ate poo poo on live tv posted:

What's wrong with citibikes? Granted they've gotten like 60% more expensive then they started, but they are good thing and super convenient for getting both across manhattan and brooklyn.

EugeneJ posted:

https://twitter.com/DandC/status/1028765958293188608

lmao

EugeneJ posted:

https://twitter.com/DandC/status/1028765958293188608

lmao

get that OUT of my face posted:

of all the unions that are useful idiots for cuomo, the TWU has to be the dumbest. they have the most exposure to the subway system and they're defending the person who's most responsible for its sorry state. union politics in NY are atrocious

i work on the UES and my parents live there. the amount of empty storefronts there is embarrassing, to the point where an "upscale Vietnamese restaurant" is actually an improvement. all the attractions are frat bars and outposts of hip restaurants that started in other neighborhoods (Xi'an's, Meatball Factory, 5 Napkins, etc)

it doesn't help that giant glass gently caress-off condos have really taken off there and not even the old money types can be bothered to afford them, or at least not enough of them to actually occupy them for more than two months a year

speaking of which, my ex in China wants to make enough money so she can get a down payment for a million dollar-plus apartment mostly to invest in. for the first time in my life i'm glad things didn't work out between us

Uncle at Nintendo posted:

Wasn't that the guy that sent out like three different racist joke emails

Uncle at Nintendo posted:

Wasn't that the guy that sent out like three different racist joke emails

CaptainPsyko posted:

1) lol it was way more than three. We’re talking dozens.

2) It happened on multiple occasions and kept getting worse, and not just Joke emails but just flat out racist tirades about how he wants Michelle Obama to admit she’s a man and move into a cave in Africa with his gorilla boyfriend.

3) and honestly, the racist emails are unremarkable in the modern Republican Party. Let’s also remember that he got caught forwarding Horse Porn.

Uncle at Nintendo posted:

Cuomo made it an automatic felony if someone assaults an MTA worker so maybe that's why?

grah posted:

It's because Stand United currently has an iron grip on the union leadership, and they've decided that the best way to get good contracts is to kiss as much rear end as possible. It's infuriating and really dangerous for the union long term. But there isn't any credible opposition. Progressive Action exists but hasn't performed well outside of a few small divisions.

Uncle at Nintendo posted:

Him and that guy who was pro-driving a train over kittens should run together

CaptainPsyko posted:

That guy is the director of the MTA now. (Again.)

Uncle at Nintendo posted:

kittens

I remember when he said that and the local news interviewed MTA customers and literally every single one was like "uh, yeah I'd rather we not kill kittens if all it means is I'm gonna be an hour later to work, is this a serious loving question?". It was like fifteen people they asked. I wish I had it on tape.

grah posted:

It's because Stand United currently has an iron grip on the union leadership, and they've decided that the best way to get good contracts is to kiss as much rear end as possible. It's infuriating and really dangerous for the union long term. But there isn't any credible opposition. Progressive Action exists but hasn't performed well outside of a few small divisions.

quote:

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to help his fellow Democrats take back the New York Senate. To close the gap, he’s launched a federal leadership political action committee, and he wants to raise money to spend in competitive races around the state.

There’s just one problem. Almost nobody wants his help.

A majority of the 15 Democratic state Senate candidates running in competitive districts who POLITICO surveyed said they wouldn’t accept the mayor’s aid even if offered. The would-be senators are distancing themselves from the unpopular mayor, who faces criticism from upstate for being a tax-and-spend liberal and complaints from some in New York City that he’s not liberal enough and has been too friendly with developers. It doesn’t help that the last time de Blasio got involved in helping candidates, it led to an investigation into his fundraising practices.

Mechafunkzilla posted:

De Blasio's heart is in the right place but he is just astonishingly bad at the whole "politics" thing

Over Easy posted:

I take the A train and the D train every day to get to work. I would vote my nuts off for any person who promised to ensure that the AC worked at least 80% of the time in every subway car. A few stops in one of those hot boxes with a broken AC has even the freshest bourgeois daisy smelling like the scrotum depths of the worker bee. Us worker bees, in turn, end up smelling like the scrotum of a corpse.

grah posted:

It's because Stand United currently has an iron grip on the union leadership, and they've decided that the best way to get good contracts is to kiss as much rear end as possible. It's infuriating and really dangerous for the union long term. But there isn't any credible opposition. Progressive Action exists but hasn't performed well outside of a few small divisions.

Scrub-Niggurath posted:

deblasio made the entire NYPD mad as hell and for that he's ok but as a mayor he's bad

mrmcd posted:

Made the whole NYPD mad for the obscene insult of implying that maybe kinda sorta cops shouldn't just be allowed to murder minorities without recourse or accountability.

Gunshow Poophole posted:

i still fondly recall this quite often, the brief couple days where the cops went "on strike" and everyone in the city had a blessed, non-harassed day

get that OUT of my face posted:

is it possible to get an absentee ballot at this point in time? my dad will be out of town on Sept. 13. in case you're wondering he'll be voting for Nixon and Teachout

grah posted:

That police "strike" was loving awesome, was the best sort of general feeling of calm in the city I can recall in my entire life.

quote:

Mayor de Blasio’s homeless policies are so hard to swallow for a Queens landlord that he’s gone on a hunger strike.

Saverio “Sam” Esposito, 53, said he stopped eating Monday in protest of Hizzoner’s plan to establish a homeless shelter for 113 mentally ill men in his neighborhood by winter.

“I’m going to keep this up till they carry me away by ambulance,” or the mayor agrees to a sitdown, the retired cop vowed.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Landlord goes on hunger strike over new homeless shelter

get that OUT of my face posted:

get that OUT of my face posted:

Real hurthling! posted:

"america was never that great."

-andrew cuomo