What Will (Didn't) Watch

We don't watch debates. Why? But the Spectator's Amber Athey did:

Bloomberg took a gamble by appearing at Wednesday’s debate — presumably he assumed he had the political experience to put up a good performance. Instead, he was hammered repeatedly over alleged sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace, his ‘stop and frisk’ policies in New York City, his status as a billionaire, and his previous Republican membership. The mayor appeared defensive and unprepared to answer to any of these attacks — the type of thing that can sink a candidacy, if Sen Kamala Harris’s campaign post-Tulsi Gabbard whacking her for her prosecutorial history is any indicator.

The titan of business, media and New York City has been surrounded by yes-men for 40 years and it showed. Money can buy you a massive campagin infrastrucutre but it can't buy you people willing to let you have it in the debate prep (What, and risk that plum $5,000 a month gig?). We remain confident in our autumn prediction that the mayor will not be the Democrat nominee.

Mike Bloomberg Hates Your Guts

Everything about this article from The American Conservative is correct:

What these comments have in common is that they’re elitist. And not just elitist, but purest-grade, paternalistically elitist, unchecked by the usual manners and political correctness that are supposed to govern Upper East Side prejudices. Bloomberg just says this stuff, then sets about codifying it through petty rules. He’s the mirror image of Donald Trump, only whereas Trump is our most unfiltered voice of populism, Bloomberg is the smirking id of our imperious elites.

Boy they hate the rest of us. They really do. We're in the know. Heck, growing up in the NYC northern suburbs we were taught to disdain the rest of the country. We've gotten over it. These people literally wonder why anyone wouldn't want to live in Manhattan, or the metro-area, anyway. They don't even realize the rest of the country hates them right back. This blog renews its call for Governor Murphy to deploy the National Guard to the Hudson River and destoy the tunnels and the GWB.