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PhantomGremlin | 4 years ago

He does seem utterly clueless.

However, is he better than de Blasio? Is he better than Sliwa?

That's all that matters.

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bogomipz|4 years ago

I'm curious what evidence do you have that he is any better? Case in point the article being discussed here, awarding his brother the top NYPD job, awarding his good friend who retired in 2014 because of a federal corruption scandal a plum job. And those two were just his first two weeks in office.

That's quite a sad statement if you really believe "all that matters" is being just slightly less incompetent than the most incompetent. And even the jury on that is still out as he's only been in office six weeks.

PhantomGremlin|4 years ago

I'm curious what evidence do you have that he is any better?

I don't have any such evidence. I don't think the way I phrased my question implied I did.

awarding his brother the top NYPD job

There's a long history of nepotism in politics. Here's a famous case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kennedy#Attorney_Genera... I think there are now laws against that at the federal level.

"all that matters" is being just slightly less incompetent

Many are upset about that reality. But I've been observing politics for many decades and I haven't seen anything better. NY doesn't do recalls (or didn't when I lived there, maybe it changed). California does allow them but that seems to result in an altogether different clown show.