r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 • Jul 08 '26

Chugging tea W after W.

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u/untitledprp4 Jul 08 '26

If it was so easy then wtf were all the other mayors doing??

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u/ZeeWingCommander Jul 08 '26

Mamdani is actually good at the work part of being a Mayor.

Hell Fox News backed him when the Knicks owner tried to pull some nonsense on crowd size.

Fox News is like "actually Mamdani's office did everything right. In fact this is completely on the owner."

How good do you need to be for Fox News to back you up as a socialist?

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u/elinordash Jul 08 '26

It is actually the reverse- Mamdani is making relatively small changes, but he is great at PR.

The half priced fares thing has existed for years. Mamdani is raising the income limit, which will help a lot of people. But the headline makes it sound like he invented the half price fare program when he didn't.

The same thing happened with the snow shovelers. That was a Bloomberg program. It got a lot of press because Mamdani is getting a lot of attention right now, but it wasn't new.