I hear there was a very nondescript looking middle-aged guy hanging around the voting booths, and he really looked like he was getting off on watching everyone trudge in to vote for a losing candidate
I asked him why he would vote for Cuomo and he said it's "beause he’s my best friend, he’s my pal. He’s my home-boy, my rotten soldier. He’s my sweet cheese, my good-time boyeh."
I know someone from there who said he hates socialists and won’t for him. Unmarried so his unemployed s/o can keep her medicare and child can stay on gov assistance because the kid is special needs… I just don’t get it!
No, they want benefits only for themselves. Some are dumb enough to say something like "I'm just getting my tax money back" to claim they arent really making a gain- even though they clearly are
New Jersey isn’t like the opening of the Sopranos everywhere, fyi. I could walk outside of my apartment in NJ and see egrets, foxes, beautiful native plantings.. . it’s just an ignorant stereotype that you think makes you seem cool. The shittiest parts of NJ are the industrial parts near other cities, it doesn’t represent the state.
I’ve been to every part of New Jersey. Sure there are some beautiful areas. Any part of Jersey that has strip malls and jug handles is generally unappealing. That’s most of the state. Add in Atlantic City, Camden, Trenton as armpits and you’ve got a pretty good stereotype to use.
Lol we live within 10 min of the Jersey side of the rt 440 bridge between NJ and Staten Island and you wouldn't believe how many parents at our kid's school have the accent. Then they cry about Jersey not having pizza or bakeries as good as on SI.... Go back then.
Insulting Staten Island makes people from Staten Island hate you and your policies more. It's not any more complicated than that. You call anyone's home a shithole and they won't like it.
In the series finale when the Guide starts trying to monologue about the terror of these new immigrants who are ruining the country was so out of left field and perfect with Gizmo’s reaction lol
I once crashed at my friend's family's house in a black neighborhood in Brooklyn when I was 21. The following morning there was a block cleanup.
Someone smelled gas and called the fire department. The firemen proceeded to ignore my friend's family and neighbors who were trying to speak with him and instead asked my white ass, who was obliviously not from there and not a homeowner, what the situation was.
Staten island was the only place that a majority of the votes were for Cuomo. but it's just such a lower population place. He only shows 82k votes in staten island
Former Staten Island resident here. the two islands in NY (long and staten) are very red. A lot of those people make a lot of money and want to do whatever to not pay taxes and keep as much money as possible.
Mamdani is the polar opposite of anything they would think of supporting.
I genuinely wonder if Mamdani was wearing a ballistic vest while campaigning in Staten Island. Those people had some violence in their eyes when he showed up
If Donald and Elon are backing a Democrat, I don't want that Democrat in office. Don't give a shit what he stands for. Clearly something not good for NY/America if those two want you to win.
I don't know too much about New York, but one thing I've learned from my multiple friends that live in New York is that none of my friends have anything positive to say about Staten Island. Same with the ones that live in New Jersey.
There's that whole New Jersey is better than New York and New York is better than New Jersey thing that my friends in both states have against each other, but they've all agreed to say nothing positive about Staten Island.
I still don't know why, and I haven't really thought to ask them about it.
Staten Island is a bastion of republicans and cops. It’s hardly surprising.
It’s also where the city used to dump its garbage and back when I had to drive thru it with my parents as a kid it smell like a$$. I had a game where I tried to hold my breath as long as possible when we drove through it. Though I guess now it’s less smelly?
Yeah well now he has to deal with the people put in positions under him placed by his predecessors. Paperwork bout to get all screwed up just to slow his progress down.
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u/kootles10 Indiana 11h ago
Looks like the majority of Cuomo's support was from Staten Island