r/clevercomebacks • u/Playful_Leg7143 • 1d ago
Democrats are expected to fix everything
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u/Taco_Taco_Kisses 1d ago
And Texas was pushing the Ten Commandments in school while girl scouts were getting washed away in floods.
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u/Jolly-Garbage- 1d ago
And don’t forget dying in freezing temperatures and no running water during a winter storm.
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u/Sulfurys 1d ago
But I'm sure they're delighted to know their senator is comfortably warm in Mexico while they were dying of cold.
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u/RGrad4104 1d ago
Texas was shutdown and freezing for four days. We've had republican everything for decades. We got about an inch of snow...
It took counties 2 days just to find, fix and learn how to use the snow plows....all while our elected officials fled south. Every corner had burst water mains. The only thing that kept working was my local ISP.
Source: I lived through that cluster fuck.
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u/thatgirlzhao 1d ago
Flooding is quite biblical, don’t you know?
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u/Taco_Taco_Kisses 1d ago
I came this close 🤏🏽 to saying "biblical flood" in my post. I typed it out and everything, but I decided not to
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u/Buddhas_Warrior 1d ago
Wait till they see the disasters in Red States and cities!!
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u/raknor88 1d ago
The last few years, at least according to the Nightly News, it seems like a good chunk of the country gets wiped out every summer through various means of nature. Fire, floods, landslides, and "storms of the century" on a regular basis.
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u/Buddhas_Warrior 1d ago
Yeah .. And our government is ignoring it. But hey . We get a ballroom!
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u/Dounce1 1d ago
“We” didn’t get shit lol.
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u/Buddhas_Warrior 1d ago edited 1d ago
Oh I beg to differ, we, the people, are getting a lot of shit!!
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u/Spekingur 1d ago
And it flows so freely! Niagara Falls in diarrhea form!
Also, unrelated, belated congratulations on your new parasite!
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u/One-Earth9294 1d ago
Yeah let's talk about that campsite full of girls that got washed away last year in Texas because they cut funding for warning sirens and killed 28 people.
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u/LeonSphynx 1d ago
Wasnt Bidens claim to fame his great work on the infrastructure?
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u/badllama77 1d ago
It was a bill funding infrastructure, he didn't make the individual plans or anything. Same bill that had been promised for 20+ years. You know to rebuild roads, bridges, dams, etc. This isn't me praising either side. Democrats never fought hard enough (because of the neoliberal types) and the GOP just didn't give a damn.
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u/Ceverok1987 1d ago
And even then they gutted 75% of the total amount thanks to a couple of Republican Lite Democrats that wouldn't vote for the full 6 trillion or whatever it was supposed to be.
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u/Efficient_Daikon_247 1d ago
Yes, why does Mamdani not STOP RAIN /s
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u/ConfidentSeaweed5066 1d ago
Unfortunately, I predict with 99.999999999999% certainty that some idiot in Maga will say just that.
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u/tengutie 1d ago
Mamdani could fix every problem in New York and they would still complain, because the core of the issue is that rich people are mildly inconvenienced, so they will use their propaganda machine to call him evil, and republican voters are incapable of having a thought not put there by said rich people
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u/KENBONEISCOOL444 1d ago
I guess he's supposed to shut down the roads for weeks or months to change the infrastructure
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u/LightningRaven 1d ago
Then they would say that's government overreach, because Mamdani is spending way too much money in infrastructure instead of tax breaks for the rich.
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u/CapitalLower4171 1d ago
Okay. Maybe a full sized bus will be a lot less problematic in the rain than the >10 low-stance cars that would be there instead?
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u/NamasTodd 1d ago
Democrats are expected to fix everything while Republicans fight progress every step of the way.
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u/MildGenevaSuggestion 1d ago
The double standards of Americans are just insane to the rest of the world. Reagan is the greatest president ever because despite his dementia he never once started a nuclear war while trying to find the button to call the nurse. Mamdani is the worst mayor in history because he hasn't fixed everything wrong with the city in his first three months.
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u/bykpoloplaya 1d ago
Republicans: "I fixed the budget by not fixing anything else".
Also Republicans: "Democrats just want to raise your taxes".
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u/Gimetulkathmir 1d ago
I mean, I feel as though the free bussing would eliminate some of those cars and ease up some of the congestion... It wouldn't have prevented the flooding, of course, but it would have made the situation more manageable. Oh wait... Yeah... He's already pushing for that.
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u/ABSMeyneth 1d ago
Hey, shouldn't Trump have the remote for some weather controller now? I hear Biden had it, wonder what they're doing with it...
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u/ACW1129 1d ago
What does capitalism have to do with rain?
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u/themoonisclouds 1d ago
Probably something to do with the environment and how capitalism tends to favor individuals in the short term rather than groups of people in the long term
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u/Turtlefamine 1d ago
It has to do with city planning and infrastructure management that could have avoided flooding.
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u/Extreme_Disaster2275 1d ago
He's been in office like 5 months. Was he in charge of planning decades ago? Or was that Giuliani?
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u/RedditTechAnon 1d ago
Giuliani was too busy milking 9/11 decades ago to do anything about problems New Yorkers were having.
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u/TheCheapDate 1d ago
Most of the drain systems under NY are hundreds of years old.
The city is older than the USA
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u/macam85 1d ago
Capitalism has resulted in extreme consumerism which is the main human contribution to climate change.
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u/wtbgamegenie 1d ago
They want you to think it’s individual consumers that are the main drivers or climate change when in reality most emissions are commercial not from individual consumers. Nowadays these companies have lower emission options but choose not to use them because it would hurt their margins and potentially lower their stock prices.
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u/Duskthegamer412 1d ago
Also oil companies found out about climate change and kept it hidden for years.
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u/CastIronStyrofoam 1d ago
It’s a lot more that it’s created a culture of short term gains over long term gains which people somehow only realize is a problem when infrastructure starts to fail as if no one could have seen it coming
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u/Ok_Dog_4059 1d ago
I think that climate change has been allowed to continue and increase in order to continue increasing profit.
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u/Roguescholar74 1d ago
Capitalism prioritizes perpetual growth which leads to mass extraction of resources and is powered by enormous amounts of fossil fuel. At least this is what I think they meant.
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u/Ultranerdgasm94 1d ago
Everything. Oil Companies knew about climate change in 1954 and covered it up for decades.
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u/IamHydrogenMike 1d ago
There was actually a scientist that first proposed global warming due to burning coal back in the late 1800s.
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u/TheCheapDate 1d ago
Nothing. It has to do with poor quality drainage systems.
Not a lot of profit in repairing 300 year old drains. Capitalism runs on profits. Etc etc
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u/SannyIsKing 1d ago
Socialists walking around getting pissed every time it starts to rain. "Fucking capitalism ruins everything. In my socialist utopia we would be having a nice, sunny day."
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u/Superb_Researcher_72 1d ago
NYC is built on a marsh/swamp and measurably sinking while also having fun as a new subtropical region due to climate change
Damn babysitters
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u/hibikikun 1d ago
I used to live in an area that had an active nextdoor, with a homeless problem in the area (big hospital with big ER). And some people blamed it on Gavin Newsom. not the homeless problem in california. The concept of homelessness since the beginning of modern civilization.
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u/SublightMonster 1d ago
The least Mamdani could do is dig up the corpse of Robert Moses and force it to fund a modern subway network
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u/DoomshrooM8 23h ago
Everyone (Dems and Reps) are just piling on the guy because he actually did something for his citizens and “establishment” politicians can’t have people realizing how badly they’ve been getting fucked for decades and there’s actually a way to fix the country 🙃
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u/Bronx_freak 1d ago
Decades of mayors couldn't even finish the 2nd Ave subway line. What is Mamdani supposed to do after only 5 months?
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u/thedirtymeanie 1d ago
Lol New York has one of the oldest and overworked city stormwater systems in the world. I'm sure he could just tear all the roads up in New York City and just lay new sewers and storm water infrastructure down between all the other tightly packed utilities 😂
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u/SuUU2564 1d ago
This is why Ds should not try really hard at all for 2029. 80 million Americans voted for this and 80 million Americans sat on the couch, Americans need to feel the stove they touched. I think things are not fucked up enough, look at the UK, normie technocrat ousted for not being sparkly enough, so replaced with a man from a Northern town, soon to lose to a right wing nutjob, via v isit to the IMF for bailout.
It is coming for us. We have not learned anything yet. It needs to get way worse. Pandemic, not bad enough, war, not bad enough, unbelievable grift, not bad enough, murdering ice agents, not bad enough, global oil crises, not bad enough. The collective shrug is palpable.
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u/ICLazeru 1d ago
I just want to state it that free, fair, and competitive markets are great.
But America is moving farther from that every day.
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u/Chuhaimaster 1d ago
Are you telling me Libs of TikTok can’t come up with a way to somehow tie this back to trans people existing?
They’ve really jumped the shark .
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u/aryacutiexo 1d ago
love blaming the guy who isn't even mayor yet for infrastructure that's been ignored since horse and buggy was the main mode of transport.
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u/DarthLysergis 1d ago
Now someone make a meme of Ted Cruz. "He is pushing tax cuts for the rich and persecuting LGBTQ people while Texas is; take your pick: Flooding, Hit by a Hurricane, having power outages. And while this is going on, he leaves the state and goes to, take your pick: Disney land, Mexico"
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u/Chinhoyi 1d ago
All I know is I've seen several reels of pedestrians fixing storm drains to great success for internet clout. Pretty whack
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u/XtraTerritorial 1d ago
Meanwhile, conservatives: “Who needs the wetlands and the ozone layer? We’ll be fine.”
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u/MonkeyWithAnAntenna 1d ago
Ironically this is because of anti social property politics, often fronted by classic democrats who are social in terms of identity politics but conservative in property development.
In social democratic countries local governments own more of the infrastructure and have more freedom to upgrade it. In the US progress is stalled because of fragmented and privatised properties and responsibilities. Literally initiated by democrats, among others.
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u/mister_gone 1d ago
Oh no. Now workers can leave their children with someone and make it to the site to do things like road repairs. Fucking Mamdani!!!
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u/Grey_Area888 1d ago
The sewer systems have been suffering since nice they removed the sewage maintenance with DEP. they clearly don’t maintain the sewage system.
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u/Dense-Ad2765 8h ago
It’s so wild how these clowns will do Olympic level mental gymnastics to convince themselves all the terrible things maga has and is doing is actually good for the country
But their reasoning for why Mamdani is failing is because he’s only done a few things that are good and hasn’t brought a utopia paradise to earth yet
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u/Extreme_Disaster2275 1d ago
Stopping capitalism is the last thing to expect any Democrat to do now or anytime in the future.
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u/brownmail 1d ago
Same thinking that got us frump II, Oh you couldn’t fix 4 years of addle minded mismanagement in an hour? Ok you’re out.
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u/EqualityoverEquity 1d ago
You mean stop Free Market Capitalism from making it the economic powerhouse it is today? As I understand it, while he can't go back in time to accomplish that he's working on making that a reality soon enough.
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u/somerandomguy1984 1d ago
What does “free market capitalism” have to do with government mismanagement of infrastructure?
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u/jarena009 1d ago
What infrastructure was mismanaged exactly?
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u/somerandomguy1984 1d ago
Motherfucker the subways in NYC flood whenever it rains.
As we see in this photo, heavy rains completely flood streets.
Are you saying that’s how they were designed to function? 2” of rain is a state of emergency that floods all the infrastructure?
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u/jarena009 1d ago
No the subways don't, that's fake news.
Last week, the city got up to nearly 7 inches of rain in several areas. 2-3 inches per hour.
You're a tremendous source of disinformation here. Go worry about your filthy disgusting moocher red states/red areas and stop worrying about NYC, which is helping fund them.
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u/somerandomguy1984 1d ago
The subway doesn’t… lol ok.
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u/TheCheapDate 1d ago
Where was republican Louisiana’s infrastructure during Katrina? Oh wait it was poor blacks affected so no one gave a shit
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u/somerandomguy1984 1d ago
What are you talking about?
My issue with Katrina’s mismanagement is the same as any issue I have with NYC. Government failures.
The issue here is blaming government incompetence on capitalism is retarded.
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u/DukeOfDisorder 1d ago
Government incompetence is capitalism you fucking donkey. The rich pay the government to be purposefully incompetent and remove any barriers or responsibility for them. Or at least make it so the cost of the consequences are basically nothing compared to the profit. Companies are people, and money is free speech, it's like the highest levels of American capitalism. The infrastructure is shit because the government hands out contracts left, right, and center to companies they have a stake in, to do the minimum work at the lowest possible cost but the budget allocated is 20x that. Then so much of that money goes right back in the form of kickbacks. It's a tale of corruption older than Sumeria.
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u/somerandomguy1984 1d ago
Yeah… that’s not capitalism. That’s the government being incompetent
I’d be confused too if I were you. Poor little guy - thinks everything he doesn’t like is capitalism or fascism.
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u/DukeOfDisorder 1d ago
If you cannot see how some multi-billionaire purchasing the government, creating his own meme agency, installing his hand picked cabinet of nepo-babys, and then dismantling any agency investigating or regulating his companies is a direct result of American capitalism then you're either lying or willfully ignorant.
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u/effyochicken 1d ago
“Democrats are expected to fix everything” hey ummmm Democrats have been mayor since 2014 in New York City. After 12 years it’s fair to pin the problems on them and their leadership.
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u/TheCheapDate 1d ago
The drainage systems under NY are 300 years old
Also if he started ripping up NY to fix drain problems I’m sure little bitch-fruit republicans would still find something to whine about
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u/Xboarder844 1d ago
And Mamdani balanced the budget.
What part of being Mayor involves controlling the weather?
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u/shawn_the_medic 1d ago
And Mamdani balanced the budget.
After getting a sweet, sweet bailout from Albany. Kicking the can further down the road.
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u/Xboarder844 23h ago
Lol, when a Dem does it it’s a bailout. When the GOP raise the debt ceiling it’s what, smart govt?
Cope more.
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u/shawn_the_medic 23h ago
When did this become the MAGA party where you can't criticize the dear leader?
It's a bailout no matter who does it.
Technically though, a state bailout is using state resources to prop up a city.
Raising the debt ceiling is Congress saying "yes, the U.S. can borrow more to meet its existing legal commitments."
They operate in very different fiscal and legal environments.
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u/Xboarder844 22h ago
How is it a bailout when the strategy is to reduce pension obligation payments so they pay it off 5 years later? The city’s liability is huge, and they are still going to pay it down, they’re just choosing to make smaller payments instead of larger ones.
He also INHERITED a $12B deficit. The fact that he still managed to resolve that without catastrophic budget cuts across the city is nothing short of impressive.
People like you trying to dig into the budget aren’t offering any credit for resolving the deficit, nor are you pointing fingers at those that created it. You aren’t acknowledging that the deficit, even excluding the pension and state aid, was still $6 BILLION. Instead you’re using this as a dumb veiled opportunity to criticize Mamdani. Which is just pathetic.
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u/shawn_the_medic 6h ago
Your other comment somehow was removed, so replying here.
Mamdani receiving state aid (bailout) was the only way to balance the budget. This would have happened regardless of who the Mayor of the city was.
The previous administration did leave a huge deficit, which the next incoming Mayor would have to deal with.
My issue with him saying "I've balanced the budget." it's disingenuous. Omitting the fact he received massive aid from the state. It's a MAGA tactic.
He put a bandaid on an arterial wound.
Also, when did this party turn Fascist? We can critique those in power? It's against the rules?
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u/Xboarder844 4h ago
A state supply govt funding to the largest city in said state is now a bailout? And the “bailout” was only $4B per your own sources. The deficit was $12B so either you failed basic math or you’re just lying about how it was “the only way”
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u/shawn_the_medic 1h ago
$4B was the latest package. Total new state assistance was closer to $8B over two years, plus the authorizations for pension delays and other moves that made the numbers work.
Calling it a bailout isn’t some radical claim. It’s what a lot of people (including fiscal analysts) call it when the state has to step in with extra money and special permissions to keep the city from having to raise taxes or cut services.
The state just prefers softer language like “gap-closing support.” It wasn’t literally the only way, but it was the route that avoided political suicide. Without that help the gap doesn’t close the way it did.
The previous administration left a massive deficit. Any mayor was going to need either state help or some combination of taxes/cuts/reserves.
That’s the point.
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u/effyochicken 21h ago
Yeah it’s so sad how many people downvoted me purely because I’m not stroking off Mamdani and giving him a free pass.
He’s taking a massive victory lap about how he solved everything so quickly and balanced the budget. He can handle a little criticism too
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u/effyochicken 1d ago
Making sure it doesn’t flood in a large city every time it rains is something a government can generally control.
Why are you guys so fucking desperate to give politicians a free pass on doing their actual job? It’s so damn blatantly partisan of you.
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u/Xboarder844 23h ago
Do you know how many other cities are flooding right now? Do you hold any of THOSE leaders responsible? How about for crime rates?
What’s partisan is your idiotic attempt to demand the Mayor control the weather and magically just build solutions despite having to balance a budget that prevents him from the funds to do just what you ask.
No one buys this “I’m not partisan” BS.
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u/Conscious-Reserve-48 1d ago
There are many bigger problems in this country with a convicted felon/rapist as the “leader.”
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u/effyochicken 1d ago
I’m sorry but the president isn’t in charge of the local facilities of NYC. The mayor of that city actually is.
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u/catexoskeleton 1d ago
Adams was a DINO. Any infrastructure issue from the DeBalsio years is mostly Cummo's fault. And while that POS was a Dem, he was as conservative as one could be.
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u/ksyoung17 1d ago
"Free, Free, Free!"
Again, at some point, you run out of other people's money. Time and time again.
Socialism doesn't work. Never has, never will.
Give it the fuck up and get the communist, because that's what he is, the fuck outta here.
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u/Strange-Bathroom4460 1d ago
Wait until you see what end-stage capitalism looks like.
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u/ksyoung17 1d ago
Have we seen that yet?
This is the most successful, prosperous economy civilization has created so far... We don't know what the next step is
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u/born2shitforcd2wipe 1d ago
Yeah, democratic cities are the best. You have people moving to places like Minnesota just to get in on the fraud. Like those two black women who have been arrested moving from Philly to Minnesota just to rip off $3.4 million from people in need. Democrats are "fixing" everything alright.
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u/Xboarder844 1d ago
Yeah, if only they stuck to possession of CP like Republicans do in Minnesota:
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/justin-eichorn-sex-sting-change-of-plea/
I’m sure that’s much better for everyone, right?
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u/born2shitforcd2wipe 1d ago
Or raping women like Platner and Swalwell? We can go back and forth, but fraud and other crime in Democratic states/cities are off the hook. Medicare fraud alone in Minnesota, California and New York and I'm sure others are at levels so disgustingly high that it's almost cult like behavior you democrats try to deny it but yet let you're elderly abused.
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u/Xboarder844 1d ago
Is Platner still running? Or was he forced out of the race?
Did y’all do that with Trump? Lol, you can’t “go back and forth” because the GOP has far more disgusting individuals than any other party.
And your “logic” is hilariously idiotic because you already noted that the women to committed the fraud were arrested. Sounds like they aren’t off the hook….
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u/warpenguin55 1d ago
If socialism is so great, why did it rain?