NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio apparently appreciates being called a Communist.
A recent NY Post front page depicted the outgoing mayor as “Santanista Claus,” along with a Fidel Castro-like beard and hat.
But on Wednesday, de Blasio said that the cover was “one of his favorites.”
“I just want to break in and say I was impressed by your cover art on the cover page yesterday,” de Blasio told a Post reporter as she was asking him a question.
“I just thought it was creative. I mean, come on, you got to always be impressed by the people who create The Post covers and the witty phrases. That was pretty good,” he said.
“That’s gotta go way up the list, I tell you, that’s got to go on my all-time greatest hits list.”
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The people who voted for this clown are dumber than simply dumb.
When a non scientist follows his version of science we are all in trouble. I have decades of health care provider experience and this man is a fool. Does he not know that some people should not get this vaccine?
There’s not much he did good for this city, but we can all learn from him that jokes made about him and pressure and hate does not rattle him and he continues what he believes in, perhaps a missur haskil can be taken out from this, never let negative sleep you down.
Don’t back down an inch on the vaccine. If anything go much more. I’m afraid that Eric Adams doesn’t have the backbone and will of saving lives like coumo and deblasio
The “socialist” has done more to enrich private real estate developers than any mayor ever.
“some people should not get this vaccine?”
My cousin was one. She was getting chemotherapy for cancer when the vaccines first became available. But once her chemotherapy was complete she got vaccinated. There are very few people in such situations and given that getting COVID while immunosuppressed is likely to be a death sentence. Anti-vaxxers don’t care about these folks.
“the backbone and will of saving lives”
He does seem to care more about shootings and homicides.
“There’s not much he did good for this city”
There actually are some things he did that were good and he should get credit for them. We finally got ferries here. We got universal pre-K and he defied the Wall Of Separation crowd to allow religious based pre-K programs to get government funded. (Only Nixon could go to China and only a nutty leftist like De Blasio could get away with this. Biden doesn’t dare to try.) Under De Blasio we had several years with the lowest homnicide rates since NYPD began keeping records and although they have increased since then they are still FAR lower than most US cities and lower than every recent mayor other than the last two years of Bloomberg’s tenure as mayor. (Take a look at what is happening in Philadelphia.) The economy boomed. He run roughshod over NIMBYs and got a lot of housing built (all by the private sector, proving that “socialist” meme is a lie). He did not increase property taxes. (Bloomberg did so twice.) He saved the restaurant industry by promoting outdoor dining, over the objections of the selfish whiners who would prefer to be able to park in front of closed restaurants. Air quality has dramatically improved in most of the city. He didn’t defund NYPD, pissing off the even nuttier far left.
OTOH NYCHA and the Department of Corrections appear to be in the worst shape they have ever been in, and that is quite a negative accomplishment given how bad they were when he took office. He didn’t do squat for schools but neither did his recent predecessors; I don’t understand why the state things mayoral control is such a great idea. He delayed the lockdown in March 2020, costing thousands of lives.
And his Presidential campaign was an embarrassment.
Overall he gets a passing grade, but not honors. He was a better mayor than Koch, Beame, Lindsay, and a long list of Tammany hacks, but not better than recent predecessors.
“The people who voted for this clown are dumber than simply dumb.”
You forget the even more embarrasing performance by his 2017 Republican opponent during the campaign. “Clown” doesn’t describe it; almost every appearance and statement was positively cringeworthy.
The spread of tyranny is Blasio’s biggest accomplishment by far.
No wonder he gloats.
New York Post headlines and covers are entertaining, amusing and fun. What is better than a classic from at least 20 years ago: Headless Torso Found in Topless Bar. Just remember that it’s not news.