Michael Bloomberg loves his ice cream, and Big Gay Ice Cream is his favorite.
The billionaire presidential hopeful this week released a “comprehensive policy to ensure LGBTQ+ equality” which targets areas such as health care and workplace discrimination.
And however you feel about his late-stage candidacy, it’s nice that he’s speaking about queer issues.
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“Over the past three years, the Trump administration has acted to dismantle federal protections and resources for LGBTQ+ Americans, including stripping transgender people of their recognized identities and civil rights and nominating judges and officials with strong anti-LGBTQ+ records,” his plan reads. You can read more about that here.
But the accompanying tweet — a video of Bloomberg enjoying (enjoying? is that the face of enjoyment?) a bite of Big Gay Ice Cream, has caused some furrowed brows.
“Heart eyes emoji, Pride flag emoji, ice cream emoji,” reads the substantive caption accompanying the odd clip:
?????? @biggayicecream pic.twitter.com/ftKPL9oRsy
— Team Bloomberg (@Mike2020) January 29, 2020
We’re guessing this isn’t the reaction the campaign was aiming for:
This is the most cringeworthy pandering so far in 2020.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) January 29, 2020
— Shem Horne (@Shem_Infinite) January 29, 2020
Could this guy look any more wooden? Uncomfortable? Out of place?
Panderers gotta pander, I guess.
Does anyone actually believe he cares about something when he does stuff like this? When ANY politician does stuff like this?
— ???? E's Waiting for Some Snow ???? (@The_Original_E_) January 29, 2020
Pander level: 9000
— KloboCop ?? ??????? (@BadSunAK) January 29, 2020
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
He actually has a chance to defeat the Orange Puppet, and he makes the case pretty clear why every Gay person should support him
davidjohng
He actually has the best chance of winning, He can appeal to a wider section of voters and even conceptually take some of Trumps’ votes.
Joshooeerr
He may not be clearly stupid and crazy like Trump, but in every other way that matters he’s the same self-interested billionaire con-man, deeply invested in preventing change and protecting his own. If defeating Trump by voting for almost anyone else is all you think is important, you really need to raise your sights.
Jared MacBride
@Joshooeerr – before you make an even bigger fool of yourself you might look at what Bloomberg has done with his money.
Josh447
PWWO,
I agree. When he came on the scene I said to myself ‘there’s our next president’. We’ll see how thgs pan out.
JOSHOOEER,
You’re way off base. Blumenthal is a humanitarian. Trump is a predatorial self serving two headed snake. Big difference.
truthseeker
@Josh447
>”When he came on the scene I said to myself ‘there’s our next president’.”
>Proceeds to then call him “Blumenthal”
So you don’t even know the guy’s name but said he’s our next President?? How can you vote for someone when you can’t even identify their name on the ballot? HAHA
Josh447
TruthSucker House Bit~~ch
Aren’t you busy enough running those used rubbers through that roll around dishwasher? Git on it. Time’s a’wast’n.
winemaker
Pandering bloomberg, so what else’s new.
Goforit
Josh447… If truthseeker is in fact behind on his cleaning, he must be getting the rubbers out of his mothers garbage can. They sure as hell aren’t his. With his attitude, he certainly isn’t getting laid.
Josh447
LoL. No doubt.
Cam
Pander away if it is backed by action. Better than the Republicans pandering to racists and bigots.
o.codone
There’s more racists and bigots than there are gay ice cream eaters, so yeah, what we already know, Trump is gonna win again.
Paul Nadolski
My experiences with businessmen-turned-politicians (former Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner and the current occupant of the White House) is that they are terrible politicians. Sorry, but I can’t support Bloomberg, the latest candidate who wants to try to buy an election.
Kangol2
I can’t speak about Rauner, but the current con man in chief, Drumpf, was a failed businessman many times over. He suffered repeated bankruptcies, and the taxpayers of New Jersey are still paying for his gross incompetence. Bloomberg is one of the most successful businessmen in history, and unlike Drumpf, he did NOT receive $400 million from his father to keep him afloat.
Bloomberg is not my first or fifth choice for the Democratic presidential candidacy, but I will vote for him if he wins the nomination. I think he could defeat Drumpf. As in 2016, the 2020 election will come down to which way White voters, especially White women, vote. As a mayor Bloomberg was actually very competent, and presided over New York’s post-911 economic turnaround, and his fiscal record is probably the envy of most big city mayors, let alone many governors.
Bloomberg’s main blind spot seems to be that he does almost nothing for working-class and poor people if it doesn’t involve private philanthropy. He is very much on the side of the very rich, Wall Street and real estate interests. He also believes in nanny-state big government (no smoking indoors, no Big Gulps, etc.), but not when it comes to aiding workers and the poor. Though he is not an overt racist like Drumpf, his record on race (cf. stop and frisk) is mixed, but he is pro-gay and pro-feminist. Essentially he’s fiscally conservative and socially liberal. So he’d be a garden variety centrist Democrat or liberal Republican in the old mold.
I’ll take that over the lying racist treasonous Drumpf any day, but I would much rather have a real Democrat, especially a progressive one.
Karrnal
Every single person who picks some picayune reason to not vote for Bloomberg is actually casting a vote for Trump. Meaning all the gay people who read Queerty and don’t vote Democratic are lining themselves up against the wall and might as well pull the trigger themselves.
ShiningSex
I don’t mind Bloomberg because he’s not a politican like Trump and the orange maggot won. Maybe we need someone like Bloomberg to get rid of the POS president.
Joshooeerr
LOL. Trump literally ran on the notion that HE was not a politician, and now you’re saying the same thing about Bloomberg. It kind of points up that they’re not so different.
Kangol2
@Karrnal, sorry, but I have to disagree. First, there’s no guarantee Bloomberg can win in many parts of the US. Second, there are a lot of reasons not to vote for Bloomberg, one of which is that he’s essentially buying the election for himself, and another is that he’ll be yet another pro-Wall Street, “free trade” Democrat, and one thing that both Sanders (and Warren) and Trump supporters both have pushed back against is the Left-Right consensus on endless neoliberal “free trade” policies that have decimated the US middle and working class. Trump has unfortunately decided that the way to go is toward far-right fiscal and social policies that still do not address inequality, and I guess if Sanders or Warren is elected we’ll see which direction they go. But millions of voters are fed up with the economic and status quo, which Bloomberg represents. That said, I’d vote for him over Don the Con Drumpf in a nanosecond.
Also, Bloomberg is a politician and a very astute one. Ask anyone who had to deal with him during his tenure as mayor of New York. He knows how to get his way like the best politicians out there.
ShiningSex
I’d rather him than Sanders. Sanders’ followers tend to be so annoying and rage when you say something against “the coffin” candidate.
However, if he wins the nom I will support him 100% in order to get rid of the orange maggot.
truthseeker
So much for politics over party I guess
Another funny point is that the far left used to cry about too many old, white, straight men in politics but now they’re telling Democrats they must vote for an old, straight, white guy. I guess ‘diversity’ isn’t important
DanTaylor
Does Truthseeker, aka Craig Lenti have anything to say about this?
truthseeker
@DanTaylor
My name is Drew. No idea who that guy is.
But go ahead and vote for Bloomberg LOL. Democrats have the worst line up of candidates possible
nystrele
Hello, who doesn’t know that Bloomberg is the new Mayor Koch? seriously? Isn’t that common knowledge?
o.codone
@nystrele. The “NEW” Mayor Koch? What century are we talking about here?
BiDaddyDude
The pandering over this is sick.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Bloomberg actually has the best chance against the Orange Puppet for a myriad of reasons. He has no skeletons in his closet that can be an 11th hour drop like Hillary’s email saga. Wasn’t crazy about some of his policies but he is one hundred percent Pro-Gay.
And if you don’t think this is the most important election EVER for the Gay community you need to wake up. The Orange Puppet has already appointed over 25% of the Federal Judiciary. To LIFETIME appointments. Every President prior relied on the Bar Association for a recommendation. Instead he has the Federalist Society recommend Justices. The litany of Anti-Gay statements and actions taken by many is abhorrent and disgusting. RGB’a health is fragile the chances of her lasting another four years are very slim.
Every vote is going to count this election. You know if it’s not a substantial defeat of the Orange Puppet it will claim fraud and refuse to recognize the outcome. If one of the far left candidates get the Democratic nomination we are sunk because those with doubts about Trump will not be willing to cast a vote for someone too far left….
o.codone
RBG is already dead, they’re just changing the formaldehyde. Remember when Obama asked her to retire early so he could appoint a justice of his choosing? And she said no. Now that is coming to haunt her b/c her replacement will be made by Trump.
Hussain-TheCanadian
#Bernie2020
Vote for the man who supported gay rights from the get go, who isnt a flip flopper, and seriously wants to give the American people what their tax dollars have long paid for, Medicare for all.
As for Bloomberg, all Donny tiny hands has to do is scream “STOP AND FRISK”, and cite Bloomberg’s crappy record in New York, and poff we have Trump winning a second term.
Kangol2
Actually, Bloomberg’s record in NYC is much better than you think. He has some problems, like Stop & Frisk, but on the other hand, the city in significantly richer and better off than it was when he took office, and remember, he saw it through the post-911 period and W Bush’s economic debacle of 2007-8. You’d be surprised at how many New Yorkers actually wish he were mayor again; as Obama did with Drumpf, he left his successor, the hapless de Blasio, a huge gift and the challenge for de Blasio has been not to screw things up.