Those of you that watched my upstate New York drive video last week will remember my thoughts on this pivotal New York City mayoral election. And when I say it’s pivotal I’m not being hyperbolic.
Everywhere and among everyone I know in the city, there’s this palpable sense that whatever is worth fighting for in Manhattan could be rendered obsolete if Zohran Mamdami is elected. And really, I’m going to put it out for the record – a vote for Zohran Mamdani is not really a vote for him. It’s really a vote for the extremist special interest blocs that have managed to wrestle political control from mainstream U.S. Democrats, who were foolish enough to dip their hands into this political base to score their seats. These same Democrats now find that their long-term political careers are on more shaky ground at this point than if they didn’t pander to this base to begin with.
But……………..that’s not the point of this post.
The point of this post is NOT about what’s best for New York City, no no no…..
The point of this post is about what’s best for (drum roll)…..Michael Williams!
Yes, that’s right.
Self-serving politics at best! I am the cosmic child of this new century – a phoenix rising from the ashes of the post 9/11-era; golden, freshly shaven, glabrous with helmet and greco-roman armor adorned with bitcoin.
My cape: fashioned in royal purple cloth with a repeating pattern of the “thumbs-up like” symbol of various social media apps.
I’ve sat patiently and watched as an interesting financial proposition has emerged on betting markets across the globe: place your bets on who will win the NYC mayoral election.
Here’s my premise: this weekend or very early into Monday morning, a special meeting will be convened by illustrious leaders of finance, real-estate and politics in Manhattan. The goal: an intervention, a deal to Andrew Cuomo. Drop out of the mayoral race and give your 37% bloc to Curtis Sliwa and we will pay you X amount of money. Or, you get nothing and – more than likely – lose this election and be known as the guy who, not only knowingly killed 12,000 New York State senior citizens and lied about it, but also played the deciding role in the undercutting of a democratic election in New York City and rendered the city defenseless against a maliciously incompetent kleptocracy.
If I’m Andrew Cuomo and I’m looking at that promised money, I would do it.
But as Michael Williams, I’m looking at the binary betting contract that says:
“Curtis Sliwa will win the New York City mayoral election” – on sale for $.01 cents/each.
This is where my big game hunting instincts kick in (and….the fervent desire to not have to work as hard for the next 3 months).
I had $1,000 extra from October’s work so I felt like this would be the perfect application.
A payout of this magnitude would allow me to concentrate on ending the year at a decent and peaceful pace and go into January without any pressure about how hard I need to work just to make up for the quiet of that month.
Could I have just done a lower number? Sure. But I feel pretty strongly about my anticipation and if it comes true, I’m rewarded quite well.
Thus, if you catch news footage about New York City’s mayoral election on your newsfeeds the next few days and there’s a crazy person in the background running around in a deranged frantic manner, crazy eyed, with a sign to vote for Curtis Sliwa….it’s highly likely that could be me LOL 😂😂😂
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