SHOCK!!! MAYOR SLY INSULTS UBER WHILST CITY COUNCIL PASSES KANSAS CITY RIDE-SHARE REGULATORY CRACKDOWN!!!
After days of social media activism that asserted cowtown tech hypocrisy, the Mayor raged against Uber advocates today in Council chambers.
To wit . . .
KANSAS CITY MAYOR SLY JAMES CALLED OUT UBER FOR "DISINGENUOUS" TACTICS AS THE COUNCIL PASSED LEGISLATION THAT MIGHT CHASE THE TECH RIDE SHARE GIANT OUT OF TOWN FOR AWHILE!!!
In classy fashion, Mayor Sly said Uber was "Jerking our chain . . . “Uber is choosing to leave because we will not give in and give them everything they want,” James said.
Now, the Mayor has the local media by the throat so his say isn't so surprising.
Here's what Uber had to say in a tone that's a little bit more professional than the rage of our Mayor aimed at social media advocacy today . . . Kansas City Uber Protest
Link tech damage:
KMBC: KC approves changes for taxi, ridesharing companies
KC Biz Journal: KC passes ordinance that could drive off Uber
NBC Action News: Uber leaving KC, says city is forcing it out
KSHB: Uber drivers asked Kansas City Council to vote down proposed regulations and fees that Uber says are too costly for part-time drivers.
Fox4: Future of ridesharing service in KCMO an uber mystery with passage of ordinance
Behind the scenes . . . Count on this fight going to Jeff City where Internets transit activists say they'll have a better chance of lobbying for free enterprise. Meanwhile, the Kansas City taxi establishment is confident their friends in the legislature will agree with river city.
Developing . . .
so I guess kc did not love uber?
ReplyDeleteFIGURES OUR NIGGER MAYOR WOULD SUPPORT ALL THE NIGGER WETBACK RAGHEAD DRIVERS. UBER HAS HONEST WHITE DRIVERS. NO FUCKING JUNGLE
ReplyDeleteMUSIC. THEY DON'T SMELL LIKE THE FUCKING ZOO EITHER.
Austin Alonzo @aalonzoKCBJ
ReplyDeleteAndy hung refused to answer questions.
I literally chased him down the stairs.
Hahaha so Andy pulled the ol' Russ Johnson routine!
"Internets transit"
ReplyDeleteLMAO!
More like Parasite Transit
ReplyDeleteSICK OF RAGHEAD YELLOW CAB THEIR CARS SMELL LIKE NIGGERS FUCKING GOATS
ReplyDeleteGo home and cry to mommy now Andy.
ReplyDeleteFor once I agree with James.
ReplyDeleteI like the guy's style! But not his chain.
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
ReplyDeleteUber needs to do business in Kansas City the Kansas City way. Ask for tax abatements, TIF, etc. Hell, suck up to Mensa boys' 50 friends.
ReplyDeleteOur city government likes to give handouts to make everyone feel obligated. It does not appreciate businesses or real estate developments that can make it on their own.
Ha ha ha ha...
ReplyDeleteJust waiting for this piece of shit company to go down the tubes as regulation comes down hard on them.
The fuckwad boss at Uber just sees this as a techy way to make money on the backs of unsuspecting folks who think this was an alternate way to make a buck instead of being a working stiff.
ReplyDeleteKalanick, who's been known to jump the gun on making public announcements, already went on record stating he can't wait to replace his fleet with self-driving cars, but Google holds all the power there and Brin made that very clear at the same [code] conference where Kalanick made his little announcement when he responded with, "We are most certainly going to partner with other companies, POSSIBLY Uber." Ouch! That one word, says A LOT, especially after Kalanick had literally just thrown all his drivers under the bus.
ReplyDeleteImagine what the PR guy at Uber must have to do every day - put some positive spin on the Dick Boss' brain farts. I hope he gets surge wages for that.
ReplyDeleteA lot of Yellow Cab drivers must be reading TKC these days. Or maybe it's just one posting over and over and over... .
ReplyDeleteIt's Bill George's Lady secretary
DeleteFuck that good for nothing idiot Sly James! There are only two things that worthless cocksucker is good for: wasting taxpayers money on that abomination street car project and being an inept civic leader for Kansas City. Go to hell, Sly James
ReplyDeleteGreat! Now you don't need to worry about drunken bar crawlers entering your or random people’s cars, believing them to be their Uber pick-up on weekend nights.
ReplyDeleteJames received 84% of the vote. No matter how you try to qualify that that's a mandate. He can, & will, do what ever he wants. It should be obvious to everyone by now, that he doesn't care what commoners want. He wasn't hired to represent them.
ReplyDelete"already went on record stating he can't wait to replace his fleet with self-driving cars"
ReplyDeleteCEO Travis Kalanik referred to Uber drivers as some “other dude” who does not need to be there, easily replaceable by a computer.
Whats the problem. These drivers are now free to work at one of the many fabulous kale and craft ale places downtown or as an artisan latte foam painter in one of the many urban lumberjack places in downtown just begging to hire people.
ReplyDeleteMoral of the story: In KC you work for the government, one way or another, or you don't work.
ReplyDeleteOH MY GAWD THE WORLD IS COMING TO AND END!!! OH MY GAWD!!!
ReplyDelete"Now you don't need to worry about drunken bar crawlers entering your or random people’s cars, believing them to be their Uber pick-up on weekend nights."
ReplyDeleteLMAO!
Ubers response is it's an anti-technology ordinance.
ReplyDeleteHahahahahahaha
Council can now get back to more important things like digging up $225,000 for the settlement for former aide of Michael Brooks
ReplyDeleteRoyals open season with 3-game sweep of White Sox
ReplyDeleteHow bout them Royals Tony!
Millennials!!!
ReplyDeleteForget about Portland or Austin as a place to settle and raise a family.
As you can see, here in KC we're always ahead of the curve in an ever changing and adapting world!
PS: We've still got Johnny Dare, BBQ and "The Lake" so you don't need to worry about what to do with your free time.
Millennials want to be in Brooklyn. The new hipster Utopia of America. CKMO is just a temporary stop on the way to the promised land. Where an urban lumberjack and his lil' lady can flourish amongst the concrete canyons, fruited streets, and greyish waves of sidewalk at peace.
ReplyDeleteSo Uber will just toss their drivers out on the curb with no severance or compensation being the dirt bags they are and split town.
ReplyDeleteShock!
There are no ethics manuals on Sandhill Road 7:38.
ReplyDeleteWe'll let you know if we see any blue shirts jumping off of buildings downtown.
ReplyDeleteBe interesting to see how Ubers rickshaw service launch in Delhi India goes over with the natives.
ReplyDeleteAlright enough this crap next.
ReplyDeleteMost if not all of these Uber drivers carry regular auto insurance, so when the get in a wreck and their hipster passenger racks up 100k in medical bills , the insurance company can deny the claim since the policy holder was using a private vehicle for commercial purpose. They dont want to pay the fees and follow the same regs as cab and limo companies have to pay. They wrap this turd up in a croissant by claiming it's some great new technological/cutting edge business. Even San Francisco banned Uber.
ReplyDeleteGlad these pest are off our back. Hope it's permanent.
ReplyDeleteTruth is without venture capital, this model would have never gotten off the ground. Unfortunately tech venture capitalists will invest in dog shit if it's been packaged for public consumption and they can get a Wall Street IPO out of it.
ReplyDeleteThe new Slime James business cards read:
ReplyDeleteHis Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Sly James, VC, DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of all the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Missouri in General and Kansas City in Particular.
I think the fellow is getting the "big head."
If anyone could somehow get all the activists demanding something for themselves by marching around and lying in the street somehow hooked up to a generator, KCMO could become the energy capital of the country!
ReplyDeleteInstead it's the clown show of the metro.
What were the acts in the three rings today?
Sly, you chased busienss away when it didn't agree with your funders. That is YOUR legacy.
ReplyDeleteVincent The General Lee for Mayor!
ReplyDelete“By trying to squeeze ridesharing into antiquated regulations, the City Council has effectively eliminated a safe and reliable transportation option, making Kansas City one of the few cities left in the nation without Uber.”
ReplyDeleteOh bullshit no one wants your bullshit and you know it.
Yeah but the Internet Social Media says it's true 9:05. So it must be true!
ReplyDeleteAndy Hung, Uber’s general manager in Kansas City, rushed down the stairs like Russ Johnson rushing toward the elevator with Mahoney in pursuit ......
ReplyDeleteWe should have just been a bunch of ignorant rubes and pushovers and let Uber have it's way with us.
ReplyDeleteApparently Sly went into bully mode.
ReplyDeleteVincent The General Lee for Mayor!
ReplyDeletePeople when you going to wake up to the whole technology scam.
ReplyDeleteSeriously
Ubers supposedly worth now valued at $41.2 billion and they can't afford the measly costs of setting up here? Or is it all one big lie?
ReplyDeleteTheres NO reason UBER can't abide by the laws like every other business has too, UBER is a lame excuse for trying to NOT operate and do business like other Certified and legit businesses do !
ReplyDeletehttp://www.kusi.com/story/28746229/five-weeks-ago
ReplyDeleteHere's why what happened heppend
Uber's valuation is just another fantasy marketed by Silicon Valley
ReplyDeleteGenius Venture Capital play but an eventually poor business model especially in overserved taxi and livery markets like KC that lack population density.
ReplyDeleteUber valuation should mark a nadir in tech insanity. Not only has the last sane person in the Valley left and switched out the lights, but someone probably paid him at least a billion dollars to do it.
ReplyDeleteSilicon Valley’s venture capitalists have collectively decided that a much-impersonated piece of taxi-dispatch software – you might know it as Uber – is worth $41bn?
ReplyDeleteROFLMAO!
99.9% of these frat boy run tech venture capitalized companies are lying out of their asses.
ReplyDeleteThey Trust Me, Dumb Fucks
We don't need any new things here in KC...
ReplyDeleteWe're all full up on Johnny Dare, BBQ, "The Lake" and Rockfest.
What else does a VIBRANT town need?
Vincent The General Lee for Mayor!
ReplyDeleteherf derf hayseeds.....herf derf....bring me a chai latte with goat semen..
ReplyDeleteImagination? Entrepreneurship? Ingenuity?...hell no, boy! You do as we tell you. And keep your mouth shut, bitch!
ReplyDeleteJust watched the clip of Mayor Sly on the news. What a fucking arrogant gorilla.
ReplyDeleteSLY STRONG!
ReplyDeleteUber weak
Don't worry! The toy train will be the transportation of the peoples!
ReplyDeleteThat's funny! And I'll bet that none of you opinionated mother fuckers took the time to VOTE on Tuesday so that Sly would know that you mean business. Fuck all of you stupid Hayseeds. I voted, not that it did any good without your fucking vote to add with mine.
ReplyDeleteThis is a fucking cow town filled with dumb assed home schooled crackers!
The silverback has spoken and the rest of us monkeys have to obey. I'd like to throw my shit at Silverback James like at the zoo. Shit wars anyone? I'll be over here eating my golden banana if Silverback allows...KC the edge of technology? My chapped monkey ass...
ReplyDeleteUber promises it's done defying Portland taxi laws - April 7
ReplyDeletePORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Months after suspending operations in Portland, Uber is on the verge of returning to the city and operating under regulations.
Among other things, the proposed regulations require Uber drivers to have liability insurance and undergo background checks.
Uber launched Portland service in December, but stopped within two weeks after the city took legal action. The sides agreed to let things settle for a few months while a task force established regulations that would cover ride-sharing companies.
Good luck. Will this be like how they "require" AirBnb to do things but then do nothing at all when the company doesn't comply?
ReplyDeleteUBER CEO is an Arrogrant Cocky full of Shit Brainless bullshit artist, he's managed to Swindle some Tech Trendy Nerds out of some money, and some crooked Wall Street investors, and then claim his company is worth Billions, he's nothing more than an Illusionist bullshit scam artist, his time is coming soon, just like Bernie Madoff and Ken Lay of Enron Fiasco, and see what happened, the Naïve & Clueless fell for that line of bullshit too, and believed everything they were told, that is until the deck of cards got reshuffled unknown to the Naïve & Clueless until it was too late, ohnly then did they realize they had been had all along !!
ReplyDeleteLet's see, the last time the Mayor invoked the "jerking my chain" mantra, was the PIEA snafu, right before he gutted it.
ReplyDeleteHis "chain" was also "jerked" when people were "over blowing" the teen mayhem on the plaza.
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