Comments on: And then there are the Democrat primaries for mayor of New York City https://thenewneo.com/2025/06/19/and-then-there-are-the-democrat-primaries-for-mayor-of-new-york/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 20 Jun 2025 14:50:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Mitchell Strand https://thenewneo.com/2025/06/19/and-then-there-are-the-democrat-primaries-for-mayor-of-new-york/#comment-2807635 Fri, 20 Jun 2025 14:50:27 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142403#comment-2807635 Shadow:

What IS the job? Does anyone even know what the mayor of New York does anymore? Seems like it’s just crisis management and director of Tourism.

The complications involved in “running” NYC just pile up. Five borough presidents plus the bureaucracies involved there. Country bureaucracies. Unfunded liabilities like city employee pensions, infrastructure spending to keep a city of 7 million running, and the unions involved with that. Education, housing, crime, race relations, the media, corruption. All a mayor can do is advertise some Home Run policy initiative to get people excited and get elected, then on the first day in office, there are thirty people lined up at the mayor’s door telling him exactly why he can’t do the thing he promised to get himself elected.

Gradually, then suddenly. That’s what New York’s decline is going to look like.

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2025/06/19/and-then-there-are-the-democrat-primaries-for-mayor-of-new-york/#comment-2807605 Fri, 20 Jun 2025 06:31:31 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142403#comment-2807605 Link for the above:

“The Cost Of Restoring Order In Los Angeles”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cost-restoring-order-los-angeles

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2025/06/19/and-then-there-are-the-democrat-primaries-for-mayor-of-new-york/#comment-2807604 Fri, 20 Jun 2025 06:16:21 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142403#comment-2807604 Meanwhile in L.A., one discovers precisely why Kamala Harris HAD TO WIN in November (and that’s just L.A.!) and why DOGE has been such a thorn in the side of the uber-corrupt DPOTUS and those impoverished crooks expecting its “assistance”!

(Whaddaya do if you gotta keep the money flowing but the spigot has been totally plugged??)

]]> By: Dwaz https://thenewneo.com/2025/06/19/and-then-there-are-the-democrat-primaries-for-mayor-of-new-york/#comment-2807592 Fri, 20 Jun 2025 02:05:10 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142403#comment-2807592 A large part of me is hoping it happens. Schadenfreude indeed.

]]> By: Shadow https://thenewneo.com/2025/06/19/and-then-there-are-the-democrat-primaries-for-mayor-of-new-york/#comment-2807590 Fri, 20 Jun 2025 01:59:09 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142403#comment-2807590 Anyone else think Cuomo could actually do the job? Forget the pandemic. Forget all the charges of unethical behavior. I think he could be exactly what NYC needs right now.

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2025/06/19/and-then-there-are-the-democrat-primaries-for-mayor-of-new-york/#comment-2807589 Fri, 20 Jun 2025 01:45:25 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142403#comment-2807589 Barry Meislin:

Here’s my take on the book Reading Lolita in Tehran.

]]> By: n.n https://thenewneo.com/2025/06/19/and-then-there-are-the-democrat-primaries-for-mayor-of-new-york/#comment-2807578 Thu, 19 Jun 2025 23:28:49 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142403#comment-2807578 The “burden”… uh, burden. Take a knee, bray. This calls for: Super Democratics!

]]> By: Miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2025/06/19/and-then-there-are-the-democrat-primaries-for-mayor-of-new-york/#comment-2807576 Thu, 19 Jun 2025 23:09:33 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142403#comment-2807576 One recalls carpenter wanted the rebels (loosely based on the weather underground) to win at the end he didnt care about the larger consequences of the hartford conference
https://www.city-journal.org/article/los-angeles-riots-california-governor-gavin-newsom-wine

]]> By: Aggie https://thenewneo.com/2025/06/19/and-then-there-are-the-democrat-primaries-for-mayor-of-new-york/#comment-2807574 Thu, 19 Jun 2025 22:47:53 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142403#comment-2807574 “Snake Plissken will not be available.”

No, but judging by the state of things, and the things at stake, I bet their phone has him on speed-dial, and he’s been placed on ‘Will Call’. NYC voting habits just make me shake my head.

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2025/06/19/and-then-there-are-the-democrat-primaries-for-mayor-of-new-york/#comment-2807569 Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:14:45 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142403#comment-2807569 They’re generally “not good at governing” if/when they decide, for whatever reason, to go down the messianic rabbit hole.

(That is, if they get sidetracked—or CLAIM to be motivated—by “dreams” of transforming the world into some sort of theoretical NIRVANA….)

Nope. Nothing short of perfection.
And if they can make some money on the scam along the way, well why the heck not (since, after all, they’re da good guys…).

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