NYC Mayoral race…

[Never1AShow]

No chance.

His constituents love him, and many Trump supporters do as well.

He's wrong on this one.

As long as you support Trump, I'm fine.  I can't keep track of what posters here support Trump or not, and I'm fine with people saying they think Trump is wrong on this issue or that, but too often it turns out it's not an issue here or there, it's just hidden anti-Trump (people who supported Desantis types or brain dead Ds).  Trump is already crushing it on immigration, we'll see on Iran and the BBB and the rest, but I think those will just end up more wins.

[Never1AShow]

You obviously don’t have any investment real estate. What about the small investor that has maybe 5-6 properties and is using them as a major part of retirement? If he has busted his ass and paid them off, who has a right to tell him what he can charge?
I don’t think many lefties (socialists) think this through. Maybe you don’t own a business and work for someone or maybe a large corporation. Maybe your job has nothing to do with sales. These people often think salesmen earn too much.. But here’s the thing - no matter what you do ultimately there is a product or service bringing in corporate revenue. Now - what if someone limited what could be charged for said product or service? Do you not think management would hesitate to share that with you - in the form of decreased wages??? Or maybe you think the sales people earn too much? So you lower compensation and end up with much lower productivity in sales? Again - do you think somehow you won’t feel it?

Before you get excited that the government is “sticking it to the man” - just remember it’s “the man” that pays you!

The Free Shit Army doesn't care about anything but their own handouts

[CalorieKing]

Im genuinely curious how people are so retarded to want someone in power who believes this

Zohran Mamdani on why he wants to empty jails: "VioIence is an artificial construct"

[Coach is Back!]

YOu people that live in NYC, how do you have patience to drive through this city? We rented a car to drive to NJ and had to drive through 3pm traffick through the Lincoln tunnel...what a fucking nightmare.

[NarcissisticDeity]

YOu people that live in NYC, how do you have patience to drive through this city? We rented a car to drive to NJ and had to drive through 3pm traffick through the Lincoln tunnel...what a fucking nightmare.

Is the 405 any better?

[mphgrove]

Is the 405 any better?

There are no surface streets to use an alternative with the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels. A special nightmare is squeezing down to the two lanes on arriving at the tunnels.  Backups begin blocks away.

[Coach is Back!]

Is the 405 any better?

It actually is but where I live it’s not so bad. I take it a few times a week to get to our shop but rarely during rush hour.

[Coach is Back!]

There are no surface streets to use an alternative with the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels. A special nightmare is squeezing down to the two lanes on arriving at the tunnels.  Backups begin blocks away.

Exactly, I found this out when we drove to NJ yesterday. I didn’t realize we had to go trough the Lincoln Tunnel. It’s was bottlenecked at the beginning of the tunnel then it wasn’t so bad. Coming back at 11pm wasn’t so bad.

[Coach is Back!]

What are New Yorkers opinions on Mayor Adams? From an observer looking in, I thinks he's done a good job considering who his DA and AG are. Do you think if he's re-elected and Bragg and James are gone (She'll be gone anyway IMO) NYC can improve?

[Never1AShow]

YOu people that live in NYC, how do you have patience to drive through this city? We rented a car to drive to NJ and had to drive through 3pm traffick through the Lincoln tunnel...what a fucking nightmare.

There’s a great Lincoln Tunnel reference in the movie Vision Quest.

[Lartinos]

YOu people that live in NYC, how do you have patience to drive through this city? We rented a car to drive to NJ and had to drive through 3pm traffick through the Lincoln tunnel...what a fucking nightmare.

It’s one of those you have to live it to understand it moments.

The GWB is another one that can be a huge mess.

Now remember back to that fat fuck Chris Christie and his “bridge-gate” scandal where he was purposely making traffic worse between NY and NJ.

[Grape Ape]

As long as you support Trump, I'm fine.  I can't keep track of what posters here support Trump or not, and I'm fine with people saying they think Trump is wrong on this issue or that, but too often it turns out it's not an issue here or there, it's just hidden anti-Trump (people who supported Desantis types or brain dead Ds).  Trump is already crushing it on immigration, we'll see on Iran and the BBB and the rest, but I think those will just end up more wins.

I went all in on Trump this election after the Bragg case.

That was the final straw for me.

However, I can't blindy be a "red/blue" no matter who type.  He is mistaken on how many voters who voted him in love Massie.

[BB]

What are New Yorkers opinions on Mayor Adams? From an observer looking in, I thinks he's done a good job considering who his DA and AG are. Do you think if he's re-elected and Bragg and James are gone (She'll be gone anyway IMO) NYC can improve?

He's a "just there" type mayor. There isn't a tremendous amount of support for him, but there isn't hate either. Before he was elected he was seen as an opportunist from his time in the NYPD, and was elected on the feeling that he was the best choice in a field of bad candidates. Now I think most people that follow NYC politics understand that he is hamstrung by the rest of the NYC (and state) political machine.

A big problem is that there isn't a backbone of middle class in New York to swing elections anymore. They've mostly moved out of the city. Now you've got the rich that will vote liberal because they don't have to ride the trains, etc.... And you've got the poor or working poor that vote on promises like free buses, etc..... Or vote along racial lines.

Sadly, NYC seems destine for more hard times.

In terms of popularity, the last 50 years of mayor popularity goes something like Guiliani, Koch, Bloomberg, Dinkins, Adams, Deblasio from what I've seen from people that live here.

 

[Never1AShow]

I’ve heard there is a tooooon of opposition research on Momdani. Should be easy to tarnish with a few salacious scandals. If they dont do it, they want him in.

[mphgrove]

He's a "just there" type mayor. There isn't a tremendous amount of support for him, but there isn't hate either. Before he was elected he was seen as an opportunist from his time in the NYPD, and was elected on the feeling that he was the best choice in a field of bad candidates. Now I think most people that follow NYC politics understand that he is hamstrung by the rest of the NYC (and state) political machine.

A big problem is that there isn't a backbone of middle class in New York to swing elections anymore. They've mostly moved out of the city. Now you've got the rich that will vote liberal because they don't have to ride the trains, etc.... And you've got the poor or working poor that vote on promises like free buses, etc..... Or vote along racial lines.

Sadly, NYC seems destine for more hard times.

In terms of popularity, the last 50 years of mayor popularity goes something like Guiliani, Koch, Bloomberg, Dinkins, Adams, Deblasio from what I've seen from people that live here.

Same in Chicago and other big cities: rich progressives who subscribe to all the orthodoxies, young hipster progressives (not so rich), and then the welfare class. But there are still lots of working class voters, heavily Latino and some Black, who are the new swing voters. Elderly white middle class remaining are pretty much Republicans.

[Coach is Back!]

He's a "just there" type mayor. There isn't a tremendous amount of support for him, but there isn't hate either. Before he was elected he was seen as an opportunist from his time in the NYPD, and was elected on the feeling that he was the best choice in a field of bad candidates. Now I think most people that follow NYC politics understand that he is hamstrung by the rest of the NYC (and state) political machine.

A big problem is that there isn't a backbone of middle class in New York to swing elections anymore. They've mostly moved out of the city. Now you've got the rich that will vote liberal because they don't have to ride the trains, etc.... And you've got the poor or working poor that vote on promises like free buses, etc..... Or vote along racial lines.

Sadly, NYC seems destine for more hard times.

In terms of popularity, the last 50 years of mayor popularity goes something like Guiliani, Koch, Bloomberg, Dinkins, Adams, Deblasio from what I've seen from people that live here.

Got it. I ask because I like the guy. Seems he knew when come more over to the center after with all of the illegals coming into the city and realized it wasn’t working instead of just towing political line. I think that might have been where the corruption accusations came from. NYC isn’t my kind of city but then again no big city is. The congestion is bad but overall I found it to be cleaner than I had imagined and didn’t see whole lot of homeless on the streets. Contribute that to Adams? I heard it was pretty bad under DeBlasio

[Never1AShow]

I have a very hard time thinking any of what is happening in NYC is organic and feel similarly about Mamdani.  I think he's some rich someone's puppet (normally Soros types but Soros is Jewish)  just like AOC, she's basically a recruited actress.  At least she was a bartender, I don't think he ever held a real job.

As to the people there, I guess they just haven't suffered enough.

[Grape Ape]

I have a very hard time thinking any of what is happening in NYC is organic and feel similarly about Mamdani.  I think he's some rich someone's puppet (normally Soros types but Soros is Jewish)  just like AOC, she's basically a recruited actress.  At least she was a bartender, I don't think he ever held a real job.

As to the people there, I guess they just haven't suffered enough.

It's not organic at all.  None of this was.  Regardless of what you think about them, what the Justice Democrats did by primarying vulnerable opponents to get their puppets like AOC into congress was brilliant.  Just be glad that it didn't work at the levels they wanted (think 50+ congresspeople).

But they're funded as well.  This Mayor's $ are likely coming from the same place that funded the LA riots, and the No Kings horseshit.  And the right is not attacking him in the right way - I've seen videos he's made - he is connecting directly with the young and the less fortunate, and some of it makes sense (street vendor liscences, etc).

In other words, the right can't sit back and cry communism/socialism because that's not going to resonate with his voter base.   Since they're also fucking morons who only have Sliwa as a candidate, they're going to have to back Adams right now, as And NYers are too stupid to realize how Democrats have been consistently sliding NYC into the gutter.

[chaos]

... as And NYers are too stupid to realize how Democrats have been consistently sliding NYC into the gutter.

It's not just NYers, it's most major democrat cities/counties.

[BB]

Got it. I ask because I like the guy. Seems he knew when come more over to the center after with all of the illegals coming into the city and realized it wasn’t working instead of just towing political line. I think that might have been where the corruption accusations came from. NYC isn’t my kind of city but then again no big city is. The congestion is bad but overall I found it to be cleaner than I had imagined and didn’t see whole lot of homeless on the streets. Contribute that to Adams? I heard it was pretty bad under DeBlasio

I think Adams will do better if he gets a second term. He knows that he only really has a friend in Trump now, and he came up in the 80's and 90's under most of the better mayors, so he understands that after a certain point you need to deal with a city like NYC with a fie=rm hand.

Homelessness wise, it got bad under DeBlasio, but the Covid lockdowns really ramped up a lot of it, and also returned a lot of crime to open view. Then, just as we were coming out of the lockdowns we (and a freshly elected Adams) got slammed with the wave of illegals which made it a 1000x worse, because they weren't the standard crazy homeless that you learn to avoid, but tons of young to middle age men that knew how to commit crime.

I'd attribute the ebb in "street shit" mainly to 3 things -

1) Adams knows he has nothing to lose by being Trump friendly.

2) Adams needs this re-election, and it's Summer. He generally does a lot of law and order sweeps, etc.... in the Summer so he can show up for pics, invite the press, etc.... He loves publicity.

3) Just the general election of Trump. Once he was back in office,the mood across the city just changed. While it hasn't gone right, it's more centrist and pragmatic. The left quietly benefit from this too, because whenever there's any type of law and order activity, they simply blame Trump for some or all of it.

[SF1900]

If this guy wins, I’m moving to New York for free food, rent, electricity, and water.

[Grape Ape]

If this guy wins, I’m moving to New York for free food, rent, electricity, and water.

Make sure to have Rory stay away from rooftops, because this guy sympathizes with the types who would throw him off one.

[IroNat]

What are New Yorkers opinions on Mayor Adams? From an observer looking in, I thinks he's done a good job considering who his DA and AG are. Do you think if he's re-elected and Bragg and James are gone (She'll be gone anyway IMO) NYC can improve?

I'm not from NYC but Adams is a clown.

[Grape Ape]

I'm not from NYC but Adams is a clown.

Unfortunately he's the only hope now.

[Kwon]

What population in New York?

Mostly Muslim or? What happened to the Italians?


Why are they picking that Mayor?