Bill de Blasio faced backlash in 2021 for dancing at New Year’s while enforcing mask mandates, business closures, and gathering bans on New Yorkers, exposing a double standard where leaders exempt themselves from their own rules. Elijah Schaffer frames this as "state-designed corruption," comparing it to other officials—like Canadian politicians or teacher unions—who traveled internationally despite public safety claims. Andy Cohen’s CNN clip called de Blasio out for ignoring the city’s struggles, but Schaffer dismissed it as unprofessional, suggesting media hypocrisy mirrors political elites’ disregard for consistency, deepening public distrust in leadership during pandemic-era governance. [Automatically generated summary]
Did you see Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, the most disgusting thing I've seen in a long time?
And believe me, when I was younger, I saw two girls, one cup.
And that was the most disgusting thing I had seen into this day.
Do not Google that.
But now I watched this.
I want to play the clip for you.
I want to warn you: if you have children at home, if you are sensitive to things, viewer discretion is advised.
Remember, this is a sitting official in a city that is locked down.
People are not allowed to meet or private gatherings.
They're not allowed to go out in the street.
They cannot open their businesses.
This is how he celebrated New Year's.
We can turn the volume down on that for a second.
What you are witnessing, guys, is something much more worse than sexual degeneracy and deviancy.
You're witnessing tyranny, which is allowing not only the degeneracy in our country to flourish, not only promoting it, but at the same time, while they lecture every single one of us about how, oh, you need to wear a mask and you need to not meet with your family in your home.
And oh, you need to not care about riots and these things in the streets.
You know what Bill de Blasio did while he's ruined his whole city and said nobody could celebrate the new year?
He celebrated the new year dancing with his wife.
And what a tone-deaf thing that is.
How dare you, as a leader of a city, do the complete opposite in broad daylight, well, technically city light, on nationally televised programming, showing people that you, as the leader of the city, have more rights.
You have more ability and more freedom than the people who elected you.
Tar and feathers were used on less.
And I know he probably thought, to be fair, oh, you know, how is this a big problem?
I'm just dancing with my wife.
Well, that's the same thing we're all asking you.
Why is that a big problem?
It's a big problem because you made it a big problem.
It's because you've designated it as a problem, not because it is.
And a lot of the problems we're facing today are because government has allowed them.
Now 2021 is the first time in history where government is telling us, hey, look, 2020, yeah, the year where the government caused mostly all the problems in your life.
How are we going to fix them in 2021?
Here's a little more government to fix your government problems.
Yeah, exactly.
And for a mayor to think that he has the right to live above the will of the people in his own decrees, well, he's exactly like almost every other individual who's currently in politics preaching that same narrative, including politicians in Canada who have been caught, including school teacher union leaders who are caught in the Bahamas, vacationing by pools, saying they can't open up their schools safely.
They can travel internationally, but they can't open up their schools.
I mean, we are living in a state of designed corruption meant to push us to the tipping point.
And that's the truth.
And I'm not the only one who lost it over this.
I think, do we have the clip of Andy Cohen?
Andy Cohen on CNN at CNN.
Oh my gosh, CNN lost it over this too.
I think when CNN loses it, you know something's wrong.