{"id":5197,"date":"2020-02-20T13:40:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T18:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/?p=5197"},"modified":"2020-02-21T20:35:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T01:35:14","slug":"how-to-winnow-friends-and-infuriate-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/20\/how-to-winnow-friends-and-infuriate-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Winnow Friends and Infuriate Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat presidential candidate and former NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg has announced plans to write a sequel to one of the world&#8217;s bestselling self-help books of all time.<\/p>\n<p>After last night&#8217;s debate performance Bloomberg needs all the self-help he can get.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mike-Bloomberg-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mike-Bloomberg-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mike-Bloomberg-1024x591.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mike-Bloomberg-768x443.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mike-Bloomberg.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mini-Mike has announced plans to write a modern day follow-up to Dale Carnegie&#8217;s popular bestseller, &#8220;<em>How To Win Friends and Influence People<\/em>.&#8221; The working title is &#8220;<em>How A Billionaire Wins Friends and Influences Voters by Awakening the Giant Within and Developing 7 Highly Effective Habits<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Below are some early <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/bloombergs-long-record-of-vulgar-comments-haunting-presidential-bid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">excerpts<\/span><\/strong><\/a> from the new book:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Kill it,&#8221; Bloomberg told a saleswoman when she explained she was pregnant.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You\u2019ve got to get the guns out of the hands of the people that are getting killed.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPeople in these neighborhoods are poor, they\u2019re not going to be able to pay off their mortgages, tell your salesmen don\u2019t go into those areas.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I can teach anybody to be a farmer.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a process. You dig a hole, put a seed in, put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>(Aptitude of tech workers compared to farmers) The skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze, and that is a whole degree level different.\u00a0 You have to have a different skill set, you have to have a lot more gray matter.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5204\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mike-Bloomberg-2-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mike-Bloomberg-2-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mike-Bloomberg-2-630x1024.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mike-Bloomberg-2-768x1248.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mike-Bloomberg-2-945x1536.jpg 945w, https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mike-Bloomberg-2-886x1440.jpg 886w, https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mike-Bloomberg-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg campaign spokeswoman Faiz Shakir says the former three-time mayor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bNBTO8jpp2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">New York City<\/span><\/strong><\/a> is uniquely qualified to pen such a book because he&#8217;s got the best friends money can buy, and he has a proven track record of influencing voters by spending millions to buy their attention.<\/p>\n<p>Shakir reminded voters that Bloomberg would be a better Commander-in-Chief than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/07\/sotu-thoughts-with-nancy-pelosi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">President Trump<\/span><\/strong><\/a> because he&#8217;s wealthier but not as arrogant or abrasive &#8211; unless you aren&#8217;t like Mike.<\/p>\n<p>If Bloomberg beats out fellow presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, America&#8217;s best known millionaire communist, Mike the Munchkin would be the country&#8217;s first billionaire socialist to occupy the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>Photo sources: <em>floridapolitics.com, kobo.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks for reading\u00a0<em>Dean Riffs<\/em>. Welcome to all those who love American liberty, free enterprise, and who believe God has blessed our country.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2020, Dean A. George\u00a9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat presidential candidate and former NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg has announced plans to write a sequel to one of the world&#8217;s bestselling self-help books of all time. After last night&#8217;s debate performance Bloomberg needs all the self-help he can get. 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