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Billionaire Mike Bloomberg voted early for Kamala Harris ‘without hesitation’ (fortune.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did bloomberg fake news endorse her?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure why he would do that. He's kind of a piece of shit but he is a democrat. If he really wanted trump then it wouldn't make sense to endorse Harris, given that the endorsement probably would convince more than one person to vote for her, canceling out his vote.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When we recently had a melt down when bezos' wapo did not lol

Here we got another daddy owner with a fake news rag did did not endorse her but no spazzing from DNC komissars on this one...

Makes you wonder...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you always enraged before fact checking?

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-10-31/michael-bloomberg-why-i-m-voting-for-kamala-harris

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did bloomberg new editorial board endorse her?

Or did they just post his endorsement on their website?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Bezos blocked the endorsement, Bloomberg did the endorsement himself.

I don't see the issue.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Something something gay icecream

[+] [email protected] -15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

His ass is Lyin

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

To what end? He lives in New York, a solid blue state, and posted his endorsement on his LinkedIn account (heh) unprompted. If he secretly voted differently, a) it wouldn't make any difference and b) he wouldn't be using his influence to encourage people to vote against his secret fave.

I'm not saying this because I trust Bloomberg, I'm saying it because I literally can't see any benefit to him lying about this. Are you suggesting some sort of 4D chess reverse psychology deal where he endorses Kamala so that people who dislike him will trigger his trap card by voting against his publicly supported candidate, which is secretly what he wanted all along?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

On top of all that, I honestly can't conceive of why he'd prefer Trump. People like him care about one thing: money. A Trump economy attempting to create autarky via blanket tarrifs would annihilate his investments.

He has no major outstanding court cases he needs protection from and no major government contracts in danger (in either case, Trump might be more useful since he's very bribable), which means the only selfish logical choice for him is Kamala.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

which means the only selfish logical choice for him is Kamala.

For plebs reading this... lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

nah idk im sure you're right