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dutch777

(3,292 posts)
1. Yeah, but Trump was elected by the whole country so Sliwa in NYC doesn't seem impossible
Tue Jun 22, 2021, 09:08 PM
Jun 2021

Sadly the bar is now so low, you maybe can't find it. Luckily I think Adams, Yang and others have a more certain track.

no_hypocrisy

(48,084 posts)
2. NYC republicans are not MAGAts. Curtis isn't one of them.
Tue Jun 22, 2021, 09:11 PM
Jun 2021

Plus Curtis won't attract cross-over votes from Independents and Democrats.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
6. Ahem. Former Fascist Guy was NOT ever elected. He won the scam/ratfucking. But yeah, he,
Tue Jun 22, 2021, 10:54 PM
Jun 2021

his enablers and cultists did set the bar into negative territory.

tulipsandroses

(5,833 posts)
3. Probably won't win Mayor of NY. But he sounds like the ideal GOP. presidential candidate
Tue Jun 22, 2021, 09:12 PM
Jun 2021

You forgot all the hoaxes/made up shit he pulled off as a crime fighting vigilante

Princess Turandot

(4,814 posts)
5. We've had odder mayoral candidates in the past..
Tue Jun 22, 2021, 10:44 PM
Jun 2021

Like this screwball. (Tweet from 2016.)




And no. I don't think that Sliwa expects to be mayor!

choie

(4,382 posts)
7. Did we think trump could be elected?
Tue Jun 22, 2021, 10:55 PM
Jun 2021

Nothing would surprise me anymore. However as a NYCer I trust we have more sense.

3Hotdogs

(13,136 posts)
8. But did you catch his campaign launch, the one where he burned his hand,
Wed Jun 23, 2021, 12:01 AM
Jun 2021

trying to set a Rona mask on fire ?

To quote the great 20th century philosopher, 3Hotdogs: "Stupid is as stupid is."

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