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I can't get more explicit than May.

Let's just say it may.

It's Friday, January 31st, 2020, from Slated to Gisdai, Mike Pesca.

Former New York mayor, Michael Bloomberg, currently polling a 12% in the morning, consult,

national poll, and third, nationally, in a Reuters' Ipsos poll, will be able, it seems

like, to make the February 19th debate.

How could this be?

How could you let one of the most popular Democratic candidates on stage to face questions from

the other Democratic candidates without having to go through the process of raising a dollar

or two from 65,000 people?

That is the charge here put forward by Naomi Klein, quote, in a tweet, DNC changes debate

rules so Bloomberg can buy his way in.

Young Turks host Emma Vigeland writes, the DNC is changing its debate rules mid-primary,

this by the way is before any primaries have been held, eliminating the small donor threshold

to let Bloomberg buy his way onto the stage.

This is, in a word, stupid, into words, quite stupid.

So the old, better, fairer, more Democratic way would be to require a multi-bulti billionaire,

pentaconta billionaire, some worth $50 billion or more, and may come ask you or me, or

smarter frame someone who actually supports him to give him a dollar, and then, and only

then do we know that people care.

It would be nice to get money out of politics, I agree with that, but apparently those who

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