Comrade De Blasio Takes Over (2nd Detroit)

[American_Jihad]

Bill de Blasio’s Red Apple Agenda

February 11, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield

The further left a radical politician wants to go, the more likely he is to wrap his agenda in a mainstream Republican brand. In his interview with Bill O’Reilly, Obama compared himself to Nixon (not for the reason most Republicans would expect) and in his State of the City address, Bill de Blasio compared himself to Fiorello H. La Guardia; a former Republican mayor of New York City.

The constant mentions of La Guardia, a universally popular figure, were a poor mask for a radical address filled with ugly divisive rhetoric, class warfare and schemes that will bankrupt the city.

If William Wilhelm Jr., aka Bill de Blasio, had been more honest, he would have compared himself to Mayor Dinkins, his old boss, who was sitting in the audience, while the first Democratic mayor since the end of the disastrous Dinkins era unveiled a package of class warfare, high taxes and ID’s for illegal aliens.

But Dinkins, despite being almost as friendly with Al Sharpton as De Blasio, was a moderate compared to Red Bill whose State of the City address was another call for a Red Apple. For all his many shortcomings, Dinkins had never embraced divisive rhetoric to the same extent that Bill de Blasio did in his address.

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With his first State of the City address, Bill de Blasio had demonstrated that he had nothing to offer working people. His address was full of goodies for gang members, illegal aliens and welfare voters. It had nothing to offer New Yorkers except more crime, taxes, bankruptcy and the fast lane to Detroit.

Bill de Blasio?s Red Apple Agenda | FrontPage Magazine

 

[American_Jihad]

Al Roker Eviscerates NY City Mayor De Blasio Via Twitter​

"Mr. Mayor, I could never run NYC, but I know when it's time to keep kids home from school."

2.13.2014 |Jeff Dunetz |

On Thursday the East Coast faced with a severe snowstorm that led many public officials across the affected area to advise people to avoid the danger and stay indoors. As has been his practice since he took office a month ago, NY City Mayor de Blasio refused to cancel school, leading NBC's weatherman Al Roker, who was in Russia covering the Olympics, to attack the Mayor via twitter.

Al Roker ✔ @alroker
Follow Why are schools all around NYC closed? It's going to take some kid or kids getting hurt before this goofball policy gets changed 8:43 AM - 13 Feb 2014

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Al Roker Eviscerates NY City Mayor De Blasio Via Twitter | Truth Revolt

 

[theDoctorisIn]

what i don't get.....why does the NY Dept. of Sanitation have a pastor/chaplain.....?

Preachin' the gospel of big government to union thugs?

must be....calling NYC a "plantation" fits the bill to get the workers vote....

always amazing how the commie left will use religion when it suits their purposes...but i still don't get how they justify a paid chaplain in the Department of Sanitation....

They are a "uniformed force", just like the NYPD and FDNY.

"New York's Strongest".

 

[Rozman]

It's not just De Blasio.
Seems like he is sharing the office with his wife.
Apparently she is going to govern with him.

 

[American_Jihad]

Bill de Blasio Chooses Teachers’ Union Over Black Parents

March 6, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield

Liberals always talk about education spending as “investing money in our kids”. Especially when it comes to minority kids.

That’s how William Wilhelm Jr. aka Bill de Blasio is selling his tax hike. But Bill de Blasio, like the rest of the left, puts educational unions first and minority parents last.

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But this is what Bill de Blasio, his incompetent henchwoman Carmen Farina and their teachers’ union backers want.

They don’t want to see these kids educated. They want to feed them into the educational bureaucracy and then the social services bureaucracy so they will have no options except to be dependent and helpless.

The article comments from ordinary New Yorkers, including one of the parents mentioned in the article, are also revealing.

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This is the Democratic (as in party) way. Forget about the individual and just think of the group. Individuals get hurt and every individual gets averaged down to a group result. The lowest common denominator..

Bill de Blasio Chooses Teachers? Union Over Black Parents | FrontPage Magazine

 

[American_Jihad]

De Blasio’s War on Minority Education

March 13, 2014 by Arnold Ahlert

One of the biggest challenges to the miserable status quo of public school education is taking place in New York City. On one side are progressives like Mayor Bill De Blasio, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, and NAACP President Hazel Dukes. Along with their allies in city government and the teachers’ unions, they want to keep city children, especially minority children, in the failing, Democrat-run public school prison. On the other side are the advocates of school choice and charter schools that have provided poor minority students with superior educations that threaten the status quo. Their champion is Eva Moskowitz and her Success Academy Charter Schools. The former group embraces enduring mediocrity at best, and outright failure at worst. The latter group embraces hope and change.

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De Blasio didn’t stop with Moskowitz. Since becoming Mayor, he cut off funding for all charter school construction that was to occur after 2015, and announced a “moratorium” on co-locating charters in existing schools. He is also looking for a way to roll back 25 of those co-locations that were already approved for next year. Ten of them involve Success Academies. He did all of this despite the reality that there is a waiting list of 50,000 New Yorkers determined to get their kids in charter schools. A lottery process that literally determines the city’s educational winners and losers.

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Why do progressives resist anything and everything that challenges the educational status quo? Because the public school system is the central battleground in the fight for the nation’s soul, and they have dominated that battlefield for decades. It is a domination so enduring that millions of Americans have actually resigned themselves to the idea that there is no real alternative to the dismal graduation rates, massive achievement gaps, social dysfunction, rigid allocation of school student distribution, violence and the vice-like grip of unions that progressives and their political allies have foisted on the nation.

And despite all protests to the contrary, or phony speeches about caring for the children, that’s exactly how progressives like it. Failure–and the dependency it almost invariably engenders–accrues to the interests of a political ideology that needs certain levels of enduring dependency to maintain its power. High-achieving minority children from underprivileged families who not only challenge that dependency, but the power of education unions and Democratic politicians who abet it, are as threatening as it gets.

De Blasio?s War on Minority Education | FrontPage Magazine

 

[mamooth]

The most interesting part of watching this disaster unfold will be the inevitable excuses for failure that liberals will devise.

I thought I'd resurrect this hilarious conservative fail thread, being how NYC just reported that 2016 saw the lowest crime rate in its recorded history.

New York City Major Crimes Fall to Lowest Recorded Level

Don't you all feel really stupid now, Deblasio-haters? I mean, stupid-er. It's a given you always feel stupid. Or at least you should.

Bri, are you especially proud to have been proven to be so completely wrong? Go on. Cry some more about how "liberal policies fail!".

It's not just the liberal success that upsets the thugs here so much. It's also the fact that minorities stopped getting abused so much. Nothing upsets authoritarian thugs like Bri more than knowing that those uppity minorities aren't being stomped on and put in their proper place.