De Blasio’s New York
As might be expected, the Squeegee Men starting to come back. As is a new variety of panhandler/extortionist, the Sunday Hijacker.
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As might be expected, the Squeegee Men starting to come back. As is a new variety of panhandler/extortionist, the Sunday Hijacker.
Rudy knew they’d be back along with the banning of horse drawn carriages in Central Park. Cruelty to animals, dont’cha know.
History and experience mean nothing to progs. De Blasio is sure it just hasn’t been done right yet.
BTW, neo….
The infamous Black man that Barry’s grandmother was so upset about was pulling squeegee tactics upon pedestrians!
Like a skunk, he put his odor into his intimate ‘sales close.’
That this ‘odorific,’ forty-something, Black, vagrant, varmint superficially looked like the ghost of Barry-to-come certainly unnerved his grandmother.
Due to the changes in vagrancy laws, Honolulu police found it impossible to shoo him away — nor to even bathe him. (!) He flatly turned down free bed and board. With Oahu weather being what it is, eka-Barry preferred the company of the pavement.
It’s revealing to know that deep in our DNA we can all fall back on the hustle. There’s a little ‘Angel Martin’ in all of us.
Good news, everybody:
I hear that Rahm Emmanuel in Chicago has several opponents in the mayoral election, one of whom is Karen Lewis, the Communist head of the local teachers’ union.
Squeegee Man: coming to a Democratic city near you!
It always takes much more time and effort to build than it does to destroy. Apparently the work of decades can be thrown away in one mayoral term. Or one presidential administration, for that matter.
Anyone who lived in NYC in the early-mid seventies knows what this means. The subways, the criminals, the graffiti and the filth. Garbage everywhere. Lunatics everywhere. Cops sleeping in cars. “DeBlasio Time”