NYC's mayor is crazy

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NYC's mayor is crazy

Postby Kurt » Thu Aug 25, 2022 2:45 pm

As in like actually crazy.

Adams reminded me of a Dictator back when he was Borough President of Brooklyn. He would have these big drop-down banners of himself in front of Borough Hall that were very third world dictator-like.

When elected he vowed to be the "Crypto Mayor" as in Cryptocurrency and wanted NYC to be a "Crypto City" like those awful Libertarian "Utopias" that end up being in a diseased hell-hole and run by a fascist "Freedom" Death Cult. But at least he stopped talking about that.

But anyway, he is known and praised as "Pro-Cop" as he was a cop at one time, but he recently issued an edict that no cops are supposed to socialize with each other while on duty. In other words cops cannot sit around and bullshit or chat.

This is really dumb on multiple levels. On subways, Cops have keys to closed off places. They can go in those and chat, away from public eyes and also no terries and crims will see them around and be deterred from crime or terrorism.

Also nothing sucks more than having a job and being told not to socialize with your colleagues.

Next he is gonna demand that Firefighters do things like sweeping streets when not fighting fires.

But since his nightlife costs are being questioned like "Who pays?" (NYC is crazy expensive and if you add a lot of booze it can become super-crazy, like having a $600.00 meal for two become $4000.00 or more with wine and cocktails.) my guess is he has about two months before he is out.
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Re: NYC's mayor is crazy

Postby rickshaw92 » Thu Aug 25, 2022 5:21 pm

Our mayor is just a mong. Count yourself as lucky.
Im reallly fuclimg pissed but fespite that I can still hit a tarfet at 1000m plus. mayVRVe bnot tonight but it qint beyond the wit if man. Nowhammy.
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Re: NYC's mayor is crazy

Postby vagabond » Thu Aug 25, 2022 8:21 pm

Kurt wrote:As in like actually crazy.

Adams reminded me of a Dictator back when he was Borough President of Brooklyn. He would have these big drop-down banners of himself in front of Borough Hall that were very third world dictator-like.

When elected he vowed to be the "Crypto Mayor" as in Cryptocurrency and wanted NYC to be a "Crypto City" like those awful Libertarian "Utopias" that end up being in a diseased hell-hole and run by a fascist "Freedom" Death Cult. But at least he stopped talking about that.

But anyway, he is known and praised as "Pro-Cop" as he was a cop at one time, but he recently issued an edict that no cops are supposed to socialize with each other while on duty. In other words cops cannot sit around and bullshit or chat.

This is really dumb on multiple levels. On subways, Cops have keys to closed off places. They can go in those and chat, away from public eyes and also no terries and crims will see them around and be deterred from crime or terrorism.

Also nothing sucks more than having a job and being told not to socialize with your colleagues.

Next he is gonna demand that Firefighters do things like sweeping streets when not fighting fires.

But since his nightlife costs are being questioned like "Who pays?" (NYC is crazy expensive and if you add a lot of booze it can become super-crazy, like having a $600.00 meal for two become $4000.00 or more with wine and cocktails.) my guess is he has about two months before he is out.


So...how did he get the Dem nomination? And what's the deal with the guy he ran against - Silwa?

Had not heard about the crypto thing...can't wait for all that shit to keep falling apart. On the LA subreddit there was a thread about what to name crypto.com arena once they can't pay their bills.

LA mayor is not very well liked in the city, and pretty ineffective at the stuff he has actual control over. He's not as important as I gather the NYC mayor is - our City Council is much more important. That and the County Superintendents (THE most powerful entities) comes with its own issues.

I made sure to write my Congress folks that they should not confirm him for Amb to India. I think he was last seen being a party planner for the Biden inauguration and probably kissing as much ass as possible at that event.
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Re: NYC's mayor is crazy

Postby Kurt » Fri Aug 26, 2022 12:47 am

vagabond wrote:
So...how did he get the Dem nomination? And what's the deal with the guy he ran against - Silwa?


Sliwa is also crazy in his own way. But people who remember subway muggings in the 1980s like him but it was not nearly enough to carry an election.

He got the Dem nomination because they had those Ranked Choice Voting where we chose 5 candidates (up to 5). So people vote for who they want first, and who they will tolerate for the next 4. When this is done, the candidate no one wants but everyone says "whatever" is the winner. In Straight up primary polling Maya Willey would have won but in Ranked choice she came in second on the first round and was eliminated for the second round (lots of people wanted her, but not enough would tolerate her for their other choices) so the Third ranked person came in second and if it was actual one vote one person Adams would have been somewhere ahead of Andrew Yang but behind Katheryn Garcia.

But most NYC mayors are crazy to a degree. The most sane ones were DeBlasio and Dinkins and they were mostly useless. We had Bloomberg who commuted like "everyman" on the 4 Train with both NYPD security detail and his private secret security detail. He then forced City Hall into an Open Office like they had at Bloomberg so most people ended up either not working or hiding the bathrooms to work. He also got rid of smoking and tried to get rid of sugary drinks because he was repulsed with how fat poor people were. He also fought for the right for private clubs to smoke whatever the fuck they wanted whenever the fuck they wanted to smoke. He belonged to a number of private clubs.

Guiliani was batshit crazy even back when everyone loved him. He was terrified of Ferrets and would scream at people for suggesting that Ferrets be legalized in NYC. Most likely he had no idea what a Ferret but in his tantrums he seemed to be getting them confused with Giant Ghanian Rats. He moved the city's "Terrorism Command Center" to the World Trade Center after the attack in 1993 and ordered City Hall to evacuate to the command center after the WTC was attacked on 9/11 and almost killed all of City Hall. ...That scene where he is covered in dust and walking away from the rubble? That was him almost dying because of his dumb ideas. He then became a creepy hero, so reports of him getting drunk and trying to put his hands up women's skirts were mostly ignored except for by the people who would taunt him with Ferrets.

To be fair he did not start wetting himself when shitfaced until his prostate was removed. So I guess I have been kind of hard on him for making sport about him pissing himself at Brunch.

Koch did literally nothing except to make himself known to people outside of NYC for asking how he was doing.

Beame was screwed by the times and the blackout of 1977.

Lindsay was crab and clap infested but got to bang Florence Henderson (and give her crabs) and was otherwise unremarkable but people loved him for some stupid reason.
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Re: NYC's mayor is crazy

Postby vagabond » Fri Aug 26, 2022 9:47 pm

Kurt wrote:
vagabond wrote:
So...how did he get the Dem nomination? And what's the deal with the guy he ran against - Silwa?


Sliwa is also crazy in his own way. But people who remember subway muggings in the 1980s like him but it was not nearly enough to carry an election.

He got the Dem nomination because they had those Ranked Choice Voting where we chose 5 candidates (up to 5). So people vote for who they want first, and who they will tolerate for the next 4. When this is done, the candidate no one wants but everyone says "whatever" is the winner. In Straight up primary polling Maya Willey would have won but in Ranked choice she came in second on the first round and was eliminated for the second round (lots of people wanted her, but not enough would tolerate her for their other choices) so the Third ranked person came in second and if it was actual one vote one person Adams would have been somewhere ahead of Andrew Yang but behind Katheryn Garcia.

But most NYC mayors are crazy to a degree. The most sane ones were DeBlasio and Dinkins and they were mostly useless. We had Bloomberg who commuted like "everyman" on the 4 Train with both NYPD security detail and his private secret security detail. He then forced City Hall into an Open Office like they had at Bloomberg so most people ended up either not working or hiding the bathrooms to work. He also got rid of smoking and tried to get rid of sugary drinks because he was repulsed with how fat poor people were. He also fought for the right for private clubs to smoke whatever the fuck they wanted whenever the fuck they wanted to smoke. He belonged to a number of private clubs.

Guiliani was batshit crazy even back when everyone loved him. He was terrified of Ferrets and would scream at people for suggesting that Ferrets be legalized in NYC. Most likely he had no idea what a Ferret but in his tantrums he seemed to be getting them confused with Giant Ghanian Rats. He moved the city's "Terrorism Command Center" to the World Trade Center after the attack in 1993 and ordered City Hall to evacuate to the command center after the WTC was attacked on 9/11 and almost killed all of City Hall. ...That scene where he is covered in dust and walking away from the rubble? That was him almost dying because of his dumb ideas. He then became a creepy hero, so reports of him getting drunk and trying to put his hands up women's skirts were mostly ignored except for by the people who would taunt him with Ferrets.

To be fair he did not start wetting himself when shitfaced until his prostate was removed. So I guess I have been kind of hard on him for making sport about him pissing himself at Brunch.

Koch did literally nothing except to make himself known to people outside of NYC for asking how he was doing.

Beame was screwed by the times and the blackout of 1977.

Lindsay was crab and clap infested but got to bang Florence Henderson (and give her crabs) and was otherwise unremarkable but people loved him for some stupid reason.


It sounds like without ranked choice he would've pulled through anyway right? It at least gives the option of more than two people going to head-to-head if a third party or other can pull it off? I don't know if about the nuances but the nerds on reddit seem to prefer something similar to what Australia has?

Either way, sounds like y'all would've gotten a kook.

How much sway does that mayor actually have vs a city council there?
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