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Bill de Blasio: 'Fair-weather friends' who fled NYC 'will be replaced'

2020-08-13

Yes, but will they be anywhere near as rich?

[WASHINGTONTIMES] New York City Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio

...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
broke with Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo

on trying to lure wealthy New Yorkers back to the city, saying he’s confident that "fair-weather" residents will be replaced by others.

"There’s been an uptick in crime, but it is a problem directly related to the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
," Mr. de Blasio said at a press briefing Thursday. "I think you’ll see a certain number of people who leave and after an appropriate time, after there’s a vaccine, will come back. I think you’ll see some people who maybe decide they want a different kind of lifestyle. I think a lot of those people will be replaced by other people coming in.

"For decades now, as people have left New York City they’ve been replaced, and then some, by more and more people coming in. So, I think that pattern will start again over the next couple of years," he said.

The mayor’s comments came after the governor revealed he was personally pleading with rich New Yorkers to return to their homes in Manhattan.

"I literally talk to people all day long who are now in their Hamptons house who also lived here, or in their Hudson Valley house, or in their Connecticut weekend house, and I say, ’You got to come back! When you coming back? We’ll go to dinner! I’ll buy you a drink! Come over, I’ll cook!’" Mr. Cuomo said.

Mr. de Blasio and Democratic state politicians want to raise taxes on the wealthy to help offset the state’s $30 billion coronavirus-related deficit, but Mr. Cuomo claimed that could cause the wealthy residents who fled to never return.

Mr. de Blasio said he isn’t interested in making "decisions based on the wealthy few."

"I was troubled to hear this concept that because wealthy people have a set of concerns about the city that we should accommodate them, that we should build our policies and approaches around them," he said. "That’s not how it works around here anymore. This city is for New Yorkers. This city is for people who live here, work here, fight to make this place better, fight through this crisis. So, there’s a lot of New Yorkers who are wealthy, who are true believers in New York City and will stand and fight with us. And there are some who may be fair-weather friends, but they will be replaced by others. But we must build our policies around working people.”

Posted by:Fred

#18 There dwelt in the Channel a digger
Whose chick had a helluva figure.
He: "Fiddle-dee-dee!
Sure, she'd be on TV... whatever that is...
If the bastids would hire a jigger."

Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Trotsky9923 2020-08-13 23:22

#17 He's counting on a Biden Bailout.

And if he, and those like him in other cities, fully succeed in Curleyization, then every major city in America can go 120% for Biden -- even red state cities.

Who will stop them?

Posted by: charger 2020-08-13 20:06

#16 "Escape from New York" redux except Snake Plissken does not land a small plane on the roof of The World Trade Center this time.

Posted by: JohnQC 2020-08-13 18:15

#15 If you play SimCity and your sim-Citizens start moving away, it means you're losing. It kinda sorta works the same in Real Life(tm).

They'll come back if I press the disaster button one more time.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-08-13 16:29

#14 I'm sure the plan is to import lots of rich Chinese. Problem is, those able to be imported already figured a way to get their money out of China, they aren't going to turn around and park it here.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-08-13 12:04

#13 in other news, Paul thinks Peter is a right bastard for not wanting to be robbed daily

Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 2020-08-13 11:41

#12 The voters are getting what they voted for - good and hard. I think that old saw about doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time is a good predictor of where they are going.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-08-13 09:48

#11 He's moving their homeless population into over 100 hotels citywide, so maybe that's what he was referring to.

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2020-08-13 09:28

#10 Maybe.

But their wealth sure as hell won't be replaced.

Posted by: DarthVader 2020-08-13 08:57

#9 Get the rich Chinese ? Yeah they would move in but they have their own way of preventing crime against them. " Dis hatchet be for you if taxes don't come down . "

Posted by: Thaith Elmeresing6163 2020-08-13 08:23

#8 How much are they paying to replace the "wealthy few"?

I assume he wants to import some rich Chinese right?

Posted by: AlanC 2020-08-13 07:30

#7 A parasite presiding over a city sinking fast.

Posted by: JohnQC 2020-08-13 07:03

#6 He and his wife have been ticks on the public payroll so long, they've lost all touch. She wants to be on the City Council. Make them get real jobs

Posted by: Frank G 2020-08-13 06:34

#5 Mr. de Blasio said he isn’t interested in making "decisions based on the wealthy few."

Once the tax revenue starts drying up, he should have to reconsider it, but he won't. I have to conclude he's trying to destroy NYC; what else would you or I do differently than what he's doing now?

Posted by: Raj 2020-08-13 06:12

#4 COVID is a disease of age and density.

If you're older get out of anywhere dense.

Wealth is correlated with age, especially baby boomers who've signed cheques in their kids names (via the government).

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-08-13 04:05

#3 ^"Let them eat cakes" sorta thing?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-08-13 02:13

#2 Lest we forget the volunteer workers who came to Nueva York to help in the fight against COVID-19 only to be taxed by the state.

With every passing day I continue to be amazed at just how disconnected with reality Wilhelm is.

Posted by: Clem 2020-08-13 00:29

#1 If you play SimCity and your sim-Citizens start moving away, it means you're losing. It kinda sorta works the same in Real Life(tm).

Posted by: SteveS 2020-08-13 00:12

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