• cerebud@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      New York somehow has terrible politicians on both sides. Like, the gullibility is insane. Adams, Santos, Hochul, Giuliani, they all suck. I just imagine shady people are bankrolling these nut cases.

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        Honestly, as a NYS resident, I don’t have a problem with Hochul. Santos is LI problem- they are idiots. Guiliani? It has been a long time since he was a NYS politician subject to a voting body. He is a sell out and frankly, sucked as a NYC mayor. I think the run off method for the mayoral vote is what gave us Adams. Garcia seemed to me to be a stronger and more experienced candidate. But I don’t live in NYC so don’t have a vote in that sector.

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        1 year ago

        The USA in general has terrible politicians because they are controlled by business rather than workers.

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          1 year ago

          Nah. I think Obama and Biden are fairly solid. Nobody is perfect, but they both seem to have a level of integrity that my other examples clearly don’t have.

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        1 year ago

        This is my take as a liberal Texan, just because I live in a red state doesn’t mean I think these “blue” states are role models, NY especially is very hypocritical. People think down here we are a bunch of shooty bigoted cowboys and that’s sort of true, but over the years I’ve picked up that the East Coast has a bunch of dark shit going on that’s not reported in the media. I don’t think NYC models a good multi-cultural society either, it’s just a bunch of segregated pockets of different ethnicities/races/classes who secretly hate each other and want to be dominant. Guys like Eric Adams therefore are a product of that, there is nothing liberal about him except that he’s black so he has to play the part. I’d argue that there are sunbelt Republican mayors who are more progressive than Adams.

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          1 year ago

          OK, you are in TX and have not one point of interest nor any reasonable input. Solve your own problems first.

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      1 year ago

      I firmly believe he was backed by the GOP. He lived in New Jersey and used his brother’s NYC address to qualify.

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      Not really. When 200k people show up at your doorstep with their hand out what do you expect. The math isn’t that difficult to understand - it’s probably going to eat up $7 billion out of the budget over 1 year. Adams has tried to dissuade the tide of “asylum seekers” but it’s out of his hands. He doesn’t control the border.

    • petit_cochon@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      He is certainly one of the stupidest. I can almost see the cartoon birds flying around in his head.