New York City is bracing for its worst blizzard in nearly a decade, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani has a request: show up at your local sanitation garage tomorrow morning and help dig the city out. Bring a shovel. And while you’re at it, bring two small passport-style photos, two original forms of identification plus photocopies of each, and a Social Security card. All of that, to hold a shovel in the snow. To cast a ballot in a New York election, you need the last four digits of a Social Security number — and only when you first register.
The contrast arrived fully formed on the internet Saturday, and it detonated.
With a blizzard warning in effect for the first time in nine years, the New York City Department of Sanitation announced it was recruiting temporary, per diem shovelers to clear snow from public areas, including bus stops, crosswalks, fire hydrants, and step streets.
Mamdani promoted the program at a press conference, telling New Yorkers: “For those who want to do more to help their neighbors and earn some extra cash, you, too, can become an Emergency Snow Shoveler. Just show up at your local sanitation garage between 8:00 AM and 1:00 PM tomorrow with your paperwork which is accessible online.”
You can’t make this crap up LOL
Now that right there is funny, I don’t care who you are.