The best tweets of the mayoral election

de Blasio family — Our new first family, preparing to usher in a wave of redistribution. via @deBlasioNYC

If you slept through the blaring of the Internationale last night, or just decided to watch the Fox comedy block instead, we’ve got news for you: we have a new mayor. Bill de Blasio is our 109th mayor, and barring a situation where Bloomberg buys all the ballots and changes them, will take office in January. Whether a very, very tall Park Slope liberal with a beautiful interracial family ends up being good or bad for the city, or disappointing to the liberals who swept him in to office is yet to be seen. One thing we know for sure though is that we all brought the funny on this last night of the election cycle, so let’s take a stroll through the best election jokes of the night.

Thanks (I think?), NY1, for creating this moment. pic.twitter.com/R5TTjj8FhY

— Jody Avirgan (@jodyavirgan) November 6, 2013

New York City: Come Visit Our Democratic Socialist Paradise™

— Josh Greenman (@joshgreenman) November 6, 2013

.@deblasio campaign bash is costing $63k, @JoeLhota4Mayor‘s is costing $30k – yet Lhota’s is the one with an open bar? #taleoftwoparties

— Yoav Gonen (@yoavgonen) November 5, 2013

CNN calls it for Cats.

— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 6, 2013

Joe Lhota loses NYC Mayoral race, gangs of kittens now running wild over subway tracks shutting down the city

— lawblob (@lawblob) November 6, 2013

We looting the apple store at midnite RT @Breaking911: BREAKING: Bill De Blasio Elected Mayor of New York City

— Desus (@desusnice) November 6, 2013

I’m looking forward to getting back to 80’s-style crime. Everyday will be like The Warriors. Armor up, hipsters.

— Annemarie Dooling (@TravelingAnna) November 6, 2013

Whoa, check out the hammer and sickle on top of the Chrysler Building.

— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) November 6, 2013

“We will destroy Gotham, then when it is done and Gotham is ashes, then you have my permission to die.”–Bill DeBlasio tonight, probably.

— Mark Lotto (@marklotto) November 6, 2013

@errollouis if Lhota truly believed his ads, shouldn’t he be telling everyone to run for their lives now?

— Gregory Gomez (@GregoryGomezEsq) November 6, 2013

IF YOU NEED ME ILL BE IN THE LES AT THE ANARCHIST SWITCH BOARD OR IN TOMPKINS SQUARE COPPING DIRT WEED #DeBlasiosNYC #newyorkback

— el-p (@therealelp) November 6, 2013

Well, at least we’ve been spared years of “New York Thity” jokes.

— Brad Pearson (@B_Rad_Pearson) November 6, 2013

De Blasio speaks Spanish with a Sandinista accent.

— Bill Hammond (@NYDNHammond) November 6, 2013

De Blasio’s Spanish > Bloomberg’s Spanish

— Brokelyn (@Brokelyn) November 6, 2013

my god, trash cans have just been thrown through the windows of every pizza place in Brooklyn, what’s going on

— alex pareene (@pareene) November 6, 2013

@pareene Unconfirmed reports that a Pelham-bound 6 train has been “taken.”

— Benjamin Hart (@realaxelfoley) November 6, 2013

I thought I was watching a more dialogue-heavy Death Wish for 10 minutes just now and it turns out it was the news. De Blasio’s New York.

— David Roth (@david_j_roth) November 6, 2013