The Aporia · Mamdani brags about repairing 200K potholes — but he’s still behind his hero Bill de Blasio

Matt Troutman

12 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction

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🔮 Smiley socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani proudly bragged Thursday about fixing the 200,000th pothole this year on the city’s streets — but his self-congratulatory victory lap didn’t even stack up to his hero Bill de Blasio’s record.

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🔮 City Hall officials broke state record-keeping rules with a secret Signal chat filled with pro-Zohran Mamdani influencers, the mayor’s top attorney seemingly admitted Friday.

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Craig McCarthy

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🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani should be investigated for using $1.6 million in taxpayer funds to push New Yorkers to back ballot proposals with messaging that plastered his face on buses and kiosks, a city lawmaker said.

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🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been quietly playing pickup basketball with buddies at an NYPD gym in Queens, sources confirmed to The Post.

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🔮 The City Council quietly passed a controversial bill that would give nonprofits the first shot at buying up distressed Big Apple properties.

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🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani has signed just one bill into law in 10 months since taking office — leaving critics to wonder if the millennial mayor is more interested in social media stardom than his daily government duties.

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🔮 Chi Ossé, a Democratic Socialists of American chum of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, ditched government hearings on Monday and Tuesday to instead travel multiple hours outside of his Brooklyn district to head to Rochester and Syracuse.

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🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic Socialists of America crony Chi Ossé has the worst attendance record of any member of the City Council, records show.

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🔮 “So, how is it that, within seconds, I could find a sexualized image of myself using Grok?”

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Smiley socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani proudly bragged Thursday about fixing the 200,000th pothole this year on the city’s streets — but his self-congratulatory victory lap didn’t even stack up to his hero Bill de Blasio’s record. asserted

lap → brag → record

Mamdani used filling in the pothole on Bushwick’s Troutman Street with city Department of Transportation workers to tout his “pothole politics” philosophy, his way of showing his lefty government can deliver everyday results. asserted

government → use → results

“Fixing the broken water fountain at the playground our kids love, upgrading the catch basin on the corner that always floods and, of course, making a bumpy road smooth again,” he said in a statement. “ asserted

he → fix → statement

That is what public service should look like.” asserted

service → look → what

The doing-the-bare-minimum backslappery came after Mamdani pulled a similar publicity stunt in April, this time to fill in the city’s 100,000th pothole. asserted

Mamdani → do → pothole

Both photo ops failed to impress longtime public servants — with Alfonse D’Amato, the Republican politician dubbed “Senator Pothole,” telling The Post during the spring that “it’s all BS.” asserted

it → fail → spring

Former city comptroller Scott Stringer, one of Mamdani’s mayoral rivals during last year’s Democratic primary, scoffed at Hizzoner’s latest dog-and-pony show. asserted

Stringer → scoff → show

“Mamdani wouldn’t know how to fill a pothole if he fell in one,” he said. asserted

he → know → one

“Everywhere I go in this city people are bemoaning the dirty streets, the tragedy of homelessness. asserted

people → go → homelessness

He’s got to figure out to do the work and not do this performative stuff. asserted

He → get → stuff

They didn’t believe under de Blasio, they won’t under Mamdani asserted

they → believe → Mamdani

The groundhog-killing de Blasio — who Mamdani called his favorite living Big Apple mayor — celebrated 1 million potholes filled during his first two years, the New York Daily News reported in March 2016 — a rate of 1,268 per day in office. asserted

News → kill → office

Mamdani’s current pothole-filling pace stands at 769 a day. asserted

pace → fill → 769

Mamdani brags about repairing 200K potholes — but he’s still behind his hero Bill de Blasio

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