Mike Bloomberg – Diary of a Mad Millennial

**Elizabeth Warren, seen here preparing to end Mike Bloomberg’s whole career (not really but DID YOU SEE THAT SHIT?!?!?!).**

Can we stop with the revisionist history already?

Over the entirety of this election, we have been told exhaustively that the Democratic field is too far to the left, they’re alienating moderate Democrats, scaring away older voters with SOCIALISM.

People do understand that what the Democrats are doing is similar to the way the GOP field of 2016 cannibalized themselves, right? That the nomination of Donald Trump was far from a straightforward thrashing of the Republican establishment? That many of the same pundits telling Democrats to ease down the leftism chided the Republican Party for going way too right-wing?

Funny, how did that election end up again? Oh, yeah, they won. Despite the fact that Hillary Rodham Clinton won 2.7 million more votes than Donald Trump, the election ended with the GOP controlling the House, Senate, and Oval Office.

All because Trump played to his base while the Democrats fractured over perceived primary rigging and apathy towards an unpopular candidate. Plus no one really thought Trump would win, including the now former head of the FBI.

Fast-forward to today, and you’ll see that Democrats are divided again. Some want more middle-of-the-road voices like Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, and Amy Klobuchar to be at the top of the nomination. But a huge following of progressives (myself included) want to see Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren take the lead. As mentioned in the last post, a frightening amount of your uncles on Facebook think that Michael Bloomberg, a moderately decent to underachieving mayor of NYC with a history of sexist and racist skullduggery and acquiescence to pressure from foreign powers, is the savior of the American People with his bold promise to charge the rich taxes they should already be paying and giving Obamacare the public option that was originally proposed by the 44^th President during his 2008 campaign. Something Bloomberg has in the past criticized. A lot. A Republican in the guise of a Democrat wanting to make enough changes to satisfy the plebeians in exchange for the keys to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. To give the former mayor credit, he did call for a public option before the law’s eventual passage. In that respect, Bloomberg may be closer to the left than some Warren supporters like myself would care to acknowledge. On the other hand, the man called Bernie Sanders a communist on live television. So, there’s that.

Yes, it’s a fractured field, and there’s far too much hostility between fellow Democrats, progressives, and liberals for my liking.

But this needs to be done.

It’s the tearing off of the bandage that needed to happen in 2016. The biggest difference now being that we know exactly what this gutless administration is willing to do to consolidate its power over Congress and the courts. We now have seen a possible preview of the worst-case scenario: a President implementing cruel, inhumane policies that hollows out the very social services he promised to protect and then lie nonstop about the opposing party to obfuscate the truth and bend reality to his whim. A man who will stop at nothing to retaliate against any perceived enemies. A con-man making money off of the Secret Service security details bequeathed to him as President. A strongman who loves other strongmen and continues to poison the well with our actual allies in Europe and elsewhere. A man who will do any goddamn thing his GOP cronies want him to, a rubber stamp for Mitch McConnell’s wet dream of making poor people suffer slow, painful existences.

There’s much more at stake now, thanks partially to the same progressives who actively sat out of the general when Bernie didn’t get the nomination.

And of course the millions of eligible voters who sat with their thumbs in their asses as a literal fascist walked into DC under at-best dubious conditions while a known enemy ran interference on social media and within our very government.

This election is the last election that will mean anything quite frankly. If we fuck this one up, we may not have another actual free election. This isn’t fear-mongering. The Senate decided the impeachment trial well before the House finished officially impeaching. They acquitted without so much as a whimper, no attempt to discern more evidence that would have pointed to obvious if not irrefutable guilt.

They do not care about this country.

They will swan dive with this megalomaniac into the fiery pits of Hell before letting a Democrat have a chance to replace Ruth Bader Ginsberg with a non-Federalist Society-approved neo-con apologist.

Vote Blue No Matter Who is the motto I’ve been living by in an attempt to keep my sanity. The trouble is that I’m just afraid that no one else in America is on the same page. Ironically, it’s the establishment that scare me more than the purity-testing Berners and Bernettes on Twitter (assuming they aren’t troll bots).

When discussing Bernie Sanders’ chances on MSNBC, former U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer said in the same breath that while she considers the candidates all progressives, she reprimanded Bernie for being “too angry”. As if the largest inequality gap in our country’s history is something to be cheery about? That our current trillion-dollar deficit and stagnation of wages for the last 40 years is something that shouldn’t piss someone off?

Keep in mind, Senator Boxer is a Democrat from California who never has to worry about being re-elected to office again. So, with nothing on the line, this veteran Democrat just shat out something I would expect from Jennifer Rubin, or some other Never-Trumper Republican who wants the Democratic nominee to be the ideal surrogate GOP candidate from their list of potential 2020 hopefuls they dreamt up before November 9th, 2016 happened.

People, like Joe Biden, who simply believe once Trump is gone, we’ll be back to the good ol’ days when Democrats and Republicans simply disagreed on superficial issues of small vs. big government all while accepting the same contributions from the hordes of lobbyists sent in by corporate giants seeking to buy the U.S. government’s soul.

If it’s not the perennial fence-sitters throwing wrenches into the process, it’s progressives who want to die on a hill fighting the good fight. The ones who voted for Kremlin stooge “Dr.” Jill Stein, or renown Mensa member Gary Johnson. The ones who brayed on about how Hillary was the same as, or even worse than, Donald Trump.

Maybe four years, two massive political scandals, hundreds of thousands of illegally-detained migrants, a carousel of unqualified sycophants, yes-men and women and one whole-ass impeachment later, their perspective has changed a bit.

It’s the only thing that will save us.

It Matters What Side You Take

The chop is racist.

You know the one. The stupid ass tomahawk chop you’ll hear in Atlanta, KC, and FSU.

The drum music, “dum-duh-duh-duh, dum-duh-duh-duh, dum-duh-duh-duh, dum-duh-duh-duh……”

The war chant, “whoaaaaaa whoa-oh-ohhhhhh, whoa-oh-ohhhh ooooo whoa-oh-ohhhh…”

It’s run-of-the-mill, standard tomahawk chop. If you’ve grown up with either of these teams, and if you’re a fan of these teams, you don’t really care too much about this. It’s like second nature.

Likely, the few Native Americans you’ve known have always told you that it’s “not a big deal,” or no one necessarily cares because it’s not “that bad”.

Let me let you all in on a little secret: it absolutely matters, and chances are, we do care.

No, not talking about being a Native American – I’m not.

I’m talking about being told that I look Jewish.

Someone making a crack about Jews being great with money, or being nerdy little momma’s boys, having no athletic skills whatsoever, somehow being connected to show business…

Shit like that digs at you, pricking at your subconscious every so often, reminding you that you aren’t really like everyone else.

You’re one of them.

It’s fun being the token. It’s also infuriating. But you don’t bring up every instance of disrespect, instead picking and choosing when to fight. That’s life as a minority.

I’ve never been called a sheenie, kike, heeb, anything like that to my face.

The worst I ever got was in high school when one of the idiot kids I sat with at lunch farted, and when I covered my nose with my shirt, the fuckstick said, “What, you afraid of a little gas?”

I’m lucky though. Other people get it way worse.

At the very least, we don’t have a team playing the dreidel song as a rally cry.

We’re the center of every conspiracy theory, but we at least have some really famous motherfuckers in Hollywood not named Harvey Weinstein and other shitbags you’ve seen in the news.

Anyway, where was I, oh yeah the chop is racist. And honestly, it matters if you think it is or isn’t. There’s no such thing as neutrality. At some point or another, you have to take a stand.

It absolutely matters what side you’re on.

You’ve likely been in the middle of two friends arguing about something, and may have cried out a phrase along the lines of, “I’m Switzerland, leave me out of this,” a way of indicating you haven’t picked a side just like the peaceful little mountain nation with all of its Alps, and chocolate, and whatnot.

Too bad that metaphor is completely false.

One fun fact you may not know about the Swiss is that during World War II, while they didn’t take an official side, they refused to accept any Jewish refugees trying to escape the grasp of the Nazis. Multiple Swiss banks retained valuables the Nazis took while plundering, and looting wealthy European Jewish families. Everything from priceless artwork, family heirlooms, clothing, jewelry, money, etc…

Top officials within the Third Reich, from Gestapo founder Hermann Goering to head of the SS as well as Hitler’s bodyguard Heinrich Himmler, entrusted their ill-gotten gains to the Swiss because their banks were notorious for their discretion.

After the war, these banks were so dedicated to their Aryan customers that they refused to relinquish the plundered loot to the likes of Interpol, the Hague, Mossad, and other agencies seeking to reunite families who survived the Holocaust with their priceless belongings, memories of a time before the they became victims.

Before Kristallnacht.

Before the camps.

Before the final solution.

These same Swiss banks have continued similar practices with regard to terrorists, crime syndicates, dictatorships, and proxy groups acting on behalf of bigger, more nefarious forces, hiding money from international authorities.

While they never sent a single troop into battle, and have briefly done so only once in its modern history, the Swiss have been complicit in covering for some of the worst of the worst humanity has had to offer.

And yet some of you may be learning this for the first time right now.

When the rule of law takes a backseat to personal agendas, everyone but the criminal suffers.

When Donald Trump “survived” the “GREATEST WITCH HUNT EVER SEEN”, America lost. Badly.

When the pharmaceutical companies got to dictate how the Affordable Care Act would be rolled out in conjunction with their abilities to conduct business to seemingly a dodge a price clampdown by the government, no-one but the executives of Pfizer and many others won.

Whenever a billionaire buys himself onto a debate stage in the middle of a primary, gaining support after carpet-bombing multiple states with campaign ad after campaign ad while disparaging any candidate willing to call for the self-indulgent top-of-the-top of the economic pyramid to pay more taxes than they do now, it’s the billionaires who benefit, not the people.

For too long, America has become a country of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich. With the rise of yet another Washington “outsider“ from the city of New York with a war chest of unlimited spending brought to you by the fine folks of the Supreme Court, Democrats are starting to fool themselves once again, falling for the same traps they mocked Trump supporters for diving headfirst into during 2016:

“He’s a self-made businessman.”

“He’s the American dream.”

“He can’t be bought.”

“He’s running with his own money, so he answers to no one.”

“He cares about us.”

“We’re not going to get anyone who can unite the country like him.”

All of the same tropes now being parroted by folks on the “liberal” side of the aisle, all the same gag-inducing drivel touted by the current troll factory on the right.

It’s almost like the DNC is trying to tell every progressive that all of the conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton were true. Like they don’t even care that the new centrist darling is as racist, sexist, and autocratic as the current villain on Pennsylvania Avenue. Like it’s never been about truly delivering on lofty promises, swinging the pendulum in the direction of working-class, blue collar factory workers, single moms, black and Latino voters, the LGBTQ+.

It’s as if they truly do not give one iota of a single fuck about the will of the people.

I have reiterated ad nauseum about my wanting to get rid of Donald Trump at any cost.

I didn’t think I literally had to consider the possibility that the Democratic Party would flirt with that any-cost approach. With the current crop of talent i.e. Warren, Sanders, Biden, Buttigieg and Senator Salad Comb, maybe. But not with Mr. Big Gulp. Not a literal, honest-to-G-d-as-recently-as-the-last-election-Republican former mayor of New York City.

At least it’s not Rudy?

At any rate, we’re on a suicide course.

Depending on the next few months, America may finally outsmart itself for the last time.

Or, hopefully, Bloomberg ended his campaign with that pathetic debate performance.

Can it be November now?