I'm surprised Buttigieg has done as well as he has, but I do think he's probably not in this to get the nomination for 2020, but instead get a VP or cabinet pick for the DNC's 2020 nominee or make a more dedicated run in 2024 (or run for Congress in 2022) with 2020 being a sort of test run to see how well he'd do on the national stage.

 

[MrJokerRager]

So, it's become kind of obvious that Bloomberg is the DNC's last ditch candidate for 2020 since Biden has tanked badly, but I'm curious about what would happen if Biden somehow scrapes up enough wins in the Southern states on Super Tuesday to be a contender again. How will this affect Bloomberg and the DNC?

I'm surprised Buttigieg has done as well as he has, but I do think he's probably not in this to get the nomination for 2020, but instead get a VP or cabinet pick for the DNC's 2020 nominee or make a more dedicated run in 2024 (or run for Congress in 2022) with 2020 being a sort of test run to see how well he'd do on the national stage.

A bloomie nomination will be the epitome of all democratic hypocrisy since 2000 when Bush won. A neocon, racist, authoritarian, corrupt, rich as hell billionaire is the voice of the common working class.

Like ashy said Bernie is being non confrontational and bland as well, so has been Trump towards Bernie. Maybe Trump knows he needs Bernie's voters to stop Bloomberg. Because he is bad news for both sides except rich bougie shitlibs and radlibs.

Also read on stupidpol and will research this later but chomsky said to vote for Bloomberg over Trump in an event that happens, if true, goddam all these hippie fucks will get on their knees fast for neoliberals.

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Edit: apparently it was a email sent to Chomsky and the screenshot is being shared. Apparently all the neoliberals are happy and the progressives are having a struggle session over Trump or Bloomberg if it comes down to these two. Reminder that Bloomberg's anti 2A record dwarfs trump, he is already a mercenary and will put the banhammer down the the precious pocs and also sell the nation out to China.

r/neoliberal - Occasionally, Chomsky is right

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r/thedavidpakmanshow - Even Chomsky would vote for Bloomberg if Bloomberg is the nominee is November 2020!

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r/stupidpol - Spoke with Mr. Chomsky at length to clarify what he meant when he said that he would vote for Bloomberg if he won the primaries.

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[babadook]

Ah yes the totally sane and rational libs that populate r/stupidpol

 

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Ah yes the totally sane and rational libs that populate r/stupidpol

I mean, I kind of agree with the idea of calling their bluff. Like with the Green New Deal, when they say "if you don't vote for this we're all dead!" you go "oh well it was a good run" because you're pretty sure they're lying to you. If someone is going to try to control you like that, well, it's not really on you to run with their shitty solution. Maybe if it's so dire, they could stop being such a sped and come up with a good plan that doesn't involve selling your guns and living in a pod eating bugs with 100 million Mexicans. You're allowed to say "no thanks faggot, try again".

In the literal sense of "I'd rather die than vote for Bloomberg"? Yeah that might be a bit much.

 

[heyitsmike]

Today is the day we find out if Mini Mike will use a box.

I haven't been this excited for a Dem debate since... well... ever!

 

[babadook]

I mean, I kind of agree with the idea of calling their bluff. Like with the Green New Deal, when they say "if you don't vote for this we're all dead!" you go "oh well it was a good run" because you're pretty sure they're lying to you. If someone is going to try to control you like that, well, it's not really on you to run with their shitty solution. Maybe if it's so dire, they could stop being such a sped and come up with a good plan that doesn't involve selling your guns and living in a pod eating bugs with 100 million Mexicans. You're allowed to say "no thanks faggot, try again".

In the literal sense of "I'd rather die than vote for Bloomberg"? Yeah that might be a bit much.

It was the literal sense

 

[Kornheiser]

Well I saw the first Bloomberg sign today in a very liberal area. Are people really buying him as the dems savior?

 

[MrJokerRager]

Well I saw the first Bloomberg sign today in a very liberal area. Are people really buying him as the dems savior?

The big wigs Hollywood celebrities like Bill Maher like him, the late night TV hosts treat him with kid gloves, he must be getting his voters from Biden dying off and soon Bootygig as well as Kamala. They already using the slogan "vote blue no matter who" meaning its full blown TDS and not about policy changes that Sanders wants to do.

Plus he is buying everything out literally including 4chan, /pol/ is now filled with his shill threads along with the edge lords now embracomg him because he kept darky down. Facebook is filled with his ads as well. He is trying to insert himself in every part of your life like the book 1984 and the moderate liberal only cares about POCs when it comes to cheap labor.

 

[Kornheiser]

The big wigs Hollywood celebrities like Bill Maher like him, the late night TV hosts treat him with kid gloves, he must be getting his voters from Biden dying off and soon Bootygig as well as Kamala. They already using the slogan "vote blue no matter who" meaning its full blown TDS and not about policy changes that Sanders wants to do.

Plus he is buying everything out literally including 4chan, /pol/ is now filled with his shill threads along with the edge lords now embracomg him because he kept darky down. Facebook is filled with his ads as well. He is trying to insert himself in every part of your life like the book 1984 and the moderate liberal only cares about POCs when it comes to cheap labor.

I wonder who is gonna tear into him tonight in the debate? I know Trump making fun of him gets him mad. Tulsi is not at the debate right?

 

[LargeChoonger]

Neolibs are hellbent on destroying each other this year. They're giving Trump another win. The Democract lineup is pretty much 100% identity politics. I think I'm gonna vote for- oh god oh fuck I'm sorry Mike I'll vote for you please don't lower my credit score your ads are good and you're a dank memer oh god help m

 

[MrJokerRager]

I wonder who is gonna tear into him tonight in the debate? I know Trump making fun of him gets him mad. Tulsi is not at the debate right?

Better pray to the atheist spaghetti monster that Sanders gets the spirit of Stalin and tears Bloomberg a new asshole. Or we will have to wait till Trump has to do it at the presidental debates. Read on breitbart apparently Sanders will support Bloomberg if Bloomberg buys the nomination so now that will fracture the party for sure like 2016 did.

 

[MisoSupper]

Well I saw the first Bloomberg sign today in a very liberal area. Are people really buying him as the dems savior?

Are they that desperate after a never ending supply of nonstop propaganda from both the legacy media and their personal breadtube bubbles? Absolutely. And no they don't have a shred of self-awareness over their blatant hypocrisy. It was really eye opening for me seeing liberals completely 180 in regard to the Syrian War. Here were traditionally anti-war lefties making a hard turn into hawkish neo-con crazy town just to own the Bad Orange Man. They even borrowed the same "muh Kurdish allies" talking points from the RINOs.

 

[MidUSA]

Better pray to the atheist spaghetti monster that Sanders gets the spirit of Stalin and tears Bloomberg a new asshole. Or we will have to wait till Trump has to do it at the presidental debates. Read on breitbart apparently Sanders will support Bloomberg if Bloomberg buys the nomination so now that will fracture the party for sure like 2016 did.

Not much of a fracture though. Berarniebros are mostly talk, little action. 85% or something still voted for Hillary in 2016, I see no indication the vast majority of them won't bend the knee once the sting of Bernies second cucking is in the books.

Maybe the political commisars will beat up a few shop windows and trashcans but more than 15% of bernie supporters resisting the urge to vote against whomever stands against the bad orangeman? nah, don't see it.

 

[Kiwi Farms Lurker]

Do Never Trump Republicans have a humiliation fetish or something?

Because it can't get more embarrassing than supporting a Romney-Bloomberg Presidential ticket.

Not even a Bloomberg-Hilldawg ticket?

Please wave hands for our corrupt uni-party stooges coming out into the open.

Better not trigger anybodys anxiety.