{"id":387375,"date":"2021-12-30T02:08:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T23:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/oh-the-joy-de-blasio-is-leaving-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T02:08:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T23:08:38","slug":"oh-the-joy-de-blasio-is-leaving-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/oh-the-joy-de-blasio-is-leaving-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#Oh, the joy\u2014 de Blasio is leaving and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Oh, the joy\u2014 de Blasio is leaving and other commentary<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/de-blasio-file.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Libertarian: Oh, the Joy! \u2014 Blas Is Leaving!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s truly the most wonderful time of the year, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/12\/29\/goodbye-and-good-riddance-to-bill-de-blasio-a-terrible-mayor-on-every-issue-he-tripped-over\/\">cheers Reason\u2019s C.J. Ciaramella<\/a>, because Mayor de Blasio, \u201ca bumbling punchline of a politician, is finally leaving office.\u201d And though \u201cit\u2019s tempting to . . . focus on the clownish moments,\u201d we\u2019d be missing out on \u201cthe spectacular failures and hypocrisies of his policy initiatives.\u201d Indeed, \u201chis only real flashes of political acumen were when he was rubbing disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a thin-skinned blowhard and fellow authoritarian who couldn\u2019t help but take the bait.\u201d Hizzoner\u2019s \u201c\u200a\u2018progressive\u2019 tendencies only manifested themselves in authoritarian diktats against New Yorkers who weren\u2019t powerful enough to fight back.\u201d Yet the mayor \u201cnever had a real interest in taking on the injustices perpetrated by the government he ostensibly controlled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pandemic journal: Dems\u2019 \u2018Big-Government Lie\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Joe Biden vowed in 2020 he\u2019d \u201cshut down the virus,\u201d he lied, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2021\/12\/22\/the_big_government_covid-19_lie_146930.html\">charges Ben Shapiro at Creators<\/a> \u2014 because \u201cnobody can shut down the virus,\u201d as even Dr. Anthony Fauci essentially admits. That means government needs to balance \u201ccountervailing concerns,\u201d such as economic freedom and the effects of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> isolation. Yet Democrats are instead pursuing more government control, like vaccination mandates, masks and testing. Why? To maintain the \u201cbig-government lie.\u201d It\u2019s \u201can article of faith\u201d: \u201cTo pursue rational policy would evidence no fealty to the notion of government-as-protective-god. To pursue irrational policy and then demand obeisance \u2014 this is the mark of the faithful. And if you are not faithful, you are a heretic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the left: Silencing Parents? It\u2019s a Loser<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/taibbi.substack.com\/p\/the-democrats-education-lunacies\">At TK News, Matt Taibbi scratches his head <\/a>over Nikole Hannah-Jones\u2019 defense of Terry McAuliffe\u2019s statement that parents shouldn\u2019t tell schools what they to teach. The New York Times scribe argued that we send kids to school \u201cto be taught by people with expertise.\u201d Sure, some things shouldn\u2019t be \u201cleft to amateurs,\u201d Taibbi concedes, but \u201cparenting? For good reason, there\u2019s no parent anywhere who believes that any \u2018expert\u2019 knows what\u2019s better for their kids than they do.\u201d Suggesting the opposite is an enormous \u201cpolitical error.\u201d It makes people \u201cwant to sprint in a rage to the nearest ballot center to vote\u201d against those who push such ideas, as they surely will in 2024, \u201ceven if Donald Trump is on the ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the right: Moment of Truth for Kid Masks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After Dr. Leana Wen advised against wearing a cloth mask on CNN this month, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spectatorworld.com\/topic\/the-moment-of-truth-for-masks-in-schools\/\">Bethany Mandel at Spectator World wonders<\/a>, \u201cHow long have those in public health known that most of the masks they\u2019ve forced us to put on our kids are useless?\u201d Parents \u201csettled on cloth masks they can buy and reuse for comfort and cost reasons\u201d for their kids. Yet now they\u2019re \u201chearing one of the most prominent experts on the virus joke on national television that the mitigation effort . . . is merely decoration.\u201d Considering the availability of vaccines for kids ages 5 to 11 and that children under 5 are at low risk of serious illness and death, \u201cthis is a moment of truth for mask mandates in schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russiagate watch: Why the Left\u2019s Peddling Lies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Call it \u201cthe scandalmongering that will not die,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/never-say-die-trump-russia-collusion-theorists-strike-again\">snarks the Washington Examiner\u2019s Byron York<\/a>, referring to new assertions that Donald Trump and his campaign \u201cdid, in fact, collude with Russia to fix the 2016 election,\u201d despite Robert Mueller\u2019s years-long investigation finding no such thing. What\u2019s motivating these \u201ctrue believers\u201d? For one, the Democratic-financed Christopher Steele dossier, much of it \u201cthe work of a Clinton-connected politico who fed gossip to Steele\u2019s hired dirt-gatherer,\u201d looks increasingly \u201clike an elaborate and sadly effective political dirty trick.\u201d And in \u201cthe stop-the-steal movement and the Capitol riot, they see election-denial efforts that uncomfortably echo their own, but turned up to 11.\u201d So they\u2019ve found \u201ca new way to claim that it is the other guy who is making up false charges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Compiled by The Post Editorial Board<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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It\u2019s truly the most wonderful time of the year, cheers Reason\u2019s C.J. Ciaramella, because Mayor de Blasio, \u201ca bumbling punchline of a politician, is finally leaving office.\u201d And though \u201cit\u2019s tempting to . . . focus on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":387376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/de-blasio-file.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[122785,5042,43,70616,71511,116860,70842,10260,70617],"class_list":["post-387375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-29-21","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-editorial","tag-fast-takes","tag-government","tag-mask-mandates","tag-parents","tag-terry-mcauliffe","tag-the-left"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}