Hayley Caronia

And what was clear right away is that this relief this one bus gives to working-class New Yorkers, imagine if every bus felt like this.

So he pulls this stunt where he rides the free bus and asks people if they want the bus to be free.

Obviously, if you ask people who just paid for a bus or they're sitting on a free bus, hey, would you want to pay for this or do you want it to be free?

Obviously, people are going to say free.

People love free shit.

That's why he's in office, right?

So...

Not only that, like he campaigns on this stuff that he has no jurisdiction over whatsoever.

Mayor Mamdani cannot change the prices.

He can yap about it, but he can't do anything to change it.

The MTA is Governor Kathy Hochul's jurisdiction.

And yeah, it impacts New York City in a big way.

But the MTA isn't just the subway and bus.

The MTA is also the Long Island Railroad, the Metro North train to Connecticut.

There is a PATH train that takes you from New York City to New Jersey.

That is run by the Port Authority of New Jersey.

So it is a state thing, not a city run thing.

So Mamdani likes to think that he was just elected as king of the world, but he needs to be humbled big time.

He is a mayor, a mayor, and he is under the impression that he has more power than he thinks he has.

Or he just knows that his voting base is so stupid that they'll believe anything he says.