Bill, we hardly knew ya
De Blasio drops out of the race, and Trump mocks him:
President Trump wasted no time mocking Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday after Hizzoner announced he was ending his far-fetched bid for the presidency.
“Oh no, really big political news, perhaps the biggest story in years! Part time Mayor of New York City, @BilldeBlasio, who was polling at a solid ZERO but had tremendous room for growth, has shocking dropped out of the Presidential race,” Trump tweeted Friday morning.
“NYC is devastated, he’s coming home!”
Ouch.
Why on earth did de Blasio run in the first place? Ego, I suppose.
And this might be the best moment to say I’m tired of having to look up his name to make sure I get the small “d” at the beginning right.
Warren Wilhelm Jr. changed his name twice between the ages of 20 and 40, because creep. The original is simple enough to spell.
I don’t like Trump, but I love him.
Y’know?
Art Deco–Beat me to it.
There does seem to be a little political “cultural appropriation” trend taking shape here, with the examples of “de Blasio” and “Beto” as well.
Then, of course, you have the master, “Pocahontas,” 1/1024th Elizabeth Warren, the whiter than white political figure who milked her phony “American Indian” status for all it was worth.
P.S.–I note that in the coverage of Warren’s DNA test and its result, not a lot of reference was made to the fact that the DNA expert who performed and analyzed her test, Dr. Bustamonte, formerly worked with one of the co-founders of genetic testing company Family Tree DNA, who just happened to be Elizabeth’s husband, or to the fact that the samples her DNA were tested against did not contain any actual “American Indian” DNA.
That’s because the leaders of the various American Indian tribes have reportedly told their members not to give genetic/anthropological researchers any such samples, for fear of such sampling somehow being just another way for white men to take some kind of advantage of these American Indians. And these tribal leaders have been successful.
Actual DNA samples from “American Indians” sufficient to test against have not yet been collected.
So, what was Warren’s DNA tested against, and matched?
It was samples of DNA from people from Mexico and Central America–on the theory that the ancestors of today’s American Indians traveled across the land bridge from Asia and, as this migration made its way down through North America various of these ancestral American Indians peeled away and settled–in this or that location, there to form the various distinctive American Indian tribes–with the last remnant continuing South, and ending up in Mexico and Central America.
It was some of these DNA samples from Mexico and Central America that Warren very slightly matched.
“I’m tired of having to look up his name to make sure I get the small “d” at the beginning right.”
Why did you think this thing was worth it, to begin with?
Bill DeBlasio/Wilhelm was a big supporter of the Sandinistas three decades ago. (I very much doubt he was ever aware of the degree that Sandinista leaders were, from the beginning, supporters of Soviet imperialism. Fool,not knave.)
After all, that’s what all good “progressives” did back then. It is thus no surprise that he took the “progressive” position on policy for NYC public school -using race as a dominant criteria over discipline or achievement. After all, that’s what all good “progressives” do these days.
Vanderleun:
Because I have funny, old-fashioned habit of liking to be accurate when I write about something or someone.
Don’t you? 🙂
Well, that’s one down….
For those unaware, the prefix “de” denotes a family once regarded as of ‘noble’ birth. In this case, it translates as of the ‘House’ of Blasio.
In Europe’s noble houses, inheritance of the surname is through the father.
“Bill de Blasio was born on May 8, 1961 in Manhattan’s Doctors Hospital in New York City. He is the third son of Maria Angela (née de Blasio; 1917–2007) and Warren Wilhelm (1917–1979).”
Which means that Bill de Blasio’s actual name is William Wilhelm. And that, he has no legal or genealogical claim whatsoever to the de Blasio surname.
I’ve little doubt that he changed his name (if he bothered with that legality) to “de Blasio” because he considered it’s Latino etymology to be politically desirable. So too with “Bill” instead of William.
Like Elizabeth Warren, he’s a poseur and a liar.
Bill Wilhelm doesn’t sound like the greatest name for an aspiring politician, as its first association is Kaiser Wilhelm, who’s remembered with nostalgia by very few. There was a knuckleball pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles named Hoyt Wilhelm, who wasn’t that great but had a fairly long career, so maybe the name is remembered with affection in that town. Or not.
Affixing a phony “de” to your name was a well known ploy for poseurs and conmen back in the 19th century, yes, pretending to have an aristocratic background of some sort. Lots of people changed their names when moving from state to state, seeking to evade debt-collectors or the police. It was hard to nail down genealogies in those days. Sometimes it still is,
HoF, 143-122, sv 228, career era 2.52, entered majors at 29 yrs, retired at 49 yrs. 6 yrs w/CWS, 5 w/NYG, 5 w/BAL, 3 w/ATL, 2 w/LAD, CLE, 1 w/CHC, STL, CAL
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wilheho01.shtml
“Why on earth did de Blasio run in the first place?”
The same reason the REST of the clown car are “running”.
Stalking horse/ sacrificial lambs to distract from the shortcomings of the pre selected heir apparent, and make them APPEAR to be a “rational compromise” choice.
Uncle Joe has repeatedly demonstrated he’s not in it to win it. I expect his eleventh hour decline to include an “endorsement” for the NEW lying, nagging. loud mother-in-law/ raving crazy sister, that is normally kept in the Massachusetts attic with antique toys.
So who does that leave?
*sigh* Hanging
chadtag in there somewhere.I had a thought.. maybe the mayor could do what a couple of rock musicians in my old collection used to do, change the spelling of their names in the liner notes with every album.
Bill de Blozzioe
Byll diBlazio
Bil D. Blaasio
Bhil deBlahzyo
He could get a lot of mileage out of this sort of thing, I bet.
Down here in Georgia, we used to say we supported Jimmy Carter’s election as president because it would get him out of the state for at least four years.
“…why on earth…”
“I’ve been successful at screwing up NYC. Clearly, I deserve a chance to screw up the USA! (What’s that? You have something against Italians??)”
Now, he can go home, and complete finishing off NYC.