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Anonymous wrote:In the national media, the Republicans are licking their chops at the likelihood of Mamdani getting elected. He feeds perfectly into their narrative. So when we get stuck with a Republican Congress again in 2026, enabling Trump to continue to destroy this country, tell me whether the city-run super markets and rent freezes are truly worth it.

Mamdani and AOC are the gift that keeps on giving for Fox News and Republicans. I appreciate their idealism but they have to be realistic and know when to STFU.

So that’s your next move? Saying not only will this mayor ruin NYC, he will also ensure total annihilation of all Dems across the country? Did that talking point survey well for you?

Ya’ll are so damned obvious. And still not actually from NY *C*.

So you're from NYC because you're pro-Mamdani, and anyone anti-Mamdani is not actually from NYC? Huh?

It’s a funny stance, because so many Mamdani voters are from flyover states and escaped to NY to avoid the Trump politics they are inadvertently fueling. Long term residents from the outer boroughs of all races and creeds voted for Cuomo

Yep, it's just the Bernie Bros redux.

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Anonymous wrote:In the national media, the Republicans are licking their chops at the likelihood of Mamdani getting elected. He feeds perfectly into their narrative. So when we get stuck with a Republican Congress again in 2026, enabling Trump to continue to destroy this country, tell me whether the city-run super markets and rent freezes are truly worth it.

Mamdani and AOC are the gift that keeps on giving for Fox News and Republicans. I appreciate their idealism but they have to be realistic and know when to STFU.

So that’s your next move? Saying not only will this mayor ruin NYC, he will also ensure total annihilation of all Dems across the country? Did that talking point survey well for you?

Ya’ll are so damned obvious. And still not actually from NY *C*.

So you're from NYC because you're pro-Mamdani, and anyone anti-Mamdani is not actually from NYC? Huh?

It’s a funny stance, because so many Mamdani voters are from flyover states and escaped to NY to avoid the Trump politics they are inadvertently fueling. Long term residents from the outer boroughs of all races and creeds voted for Cuomo

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Anonymous wrote:In the national media, the Republicans are licking their chops at the likelihood of Mamdani getting elected. He feeds perfectly into their narrative. So when we get stuck with a Republican Congress again in 2026, enabling Trump to continue to destroy this country, tell me whether the city-run super markets and rent freezes are truly worth it.

Mamdani and AOC are the gift that keeps on giving for Fox News and Republicans. I appreciate their idealism but they have to be realistic and know when to STFU.

So that’s your next move? Saying not only will this mayor ruin NYC, he will also ensure total annihilation of all Dems across the country? Did that talking point survey well for you?

Ya’ll are so damned obvious. And still not actually from NY *C*.

I've provided plenty of proof I'm from NYC. You have done nothing. I think the whole argument is pathetic and childish and sad, but I played along. Where do you live? Where do your kids (if you even have any) go to school? If private, what public are you zoned for? Favorite local pizza spot? Favorite host on NY1 (you probably have no idea what I'm talking about since you don't live here)?

Someone living on the UES in high finance who went to St. B’s and then Deerfield has no idea what public they are zoned for, may not like pizza, and will never watch NY1 or know a host’s face and name. Go back to Ohio/Wisconsin and tell your extended family how great chopped cheese is to pretend to be cosmopolitan (lol!).

You are going to die on this hill, aren't you? So sad. If you live in NYC, it is the far reaches of Staten Island in the middle of a landfill.

Not sure why I am wasting my time with ignorant, low class trash who gets their jollies out of saying people don't live where they say they do. And if they are so confident, they refuse to say a word about where they do live. Ashamed to live in a landfill? Or do you live in your mom's basement in Alabama?

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Anonymous wrote:In the national media, the Republicans are licking their chops at the likelihood of Mamdani getting elected. He feeds perfectly into their narrative. So when we get stuck with a Republican Congress again in 2026, enabling Trump to continue to destroy this country, tell me whether the city-run super markets and rent freezes are truly worth it.

Mamdani and AOC are the gift that keeps on giving for Fox News and Republicans. I appreciate their idealism but they have to be realistic and know when to STFU.

So that’s your next move? Saying not only will this mayor ruin NYC, he will also ensure total annihilation of all Dems across the country? Did that talking point survey well for you?

Ya’ll are so damned obvious. And still not actually from NY *C*.

I've provided plenty of proof I'm from NYC. You have done nothing. I think the whole argument is pathetic and childish and sad, but I played along. Where do you live? Where do your kids (if you even have any) go to school? If private, what public are you zoned for? Favorite local pizza spot? Favorite host on NY1 (you probably have no idea what I'm talking about since you don't live here)?

Someone living on the UES in high finance who went to St. B’s and then Deerfield has no idea what public they are zoned for, may not like pizza, and will never watch NY1 or know a host’s face and name. Go back to Ohio/Wisconsin and tell your extended family how great chopped cheese is to pretend to be cosmopolitan (lol!).

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Anonymous wrote:In the national media, the Republicans are licking their chops at the likelihood of Mamdani getting elected. He feeds perfectly into their narrative. So when we get stuck with a Republican Congress again in 2026, enabling Trump to continue to destroy this country, tell me whether the city-run super markets and rent freezes are truly worth it.

Mamdani and AOC are the gift that keeps on giving for Fox News and Republicans. I appreciate their idealism but they have to be realistic and know when to STFU.

So that’s your next move? Saying not only will this mayor ruin NYC, he will also ensure total annihilation of all Dems across the country? Did that talking point survey well for you?

Ya’ll are so damned obvious. And still not actually from NY *C*.

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Anonymous wrote:In the national media, the Republicans are licking their chops at the likelihood of Mamdani getting elected. He feeds perfectly into their narrative. So when we get stuck with a Republican Congress again in 2026, enabling Trump to continue to destroy this country, tell me whether the city-run super markets and rent freezes are truly worth it.

Mamdani and AOC are the gift that keeps on giving for Fox News and Republicans. I appreciate their idealism but they have to be realistic and know when to STFU.

So that’s your next move? Saying not only will this mayor ruin NYC, he will also ensure total annihilation of all Dems across the country? Did that talking point survey well for you?

Ya’ll are so damned obvious. And still not actually from NY *C*.

So you're from NYC because you're pro-Mamdani, and anyone anti-Mamdani is not actually from NYC? Huh?

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Anonymous wrote:In the national media, the Republicans are licking their chops at the likelihood of Mamdani getting elected. He feeds perfectly into their narrative. So when we get stuck with a Republican Congress again in 2026, enabling Trump to continue to destroy this country, tell me whether the city-run super markets and rent freezes are truly worth it.

Mamdani and AOC are the gift that keeps on giving for Fox News and Republicans. I appreciate their idealism but they have to be realistic and know when to STFU.

So that’s your next move? Saying not only will this mayor ruin NYC, he will also ensure total annihilation of all Dems across the country? Did that talking point survey well for you?

Ya’ll are so damned obvious. And still not actually from NY *C*.

I've provided plenty of proof I'm from NYC. You have done nothing. I think the whole argument is pathetic and childish and sad, but I played along. Where do you live? Where do your kids (if you even have any) go to school? If private, what public are you zoned for? Favorite local pizza spot? Favorite host on NY1 (you probably have no idea what I'm talking about since you don't live here)?

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Anonymous wrote:In the national media, the Republicans are licking their chops at the likelihood of Mamdani getting elected. He feeds perfectly into their narrative. So when we get stuck with a Republican Congress again in 2026, enabling Trump to continue to destroy this country, tell me whether the city-run super markets and rent freezes are truly worth it.

Mamdani and AOC are the gift that keeps on giving for Fox News and Republicans. I appreciate their idealism but they have to be realistic and know when to STFU.

So that’s your next move? Saying not only will this mayor ruin NYC, he will also ensure total annihilation of all Dems across the country? Did that talking point survey well for you?

Ya’ll are so damned obvious. And still not actually from NY *C*.

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Anonymous wrote:In the national media, the Republicans are licking their chops at the likelihood of Mamdani getting elected. He feeds perfectly into their narrative. So when we get stuck with a Republican Congress again in 2026, enabling Trump to continue to destroy this country, tell me whether the city-run super markets and rent freezes are truly worth it.

Mamdani and AOC are the gift that keeps on giving for Fox News and Republicans. I appreciate their idealism but they have to be realistic and know when to STFU.

So that’s your next move? Saying not only will this mayor ruin NYC, he will also ensure total annihilation of all Dems across the country? Did that talking point survey well for you?

Ya’ll are so damned obvious. And still not actually from NY *C*.

Anonymous wrote:In the national media, the Republicans are licking their chops at the likelihood of Mamdani getting elected. He feeds perfectly into their narrative. So when we get stuck with a Republican Congress again in 2026, enabling Trump to continue to destroy this country, tell me whether the city-run super markets and rent freezes are truly worth it.

Mamdani and AOC are the gift that keeps on giving for Fox News and Republicans. I appreciate their idealism but they have to be realistic and know when to STFU.

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Anonymous wrote:The biggest issue I have with Zohran is how performative and calculating it all is. Rich trust fund kid moves from manhattan to western queens for the voting base and uses his theater skills to land an easy job as a politician.

True, probably easier to win in Queens than in Manhattan whose political scene is dog-eat-dog. Agree that he is very telegenic and knows how to smile for the camera. How does that qualify him to be Mayor? Maybe he'll make some great tourism videos to lure the tourists and their money back!

Being telegenic and little more seems to be the qualification for most of Trumps cabinet. At least this guy has some ideas

Comparing someone favorably to the bottom of the barrel who fill Trump's Cabinet is not a ringing endorsement.

How would cuomo help NYc?

Do you post this whataboutism nonsense everywhere?

I don’t think you know what that expression means. But I’ll ask again, what are the ideas that Cuomo has that you like?

Um, I do know what it means, "yeah, what about Cuomo?"

Ok what do you like about Cuomo?

Huh days later and no response.

Btw your petition to prevent ZM from winning has a whopping 44 signatures

Thanks tough guy. Call me when the city is in the crapper because it is being run by an inexperienced child. Unlike the Mamdani kool-aid drinkers, the rest of us can admit the many flaws of the people we are "supporting" (and most of us aren't supporting them, we are just choosing the lesser evil). The Mamdani supporters are like Trump supporters - blindly follow and refuse to admit any flaws. There have been some in this thread who this does not apply to and I appreciate and respect their perspective. But the rest get so defensive and are so unrealistic about the realities of running a big, complicated city.

As if you even live in NYC…

I know you are but what am I.

You are demonstrating that the average Mamdani voter is a low class moron who has no understanding of how the real world works. Your repeated dumb comments and continued unwillingness to admit one flaw in his platforms is the height of ignorance and stupidity. It is ironic that those on the far left are behaving in a very Trumpy way. Those who are opposed to Mamdani are very willing to admit the flaws of the other candidates. And acknowledge strengths - I hated deBlasio but will give him credit for UPK. You will not.

Enjoy your rent freeze. I hope it makes you feel special.

What are you going on about? Any sane reasonable person gives De Blasio credit for UPK, as I did above. People like Mamdani, including many educated people. The people who don’t like him primarily are - bigots who hate all Muslims (sound familiar?) and pro Zionist wealthy boomers.


And you’re claim above that people from NYC don’t say ‘NYC’ is just bizarre…

I am the person you are responding to, though I appreciate the support from the other poster. As they noted, there are many of us for whom the religion stuff has very little part of why we don't like him. There are many people who recognize that running a big city is a huge tax and requires some level of maturity and experience which he lacks. His platform of wish list items demonstrates that. The rent freeze and city run grocery stores are just plain dumb. Yet the masses fell for it.

I work for a giant company based in NYC - if we hired someone like Mamdani to run it I would be extremely worried (and again, that has nothing to do with religion, race, etc. - solely based on age, experience and attitude). And our stock price would go to zero overnight. Wall Street is giving Mamdani a chance for now, but if he is actually elected and tries to follow through on this, the city's bond rating will drop. The only saving grace is there are hopefully limitations as to how much of this he can enact.

The NYC comment was not me. I actually agree with you - I don't use the term when speaking by when writing I use it as it is easier than writing "New York City" but I want to differentiate the city from the state.

I wish there was a way to identify us (while maintaining anonymity) so it was more clear who is replying to who.

Finance is an industry that is in secular decline and stagnating in terms of employment. This is why the city fought so hard to attract tech jobs over the last decade and why losing the Amazon campus was a major L.

The city doesn’t need many Citadels to move to FL before it feels excruciating pain. It will happen, it will start with the small 5-10 investment professional shops. Then the big four accountants and law firms and more back office functions moving out of town, too. Eventually, JPM or GS or another BB bank will take the plunge. Their mid levels hate commuting from Cold Spring Harbor and the crappier parts of Greenwich anyway. Your favorite candidate will be on his hands and knees, begging like a dog, for them to stay while he tweets about how much he disdains them. I will celebrate their move if Mamdani wins and the damage they will inflict on his city because voters get the government they deserve.

All the incredible cultural and educational offerings the city extends its residents cannot paper over taxes that cross the line into extortion, a flippant attitude to crime, and rhetoric that irritates (and infuriates some) many important people who allow the city to operate. “What about Cuomo” has been answered many times, he will not unleash termites on New York and lay it to waste.

Keep on attributing horrible motives to those who disagree with you. Most people opposed to Mamdani didn’t serve in the IDF and many are appalled at the conflict. They know Cuomo is a creep and Adams is flawed.

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Did nyc survive De blasio?

The city is in worse shape than the late Giuliani and entirety of the Bloomberg years. It is more dangerous, dirtier, offers a worse education (spare me UPK as redeeming his mayoralty), and worse services in general. Despite his harping on housing affordability for eight years, NYC is more expensive than ever and the housing stock has fallen apart in rent controlled buildings.

No American city is dead, so don’t make the benchmark of success (survival) a universal. Detroit still has activity. Even de Blasio couldn’t kill it.

This is chatgpt written but accurate.

Giuliani is often credited with making NYC safer, but major crime had already begun falling before he took office—and by the end of de Blasio’s term, crime rates were actually lower than under Giuliani, even with far less aggressive and discriminatory policing. Despite his “tough on crime” image, Giuliani presided over high levels of homelessness and cut social services that could have addressed root causes.

Bloomberg’s era brought economic growth and modernization, but his housing policies heavily favored developers and resulted in a massive wave of luxury construction, not affordability. That helped fuel the housing crisis the city faces today, as working- and middle-class New Yorkers were pushed out of many neighborhoods.

While de Blasio had real flaws—especially in execution and agency management—his record is often unfairly dismissed. He kept crime historically low, reduced over-policing, expanded universal pre-K, and brought equity issues into serious policy conversations in a way his predecessors did not. The nostalgic glow around Giuliani and Bloomberg often ignores the long-term damage their policies created—and de Blasio’s tenure deserves a more balanced assessment.

Keep bringing up de blasio like a broken record. Every maga city voter would prefer him over Mamdani. Is that your point? Or is it to deflect from how bad the current candidate is? If you think de blasio had executive and management shortcomings, a daft tiktok star will fare much worse. Again, NY deserves what will happen and I’ll cheer the crime and homeless.

I cannot wait until landlords burn down their buildings for the insurance payout. It beats rent freezes and giving property to banks. Practice your safety rolls for when you jump down fire escapes.

I guess all that dark money raised to defeat him is buying some good social engagement! Interesting to see how this thread in an otherwise dead forum has 20+ pages...

This forum isn’t dead. It has dozens and dozens of pages about schools and activities in NY.

Somehow, I don’t think the Cuomo team is paying anonymous posters to say they want to see poor people’s apartment buildings burn down if Mamdani wins….. Mamdani voters do struggle with the basics. In fact, the Mossad isn’t actually after him and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion isn’t non-fiction.

Well, you’d be wrong if you don’t think there are paid social media out there for candidates. And this forum is mostly dead. Most threads get 20 or so responses at most. This has 10 times that

Yes, on Twitter and Instagram and social media websites not focused on Washington DC…..

There are lots of responses because someone writes “what about Cuomo” hourly while others discuss the policy nuances of his and Adams’ platforms.

Anonymous wrote:In the national media, the Republicans are licking their chops at the likelihood of Mamdani getting elected. He feeds perfectly into their narrative. So when we get stuck with a Republican Congress again in 2026, enabling Trump to continue to destroy this country, tell me whether the city-run super markets and rent freezes are truly worth it.

Mamdani and AOC are the gift that keeps on giving for Fox News and Republicans. I appreciate their idealism but they have to be realistic and know when to STFU.

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Anonymous wrote:The biggest issue I have with Zohran is how performative and calculating it all is. Rich trust fund kid moves from manhattan to western queens for the voting base and uses his theater skills to land an easy job as a politician.

True, probably easier to win in Queens than in Manhattan whose political scene is dog-eat-dog. Agree that he is very telegenic and knows how to smile for the camera. How does that qualify him to be Mayor? Maybe he'll make some great tourism videos to lure the tourists and their money back!

Being telegenic and little more seems to be the qualification for most of Trumps cabinet. At least this guy has some ideas

Comparing someone favorably to the bottom of the barrel who fill Trump's Cabinet is not a ringing endorsement.

How would cuomo help NYc?

Do you post this whataboutism nonsense everywhere?

I don’t think you know what that expression means. But I’ll ask again, what are the ideas that Cuomo has that you like?

Um, I do know what it means, "yeah, what about Cuomo?"

Ok what do you like about Cuomo?

Huh days later and no response.

Btw your petition to prevent ZM from winning has a whopping 44 signatures

Thanks tough guy. Call me when the city is in the crapper because it is being run by an inexperienced child. Unlike the Mamdani kool-aid drinkers, the rest of us can admit the many flaws of the people we are "supporting" (and most of us aren't supporting them, we are just choosing the lesser evil). The Mamdani supporters are like Trump supporters - blindly follow and refuse to admit any flaws. There have been some in this thread who this does not apply to and I appreciate and respect their perspective. But the rest get so defensive and are so unrealistic about the realities of running a big, complicated city.

As if you even live in NYC…

I know you are but what am I.

You are demonstrating that the average Mamdani voter is a low class moron who has no understanding of how the real world works. Your repeated dumb comments and continued unwillingness to admit one flaw in his platforms is the height of ignorance and stupidity. It is ironic that those on the far left are behaving in a very Trumpy way. Those who are opposed to Mamdani are very willing to admit the flaws of the other candidates. And acknowledge strengths - I hated deBlasio but will give him credit for UPK. You will not.

Enjoy your rent freeze. I hope it makes you feel special.

What are you going on about? Any sane reasonable person gives De Blasio credit for UPK, as I did above. People like Mamdani, including many educated people. The people who don’t like him primarily are - bigots who hate all Muslims (sound familiar?) and pro Zionist wealthy boomers.


And you’re claim above that people from NYC don’t say ‘NYC’ is just bizarre…

I am the person you are responding to, though I appreciate the support from the other poster. As they noted, there are many of us for whom the religion stuff has very little part of why we don't like him. There are many people who recognize that running a big city is a huge tax and requires some level of maturity and experience which he lacks. His platform of wish list items demonstrates that. The rent freeze and city run grocery stores are just plain dumb. Yet the masses fell for it.

I work for a giant company based in NYC - if we hired someone like Mamdani to run it I would be extremely worried (and again, that has nothing to do with religion, race, etc. - solely based on age, experience and attitude). And our stock price would go to zero overnight. Wall Street is giving Mamdani a chance for now, but if he is actually elected and tries to follow through on this, the city's bond rating will drop. The only saving grace is there are hopefully limitations as to how much of this he can enact.

The NYC comment was not me. I actually agree with you - I don't use the term when speaking by when writing I use it as it is easier than writing "New York City" but I want to differentiate the city from the state.

I wish there was a way to identify us (while maintaining anonymity) so it was more clear who is replying to who.

Finance is an industry that is in secular decline and stagnating in terms of employment. This is why the city fought so hard to attract tech jobs over the last decade and why losing the Amazon campus was a major L.

The city doesn’t need many Citadels to move to FL before it feels excruciating pain. It will happen, it will start with the small 5-10 investment professional shops. Then the big four accountants and law firms and more back office functions moving out of town, too. Eventually, JPM or GS or another BB bank will take the plunge. Their mid levels hate commuting from Cold Spring Harbor and the crappier parts of Greenwich anyway. Your favorite candidate will be on his hands and knees, begging like a dog, for them to stay while he tweets about how much he disdains them. I will celebrate their move if Mamdani wins and the damage they will inflict on his city because voters get the government they deserve.

All the incredible cultural and educational offerings the city extends its residents cannot paper over taxes that cross the line into extortion, a flippant attitude to crime, and rhetoric that irritates (and infuriates some) many important people who allow the city to operate. “What about Cuomo” has been answered many times, he will not unleash termites on New York and lay it to waste.

Keep on attributing horrible motives to those who disagree with you. Most people opposed to Mamdani didn’t serve in the IDF and many are appalled at the conflict. They know Cuomo is a creep and Adams is flawed.

Dp
Did nyc survive De blasio?

The city is in worse shape than the late Giuliani and entirety of the Bloomberg years. It is more dangerous, dirtier, offers a worse education (spare me UPK as redeeming his mayoralty), and worse services in general. Despite his harping on housing affordability for eight years, NYC is more expensive than ever and the housing stock has fallen apart in rent controlled buildings.

No American city is dead, so don’t make the benchmark of success (survival) a universal. Detroit still has activity. Even de Blasio couldn’t kill it.

This is chatgpt written but accurate.

Giuliani is often credited with making NYC safer, but major crime had already begun falling before he took office—and by the end of de Blasio’s term, crime rates were actually lower than under Giuliani, even with far less aggressive and discriminatory policing. Despite his “tough on crime” image, Giuliani presided over high levels of homelessness and cut social services that could have addressed root causes.

Bloomberg’s era brought economic growth and modernization, but his housing policies heavily favored developers and resulted in a massive wave of luxury construction, not affordability. That helped fuel the housing crisis the city faces today, as working- and middle-class New Yorkers were pushed out of many neighborhoods.

While de Blasio had real flaws—especially in execution and agency management—his record is often unfairly dismissed. He kept crime historically low, reduced over-policing, expanded universal pre-K, and brought equity issues into serious policy conversations in a way his predecessors did not. The nostalgic glow around Giuliani and Bloomberg often ignores the long-term damage their policies created—and de Blasio’s tenure deserves a more balanced assessment.

Keep bringing up de blasio like a broken record. Every maga city voter would prefer him over Mamdani. Is that your point? Or is it to deflect from how bad the current candidate is? If you think de blasio had executive and management shortcomings, a daft tiktok star will fare much worse. Again, NY deserves what will happen and I’ll cheer the crime and homeless.

I cannot wait until landlords burn down their buildings for the insurance payout. It beats rent freezes and giving property to banks. Practice your safety rolls for when you jump down fire escapes.

I guess all that dark money raised to defeat him is buying some good social engagement! Interesting to see how this thread in an otherwise dead forum has 20+ pages...

This forum isn’t dead. It has dozens and dozens of pages about schools and activities in NY.

Somehow, I don’t think the Cuomo team is paying anonymous posters to say they want to see poor people’s apartment buildings burn down if Mamdani wins….. Mamdani voters do struggle with the basics. In fact, the Mossad isn’t actually after him and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion isn’t non-fiction.

Well, you’d be wrong if you don’t think there are paid social media out there for candidates. And this forum is mostly dead. Most threads get 20 or so responses at most. This has 10 times that

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Anonymous wrote:The biggest issue I have with Zohran is how performative and calculating it all is. Rich trust fund kid moves from manhattan to western queens for the voting base and uses his theater skills to land an easy job as a politician.

True, probably easier to win in Queens than in Manhattan whose political scene is dog-eat-dog. Agree that he is very telegenic and knows how to smile for the camera. How does that qualify him to be Mayor? Maybe he'll make some great tourism videos to lure the tourists and their money back!

Being telegenic and little more seems to be the qualification for most of Trumps cabinet. At least this guy has some ideas

Comparing someone favorably to the bottom of the barrel who fill Trump's Cabinet is not a ringing endorsement.

How would cuomo help NYc?

Do you post this whataboutism nonsense everywhere?

I don’t think you know what that expression means. But I’ll ask again, what are the ideas that Cuomo has that you like?

Um, I do know what it means, "yeah, what about Cuomo?"

Ok what do you like about Cuomo?

Huh days later and no response.

Btw your petition to prevent ZM from winning has a whopping 44 signatures

Thanks tough guy. Call me when the city is in the crapper because it is being run by an inexperienced child. Unlike the Mamdani kool-aid drinkers, the rest of us can admit the many flaws of the people we are "supporting" (and most of us aren't supporting them, we are just choosing the lesser evil). The Mamdani supporters are like Trump supporters - blindly follow and refuse to admit any flaws. There have been some in this thread who this does not apply to and I appreciate and respect their perspective. But the rest get so defensive and are so unrealistic about the realities of running a big, complicated city.

As if you even live in NYC…

I know you are but what am I.

You are demonstrating that the average Mamdani voter is a low class moron who has no understanding of how the real world works. Your repeated dumb comments and continued unwillingness to admit one flaw in his platforms is the height of ignorance and stupidity. It is ironic that those on the far left are behaving in a very Trumpy way. Those who are opposed to Mamdani are very willing to admit the flaws of the other candidates. And acknowledge strengths - I hated deBlasio but will give him credit for UPK. You will not.

Enjoy your rent freeze. I hope it makes you feel special.

What are you going on about? Any sane reasonable person gives De Blasio credit for UPK, as I did above. People like Mamdani, including many educated people. The people who don’t like him primarily are - bigots who hate all Muslims (sound familiar?) and pro Zionist wealthy boomers.


And you’re claim above that people from NYC don’t say ‘NYC’ is just bizarre…

I am the person you are responding to, though I appreciate the support from the other poster. As they noted, there are many of us for whom the religion stuff has very little part of why we don't like him. There are many people who recognize that running a big city is a huge tax and requires some level of maturity and experience which he lacks. His platform of wish list items demonstrates that. The rent freeze and city run grocery stores are just plain dumb. Yet the masses fell for it.

I work for a giant company based in NYC - if we hired someone like Mamdani to run it I would be extremely worried (and again, that has nothing to do with religion, race, etc. - solely based on age, experience and attitude). And our stock price would go to zero overnight. Wall Street is giving Mamdani a chance for now, but if he is actually elected and tries to follow through on this, the city's bond rating will drop. The only saving grace is there are hopefully limitations as to how much of this he can enact.

The NYC comment was not me. I actually agree with you - I don't use the term when speaking by when writing I use it as it is easier than writing "New York City" but I want to differentiate the city from the state.

I wish there was a way to identify us (while maintaining anonymity) so it was more clear who is replying to who.

Finance is an industry that is in secular decline and stagnating in terms of employment. This is why the city fought so hard to attract tech jobs over the last decade and why losing the Amazon campus was a major L.

The city doesn’t need many Citadels to move to FL before it feels excruciating pain. It will happen, it will start with the small 5-10 investment professional shops. Then the big four accountants and law firms and more back office functions moving out of town, too. Eventually, JPM or GS or another BB bank will take the plunge. Their mid levels hate commuting from Cold Spring Harbor and the crappier parts of Greenwich anyway. Your favorite candidate will be on his hands and knees, begging like a dog, for them to stay while he tweets about how much he disdains them. I will celebrate their move if Mamdani wins and the damage they will inflict on his city because voters get the government they deserve.

All the incredible cultural and educational offerings the city extends its residents cannot paper over taxes that cross the line into extortion, a flippant attitude to crime, and rhetoric that irritates (and infuriates some) many important people who allow the city to operate. “What about Cuomo” has been answered many times, he will not unleash termites on New York and lay it to waste.

Keep on attributing horrible motives to those who disagree with you. Most people opposed to Mamdani didn’t serve in the IDF and many are appalled at the conflict. They know Cuomo is a creep and Adams is flawed.

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Did nyc survive De blasio?

The city is in worse shape than the late Giuliani and entirety of the Bloomberg years. It is more dangerous, dirtier, offers a worse education (spare me UPK as redeeming his mayoralty), and worse services in general. Despite his harping on housing affordability for eight years, NYC is more expensive than ever and the housing stock has fallen apart in rent controlled buildings.

No American city is dead, so don’t make the benchmark of success (survival) a universal. Detroit still has activity. Even de Blasio couldn’t kill it.

This is chatgpt written but accurate.

Giuliani is often credited with making NYC safer, but major crime had already begun falling before he took office—and by the end of de Blasio’s term, crime rates were actually lower than under Giuliani, even with far less aggressive and discriminatory policing. Despite his “tough on crime” image, Giuliani presided over high levels of homelessness and cut social services that could have addressed root causes.

Bloomberg’s era brought economic growth and modernization, but his housing policies heavily favored developers and resulted in a massive wave of luxury construction, not affordability. That helped fuel the housing crisis the city faces today, as working- and middle-class New Yorkers were pushed out of many neighborhoods.

While de Blasio had real flaws—especially in execution and agency management—his record is often unfairly dismissed. He kept crime historically low, reduced over-policing, expanded universal pre-K, and brought equity issues into serious policy conversations in a way his predecessors did not. The nostalgic glow around Giuliani and Bloomberg often ignores the long-term damage their policies created—and de Blasio’s tenure deserves a more balanced assessment.

Keep bringing up de blasio like a broken record. Every maga city voter would prefer him over Mamdani. Is that your point? Or is it to deflect from how bad the current candidate is? If you think de blasio had executive and management shortcomings, a daft tiktok star will fare much worse. Again, NY deserves what will happen and I’ll cheer the crime and homeless.

I cannot wait until landlords burn down their buildings for the insurance payout. It beats rent freezes and giving property to banks. Practice your safety rolls for when you jump down fire escapes.

I guess all that dark money raised to defeat him is buying some good social engagement! Interesting to see how this thread in an otherwise dead forum has 20+ pages...

This forum isn’t dead. It has dozens and dozens of pages about schools and activities in NY.

Somehow, I don’t think the Cuomo team is paying anonymous posters to say they want to see poor people’s apartment buildings burn down if Mamdani wins….. Mamdani voters do struggle with the basics. In fact, the Mossad isn’t actually after him and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion isn’t non-fiction.