Zohran Mamdani...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdani is all talk. Notice that he says he's going to raise taxes on the 1% and businesses? The mayor of NYC has no power to raise those taxes. That is up to the governor and the legislature. The only tax base he can affect is property taxes, which would totally screw the middle class if he raised those. And notice, not a peep about raising property taxes.

My guess he is making promises for everything he has to ability to change, then can say, I tried! But the big bad government wouldn't let me.

Also note, that as an assembly person, he could have brought up these issues to raise taxes, but didn't.

He is a disingenuous silver spoon boy playing at being a grownup. As are so many of the young white liberals who voted for him.

My hope is Cuomo steps aside and lets Eric Adams get in there and fight.

All this - exactly. He has sold the people who voted for him a false bill of goods.
Reminds me of Chicago's mayor, Brandon Johnson. We all see how that one has turned out.

Yes. Even the Chicago Tribune warned New Yorkers.

I do blame white liberal Gen X parents for raising these silver spoon kids. As mentioned upthread, the minute the going gets tough they will bail and leave the rest of the working class holding the bag of a 1970s - early 1990s NYC of crime and inability to walk the streets safely. They aren't even aware of what NYC was like back then, and very nearly defaulted on its debt. The Republican President (Ford) said "go to hell" and refused to bail NYC out. It was the business leaders who put together a plan to save NYC. Then about 15 years after that to pull NYC out of the absolute hellhole that it had become, and only because Giuliani wasn't afraid to do the hard work. Then Bloomberg truly took NYC to the next level.

Eric Adams saved us from the mess that was de Blasio. The thought of going back there is terrifying.

De Blasio presided over a LOWER crime rate and successfully rolled out preK for all, subsequently implemented for 2s and 3s. That is a life-giving program for families. The positive impact is literally incalculable.

I came here for college, left for work and grad and returned, and have lived in two boroughs. You’re legitimately a clown and don’t give a damn about this city. Go on, lie to us all.

Lived outside of NYC since 1990. Moved into the City in 1998. I lived through squeegee men and 42nd Street being the red light district. I lived up the street from the Twin Towers. Went through the financial collapse and everything since then.

Don't tell me I don't know NYC and don't give a damn about the city.

^^^ And of course de Blasio had lower crime than now. He USHERED in the rising crime rates, but had the benefit of the lower crimes rates of Giuliani and Bloomberg. Give me a break. You're clearly one of those pampered white liberals. Who left.

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdani is all talk. Notice that he says he's going to raise taxes on the 1% and businesses? The mayor of NYC has no power to raise those taxes. That is up to the governor and the legislature. The only tax base he can affect is property taxes, which would totally screw the middle class if he raised those. And notice, not a peep about raising property taxes.

My guess he is making promises for everything he has to ability to change, then can say, I tried! But the big bad government wouldn't let me.

Also note, that as an assembly person, he could have brought up these issues to raise taxes, but didn't.

He is a disingenuous silver spoon boy playing at being a grownup. As are so many of the young white liberals who voted for him.

My hope is Cuomo steps aside and lets Eric Adams get in there and fight.

All this - exactly. He has sold the people who voted for him a false bill of goods.
Reminds me of Chicago's mayor, Brandon Johnson. We all see how that one has turned out.

Yes. Even the Chicago Tribune warned New Yorkers.

I do blame white liberal Gen X parents for raising these silver spoon kids. As mentioned upthread, the minute the going gets tough they will bail and leave the rest of the working class holding the bag of a 1970s - early 1990s NYC of crime and inability to walk the streets safely. They aren't even aware of what NYC was like back then, and very nearly defaulted on its debt. The Republican President (Ford) said "go to hell" and refused to bail NYC out. It was the business leaders who put together a plan to save NYC. Then about 15 years after that to pull NYC out of the absolute hellhole that it had become, and only because Giuliani wasn't afraid to do the hard work. Then Bloomberg truly took NYC to the next level.

Eric Adams saved us from the mess that was de Blasio. The thought of going back there is terrifying.

De Blasio presided over a LOWER crime rate and successfully rolled out preK for all, subsequently implemented for 2s and 3s. That is a life-giving program for families. The positive impact is literally incalculable.

I came here for college, left for work and grad and returned, and have lived in two boroughs. You’re legitimately a clown and don’t give a damn about this city. Go on, lie to us all.

Lived outside of NYC since 1990. Moved into the City in 1998. I lived through squeegee men and 42nd Street being the red light district. I lived up the street from the Twin Towers. Went through the financial collapse and everything since then.

Don't tell me I don't know NYC and don't give a damn about the city.

“Outside of.” Oh, that’s clear. Very clear what you are.

You know jackshit. I was at my desk for a for a firm that wouldn’t look at you twice on 9/11, and saw people carrying their stuff home when Lehman collapsed. You have lied about the city you claim to know. Stick to the burbs, and piss and moan with your fellow bitters on NextDoor.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdani seems like a well intentioned guy, but also extremely naive. He is one of these effete socialists who never grew up in the struggle but claims to have all these solutions for people who grew up in conditions he doesn’t even know about. On a personal level, I like my socialists to come from the environment they’re championing. Like Bernie Sanders and Jesse Jackson.

Mamdani is a socialist for rich brats. There’s a reason he lost Black New Yorkers by a lot.

So are his dumb white “educated” (in gawd knows what) young voters whining that they “deserve” to live in NYC “just because”.

So despite their underemployment, Hail Mary wanting to go to law school at age 36, and zero savings, they believe a smooth talking leftist politician (unclear what job skills he actually has besides orating) will stop the whole economy to make that happen.

Do you know anyone like that? Because I live here and I don’t. Are you shitposting from Reston?

I'm not that poster, but I know plenty of them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mamdani is all talk. Notice that he says he's going to raise taxes on the 1% and businesses? The mayor of NYC has no power to raise those taxes. That is up to the governor and the legislature. The only tax base he can affect is property taxes, which would totally screw the middle class if he raised those. And notice, not a peep about raising property taxes.

My guess he is making promises for everything he has to ability to change, then can say, I tried! But the big bad government wouldn't let me.

Also note, that as an assembly person, he could have brought up these issues to raise taxes, but didn't.

He is a disingenuous silver spoon boy playing at being a grownup. As are so many of the young white liberals who voted for him.

My hope is Cuomo steps aside and lets Eric Adams get in there and fight.

All this - exactly. He has sold the people who voted for him a false bill of goods.
Reminds me of Chicago's mayor, Brandon Johnson. We all see how that one has turned out.

Yes. Even the Chicago Tribune warned New Yorkers.

I do blame white liberal Gen X parents for raising these silver spoon kids. As mentioned upthread, the minute the going gets tough they will bail and leave the rest of the working class holding the bag of a 1970s - early 1990s NYC of crime and inability to walk the streets safely. They aren't even aware of what NYC was like back then, and very nearly defaulted on its debt. The Republican President (Ford) said "go to hell" and refused to bail NYC out. It was the business leaders who put together a plan to save NYC. Then about 15 years after that to pull NYC out of the absolute hellhole that it had become, and only because Giuliani wasn't afraid to do the hard work. Then Bloomberg truly took NYC to the next level.

Eric Adams saved us from the mess that was de Blasio. The thought of going back there is terrifying.

De Blasio presided over a LOWER crime rate and successfully rolled out preK for all, subsequently implemented for 2s and 3s. That is a life-giving program for families. The positive impact is literally incalculable.

I came here for college, left for work and grad and returned, and have lived in two boroughs. You’re legitimately a clown and don’t give a damn about this city. Go on, lie to us all.

Lived outside of NYC since 1990. Moved into the City in 1998. I lived through squeegee men and 42nd Street being the red light district. I lived up the street from the Twin Towers. Went through the financial collapse and everything since then.

Don't tell me I don't know NYC and don't give a damn about the city.

^^^ And of course de Blasio had lower crime than now. He USHERED in the rising crime rates, but had the benefit of the lower crimes rates of Giuliani and Bloomberg. Give me a break. You're clearly one of those pampered white liberals. Who left.

Never left - you’re describing yourself.

Try to not threaten Mamdani or Hanif or any other officials who made it out of their primaries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mamdani is all talk. Notice that he says he's going to raise taxes on the 1% and businesses? The mayor of NYC has no power to raise those taxes. That is up to the governor and the legislature. The only tax base he can affect is property taxes, which would totally screw the middle class if he raised those. And notice, not a peep about raising property taxes.

My guess he is making promises for everything he has to ability to change, then can say, I tried! But the big bad government wouldn't let me.

Also note, that as an assembly person, he could have brought up these issues to raise taxes, but didn't.

He is a disingenuous silver spoon boy playing at being a grownup. As are so many of the young white liberals who voted for him.

My hope is Cuomo steps aside and lets Eric Adams get in there and fight.

All talk or means it, either way he’s a waste of space either way this nonsense. But yeah, likes the attention, power and greed side of campaigning.

Yep. Right now Bernie is on the morning shows talking up how great this is, and that the Dems should use his platform to win. I shake my head. I saw a chart that showed that MAGA and Centrist have pretty much stayed steady in their beliefs. But Dems argue they have shift further right. When in reality, the Dems are the one who have shifted so far left.

It will be interesting to see how far left we go before those who voted to make it happen have to live with the consequences.

You sound scared.

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdani seems like a well intentioned guy, but also extremely naive. He is one of these effete socialists who never grew up in the struggle but claims to have all these solutions for people who grew up in conditions he doesn’t even know about. On a personal level, I like my socialists to come from the environment they’re championing. Like Bernie Sanders and Jesse Jackson.

Mamdani is a socialist for rich brats. There’s a reason he lost Black New Yorkers by a lot.

So are his dumb white “educated” (in gawd knows what) young voters whining that they “deserve” to live in NYC “just because”.

So despite their underemployment, Hail Mary wanting to go to law school at age 36, and zero savings, they believe a smooth talking leftist politician (unclear what job skills he actually has besides orating) will stop the whole economy to make that happen.

Do you know anyone like that? Because I live here and I don’t. Are you shitposting from Reston?

I'm not that poster, but I know plenty of them.

I don’t believe you, but you don’t believe yourself.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mamdani is all talk. Notice that he says he's going to raise taxes on the 1% and businesses? The mayor of NYC has no power to raise those taxes. That is up to the governor and the legislature. The only tax base he can affect is property taxes, which would totally screw the middle class if he raised those. And notice, not a peep about raising property taxes.

My guess he is making promises for everything he has to ability to change, then can say, I tried! But the big bad government wouldn't let me.

Also note, that as an assembly person, he could have brought up these issues to raise taxes, but didn't.

He is a disingenuous silver spoon boy playing at being a grownup. As are so many of the young white liberals who voted for him.

My hope is Cuomo steps aside and lets Eric Adams get in there and fight.

All this - exactly. He has sold the people who voted for him a false bill of goods.
Reminds me of Chicago's mayor, Brandon Johnson. We all see how that one has turned out.

Yes. Even the Chicago Tribune warned New Yorkers.

I do blame white liberal Gen X parents for raising these silver spoon kids. As mentioned upthread, the minute the going gets tough they will bail and leave the rest of the working class holding the bag of a 1970s - early 1990s NYC of crime and inability to walk the streets safely. They aren't even aware of what NYC was like back then, and very nearly defaulted on its debt. The Republican President (Ford) said "go to hell" and refused to bail NYC out. It was the business leaders who put together a plan to save NYC. Then about 15 years after that to pull NYC out of the absolute hellhole that it had become, and only because Giuliani wasn't afraid to do the hard work. Then Bloomberg truly took NYC to the next level.

Eric Adams saved us from the mess that was de Blasio. The thought of going back there is terrifying.

De Blasio presided over a LOWER crime rate and successfully rolled out preK for all, subsequently implemented for 2s and 3s. That is a life-giving program for families. The positive impact is literally incalculable.

I came here for college, left for work and grad and returned, and have lived in two boroughs. You’re legitimately a clown and don’t give a damn about this city. Go on, lie to us all.

Lived outside of NYC since 1990. Moved into the City in 1998. I lived through squeegee men and 42nd Street being the red light district. I lived up the street from the Twin Towers. Went through the financial collapse and everything since then.

Don't tell me I don't know NYC and don't give a damn about the city.

“Outside of.” Oh, that’s clear. Very clear what you are.

You know jackshit. I was at my desk for a for a firm that wouldn’t look at you twice on 9/11, and saw people carrying their stuff home when Lehman collapsed. You have lied about the city you claim to know. Stick to the burbs, and piss and moan with your fellow bitters on NextDoor.

Can you not read. I lived outside of NYC until we MOVED IN you idiot. Have lived in Manhattan since 1998.

Amazing you are so stupid. I watched the people carrying their shoes as they walked up Broadway to get home after 9-11. I watched the heavy equipment drive in from all over the country with the American flag waving on their huge cranes and trucks to dig out the twin towers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mamdani is all talk. Notice that he says he's going to raise taxes on the 1% and businesses? The mayor of NYC has no power to raise those taxes. That is up to the governor and the legislature. The only tax base he can affect is property taxes, which would totally screw the middle class if he raised those. And notice, not a peep about raising property taxes.

My guess he is making promises for everything he has to ability to change, then can say, I tried! But the big bad government wouldn't let me.

Also note, that as an assembly person, he could have brought up these issues to raise taxes, but didn't.

He is a disingenuous silver spoon boy playing at being a grownup. As are so many of the young white liberals who voted for him.

My hope is Cuomo steps aside and lets Eric Adams get in there and fight.

All talk or means it, either way he’s a waste of space either way this nonsense. But yeah, likes the attention, power and greed side of campaigning.

Yep. Right now Bernie is on the morning shows talking up how great this is, and that the Dems should use his platform to win. I shake my head. I saw a chart that showed that MAGA and Centrist have pretty much stayed steady in their beliefs. But Dems argue they have shift further right. When in reality, the Dems are the one who have shifted so far left.

It will be interesting to see how far left we go before those who voted to make it happen have to live with the consequences.

You sound scared.

Yep. Most of my friends ranked Lander, Adrianne Adams and Stringer at the top with Mamdani second, and they are excited today. There’s a quote going around about how Boomers refused to relinquish power, so the transition to younger pols with an actual politics behind them is shocking. We see it here day in and day out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mamdani is all talk. Notice that he says he's going to raise taxes on the 1% and businesses? The mayor of NYC has no power to raise those taxes. That is up to the governor and the legislature. The only tax base he can affect is property taxes, which would totally screw the middle class if he raised those. And notice, not a peep about raising property taxes.

My guess he is making promises for everything he has to ability to change, then can say, I tried! But the big bad government wouldn't let me.

Also note, that as an assembly person, he could have brought up these issues to raise taxes, but didn't.

He is a disingenuous silver spoon boy playing at being a grownup. As are so many of the young white liberals who voted for him.

My hope is Cuomo steps aside and lets Eric Adams get in there and fight.

All this - exactly. He has sold the people who voted for him a false bill of goods.
Reminds me of Chicago's mayor, Brandon Johnson. We all see how that one has turned out.

Yes. Even the Chicago Tribune warned New Yorkers.

I do blame white liberal Gen X parents for raising these silver spoon kids. As mentioned upthread, the minute the going gets tough they will bail and leave the rest of the working class holding the bag of a 1970s - early 1990s NYC of crime and inability to walk the streets safely. They aren't even aware of what NYC was like back then, and very nearly defaulted on its debt. The Republican President (Ford) said "go to hell" and refused to bail NYC out. It was the business leaders who put together a plan to save NYC. Then about 15 years after that to pull NYC out of the absolute hellhole that it had become, and only because Giuliani wasn't afraid to do the hard work. Then Bloomberg truly took NYC to the next level.

Eric Adams saved us from the mess that was de Blasio. The thought of going back there is terrifying.

De Blasio presided over a LOWER crime rate and successfully rolled out preK for all, subsequently implemented for 2s and 3s. That is a life-giving program for families. The positive impact is literally incalculable.

I came here for college, left for work and grad and returned, and have lived in two boroughs. You’re legitimately a clown and don’t give a damn about this city. Go on, lie to us all.

Lived outside of NYC since 1990. Moved into the City in 1998. I lived through squeegee men and 42nd Street being the red light district. I lived up the street from the Twin Towers. Went through the financial collapse and everything since then.

Don't tell me I don't know NYC and don't give a damn about the city.

“Outside of.” Oh, that’s clear. Very clear what you are.

You know jackshit. I was at my desk for a for a firm that wouldn’t look at you twice on 9/11, and saw people carrying their stuff home when Lehman collapsed. You have lied about the city you claim to know. Stick to the burbs, and piss and moan with your fellow bitters on NextDoor.

Can you not read. I lived outside of NYC until we MOVED IN you idiot. Have lived in Manhattan since 1998.

Amazing you are so stupid. I watched the people carrying their shoes as they walked up Broadway to get home after 9-11. I watched the heavy equipment drive in from all over the country with the American flag waving on their huge cranes and trucks to dig out the twin towers.

Holy shit it’s Rudy!! May I call you sir?

[Anonymous]

Wait how did you survive the squeegee men with your testicles intact?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdani seems like a well intentioned guy, but also extremely naive. He is one of these effete socialists who never grew up in the struggle but claims to have all these solutions for people who grew up in conditions he doesn’t even know about. On a personal level, I like my socialists to come from the environment they’re championing. Like Bernie Sanders and Jesse Jackson.

Mamdani is a socialist for rich brats. There’s a reason he lost Black New Yorkers by a lot.

So are his dumb white “educated” (in gawd knows what) young voters whining that they “deserve” to live in NYC “just because”.

So despite their underemployment, Hail Mary wanting to go to law school at age 36, and zero savings, they believe a smooth talking leftist politician (unclear what job skills he actually has besides orating) will stop the whole economy to make that happen.

Do you know anyone like that? Because I live here and I don’t. Are you shitposting from Reston?

I'm not that poster, but I know plenty of them.

I don’t believe you, but you don’t believe yourself.

Instead of rising to the bait, I will only say that people like you are a problem. I don't disbelieve you. I believe you probably know plenty of people who aren't like the PP said. But that doesn't negate the fact that those people do exist. You are looking at the world through absolutes. And absolutes don't exist. And by claiming anyone who doesn't agree with you is stupid, shows that you are the one who is stupid, or at the very least blind to more than your own POV. And that's dangerous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdani is all talk. Notice that he says he's going to raise taxes on the 1% and businesses? The mayor of NYC has no power to raise those taxes. That is up to the governor and the legislature. The only tax base he can affect is property taxes, which would totally screw the middle class if he raised those. And notice, not a peep about raising property taxes.

My guess he is making promises for everything he has to ability to change, then can say, I tried! But the big bad government wouldn't let me.

Also note, that as an assembly person, he could have brought up these issues to raise taxes, but didn't.

He is a disingenuous silver spoon boy playing at being a grownup. As are so many of the young white liberals who voted for him.

My hope is Cuomo steps aside and lets Eric Adams get in there and fight.

All this - exactly. He has sold the people who voted for him a false bill of goods.
Reminds me of Chicago's mayor, Brandon Johnson. We all see how that one has turned out.

Yes. Even the Chicago Tribune warned New Yorkers.

I do blame white liberal Gen X parents for raising these silver spoon kids. As mentioned upthread, the minute the going gets tough they will bail and leave the rest of the working class holding the bag of a 1970s - early 1990s NYC of crime and inability to walk the streets safely. They aren't even aware of what NYC was like back then, and very nearly defaulted on its debt. The Republican President (Ford) said "go to hell" and refused to bail NYC out. It was the business leaders who put together a plan to save NYC. Then about 15 years after that to pull NYC out of the absolute hellhole that it had become, and only because Giuliani wasn't afraid to do the hard work. Then Bloomberg truly took NYC to the next level.

Eric Adams saved us from the mess that was de Blasio. The thought of going back there is terrifying.

De Blasio presided over a LOWER crime rate and successfully rolled out preK for all, subsequently implemented for 2s and 3s. That is a life-giving program for families. The positive impact is literally incalculable.

I came here for college, left for work and grad and returned, and have lived in two boroughs. You’re legitimately a clown and don’t give a damn about this city. Go on, lie to us all.

Lived outside of NYC since 1990. Moved into the City in 1998. I lived through squeegee men and 42nd Street being the red light district. I lived up the street from the Twin Towers. Went through the financial collapse and everything since then.

Don't tell me I don't know NYC and don't give a damn about the city.

“Outside of.” Oh, that’s clear. Very clear what you are.

You know jackshit. I was at my desk for a for a firm that wouldn’t look at you twice on 9/11, and saw people carrying their stuff home when Lehman collapsed. You have lied about the city you claim to know. Stick to the burbs, and piss and moan with your fellow bitters on NextDoor.

Can you not read. I lived outside of NYC until we MOVED IN you idiot. Have lived in Manhattan since 1998.

Amazing you are so stupid. I watched the people carrying their shoes as they walked up Broadway to get home after 9-11. I watched the heavy equipment drive in from all over the country with the American flag waving on their huge cranes and trucks to dig out the twin towers.

Holy shit it’s Rudy!! May I call you sir?

I wondered how long before the Young White Liberals woke up and got on DCUM. We had a few hours of the adults in the room.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mamdani seems like a well intentioned guy, but also extremely naive. He is one of these effete socialists who never grew up in the struggle but claims to have all these solutions for people who grew up in conditions he doesn’t even know about. On a personal level, I like my socialists to come from the environment they’re championing. Like Bernie Sanders and Jesse Jackson.

Mamdani is a socialist for rich brats. There’s a reason he lost Black New Yorkers by a lot.

So are his dumb white “educated” (in gawd knows what) young voters whining that they “deserve” to live in NYC “just because”.

So despite their underemployment, Hail Mary wanting to go to law school at age 36, and zero savings, they believe a smooth talking leftist politician (unclear what job skills he actually has besides orating) will stop the whole economy to make that happen.

Do you know anyone like that? Because I live here and I don’t. Are you shitposting from Reston?

Read today’s wsj article. The 36 yo cited above and tons of named Brooklyn young adults are loud and proud about their entitled demands.

And yes I do know 20-somethings like that. Even at the downtown Wash DC think tank where I’m posting this from. All of them still get allowances from their parents so they can buy and live wherever they want. Now a politician is promising the same thing as their parental backstop.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdani is all talk. Notice that he says he's going to raise taxes on the 1% and businesses? The mayor of NYC has no power to raise those taxes. That is up to the governor and the legislature. The only tax base he can affect is property taxes, which would totally screw the middle class if he raised those. And notice, not a peep about raising property taxes.

My guess he is making promises for everything he has to ability to change, then can say, I tried! But the big bad government wouldn't let me.

Also note, that as an assembly person, he could have brought up these issues to raise taxes, but didn't.

He is a disingenuous silver spoon boy playing at being a grownup. As are so many of the young white liberals who voted for him.

My hope is Cuomo steps aside and lets Eric Adams get in there and fight.

All talk or means it, either way he’s a waste of space either way this nonsense. But yeah, likes the attention, power and greed side of campaigning.

Yep. Right now Bernie is on the morning shows talking up how great this is, and that the Dems should use his platform to win. I shake my head. I saw a chart that showed that MAGA and Centrist have pretty much stayed steady in their beliefs. But Dems argue they have shift further right. When in reality, the Dems are the one who have shifted so far left.

It will be interesting to see how far left we go before those who voted to make it happen have to live with the consequences.

You sound scared.

Yep. Most of my friends ranked Lander, Adrianne Adams and Stringer at the top with Mamdani second, and they are excited today. There’s a quote going around about how Boomers refused to relinquish power, so the transition to younger pols with an actual politics behind them is shocking. We see it here day in and day out.

I see talk of Lander primarying Schumer. That would be fantastic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdani is all talk. Notice that he says he's going to raise taxes on the 1% and businesses? The mayor of NYC has no power to raise those taxes. That is up to the governor and the legislature. The only tax base he can affect is property taxes, which would totally screw the middle class if he raised those. And notice, not a peep about raising property taxes.

My guess he is making promises for everything he has to ability to change, then can say, I tried! But the big bad government wouldn't let me.

Also note, that as an assembly person, he could have brought up these issues to raise taxes, but didn't.

He is a disingenuous silver spoon boy playing at being a grownup. As are so many of the young white liberals who voted for him.

My hope is Cuomo steps aside and lets Eric Adams get in there and fight.

All this - exactly. He has sold the people who voted for him a false bill of goods.
Reminds me of Chicago's mayor, Brandon Johnson. We all see how that one has turned out.

Yes. Even the Chicago Tribune warned New Yorkers.

I do blame white liberal Gen X parents for raising these silver spoon kids. As mentioned upthread, the minute the going gets tough they will bail and leave the rest of the working class holding the bag of a 1970s - early 1990s NYC of crime and inability to walk the streets safely. They aren't even aware of what NYC was like back then, and very nearly defaulted on its debt. The Republican President (Ford) said "go to hell" and refused to bail NYC out. It was the business leaders who put together a plan to save NYC. Then about 15 years after that to pull NYC out of the absolute hellhole that it had become, and only because Giuliani wasn't afraid to do the hard work. Then Bloomberg truly took NYC to the next level.

Eric Adams saved us from the mess that was de Blasio. The thought of going back there is terrifying.

De Blasio presided over a LOWER crime rate and successfully rolled out preK for all, subsequently implemented for 2s and 3s. That is a life-giving program for families. The positive impact is literally incalculable.

I came here for college, left for work and grad and returned, and have lived in two boroughs. You’re legitimately a clown and don’t give a damn about this city. Go on, lie to us all.

Lived outside of NYC since 1990. Moved into the City in 1998. I lived through squeegee men and 42nd Street being the red light district. I lived up the street from the Twin Towers. Went through the financial collapse and everything since then.

Don't tell me I don't know NYC and don't give a damn about the city.

“Outside of.” Oh, that’s clear. Very clear what you are.

You know jackshit. I was at my desk for a for a firm that wouldn’t look at you twice on 9/11, and saw people carrying their stuff home when Lehman collapsed. You have lied about the city you claim to know. Stick to the burbs, and piss and moan with your fellow bitters on NextDoor.

Can you not read. I lived outside of NYC until we MOVED IN you idiot. Have lived in Manhattan since 1998.

Amazing you are so stupid. I watched the people carrying their shoes as they walked up Broadway to get home after 9-11. I watched the heavy equipment drive in from all over the country with the American flag waving on their huge cranes and trucks to dig out the twin towers.

Holy shit it’s Rudy!! May I call you sir?

I wondered how long before the Young White Liberals woke up and got on DCUM. We had a few hours of the adults in the room.

+1. Noticed as well. They are so triggered and cursing up a storm. Wonder what their 20 sms threads are saying on their desktop computers whilst they “work.”