{"id":65092,"date":"2025-12-09T01:43:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/65092\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T01:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:43:27","slug":"what-do-i-want-for-christmas-this-year-a-different-mayor-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/65092\/","title":{"rendered":"What do I want for Christmas this year? A different mayor-elect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Behave, we\u2019re making a list<\/p>\n

Too bad Election Day isn\u2019t held Dec. 25. Seeing what we got, maybe we could\u2019ve exchanged him for something else.<\/a><\/p>\n

And if you think it\u2019s just the thought that counts \u2014 lots of luck. Just try sending someone a nice Christmas gift COD.<\/p>\n

Listen, any ho-ho-ing dude who drops into my house only one day a year and doesn\u2019t want to drink, eat or stay over could be my friend for life.<\/p>\n

December and politicians are all about unloading tubs-full of money. It\u2019s called a deficit. We \u00adpeons do it and it\u2019s called Christmas shopping.<\/p>\n

Not all get invited to the White House holiday. I\u2019m hearing\u00a0Comey\u00a0couldn\u2019t get his ego down the chimney.<\/p>\n

Weeks before Santa and all through each house \u2014 not a creature is stirring except\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0who\u2019s coloring Easter eggs.<\/p>\n

AND what to give\u00a0Kardashian? A bra.\u00a0Hunter\u00a0\u2014 truth serum. Mrs.\u00a0Pelosi\u00a0\u2014 a mirror.\u00a0Eric Adams\u00a0\u2014 a handout from his former \u201croommate\u201d whom he made a highly paid city executive<\/a>.\u00a0Putin\u00a0\u2014 an 8-by-10 photo of\u00a0Zelensky. In color.<\/p>\n

At the White House Christmas party somebody\u2019s going to try to exchange Crapdammy<\/a>. I mean, that\u2019s a problem. Where do you go to give back a mayor? An NYC resident could joke that all the wise men are under Christmas trees instead of being in City Hall. You could make that joke. Me, not.<\/p>\n

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So Dr.\u00a0Lazare, my dentist, what\u2019s he want for the holiday? He said: \u201cYour two front teeth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Mayor-electMayor-elect Zohran Mamdani attending a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in The Bronx on Dec. 5, 2025. Michael Nagle<\/p>\n

Grinches have a point. Santas\u2019 clothes are that shloompy casual red suit, boots, beard, a bag on the shoulder and they work only one day a year. Look at it this way: Our teenagers are already dressed for the job.<\/p>\n

Desired holiday gifts: Ex former royal and now less regal is the previously semi-respected, newly permanently forever unemployed specter of what used to be and once was Mrs.\u00a0Meghan Markle\u2019s toy<\/a> \u2014 the \u00adprevious HRH\u00a0Harry. What\u2019s to wrap up for him? A job? A dog bowl? A lawyer?<\/p>\n

Menendez, what he wants is a Monopoly set with a Get Out of Jail Free card.\u00a0Sean\u00a0\u201cDiddy\u201d\u00a0Combs, ditto.\u00a0Harvey Weinstein\u00a0\u2014 a copy of Diddy\u2019s card.<\/p>\n

BUT let\u2019s celebrate our new mayor. His Three Wise Men would be those New Yorkers who sold their homes quickly.<\/p>\n

And\u00a0de Blasio. Nothing. Nada. Niente. Nisht \u2014 is what he gave us. But some say we should also speak of that bomb, the red beret boob. OK. But why? He got what he wanted \u2014 attention. And we got what we wanted \u2014 rid of him.<\/p>\n

You mustn\u2019t mind my sense of humor. We are Americans. New Yorkers. We are free. And no more should we worry about fixing up our jails for hardened criminals. Fie on Rikers. Our new mayorlet has options. Anyone ever been to Siberia?<\/p>\n

My neighbor, who had his own house, said to his wife: \u201cRemember when I said I\u2019d retire at age 60? Well, looks like my new retirement age is now 30.\u201d<\/p>\n

Only, mainly, primarily, absolutely \u2014\u00a0mostly in New York, kids, mostly in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Behave, we\u2019re making a list Too bad Election Day isn\u2019t held Dec. 25. Seeing what we got, maybe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,12565,9,24,63,299,129,131,130,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-65092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-christmas","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-opinion","14":"tag-the-bronx","15":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","16":"tag-the-bronx-news","17":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}