F*ck Your Sensitivity - The Mad Ramblings of a Gen X-er

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Headlines shouted “blue wave,” but the details on the ground tell a messier story. We take a hard look at New York’s new mayoral agenda, from an applause-heavy victory speech to the concrete policies that will shape streets, subways, and budgets. No cheerleading, no doom-posting—just a clear-eyed walk through what’s promised, what it costs, and what could break along the way.

We start with the framing: an anti-Trump pitch in a city where nearly half didn’t vote for the winner, and a tax blueprint that leans on a small, mobile base of high earners and corporations. Then we dig into the numbers and tradeoffs behind a two percent “millionaire penalty,” a higher corporate rate, and the political reality that Albany may not foot the bill. If Plan B is “find a pot of money,” the city risks building permanent programs on temporary cash.

Housing takes center stage with a rent freeze push and a stacked rent board. It sounds compassionate, but costs for maintenance, insurance, and labor don’t freeze with it—and disrepair, reduced supply, and stalled conversions are predictable outcomes. On transit, “free and faster buses” makes for a great chant, yet speed requires lanes, signal priority, and enforcement. Free fares without those upgrades can slow service, strain budgets, and turn buses into de facto shelters during winter months.

We also parse universal childcare ambitions and the price tag that comes with them, plus a plan for city-owned grocery stores that could undercut bodegas and raise costs through bureaucratic inefficiency. Finally, we assess the proposed community safety department: unarmed responders for mental health and quality-of-life calls can work when tightly integrated with police, but duplication and unclear authority can raise risks and costs.

If you care about pragmatic policy—about what actually improves daily life—this one’s for you. Listen, share with a friend who follows city politics, and leave a review with the one policy you’d fund first and the one you’d cut. Your take could shape our next episode.

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SPEAKER_02:

What you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I've ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered irrational fun. Everyone in this room is now dumb for having listened to it.

SPEAKER_00:

You don't know when I'm on Mr. Pun. I told you, but I'm too old. If I would have been on the world five years ago, I'd take the fun at this point.

SPEAKER_03:

The words that are coming out of my mouth!

SPEAKER_04:

You want answers? I think that's the title. You want the truth! You know the truth. Hello, my fellow comrades. The proof don't have to do free. What? The truth!

SPEAKER_05:

Oh, good morning, everyone. This is Tim. This is Get Off My Law, The Mad Ramblings of a Gym Extra. We need to talk about Election Tuesday. The blue, the blue wave. I love, I love how it's a blue wave, and we're gonna get into the Zolhan in a minute, but I love how it's a blue wave when Democrats won Virginia, New Jersey, and New York City. I'm not a hundred percent sure, and I was trying to go back and look at it. How much, how many of those states did Trump actually win? Oh, no, because the majority of the not majority, those states are the bastion of democracy in regards to the liberals in the Democratic Party. So I'm not seeing this as this big indictment. You won elections in liberal cities and liberal states that Trump didn't even come close to winning.

SPEAKER_04:

But it's a big it's the blue wave.

SPEAKER_05:

We gotta talk about the Zolhan, the Ugandan-born Muslim who hates Jews. And I love it because 20% of the Jewish population evidently voted for the Zolhan. These must be the same people that were holding up signs that say, this way to a free cruise, as they led the other Jews to the incinerator. I'm being honest because this is a guy, he he will not denounce Hamas, he will not denounce what happened in Israel. He he he is he is a he is a staunch Muslim. And this is now what you're going to have running your city. And I love it because there was a skit by Eddie Murphy years ago about Jesse Jackson and Jesse Jackson in the presidential election.

SPEAKER_03:

I seen Jesse in the gym working the fuck out too, boy, getting in shape. You know, if he wins, because you know he got a chance he can win. White dudes like to do shit like that. Vote for the wrong dude as a goof. They get drunk and shit and go in there and say, let's vote for Jesse Jackson.

SPEAKER_05:

I just voted for Jesse Jackson.

SPEAKER_03:

Next day to be like this, they fucking won.

SPEAKER_05:

That's literally what I think New York is gonna feel like. And and and you know what's funny? He was this guy that he had all this charisma. The Zohan that is. He he was charming the he was charming people. You know, he was he was this guy that was you know that was open to everyone. And then he has his his his his victory speech, and the mood and tone, and we're gonna play the full two minutes, has suddenly changed to the point that even a pundit like Van Jones comes out and says, wait a minute.

SPEAKER_06:

If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him.

SPEAKER_05:

Well, I I just have one thing to say. Actually, Trump is one of the people that saved New York. But that's okay. He's 33 years old and he's a fucking moron and he's a Muslim and he hates Jews, but he's gonna run the he's gonna run the city. He's gonna run he's gonna run what used to be one of the greatest cities in the world. London is looking at us laughing.

SPEAKER_06:

And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump, it's how we stop the next one.

SPEAKER_05:

Now, I always thought this was about New York City. I am very confused. I thought this was about making the lives of the people in New York better, not stopping Trump and going after his supporters, because half the city, almost half the city, didn't vote for you.

SPEAKER_06:

So, Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you. Kill the Jews.

SPEAKER_05:

Now, they're taking advantage of their tenants in rent-controlled apartments as the costs of services, supplies, building materials are skyrocketing under four years of Biden. And now they can't afford the upkeep, but they can't raise the rent because it's rent controlled. That's why a lot of apartments in New York City are vacant because they can't afford the rent them, because the landlords can't afford the upkeep. But don't worry, the Zull Hon has a plan.

SPEAKER_06:

We will put an end to the culture of corruption that has allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation and exploit tax breaks.

SPEAKER_05:

Now, the thing is this the majority of the taxes that are paid in New York that go to all these wonderful services are paid from the top 1%. So he wants them to pay more. I I I'm just waiting, I'm just waiting for Stalin to roll across the screen. I really am. We will stand alongside unions and expand labor protections because now, which is funny, because a lot of the unions came out against the Zolhan, but you're gonna stand with the people that don't want to stand with you, huh?

SPEAKER_06:

As we know, just as Donald Trump does, that when working people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek to extort them become very small indeed.

SPEAKER_05:

The bosses that pay for everything, pay for your salaries, produce the products and create the products and the marketing and the advertising, build the client base, you know, have the distribution set up. You know, every all the people that do everything to give you the money to do your job, they're fucking evil.

SPEAKER_06:

New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants- and you know it's funny.

SPEAKER_05:

New York was actually built by the Irish and the Italians, who were then at that point in time when they came over, pretty much discriminated against because they were Irish and Italian. So I find it apropos that the Muslims now going to discriminate against the white people because he has a white people tax.

SPEAKER_06:

Immigrants. And as of tonight, led by an immigrant.

SPEAKER_05:

It's always great. We uh we elected an immigrant to run this country. Now, of course, you listen to this speech, and all all you're waiting for is, you know, all we all we needed was the you know the the the ominous Russian music to play behind them. I'm waiting for Ivan Drago to come back out. But Van Jones of CNN was not a huge fan of the speech, and and I find it huge humorous.

SPEAKER_01:

The momdani that we saw on the campaign trail, uh, who was a lot more calm, uh, who was a lot warmer.

SPEAKER_05:

We're gonna hold, let's let's start here from the beginning, because this this this is funny.

SPEAKER_01:

This is Van Jones, of all people. I think he missed an opportunity. Uh I think the Mamdanny that we saw on the campaign trail, uh, who was a lot more calm, uh, who was a lot warmer, uh, who was a lot more embracing, was not present in that speech. And I think that momdani is the one you need to hear from tonight. There are a lot of people trying to figure out can I get on this train with him or not? Uh is he gonna include me? Is he going or is he is he's Oh no no no no he's he's already excluding people, especially if you're white. Going to be more of a class warrior, even in office. I think he missed a chance tonight to open up and bring more people into the tent. I think his tone was sharp. I think he was using the microphone in a way uh that he was almost yelling. And that's not the mom thani that we've seen on TikTok and the great interviews and stuff like that. So I felt like there's a little bit of a character switch here where the the warm, uh open, embracing guy that's close to working people, uh, was not on stage tonight, and there was some some other voice on stage. That said, he's very young, and he just pulled off something that's very, very difficult. And uh I I I wouldn't write him off, but I think he missed an opportunity to open himself up tonight, and I think that that will probably cost him going forward.

SPEAKER_05:

And I love it because you have people right now in New York sitting there looking at this. Oh, I'm sorry, I was gonna be that was gonna be Russian music, but I evidently don't have the Russian music today. But you have these people looking at us like I voted for this motherfucker. Oh, you you people, you New Yorkers, you you literally, I I half of you I don't get because I love it because he the plans he has to reshape, and these policies that he has to reshape New York City are just so bad. And all these economists are just coming out saying it's terrible. And like he said, I'm gonna tax the rich corporations. That's one of his sweeping goals to pay for everything. He proposes to raise the millionaire tax by 2%, but again, it's not a tax hike, it's a it's a 2% penalty. You pay the 50% that you're paying now just in regular taxes, then that additional 2% is not added into that 50. That 2% is an additional two per 2% tax on your total value. And he's gonna hike the corporate tax rate to 11.5% to align with Jersey. Now, companies are leaving New Jersey in droves. Now that's gonna bring in, according to him, roughly$9 billion. Well, but don't worry, Kathy Holcomb said already. No, no, no, we're not doing this. Now she's fighting her own re-election in 2026, uh and she is not gonna sit there and raise the taxes on people and the wealthy donors and the businesses because of the fact that she wants to get re-elected and she doesn't want to see these businesses leave. She's instead promised to find ways to cover the without raising the taxes on the rich. Mondani even admits I might have to have a plan B. If this money is funded by additional tax, or it's funded by better than expected tax assessment, or it's funded by a pot of money that wasn't previously. I love it. Now give it a little bit of call. Oh, yeah. We're gonna be following our saddle was a pot of gold. Uh that wasn't spoken for, or savings that we have coming in. The most important thing is that it's funded. His other big issue, of course, is rent freeze. We're gonna freeze the rent. This is a guy that's a millionaire. He's never worked a day in his life. He worked for mommy. He's he's got what they refer to as a as a cocktail knacking resume. He's he has no experience in anything, but he's gonna run the city. But he is going to propose to actually apply to rent stabilization homes, about two million New Yorkers. They're gonna freeze rents, they're gonna freeze it. And he pledges to stack the rent guidelines board, who handles the decision on rent stabilization apartments with hand-picked appointees. None of us, you must go to Mother Russia and find these guys to come in that will vote only for Mother Russia. Debazio did the same thing. But I love it because Mayor Adams has already said, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna, I'm gonna stack the board before he gets here. Adams has already said, is I'm packing it with pointies themselves. I mean, it just doesn't make sense because of the fact that you are freezing rent, but all the other costs associated with the rents go up, and then you're getting mad at the landlords because they can't fix the shit because they're not having enough revenue coming to those the landlords. Those evil landlords must come in and take a loss. The other big thing that he's promised New Yorkers in this in this progressive utopia is free and faster buses. Evidently, because of the fact that he has never really ridden a bus or on the subway or anything else because he's rich. Probably doesn't understand new buses in New York are not fast. The program will the program increased is going to increase uh ridership and actually made buses safe. His thought process, I'm sorry, is that it's going to increase ridership because you know only the best people in the world ride the buses in New York, we're going to get to that. And it actually will make buses safers, but because bus drivers don't have to confront those scoff law people that are trying to get on the bus for free. That he said that in the uh in an op-in in the nation. Now, his proposed plan for the citywide bus tour is only$700 million price tag. And that's going to ease the burden of the working class people who can't afford it. Now, I don't know. Now, so$700 million is going to basically see be a billion, but people that are smart and understand the city and understand the climate, understand everything else, have have put have put up an interesting point. Doing this is basically a recipe for turning buses into roaming homeless shelters. And I love it because this was out of a Washington Post editorial. Vagrants, drug addicts, would camp out all day on New York buses, especially in the winter. I love it. And then the MTA honcho, I don't remember the person's name, pumped the brakes on Mandani's promise, arguing it would be more expensive and harder to pull off than advertised. Oh, and the other thing is the city loses that revenue. But don't worry, we're a toxic, we're taxing the evil rich. The other great plan he has is universal child care. He plans to shell out six billion dollars. I'm not counting, but I think I'm already up to$490 billion, and New York is running already running like a$2 billion deficit. That's good. This is gonna be the most expensive thing on this plan. This is a progressive dream, of course, that Kathy Holcomb kind of supports. Signal she would work with Mondani to make it a reality, even as she rejects his proposal to fund it by taxing the rich. Where is this money coming from? He also proposed showing out 20 million a year to provide free baby baskets containing diapers, wipes, nursing pads, swaddles, and other essential newborn goods to 125,000 New York babies born each year in the city. The good news is that number is probably gonna drop down to 11. So that's really not gonna cost us that much because people are already leaving the city in droves. I spoke to a friend this morning. He has been a native New Yorker his entire life. He's never lived outside of the city, and he is 56 years old. And I asked him and I asked myself, well, what do you plan on doing? He goes, Oh, I already bought a house in Florida. I was like, when did you do this? You didn't tell me. He's like, Oh no, no, no, no. I didn't tell you because of the fact that I was gonna use it as a rental property if he didn't win as an investment. But now that he won, I'm he's like, I'm literally leaving. And I laugh at because the financial institution that he works for moved to Miami last year. Now, the other brilliance of the Mundami, of Comrade Mundami, City owned grocery stores. He's gonna have five city-owned grocery stores that would come up across the boroughs, and he envisions these stores selling pro group groceries, excuse me, at wholesale prices to alleviate the skyracking cross to New Yorkers with the leanest checkbooks. However, again, people that are actually smart, people that actually understand economics have come out and said this idea would basically destroy bodegas and small grocery owners and create a looming Soviet-style disaster that would drive them out of business and actually drive prices up and eliminate goods. Because they tried it in other states and it didn't fucking work. His other big plan, of course, is the$1 billion for the Department of Community Safety rather than having cops. Bad boys, bad boys. What you gonna do? So there are gonna be no cops. No, there's gonna be cops, but they they these people are gonna oversee mental health calls and other things such as that. And they're gonna be parts of outreach programs and they're going to and they're gonna have mental health teams and outreach teams and beef up gun violence interpreters programs. Basically, I think in Minneapolis they do this, and they're basically cops without guns. And he said this would free up the cops to do actual police work instead of dealing with the failures of society, social safety net. So those crimes that are bothersome to the city, like people urinating and stealing and robbing and knifing people, we're just gonna give those to social workers because that's just gonna work out fantastic. That's just gonna work out great. Now, a lot of people are saying that this is basically duplicating the apart department, the police department, and making it more expensive and paying for it twice, but not allowing police officers to actually do their jobs. And people are saying that cops are still ultimately gonna end up having to pick up the slack with unhinged New Yorkers that are dangerous because of the fact that these public safety officers are not allowed to arrest anyone. Oh, New York. It's a New York state of mind. What the fuck were you thinking? And I and I like I said I love it because people are like, it's the blue wave. So you took New Jersey, which is a deep blue state, you took Virginia outside of Glen Yunkin, is a deep and is a deep blue state, and you lost the election in New York City, which is a deep blue state. Yeah, that's that's a bit that's a it's not like you took these places in Texas, and of course the Gabin Newsom plan had passed, so that's now gonna create five additional seats for the Democratic Party in the state of California. You know what politics is just this this the political landscape has just gone fucking nuts. It really has. And I love the fact that Democrats are attacking Republicans on the overburden cost of health care when they fucking created this overburdened cost of healthcare. When you destroyed the open marketplace so people could go out and buy healthcare and decided to government subsidize it, which then gave no one an incentive to work. That's that's a big problem. And we've watched premiums skyrocket since 2013 because of Obamacare, because of the elimination of the privatized insurance that cannot you can no longer purchase without government subsidies. I've said it before. 2011, we were my family was actually on you know, privatized health care. We went with United Healthcare. It cost us$180 a month for the silver plan on United Healthcare for three people a month. That same plan, I looked it up. Of course, you have to do it during during open enrollment. I looked it up, unless you have a hardship, hardship. I looked it up and I put everything in again, and now 11 years, oh 12 years later, it's worth I we would have to pay almost$3,600 a month. Now the problem is because we e even if we lost our jobs, we couldn't get subsidies because the subsidies are based on your last year's income. So if you make too much money last year, you're screwed this year. Oh, we've said it once, we've said it before, we said it a million times the truth. This is Tennessee's gonna find one. The mad rain things up again, I said, and I'm out of here.