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!
"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.
It's always the ones you suspect the most.
Happy Cakeday! 🍰🎂
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.
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.
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.
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!
He did in fact raise funds, case closed! We got em!
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?
It's NYC. Everyone is a giant hunk of fuck.
Ey fuck you, buddy 😆
Eyy fuck you too pal!
Eyyyy fuck you, I’m not your pal buddy!
Eyyyyyyyyy fuck you I'm not your buddy guy
honestly how did they go from deblasio to a fucking cop in 2021, just after all the nationwide BLM protests
A combination of factors made it happen. First up, you had low turnout. Only 20.5% of voters actually voted in that election, the lowest of the past 30 years.
Aside from that, Adams had strong support amongst voters of color. For people who don't live and/or work in these communities, it can seem like voting against their interests and be surprising, but non-white voters are not a monolithic block. Quite often, majority black or Hispanic neighborhoods in the Bronx can prove more conservative than many people might expect, for example, particularly on social issues. A lot of my older co-workers from Latin America at the time, along with my mother-in-law, didn't view BLM protests as legitimate actions to begin with, and just thought of them as troublemakers looking to break stuff and loot. The "tough on crime to raise quality of life" message was really powerful for many of the people I know, and they took it completely uncritically. There's also a ton of super religious folks that won't support Democrats over things like LGBTQ+ rights, abortion, and other culture war GOP talking points. I can't really speak to the Black community, but if you learn Spanish, there's also just a ton of casual racism, sexism and homophobia that would probably shock people.
In addition to conservative social inclinations, lots of these folks are not what you would describe as well-informed. My elderly Ecuadorian, Dominican and Peruvian co-workers at that time were constantly buying into totally baseless conspiracies they got sent on WhatsApp. That and the 2020 presidential election cycle was super frustrating at home, as my mother-in-law would religiously watch the news on Univision, where they would trot out "scandals" and conspiracies that had been disproven weeks earlier and abandoned in the English-media, but Univision knew they could get away with airing for the significant portion of their audience with limited or no English. I even remember watching the news with her, my wife and her sister, who are both fluent in English, and the three of us getting upset that an interview in which we could hear the original English statements were being translated entirely inaccurately.
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.
lol
and also
lmao
furthermore
wtf bbq
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.
Andrew Yang would have been better.
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
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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... 🙄
In the interest of open discussion I have gone over the indictment. My take aways are that the Mayor engaged in conduct not disimilar from similarly situated individuals, and that this disparate treatment of leveling criminal charges to me personally I believe earnestly are politically motivated. I know it is unpopular on lemmy, but this is my sentiment from South Brooklyn, NY (I feel many views are not from metro NY)
So what you're saying is that you're a trump supporter?
You're implying that everyone does illegal things and only Democrats care when it's not them. And of course Republicans are "cool" by letting the Democrats do illegal things unpunished...?
I said no such thing, what I was referring to is how others politicians get fines in these sorts of cases as opposed to federal felonies.
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
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!
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.
It's always the ones you suspect the most.
Happy Cakeday! 🍰🎂
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.
That's some expert journalism right there.
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.
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!
He did in fact raise funds, case closed! We got em!
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?
It's NYC. Everyone is a giant hunk of fuck.
Ey fuck you, buddy 😆
Eyy fuck you too pal!
Eyyyy fuck you, I’m not your pal buddy!
Eyyyyyyyyy fuck you I'm not your buddy guy
honestly how did they go from deblasio to a fucking cop in 2021, just after all the nationwide BLM protests
A combination of factors made it happen. First up, you had low turnout. Only 20.5% of voters actually voted in that election, the lowest of the past 30 years.
Aside from that, Adams had strong support amongst voters of color. For people who don't live and/or work in these communities, it can seem like voting against their interests and be surprising, but non-white voters are not a monolithic block. Quite often, majority black or Hispanic neighborhoods in the Bronx can prove more conservative than many people might expect, for example, particularly on social issues. A lot of my older co-workers from Latin America at the time, along with my mother-in-law, didn't view BLM protests as legitimate actions to begin with, and just thought of them as troublemakers looking to break stuff and loot. The "tough on crime to raise quality of life" message was really powerful for many of the people I know, and they took it completely uncritically. There's also a ton of super religious folks that won't support Democrats over things like LGBTQ+ rights, abortion, and other culture war GOP talking points. I can't really speak to the Black community, but if you learn Spanish, there's also just a ton of casual racism, sexism and homophobia that would probably shock people.
In addition to conservative social inclinations, lots of these folks are not what you would describe as well-informed. My elderly Ecuadorian, Dominican and Peruvian co-workers at that time were constantly buying into totally baseless conspiracies they got sent on WhatsApp. That and the 2020 presidential election cycle was super frustrating at home, as my mother-in-law would religiously watch the news on Univision, where they would trot out "scandals" and conspiracies that had been disproven weeks earlier and abandoned in the English-media, but Univision knew they could get away with airing for the significant portion of their audience with limited or no English. I even remember watching the news with her, my wife and her sister, who are both fluent in English, and the three of us getting upset that an interview in which we could hear the original English statements were being translated entirely inaccurately.
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.
lol
and also
lmao
furthermore
wtf bbq
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.
Andrew Yang would have been better.
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
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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... 🙄
In the interest of open discussion I have gone over the indictment. My take aways are that the Mayor engaged in conduct not disimilar from similarly situated individuals, and that this disparate treatment of leveling criminal charges to me personally I believe earnestly are politically motivated. I know it is unpopular on lemmy, but this is my sentiment from South Brooklyn, NY (I feel many views are not from metro NY)
So what you're saying is that you're a trump supporter?
You're implying that everyone does illegal things and only Democrats care when it's not them. And of course Republicans are "cool" by letting the Democrats do illegal things unpunished...?
I said no such thing, what I was referring to is how others politicians get fines in these sorts of cases as opposed to federal felonies.
Got any examples of that?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/05/nyregion/aoc-met-gala-house-ethics.html
Ah yes a single event that may have even been a misunderstanding is exactly the same as an established pattern
Ah yes, "parking tickets":
https://apnews.com/article/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-indictment-fbi-5aad135d1808cb9d049fccd74604e5d4
Ah, a new spin on the "I'm just asking questions" method of spreading FUD and propaganda.
Maybe Adams is just a piece of shit?
Everyone? Wow, you poll quickly.
LMAO what kinda horse paste are you eating?
"I've seen several people say it on truth and Twitter!"