Bill de Blasio, America's worst mayor
Washington Examiner,
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Editorial
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
4/5/2020 5:03:09 AM
After the 9/11 terrorist attack, Rudy Giuliani’s calm presence was an inspiration to the entire nation. Today, New York is a different kind of ground zero, and it has a very different kind of leadership — which is to say, the weak and woefully inadequate kind.
To say that Mayor Bill de Blasio has done a poor job under pressure is to understate the case. In the simpler times of 2014, New Yorkers had the luxury of chuckling at his weak leadership, as when he killed a defenseless groundhog at a public event. But that he has proven himself such a clown amid a grave crisis,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 4/5/2020 5:32:05 AM (No. 369015)
The Democrat machine is very strong in the Northeast-that's why imbeciles like Bill DeBlasio (NY) and Ned Lamont (CT) and Phil Murphy (NJ) keep getting elected. Here in CT we just withstood 8 years of Dannell Molloy, the stu-stu-stuttering idiot who raised taxes not once but twice (!) and still elected another Democrat as govenor instead of a Republican.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 4/5/2020 6:44:50 AM (No. 369033)
de Blah Blah, Schift for Brains, and Miss Rack Job 1938 are morons and virtually irrelevant. History will not treat them kindly.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Kitty Myers 4/5/2020 6:56:59 AM (No. 369040)
Because of DeBlasio's utter stupidity, our hospitals in Upstate NY will be raided for their ventilators so New York City can cope with the thousands of newly infected people who listened to the mayor. As one local nurse told me, 'What are we supposed to do when we get a patient who needs to be ventlated? Those ventilators are expensive. We'll never see them again.'
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
dolphin 4/5/2020 8:09:48 AM (No. 369099)
Possibly the author has never visited Louisville and seen the destruction that Mayor Greg Fischer has done. Or may he has and disappeared into one of the potholes, never to be heard from again.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bigken2 4/5/2020 8:23:36 AM (No. 369113)
i remember dem talking heads laughing about trump voters dying well looks to me like just big cities getting wiped out but hell they still vote dem for 20 years
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Krause 4/5/2020 8:31:38 AM (No. 369126)
Why does a large city like NYC elect such a person with no management skills? Are most of the people in NYC just like him? Would they still vote for him?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bpl40 4/5/2020 8:37:01 AM (No. 369134)
#1 as a co-sufferer I can attest that Messrs. Himes, Blumenthal, Murphy are no day at the beach.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
planetgeo 4/5/2020 8:38:01 AM (No. 369135)
The only thing one can surmise from the fact that the voters of NYC and similar blue cities/states keep electing such profoundly stupid, crooked, and dictatorial officials is that they too are profoundly stupid, crooked, and dictatorial for their own wants and needs. I'd therefore say that nature is doing a pretty good job of starting to cull that herd.
Natural selection at work.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 4/5/2020 8:38:07 AM (No. 369136)
Wanna bet NYC is the first city to go bankrupt over this?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/5/2020 8:54:52 AM (No. 369162)
Aside from the WashEx taking a couple of very clumsy swipes at the President, fairly good analysis of the political disaster in NYC. Incompetence at it best. Surprised that the locals haven't tarred and feathered daBlasie by now. On the other hand, why would they as long as all the gummint welfare checks and goodies arrive on time in the mail.. Wonder how many New Yorkers miss the Mayor Giuliani days.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Osprey21 4/5/2020 8:58:12 AM (No. 369164)
It should be legal to kill blatant Communists.
just sayin'
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
rusino 4/5/2020 8:59:52 AM (No. 369168)
After the words Even President Trump...I quickly skimmed through the rest! Most recognize that Warren Wilhelm Jr. AKA Bill DeBlasio is an incompetent Clown. Yet! the clueless New Yorkers elected him twice! There were many words about BD were only an opportunity to hit the President of the United States who is doing a wonderful job..and the Press will not Put the Bat Down!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Tenncon231 4/5/2020 9:05:59 AM (No. 369174)
The real “skinny” is will this be the second time NY files for bankruptcy? No doubt POTUS recalls Pres Ford’s response in the 70’s when NYC asked fo help. “Drop Dead”!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/5/2020 9:19:18 AM (No. 369191)
De Blahblah was entitled to his opinion weeks ago and might have even been right about the danger of this disease had it not been for three major airports letting in hundreds of infected people, LAX, O'Hare and New York. These locations are where the infection explosions took place. Seattle was caused primarily by one person. Had we known in January what we know now, the US is sparsely populated enough to have contained this thing. Not enough people practice distancing and still do not. I live in a resort community several hundred miles from New York and it's disconcerting how many NY license plates are parked in driveways here, no doubt relatives and students who escaped the city.
We still may determine that the closure of the economy was an overreaction but given the behavior of the infection scofflaws and the inaccurate data, we will probably never know.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
starboard 4/5/2020 9:21:50 AM (No. 369192)
Are there no Republicans in these states? Are they that timid to challenge the corruption, too speak up against the incompetent Dems? If AOC got elected by yelling and screaming on every corner of her district, a good Republican can do the same. To stir the pot up, It takes effort and passion.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
chance_232 4/5/2020 9:36:33 AM (No. 369212)
The voters get the leadership that they vote for. To say that they get the leadership that they deserve seems crass, least we forget that NYC voted for this imbecile twice.
Apparently, democrat voters outside of NYC are smarter and killed his presidential aspirations in the crib.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bubby 4/5/2020 9:59:51 AM (No. 369235)
Yet if de Blasio ran again for Mayor on the Democrat ticket he would win reelection because he's a Democrat. It doesn't seem to matter to New Yorkers that he's a communist and incompetent only that he's a Democrat. I will never understand that kind of herd mentality mindset? I guess living stacked on top of each other and having to use mass transit to get around some how dulls the mind?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
little guy 4/5/2020 10:06:45 AM (No. 369250)
It's a vicious cycle of the worst kind of twist on Darwinism. In this case, it's survival of the worst & the dumbest.
As any city turns socialist and uses taxpayer money to help those who not only never did anything to earn it or deserve it but spit at the taxpayer who is paying for it all, then it is just a matter of time (often short but sometimes over 20+ years) that the bill payer wises up. He/she realizes that they will never be appreciated so they vote with their feet and take their money with them. That leaves like minded nut jobs in a much higher concentration .... which is what has happened in NYC. De Blasio is just the smartest stooge who figured out how to manipulate the rest of the sheep.
Mayor for 6 years in America's prime terrorist target and he doesn't have any surgical masks & gloves and/or gowns let alone ventilators stockpiled. Really? But he does have the driver's license exam for taxi drivers printed out in 38 languages!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 4/5/2020 10:12:14 AM (No. 369259)
Fools do foolish times, and are especially destructive when sound, sensible leadership is required.
Nothing about DeBozo is sound or sensible.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
czechlist 4/5/2020 10:33:37 AM (No. 369297)
A world in crisis and all the dims can do is b it ch and place blame. I haven't heard a dem suggest any reasonable solutions - only Trump bad. If he holds a press conference it is a politicl rally substitute; if he didn't they'd claim he is cowering. Not a constructive thing offered by the donkey party.
But half the country will vote for the lying whiners.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/5/2020 11:00:44 AM (No. 369333)
Maybe de Blasio is code for opportunistic NAZI. Ask Warren Wilhelm, Jr., next time you see him.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 4/5/2020 11:46:32 AM (No. 369380)
If you analyse the numbers of DeBlasio's first election to mayor, you will find out that out of the entire eligible voter base in NYC, he got elected by something like 45% of approx about 15% of those who actually bothered to vote. I mean minuscule numbers, even for NYC. I remember being both shocked and kind of disgusted when I saw that.
Even his own staffers were frustrated with his incompetent ignorance during the first month of his 1st term. He was then, and is now, truly an awful mayor. Makes Dinkins look like a genius. I think DeBlasio is also the first mayor who not only has declared war on his own cops, but has been treated with well earned loathing by them in return. DeBlasio is indeed America's worst mayor, and it doesn't make NYC look good. In fact it makes them all look like a bunch of lazy chumps IMO when they keep reelecting him.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
cor-vet 4/5/2020 11:53:25 AM (No. 369385)
Guess blab blab thinks he's the most important person in the world, demanding nurses, Drs. and respiratory therapists. The arragont way New Yorkers treat people, why would anyone want to take a chance at helping NY, even if it is the Christian thing to do.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Firefly 4/5/2020 12:01:26 PM (No. 369398)
To all commenters in this thread esp #8, the mystery of why liberal democrats keep electing pols that wreck and ruin everything they touch has baffled many for decades. Look at all the worst cities in America and you will discover that they are democrat strongholds with decades of democrat party machinery in place.
Why do people keep voting for them?
A. the welfare vote. Keep the minorities angry and resentful of the successes of whites and give them just enough welfare poison to keep them on life support but not enough to springboard them out of the 'hood' and you have the lion's share of the city vote.
B. well-paid white liberals just want to keep abortion legal. That is all they worry about.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/5/2020 12:38:32 PM (No. 369448)
Under the federal system in place in the USA there are fifty sovereign States. Each State, if you have been paying attention since President Trump was elected, especially the States with Democrat Governors have in many respects went their own way, and sometimes refuse to assist in the effective enforcement of many federal laws, the only exception being when they are when they are seeking Federal (taxpayers) money to be sent their way.
In that respect each Governor is responsible for the health and welfare of their State. They all have State Health Departments to ensure that the State will be ready to handle any health emergency that hits that State. To be effective each State must purchase and stockpile needed medical equipment over periods of years. With the covert and insidious sudden onset of the novel corona virus, it became clear that the States failed to ensure that they had adequate medical supplies immediately available to them. In New York that is really in serious trouble with out of control corona virus, political blame is now flying around, first New York Democrat politicians blamed the President and the Federal Government for their lack of medical supplies and their healthcare facilities being overrun by the corona virus. Now, off and on, Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio are blaming each other and complaining that New York was not ready. Remember Cuomo has been the Governor there since 2011. Also remember New York and other States have been all in on globalization and “open borders”, factors that allowed the corona virus to be imported into the USA on a large scale.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
TCloud 4/5/2020 1:09:49 PM (No. 369476)
We all know by now that Hope and Change was/is an excuse to do nothing. Ineptness by de Blasio has solidified the reality that Mother Nature will have to run its course... and nothing will stop this massive liberal die-off as painful as that sounds.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Mike22 4/5/2020 1:20:05 PM (No. 369486)
If you live in one of these liberal enclaves and you speak up stuff can happen. Your car can be keyed. Your boss can suddenly turn hostile. People shun you. Why? They do not operate rationally. Liberalism is their religion. Their beliefs are emotion based. When you engage in debate and you finally pin them down being as polite and tactful as possible they get more and more angry, start throwing ad hominid attacks or engaging in angry tirades or deflecting by changing the subject. I was trying very hard to gently talk a relative "off the ledge" - her 20 something children were all going to die from the Wuhan virus and it was all Trump's fault. As soon as I presented evidence she would throw out a new "fact" from the Madow universe for me to deal with. Another person was screaming at me about all I care about is my 401k. I watched my 50 something boss who bragged about vandalism of a church because proposition 8 had passed in California turn red face and screaming when someone suggested that the press was hypocritical because they attacked republicans for sexual escapades and not democrats. And to him anyone who was the least bit to the right of Rachel was "stupid" regardless of how good at their job they were, with the consequent effect on their job ratings.
As for voting, the liberals will simply "find" enough votes to win elections. Come on over and hang out at a polling place - a car pulls up late in the day with 6 or more strangers packed in. They don't look like folks from the precinct. They go in two by two and vote. Then they move on. That's the retail version.
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What kind of gruber
would vote for a fool
like Warren Wilhelm?
You reap what you sow, nu yawk!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
hershey 4/5/2020 2:45:16 PM (No. 369568)
I don't usually go to Snopes for anything, but a Google search on why DeBlabbio changed his name (my curiosity got the best of me) revealed he once supported the Sandinistas...enough said.... https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/deblasio-nicaragua-warren-wilhelm/ ..so he's basically a socialist at heart (like we didn't already know)...
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It's sad to think of what might have been. Instead of so many payoff pork projects, a lot of the stimulus money from Obama and Pelosi could have gone to hospitals, supplies, decent medical research, fixing roads and bridges etc instead of PBS, Kennedy Center, Solindra and other solar panels, light bulbs and everything else that went into politicians' pockets.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
XCenturion 4/5/2020 5:20:16 PM (No. 369744)
From what I've seen of most New Yorkers, they deserve who they elected!
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 4/5/2020 5:37:38 PM (No. 369769)
NYS and NYC are now wholly owned Democrat one party governments. Fat and happy New Yorkers, reveling in a prosperous and safe city from Rudy Giuliani's and to some extent Mike Bloomberg's administrations, thought they could vote in this moron because things were so good. In 2013, a former Giuliani deputy mayor and MTA Chair, a good, no nonsense manager and Republican Joe Lhota was defeated by Mayor Moron with just about 24 percent of eligible voters casting ballots. Today, Mayor Moron stands as the single most incompetent and obnoxious Mayor the city has ever seen. In good times, a society can function somewhat with an incompetent heading it up. But when times get tough, we see just how vital are competence, intelligence and humility . And if y'all think Mayor Moron is bad, just wait. What's coming up behind him will make him look like a genius. One party towns breed imbeciles.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
NYbob 4/5/2020 6:05:21 PM (No. 369793)
A lot of rats in this state, most of them in NYC. Rats do what rats do and I understand crazy, viscous, emotionally driven maniacs. What I don't understand is all the other dopes who don't bother to vote, 'because it won't make any difference and I don't want to be called for jury duty.' Of COURSE it makes a difference, you idiots. Not voting against every rat on the ballot is a vote FOR them and it's your driver's license that puts you in the jury pool.
The other factor besides the lower political I.Q. in NY is the New York Republican Party. An organization so inept and corrupt that they get behind a woman who drops out of her representative race and endorses the democrat opponent. A viable candidate runs for governor who was well known and sensible, but was barely beaten by the Thug because the RNC and the NY Republicans REFUSED to provide him any financial backing.
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