Fool Me Once

I selected this item outlining how New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo shanked their drive yesterday when they set an 11 PM curfew for all five boroughs of NYC, although there were dozens of others to read to see the cluelessness unfold.

When your own city council finds out about the curfew from Twitter, you've demonstrated that your leadership is, shall we say, "lacking." DeBlasio especially has shown throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and now the unrest and rioting that's taken over from substantive protests that he just does not have what it takes to run...well, anything.

It's tempting to blame New Yorkers for having made their own problems by electing DeBlasio, although I don't know that even his most ardent detractors could have believed he -- or anybody -- could do such a lousy job. Sure, they did re-elect him in 2017 but he had only shown himself, to paraphrase Miracle Max, to mostly suck rather than completely suck. Now he's covered that base.

Mayors can't run for a third term in New York, unless the city council tries to pull another fast one. Even DeBlasio has shown enough sense to not try to run again, although he was delusional enough to run for president in the Democratic primary. There were only two people in the entire nation who wanted him to be the Democratic nominee: DeBlasio himself and the incumbent, President Donald Trump. Had my former fellow Dems nominated DeBlasio, the president could basically have taken the rest of the campaign off.

In any event, if Mayor DeBlasio changes his mind and decides that the city needs a third term with his hand at the wheel, then New Yorkers would have the chance to return him to office. Then they would deserve all the blame and no sympathy whatsoever, because they knew exactly what the man they were voting for could do well -- Ye Olde Bupkis -- and what he could do poorly -- Ye Olde Everything Else.