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JHB

(37,161 posts)
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 09:04 AM Mar 2020

Thursday TOONs - The Mask

Plenty of Super-Tuesday TOONs, but this is GD, so none here. Except for Bloom'n Mike. He couldn't handle the heat and left the kitchen, so he's fair game.


The Mask
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Screwball

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Thursday TOONs - The Mask (Original Post) JHB Mar 2020 OP
Thank you for the cartoons Gothmog Mar 2020 #1
Thank you for today's toons steventh Mar 2020 #2
Yay! Toons! planetc Mar 2020 #3
thanks NewJeffCT Mar 2020 #4
K&R smirkymonkey Mar 2020 #5
Great, "Vice-Pastor Pence..." 😁 txwhitedove Mar 2020 #6
Hard hitting toons. Thanks. K and R oasis Mar 2020 #7
Good stuff. marble falls Mar 2020 #8
Thanks for the toons! Nitram Mar 2020 #9
K&R and thank you mountain grammy Mar 2020 #10
The Mask wcollar Mar 2020 #11
We are larfing our asses off over Mike having spent over $500M NCjack Mar 2020 #12
I'm not laughing. A lot of that money went to organizing ground teams... JHB Mar 2020 #15
I read that he was paying campaign workers PatSeg Mar 2020 #17
Come on folks Chainfire Mar 2020 #18
Even worse, Fox earned some of his money running anti-trump ads (n/t) Pluvious Mar 2020 #23
Thanks for a great collection... El Mimbreno Mar 2020 #13
Thank you! 2naSalit Mar 2020 #14
Thank you. murielm99 Mar 2020 #16
Kick burrowowl Mar 2020 #19
These are great malaise Mar 2020 #20
K & R...nt Wounded Bear Mar 2020 #21
Kicktoons & thanks! Hekate Mar 2020 #22
Some of these were funny BigOleDummy Mar 2020 #24
I agree. However, he doesn't need to run to pay for more anti-Trump ads... JHB Mar 2020 #25
Thanks! Always amazing how they can squeeze so much opinion into one tiny tune!❤ Karadeniz Mar 2020 #26
Would have sworn it was "Democrat hoax" czarjak Mar 2020 #27

wcollar

(176 posts)
11. The Mask
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 11:23 AM
Mar 2020

My first thought was of Edgar Allen Poe's "Mask of the Red Death".
This immediately lead to "The Mask of the Orange Death".................

Need I say more?

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
12. We are larfing our asses off over Mike having spent over $500M
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 11:24 AM
Mar 2020

on his losing campaign. The joke is on us. He can focus his companies and make back that money in less time it took to spend it.

JHB

(37,161 posts)
15. I'm not laughing. A lot of that money went to organizing ground teams...
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 11:32 AM
Mar 2020

...e.g., offering campaign workers ~$2500/month in places all across the country, not just ad buys. If he's really interested in supporting the party, he can keep paying those people to work for the eventual nominee. Otherwise, the whole thing was just another vanity project, and piss on his complaining.

(I suspect the latter, though.)

PatSeg

(47,520 posts)
17. I read that he was paying campaign workers
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 11:44 AM
Mar 2020

through November. Maybe to campaign against Trump? Or for the nominee?

Chainfire

(17,559 posts)
18. Come on folks
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 12:04 PM
Mar 2020

He only has 54.5 billion dollars left. It ain't like he is going to have his lights cut off...... The money was chump change to Bloomberg, a minor gamble with potential returns worth the money.

If I had 54.5 billion, I could pay off all my bills and maybe take a vacation.

BigOleDummy

(2,272 posts)
24. Some of these were funny
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 01:35 PM
Mar 2020

I must admit but to be totally honest I don't think we should be laughing at Mr. Bloomberg at least as much as some of us are. If nothing else the ad's HE paid for out of his own pocket were spot on and MADE some trumpists at least see their leader in the same light as the rest of us do. Mr. Bloomberg had his faults indeed but he stuck it to our chump in chief like very few of our other candidates did or do. He wasn't my first choice, or second or even third but I have to admire him putting his money where his mouth is. I DO believe he hates what has happened to our country just as much as we do. He tried and thats more than some can say.

JHB

(37,161 posts)
25. I agree. However, he doesn't need to run to pay for more anti-Trump ads...
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 02:07 PM
Mar 2020

...and depending on the applicable campaign finance laws, at least some of what he was paying to support his own campaign can be redirected to support the Democratic nominee (and until it's all sorted, presumably in support of his endorsee, Joe Biden).


However, the part that does beg for ridicule is the fact that his whole campaign revolved around his decision to drop an incredible amount of money into joining the process late, and then when he got spanked in a debate and unsurprisingly didn't soar on Super Tuesday, he dropped right out and complained about what he spent.

What he does next will mark where his priorities lay, and whether it was all really just another billionaire vanity project like Steyer and Schultz.

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