As you may have heard once or twice, Mike Bloomberg is spending a metric fuck-ton of his own money in the hopes of becoming the Democratic nominee for the 2020 presidential election. As of Friday, that figure surpassed the $500 million mark, with an unlimited upper limit, which is how budgets work when you’re worth approximately one zillion dollars. While Bloomberg clearly thinks he’s the guy to go toe-to-toe with Donald Trump in the general election, he’s said that if he’s knocked out of the race—and his train wreck of a debate performance last week suggests that‘s likely—he’ll direct future funds to whoever wins the nomination, even if that person happens to be Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, whom he regards as Communists. And while Warren, along with every other candidate, has reportedly said she’d accept the help defeating Trump, the Sanders campaign has told the billionaire former mayor to take those billions and place them directly where the sun don’t shine.

Speaking to NBC News after Tuesday night’s debate in South Carolina, Sanders aide Jeff Weaver said “it’s a hard no” re: the prospect of taking money from Bloomberg during the general election. “Bernie has said he's going to fund his presidential campaign with small-dollar contributions, and I think we can do that. I think we can raise over a billion dollars in small-dollar contributions.” While Bernie can’t actually bar any independent groups from spending on his behalf—short of showing up at Bloomberg’s office and yelling “Listen here, you shvantz”—the Bloomberg campaign has said it won’t be lavishing cash on a candidate who doesn’t want it.

“Bernie said he didn’t want [Bloomberg’s] money, so we’re not going to,” Howard Wolfson, a senior adviser to Bloomberg, told NBC News. “I don’t think it would be prudent to spend on behalf of somebody who didn’t want it. I think everyone else has said they want the help, including Elizabeth Warren. If Elizabeth Warren is the nominee, we will do everything we can to help her. Sanders is the one candidate who said he didn’t want the help.”

While it’s not super surprising that a candidate who’s rejected large donations from corporations, the finance industry, and Super PACs would spurn money from a billionaire he views in the same light as Russian oligarchs, more moderate Democrats might be worried about not having Bloomberg‘s money to fall back on in the general election. Particularly in light of the massive amounts of cash raised by Trump and the RNC, and the fact that decrepit Trump sugar daddies like Sheldon Adelson will likely be spending whatever amount of money it takes to to defeat Sanders, whose wealth tax they seemingly believe involves the Vermont senator personally coming to their homes in a black ski mask and holding them at gun point as they stuff millions in a pillow case.

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