Just when you thought New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio couldn’t be any more out-of-touch and awful … along he comes to exceed expectations:
Our city is directly confronting a crisis that is driving working New Yorkers into poverty and our streets into gridlock. The unchecked growth of app-based for-hire vehicle companies has demanded action – and now we have it.
— Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) August 8, 2018
More than 100,000 workers and their families will see an immediate benefit from this legislation. And this action will stop the influx of cars contributing to the congestion grinding our streets to a halt.
— Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) August 8, 2018
I want to thank @NYCSpeakerCoJo and Council Member @StephenLevin33 for their leadership on this issue, and the entire @NYCCouncil for standing up for working people. I look forward to signing these bills into law.
— Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) August 8, 2018
Of course you look forward to it, you twit.
Bill de Blasio does.
— Ryan (@alwaysonoffense) August 8, 2018
Easier than fixing the subway, I guess. https://t.co/AeFQrXVO5m
— Eric Spencer (@JustEric) August 8, 2018
This was a long way to say “I’m trying to get yellow cab unions to like me.” https://t.co/Yrbmen32n6
— Ben (@BenHowe) August 8, 2018
Thank god, it’s easier for cab drivers to openly discriminate again. Power to the people. https://t.co/Y4AlDNOjJI
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) August 8, 2018
Alternate title: We progressives want to support large corporate interests over individuals. https://t.co/d8TKEynZO6
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) August 8, 2018
I'm confused.
Aren't Uber / Lyft drivers also "working people?" https://t.co/3lxn02JOkh
— RBe (@RBPundit) August 8, 2018
Guess they don’t count.
And you've "solved" it by taking away the income of working class people who are driving cars they own that were already on the streets anyway. You sold out to the cab companies, unions and lobbyists… again. https://t.co/skxXHRMKyA
— Jazz Shaw (@JazzShaw) August 8, 2018
Keep killing innovation and supporting failure you thief.
— Chase The Cat (@ChaseTheCat83) August 8, 2018
You literally caved to a taxi monopoly and told the free market "screw you".
Why are you so bad at economics? You don't want competition, and in turn better prices for consumers?
— Mark Rubello (@MarkRubello) August 8, 2018
Yeah, screw technology everybody uses and likes because it works. https://t.co/B9fekNR9NM
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) August 8, 2018
the critical thing, as the subway crumbles, is to give New Yorkers fewer ways to get around the city
got it https://t.co/FzLDUjZgh8
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) August 8, 2018
The captain of the Titanic surveys his sinking ship and decides the upholstery is ugly https://t.co/QDCJibCtT7
— Big Pickle Energy (@sunnyright) August 8, 2018
Pretty much.
This … is Bill de Blasio.
What a douchebag. https://t.co/WsYJkn54sP
— Nathan the Wurtzelhearted (@NathanWurtzel) August 8, 2018
