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Is New York’s New Mayor De Blasio Really a Lefty or Just Another Progressive Poseur?
This Can't Be Happening! ^ | January 6, 2014 | Dave Lindorff

Posted on 01/10/2014 10:18:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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So this guy is worried the new mayor's not as far left as we think he is?
1 posted on 01/10/2014 10:18:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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He is a self proclaimed communist, what more do we need to know?


2 posted on 01/10/2014 10:24:38 PM PST by doc1019
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That photo of Kaiser Wilhelm taken in 1988 is rather shocking, he looks like a hippie from 1968. They can shave off their beards, take a bath and put on a suit and tie, but they’ll still be the same Communist totalitarian pig underneath.


3 posted on 01/10/2014 10:25:09 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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bump


4 posted on 01/10/2014 10:27:05 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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Well, given his history (big contributor to publications like Counterpunch, Salon and The Nation) . . .



Another one of his wacky pieces: Global Warming will save America from the Right … eventually
5 posted on 01/10/2014 10:28:32 PM PST by Olog-hai
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This writer obviously thinks the way he does due to white privilege.


6 posted on 01/10/2014 10:52:15 PM PST by oblomov
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I think it was really smart of him to not ask Ray Kelly(Effective Police Commissioner)how to effectively control the city and poll prisoners and ex-cons on how to do so. No sarcasm here. I can’t see Bratton lasting long.


7 posted on 01/10/2014 11:08:42 PM PST by o-n-money
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He is a self proclaimed communist, what more do we need to know?

He is not the only one.

As of today, the second most powerful job in the city, Speaker of the City Council, traditionally a check on the power of the Mayor, has gone to Melissa Mark-Viverito, amid reports of unusual strongarm techniques by Mayor de Blasio to get her the job.

One of the founders of the Progressive Caucus on the city council, Melissa Mark-Viverito’s entire career has been devoted to the hard left and International Communists.

She took a leadership role in efforts to release the “Cuban Five”, intelligence operatives of the Cuban Government who infiltrated the Cuban Exile group Brothers to the Rescue.

She actively lobbied for the pardon and release of the FALN terrorists responsible for the Faunce’s Tavern bombing – the largest terrorist attack in the USA before the Oklahoma City attack.

She was coordinator of the movement Todo Nueva York con Vieques (All New York with Vieques – to get the US Navy out of that Puerto Rican training area), and president of Mujeres del Barrio (Women of the Ghetto)

She had previously been a paid organizer for the hard left SEIU labor union, and a union paid for her trip to Ecuador in 2009 to help Marxist candidate Evo Morales in his recount effort to take power in that country.

She is a total Communist, and she was elected unanimously. No one dared to diverge from party discipline in the City Council today. The party seems firmly in the control of the Bolshevik wing.

They may spend a few more weeks consolidating power and packing operatives into top positions, but soon the disastrous policies will begin to emerge, and those who can will begin the flight of brains and capital out of the City. The political old guard got the message today – with party discipline that would fit right in, downtown in Pyongyang.

They will bankrupt the treasury, enrich their cronies, tax the productive, swell the welfare rolls, corrupt the justice system and compromise or completely destroy the anti-terrorist capabilities of the NYPD.

We have had such subversives in Government before, but now they are at the top of the ticket.


8 posted on 01/10/2014 11:16:08 PM PST by BeauBo
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The Circus Train has crashed


9 posted on 01/10/2014 11:17:32 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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Leftist, Progressive, communist. All the same thing, Dave.


10 posted on 01/10/2014 11:29:10 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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If Blaz takes this advice, the new headquarters of all those evil Wall Street wolves will be Hoboken.


11 posted on 01/10/2014 11:34:37 PM PST by Argus
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Tell him not to worry, DeBlasio’s a communist. And from what I read today he strong armed the City Council to put his gal in as Speaker (I think that’s the title, too lazy to double check). She’s a commie too.

Good luck NYC!


12 posted on 01/10/2014 11:43:55 PM PST by jocon307
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Let's just cut to the chase, Blasio is a flaming Communist.
13 posted on 01/10/2014 11:52:44 PM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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I cut too far to the chase: DeBlasio is a flaming Communist (can't misspell his name).
14 posted on 01/10/2014 11:58:34 PM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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There is no question but that New York’s new mayor, Bill De Blasio, owes his landslide victory in the November election to the Occupy Movement.

This typist pinned the idiot meter with his first sentence.

The Occupy Movement has affected absolutely nothing except the stores that went out of business because of the smelly hippies sleeping on their doorstep.

De Blasio is mayor because he was the most leftist candidate in a city that is 80% lefty and too stupid to remember all the way back to the Dinkins years.

15 posted on 01/10/2014 11:59:39 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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he can promise them plenty of PortaPotties

Don't need them.


16 posted on 01/11/2014 12:01:29 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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This article had to be written. It is standard procedure to inoculate the left from their failures by claiming that they were not lefty enough. Recent examples include the claim that the stimulus was not large enough, that the Obamacare is not single payer, hence the problems, and solar subsidies are too small.

In 2-3 years when New York returns to it's former crap-hole status before Giuliani, they will be able to claim it is because Blasio wasn't a true progressive. Just standard procedure, nothing to see here.

17 posted on 01/11/2014 1:34:27 AM PST by BRK
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Here again we see word gymnastics to cover reality. Left you say, why can’t you call him what he really is - a dyed in the wool communist?


18 posted on 01/11/2014 3:50:48 AM PST by iontheball
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So they are basically a slightly-harder-Left version of the Administration in Washington.

Unsurprising, really.


19 posted on 01/11/2014 4:35:57 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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"He is a self proclaimed communist, what more do we need to know?"

That is ALL I need to know.
No trips to the big apple fer this ole country boy.
OK I never planned any trips there anyway.

20 posted on 01/11/2014 4:40:15 AM PST by DeaconRed (GOD: Please send us one more Ronald Reagan. Soon. Thanks Deacon Red. PS It ain't Christie. . .)
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