Mayor de Blasio

[colddiesel]

Thought I would read up on the background of this guy. If the Wiki article is remotely accurate he is way to the left of Obama. His social policies could be disastrous.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_de_Blasio

I can't see a guy with his record reconciling with the NYPD. In a 30 year carreer he seems to have never supported the enforcement of law. NY could get pretty lively in the next year or two. Hilary and other democrat candidates for 2016 will be hoping he pulls his head in soon.

 

[Kitty]

Yes he's pretty radical. I have a professor who worked under Mayor Bloomberg, and his friend is working under De Blasio now, but he told the class his friend has decided to resign. I asked why since all the other classmates seemed a bit too timid.

And he said, "the man (De Blasio) is crazy." And that he went in his the earlier part of his career to a South American country for some riot to frontline. He funded the Sandinistas in Nicaragua in the 80's and subbed to their paper.

I do like the "Universal Pre-K" thing.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

De Blasio sounds like a lethargic condition. He came down with De Blasio.

 

[richard_daily]

Yes he's pretty radical. I have a professor who worked under Mayor Bloomberg, and his friend is working under De Blasio now, but he told the class his friend has decided to resign. I asked why since all the other classmates seemed a bit too timid.

And he said, "the man (De Blasio) is crazy." And that he went in his the earlier part of his career to a South American country for some riot to frontline. He funded the Sandinistas in Nicaragua in the 80's and subbed to their paper.

I do like the "Universal Pre-K" thing.

Sounds pretty awesome...

And if someone can get cops to stop writing bullshit tickets because they're being whiny babies, I think that's a win/win for the people of NYC.

 

[Mr Noone]

Yeah, he's so way out there. Way out of line.

Of course where you draw theine when he won 73% of the vote is another story.

 

[Kitty]

Yeah, he's so way out there. Way out of line.

Of course where you draw theine when he won 73% of the vote is another story.

I'm just saying what my professor said. And who really cares about popularity vote, people mostly don't know anything. They just go off impression. Obama got a popularity vote, that doesn't stop people doubting him. Gore got popularity and lost. Like who cares about the number with the % behind it when discussing credentials and a person's history. I like the guy but won't hide facts. And that was the 80s, like 30 years ago.

 

[tiny_tits]

There's a good New Yorker article about him here, and the way the officers turned their back to him at Ramos’s funeral.

 

[Liar]

If the Wiki article is remotely accurate he is way to the left of Obama.

Which is not that difficult to be, really.

 

[colddiesel]

Which is not that difficult to be, really.

Fair Point Liar - but not so much within an American and NY context. Mayor de Blasio came in with a bunch of policies that were designed to curb the power of the NYPD. The NYPD is now showing him the consequences of his perceived lack of support for them.

Even more importantly the mayor has put his head on his own police commissioner's plate. The Commissioner might choose to resign over any issue of his own choosing citing De Blasio's lack of support for the police; at that point the mayor would be finished politically. 73% would count for nothing.

I also wonder whether Hilary will want de Blasio on her team in 2016 (like he was for her Senate run) Too controversial perhaps?

Time for de Blasio to perform one or two backwards somersaults perhaps? But will it cut any ice with NY's finest - they can be resentful so and so's.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

He plays well in the drawing rooms of NY's elite, do not kid yourself. In American Academic circles, the drivers of culture through Hollywood and the Fourth Estate, he and people like Cherokee Warren are positively mainstream and his 73% was derivative of that which they have fostered and created since the dawning of the 60s.

Victor Davis Hanson has said this about Obama, but the same is true for DeBlasio:

Obama, you see, is our nemesis. He is a totem, the logical manifestation of a warped media, the reification of some crazy — and arrogant — ideas about redistributive politics, the statist economy, and cultural and social life that permeated American life the last forty years. He is the president with a 1,000 faces that we have all seen at work, on TV, throughout American life, and at some point the odds determined that we had to have a rendezvous with him— perhaps a catharsis to teach us the wages of Keynesian debt, of a social policy contrary to human nature with its equality of result doctrines, of an all-powerful, all-growing unaccountable government, of the now hip ambiguity about past American protocols and history. Obama is the exaggeration of all the dubious ideas that arose since the 1960s — brought to fruition on his watch, delivered by mellifluous cadences by an untouchable persona.

In fact, a Barack Obama was long overdue. Had he not appeared out of nowhere in 2008, we would have surely had to invent him.​

He is what the Democrat Party actually is and has become and what you actually see when the mask slips, the curtain falls, or the microphone surreptitiously records when they think they are making private remarks to their peers and supporters.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Let me go a little further. At the founding of our Republic, the Founders were certainly not united as to the nature of the Republic. There were those who thought the people were capable of managing and governing themselves and those who thought the people would destroy themselves if left to their own devices and not ruled by an aristocracy of breeding and education. What we have today is a Democrat Party that truly believes this and that they are the Aristocracy the should be rightfully managing our lives to save us from ourselves (and to ensure taxes keep rolling in to support them in the manner which they are growing accustomed to). This is why people like DeBlasio seem to be so out-of-touch with the common people, they view them as pretty much as less-than-fully-human, a feral population that has to be managed and if the death of one feral enrages the other ferals and inconveniences the Aristocracy, then they will, indeed, turn to a scapegoat, in this case, the NYPD. This is also why they support the mythologies in word and legislation about oppression and targeting and keep them in agitation, for it is easier to control them and demand their support that way and to use them as attack dogs against any persons or factions who oppose the idea of rule by enlightened aristocracy.

 

[Que]

He plays well in the drawing rooms of NY's elite, do not kid yourself. In American Academic circles, the drivers of culture through Hollywood and the Fourth Estate, he and people like Cherokee Warren are positively mainstream and his 73% was derivative of that which they have fostered and created since the dawning of the 60s.

Victor Davis Hanson has said this about Obama, but the same is true for DeBlasio:

Obama, you see, is our nemesis. He is a totem, the logical manifestation of a warped media, the reification of some crazy — and arrogant — ideas about redistributive politics, the statist economy, and cultural and social life that permeated American life the last forty years. He is the president with a 1,000 faces that we have all seen at work, on TV, throughout American life, and at some point the odds determined that we had to have a rendezvous with him— perhaps a catharsis to teach us the wages of Keynesian debt, of a social policy contrary to human nature with its equality of result doctrines, of an all-powerful, all-growing unaccountable government, of the now hip ambiguity about past American protocols and history. Obama is the exaggeration of all the dubious ideas that arose since the 1960s — brought to fruition on his watch, delivered by mellifluous cadences by an untouchable persona.

In fact, a Barack Obama was long overdue. Had he not appeared out of nowhere in 2008, we would have surely had to invent him.​

He is what the Democrat Party actually is and has become and what you actually see when the mask slips, the curtain falls, or the microphone surreptitiously records when they think they are making private remarks to their peers and supporters.

I have been meaning to re-read Asimov because quotes like the above remind me of some similar soliloquy in the foundation trilogy about the mule.

I keep thinking there are a lot of parallels.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I have been meaning to re-read Asimov because quotes like the above remind me of some similar soliloquy in the foundation trilogy about the mule.

I keep thinking there are a lot of parallels.

It's been a long time since I have read any science fiction. Maybe I should look for some eDeals...

 

[RobDownSouth]

There's a good New Yorker article about him here, and the way the officers turned their back to him at Ramos’s funeral.

Like someone said the other day...

The Complete List of Organizations Who Use Funerals As Venues For Political Protests:

1. Westboro Baptist Church
2. New York Police Department

 

[Que]

It's been a long time since I have read any science fiction. Maybe I should look for some eDeals...

You don't read Phrodeaux's thread?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You don't read Phrodeaux's thread?

*rimshot*

 

[cabin69]

De Blasio sounds like a lethargic condition. He came down with De Blasio.

that is funny and so true

 

[rosco rathbone]

I can't see a guy with his record reconciling with the NYPD.

He doesn't have to reconcile with the NYPD. He's holding all the cards. This isn't the Dinkins era when white prole rage meant something politically in the city. The policing of that time under Giuliani served its real-estate purpose and NYC has been made safe for its rightful inheritors: the bourgeois gays, creative-class art-yuppies, H-1 visa algorithim jockeys, Google skynet engineers, cupcake entrepreneurs, Euroscums, and ruling class pod people in their larval form of a trust-funded bohemian Rumspringa in arts communities for the young such as Williamsburg and Brooklyn.

 

[contrifan32]

Like someone said the other day...

The Complete List of Organizations Who Use Funerals As Venues For Political Protests:

1. Westboro Baptist Church
2. New York Police Department

There are only a few of you on here that would make that twisted comparison. I not surprised you would be the one to post it here.

 

[richard_daily]

He doesn't have to reconcile with the NYPD. He's holding all the cards. This isn't the Dinkins era when white prole rage meant something politically in the city. The policing of that time under Giuliani served its real-estate purpose and NYC has been made safe for its rightful inheritors: the bourgeois gays, creative-class art-yuppies, H-1 visa algorithim jockeys, Google skynet engineers, cupcake entrepreneurs, Euroscums, and ruling class pod people in their larval form of a trust-funded bohemian Rumspringa in arts communities for the young such as Williamsburg and Brooklyn.

Well, pretty soon they'll have robots doing the policing and garbage pick up, so the NYPDs relevance is dissipating. I still can't figure out how you people can stand having the trash in front of your building though, but whatever...

I saw Birdman last night, and it reminded me why I would never want to live in NYC. Give me Detroit or Toronto any day over NYC.