3 out of 4 of the leading candidates in this race are from New York. Which is a bad thing because New York is a failed city full of obnoxious people from other parts of the country that gets by on tourism.
Hillary Clinton, an obnoxious person from another part of the country who once claimed to be a Yankees fan, and Bernie Sanders, an obnoxious New Yorker who moved to Vermont despite having absolutely no ability to survive in a rural environment without government money, can't figure out how to ride the New York City subway.
They tried to show that they were ordinary people just like the rest of us. Ordinary people who fly chartered jets and can't figure out how to get through a turnstile.
Bernie Sanders doesn't understand the subway at all.
Asked when he last rode the subway and whether he'd campaign in the stations, the Vermont senator said, 'Actually we rode the subway...when we were here? About a year ago? But I know how to ride the subways. I’ve been on them once or twice.'
The news publication was skeptical that he really had been on a New York subway that recently and asked him, 'How do you ride the subway today?''
'What do you mean, "How do you ride the subway?"' Sanders parroted.
Putting it another way, the questioner said, 'How do you get on the subway today?'
To which Sanders replied, 'You get a token and you get in.'
'Wrong,' he was told.
Trying humor instead, Sanders said, 'You jump over the turnstile.'
'We would like our photographer to be there when you jump over the turnstile,' a board member said before questioning moved on.
You use a MetroCard, which is a thin slip of yellow plastic that costs a dollar, plus whatever the inflated fare is, and can't be scanned by the turnstile. Here's Hillary Clinton trying to get into the subway with a MetroCard as if it were a classified email server.
I'm sure somebody's getting fired over this. Also if Hillary becomes president, she will seal off all the subways and salt the earth. Unlike Bush I's fake scanner story, this will go nowhere because you're not supposed to humiliate Democrats for being out of touch with ordinary Americans.