• youmaynotknow@lemmy.zip
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    24 hours ago

    This guy keeps proving me wrong about not liking him. Good stuff. I love being wrong when its beneficial to citizens of wherever. And he seems to be the one politician in the US actually doing something good, who would have thought?

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      23 hours ago

      Curious, why didn’t you like him? I live on the complete opposite side of the country, so I’m pretty far removed, but everything I’ve heard about him has been positive.

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        22 hours ago

        During his campaign he made, like any other fucking politician, many promises that were unhinged for anyone that knows anything on how the government infrastructure works at the federal, state and city levels, and of course that made me instantly put him together with the rest of the politicians. Don’t get me wrong, the other 2 candidates were infinitely worse, no discussion there. As expected, when he won, and took office, he had to pedal back on some of those promises. However, as I said, I AK happy for New Yorkers to see that I was wrong about the guy, as he keeps surprising me in the best way possible. Now, make no mistake, he is still a politician, and I hold absolutely no faith in any of them, left, right, center, up or down. But the guy is, by miles, the best official in any seat in the US right now. I also like Kennedy from Texas, but for entirely different reasons. The guy is a solid attorney and will destroy his opponents with facts, even if he doesn’t like the facts himself. Again, he is a politician, so I’m sure he’s full of shit too, but it is fun to see him perform though. Full disclosure, I’m jot from NY, but I would certainly like a mayor in my city like Mandani, ours is a fucking moron that can’t tell chocolate from shit 😒

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          When everyone else plays dirty, you also have to just to keep up. It doesn’t excuse it but it explains why there’s a cycle of lies that never ends.
          If you don’t play dirty, you won’t get elected and don’t have the chance to do actual good. So in this climate I’d take someone who lies but then actually does good any day.