Andrew Yang announces his run for mayor of New York City

[@zenli1407]

This speech is really good. It's like Andrew Yang to have so many policies. He brought up so many problems that need to be fixed.

[@absolutelyflabbergasted6380]

Let's see if the establishment doesn't try to screw him ,like Hillary screwed Bernie.

[@Jaymes27]

It was the whole DNC that screwed Bernie, twice

[@brucelee8926]

Establishment and the Big Media like CNN, fox , and MsNBC are teaming up to smear Yang . Hes a threat to their power. Big media and the establishments are the real enemies of the working people.

[@presswerks5476]

Hit pieces are already out

[@AmanfromSouth128]

Definetely they will

[@jjw9222]

Elections hahahahahahaha

[@youknowthefunnythingis6869]

One of the few respectable people in politics, I hope he gets where he's going because we're gonna need new age politicians just for the fact we live in a new century being run by politicians stuck in an old way of thinking that does nothing but hold back our progression as a country. As Always yang gang forever

[@deewonders6959]

I think Yang will win.

[@ycombine1053]

Let's hope so. For the city's sake

[@stealth797]

AFAIK he's already leading the polls by a wide margin... hopefully he can survive all the establishment's attacks on him.

[@garyk2629]

Closer to election, they're going to go all out on the hit jobs. They're scared of him.

[@ededdneddy4ever34]

if it was a fair election he'd landslide. To the left of diblasio and would really be a great mayor and great springboard for a future presidential bid. He's got my money.

[@joech1065]

@@stealth797 That's amazing. I really hope he pulls this off.

[@TacetTheTerror]

I hope once Yang is done fixing NY he fixes all of the USA.

[@robbie3333]

What and who NY and the country needs now! Go ANDREW!!!

[@GrimsGoods]

I’m not from NY but he looks like he has a plan and wants to help, which is more than most national politicians.

[@jamesonlanglois7822]

Love Yang. You can tell he’s authentic

[@Fajita.tamale]

The hill always has the good stuff 🥳

[@KatherineDudney]

Thank you Andrew Yang! You have had my support from the beginning!

[@nomad_333_]

Yang Gang

[@illegitimateotaku794]

I am so thrilled to hear Yang is running for Mayor of New York City. I can't wait to see a trial of UBI rolled out to such a large population.

[@jjw9222]

More welfare yeah, try it in NY, let's see how many more people can more out.

[@henrygustav7948]

yup tax one segment of population to give out cash for another. Wait till those people leave the city and destroys tax base. UBI is not going to work especially not on the local level.

[@joech1065]

@@henrygustav7948 People are willing to pay ridiculous housing prises in NY, because they already want or need to be in NY. Making a city better by improving its businesses and quality of life, will only make it more attractive to live there. It's like saying that Scandinavian countries will soon collapse, because people will leave them to live in counries with lower taxes. It doesn't work that way. Even employers choose not based on tax, but based on demographics (like talent or related businesses they need), at least in those areas where jobs won't automated away soon anyway. Like people are willing to go to Sillicon Valley, even despite its rekt housing prices, because they want to be near talent and investors, and the whole startup boiling pot.

[@coastcity7029]

New Yang City baby

[@roastpork5437]

Yang Gang soldiers are ready to win this for General Yang.

[@jimd1617]

Love him 🥰

[@ericruiz4699]

I have no doubt he will win

[@oldgordo61]

Anyone is better than Bill the Bozo di Blasio. Maybe Yang could pull it off and restore some sanity to the city.

[@ededdneddy4ever34]

First Andrew takes mayor Then Andrew takes President Then Andrew takes the world

[@justinsixdee30]

... then profit?

[@stevec6919]

I support Yang!

[@sgz257]

Yang Yang Yang Yang

[@kyleganse4978]

I hope he wins to spread his ideas. Brilliant dude that needs to be more involved in political clean up of the dead beats.

[@SCANLZ]

I'm from California and I'm glad that NY has an opportunity to elect Andrew Yang as their Mayor.

[@shush2000]

god dammit I have missed this man. GO YANG!!!

[@godlymajins]

Same fam

[@mandrepost25]

Yang Gang!

[@oceanbreeze4361]

Yellow lives matter too😄. Go Yang👍and win this time.👏👍👍

[@KenHuyn]

For people pointing out the false facts that Andrew is some kind of billionaire businessman, here is the truth about all of the mayoral candidates. Shaun Donovan: $20 M Raymond McGuire: $15 M Eric Adams: $1-5 M Maya Wiley: $1- 5M Scott Stringer: $1-5M Kathryn Garcia: $1.8M Andrew Yang: $1 M Most of that was from starting Manhattan GMAT Prep and Venture For America which was placing entrepreneurs in struggling communities in Detroit or New Orleans.

[@nicepokerface3465]

New York City NEEDS Yang

[@michaelg6686]

"Give Yang a Chance". That's the slogan.

[@lukem21]

Yeah they’re trying to appeal to the millions of Americans already turned off by yang because he is an Asian American

[@js-ed4lv]

The man with the plan is now in action. New York is lucky to have him.

[@LargeKhoiFish]

Love this man

[@nickolauskalisek7303]

I’m so happy for him he was my second choice behind Bernie

[@IDRISFREDISON]

inspiration for New York

[@ayhandargin8795]

I will vote for you Andrew.

[@bones007able]

The Yang Gang will support Andrew no matter what he does .....

[@CoveringFish]

I wanna move to New York now

[@nowshipping]

Good to keep the Yang up.

[@samlee-dz6xq]

So inspiring!!!! Go Yang Gang!!! Go New York!!! He will bring NYC back to life and transform NY the City of the future. Le'ts come together and support this decent and authentic man to be the next mayor of NY.

[@xboscarx]

I’m excited for New York City. If he shows that his policies work there, I have a hard time believing that the rest of the country won’t follow.

[@Panda_J1]

I don’t like that his ubi policies is only for the poor. They already have welfare like dam how much more help they need

[@lilychang7037]

Great news. Thank you Andrew Yang

[@jessicatatum7769]

I need to move to NYC so I can vote for Yang and AOC

[@informing_]

Let's do this Yang Gang!

[@AK-ux8vf]

Hope he wins, at least he is genuine! Let's see id he can defeat corrupt democratic machine in NY

[@cloudsilver1]

Yang gang!!!!!

[@dentonfender6492]

Looks like many people from all over the country are on your side to become mayor of N.Y. City. Go for it!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love your ideas---- truly progressive.

[@PuppetsByPalmieri]

Heck yeah!

[@AmanfromSouth128]

At least there is someone with some good ideas

[@TheSevenup666]

I wanna see mayor Yang!

[@LetsLearnEconomic]

Nice to hear

[@theyehsohz]

I might have to leave my island to head back to NYC just to vote and stay if he gets elected

[@kristinamusantejd735]

Love this guy. Run Yang Run 🕊

[@otalgebra4436]

If I had to bet on someone I would bet on yang to win.

[@ThuhOthers]

$2000 per person sounds really familiar to something I heard from someone else in december 🤔

[@mahirrahman7]

Online learning is a joke and frankly we should use technology to further open up schools in person quickly just like the economy.

[@SkeletonModel91]

No one deserves to be mayor of New York City more than this man.

[@richardaurre4840]

How could a man as smart as Mr Yang, think he could repair the rot in NYC?

[@godlymajins]

No choice but to try, I think. UBI needs more data.

[@joeschaefer-sommerville3386]

This is such great news for New York. Yang and his ideas are at least future leaning. Forward thinking. If New York wasn't one of the most crowded/expensive cities in the country, I would be moving there. Honestly hate New York and have never had a positive trip there, but at least when he wins, they will have someone actually fighting to improve the city. This should build his national recognition and hopefully he'll be able to prove his methods as successful on a large scale. Desperately want him to be president some day.

[@JackTheOrangePumpkin]

Loving the Support in the comments! Get the Andrew Yang App to Support him

[@StonedSpagooter]

I mean why not?

[@mercilessmoose7819]

YANG GANG NYC!

[@DrDoeg]

Got my vote

[@Coolhand-Luc]

Yang, Tulsi, Bernie. The leadership the dems need right now. Down Nancy and Chuck.

[@oldgordo61]

Don't care for Magic Money Bernie. But a Yang and Tulsi running for the DNC leadership and presidency? I could see that happen one day. Far more palatable than what americans are going have to deal with for the et 4 years..that is IF the country survives.

[@jillthinksimabreakfasttaco4904]

I'm not a Democrat, but I could get behind Tulsi and Yang. They exhibit whatever sanity is left in the Democrat party. Bernie not so much. He's a slip and fall away from being a COVID casualty.

[@mahirrahman7]

@@jillthinksimabreakfasttaco4904 Bernie is just too old he had his time in 2020 but the Democrats screwed him in one night

[@mahirrahman7]

@@oldgordo61 You can't label Bernie as magic money and not label yang as one too. Both espouse universal programs

[@jaredsmith4281]

Was this his strategy all along.. National splash then back it down once known? Brilliant!

[@stevewarwick2103]

Yang for NYC mayor!

[@SkipAd_Vegas]

good.

[@bones007able]

IDK.... he has a aggressive agenda for sure.... and he has over 10 opponents running as well... I wish him luck...

[@akmbhuiyan2490]

Yang is the real deal !!

[@andresd4464]

Andrew i wish you could be my city's mayor please don't be changed by the swamp or lobbyists for new yorks sake

[@MC-br1gk]

I think this is a bad move

[@William1866]

Just in time for a massive commercial real estate crash.

[@jakelorenz1040]

I wouldn’t trust anyone else to try to lead people out of one though

[@artyumdragstov8823]

I need someone to explain to me if he will be running against deblasio

[@juliandjangkuak]

Deblasio is not running, term limits

[@SHGames97]

@@juliandjangkuak unless he pulls a Bloomberg

[@naruck15]

I wonder if Deblasio is gonna ignore him, shun him, or endorse him, I'm guessing the first.

[@ahopefiend1867]

@@SHGames97 what? How?

[@SHGames97]

@@ahopefiend1867 Michael Bloomberg former mayor of New York ran for an additional term after his term limits had been reached and not one person stopped him. So presuming De Blasio wanted to do the same thing, I doubt anyone would stop him either (unless Yang gets popular support which he certainly should.)

[@staasinnovations2126]

I think a 10 year old could beat DiBlasio

[@theskiptracer4941]

Would be better for us if you ran for governor.

[@ChernChristine]

Who is watching that is able to vote for him? Can you like this comment so I can show my friend in Brooklyn lol

[@gunkanjima3408]

I smell a last second screw job

[@glm4054]

🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊

[@benjaminanderson7066]

I still don’t like Pete the Cheat.

[@italioraucci]

POLITICS AS USUAL... VAGARIES IS ALL HE'S SAYING. NO SPECIFICS.

[@waldenli9232]

I feel you in many cases. But he lays out stuff much more concrete than most. It doesn't help to be tooo concrete though. Specifics depend on whether we have enough knowledge about the matter yet. It's hard to lay out everything before you become mayor and gain access to all the information, what the subway situation is, what size of help is needed by how many, etc. If you look at his records though, you can't find anything more specific than what he proposed: $1000.00 per month, every person. Freedom dividend. I hate hollow words as well, but this man is one to be trusted. As far as I can see.

[@italioraucci]

@@waldenli9232 HE'S STILL A POLITICIAN. SO THEY CAN'T BE TRUSTED. THEY'RE GUILTY, TILL PROVEN INNOCENT... BESIDES, HE LIKES TO SIDE STEP THE REPARATIONS SUBJECT AND HE'S TRYING TO USE FOUNDATIONAL BLACKS TO GET BENEFITS FOR HIS PEOPLE. HE'LL BE PUSHING THE MINORITY, PEOPLE OF COLOR NARRATIVE TO GET THE MARKS TO CON THEMSELVES INTO BELIEVING THAT HE MEANS FOUNDATIONAL BLACKS... WHEN HE MEANS EVERYBODY BUT FOUNDATIONAL BLACKS. I DON'T TRUST HIM. HE'S JUST LIKE THE REST.

[@vladp4116]

Why would Torres who just landed a $175k gig in Congress waste time co-chairing yangs campaign? $$$$ Yang is making it worthwhile to gaslight black/brown voters, in return Torres stays semi relevant in the city as he will have to ramp up his re-election campaign in a year. Any normal person can’t devote time to a campaign with a full time job making 175k. I wonder who has better benefits, the us government or the city of ny? Surely he wouldn’t be stupid enough to quit Congress for a gig in Yangs administration?

[@laughingdog9614]

if you are not documenting the number of cycles or amplifications of the PCR test you will not progress past mystery.

[@J0einOK]

So, you going to put a local tax on Wall Street carried interests?

[@markedwinwebb]

Who cares?

[@MichaelSmith-oy2he]

He doesn’t have the best interest of New Yorkers in mind. I won’t be voting for him and neither should you!

[@Songmyz]

Who loves free money in exchange of higher taxes?

[@kyleclark2623]

If we just redistributed our current tax dollars then we wouldn't have to increase taxes. Currently we spend 700 billion dollars more on defense than the next 10 highest countries combined. If we cut that to only 300 billion more then we instantly have 400 billion to go to ubi. The estimated cost of ubi would be about 2 trillion dollars a year, so 400 billion right off the bat without changing a single thing is quite a large chunk. Next you create a wealth tax so musk and bezos can chip in a few bucks out of their combined 500 billion dollars, then you establish a VAT tax that stops these billion dollar and trillion dollar companies from paying zero in taxes (excluding payroll taxes). That alone would create hundreds of billions of dollars...... there's plenty of ways to create revenue.

[@Songmyz]

​@@kyleclark2623 First of all, the concept of UBI is ridiculous. People love it because its free money thats all it really boil down to. Secondly, UBI during this economic shutdown makes sense only because the government forced it upon the people. UBI after the government re-opens everything is not beneficial because it forces people to become freeloaders i.e. when the government gave that $600 boost for UB back in March, many people chose to stay home instead of returning to work.

[@Songmyz]

@@kyleclark2623 You're referring to redistribution on the federal level. Yang is running for city mayor.

[@kyleclark2623]

@@Songmyz it's not free money. It is our money. If you get back a certain amount of money that already comes out of your tax dollars spent then that is nothing more than a tax break.. which Republicans love apparently...... literally every study done and trial ran for ubi debunks your "freeloader" theory. For most people, 74% of people who are living paycheck to paycheck, ubi will be used for groceries and bills, allowing them a little room to breath or save some money..... thank God the $600 allowed a few people to stay home for a week during this pandemic that is about to become the number 1 cause of death in this country this year, surpassing heart disease.

[@jjw9222]

Universal income amount. Really, the doctor operating on your brain will earn the same income as the person handing you a burger.

[@RhyanLopez]

That makes no logical sense and is not even close to what this is about in actuality

[@ar71498]

Surgeons still have a base income greater than people flipping burgers tf you on about. If you can't see how serious income inequality is in the US right now you're part of the problem

[@roastpork5437]

I see the lies are coming in.

[@AndrewGackenbach]

You really don't understand the concept do you? That is not at all what UBI, in fact you missed the B in UBI.

[@jjw9222]

@@ar71498 so the people flipping burgers have the same intelligence, education & skills as a brain surgeon but they choose to flip burgers, at same pay.

[@aboutblank7662]

Shame on Yang .

[@HoeYouGay]

Seriously, shame on Yang for trying to help the people of New York 😤