Meet NYC's next first lady - a narcissistic, domineering ex-lesbian

[playa_with_a_passport]

The big problem though isn't with de Blasio or his butt-fucking-ugly wife, it's with the electorate that supports them. De Blasio and his supporters whine about the heavy-handed way that Giuliani and Bloomberg ran New York, and while I'm not a fan of such things as stop-and-frisk, those policies were a necessity to make New York City habitable after the chaos of the seventies and eighties. The reason why Republicans were able to dominate heavily Democratic NYC for the better part of two decades is because New Yorkers knew the score; the namby-pamby, anti-racist peacenik way that John Lindsay and David Dinkins governed turned New York into a crime-ridden shithole.

Crime actually peaked during Dinkins 1st year in office but it started its rapid climb upward during Koch years.Dinkins is forever tied to crime and urban decay yet Koch who was the Mayor for the preceding 12 years is never ever mentioned. I wonder why?:s Crime actually started to go down during Dinkins as the crack epidemic was winding down and the Safe Streets program went into full swing. This is another a case, where if you repeat a meme often enough it become fact.

A quick history lesson. Giuliani basically won because the Crown Heights riot and Dinkins just got killed over it by the media. By his second term even White New Yorkers who came in their pants every time they saw Giuliani on the TV started to grow tired of him. Then 9/11 happened and while Bush and the rest of his leadership were hiding in an "undisclosed location" Giuliani was out on TV doing God's work. Giuliani tried to capitalized on this capital by attempting to stay past his term and he got a resounding "HELL NO!!!!"

As for Bloomberg, I would not exactly blag about him being a Republican. Bloomberg is a full blown Democrat, in fact he only changed his registration to Republican because he did not think he could win in a democratic primary. Alen Greene won the democratic primary by doing some race baiting against Fernando Ferrer, Hispanics/Blacks leadership encouraged people to sit out the general election in retaliation. The whole time Bloomberg kept emphasizing that if you look RINO in the dictionary, you'll find his face in on it. That's how he won. The second term he won fair and square, the 3rd one, he straight out brided everybody and their momma to change the city charter, spent 100 million bucks and even then he only won by 55K votes. His opponent was a shitty candidate who barely campaigned and everybody suspected he paid off to take a dive.

As for Stop and Frisk it was a useful law enforcement tool when used correctly but the police started to abuse it. Real life is about check and balances, if you abuse a privilege its only a matter of time before it gets taken away from you. Like the old cliche says, "great power comes with great responsibility." Plus, Stop and Frisk was widely ineffective, Guns and contraband was found in like 5% of the stops. This is one of Bloomberg's tactical mistakes, he tarnished a lot of his legacy protecting a program that wasn't even that effective.

Instead of highly trained cops in specialized units using it, lazy cops started stopping every body and their mothers with no legal basis and because they were on fishing expeditions in order to scam for overtime.

But the Crown Heights riot happened 20 years ago, and the working-class voters that formed Giuliani and Bloomberg's base have all been priced out to the suburbs. In their place are clueless Midwestern hipster fuckwits who enjoy a safe, secure, prosperous New York but have no idea what made it possible. Bill de Blasio is their man, a mayor who caters to the overeducated and undersocialized Gawker crowd, the noodle-necked twerps who've never been in a fight, never been mugged, and live in 90 percent white ZIP codes but honestly believe that evil knuckle-dragging racist Republicans are the only thing keeping America from a glorious thousand-year progressive reich.

LOL. White Flight from NYC actually started with the encouragement of Robert Moses(very interesting man, look him up) when he encouraged poor and middle class Whites to move to the suburbs with low cost mortgages while at the same time keeping Blacks out. NYC became almost an inhabitable shithole because of policies started by him. It was his idea to built public housing projects on the waterfront and gutting mass transit. If you read his biography "The Power Broker" you'll learn that his ultimate goal was to destroy NYC and he almost succeeded.

You really shouldn't be crying a river for Whites who left NYC. Most of them owned their own homes so they made out like bandits when the first RE bubble hit in NYC. You really can not blamed them for cashing out and bouncing. The smart ones went down South where their money goes further, the not so bright ones moved to Long Island which is a sinking financial ship as we speak despite having Republicans run every level of their government from the PTA up to the County Executives.

About the only good thing I can say about de Blasio's coming tenure as mayor is that it might kickstart the moribund art and music scene. The seventies and eighties were an awful time to be a New Yorker, but that era bequeathed some of America's greatest artists: Lou Reed, Talking Heads, Sonic Youth, Suicide, Lydia Lunch, Richard Kern, the list goes on. The neutered New York of Giuliani and Bloomberg has given us Paul Auster, Matt & Kim, and Lena Dunham. I think it was Nietzsche who said that only a culture in decline can produce great art; modern New York is too full of itself.

So while "Bill de Blasio" might be Italian for "David Dinkins," if his idiocy scares all the hipsters and Sam Biddle-types into moving back to their crappy little cul-de-sacs in Wisconsin, I say bring it on.

Crime will go up because its cyclical so it has to go up, but is not going to be nowhere near the late 80's early 90's levels unless there's a new type of crack like drug.

This whole doom and gloom over De Blasio reminds me of President Obama first election, the NY Post has all but lost their minds now.

 

[Bad Hussar]

A male politician married to a domineering woman is cause for concern. Di Blasio reminds me of Obama. Obama has his wife who he is afraid of, of course, but also that other chick, Jaret somebody, who supposedly has a massive (unelected) influence in the White House. And he seems to appoint women almost exclusively to positions of power. Supreme court, future Fed chairman and so on. As Seinfeld would have said: His mother must have really done a number on him.

I don't know why some men think it's cute to talk about how their wife wears the pants. Unless it is patently obvious that he is joking it isn't becoming in a leader, and this isn't the case for Di Blasio or Obama.

 

[The Beast1]

Sounds like a career marriage and not an actual "love" marriage.

They used to do this stuff all the time with monarchies. Marry for power. Cute, some things never change.

 

[kdolo]

Di Blasio is probably a homo or low t as well

 

[Libertas]

Doesn't surprise me that he's a pussy-whipped mangina given the way he's running his campaign- that being based on pandering and no substance behind it at all. Keep in mind this is a guy that's the Public Advocate- a job that does precisely nothing, and he did nothing of note in the council.

I met the guy last year and he basically came off the same way- a complete phony that had no character except on how to pander to an audience, which admittedly is the cornerstone of a great politician. Ed Koch was in the same room (who I was fortunate enough to meet a couple of times before his death), another gifted politician but totally different.

I roll around in New York political circles for my job. They all basically say the same thing about de Blasio- a man of no substance that has accomplished exactly zero but sure as hell knows how to run a campaign. They're all voting for Lhota, Democrats and Republicans alike. As am I but with the way he's running his campaign he has no hope in hell of winning.

The funniest thing of all is that there's really very little a mayor can do about income inequality, which is subject far more to national trends (as is crime to a certain, though lesser extent, which is, as one of the posters above me said, a reason why it rose during the Koch years and started to decline under Dinkins, because it started rising/declining nationally too). The job of the mayor is to keep the city's services running smoothly and effectively. Which is something Dinkins did not excel at. And I'm worried that all these yuppies that moved here in the past 20 years will simply vote based on their feeeeeeeelllliiiiings, and forget just how much of a shithole it was in the 70's and 80's (which of course I don't remember, but is something my parents and grandparents certainly told me about).

 

[Hencredible Casanova]

Di Blasio is probably a homo or low t as well

 

[Hencredible Casanova]

A male politician married to a domineering woman is cause for concern. Di Blasio reminds me of Obama. Obama has his wife who he is afraid of, of course

Obama admitted as much in private.

NEW YORK -- President Barack Obama says he hasn't had a smoke in years – thanks in no small part to first lady Michelle Obama.

Obama was chatting privately with a U.N. official Monday and said he hoped the official had quit smoking. The exchange was caught on camera and aired on CNN.

After the official appeared to ask Obama about his own cigarette use, Obama said he hadn't had a cigarette in probably six years.

He added, with a broad grin, "That's because I'm scared of my wife."

Obama has acknowledged over the years struggling with tobacco use. Mrs. Obama said in 2011 that her husband had finally kicked the habit.

Monday's exchange came on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

 

[playa_with_a_passport]

The funniest thing of all is that there's really very little a mayor can do about income inequality, which is subject far more to national trends (as is crime to a certain, though lesser extent, which is, as one of the posters above me said, a reason why it rose during the Koch years and started to decline under Dinkins, because it started rising/declining nationally too). The job of the mayor is to keep the city's services running smoothly and effectively. Which is something Dinkins did not excel at. And I'm worried that all these yuppies that moved here in the past 20 years will simply vote based on their feeeeeeeelllliiiiings, and forget just how much of a shithole it was in the 70's and 80's (which of course I don't remember, but is something my parents and grandparents certainly told me about).

I agree for the most part, but I think you are overstating the influence of hipsters/yuppie aka White transplants from fly over country in De Blasio victory. De Blasio won because he took a big risk by coming out against Stop and Frisk very early in his campaign. Pimping out his Black kid on the media was the icing of the cake. All the other candidates including the Black one were in support of it of stop and frisk before they all started to flip flop on the issue. The Media, Bloomberg and the Yuppie/Hispter establishment just underestimated how much of a big deal Stop and Frisk were for Blacks/Hispanics. Of course they did because they have no idea how it feels to be put against the wall and searched at gun point for just going about your business.

As for bringing back the 70's and 80's, that ship has already sailed. Most voters weren't even alive in the 70's, you might as well be talking about the Great Depression. Shit, even 9/11 is slowly beginning to be placed in the back of public consciousness and that was only 13 years ago. Just look at Di Blasio Sandinista trip and his illegal travels to Cuba, a politician with such obvious Marxist tendencies would have been dead in the water even 10 years ago. Nobody cares anymore and the Iron Curtain fell not to long ago. Di Blasios lead over Lhota now is even higher than before that revelation came out. Poverty in NYC is at all time high and poor Democrats unlike Poor Republicans have no problem voting for their economic self interest.

Conservatives paranoia over Di Blasio is a little silly. I browse
The Post once in a blue moon and they really have went full retard on this. Is almost counterproductive, the more they attack him, The higher Di Blasio's poll numbers go. They should clip Di Blasio's wings by pointing out that He's full of shit because he needs authorization from Albany to raise taxes on the rich. Coumo's "yes-men" keep telling him that he actually has a shot to be POTUS in 2016 so no way in hell is going to go along with it because it doesn't want Hillary and Biden to pigeonhole him as a tax and spend liberal governor.

This is Di Blasio election to lose, Demographics are totally on his side. Every single White person can vote against him and he will still win. All he has to do is keep reminding Blacks and Hispanics that voting for Lhota is voting for a return to the Giuliani 's years. There's a reason why Lhota refuses to have Giuliani campaign for him after the republican primary.

The silver lining of all Di Blasio's being mayor for Conservatives is that being Mayor of NYC is a surprisingly a dead end job. In the last 100 years, a grand total of 0 have moved to higher office.

 

[Timoteo]

It's funny when people mention Koch. He presided over one of the more corrupt eras of New York government - the parking violations bureau mess, Donald Manes, Bess Myerson, etc. When he was presented with memos/evidence of their corruption, he ignored it because they were friends. And since we're bringing up the sexuality of candidates, Koch was most definitely gay.

 

[Bad Hussar]

It's funny when people mention Koch. He presided over one of the more corrupt eras of New York government - the parking violations bureau mess, Donald Manes, Bess Myerson, etc. When he was presented with memos/evidence of their corruption, he ignored it because they were friends. And since we're bringing up the sexuality of candidates, Koch was most definitely gay.

Yes, but he was very much old school. In the closet and NEVER using his homosexuality for political ends. To the end of his life, at which time being homosexual was very much and advantage, politically.

Today a homosexual mayor would be endlessly USING this fact to his political advantage. It seems to me that Koch had a bit more class and self-respect. You should read what "political homosexuals" today write about Koch. It's not really much of an exaggeration to say that they believe he deserved the death penalty for not "coming out", and using his office to further narrow homosexual interests.

 

[ColSpanker]

Why do I get the feeling these two met on "Goddess" night at Paddles?

 

[TheRookie]

This one gave me a chuckle:

“I’m so happy that I get to work with my dad and the rest of my family on this campaign,” Chiara de Blasio said at a fund-raiser recently.

“It’d be one thing if I just thought he was just like some boring white guy who didn’t know what he was talking about. But you know, he truly — he cares about everybody in this city, every different type of person. You know — rich, poor, black, white, blue, whatever.”

Chiara, 18, got to cast a ballot Tuesday in her first-ever opportunity to vote, and de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane, could not have been more proud.

“Chiara is someone who — Chirlane would confirm this for me — started impressing strong opinions at like 9 or 10 months old,” [Bill] de Blasio said.

:jordan:

 

[TheRookie]

I figure I will keep you guys updated on the mayoral situation (if anyone is actually reading). It is just so comical and typical.

More from the lesbian feminist who holds the balls of the man who will soon run NYC:

After an Introduction by de Blasio, a Brooklyn Hospital Hired His Wife

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/10/n...-de-blasios-wife-after-he-introduced-her.html

Ms. Brier said that Mr. de Blasio had introduced her to his wife “at some social event” and that she learned from Ms. McCray that a job she had with Citigroup had not worked out and that she was looking for a new one. “He didn’t say, ‘Here’s my wife, hire her,’” Ms. Brier said. But she said that she was immediately impressed with Ms. McCray because, “she seemed so capable, so grounded,” because she had speech writing experience under former Mayor David N. Dinkins, and because the hospital needed more minorities in administrative-level positions.

...

“I’m the one who wanted to recruit her,” Ms. Brier said, adding that she likes to have women employees around her when possible. “I said, ‘Of course, I have no job for you. But I could probably invent one.’ I do that a lot.”

Who funds this hospital that hires people on a whim, because they like having women and especially minority women around? The taxpayers, of course. God forbid they have to do icky patriarchal things like be efficient, control costs, and turn a profit.

 

[2Wycked]

Surprised I missed this gem:

Chiara is someone who — Chirlane would confirm this for me — started impressing strong opinions at like 9 or 10 months old,” [Bill] de Blasio said.

:facepalm3:

Gee, I wonder where Chiara learned that behavior?

Any more updates on this race? I stopped following national politics after Obama got reelected.

 

[Bad Hussar]

Surprised I missed this gem:

Chiara is someone who — Chirlane would confirm this for me — started impressing strong opinions at like 9 or 10 months old,” [Bill] de Blasio said.

:facepalm3:

Gee, I wonder where Chiara learned that behavior?

Any more updates on this race? I stopped following national politics after Obama got reelected.

Di Blassio will win by a mile.

He'll outlaw "stop and frisk" and make other similar populist mistakes
Crime will increase. Maybe not to Chicago or Detroit levels, but still by a lot. Bad publicity for him.

He'll raise taxes on rich people not connected to him and dramatically increase spending on groups that supported him.
Many rich people will change residence to NJ or CT.
Tax Revenue will slide.
If he's mayor for long enough this will mean the kind of fiscal crisis NYC had in the 70's. They will be bankrupt.

 

[NY Digital]

and because the hospital needed more minorities in administrative-level positions.

“I’m the one who wanted to recruit her,” Ms. Brier said, adding that she likes to have women employees around her when possible. “I said, ‘Of course, I have no job for you. But I could probably invent one.’ I do that a lot.”

I can't believe this kind of BS is tolerated in the 21st century.

How do you support a political party that supports shit like this?

 

[Kid Strangelove]

I have done absolutely no research and I would like my vote to count. I'll use this thread as a jumping off point

 

[playa_with_a_passport]

Surprised I missed this gem:

Chiara is someone who — Chirlane would confirm this for me — started impressing strong opinions at like 9 or 10 months old,” [Bill] de Blasio said.

:facepalm3:

Gee, I wonder where Chiara learned that behavior?

Any more updates on this race? I stopped following national politics after Obama got reelected.

Di Blassio will win by a mile.

He'll outlaw "stop and frisk" and make other similar populist mistakes
Crime will increase. Maybe not to Chicago or Detroit levels, but still by a lot. Bad publicity for him.

He'll raise taxes on rich people not connected to him and dramatically increase spending on groups that supported him.
Many rich people will change residence to NJ or CT.
Tax Revenue will slide.
If he's mayor for long enough this will mean the kind of fiscal crisis NYC had in the 70's. They will be bankrupt.

The relationship between crime and SQF Program is very casual to say the least. Which is why I don't understand why Bloomberg went so out on a limb to defended. The wink and the nod among the NYC elites and White New Yorkers to certain extent was that they were willing to live with this blatant violation of the constitution because 1. They were not the ones being stop/harassed. 2. Non-White dudes would be less likely to carry guns if they know the police can search them at anytime for no reason at all. Kelly, the Police Commissioner was once quoted as saying "“he wanted to instill fear in them, every time they leave their home they could be stopped by the police."

I don't think Police alone can make that much of a difference on the crime rate. Exhibit A and B; Newark and Chicago. Crime went down nation wide during the 90's at the same rate NYC did. Even in places that did not implement broken windows, Compstat and SQF. What's keeping Crime went down in NYC is; The end of the Crack epidemic, generous welfare state, Technology(Cameras, facial recognition, DNA, cellphones) and the Big one, more economic opportunity for Non-White residents.

Also, SQF in its current form was highly ineffective. All 5 NYC DA'
s frequently dismissed arrest made under this program. Not to mention that a lot minorities who are now the majority of the NYC electorate hated some rude cop who grew up in some segregated neighborhood a 2 hr train ride away being given carte blanche to act upon on their White Supremacy. I have been stopped more times that I can count by some meat head with a shitty spray on tan that I can count.

As for rich people leaving NYC for CT/NJ. LOL. Rich people still lived in NYC even during the height of the crack epidemic or the violence of prohibition before that. Also, taxes in NYC are very low in relation to the suburbs. My annual property tax bill on a building with 3 apartments in Brooklyn is 3K a year, my friend who lives in Yonkers pays 15k a year for a multi family. My co workers who live in Wetchester and Long Island pay more than 13k a year in property taxes. Its the suburbs of NYC that are in very big trouble fiscally and not NYC itself.

If NYC goes bankrupt eventually its not going to be De Blasio's fault. Wether the corporate shill NYC tabloids recognized this is an open question.
Bloomberg and Giuliani allowed the Public sector Worker unions to butt fuck the tax payers by giving them generous unfounded pension and healthcare obligations(Who are protect via the NY State Constitution). Its only a matter of time before those chickens come home to roost. Once NYC and NYS cuts back on the welfare state and their almost 500K combined workforces in order to keep paying these retirees it is going to be Hammer Time!!!

 

[greensteelhead]

Good luck, NYC. You will need it by electing this crew into office. Amazing to me where this country is heading.

Enjoy the decline!