Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York took to Twitch again for another session of his show “Talk With The People” to talk politics in the big city, primarily with a focus on the mayor’s plans to improve bus travel in the Big Apple. This follows his administration’s recent announcement of the Bus Action Plan, and to talk about the initiative, the mayor was joined by Deputy Commissioner for Transit Development Diniece Mendes to perform Mario Kart World live streaming. Maybe he should stick to winning the mayoral election instead of hitting the trail, because Mendes managed to beat him by talking about the future of public transportation in New York.
Quite wildly, Mamdani says he’s never seen a Switch controller before today, and I mean, I guess coming from the same guy who I don’t know what Minecraft it’s beyond the filmit’s not impossible? The duo started racing on the Toad’s Turnstile track, which features buses, so it’s thematically appropriate.
In between trash talk and discussion of the city’s new bus plan, Mamdani asked the cat to share some stories from his New York City bus experiences, but whoever runs the NYC mayor’s Twitch account has wised up since Mamdani’s first stream in which the cat spammed crude comments and NSFW ASCII images. Now the chat is filled with people asking the mayor to play games like Marvel Rivals And Monitoringand I’m half-convinced he could turn a group of toxic players into a cohesive unit in a single turn.