Bloomberg: What the hell is his problem?

Still, they can't be as repulsive and off-putting as "The Truth" ads -- they usually make me want to take up smoking for a minute or so, if those are the kind of self-righteous assholes who are that upset by smoking.

For what it's worth, most barmaids I know don't support the potential bars-included ban in NYC, because more customers nipping outside for a smoke = less customers inside tipping the barmaids.

(not saying that i like this regulation myself ... since i smoke like a chimney ... but it's probably constitutional)

but hey, i was too stupid to go to Columbia Law or Harvard Law, so cut me some slack ;-p

I mean obviously being a song and dance fancy boy like Giuliani doesn't mean you're going to be a good mayor at all but it certainly is more entertaining.

i got the flu.

Most uncomfortable Bloomie moment: When the NFL had the season kickoff party in Times Square and Bloomie went out to the drunk crowd, who had just been grooving to Bon Jovi, to rile them up more. He was stiffer than [penis joke] in a [penis joke]!

(I'm sick too. My girlfriend's got it way bad, though.)

= GREATEST MAYOR EVER IN HISTORY! I never thought of him that way but that's exactly how I'd do things to, I'd be all like, fuck you all, I don't care what you gotta say, I pity the fool who thinks I care what you gotta say, then I'd be all doing things.

Except I wouldn't ban dancing, that's silly. The man can't hate fun though - the drag!

Manon Lescaut is officially a book for assholes, stop talking about it.

what is manon lescaut?

yeah, altho he didn't think of it. Chicago had a 311 line at least 2 years before NYC.

Bloomberg sucks because he hates ice cream and puppies.

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not saying i'll vote for him (not saying i won't either), but term limits suck

yah theyre completely undemocratic

if i didn't think so, i might have more of a problem with his making a push as a sitting mayor in a 'crisis' context

would i feel the same if we still had giuliani? uhhh.

yes, term limits suck, and yes, Reagan's corpse wd still be prez if we didnt have em.

^^only if the 22nd Amendment allowed for zombie presidents instead of imposing a term limit Morbs

Tom Bradley was mayor of L.A. for about 734 years, and even though I didn't dislike him as mayor, there's this "too settled" thing about not having term limits that tends to rot after a while, whether you like the mayor or not.

In the United States, term limits on executives are absurd. Bloomberg has been an excellent technocrat for a city that was in desperate need for one. Hopefully he’ll win a third term and create even a larger precedent for future mayor’s.

hey, that was kinda funny, morbs

if we hadn't had term limits, we might not have gotten bloomie in the first place

term limits alternate between seeming like a good idea and like a bad idea every 8 years or so.

i have always thought term limits were a bad idea, even if i am thankful that they foreclosed the theoretical possibility of another Giuliani or Bush term

petition vs the City Council overruling the vote on NYC term limits, if that's your view:

http://www.ItsOurDecision.org

not my view

we knew.

Let's have the fucking anti-free speech billionaire stay cuz there's a "crisis" caused by his breed.

Cheistine Quinn:

http://www.movieactors.com/freezeframes5/blazingsad31.jpeg

"We've gotta protect our phony baloney jobs, gentlemen!"

there's a "crisis" caused by his breed

Bloomberg hasn't been a banker since 1981, and I don't believe he's ever been involved with mortgage-backed securities. He ran a technology and media company, and for the last dozen years, he's also operated one of the largest philanthropies in the country.

^in the tank for Masters of the Universe

(God bless the smoking ban, tho)

I'm just stating facts. I do think that Bloomberg might be the right guy to deal with a struggling economy the transition from a NY funded by Wall St, or maybe he won't be - let's see who runs and what they propose. I am quite certain that Christopher Brodeur, for instance, like Sarah Palin is very much the wrong guy, at any time.

The idea of Sarah Palin as a guy disturbs me.

maybe locking up anyone who engages in protest against Wall St w/out a charge for 72 hours will be the plan.

so the CC votes tomorrow. Love those Bloomie gritted-teeth responses to questions about anyone who would dare impede his coup d'etat...

Mugabe? OK, it's an outrageous comparison. Forgive me. Mike Bloomberg would never shut down newspapers or use brutal thugs against dissenters in order to hold onto power. He doesn't have to. He buys them....

http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-10-22/columns/michael-bloomberg-s-velvet-coup/

ok, I vote No on Bloomberg here

by Sewell Chan and Jonathan P. Hicks

After a spirited, emotional and at times raucous debate, the City Council voted, 29 to 22, on Thursday afternoon to extend term limits, allow Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to seek re-election next year and undo the result of two voter referendums that had imposed a limit of two four-year terms. (Please refresh this post for latest updates.)

The vote was a major victory for Mayor Bloomberg — a billionaire and lifelong Democrat who was elected mayor as a Republican in 2001, won re-election in 2005 and decided just weeks ago that he wished to seek a third term in 2009 — and for the Council’s speaker, Christine C. Quinn, but the intense acrimony surrounding the decision could come at great cost.

After Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, who presides over the Council, announced the final result, the balcony erupted in shouts of “The city’s for sale!” and “Shame on you!”

Earlier, at 3:22 p.m. the Council rejected, 28 to 22, a key amendment that would have called for a public referendum on term limits by summoning a Charter Revision Commission, which would schedule a special election. One member, James Sanders Jr. of Queens, abstained on the amendment. (See the end of this article for the full roll call.)

Opponents of the bill to extend term limits without a public vote crowded the balcony of the Council chamber. As Ms. Gotbaum announced the final vote count on the amendment, groans erupted from the balcony, which was packed with members of the public opposed to extending term limits without a public vote. The Council immediately turned its attention to the main bill, which would extend the limit to three terms from two.

Councilman Bill de Blasio of Brooklyn, who supported the amendment, warned his colleagues that the Council’s legitimacy would be forever tarnished.

“The people of the city will long remember what we have done here today, and the people will be unforgiving,” Mr. de Blasio said. “We are stealing like a thief in the night their right to shape our democracy.”

I bet Rudy is pissed.

I know I am.

The Inside City Hall host on NY1 (the Time Warner local news cable outlet), Dominic Carter -- who've I've generally found to be a reliable softball tosser (he has to treat Ed Koch and Al D'Amato as serious analysts, for one thing) -- was practically laughing in the face of City Council members who voted for this thing and claimed it didn't smell.

well, anti-corporate comedian Rev. Billy -- who I've never found all that funny -- has the Green nomination for mayor. I wonder if any non-comedians will challenge Emperor Mike.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/nyregion/02billy.html

The strongest candidate to face Bloomberg will be a guy with the last name that is a homophone with 1) a slang term for being an emasculated, inffectual loser and 2) gradeschool term for penis.

gabbs loves the weiner-schnitzel, so be warned.

forewarned is forearmed, as it were ...

ugh, Son of Chucky

sorry, burt!

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/12/1833617.aspx

yay, Weinerdick definitely out.

At least Green Party candidate Billy Talen heckled the Mayor from the audience: "What are you doing here, Mike? We voted for term limits!" In a statement Rev. Billy said, "The missing voice tonight was the voice of New York City's neighborhoods, which Bloomberg and the Democrats have victimized in their lust for the bubble-based economies of tourism, chain stores and Wall Street..."

No one gives a shit.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/10/bloomberg-thomp.php

You all know what to do.

"Marjorie Shea, a retired high school teacher, said the spending was "overkill" but she voted for him anyway, saying his wealth and businessman's mind makes him an independent thinker."

you suck, New York, New York

hold on! NBC News called Bloomie the winner -- and has now RETRACTED that!

Looks like a 4-pt win for the emperor. $110 million well spent.

Bloomberg won by 50,342 votes, out of 1.1 million cast. That averages out to 8.24 people at each of the city's 6,110 election districts. So if you're the biggest Thompson supporter in your ED, just imagine if you could have dragged your nine laziest friends out to vote. And if you're the biggest Bloomberg supporter in your ED, all those handwritten letters to your neighbors and the sign in your window may have really made the difference. Seriously.

It's a pity all my friends live in other election districts.

dont blame me i voted in the nj election

Join Housing Works World AIDS Day "Schmear Campaign" Against Mayor Bloomberg!

Every World AIDS Day, December 1, Mayor Bloomberg hosts a World AIDS Day "Bagel Breakfast" at Gracie Mansion where he professes his commitment to ending the AIDS epidemic -- and every January, he proposes a budget that includes devastating cuts to services for homeless New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS, as well as other critical social services.

This year, the bagels are boycotting breakfast.

To expose Bloomberg's hypocrisy and bring an end to his attacks on chronically ill homeless New Yorkers, Housing Worksâ staff and clients will be dressing up as giant bagels (sesame, poppy seed, everything, onion, blueberry!) and protesting outside of Gracie Mansion on World AIDS Day, December 1. And, possibly for the first time in human history, bagels will engage in civil disobedience. In other words, its a schmear campaign!

In order for this unprecedented foray into baked-good political action to succeed, we need your help. We are looking for people to do one or both of the following:

* Create and dress up in bagel costumes and/or make and carry signs; or simply attend our bagel protest outside of Gracie Mansion * Participate in a civil disobedience action (NOTE: No one is required to engage in civil disobedience. You can come, simply watch, and enjoy yourself.) Come to an information session Saturday, November 13 at noon at Housing Works Brooklyn headquarters at 57 Willoughby St., 2nd Fl, easilyaccessible by the A, C, F (Jay St./Borough Hall) or N/R (Lawrence St) or 2,3,4,5 (Borough Hall).

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I am going to hit the next person who tells me this fucker is "a good mayor."

Cant stand this fuck and his smug face

and his absent snowplows

janette sadik-khan makes up for a lot of other stuff, like I'm not sure that even a progressive dem mayor would be as good as he's been on this subject

she went to my college

just found out who that is.

you have got to be fucking kidding.

She is an ethnic Tatar.

thank her when you don't get hit by a car on PPW, morbs. dunno how you can bitch about nyc politics...and transit...yet have (proudly) not heard of the very prominent DOT commissioner??

pedestrian plazas for tourists on Broadway!

see deck chairs, Titanic

(I am pretty much never on PPW)

also, on urban "greening": a fucking pissdrop in the ocean

she's "prominent" to the MSM Entertainment Circus

and his absent snowplows

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, December 27, 2010 7:48 PM Bookmark

Stop being such a self-entitled prick. The city is in really bad financial shape and it's not his fault.

he's fucking sold it further down the river like Prick Rudy, Prick Dinkins and Prick Koch.

also lol, he got the third term under cover of being THE FINANCIAL GENIUS WE NEEDED!!!!!

tourists shouldn't have to get hit by taxis either. it's a small but important step of a bigger process - shutting down larger parts of broadway to cars - which is pretty fucking revolutionary as far as american urbanism goes. he's a corporate fuck on a lot of things, but try and find another american mayor who'd push for congestion pricing like he did. times square is the biggest success story, but most of the progress is more subtle - there are pedestrian plazas throughout the city and new ones are being built at a pretty rapid pace. and hundreds of miles of bike lanes. and protected bus lanes.

also, on urban "greening": a fucking pissdrop in the ocean

nyc easily the greenest city in america already

I CAN'T AFFORD TO LIVE HERE

move to queens ffs

you can't afford to live in the posh parts of nyc because it's become increasingly appealing to live here. that's annoying, but the solution isn't "make times square shitty and dangerous again" but rather "seriously increase the amount of housing in the nyc area"

In Philadelphia the streets look like this a week after a snowstorm. I'm all for not giving any leader a free pass no matter what, but I don't think you've ever given a moment's thought to what it might actually take to govern a city (xposts).

bike lanes are sweet but basically got no love for this guy

A good city leader would work on creating a sustainable and equitable living environment for as many citizens as possible. Bloomberg worked hard as hell to take away public resources and put them in the hands of his business friends, and one of his primary "missions" was further bottlenecking New York's economy to high-end industries that are currently propped up by moral hazard from our federal government, done at the expense of the living standards of middle and lower-income New Yorkers.

Can't put all the blame on him, though, it might just be a result of how screwed up our economy and society in general is right now.

liked when he got smacked down on the west side stadium cause he didnt kiss the right rings p funny

http://tv.gawker.com/5719257/watch-sanitation-workers-destroy-a-ford-explorer-in-brooklyn-today

lol atl

oops

no pity for brooklyn heights ford explorers

"seriously increase the amount of housing in the nyc area"

Clearly not as big a priority as "plow 79th Street first, where Bloomberg lives."

I don't think you've ever given a moment's thought to what it might actually take to govern a city

^Kool-Aid drinker who accepts that a city must be minimally governed for the workers so the millionaires and tourists can be prioritized.

you can't afford to live in the posh parts of nyc

I'm talking about "middle-class" Kensington.

Spectrum otm

you can't afford to live in the posh parts of nyc because it's become increasingly appealing to live here.

lmao

must be bcz the city is in really bad financial shape

I know a guy who pays $200 a month in kensington (w/ roommates, but still.) sucks that hipsters are gonna price you out of brooklyn, cause yeah, even the lower half of the borough is ridiculously overpriced for the most part. but again, until it's unaffordable to live in queens, the bronx and the path-y parts of jersey, it's hard to accept the argument "I can't afford to live here." there are literally millions of lower-income people who manage to pay their rent.

I mean here in Brooklyn, where all my friends are (in other neighborhoods).

anyway:

http://www.salon.com/news/michael_bloomberg/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/12/28/bloomberg_christie_snow

haa did christie even have a reputation for effectiveness, i thought he just ate sandwiches and yelled at people

he is also #1 SPRINGSTEEN FAN 4EVA

I want springsteen to write a song about the arc tunnel

http://www.r8ny.com/blog/larry_littlefield

this guy has a good blog and the best take on the situation I've read. nate silver's is okay but also kinda ridiculous.

silver obvs enjoyed putting his together v much

srsly

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/nyregion/30ride.html?_r=1

I don't think you've ever given a moment's thought to what it might actually take to govern a city

"Kool-Aid drinker who accepts that a city must be minimally governed for the workers so the millionaires and tourists can be prioritized."

Um, maybe more like guy whose family lived in NYC for a couple of generations and experienced what it was like for "the workers" in prior decades (dad lost public school teaching job, aunt got mugged several times, etc.)

Yeah it sucks that NYC is so expensive now and I don't like banks and starbucks on every corner and russian tourists knocking me over because I stand in between them and century 21 either, but there are tradeoffs and cities need some kind of tax base. Bloomberg has been much better at prioritizing affordable housing policy than Giuliani was, fwiw. I know he's cozy with the finance industry but you also can't blame him for macroeconomic trends, the return of the rich to cities, etc.

can I blame him for making a mealymouthed "It Gets Better" video 2 days after cutting the hell out of homeless youth programs?

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2011/01/michael-bloomberg-it-gets-better.html

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Whoa. Bloomy tries to end snow presser with "I think we've had enough." Ignores shouted questions.
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Mayor still won't say where he was 12/25 -- "I have a right to a private life."
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Still dunno where mayor was last time, but ahead of an expected 1-3-incher, he's holding a presser this pm. ny1 taking live.
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this guy

he's a 1-3 incher alright

boom

dr morbius, the man with a phd in mayoral dick jokes

hi5s

apology from a flunky!

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-01-10/bloomberg-aide-apologizes-for-mistakes-in-blizzard.html

lol you still aren't over this? cars couldn't drive for 2 days, boo hoo, end of the world

I don't own a car, so wtf u talkin bout

right me neither, which is why roads not getting plowed didn't really ruin my day

could you get out of your 'hood by train? I couldn't, for 2 days.

yeah the 7 was running. but the subway problems weren't Bloomberg's fault.

:p

WALKING to the subway (or the supermarket) might've been helped by plowing too.

ime plowing just built up huge snow barriers at the crosswalks, was easier to get around before the plows. and I mean regardless, it would take an army to clear the sidewalks for all of NYC after the blizzard.

I mean admittedly I have a distorted POV where anything that makes it harder to drive a private vehicle is basically good for NYC.

Morbs, the MTA is actually not under Bloomberg's control. I mean that's one area where you really can't lay the blame at his feet.

mostly just surprised that morbs is willing to let his pure hatred for bloomberg overwhelm the fact that this was a ny post-esque 'controversy' - gee, a giant blizzard slightly inconveniences the privileged minority of new yorkers who think that getting their driveway plowed should be the one and only city priority. and many of whom, by choosing to drive during the storm, helped make things worse. this is not quite hurricane katrina.

iatee i feel like as a total n00b you should know the thing that pisses people off so bad abt the snowocalypse is its indicative of bloombergs distain for all people who are not bloomberg - and you know it is the citys job to remove the snow - pretending that its no big deal that it didnt get moved for three days isnt gonna change the fact that it was a major dereliction of duty

yeah except I see little evidence that it happened because he had disdain for people (which is why I would have done it fwiw) and significant evidence that it happened because there was a much bigger than anticipated blizzard that surprised everybody including weather forecasters

and icy maybe it's easier to take when you're not a n00b but people in this city have such an epic sense of self-entitlement...only place in america where 'my driveway didn't get plowed!' has merit as a national news story. average new yorker is incredibly shitty at taking the smallest inconvenience and I find this more disgusting on a day-to-day basis than I find the bumbling wannabe technocrat mayor.

how fucking long have you lived here?

(my God, the length of my ILX shitlist these days)

a much bigger than anticipated blizzard

last February's was bigger btw

haha the ultimate ny dick measuring contest xp

I need to get the hell out of here and leave the place to the likes of you and the revered tourists who are going to Spiderman

otm

i was in New York just before Christmas for the first time in many months and i was impressed by how shitty everything still is - the appearance of the subway stations, the broken moving sidewalks in JFK, just everything. people like to talk about how different NYC is from the bad old days of the 70s and early 80s, but that old broken badness never really went away, it just got a few coats of expensive veneer painted over it, so the upper crust never had to really notice

also, is NYC really the greenest city in America???? that is a sad comment if so! tell it to bed-stuy!

greenest in that it produces by far the least emissions per capita, not cause it's clean or particularly healthy to live in

ahhhhh i see

the number of parks within walking distance of any random spot you might choose, for instance, is like :(

really iatee, I'm relieved to know that the old rapid snow-cleanup schedule was a gratuitous indulgence on behalf of the arrogant.

yeahhhh queens is esp grim on that measure xp

yeah except I see little evidence that it happened because he had disdain for people (which is why I would have done it fwiw) and significant evidence that it happened because there was a much bigger than anticipated blizzard that surprised everybody including weather forecasters

― iatee, Tuesday, January 11, 2011 5:02 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is absolutely wrong btw

the forecasts were for like a foot + of snow - every other time that amount has been predicted a snow emergency it declared before hand and the streets are cleared - this time bloomberg who will literally not say where he was because he was in bermuda did not do that and the result was a a shut down city for three days and trash piled up for a week - yr idea that demanding the city do its job is some sort of entitlement is plainly inane

and just review the timeline of the media trying to pry an apology out of this fucker if you dont think hes disdainful of the v people he governs

basically iatee's POV is that for paying taxes we are entitled to a good screwing.

stop complaining and put on yr boots its not the billionaires fault ok

http://www.r8ny.com/blog/larry_littlefield/a_surprisingly_severe_storm.html

So I went through the archived "Forecast Discussion" from the NWS, and found the following. As late as Christmas Eve, the storm was expected to basically miss most of the NY metro, excluding eastern Long Island and Connecticut. On Christmas morning, the possibility of a 6 to 9 inch snowstorm was forecast, and a “Winter Storm Watch” was issued. Someone should have been watching, because Christmas afternoon it was suddenly upgraded to a “Blizzard Warning.” It was still expected to be a powerful but not devastating storm in NYC until just after noon on Sunday, the day the storm hit, when the snow accumulation totals were updated. Bottom line: this storm put out more fakes than Michael Vick, so it is no surprise that a stunned city and MTA shanked a punt to Desean Jackson. The four “Forecast Discussions” follow in full: bold and italics were added by me. If you bore easily, just read those parts.

so it wasnt clear it was going to be a big storm until a little before it hit, and no one noticed because it was christmas, OK YOURE ALL OFF THE HOOK ITS CHRISTMAS

NBD CHRISTMAS

I lolled at the press conference that Monday morning where we was all proud that there was hot chocolate at the parks for the kids

its a christmas miracle

folks in cardiac arrest who can't be reached by EMS: NOT ENOUGH PREP TIME

http://gawker.com/5720157/can-you-guess-which-street-is-mayor-bloombergs

in review: for my next trick i will suggest that you are being unreasonable and believe the city is destroyed forever

or rather ambulances (and plows) blocked by people who decided to abandon their cars in the middle of the street, but yeah, believe whatever story works for you xp

I GUESS THAT NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE!

I have to go - but like it or not manhattan sidestreets deserve higher priority than sheepshead bay sidestreets, more people/buses/bikes/cars/delivery vans/etc. are gonna rely on bloomberg's street at any given moment. not true across the board, but in general, yeah, most of manhattan deserves priority.

also really love having "snow emergency" rules that officials don't think make sense, so they don't declare one. Maybe rule changes in July?

or rather ambulances (and plows) blocked by people who decided to abandon their cars in the middle of the street, but yeah, believe whatever story works for you xp

― iatee, Tuesday, January 11, 2011 11:03 AM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol iatee r u just trolling at this point

guys MSP had a huge blizzard, everyone knew it was going to be big, but it was bigger than expected. this is supposed to be the first-class american city for snow removal this side of buffalo and those other lake-effect shitholes. but it still was enough to swamp the place. buses and even the plows themselves were getting stuck. the dome broke, as you may have seen. a college kid died in a house fire because fire crews couldn't get their trucks into those streets. both mpls and st paul declared back-to-back snow emergencies -- that's four days straight of restricted, move-your-car-every-eight-hours bullshit, and it still wasn't enough to clear all streets. there are crews chopping out intersections and bus stops even now.

i have my suspicions why it was so bad this time -- without looking at the books, my guess is the public sector is a little bit less lavish than in previous years about equipment. the cities had to borrow freeway-clearing equipment from the state DOT. so yeah, there's somewhat of a political angle in that political angle in that we ought to have more trucks, meaning $$, meaning taxes.

but you know who i blame really? the snow.

nope, unions

NYC is not comparable to MSP, the venom and hatred help melt the snow here.

lol

like, given the budgets they had, and the systems they had, i dunno what rybak (mpls) or coleman (stp) would or could have done differently. get out in a truck themselves? likewise i dunno what bloomberg could have done except not be a dick in a press conference.

there is a vid of a tow truck pulling a skid loader out of a drift and smashing like three cars tho, so maybe it's a problem of not much institutional or staff preparation for events like this -- the upper midwest deals with this shit so the public knows not to get too frustrated and the plow drivers know wtf they're doing.

xps well glad to know you're doing your part then morbs!

that vid is from NYC i mean

goole, we had essentially the same storm 10 months earlier, and the cleanup speed was night & day-different

well ok then, a hugely lowballed forecast and a holiday seem like the culprits?

in MA (specifically Boston/Cambridge/Somerville) they drastically lowball the budget for snow removal every year and hope they get lucky; odds are something similar happened here

Most sentient adults know advance forecasts can't be trusted (also everyone I knew heard 'blizzard' 24 hrs beforehand), and re holidays this is the City That Never Sleeps.

all the people freaking out sunday morning at the stores buying all the milk and bread knew the deal

oh my god i'll never understand that. fuck!! buy the two most perishable goods there are!! we might be stuck!!

loading up on dairy products in a lactose-intolerant society when you think you're going to be shut in for several days just seems like poor planning no matter what angle you approach it from

maybe they were going to freeze it

lol iatee r u just trolling at this point

reached the point where I don't even know when I'm trolling anymore

Finally - Morbs and Giuliani on the same page -

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/former_mayor_snafu_giuliani_blasts_CSLws3DEAOFv8SVEjJAs7L

there are prob two separate arguments - one based on the mindset where the centrality of travel by car in the culture is completely out of whack, and the other taking that as a given and so based on the status quo and bloomsberg's performance in the face of it

btw, rock salt on the subway stairs today 6 hours before the first flake.

as Jimmy Breslin used to say, "beautiful.'

'WEATHER EMERGENCY' FOR TONIGHT.

“We recognize that we did not do the job that New Yorkers rightly expect of us in the last storm,” Mr. Bloomberg said at a news conference at City Hall.

Bloomie shamed onto same page as everyone else.

plows out in force tonight

“We recognize that we did not do the job that New Yorkers rightly expect of us in the last storm,” Mr. Bloomberg said at a news conference at City Hall.

eh its not exactly 'i didnt declare a snow emergency because i was in bermuda'

oh man it's all plowed, so beautiful

best mayor ever?

yeah, what a medal he gets for taking care of 1/3 of the December snowfall.

I am declaring Iatee Looks Like a Choad Day.

happy iatee looks like a choad day, everyone!

and the VV's cover story on more glorious NYC bang for the buck:

http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-01-12/news/nyc-payroll-computer-system-citytime/#

so psyched to finally have my own day

gonna celebrate by cruisin around shep bay

this truly is a city of dreams

dont rest on yr laurels, keep pushing until morbs gives you a nickname imo

http://www.dnainfo.com/20110120/manhattan/harlem-now-included-plan-legalize-hailing-livery-cabs

so, good for the boroughs vs 'great, more fucking black cabs'?

everyone does this already, but good move regardless

oh man, gypsy cabs and upper manhattan, can't have one w/o the other

sorta seems like it could be a first step in overturning the whole medallion system

I mean at the very least meters + regulation would be a good thing...even though you can already hail one anywhere in the boroughs where there's currently enough of a market, a meter system would presumably increase ridership -> more business -> more coverage?

otoh worst fucking menace on the streets and I don't see anything in this process that would motivate them to drive more sensibly.

i hate hailing black cabs cause i feel like i need to negosh

I take a cab about 1.6 times a year

yeah I only take em to move shit

aw you two are like 2 peas in a pod

<3

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Sustained booing for @mikebloomberg at labor-heavy crowd marking Triangle Shirtwaist fire anniv, @gracerauh says.
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Unfortunately, Bloomberg was blissfully unaware that the tribute was being paid to the workers [[haw haw haw]]

he wants to reopen Triangle Shirtwaist since he suspects a cigarette started the fire

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg intends to eliminate 4,100 teaching jobs through layoffs, city officials said on Friday.

"For your own safety stay in rooms with no or few windows."

DICK!

do you live in a glass house or something? you know what they say, man.

studio, WITH WINDOWS

uh yeah we all have those fyi

I know that you think that every thing that bloomberg/the/ mta city of ny does is 100% just to fuck w/ you, but I mean, if the hurricane does get bad then people probably should attempt to stay away from windows. what do you want him to say? "I am buying a 1br for everyone in the city who lives in a studio" if there's a part of your studio that's further away from windows, you should probably be there. if things go apocalyptic, I dunno hang out in the bathroom.

fwiw I'm also in a studio w/ large windows right now too, outside of nyc but more directly in the hurricane's path

"stay in a room with no windows in your apartment" is just something a guy w/ a panic room and several bunkers says

do you have a bathroom

we have a 2br but there's nowhere away from a window. I guess the "worst" windows are ones facing S or SW? Or does it not work like that?

Morbs, shut the fuck up and get in the bathroom with your Joel McCrea stickers collection.

lol morbs this one is a bit of a stretch

I'm not gonna sleep in the bathroom, iatee, but i recommend you do

that's like... standard hurricane SOP

IN FLORIDA WHERE PPL HAVE HOUSES, YOU HICK

i have to imagine that in the vast jungle of nyc someone, somewhere, has an apartment with two rooms

what are you even complaining about at this point? do you think bloomberg is in some way responsible for the hurricane? do you think he could be doing things he isn't doing right now, if so, what exactly?

an overwhelming majority of residents of new york city do not live in studios, I remember looking at the breakdown somewhere.

what pct live in apts with a windowless room? don't answer.

it may be annoying (i have a 1-bedroom but the living room and kitchen have windows) but it's sensible advice. the mayor of Hoboken recommended the same thing FWIW.

i mean, this is a silly thing to get pissed off with Bloomberg about!

it shows the automatic-pilot elitism, typical of all high-level pols but rather pronounced in him.

this is insane

that we don't have windowless rooms?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kZNjoJePr7A/Th3ja2Q0vbI/AAAAAAAAAKk/EMBry6OaBls/s1600/Housing_by_city.JPG

Yes, but I, for example, am in a tenement 2Br and we have windows in every room.

right but there's still a decision you can make w/r/t which room seems safer

which was basically all bloomberg was saying...

yeah fyi every single government official and broadcaster on the eastern seaboard has said this exact thing in the past 2 days, angrily reviving a thread about one of them because of your political opposition to them is just well it's just almost too morbz

also it's not like there's gonna be some correlation between 'people w/ a room w/ no windows' and 'rich people' - lots of the 'worst' rooms in the city are gonna have no windows and lots of rich people are living in glass-y window-lovin skyscrapers.

OMG Morbs, the "stay in a room with no windows" is also advice they give you in a tornado here in the Midwest, this isn't like something new Bloomberg pulled out of his ass just to piss you off.

http://image.yaymicro.com/rz_512x512/0/76a/angry-old-man-76a051.jpg

if you're so worried about debris flying through your window, then go to a shelter.

really, this is just pissing and moaning for the sake of pissing and moaning.

yeah, reading boilerplate 'Prompter shit from the fuckin' Midwest is another example of Bloomie's expertise.

xxp

Alfred, shouldnt you be picking up teens at the video arcade?

hey let's find an example of an office-holding politician you admire and agree with who has issued this completely standard and logical warning -- oh right n/m

"shall we play a game of donkey dong?"

iatee already said it, but there are plenty of the new yuppie/hedge-funder condos that have tons of windows. this is just basic safety, not another sally in the Class War for Christ's sake.

then again, maybe Dennis Perrin lives in a studio walk-up and can write a suitably angry opinion piece about all of the "clueless" politicos. won't do shit, but hey you gotta keep occupied during the storm amirite?!?

i do like the idea of windowless rooms being the mark of the high class

"i finally knew i had made it when i could sit in a dark, small, windowless room during a tropical storm"

The only windowless room I remember being in, in Brooklyn, was ian j0hns0n's! we smoked some shit.

Perrin lives in Michigan, dilly

also not all rooms w/ windows are the same thing - an older tenement w/ a window to a central shaft area / small courtyard would presumably be less dangerous than a window facing a large open on-the-grid-avenue

i'm not really worried about the windows, but there are two skylights for which the covers don't seem to be very well attached. and the ceiling has leaked before

FIX THAT, BLOOMBERG

what about if you have a window big enough for a cow to be blown through what then

I don't think anyone on ilx lives in staten island

this thread's revival is Exhibit A as to why politicians don't (and shouldn't) try to court the chronic malcontent vote.

I was generally happy with the Democratic Party in 1974-75, fyi

2 years out of a 200+ year run isn't exactly a strong refutation of a charge of chronic malcontentism.

Progressive Era was nice too

so now I'm 200+ yo?

lol i wasn't gonna say

haha yeah

as someone who tends to agree with/defend you, morbs, it's necessary to know precisely what it is you're upset about

4llyz4y is "furious" too, btw, so count yr blessings!

boilerplate 'Prompter shit from the fuckin' Midwest

I know the midwest has a bad rap but don't they know a thing or two about severe wind storms.

it's possible to get pissed at the general "the sky is falling!" alarmism in the media and the government about the hurricane and the moronic behavior of some NY-area residents (all of that is pissing me off, too) and to also get pissed off when someone is getting his nose all bent out of shape over being asked to avoid being next to windows.

what is Bloomberg supposed to say? "i think it's advisable that you stay away from windows ... but hey, if you wanna get cut to ribbons by shards of flying glass or impaled by a telephone poll that's your call"?!?

howbout "For those of you who have windows everywhere..."

your studio sounds pretty nice

if you live in a place with bad hurricane conditions you go stay somewhere else fuckin duh

"avoid basements BUT I LIVE IN A BASEMENT WHAT THE HELL"

PeanutFreeMom Debra Jones-O'Brien
Our town has opened up several emergency shelters for the storm, but I just got us reservations at the Hyatt instead. #Irene
58 minutes ago

"family room, no windows please"

#hurricanechic

Disney World is awesome during a hurricane, I'm told.

mickey maelstrom

i was gonna stay with a friend's family but they're west of me and more in the direct path according to the latest models. i may drive into campus, bring a blanket, some food and water, and stuff to read, park my car in one of the parking garages and ride it out in my pharmacy building, which has fridges, microwaves, lots of places to hide, etc. could be kinda fuckin awesome actually

that sounds insane

you should invite other people and make it a party

whoops meant that for the hurricane thread - anyway yeah we do shit like this sometimes when we have exams and stuff and are in there studying, i know how to work the projectors in the lecture halls so we put basketball or football games on the jumbo screen, order pizza, and study in there

at least you'll have lots of cool drugs to try

back on topic:

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/08/rikers-island-prisoners-irene

just belatedly wanna dip in to say:

The only windowless room I remember being in, in Brooklyn, was ian j0hns0n's! we smoked some shit.

that i always thought ian j0hns0n would be the kinda guy who had a room bong

PeanutFreeMom Debra Jones-O'Brien
Our town has opened up several emergency shelters for the storm, but I just got us reservations at the Hyatt instead. #Irene
58 minutes ago

Damn that is one righteous display name

kinda curious what the financial cost of shutting everything down is.

walking around carroll gardens a couple hours ago almost nothing was open, but the one or two restaurants/bodegas that were were busy. bodega was still pretty stocked, too.

on that measure, we're fairly lucky that it's happening over a weekend

Went out just now to give the dogs a chance to pee. Heard from someone that power to Greenpoint has been cut off.

greenpoint is pretty much all zone b at best it seems

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/nyregion/in-private-bloomberg-backs-christine-quinn-as-successor.html

morbs siren

http://wonkette.com/454037/mayor-bloomberg-on-wall-street-protests-we-need-to-help-the-banks

WHAT THE FUCK, GUY?

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2011/11/3971362/bloomberg-plain-and-simple-congress-caused-mortgage-crisis-not-banks

Taibbi parses that crap, and how Bloomsmug has thrived:

Bloomberg’s main attraction as a politician has been his ability to stick closely to a holy trinity of basic PR principles: bang heavily on black crime, embrace social issues dear to white progressives, and in the remaining working hours give your pals on Wall Street (who can raise any money you need, if you run out of your own) whatever they want.

He understands that as long as you keep muggers and pimps out of the shopping areas in the Upper West Side, and make sure to sound the right notes on abortion, stem-cell research, global warming, and the like, you can believably play the role of the wisecracking, good-guy-billionaire Belle of the Ball for the same crowd that twenty years ago would have been feting Ed Koch.

...the condescension levels here are unbelievable, his air of aristocratic superiority almost breathtaking to behold. Listen to Bloomberg paternally conceding in one breath that it is certainly nice that some struggling people now have homes ("I'm not saying I'm sure that was terrible policy, because a lot of those people who got homes still have them and they wouldn't have gotten them without that"), just before chiding us with the next that there are sometimes negative consequences to doing something that sounds like goodness, like giving people a place of their own to live....

Well, you know what, Mike Bloomberg? FUCK YOU. People are not protesting for their own entertainment, you asshole. They’re protesting because millions of people were robbed, by your best friends incidentally, and they want their money back. And you’re not everybody’s Dad, so stop acting like you are.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/mike-bloombergs-marie-antoinette-moment-20111103

I hate this guy so much.

4 morbs

http://gothamist.com/2012/01/26/mayor_bloombergs_should_never_start.php

I can sense 4llyz4y fuming, in every sense of the word

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2012/04/5728546/bloomberg-not-trying-end-smoking-he-says

mad with nanny power

http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/political_news/162170/mayor-bloomberg-seeks-ban-on-large-sugary-drinks-in-city-eateries

what do we think about this? i'm kind of OK with it tbh

re-elect bloomberg

in Chicago

we already have one

what do we think about this? i'm kind of OK with it tbh

I'm ok with calling people pigs for ordering 20 oz sodas but not making their sale illegal.

The people or the sodas?

Lady Bracknell: Well, both, if necessary, I presume!

John Cole's response

FANTASTIC ad juxtaposition on that post

Bloomberg does know that two 16 ounce cokes equals one 32 ounce supersized coke, right? So what is to stop people from ordering two beverages instead of one?

costs more, for one thing

And why are fruit juices exempt? Does he not realize how much sugar is in your average over the counter orange juice and apple juice- my goodness, they are worse than soda, because with a soda you know you are getting a gut bomb. With fruit juices, you may thing you are drinking healthfully, but you are getting the same amount of sugar as if you were guzzling coke.

all calories aren't created equal - fruit juices are much more nutritious on a per-calorie basis

I heard him say this morning, literally, "we want to make you go to another cup."

btw Big Gulps are still allowable, I understand, bcz 7-11s aren't considered restaurants.

but almost as bad with sugar levels

xpost

I'm working on a study right now that's examining the effect of sugary drink consumption on kids' weight and it's pretty awful. Not that that's surprising, just saying. Anyway, I fully support this.

i'm not familiar with the logistics - though i trust mr. cole is - but i don't see how enforceability is an/the issue, or why that matters. and calling it 'paternalistic' doesn't really appeal to me, but then big-government liberals like me tend to avoid that rhetoric. this seems to pretty much amount to a soda tax

but almost as bad with sugar levels

― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, June 1, 2012 1:55 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xpost

― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, June 1, 2012 1:55 PM (3 minutes ago)

people guzzling 32 ounce orange juices at mcdonalds is a bridge we can cross once we get to it

a tax disproportionately on the poor, now there's a switch.

(I don't want them drinking that shit either, but the man's priorities are monomaniacal)

sorry, guys, this is where my liberal streak really kicks in (fuck calling it a "libertarianism").

Ordinarily I think I'd be totally against something like this but given where I'm working and what on it's sort of hard to be. It's not like someone still can't buy tons of soda but this might deter them or make them think about it even a little bit which can only be a good thing imo.

I'm okay with public schools eliminating soft drinks, PSA's during Cartoon Network, and so on, but I don't want a bored tinpot Ms Grundel setting rules. I mean, education does work. Every conservative I know (i.e. my family) no longer keeps Coke or Pepsi products around the house.

people can still drink soda guys. just not as much

a tax disproportionately on the poor, now there's a switch.

(I don't want them drinking that shit either, but the man's priorities are monomaniacal)

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, June 1, 2012 2:01 PM (3 minutes ago)

this seems better than a straight sugary-drink tax, in that it encourages but doesn't punish moderation. buy a 16 ounce for the same price it always was.

i'm sensitive to regressive taxes like this too, but it's somewhat difficult to avoid when the epidemic you're fighting is so neatly tied to socioeconomic status, as obesity is.

where the hell is iatee

writing speeches for Larouche.

oh c'mon

i think this is kinda dumb, definitely paternalistic, probably pointless. and yet... i don't care too much? don't drink ANY soda, how 'bout that. voluntarily, like.

probably says more about the hyperdense center-of-universe politics of NYC than anything else tho

I think my big question here is "why is soda being treated like a life-giving substance that people need in order to survive?"

Great, I'm going to NY in September and now I have to triple my soda budget.

really dunno why anybody drinks anything in a town where finding a bathroom is a soviet experience

Try bumming a cigarette.

means nothing til they ban bacon too.

what the hell is a soviet experience?

they made Solzhenitsyn hold it for 20 years

lol

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/05/in-defense-of-nanny-bloomberg.html

http://bittman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/limit-soda-for-kids-sake/?src=tp

fucking idiot doesn't know what his job is

http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/164870/mayor--nyclu-does-not--do-anything--to-end-need-for-stop-and-frisks

Soundbite from Bloomturd yesterday on soda-size hearings: "No one is going to stop this."

And next, alcohol:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/25/bloomberg-alcohol-abuse-city-telephone-survey-new-york_n_1701356.html

I guess I was gone volunteering for larouche the first time this came up but the way I'd suggest thinking bout this is let's say a democratic mayor passed a large-soda ban and bloomberg was being lobbied by a buncha soda giants and was trying to reverse the ban. do you really, honestly believe that you would be supporting that in that context?

big gulp-ernment

I want ppl to live as unhealthily as they choose to, and decrease the surplus population.

too bad they burn through all the public health dollars on their way out

(catch the Dickens quote?)

nope

this kinda (very soft) health paternalism is pretty uncontroversial in countries where they accept that there's a social responsibility for health care provision / that maybe free market capitalism won't result in optimal decision making 100% of the time.

I'm all for ppl being healthier, but not nanny statism

democratic socialism inevitably requires something of a 'nanny state'. universal health care is nannystatism.

i feel a lot more comfortable having huge private for-profit beverage corporations dictate the conditions of my soda consumption than representatives of elected government

I know there's irony somewhere in there, max

no way, what is freedom if not making sure that multinational businesses always have more influence than the state

I think what Morbs meant to say is that we don't really care until it affects our alcohol-consuming convenience. Or that could just be me.

as long as mikedolf bloomler stays away from the booze, i'm good with his health agenda.

oh, missed the last revive. anyway this is pretty much otm and echoes one of max's points: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2012/08/13/120813ta_talk_surowiecki

I've been turning this over in my mind for a while, and I just can't help but think there is something deeply wrong with the new campaign to convince mothers to breastfeed, like there's something sick about it. I don't know if I can entirely justify this opinion, other than the fact that I'm a new father and see what a sensitive and difficult issue it is already.

Thanks to the revive, catching up on this thread's back catalog as a recent New York arrival. Holy shit did I LOL over the great "get away from windows during a hurricane" uproar.

i do like the idea of windowless rooms being the mark of the high class

― J0rdan S., Saturday, August 27, 2011 1:42 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"i finally knew i had made it when i could sit in a dark, small, windowless room during a tropical storm"

― J0rdan S., Saturday, August 27, 2011 1:43 PM Bookmark

saw this ad:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7106/7740341158_f6e34f75fa_m.jpg

plastered on the side of a pepsi truck today

fight the power

straight from the NYT homepage:

New York City Approves Ban on Large Sugary Drinks
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM 29 minutes ago
The measure, which bars the sale of sweetened drinks larger than 16 ounces, will take effect in six months unless blocked by a judge.

Panel Decides to Regulate a Circumcision Ritual 2:27 PM ET

read that article morbs

saw this ad:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7106/7740341158_f6e34f75fa_m.jpg

plastered on the side of a pepsi truck today

fight the power

― iatee, Thursday, September 13, 2012 9:32 AM (6 hours ago)

amazing

I've been turning this over in my mind for a while, and I just can't help but think there is something deeply wrong with the new campaign to convince mothers to breastfeed, like there's something sick about it. I don't know if I can entirely justify this opinion, other than the fact that I'm a new father and see what a sensitive and difficult issue it is already.

I haven't seen the specific campaign you're referring to, but as someone who also recently became a father, there is definitely a lot of pro-breastfeeding information presented to you by health authorities and others that you encounter on the road to parenthood. I don't think it was too over the top though I'm sure it annoyed some people. My wife and I intended to breastfeed though for various reasons things didn't work out that way.

xp I saw that sign in spanish, which somehow made it seem even more effective/ridiculous as faux-revolutionary propaganda

is there a thread in which we fight for our beverage choice

brb patenting a hat that holds 4 16 oz. cocaine colars

is there a thread in which we fight for our beverage choice

― dayo, Thursday, September 13, 2012 5:36 PM (22 minutes ago)

this one?

lol

http://i.imgur.com/eGuMm.jpg

LOS BUROCRATAS

speaking truth to power, god bless them

some linda mcmahon shit there

Quinn feelin' like a hundred bucks

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/nyregion/mayor-clinton-bloomberg-asked-her-to-consider-a-run.html?hp

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUGARY_DRINKS_LAWSUIT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-01-23-06-18-52

hmm

the thing is like, i totally get it, and i don't disagree with it completely. but like, i LOVE a jumbo size. i grew up with it. a deli means jumbo size to me. sorry that's just the way it is.

well the goal is for the next generation to not grow up thinking deli means 800 calories of sugar water

i would also get those huge "italian subs" on the reg so u can't go by me

but tbh i would get the jumbo half n half, not soda. altho i'm sure that's illegal now too

itt a strange man asks if you saw the ass on that one

http://nymag.com/news/features/christine-quinn-2013-2/index5.html

Later in the evening, the host interrupted me to point out that the mayor himself had just arrived. Did I want to meet him? Sure. My friend and I followed the host over, shook Bloomberg’s hand, and my friend thanked him for his position on gun control. Without even acknowledging the comment, Bloomberg gestured toward a woman in a very tight floor-length gown standing nearby and said, “Look at the ass on her.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/opinion/when-jim-crow-drank-coke.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/26/nyregion/coke-executives-give-christine-quinns-campaign-9750.html

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/03/11/judge-puts-cap-on-super-sized-soda-ban/]

FREEDOM LIVES IN AMERICA

http://abcnews.go.com/images/Health/abc_starbucks_mi_130311_wblog.jpg

Mary Elizabeth Quinn, left, said she doesn't agree with New York City's regulation of sugary drinks. Megan Guinan, right, supports the city's ban. (image credit: Karen Keller)

http://www.filmindependent.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/run.jpg

http://abcnews.go.com/images/Health/abc_starbucks_mi_130311_wblog.jpg http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39027000/jpg/_39027407_abfab-bbc-203index.jpg

Lol

so awesome, fuck you Granny Mike

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/12/174048623/mississippi-passes-anti-bloomberg-bill?ft=1&f=1128

"If you look at how menus have changed, whether it be in fast food or family dining, you are seeing more and more healthy options," Cashion says. "Not because of legislative mandates or regulatory mandates, but because of consumer demand. Our industry has always been one to respond to the marketplace."

http://www.theonion.com/articles/opposition-to-soda-ban-sad-proof-that-americans-st,31658/

time to start shaming instead I guess

ugh just learned about this, fuck this earth

Deal reached on paid sick leave over opposition of Mayor Whineberg, after Mayor-in-Waiting Pantsuit caves:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/nyregion/deal-reached-on-paid-sick-leave-in-new-york-city.html

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/03/slide-show-nina-bermans-stop-and-frisk-photos.html

http://gothamist.com/2013/03/27/cigarettes_must_cost_at_least_1050.php

also
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/nyregion/bloomberg-expresses-rage-over-failed-plan-for-speed-tracking-cameras.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/nyregion/bloomberg-urges-no-gifts-to-democrats-who-blocked-gun-bill.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/nyregion/bloombergs-final-recycling-frontier-food-waste.html

WOMEN VOTERS FOR CHANGE
nyc

BLOOMBERG: YOUR IDEA STINKS!

I live in a tiny NYC apartment with no room for even a garbage can. I am a senior citizen, and can hardly make it to my garbage room, no less get out of bed with my tired joints.

Now you want me to recycle my scraps of food?

How dare you impose your idea on the sick, dying, and elderly.

ARE YOU GOING TO FINE THOSE WHO ARE TOO OLD SND FEEBLE TO SORT EVEN MORE OF THEIR GARBAGE WHEN THEY HARDLY CAN REMEMBER TO TAKE THEIR MEDS!

SHAME ON YOU BLOOMBERG!

god that nyt article is stupidly framed

go now, please, or just shut the fuck up

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/29/nyregion/bloomberg-says-math-backs-police-stops-of-minorities.html

El Bloombito will now try some monetized blackmail on the City Council:

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/mayor_bloomberg_decides_to_spend_some_money_to_save_stop_and_frisk/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/nyregion/stop-and-frisk-practice-violated-rights-judge-rules.html?hp&_r=2&

boom

this is so infuriating

http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2013/aug/12/homeless-more-lucrative-landlords-their-own-paying-tenants/

60 Clarkson was notorious when I lived in Flatbush. It was def regarded as a "problem building" on that block.

wtf at kumar defending stop and frisk http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/08/why-kal-penn-defending-bloombergs-stop-and-frisk-policy/6539/

he knows that to the extent there are any busts they're gonna be for weed, right

http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/08/18/reshaping-new-york/

http://gothamist.com/2013/08/18/watch_fran_lebowitz_hilariously_psy.php

link above is new video of fran lebowitz as part of the nyt thing--very classic as always on miguelito

Bloomberg is not actually trying to defend the constitutionality of his NYPD’s tactics, because it’s clear that he doesn’t actually care about constitutional policing. He’d have fired Ray Kelly after the RNC if he did. His point is to argue that it’s not racial profiling, because blacks really do commit more crimes, and that racial profiling is necessary, because blacks commit more crimes. See, “it’s not racial profiling” is the thing you say to make white liberals more comfortable with your actual pitch, which is, “we all know racial profiling works.”

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/19/new_york_citys_frisking_twins_meet_the_press/

Now Bloomberg is defending himself with that same logic in a Washington Post guest editorial too:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/michael-bloomberg-stop-and-frisk-keeps-new-york-safe/2013/08/18/8d4cd8c4-06cf-11e3-9259-e2aafe5a5f84_story_1.html

http://www.theonion.com/articles/bloodsoaked-mayor-bloomberg-announces-homelessness,34224/

saw that and thought "Morbius" immediately

coming to a town near you!

I think I will always remember this quote as the quintessential Bloomberg phrasing:

“But look, graffiti does ruin people’s property and it’s a sign of decay and loss of control. Art is art and nobody’s a bigger supporter of the arts than I am. I just think there are some places for art and there are some places [not for] art. And you running up to somebody’s property or public property and defacing it is not my definition of art. Or it may be art, but it should not be permitted. And I think that’s exactly what the law says.

“I am telling you if there is a God, when I get to heaven I’m not stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It’s not even close.”

the big soda ban is dead

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/court-reinstate-york-citys-big-soda-ban-24314227

it's amazing what they were able to keep in the closet about Bloomberg's personal life...he wasn't going to Bermuda every weekend to play golf, if you know what I mean...

he was going to his soda mansion to chug soda

de Blasio backed the ban btw, tsk tsk

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1041458/original.jpg

Still don't get what about the soda ban turned everybody into a libertarian

Too arbitrary.

Suppose a convenience store started a promotion: "Buy a 31 oz. soda and get a free 1 oz. soda with it!" If they put them into two cups, would that violate the ban? Anything that could be so publically ridiculed and circumvented is not ever going to make a good law. It was either empty posturing, or a total failure to foresee its unenforceability.

the point is to make it marginally more difficult to sell massive amounts of soda, not impossible. stores wouldn't give people 1 oz cups of soda because that would look make the store and the consumer look ridiculous, and nobody would actually miss that 1 oz of soda anyway, which is the bigger point.

people just want 'the biggest' and tend to finish what they order they don't have some innate desire to consume 32 oz of something

Wait, what's he doing in Bermuda?

he has dedicated the rest of his life and his entire fortune to studying the bermuda triangle mystery

the point is to make it marginally more difficult to sell massive amounts of soda, not impossible.

bingo! there can't be a compelling state interest to reduce soda consumption, if that interest can be satisfied by a regulation that can't be shown to accomplish anything.

what. this is like arguing against gun regulations because you can kill people with knives. changing peoples behavior by making things marginally more difficult to do is not accomplishing nothing.

this is like arguing against gun regulations because you can kill people with knives.

No. This is like arguing against a regulation on soda because the proposed regulation doesn't actually regulate soda.

changing peoples behavior by making things marginally more difficult to do is not accomplishing nothing.

But there is no requirement here that people change their behavior, only an inference that they might. so, the regulation cannot be shown to accomplish anything. One may infer that it might possibly accomplish something, which is different.

okay I am done talking to you

thinking that there are plenty of stupid laws and that the soda law was one of them doesn't make you a libertarian. the soda law struck me as arbitrary and dumb in the same way you can't buy alcohol on sundays in some states

Wait, what's he doing in Bermuda?

― how's life, Friday, June 27, 2014 1:13 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's amazing what they were able to keep in the closet about Bloomberg's personal life...he wasn't going to Bermuda every weekend to play golf, if you know what I mean...

― Iago Galdston, Friday, June 27, 2014 10:45 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think we all know what it means not to play golf.

ive heard all those whispers, but his gf never seemed like the beardo type

which of these guys is most thrilled to be near the other three?

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-HI513_NYEGAN_H_20150310152901.jpg

at that height is he really near anyone?

Bloomie, fuck you you fuckin fuck

pic.twitter.com/12AwAY2cWA

— Jason Adam Katzenstein (@JasonAdamK) November 7, 2019

I regret to inform you that Mike Bloomberg attempted to shake a dog’s mouth. pic.twitter.com/hKsagJ4xAf

— Christopher J. Hale (@chrisjollyhale) January 28, 2020

icymi

Bloomberg has explicitly argued that “our interpretation of the Constitution” will have to change to give citizens less privacy and the police more power to search and spy on them. In fact, he does not seem to believe that certain people have innate civil rights that the state must respect. If the NYPD wanted to spy on Muslims, even if they lived outside New York City, solely because of their religion or ethnicity, Michael Bloomberg thought it was a great idea. And as Jack Shafer recently pointed out, his dedication to ensuring submission began before he was an elected official—when he was the boss at a company notorious for its tyrannical treatment of employees.

Bloomberg’s three victorious mayoral election campaigns are depressing evidence that a substantial number of Americans are amenable to authoritarian politics and uninterested in protecting civil liberties. So long as the person overseeing the police state claimed to be surveilling people for their own good, it was easy to turn a blind eye, especially if the surveillance was concentrated in certain neighborhoods. ...

https://newrepublic.com/article/156560/michael-bloombergs-polite-authoritarianism

I genuinely don't know if Bernie can win the general, but I feel confident that Bloomberg would lose it. I'm upset by his entry into the race. He's a spoiler.

He is exactly the worst of both worlds -- he will dampen enthusiasm among the democratic base, but he also wants to come after your guns and soda and vape pens.

thread worth reading, this dude is almost as terrible as Trump is

What 2020 Presidential contender said the following?
- "I'd fuck that in a second,"
- "I’d do that piece of meat…”
- “If women wanted to be appreciated for their brains they’d go to the library instead of to Bloomingdale’s”
- Called women: “fat broads” & “horse-faced lesbian.”

— Sarah (@sarah_in_ny) February 12, 2020

he also wants to come after your guns and soda and vape pens spy on yr Muslim ass.

I don’t like to dunk on my short kings (hell I’m barely 5’9”) but fuck this elf

What "unlimited resources" buys you:

Trump was in rare form during his post-acquittal speech. pic.twitter.com/jq8NTTn5yd

— Team Bloomberg (@Mike2020) February 6, 2020

this asshole is in my state today and apparently a lot of prominent Dem politicians here are backing him. clap real good for Daddy Mike and maybe he'll toss you a tasty million or two bucks as a treat.

These people do not have the poster’s spirit. They’ve dishonored themselves and our noble profession https://t.co/uvfo7VthFD

— Sweetie in chief (@InternetHippo) February 13, 2020

https://scontent-bos3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/85201041_10158054592688328_2214866749956816896_o.jpg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_ohc=MfguhyMlcZgAX_hjorl&_nc_ht=scontent-bos3-1.xx&oh=7a02d78962925d95a5760acfe43c4d02&oe=5EBDC401

"5'4" mass of dead energy." Say what you will about Trump, but his game is still strong.

wishing for an asteroid for each of em

from that list of Bloomberg quotes

"If I were a woman, I would wear high heels."

of course you would, dude, you're super short and probably have considered it anyway

Trump otm?

I'm not sure I would actually vote if Bloomberg was the nominee? I guess I would because of the Supreme Court, but there is a 50-50 chance Bloomberg selects a Federalist Society ghoul anyway.

Actually I doubt that. He's a Republican at heart, but he's not a FedSoc Republican.

bloomberg > trump just for the climate stuff. but yeah

I will of course show up at the polls for him if it comes to that. Hell, I'd canvass for him if he was the nom, but does he even have volunteers? I feel like he probably just has an army of Boston Dynamics robots that go door to door for him.

to posit the possibility of a Bloomberg nomination is defeatism, you pikers

God, Trump would clown Bloomberg in a debate so bad. People that don't know Bloomberg well should check out clips of him doing dumbass everyday political stuff like opening a sports arena or honoring someone famous. He is so bad at that shit and has no charisma.

pic.twitter.com/Iy4yvGBOJw

— Garf Gab (@GarfieldFanArt) February 13, 2020

Bloomberg is a remarkably poor public speaker. if he actually has to start talking his numbers will tank harder than Biden's

I didn't have much exposure to his speaking voice until recently but he really does have that patrician, speaking-down-his-nose-at-the-plebes tone nailed down.

bloomberg's 'actually, rich new yorkers are laughing at you' is exactly why people fucking vote for trump

Wait till you hear him speak Spanish

https://twitter.com/ElBloombito

BOOMberg

Bloomberg at his second event today in NC: Trump “calls me little Mike. My answer is Donald, where I come from we measure height from the neck up.”

Would imagine that Trump is taller by that measure also

My answer is Donald, where I come from we measure height from the neck up.

God, I hate bullies and I want to give Bloomberg a wedgie.

it's interesting to see Trump spend his energy attacking the guy he'd have the easiest time beating while defending the person most likely to defeat him but that's how his brain works.