New York City Mayor Eric Adams is correct in one sense — when people see the city, it means something to them. What exactly that something is isn’t necessarily good. Now Kansas … Kansas doesn’t have a brand. Kansas needs to get its public relations people on the job and working on a brand for the state. (Side note: The first time this editor visited NYC, there was a souvenir shop in Penn Station selling a T-shirt with a picture of a gun pointed at the viewer and the line, New York … It Ain’t Kansas. It was a cool shirt.)
NYC MAYOR ADAMS: "New York has a brand, and when people see it, it means something. […] Kansas doesn't have a brand." pic.twitter.com/9ER7L3PbnX
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 27, 2022
I’m just here for the replies pic.twitter.com/E25nuRHsWy
— Alex Schroeder (@AlexS1898) September 27, 2022
NYC has a brand.https://t.co/nBIddIoCol
— Ed Gallagher (@ejgallagher1) September 27, 2022
Welcome to NYC subway under Adams brand. pic.twitter.com/T0j7lNRCw2
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) September 27, 2022
An NYC man pummeled a woman in a subway station.
The man had 7 prior arrests and killed his grandmother in the 1990s.
Woke prosecutors and politicians let this man be on the streets. pic.twitter.com/rK4AZy8puk
— Andrew Pollack (@AndrewPollackFL) September 27, 2022
Being beaten on the subway or being pushed onto the tracks seems to be part of New York’s brand, along with violence against Jews and Asians.
https://twitter.com/vjeannek/status/1574836387349762069
Yeah, a brand that now says, “if you wear a NYC shirt in NYC, you’ll probably get robbed of that shirt, you wallet & your cell phone.” Kansas does not have that “brand”
— SeldenGADawgs (@SeldenGADawgs) September 27, 2022
I live in Kansas. We do have a brand. It’s things like our people not taking a shit on a sidewalk or a cop car. Little “brand things” like that.
— metlman (@metlman) September 27, 2022
NY's brandhttps://t.co/dADSBqUgdb
— Captain Ahab (@SeaCaptainAhab) September 27, 2022
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New York Brand: "We all move to Florida to get away from this overpriced, dangerous dumpster fire."
— 𝐒𝐚𝐦 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐩𝐞𝐫 🇺🇸 (@woodhull_abe) September 27, 2022
Have him point to Kansas on a map…
— LisetteInBlue💫 (@bookgirl8) September 27, 2022
Kansan here, I would rather be homeless in the heartland than own a home in the cesspool that New York has become. Not even a hard choice.
— Shaentao NeVyn (ask me what it means 😊) (@Shaentao) September 27, 2022
Kansas has Wizard of Oz, you have Escape from New York. Your brand is not as alluring as you think.
— Darth Phazon #EndTheMCU (@DarthPhazon) September 27, 2022
Robbery and homicide is its brand
— Wyatt (@PatriotW98) September 27, 2022
Nothing like living with the potential to be pushed on the tracks at any moment
— Vote Third Party No Matter Who (@Platinumflyer1) September 27, 2022
I mean "Ya Might Get Shoved into a Subway" barely fits on a bumper sticker, but there they are.
— FNU LNU (@prosqtor) September 27, 2022
I’ve been to NYC many times. It has a brand all right… and they can keep it.
— Charles Snyder (@Navarre_Charlie) September 27, 2022
I won’t be violently attacked in Kansas, and if I am the thug will actually be prosecuted.
I like that brand. @NYCMayor @AlvinBraggNYC
— Mimi (@MadMimi3) September 27, 2022
New York’s brand is a dumpster fire
— living the Jeep life (@asmith9011) September 27, 2022
Wheat, sunflowers and common sense. Yes, Kansas has a brand. And it's frankly a pretty good one.
— Austin Draude (@radiodraude) September 27, 2022
My Kansas brand: view from my 3 bedroom house on 1/2 acre. $980/month mortgage. pic.twitter.com/kg9PFUUwml
— Tod Edmonds (@Ttownmule) September 27, 2022
come at us bro pic.twitter.com/Jv5qDi534a
— gracey ✨ (@starryeyedg) September 27, 2022
I believe Kansas’s brand is “We are not New York.”
— Exiled Appalachian (@SocialExilety) September 27, 2022
That’s precisely it. Kansas is where you go to get as far away from the New York experience as possible.
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Sounds like Mayor Eric Adams is seeking revenge on Greg Abbott for daring to send migrants to sanctuary city of New York https://t.co/eZdnJhTEgv
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 9, 2022