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The Hater’s Guide to Mike Bloomberg

The first in a series of candidate roasts leading up to the Iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire primary, and Super Tuesday

Drew Magary
GEN
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8 min readJan 15, 2020

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Some people are supporters of Mike Bloomberg. But many, many more people are NOT supporters of Mike Bloomberg. This post is for those in the latter group.

Your candidate

Less aggro Rupert Murdoch.

His résumé

Michael Bloomberg amassed billions of dollars — the kind of obscene fortune that deserves to be roundly stigmatized by every living American — by selling computer terminals to brokerages that essentially serve as the dot matrix printers of the financial industry. From there, he built a business news empire that now serves as a fire hose of assorted brand propaganda. This is a more genial form of propaganda compared to what you get with Fox News and, therefore, easier to get away with.

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Drew Magary
GEN
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Columnist at GEN. Co-founder, Defector. Author of Point B.