Joe Bauer

Doug, I was really surprised Biden's competitors didn't make this truth about Biden a much reported issue in the states with large black voting numbers. Biden is the person most responsible for Clarence Thomas getting confirmed for the Supreme Court imo. Biden's hearing was an unjust slap in the face for Anita Hill. Most black Americans hate C. Thomas as he sides against them on most SC decisions.

What a remarkable likeness between the early Cruz arrest mug shot and the Alpha 66 chair sitting young man. Same face shape, expression, mouth and lip and space between the nose and upper lip, thin chin, thin neck, high forehead and of course those big sticking out ears. And Cruz himself has stated he was very active politically while living in Texas. The meeting man also looks to be the right age of Cruz during his time there. Great find David.

David, this is what I am talking about. 10's of millions of Americans go to theaters every month ( including my wife and I ) and to close even half of these nationwide will impact the film industry like nothing we've seen before since WWII. And this is just ONE major American industry that will take a massive hit in income and profit. And multiply this singular industry impact many times "world wide!" Same thing with professional sports. Postponing the latest Bond film premier for "7 months" seems a long, long time to do so. Guess they are so unsure how bad this event may get they don't want to risk a major ticket sales loss by releasing it too early. I am a Bond film addict. Have been since they first began. I love to catch them as soon as they come out. What are we going to do if things get this bad? Stay at home and watch Net Flix movies I guess. I am sure this is a concern for millions of others in America right now who have at least considered such a situation.

This coronavirus event may trump even the economy as far as impacting the coming election. I am sure none of us has seen anything as potentially broadly impacting to our entire society daily lives since WWII. One one hand Trump's camp is telling everyone the situation isn't so bad, yet every day we are seeing every level of government and corporate management taking drastic action that we have never seen before such as shutting down all schools ( Washington State ) curtailing hundreds if not thousands of large public events and meetings. Major city news talk radio station expert commentators mention hygiene warnings, travel warnings, basic needs shopping warnings that are being immediately adhered to by millions of citizens. Major retailers are running out of everything from toilet paper, disinfectants and even TOP RAMEN! Working parents are scrambling as far as maybe having to pull their kids from schools and their participation in outside activities such as sports or music etc. How can they work without stress emotionally and financially with a situation like this? People aren't taking long trips. They are looking at every activity with the coronavirus fear in mind. My guess is Chinese restaurants will take a huge beating in this fear area just because people would think that maybe their staff has relatives that may have come from infected areas? Personally I would hate to give up one of my favorite pleasures of eating Chinese restaurant food. Panda Express is a regular indulgence. But seriously, the impact on the economy is beginning to look unprecedented enormous and if it gets worse, it could literally change our daily way of life like we have never seen in our lifetimes. The aids epidemic was small peanuts in this regards. Ebola was contained to Africa. Sars and our regular flu cycles didn't effect us this strongly. JFK's assassination didn't effect us economically like this situation could. If this coronavirus event gets worse to widespread degrees, it may turn out to be the most important political issue of all this election.

I sure won't miss Mathew's incessant almost manic cutting off and talking over his guests, especially ones he was trying to confront or counter. Complete with that peculiar spittle laced lisp of his. This interview manner of his was so irritating and unprofessional to me, my stomach would tense up at times to where I would have to change the channel. I get the same cringing feeling watching arrogant and condescending Trump motor mouthpiece Kelly Ann Conway doing the same thing whenever she is interviewed by any political talk show hosts outside of Fox news. I only watch her occasionally because of my odd attraction to her S&M dominatrix good looks.

Bloomberg's 500 million dollar three month campaign project is finished. Warren is no longer a threat. Sander's looks like he can't catch Biden. Mission accomplished. Our wealthiest 5% ruling class can breathe a sigh of relief.

Pretty obvious a calculated back room deal was worked out between Biden and Mayor Pete and Amy Klubuchar. If Butti and Klubu had kept their campaigns going through Super Tuesday and then dropped out...their endorsements of Biden wouldn't have done much to help Biden. They had to do this dropping out quickly and before today, with enough time to even go on national exposure stage with Biden. Their endorsements would then have an immediate impact in the Super Tuesday elections to hurt Sanders and Warren. My take anyway. I agree about Biden's loss of cognitive faculties. I watched the video the link provided. Biden has lucid and even fairly energetic spurts. But also clearly addled senior moments as well. Sanders is only 1 year older, but he at least seems much sharper mentally than Biden. Elizabeth Warren seems to still be in her cognitive prime. Quick, sharp, steady and game for a verbal debate challenge.

Some thoughts on the different Democratic Party candidates and how they would look debating Trump ( just the visual physically ) if each were the final nominee. Sanders and Biden would make Trump look young. Physically fit like a daily jogger, fresh eyed, good natural skin and face color and nice hair Elizabeth Warren would make Trump look old, puffy, bloated, unnaturally tanning bed orange and she would out debate him and probably frustrate him into an angry bully emotional state. Trump couldn't get away with badgering and taunting Warren as a woman like he could a male adversary. Bloomberg would make Trump look taller and with his 60 billion dollar wealth, make Trump seem more working class poor. Obviously, Warren would be the best choice by far against Trump from a visceral comparison point of view. This is a real factor with millions of voters. JFK looked healthier, tan and more vigorous than the pale sweaty Nixon in their televised debates. Bill Clinton looked better than older, watch checking Bush senior and hyper high pitched Texas twang Ross Perot. Barack Obama same thing with John McCain. Physical looks of Presidential candidates on the national stage does have an influential effect.

Fox News is hosting a Michael Bloomberg Town Hall tonight ( nationally broadcast ) on the eve of the Super Tuesday voting? What? Fox News? Since when does Fox News give a Democratic primary presidential candidate ( not even a top two leading contender one) such a great, perfectly timed and apparently positive promoting huge exposure platform the night before the most important primary voting day in the entire campaign? What is going on here? If Fox News is promoting Michael Bloomberg over the other Democratic candidates you gotta wonder why? Like Bloomberg may not be a Democrat after all? On the eve of Super Tuesday, anchors Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum and the former New York City mayor plan to focus on issues important to voters, Fox News said in a press release. The event is sold out, but for those with tickets, doors open at 4:30 p.m. and will close promptly at 6 p.m., approximately 30 minutes prior to the show. The town hall will be televised live on Fox News Channel from 6:30-7:30 p.m. “I could not be more proud that FOX News Channel continues to be a critical platform for all key candidates in the 2020 presidential election," Fox News President and Executive Editor Jay Wallace said in a statement. "With the largest TV news audience in the country, we are eager to continue offering viewers a robust conversation with the top players in contention for the Democratic nomination." Mike Bloomberg. The 60 Billion Dollar Man. Like he needs the exposure help after spending a mind boggling half billion dollars already trying to rest the Democratic party presidential nomination from the progressive primary vote leaders. These Democrat progressives are his most feared political ideological enemies. Not Republican Donald Trump. Last night Bloomberg gets national exposure coverage on CBS's 60 Minutes. Tonight it's Fox News. Both within just 48 hours of Super Tuesday? Sanders, Biden and Elizabeth Warren would give up sex for such fortuitous and perfectly timed national exposure coverage.

In this 60 Minute TV interview Bloomberg won't admit making crude misogynist comments about women. He claims ( or pretends? ) he "doesn't remember" saying them. But yet, he keeps saying he is sorry if his comments hurt anyone. He also claims he understands the daily struggles of working class and poorer Americans because his father only made $6,000 in yearly income in the late 1940's and early fifties. Equivalent to $60,000 to $70,000 in today's income. His boyhood home in Medford, MA ( which he still owns) looks like a $750,000 home today. His father mortgaged their home for $11,000 ( huge amount back then ) to put Bloomberg and his sister through college. Yes, it sure sounds like Bloomberg's "extremely rough" childhood does qualify him to truly understand the stresses of today's everyday working Americans living on middle class and lower level incomes and who more and more can't help their children pay the now astronomical costs of college without their children feeling pressured into assuming usury, life long payback stress levels of student loan debt . 60 BILLION dollar personal wealth, three time "Republican" mayor of NYC Bloomberg ( who voted "against" raising the minimum wage ) is the antithesis of a truly sympathetic working middle and lower income class representing Democratic party candidate. WATCH LATER ADD TO QUEUE Mike Bloomberg says he's sorry if he made comments that hurt women 60 Minutes If I annoyed somebody or hurt somebody I apologize, I can't go rewrite history ...

In just a short 3 month time period, Michael Bloomberg has committed to and carried out an unprecedented, mind boggling 1/2 BILLION dollar "all out war" spending/running effort to defeat the progressive Democratic candidates ... not Donald Trump. "The gentleman doth 'spends' too much, me thinks." And if Bloomberg ends up running against Trump and loses the election to Trump, Bloomberg wins regardless. Because his greatest fear is not Trump and his 1% priority policies which benefit Bloomberg. It is his stated fear of progressives winning the White House. We see this truth clearly printed in black and white in a previous post link of Bloomberg speaking to his Wall Street bank buddies Goldman Sachs at Yankee Stadium. And now, (Hello!) late comer Bloomberg is already featured on the nationally broadcast CBS interview show "60 Minutes" tonight. Just two days before "Super Tuesday?" I just watched the interview on the internet. It's softball questions through out. Talk about a perfectly timed, free advertising, huge audience exposure, poll boosting coup! How in the heck did Bloomberg score this prized huge exposure bonus gig "just before" the Super Tuesday voting over all the other Dem candidates? A coincidence? Oh, please! Liz Warren has been in the primary campaign since Feb 19th, 2019. She's been in the cross country travel , press scrutiny and crowd greeting grind, fighting the battles and facing the heat through every debate for one solid year since. For most of this time she was considered a leading candidate. In that entire year CBS never once considered her worthy of their national audience interest? Yet, Bloomberg avoids all that work, personal scrutiny and heat, saunters in 9 months later than Warren, and after only 3 months of campaigning, scores the perfectly timed extra national exposure effect 60 Minute gig? I really wonder about what is going on with CBS and 60 Minutes with this Bloomberg exposure gift at the perfect time to help his Johnny Come Lately campaign over the entire rest of the much longer running, greater sacrificing Dem candidate field. Seems too easy fishy to me. Bloomberg has now spent 1/2 BILLION to defeat the Dem field in his brief 3 month long run? How obscene. How un-American. If Bloomberg wins the Dem candidacy, we'll have to tell our kids... Yes Sammy and Susie, in our country, if you're rich enough, you really can buy the presidency.

I have mentioned my surprise that this non-JFK thread has been allowed to stay on the forum as long it is has, but at the same time very appreciative because it gives us inherently political minded members at least one thread outlet to express our current political concerns along with our main JFK truth focus one. A nice "one thread" break balance if you will? With that in mind, I am certainly not advocating starting any more non-JFK threads. However, staying in this one thread, I want to at least bring up the incredibly world effecting and American news dominating coronavirus situation. I live in California. The effect this reported threat is having in our daily lives here ( even at this earliest stage ) is incredible and I think way beyond what most Americans know or imagine. I listen to radio news almost constantly when I am not home at the computer. My radio listening is confined to the largest audience 24 hour news station in Northern Calif. KCBS out of San Francisco. Expert commentary regards the most pressing news stories is a 24 hour part of the KCBS format. These commentators on the coronavirus situation are already suggesting the public consider major life style changes such as stocking up on basic need items, avoiding plane travel, avoiding attending public events and even social functions of more than a few people, and even keeping an open mind to pulling your children from school and home schooling them if the situation gets too bad ! There are so many other areas of concern I don't want to mention them to keep from scare mongering. There are so many cancellations of conventions and other large crowd venues in the Bay Area it is unprecedented. Calif. and San Francisco in particular are so dependent on tourism and large group convention business that their income revenue if this continues has to be hit hard on levels that we have never seen before. Tourism from China to Calif. over the last 20 years has grown to huge numbers. This has stopped completely. Every aspect of the hospitality industry in Calif. is already economically effected by this loss alone. The potential of devastating economic damage is real and judging from what we are already seeing in real life terms at just this early scared stage is ominous. How this is going to play out in the national political arena is the big question. One that none of us participating in this thread content can ignore or pretend isn't the big elephant in the room anymore.

If Bloomberg is allowed to buy the nomination I swear I will not vote this coming November for the office of president. Not as a democrat as I have been all my life. I will not be a part of such a perverse, corrupt and unAmerican scheme. The link you provided Jim says it all about Bloomberg. The idea of a mega-rich billionaire ascending to our highest elective office by kidnapping the Democratic Party nomination ( when he isn't even a democrat!) through the most massive expenditure media and bought off support manipulation campaign ever created is a deeply disturbing scenario to me. To a gut wrenching degree. Meg Whitman tried to do the same thing of buying the Governorship of California a few years ago. The amount of her own money she pumped into her Republican campaign broke all records. It got her the candidacy. She lost of course, but this was in California where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a wide margin and always have. The rest of the country is much more susceptible to the big money manipulation imo. How could the national Democratic Party come to this breakdown state? Where we may only have a choice between two 1% ruling priority billionaire ego-maniacs to choose from this next November?

I wish I could know whether E.Howard Hunt made this story up to help his son St.John reap some financial security through perhaps a licensing and publishing deal? Or, he was telling the truth about his fellow covert operators organizing the "Big Event" and at the behest of power people such as LBJ. In accepting Hunt's "Big Event" tale as true, you must then accept the reality that JFK was taken out via a coup involving our own leaders. It's a tough choice. Doug, was your friend E.Howard Hunt telling the truth with his "Big Event" confession?

It's Trump's shockingly irresponsible, confused and/or downplaying response to this global economic and human life threatening crisis that is most troubling to me. Trump: It's not that serious. It's a democratic party scheme to undermine his re-election. Trumps mouth pieces...it's a hoax? Recent Trump Medal Of Freedom recipient Rush Limbaugh infers the coronavirus may be a covert planned release event? This is the worst, most irresponsible presidential handling of a major national and world effecting crisis I've ever seen. We are witnessing a true "crisis in confidence" with Trump's outrageously incompetent response to this crisis which the stock market landslide is reflecting. My wife and I are truly concerned about this virus spreading here at home. We are the most susceptible to it's deadly effects according to reports that older people with other medical conditions are the hardest hit. And hey, what if oldsters like Sanders, Biden and even Trump himself should be hit by this virus? No, this crisis and massive stock market loss isn't something I and other Trump dis-likers look at with glee. We even have some funds in the stock market ourselves and have already lost some value in just this last week!

WOW! The stock market just "opened"...with a 1,000 point drop! Just 2 more thousand and we hit recession territory. Looks like Trump's number #1 political achieving bragging point is close to being ( if not already ) history.

You recall Jesus's actions when he came upon the church square and saw all the money changers doing business there? Donald Trump: King ... of the "Money Changers." His first mental thought process in every matter of governmental affairs clearly seems to be one of personal political and money making gain as a priority before considering the common good of "all" the American people beyond just the 1% wealthiest class. It's an "obsessive" Mar-a-Lago spoiled/Me First mind set. When a stock market drop hits 10% it's called a "Correction." When that drop hits 20% it's called a "Bear Market" or ... a "Recession." Before this morning's Dow Jones opening bell ( and in just 5 days time ) we are already more than half-way to the "Recession" stock market drop mark. Who would have predicted an almost surreal event of biological nature such as a new world wide threatening pandemic level human virus and it's non-antidote spread might possibly be Trump's undoing? Like everything else with DJT ... it's crazy!

Diane Sawyer interviewed New York City Gotti crime family Capo and hit man Sammy "The Bull" Gravano back in April of 1997. Gravano had already ratted out his former boss by this time and spilled a few more beans ( very small servings ) to Sawyer as well. Gravano was discussing his control over a few of the trade unions in NYC during he and Gotti's heyday and especially the cement pourers union. He said he and Gotti were pulling in millions of dollars a year in extorted kick backs from this trade union alone. In the middle of Gravano's bragging recollection of not just how good of a hit man he was and also how good he was as the controller of this particular NYC building industry graft corruption scheme he blurts out an unprompted ... " Donald Trump couldn't get a buildin' built wit-out goin' throughs me. " Now, as we all know Trump did a lot of New York City construction right during the time Gotti and Gravano ran these unions. So, Gravano is telling the world...that Trump had major construction dealings with them during that time period? Imo it sure sounds that way. New Jersey was the same thing. New Jersey and New York were so controlled by the mob in that era. One can fairly assume or reasonably guess that Trump has been dealing with elements of organized crime throughout much of his business career.

I honestly worry about both Bernie Sander's and Joe Biden's health and stamina from now until this November. The primaries have already been exhausting it seems to me and especially for two men close to 80 years old and with Bernie actually having at least one or more heart issues. Warren looks like she is in excellent health. The other candidates as well. If Sanders is the front runner and even the final nominee and he suffers a significant health setback before the election, it could change everything and in a potentially negative way for the Democrats. I hate to lose Warren as a senator, but if she and Sanders could work through their mutual animosity, I also would love to see a Sanders/Warren ticket. They would win the national women vote easily.

Joining the New York Times, the Boston Globe just endorsed Elizabeth Warren for President. The Boston Globe performed an astonishing U-turn on Wednesday when it officially endorsed Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) run for president. The newspaper’s editorial board declared Warren to be “the best choice for Democrats,” hailing her track record and “tenacity to defend the principles of democracy, bring fairness to an economy that is excluding too many Americans, and advance a progressive agenda.” List of Elizabeth Warren 2020 presidential campaign ...

So much has been said about Ruby's shooting of Oswald being an unplanned, impulsive, overly distraught emotion driven act of murderous insanity made possible only because of incredibly brief time frame window of opportunity luck. How if Ruby had arrived just 3 to 4 minutes later to the transfer scene, he would have missed out on his Oswald whacking chance. Let us imagine Ruby getting into that basement press crowd earlier than he did. Even 5 to 10 minutes earlier. I propose that Ruby would have been recognized by at least one or more police security in that crowd if he had done so. Ruby's policeman friend William "Blackie" Harrison was within just a couple to a few feet ( arms length ) from Ruby when Ruby bolted out to shoot Oswald. Harrison told the Warren Commission he was looking around during his time standing on the front line of the press crowd that morning both before and up to the time Oswald was brought in. And yet, Harrison said he never saw Ruby standing close to him or entering the basement at any time up until Ruby charged past him to get a point blank shot into Oswald's gut. If Ruby had been hanging around and moving into the close front edge of the basement press crowd for 5 or 10 minutes before the shooting, chances are very likely Ruby would have been noticed ( so many policemen in that crowd knew Ruby personally ) and probably confronted as to his presence there not being allowed ...imo. Heck, even career newspaper writer Seth Kantor might have noticed Ruby in the crowd again as he did at Parkland Hospital the early afternoon of 11,22,1963. Kantor was in the Dallas PD basement during this whole time. And Kantor later stated under oath, that even with his press badges visible it was harder for him to get into the DPD basement than it was for Ruby. My point being that Ruby would NOT HAVE WANTED to arrive in the super crowded and guarded Dallas PD basement "too early" for these reasons. A last minute entrance just before the chaotic Oswald arrival with a distracting press crush shouting and popping flash bulbs would obviously make Ruby's presence there much more unnoticed. Just a thought.

ks' in closed-door 2016 New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg said at a private event in 2016 that his presidential campaign platform would have been to "defend the banks" and also labeled the progressive movement and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, now a rival for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, as "scary." When asked his views on the rise of the far right in Europe, Bloomberg warned about the rise of progressive politicians in the US, citing Warren. "The left is arising. The progressive movement is just as scary," he says. "Elizabeth Warren on one side. And whoever you want to pick on the Republicans on the right side?" Bloomberg, who was elected mayor as a Republican and as an independent, also criticized President Barack Obama, saying that his 2012 endorsement of Obama was "backhanded" and that he thought Republican Mitt Romney could have done a better job if he'd been elected. Bloomberg is now running a largely self-funded multi-million-dollar campaign for the Democratic nomination, positioning himself as a moderate as his rivals -- a crowded field that includes not just Warren but Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who is now the front-runner -- are trying to paint him as an out-of-touch billionaire who is trying to buy an election. Bloomberg has argued that he is using his wealth to advance progressive causes and defeat President Donald Trump in November. Audio of his comments, allegedly from a closed Goldman Sachs event for at Yankee Stadium on June 15, 2016, were anonymously sent to CNN by an email address called "CancelGoldman," with the author claiming he worked at Goldman Sachs for 14 years. The email called on Bloomberg to drop out of the race. The audio of the event, sent to CNN and a host of reporters was uploaded to audio hosting platform SoundCloud five days ago. Bloomberg's campaign confirmed the authenticity of the comments. CNN confirmed through Facebook photographs that Bloomberg took part in an event that day at Yankee Stadium. Goldman Sachs declined to comment, but did not dispute it was their event. Stu Loeser, a spokesman for Bloomberg, said Bloomberg's comments about banks were a joke. "The opening line was a joke," Loeser told CNN in an email. He added: "in the more serious parts of the speech, Mike tells very wealthy Americans that they need to break their addiction to cheap money that's exacerbating income inequality in America." In the remarks, Bloomberg also spoke of the need for America to solve the problem of income equality before society "blows up." "Well, to start, my first campaign platform would be to defend the banks, and you know how well that's gonna sell in this country," Bloomberg said in his remarks. "But seriously," he went on, "somebody's gotta stand up and do what we need. A healthy banking system that's going to take risks because that's what creates the jobs for everybody. And nobody's willing to say that. The trouble is, these campaigns in this day and age, really are about slogans and not about issues anymore. And in this election you're going to see people are voting and they either love or hate, mostly hate both, but who you hate the least. That's what they're going to vote for. And they're not going to vote on issues." Bloomberg added of the banking crowd, "these are my peeps." He also said at the event that he had been prepared to run as an independent against both Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016 and had lawyers in all 50 states to get him on the ballot, but as he's also said publicly, told the crowd that the best he could hope to get was a third of the electoral votes and said an independent had "no chance." The head of privately held Bloomberg LP, a financial data and media company, said he didn't regret not running -- but joked that winning the presidency would have given him the benefit of using Predator drones on those who had "annoyed me or screwed me." "It would have been a great job," says Bloomberg. "No, I mean, you think about it, you have Predators, and the Predators have missiles, and I have a list of everybody that's annoyed me or screwed me for the last 74 years, and bang-bang-bang-bang." Bloomberg's spokesman acknowledged to CNN the joke on drones seemed inappropriate. "Way back in 2016, when someone cracked wise about a President using military hardware to settle grudges, an audience would laugh," Loeser also wrote. "After three years of Donald Trump's daily drama, that might not seem so funny. What you hear in these remarks are a combination of jokes and detailed explanations of ways to make our government better that are far beyond what the current occupant of the Oval Office could read, let alone think." Speaking about Obama, Bloomberg -- then still an independent -- described his 2012 endorsement as "back-handed" and said he did not think Obama did not do a good job in his first term, and that Romney would have done a better job if he could have governed as he did as governor of Massachusetts. "The second Obama election I wrote a very backhanded endorsement of Obama," Bloomberg said. "Saying I thought he hadn't done the right thing, hadn't done, hadn't been good at things that I think are important and Romney would be a better person at doing that. But Romney did not stick with the values that he had when he was governor of Massachusetts." Loeser, Bloomberg's spokesman, defended his comments on Obama. "Regarding President Obama, he was making an important point," he told CNN in an email. "Everyone who read Mike's endorsement of President Obama saw that it was aimed at convincing Americans who saw merit in both candidates to vote for Obama. President Obama didn't need Mike Bloomberg to get out the vote from the strongest Obama voters. What Mike could and did do for President Obama is much like what he could and did do for Hillary Clinton when he spoke at the Democratic Convention in 2016 -- convince Americans who weren't already convinced of voting for the Democrat." Former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign slammed Bloomberg's comments about Obama on Monday. "Now we know that behind closed doors, Bloomberg described his last-minute endorsement of President Obama in 2012 as 'very backhanded' and said that he thought 'Romney would be a better person at doing' the 'things that I think are important.' Bloomberg may have changed his voter registration but he's still a Republican at heart," Andrew Bates, a Biden campaign spokesperson, said in a statement. In his remarks, Bloomberg made historical reference to previous anti-elite revolutions. "The ways you get Congress to work for you is the ways you deal with your family," Bloomberg said. "You bribe them. You say to your kid, you say to your kid to 'clean your room or you don't get your allowance.' That's a bribe, I'm sorry." Another speaker interrupted Bloomberg to suggest curfews, and Bloomberg agreed. "Curfews or you threaten them, 'If you don't do this no television,'" he said. "Or you try to reason with them you know, maybe you'll find $2 under your clothes that are piled on the floor. But that's the way you deal with people and you deal with organizations. That's the way every big organization runs." Bloomberg lamented the loss of earmarking as a means for congressional cooperation. "We've taken away some of that with these member items that used to be that Congress had a certain amount of money and they would bribe each legislator to vote for the important things. We got rid of that and now it's so fractured. It's hard to get anything through Congress." He also said he'd raise interest rates if he were president and called for passing the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, from which Trump ultimately withdrew the US. In other comments, Bloomberg explained he backed Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey's reelection that year, even though he disagreed with him on most issues, because he supported his signature issue of guns. Democrats have criticized Bloomberg for his support of a small number of Republican candidates as late as the 2018 midterm elections. I edited some of the above article for space considerations. Parts of which mentioned Bloomberg's comments on the coal industry, contributions to climate change groups and even some job creation proposals. What I posted is the main thrust of the article imo and much more important in the context of understanding Bloomberg's true mind set , personal values system and agenda in his massive spending campaign to buy the presidency. I have mentioned before that Elizabeth Warren has always been the 1% power people's biggest fear as a candidate. Here Bloomberg tells his Wall Street brethren he will protect them from her. And he clearly states...Warren and the progressives are the number one enemy, not Donald Trump. Bloomberg's 1/2 BILLION dollar campaign advertising effort is about splitting the Democratic primary votes and to deflate Warren's chances specifically. Bloomberg's comments at the Goldman Sach's Yankee Stadium get together reflecting this main concern about Warren and the "arising of the progressives" couldn't be clearer. Warren would win it all if she had won the first primaries going into Super Tuesday and Bloomberg knows this. Bloomberg is in AN ALL OUT WAR effort to take control of the Democratic party by this November with unprecedented war time urgency spending. The fact that enough potential voters are now saying they are voting for Bloomberg just from seeing his generalized ads all over every media and not knowing anymore about him through any self-informing research reflects the intellectual weakness and laziness that I have always said is one of American society's greatest flaws. Reminds me of the huge landslide of voters choosing the incredibly corrupt Nixon ( his whole team went to prison-25!) over the truly honest, patriotic and law abiding George McGovern in the 1972 presidential election because they fell for the massive Republican propaganda "LAW AND ORDER" campaign scaring them into believing McGovern was a dangerous commie/hippie/free love and drug promoting BOOGIE MAN who's election would turn their children into law disrespecting drug addicts and free love sex slaves. Then just two years later when the truth was exposed that the REAL law and order breaking boogie men were Nixon and his entire staff (complete with his own private burglary team!) you would think that tens of millions of 1972 presidential election voters would have realized how duped and dumb they were to believe the false reality of McGovern being the bad guy versus Richard Millhouse Nixon. And yet, I don't believe those Nixon law and order voters ever really took personal responsibility or blame for their placing the real crooks in office in 1972. That same intellectual weakness and susceptibility to being influenced by massive false reality propaganda that inspired so many to vote the most corrupt group of politicians in American history into the White House in 1972 is still with us if Bloomberg is able to steal the Democratic nomination just by massive spending media advertising alone.

Douglas, do you think you personally have ever been wiretapped or surveilled even more? If so, who would you think would do this and why? If you don't want to comment on this subject I understand. And by the way, thank you for your supportive post of me personally a few days ago.