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De Blasio: Glass skyscrapers ‘have no place on our Earth’
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Posted on 04/23/2019 3:53:42 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

De Blasio: Glass skyscrapers ‘have no place on our Earth’

By Julia Marsh, Carl Campanile and Ruth Brown

April 22, 2019 | 10:28pm | Updated

Yabba-dabba-don’t.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is preparing to take New York City back to the stone age — by making “glass and steel” skyscrapers extinct.

Still flirting with a run for president, the mayor held an Earth Day press conference on Monday to announce his plan to fight climate change with a “Green New Deal” — including a bill designed to eliminate new glass-fronted towers from the city skyline.

“We are going to introduce legislation to ban the classic glass and steel skyscrapers that have contributed so much to global warming,” de Blasio said.

“They have no place in our city or our Earth anymore.”

Despite Hizzoner’s insistence on repeatedly using the word “ban,” he later admitted his legislation would actually just tighten the city’s energy code to make it prohibitively expensive to develop glassy high-rises.

“It’s literally going to be a much higher standard and the only way that kind of design would even be acceptable is with a whole host of other changes were made to compensate because those buildings were inherently very inefficient,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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And today's stupid award goes to............
1 posted on 04/23/2019 3:53:42 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

There is no place on earth for corrupt, leftist politicians either.


2 posted on 04/23/2019 3:56:07 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Can a Mayor be recalled, or removed due to mental instability?


3 posted on 04/23/2019 4:00:49 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Wilhelm’s idea of the perfect NYC


4 posted on 04/23/2019 4:04:29 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Is there a contest to see who can come up with the dumbest proposal in this country? So far, this one is way ahead


5 posted on 04/23/2019 4:04:55 AM PDT by kempster
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To: jerod

Villhem is first in the crazy line today!


6 posted on 04/23/2019 4:05:07 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in. ...like yesterday!!!)
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To: jerod

The majority of NYC are buttwipes. They like him


7 posted on 04/23/2019 4:05:33 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Sub-Driver
He's a pimp. Anything for votes. Used to be political leaders actually would ....... lead. Now they do no more than parrot their constituent's predilections, no matter how idiotic or vile.

And the USA is now dictated to by low information, illiterate voters who can't even compose a legible sentence. They are the reason we wind up with cleaning ladies and ex bartenders in Congress.

8 posted on 04/23/2019 4:05:52 AM PDT by LouAvul (Freedom without responsibility is chaos. Next step? The Abyss.)
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To: kempster

That was going to be my second comment on this thread! You beat me to it! I swear, there has to be a contest. And I do believe it’s weekly


9 posted on 04/23/2019 4:06:46 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in. ...like yesterday!!!)
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So... where would NYC businesses relocate to and what infra-structure would it need to maintain its status quo?

Rail access, deep water port, robust granite foundation...

Wouldn’t be easier to apply a new mayor or perhaps a CEO appointed by a select board of directors? Do cities even need mayors?


10 posted on 04/23/2019 4:07:20 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Sub-Driver

The muzzies thought the same thing on 9/11.


11 posted on 04/23/2019 4:08:40 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Oh, he won.

No question about it.


12 posted on 04/23/2019 4:09:49 AM PDT by sauropod (Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Are there term limits for that job?


13 posted on 04/23/2019 4:10:41 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Sub-Driver

Just when you thought these idiots couldn’t possibly get any stupider, this is your leader?


14 posted on 04/23/2019 4:13:25 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: Sub-Driver

Waiting until he proposes demolishing the entire NYC area and building it to his standards...including the development of the former JFK, and LaGuardia airports, since air travel will no longer exist!


15 posted on 04/23/2019 4:13:26 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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Yes this clown is just a hopeless a-hole but the world has always had them. The problem is the largest city in the country elected him mayor..twice.


16 posted on 04/23/2019 4:15:00 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Sub-Driver
The Mayor's new residence is ready for occupancy...


17 posted on 04/23/2019 4:16:49 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: jughandle

The mayor wants to bring back thatched huts and horse drawn buggies. What a tool.


18 posted on 04/23/2019 4:16:54 AM PDT by tom paine 2
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To: tom paine 2

Or blue tarpped homeless tents. Oh wait. They already have them.


19 posted on 04/23/2019 4:20:32 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: Sub-Driver

SPJNK.


20 posted on 04/23/2019 4:21:07 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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