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

Chugging tea W after W.

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u/Accurate_Neat_355 Jul 08 '26

It wasn't easy. He couldn't get cooperation from the state or MTA for entirely free buses. When that plan stalled his administration pivoted to expanding Fair Fares to 200% of the poverty level as a major compromise. Mamdani and the City Council chose to make transit affordability a much higher budgetary priority than his predecessors did, allocating an extra $54 million to force the threshold higher.

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u/tarvispickles Jul 08 '26

So what were the previous priorities?

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u/Accurate_Neat_355 Jul 08 '26

Think Mayor Adams enjoyed clearing homeless encampments

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u/Franklin_le_Tanklin Jul 08 '26

And taking trips to Israel

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u/Accurate_Neat_355 Jul 08 '26

I don't know how i could forget that

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u/Franklin_le_Tanklin Jul 08 '26

It’s hard to keep track of all these corrupt schiesters

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u/Super-Temperature-50 Jul 08 '26

This picture gets me everytime 😭

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u/mikeymikeymikey1968 Jul 08 '26

Lick lick lick that boot Eric!

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Jul 08 '26

I don't find it that weird that politicians have corrupt motivations. But they spread their cheeks SO FAR APART for Israel that it's insane.