New York City Mayor Eric Adams is correct in one sense — when people see the city, it means something to them. What exactly that something is isn’t necessarily good. Now Kansas … Kansas doesn’t have a brand. Kansas needs to get its public relations people on the job and working on a brand for the state. (Side note: The first time this editor visited NYC, there was a souvenir shop in Penn Station selling a T-shirt with a picture of a gun pointed at the viewer and the line, New York … It Ain’t Kansas. It was a cool shirt.)
NYC MAYOR ADAMS: “New York has a brand, and when people see it, it means something. […] Kansas doesn’t have a brand.” pic.twitter.com/9ER7L3PbnX
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 27, 2022
I’m just here for the replies pic.twitter.com/E25nuRHsWy
— Alex Schroeder (@AlexS1898) September 27, 2022
NYC has a brand.https://t.co/nBIddIoCol
— Ed Gallagher (@ejgallagher1) September 27, 2022
Welcome to NYC subway under Adams brand. pic.twitter.com/T0j7lNRCw2
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) September 27, 2022
An NYC man pummeled a woman in a subway station.
The man had 7 prior arrests and killed his grandmother in the 1990s.
Woke prosecutors and politicians let this man be on the streets. pic.twitter.com/rK4AZy8puk
— Andrew Pollack (@AndrewPollackFL) September 27, 2022
Being beaten on the subway or being pushed onto the tracks seems to be part of New York’s brand, along with violence against Jews and Asians.
Residents of Kansas watching your bail laws play out pic.twitter.com/L6zfQlhelr
— VK (@vjeannek) September 27, 2022
Yeah, a brand that now says, “if you wear a NYC shirt in NYC, you’ll probably get robbed of that shirt, you wallet & your cell phone.” Kansas does not have that “brand”
— SeldenGADawgs (@SeldenGADawgs) September 27, 2022
I live in Kansas. We do have a brand. It’s things like our people not taking a shit on a sidewalk or a cop car. Little “brand things” like that.
— metlman (@metlman) September 27, 2022
NY’s brandhttps://t.co/dADSBqUgdb
— Captain Ahab (@SeaCaptainAhab) September 27, 2022
New York Brand: “We all move to Florida to get away from this overpriced, dangerous dumpster fire.”
— 𝐒𝐚𝐦 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐩𝐞𝐫 🇺🇸 (@woodhull_abe) September 27, 2022
Have him point to Kansas on a map…
— LisetteInBlue💫 (@bookgirl8) September 27, 2022
Kansan here, I would rather be homeless in the heartland than own a home in the cesspool that New York has become. Not even a hard choice.
— Timothy (@Shaentao) September 27, 2022
Kansas has Wizard of Oz, you have Escape from New York. Your brand is not as alluring as you think.
— Darth Phazon #EndTheMCU (@DarthPhazon) September 27, 2022
Robbery and homicide is its brand
— Wyatt (@PatriotW98) September 27, 2022
Nothing like living with the potential to be pushed on the tracks at any moment
— Vote Third Party No Matter Who (@Platinumflyer1) September 27, 2022
I mean “Ya Might Get Shoved into a Subway” barely fits on a bumper sticker, but there they are.
— FNU LNU (@prosqtor) September 27, 2022
I’ve been to NYC many times. It has a brand all right… and they can keep it.
— Charles Snyder (@Navarre_Charlie) September 27, 2022
I won’t be violently attacked in Kansas, and if I am the thug will actually be prosecuted.
I like that brand. @NYCMayor @AlvinBraggNYC
— Mimi (@MadMimi3) September 27, 2022
New York’s brand is a dumpster fire
— living the Jeep life (@asmith9011) September 27, 2022
Wheat, sunflowers and common sense. Yes, Kansas has a brand. And it’s frankly a pretty good one.
— Austin Draude (@radiodraude) September 27, 2022
My Kansas brand: view from my 3 bedroom house on 1/2 acre. $980/month mortgage. pic.twitter.com/kg9PFUUwml
— Tod Edmonds (@Ttownmule) September 27, 2022
come at us bro pic.twitter.com/Jv5qDi534a
— gracey ✨ (@starryeyedg) September 27, 2022
I believe Kansas’s brand is “We are not New York.”
— Exiled Appalachian (@SocialExilety) September 27, 2022
That’s precisely it. Kansas is where you go to get as far away from the New York experience as possible.
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Editor’s Note:
Related:
Sounds like Mayor Eric Adams is seeking revenge on Greg Abbott for daring to send migrants to sanctuary city of New York https://t.co/eZdnJhTEgv
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 9, 2022
