Mike Bloomberg's Rude Awakening UPDATED 2-20-2020 6:30pm MST

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the next president of the United States, Elizabeth Warren:

From New Republic deputy editor Heather Souvaine Horn,

The Radicalism of Warren’s Unapologetic Aggression

The senator's evisceration of her competitors at the Las Vegas Democratic debate hinted at an ability to shatter a longstanding political convention. 

Mike Bloomberg has proposed to buy American votes with $400 million (and counting) in advertisements. Elizabeth Warren walked onto Wednesday’s debate stage proposing to buy American votes with the body of Mike Bloomberg. It was quality television. It was “Big Dick Energy.” And it could mark the end of an era in American politics. [...]

Some saw her performance as an act of desperation: a flagging candidate seeking discount media coverage with a parade of quotable moments. Or it may have been more strategic: driving a stake through the heart of the revenant Stop-and-Frisk architect, as a televised show of devotion for progressive and black voters. Either way, as countless post-debate writeups have already pointed out, it was a return to the “fighter” identity that Massachusetts voted for in 2012. But that’s underselling its novelty. [...]

Closing statements are a revealing little exercise, each candidate trying and sometimes failing to boil down their pitch to a single word. Bloomberg asked for votes as a “manager.” Biden asked for votes as Joe Biden. Sanders played the revolutionary, and Buttigieg the unifier. Warren sold herself as a “fighter.” No maternal overtones tempered the identity presented in this final statement. Warren did not describe herself as a “mama grizzly.” She did not mention her children at all. And the “mother” she mentioned was not herself, but her own mother. “I watched my mother fight to save our family. And I grew up fighting to save our family, my family,” she said. “Give me a chance, I’ll go to the White House and I’ll fight for your family.”

It’s such a trite little triptych you could easily miss the bait-and-switch. As a female candidate, you’re supposed to ground any aggression you might have in your motherhood, not the childhood people of all genders share.

But Warren, at the end of the debate, didn’t grin sheepishly and say, “Well, I’m a mom after all.” She claimed her kills, and promised American families to go out and fell fresh targets in their name.

Here was an assassin, bathed in the blood of her enemies, turning steady eyes to the TV camera and offering her talents to the public: For the small price of a primary vote, this assassin will work for you.

From where I sit (and stand) that's EXACTLY who and what we need to defeat the Orange Menace currently occupying the Oval Office.

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What follows is NOT the update.

This needs no explanation from me.



But THIS came first.



Who do you think would be the best person to take on the Orange Menace?

Oh, and lest you think it might be easy to trade one (alleged) billionaire for a different billionaire, consider the fact that there's hard DATA which strongly suggest nominating a moderate Democrat to face off with Trump is a losing proposition.