{"id":1235,"date":"2020-06-04T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bill-de-blasios-singing-imagine-while-his-citys-in-flames\/"},"modified":"2020-06-04T03:52:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T00:52:00","slug":"bill-de-blasios-singing-imagine-while-his-citys-in-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bill-de-blasios-singing-imagine-while-his-citys-in-flames\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bill de Blasio\u2019s singing \u2018Imagine\u2019 while his city\u2019s in flames"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Bill de Blasio\u2019s singing \u2018Imagine\u2019 while his city\u2019s in flames<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Bill de Blasio\u2019s mayoralty died Wednesday, finally succumbing to lengthy, multiple comorbidities of laziness, entitlement, delusions of grandeur and an inability to live in reality.<\/p>\n

He will be remembered as the worst mayor ever to govern New York City.<\/p>\n

Despite a long track record of failures \u2014 from actively contributing to a crumbling educational system and a staggering increase in homelessness, not to mention a laughably quixotic run for president of the United States \u2014 it was de Blasio\u2019s surrender of New York City to looters, rioters, vandals and criminals who brazenly, repeatedly assaulted police officers that killed off his legacy.<\/p>\n

In his final hours, in a boarded-up New York City, de Blasio rhapsodized over John Lennon\u2019s \u201cImagine\u201d at a press conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t mean to make light of this, but I\u2019m reminded of the song \u2018Imagine\u2019 by John Lennon,\u201d he said. \u201cWe played it at my inauguration. I think everyone who hears that song in its fullness thinks about a world where people got along differently. . . . About a world where we didn\u2019t live with a lot of the restrictions that we live with now.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was unclear if de Blasio was referring to the nightly curfews his constituents have routinely violated or the pandemic-induced quarantining that city residents shook off, en masse, to protest the death of George Floyd, but reaction on Twitter<\/a> \u2014 the often fatal arbiter of a career\u2019s life or death \u2014 was vicious.<\/p>\n

A sampling:<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t believe how dumb this motherf\u2009-\u2009-\u2009-\u2009er is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cImpeach him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a parody of a mayor, God help us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI imagine him resigning.\u201d<\/p>\n

The night before, local 11 p.m. news<\/a>casts barely had enough time to report on the mayhem: Despite an 8 p.m. curfew, a ban on traffic below 96th Street and parts of Soho blocked off by police, thousands of protesters \u2014 again, in a pandemic \u2014 roamed the streets. A gunman in The Bronx was shot dead by police after he opened fire on at least two people.<\/p>\n

Looters and rioters openly attacked police officers, kicking, assaulting and in one case running over a cop.<\/p>\n

Lt. Jorge Rodriguez was clubbed so hard in the head by a rioter that, he said, \u201cIt felt like I got shot. This was a riot. We were fighting for our lives. They were throwing rocks, bottles, vacuum cleaners. They threw a moped at us.\u201d<\/p>\n

A moped.<\/p>\n

The city, which has seen 420,000 of its richest residents flee the coronavirus, will undoubtedly lose an even greater part of its population, already pushed to the limit by high taxes and costs of living, crumbling mass transit and school system, an exploding homeless crisis and a general<\/a> sense that the benefits no longer outweigh the costs of living here.<\/p>\n

Anyone who remembers New York City in the 1970s was shocked to see The Bronx burning again. The notion that this great metropolis, which has survived so much in recent decades \u2014 9\/11, Hurricane Sandy, the Knicks \u2014 could fall so far, so fast was unfathomable.<\/p>\n

Yet here we are, the sad legacy of Bill de Blasio.<\/p>\n

To be sure, Gov. Andrew Cuomo shares blame here, but New Yorkers \u2014 and history \u2014 remember only the mayors. So just as the Crown Heights riots will always belong to David Dinkins and 9\/11 to Rudy Giuliani, this desecration and destruction of New York City, the effects of which will be felt for years, belongs to Bill de Blasio.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis city has been through so much,\u201d he tweeted on Tuesday. \u201cBut I want to remind EVERYONE who is feeling worried, frustrated or angry that we will come through this. New York City ALWAYS has.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s true. And we will survive de Blasio.<\/p>\n

mcallahan@nypost.com\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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