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Mamdani can learn a thing or two from his predecessors — not that it would help

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09.06.2026

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Mamdani can learn a thing or two from his predecessors — not that it would help

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NYC’s current mayor — Zero Crapdammy.

So what’s it take to be a mayor? The dictionary defines “mayor” as: chief magistrate of a city.

So this was de Blasio? Whose wife’s duties maybe included hugging an ATM?

Secondary definition: a minor judicial officer. Like maybe the not-so-major Eric Adams?

La Guardia grabbed an airport named after him. Koch got some small street someplace. Long ago’s Robert Van Wyck — whom nobody remembers — is a highway. Crapdammy — maybe a dead end. To match his own dead end that sat on a bicycle during an Israeli parade.

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