Okay, as someone who’s never set foot in New York City, is it really that difficult for them to elect a mayor who’s not a giant hunk of fuck?
honestly how did they go from deblasio to a fucking cop in 2021, just after all the nationwide BLM protests
It’s NYC. Everyone is a giant hunk of fuck.
Ey fuck you, buddy 😆
Dinkins was pretty cool.
But look, it’s a megalopolis of people working hard, tired af at the end of every day.
Want political office? You gotta have real money, real connections, and the time and energy to get that power.
Unfortunately that magically counts out the majority of us.
Andrew Yang would have been better.
Who’d a thunk. The former cop still smells like bacon. ACAB
Pigs are intelligent, emotional, and cognitively complex. They don’t deserve to have their good name compared to cops.
Pigs are cute too
No one in NYC likes him other than landlords. Republicans hate him because he’s black. Leftists hate him because he’s a landlord cop who doesn’t give a shit about anyone but himself.
Good riddance, the next in line is an actual leftist if he steps down
the next in line is an actual leftist if he steps down
I guess that means he won’t step down. :(
I couldn’t possibly imagine they’d be “allowed” to take over any actual control if they are a leftist and aren’t beholden to the ownership class. We don’t get to have nice things in government.
Turns out you can’t just do everything you want with 45% to barely 50% of the seats. Especially when you’re the big tent party of everyone sane.
You think West Virginia was ever going to vote against coal? They did more than I would have expected.
HEY!!! WHOA!!! THAT’S TOTALLY UNCALLED FOR!!!
…bacon doesn’t deserve to be assosiated with corrupt cops. Bacon is awesome!
yooooo, he gave Sean “Diddy” Combs the key to NYC less than a year ago. Diddy got arrested by the Feds earlier this month and denied bail twice. I wonder if they are connected somehow.
They are not related. Adams was doing more traditional political corruption - demanding $20k to meet with someone, secretly advocating for foreign governments, etc.
dons aluminum foil hat
yeah, but what if Diddy was in on some international shit? he had tapes on all sorts of people. those tapes could be used as blackmail by foreign powers to manipulate politicians. check this 7:16 min interview of Gene Deal out.
doffs aluminum foil hat
but you’re right. they’re completely separate issues.
Upvoted for usage of the word “doffs.”
TIL doff is the opposite of don
To be fair it’s just “on” and “off” with the D to make it sexy
Stupid sexy grammatically correct Flanders…
I hope they searched him thoroughly for that key.
It’s always the ones you suspect the most.
Happy Cakeday! 🍰🎂
“I cannot tell you how much I start the day with telling my team we’ve got to follow the law,” he told reporters at the time.
Yeh. You never did that Mayor lmao.
What a bizarre claim to make. Does he actually think that’s how honest people start their day?
He doesn’t have a clue what honest people do. He’s like Vance buying doughnuts for the first time in his life. “Follow the law, I guess, or whatever makes sense.”
How long have you been following the law?
OK.
How about you, how long have you been following the law?
“I don’t want to be recorded.”
Totally normal thing to do. Like when my boss accused me of showing up to work drunk, I told him, “I start every morning telling my people ‘hey, I’m going to work not drunk today’”
That would be like me at a house party saying “Hey man, great party! Lots of people here, great selection of booze, I didn’t shit in the closet, and are those cocktail weinee’s???”
One of those things shouldn’t need to be said…
Or back on the Other Site /r/legaladvice. When a post started out with “just for the record, I’m not a pedophile”, you knew it was gonna be good popcorn.
It’s… Hey sir (I use that term lightly) this isn’t a thing you should have to tell people you shouldn’t give off the vibe or hire people who wouldn’t.
You never had morning meetings at your retail job where the pep talk was “Let’s get out there and do our best, and whatever you do, guys, remember not to violate the law today”?
[queue Hill Street Blues theme]
Cue
Maybe he’s playing something else right now so he is queuing up the song to play next.
Dammit. Thanks.
lol
and also
lmao
The FBI seized Adams’ electronic devices as part of an investigation into whether his 2021 mayoral campaign’s fundraising.
That’s some expert journalism right there.
I don’t see the problem. Did his 2021 mayoral campaign’s fundraising or did his 2021 mayoral campaign’s not fundraising?
It’s goodly perfection English!
Expert editing.
That’s one of the primary functions of the editor. Depending on the outfit though, editorial oversight may not be required or even a thing really. Publishing approval may be from the writer directly, which also likely means no one else read over it after it was completed to find easily avoidable issues from rephrasing and reorganizing sentences.
Sentances need better, organizing, editor no.
That’s literally what the editing does.
He did in fact raise funds, case closed! We got em!
He’s better then Rudy Ghoulani, but I’m glad to see the shittiest person to hold that office isn’t the bare minimum a moderate has to beat to be above the law.
Does he stay mayor if he is convicted? I know the system is slow enough it probably won’t matter, just curious.
Also, about damn time. Adams sucks and is obviously corrupt.
Lock him up
Saw that trainwreck coming a mile away.
Shocker
Removed by mod
Woah we have got to the point of random companies creating an account to post a single ad comment on completely unrelated posts and then calling it a day?
Lemmy is going places guys.
I cooka da meatball
We will see in the morning, but everyone in New York is already saying this was a Biden hit job. Its not even a whisper, every group chat is screaming that Joe Biden is doing this in retaliation for Eric Adams standing up against the Biden migrants, it is still very early but this only seems to hurt Harris support and fuel the Adams haters (which lets be honest they are never happy, ie Tiffany Caban says defund police while people get robbed at gunpoint eating in front of her office)
“I’ve seen several people say it on truth and Twitter!”
LMAO what kinda horse paste are you eating?
Everyone? Wow, you poll quickly.
Show me one iota of evidence that suggests Biden is involved in this.
And by the way, crime in NY is near historic lows.
Hey I am reserving judgement til paperwork comes out. That does not change the sentiment amongst city employees that this was a hit job, and even the final papers may not answer that. But it does remind me of the Stasi considering everything that has occurred.
Ah, a new spin on the “I’m just asking questions” method of spreading FUD and propaganda.
Are you? You’ve already jumped to spreading an outlandish theory that has no evidence behind it. That’s not what I would consider reserving judgment.
Will you disavow this theory if no evidence subsequently emerges?
You’re expecting a paper labeled “Biden hit job plan” at the top in crayon, or…?
I want to see what is being alleged. If this turns out to be the equivalent of parking tickets taken to a federal level it should be easy to draw conclusions. The Mayor has so far disavowed any criminal conduct, and even the acab crowd grilling him can’t guesstimate what the charges are. Regardless lets not act like all these DoJ buzz didn’t start after Adams called out Biden, since then a multitud of invasive investigations and house raids searching for? Every other person irl has mentioned House of Cards, Lemmy downvotes me for reporting it.
This set of comments have already aged like milk.
Mayor Eric Adams of New York City has been indicted on federal charges of bribery conspiracy, fraud and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations. Illegal campaign donations funnelled through shell orgs as well as gifts, flights, hotels, etc etc. He attempted to hide the gifts, flights, hotels, etc with nominal purchases. The only person who had it out for Adams was Adams.
Jeez, you have an ax to grind. There is rumor that he accepted campaign money and travel from the country of Turkey, which is really really bizarre. That ain’t “parking tickets”.
Both NYC Democrats and Republicans are calling him an absent leader who needs to resign.15 people in his administration are under investigation by the FBI. Multiple people in his administration are or have resigned. 9 and counting NYC councilpeople and NY assemblypeople have asked for him to resign because he isn’t an effective leader of the city and region. State senators have requested that he resign. Even if he wants to stay, with such a quorum, he is effectively politically impotent.
But yeah, let’s wait until federal officials announce the charges today. He should still resign.
Corruption charges are a big deal. You can speculate all you want about the reason they are being brought but it just sounds like the ramblings of a conspiracy theorist honestly.
Ps I have no idea what you’re talking about regarding Biden. Somehow though you think this is retribution, as though that would be the reason for the charges and not someone dropping tips that the mayor is doing illegal things… 🙄
Maybe Adams is just a piece of shit?
