De Blasio under fire for dancing in deserted Times Square Social media lights up with 'View' co-host tweeting 'everyone hates' the mayor https://www.foxnews.com/politics/de-blasio-dancing-times-square New York City dropped the ball again on New Year's Eve, but perhaps not as much as its mayor, Bill de Blasio did. Critics are laying into the Big Apple's leader for dancing on national television while the rest of the city was told to stay inside and socially distance during the coronavirus pandemic. Against the backdrop of a mostly empty Times Square, de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, danced on stage together at the famous landmark. Typically, it is packed with people doing the same on New Year's Eve. "The View" co-host Meghan McCain tweeted: "You've always been basically the worst political in modern history - but shutting down the NYC but having your own private party in Times Square is really *chefs kiss* the most tone deaf thing I may have ever seen a Mayor do. Everyone hates you DeBlasio." (More at above url)
The DeBlasio dancing on New Year's Eve article contains tweets and quotes from many others including - "Television personality Andy Cohen, who was co-hosting a New Year's Eve program on CNN with Anderson Cooper, ripped into de Blasio on television." As the mayor of New York who told everyone to stay in and they are not allowed in Times Square -- what type of insensitive idiot do you have to be to appear on TV dancing there.
Ain't that the truth. I saw this nitwit dancing on a youtube video and thought WTF, do this guys never learn? I mean, just how tone deaf does one have to be to pull a stunt like this? How completely out of touch and totally indifferent to the people in your city? And then they want to know why people don't take things seriously.
Data proves it: Pandemic is no excuse for NYC’s rising tide of violent crime https://nypost.com/2021/05/09/pandemic-is-no-excuse-for-nycs-rising-tide-of-violent-crime/ Last Thursday into Friday, four New Yorkers were shot dead, in four incidents, within 24 hours — followed on Saturday by a triple shooting in Times Square. This is 1980s-level crime, and the city is getting used to it with alarming alacrity. Mayor Bill de Blasio’s answer to this is that there’s not much we can do. “Our entire lives were turned upside down, a global pandemic, a perfect storm,” he says. So he hasn’t acted with much urgency as the murder rate rose 47 percent last year, to a total of 468 people killed, and has risen this year, so far, by 17 percent. The mayor subscribes to the same theory Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez espoused last summer: “Do you think this has to do with the fact that there is record unemployment … right now?” In a global pandemic, though, it’s fair to ask: How is the rest of the world doing? In London, the global city that most closely resembles Gotham, the murder rate plummeted last year. It fell to 126 from 150, down 16 percent. Why? Well, that’s obvious: It was the global pandemic. “Many, many crime types have reduced as you would expect,” said Met Police chief Cressida Dick, noting that fewer people were outside to fight with each other. How about Italy, hit hard and early by the pandemic? There, murders fell by 14 percent, to 271 from 315. France with its troubled banlieues? The country’s murders were down 2 percent in 2020, to 863. Japan? The murder level was the lowest it has been since World War II. “Heinous crimes,” including murder, fell by 10 percent. But these are all safe countries, anyway. So what about cartel-ridden Mexico? There, murders fell by slightly less than half a percent last year, to 34,523 — the first decline in six years. An enlightened AOC type might say: All of these countries (except Mexico) have far bigger safety nets than the US does. Not true: The United States, with supplemental jobless insurance ranging from $300 to $600 a week for the past 15 months, and with anti-eviction and anti-foreclosure orders in place, acted faster and far more aggressively to curtail individual economic pain. In America, the only workers to see steep drops in income with no corresponding government benefits are people who were working here illegally, and thus were ineligible for benefits. But there is no evidence that they’re behind the spike in violent crime. London, too, has hundreds of thousands of off-the-books migrant workers. The broader number of people still without work there in the pandemic, at more than 700,000, is slightly higher than it is in New York City, against roughly the same population. But people just aren’t stabbing each other because they’re desperate for something to eat. The rest of the world is demonstrating the obvious: Murders, and other crime, should be down during a pandemic. With less foot traffic, fewer opportunities for violent disputes arise. And it’s natural, amid so much death from COVID, for people to take stock of their lives and want to be better. In the two months after 9/11, New York’s murder rate dropped 11 percent. So what is wrong with us — not just New York, but the country as a whole, with urban murder rates up 30 percent last year? One answer is that compared to Europe and Japan, we have more guns. That’s been a crisis for decades. Yet it isn’t new. Look at the details of New York’s murders, and most of the alleged criminals over the past year weren’t formerly law-abiding citizens driven to crime because of the pandemic. What is new in New York — and in the rest of the country — is that we have effectively halted all preventative policing. We have also effectively stopped all incarceration of suspects and criminals short of murder. The alleged killers of 1-year-old Davell Gardner in Brooklyn last year, arrested by the NYPD last week, are longtime gang members implicated in tit-for-tat violence that goes back three years. They aren’t outliers. If you look at the rest of the world, the lesson for New York and the United States as a whole may be grim, indeed: Maybe the pandemic has cut the murder rate. That is, in the absence of curtailed street traffic, it would be even higher than it is.
Delusional de Blasio somehow manages to reach new low on way out the door https://nypost.com/2021/06/22/delus...manages-to-reach-new-low-on-way-out-the-door/
Yup. One of the things that stands out to me about the NYC election is that two of the top vote receivers- so far- are people WHO HAVE ACTUALLY DONE WORK FOR THE CITY. What a concept. One as a police captain and another as the sanitation director (I can see where being good at removing trash could be helpful in that job, start in city hall). This bullshit of having a mayor who goes to the gym on city time every day, then runs for president a little and fights with Trump for the rest of the day, and then basically just bloviates marxist bullshiite all day has got to go. He has never been spotted or experienced doing real work anywhere, anytime. Not sure where they will end out but so far it does not seem to be one of the new york area elections where you just shake your head and say "this is crazy shiite right here." If New Yorkers want to elect someone who has actually worked their arse off for New York in the form of a sanitation director or police captain- GO FOR IT. Believe me we have seen worse. I also like the fact that the two top candidates have diversity - black in one case, female in another- but that was only one aspect of their candidacy - not the whole frigging theme. As I said, I like to see candidates who have a record of actually doing some work, not just walking while having skin color or being female, although that can be helpful to their campaign. Walks and talks while being semi-black. Walks and talks while being female. Does not go to the border. Not my kind of candidate for anything. Do some work.
How many more votes to go for NYC? My body's readying for the triggering if Buffalo is any indication:
I hate to see that happen and see the city continue to go to hell. Buffalo is the only nearby place that the people in Toronto can go for culture, such as it is. I spent two weeks in Buffalo one day.