>> Back in 2019, Mike Bloomberg was speaking at an event. And when he does that, bad things
happen for him. In this case, references that he made and particularly callous fashion to
two people who had overdosed on drugs. Here he is.
>> 72,000 Americans died in 2017 from overdoses.
And New York Post or Daily News had a picture on the front page of a father and a son. They
both OD'd at the same party. I mean, just not a good family.
>> Just craziness. >> Yeah, it's craziness. The reference to
the fact that many people in New York die of overdoses.
It's great for a mayor or a former mayor to talk about joking that, because this two had
died on the same day. Not this is a tragedy that we should empathize with the survivors
and their family, but that they are a bad family, because there is still that family.
The younger of the two who died was a father and a son. Jasmine Santos was the the wife
of the younger that had died. And Carlos Andrade, the owner to the died. He had an 11-month
old and 4-year old sons that remained and imagine hearing that the former mayor of your
town is mocking your family as being bad after 2 people died.
>> Well, later in that clip, he talks about how we shouldn't legalize marijuana, because
it's an addictive drug as well. Something that's completely out of whack with the country.
70% of Americans think we should legalize marijuana and it's way higher with the Democratic
voters, as well. So yet, another issue where a Republican is out of step with the voters
that he's trying to win over in a democratic primary.
But this speaks to the overall problem with Mike Bloomberg of which there are many. He's
a paternalist. He's an old school conservative or an old school paternalist in many ways.
He's a conservative as well, but he wants to rule over people, and that's what he kinda
did with his soda ban.
That's what he did with violating constitutional rights with stop-and-frisk. He thinks he knows
what's best for people. And he thinks that if you're a drug addict, you're fundamentally
a bad person. And so that's why he wants marijuana not to be illegal, because it's a bad, illicit
thing. And he is an elitist who looks down upon people without any understanding of why
people are turning to drugs and the horrors of addiction as a mental health crisis.
>> Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't even call it that. Mocking was used, joking was used. No, he's
been completely serious. This is how, again, you said, he likes to look down on people.
But that's how you have this feeling of, I mean, him even jumping in this race right
now.
We talked about how pompous it is and thinking you can actually do this, and it would work
out for you. It's cuz his entire life, he's seen himself as being above these other folks,
because of what he's got and what he's building his companies and all that stuff.
So because of that, he's like I mean, there's just a bad family which also, by the way is
very reminiscent sounds a little bit like Donald Trump, but he's likes to talk about
certain people's families. That family is not a good family. My family, this kind of
family.
It's this hierarchy of positioning in your family life. So everyone else in that family
is garbage. There's not a good family somehow, because these two related men both overdosed
at the same party. Because no other people's families, no rich people's families have drug
addicts, nor abusers which to me has been affected by it with death from drugs.
Now, this doesn't happen. So he's retelling the real story, which allow us to continue
to think that only those poor dirty people died of drug overdoses or even become addicted
to it. There wasn't a doc I watched before about the spread of opioids. And many times
in states like West Virginia, those blue collar working towns and people are overworked and
they end up injured and hurt.
And they go to the doctor and they give them these kind of medications. That leads to these
kinds of drug addictions, cuz they're bad people? I thought we praised the coal miners.
They're the grit of America, the Midwest, the heart of America. They worked their butts
off to create what we've got in this country.
Those are the people that are addicted to these drugs, because they've been overworked
and then our health care system just throws them some pills and they get addicted to them.
>> No. >> And that's one aspect of it, but he's not
going to talk about that part, because we need to use them.
>> They're bad people, but his buddies, Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, they're, exactly.
>> Those parties were dry events. >> Obviously, yeah.
>> No illicit substances. Just to skip ahead briefly, I just wanna mention. This is the
first pass on what he's previously said about marijuana, a s well.
Because as he alluded to, he goes on to talk about marijuana in the clip. He was asked
about medical marijuana at the time. This was back in 2013. He says, medical, my foot.
There's no medical. This is one of the great hoaxes of all time. Asked about potentially
legalizing or decriminalizing marijuana.
He said, drug dealers have families to feed. If they can't sell marijuana, they'll sell
something else. And the something else will be something worse.
>> Medical my foot. Sounds like a band name. >> Exactly.
>> Again, I'm sorry. So drug dealers have families and they've got to feed them.
So they're gonna start selling things that are worse than marijuana. Again, so where-
>> Make an industry, make it legal. >> There is an industry of that bad stuff
already as I alluded to a minute ago that people end up on opioid, because of the prescription
pain medications they get a prescribed by who a drug dealer on the street, who has an
RX card.
He's like hey, so come to the corner, because I'm a doctor with a jacket on and then I'm
gonna prescribe you some drugs. That's not where it starts, but we exclude that part.
>> Yeah, so he said those things. Now bear in mind back in 2002, he responded to a question
of whether he had ever tried marijuana by saying, you bet I did and I enjoyed it.
>> So here is the thing. So in 2002, he admitted that he had done it. He went on to say that
he's a believer that we should enforce the laws and I don't think that decriminalizing
marijuana is a good idea, and certainly not from his point of view a necessary idea.
Because of his wealth and privilege, he'll be able to try it and there will never be
any consequences. Anyone around him, relatives, friends, all that, they can do whatever, marijuana.
That's the bottom floor of what they can do and never have to worry about police, but
it also makes me remember the tape that Benjamin Dixon found pf him talking about the xeroxing
and he talks about all that.
He says, well, so if black and brown people get caught with marijuana, that's only because
that's where the cops are, because that's where the crime is. And so what are you gonna
do? But you said that knowing that you've done marijuana, you know that it's, you enjoyed
it.
It wasn't a terrible thing. It didn't ruin your life. It didn't set you on some sort
of downward spiral. It was just marijuana. And yet, when you had more than a decade to
do something about making sure that everyone else suffered no more consequences than you
did for doing that substance, you didn’t do anything, because you didn’t care.
Because people like you were already doing just fine under the status quo. And he says,
now by the way, now he says he's in favor of decriminalization. Whoa, bold stance. But
is he or is it just convenient to say that during an election when this is a guy who
has done it and demonized it for decades throughout his life?
>> And when you're illegal activities on and aren't, don't come back to haunt you. You
don't see them as illegal anymore. You're like yeah, I mean, I did it, but nobody bothers
me about it. It's an internal. You start to develop a thought process that yeah, it's
not illegal for me.
You wouldn't say that out loud. But you think yeah, I mean, I'm Mike Bloomberg. Families
of Bloomberg come down. Yeah, smoked it and it's fine. But if someone else did, they're
on a downward spiral. I'm moving I can get the video, but he talked about how it changes
are.
We gonna get to it? I changes your IQ, it's gonna destroy the workforce. Companies are
going down, because they can't have a good rich environment to hire people from so that's
where it comes back to. I'm gonna have a bunch of dummy potheads working for me and that's
what I don't want.
>> Yeah. >> That's his problem.
>> And by the way, we should note that it doesn't lower your IQ. So he thinks that he
has dumb workers, because they get high when they're not working. It's nonsense. It's not
found in any science, but that's what he thinks as a business owner himself.
>> Wonder what he thinks about people get drunk on weekends and then come back to work
on Monday, cuz there are studies about what alcohol does to you.
>> Forget the weekend, he's on Wall Street. What about the people that have go off and
have their martini power lunches?
I'm sure that racist IQ. Sure does when I'm drinking. Anyway, so that's some of what we've
discovered about Bloomberg today. I have a feeling we might get more before tomorrow's
debate. Hopefully, war in Bernie's debate preptins are keeping
track of the dues.