Bill De Blasio Is So Bad At This

[brooklynite]

Gothamist

Let's say you're the mayor of New York City and you're also running for president. Problem is, you're polling at around zero percent, you missed qualifying for the upcoming debate, and you're not attracting nearly enough donors to hack it for the next one in October. You need people to pay attention to you, lots of people. Voters need to see that there's a lotta spine there, a lotta steel there, that you can cut through the noise and lay out your (mostly popular!) beliefs in a pithy, punchy way. Tucker Carlson, now there's a hate-filled husk you can rail against without feeling bad that you're wasting anyone's time or alienating potential voters. IHOP won't even sell pancakes on his program because of all the racism! So you swallow some more pride (it goes down surprisingly easy these days), go on Tucker Carlson's show, and show the world why you're the toughest Progressive in the bunch, who won't pull any — wait, no, no you don't, you're Bill de Blasio.

Yes, Mayor de Blasio went on Tucker Carlson's show last night, between 10 minutes of straight up climate science denial and five minutes of a pseudo journalist complaining about antifa, ostensibly to talk about his new idea to institute a federal "robot tax" on companies who automate jobs in order to help middle class manufacturing workers transition to different careers.

"God bless you," Carlson told de Blasio, after dropping a few perfunctory niceties for having the courage to come on his program and talk about something few politicians have the political will to talk about, as if it were an actual forum for debate and not a staging ground for rage-based virality.

"Thank you Tucker, I appreciate that you care deeply about this issue of automation because it's bearing down on all of us," de Blasio replied, like someone who had never watched let alone appeared on FOX News before.

[nycbos]

1. I am a New York elitist full of New York humor

Full of New York humor

de Blasio is an embarrassment. It is embarrassing that a man who is a mayor of a city roughly the size of a New York City consul district is a better candidate for the nations highest office.


Don't get me wrong I like Mayor Pete. He is on my list of maybes. It just hard for my New York pride to process sometimes.