“Mayor Adams is such an amateur.” – Ginni & Clarence Thomas pic.twitter.com/3HZzn3fr2z
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@NotHoodlum) September 26, 2024
Thought I’d share this Abby Livingston note from a Puck email (since Puck uses email as its main form of social media):
… Will Adams hurt House Dems?: It’s a fair bet that New York Republicans were already poll-testing Adams’ image before his indictment, particularly given the many regions hostile to New York City. As I reported yesterday, the N.R.C.C. has been running an ad linking Adams to Democratic House challenger John Mannion in the Syracuse-based 22nd District. New York’s five or six competitive House races are supposed to be some of the lowest-hanging fruit for Democrats, and a major part of their plan to retake the House.
The magnitude of the Adams fallout remains to be seen. While it’s completely feasible that Democrats could win the House back without the New York seats, politicians are judged first and foremost on how they handle their politics back home. Nobody has more riding on these races than Adams’ fellow New Yorker, would-be House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries. Meanwhile, Adams’ radioactivity may spill across the border into northern New Jersey via local news coverage, and give a boost to G.O.P. incumbent Tom Kean Jr., who’s in a tossup race against Democrat Sue Altman.
There is one silver lining for the Democrats: At the D.N.C. there was a kerfuffle when Democrats denied [NYTimes link] Adams a speaking slot. That decision now seems prescient. Had he spoken, B-roll of the now-indicted mayor waving to the cheering Democratic throngs in Chicago would have played on loop last night on cable news. That same piece of tape would have been blasted out to voters on Long Island, in the Hudson Valley, and North Jersey via Republican campaigns ads…
If you need a quick update on the Adams indictment, Sara Benincasa at Wonkette does a pretty good job (even if she is unduly sympathetic to Rattus norvegicus).
"You are a disgrace for all Black people in this city!"– Eric Adams's news conference is not going well pic.twitter.com/Gq0Ui8Yeyh
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 26, 2024
What is important to highlight is that Eric Adams was stealing MILLIONS of public dollars, getting kickbacks & conspiring with foreign governments while cutting funding for New Yorkers and telling us to blame the migrants. A liar, a thief, a bigot & a hypocrite.
— Olayemi Olurin (@msolurin) September 26, 2024
Nitwit @RepTenney says some of the crimes were 8 yrs ago but Adams wasn’t charged until now bc Dems “needed to have him win an election.”
Trump DOJ had 4 yrs to charge him
Adams wasn’t elected until after Biden was elected
Adams’ endless crime talk likely hurt NY Dems in 2022 https://t.co/MdQFoqxA3g
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) September 26, 2024
Turkey, Israel, China, Uzbekistan, Qatar, and South Korea.
How come Egypt didn't want a piece of Eric Adams? Too corrupt?
— Greg Dworkin (@DemFromCT) September 26, 2024
I know a lot of you are wondering why Eric Adams was indicted and not Clarence Thomas. That’s because Clarence Thomas helped gut the bribery statute and knows exactly how to avoid violating it. Eric Adams, not so much.
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) September 26, 2024
War for Ukraine Day 946: Last Night’s Russian Drone Swarm Attack Gave Way to a Russian Kinzhal Attack
Jackie
Adams isn’t going to hurt Democrats anymore than Menendez hurts the Dems.
In other words, not at all.
cain
@Jackie: agreed.
You can’t do both sides here with that.
Everyone knows that these kind of thing is GOP territory.
Plus it’s New York City..
Every Mayor seems to be corrupt.
dmsilev
Yeah, House races are local and national, but not much in between. Maybe it would matter for a few races in and around NYC, but that’s about it.
jonas
So had Adams spoke at the DNC, it would have provided endless footage for attack ads against Dems? I don’t doubt it. But for some reason, Republicans aren’t freaking out about self-described “Black Nazi” and alt-porn enthusiast Mark Robinson appearing at the RNC. They’re probably writing off the NC governorship, but the incumbent is already a Dem. In terms of optics, though, they’re just like “Eh, who? Never heard of him. Also, Tim Walz was once five minutes late to a parent-teacher conference! Why does he hate America?”
Funny how that works.
Ken
Adam’s press conference video reminded me of Anthony Weiner’s resignation press conference. Oh New York.
Sally
“Mayor Adams is such an amateur” was exactly my thought. Why would you throw away your career for so little? So many of these crooks do that. I could understand someone grifting for a few million, but $100K? Really? Some commit fraud for even less. If I’m going to risk going to jail, I’m going to want to be comfortable when I get out, after paying excellent lawyers. Money secured off shore, and plenty of it.
matt
Adams is saying he’s being indicted because he bucked the Democratic Party establishment. Great dude.
Jackie
Why does (IMO) NYC elect DINOs for mayors? It’s like they find the most corrupt/compromised Democrat available and vote them in. I truly don’t get it.
HumboldtBlue
Gus Dobbins, 92, last day on the job at Oakland Coliseum.
Jay
Alberta born, got no issues with Rattus norvegicus.*
They deserve a medal.
https://www.icr.org/article/norwegian-rats-archaeologists-plagues-of-the-past
And while Rattus norvegicus was cleaning up NYC one bite at a time, or pizza slice at a time, Adams was pretending he invented garbage cans and cutting the NYC Sanitation budget.
*Alberta has been waging unrestricted warfare on rats for 70 years.
Chet Murthy
@Jackie: Somebody either here or at LG&M noted:
(1) 13 candidates, none with any name recognition. Adams had a coalition behind him
(2) 20% of voters turned out. 20%
(3) Adams beat Garcia by 1% of the vote in the end (it was a RCV (ranked-choice voting) election).
So in the end, New Yorkers got the mayor they voted for. That is to say, that they were too lazy to vote for. Ah well.
HumboldtBlue
Sun dried tomatoes. Food porn.
Dangerman
Florida Jackals check in? Helene looks unpleasant. No Joy there (obscure reference).
Has TCFG brought the paper towels?
Origuy
I just had a thought. You can still get a 100th birthday card from the President (actually 80 and over) but you have to send in a request. Do you suppose Jimmy sent a request to Joe? He might get one anyway.
piratedan
@Chet Murthy: it does kind of make you wonder if repercussions like these will help increase turnout and perhaps even media coverage in the future. I imagine that the NY market is expensive, so finding other mechanisms to reach voters will be at a premium.
Jay
@Origuy:
I don’t like this President Jimmy Carter 100th stuff much, too much like a jinx for me.
Chet Murthy
@piratedan: I don’t recall voting in 1988 (age 23). I remember 1992 and 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, etc. I don’t remember if I voted in midterms until 2002, but after that, I did. So until my mid-30s, I was an ….. irresponsible voter, I think. It is what it is. If we want to change that, we need to make voting mandatory. Just making it really easy isn’t enough, b/c hell, lots of Californians don’t vote, and it’s so, so, so damn easy here. It needs to be mandatory.
I don’t think anything else will work.
Joe Falco
@Jay:
I’m reminded of Betty White, bless her soul, about all the talk of her reaching 100 and then…died a scant few weeks before her 100th birthday.
schrodingers_cat
@Jackie: NYC was a loyalist hotbed during the Revolutionary war, and a Copperhead stronghold during the Civil War. Orange Scamster is a NewYorker. Coincidence? I think not. Their reputation for being liberal is exaggerated
FYNYT knows its audience.
Jay
@schrodingers_cat:
How are you doing?
RaflW
It was a little weirdly worded, but it sounds to me like Hochul is letting Adams know he has two choices, resign or be fired.
“While I review my options and obligations as the Governor of New York, I expect the Mayor to take the next few days to review the situation and find an appropriate path forward.”
wjca
Sometimes (OK, often) I just feel so out of touch with the rest of the world.
For example, I registered to vote as soon as I legally could (voting age was still 21 then). Since then, I have always voted. General elections, all of them. Primary elections, all of them. Special elections, whenever they turned up. It simply never occurred to me not to do so. Even back in the day when in person voting was the only option (unless you could show that you would be out of town, i.e. absent, on the day). Always voted. Obviously the rest of the country doesn’t see things that way.
No idea if this is a matter of my parents always voting. They did, without making a particularly big deal out of it; it was just something they did. Or maybe I just paid attention in high school civics class. Who knows? But I simply have trouble wrapping my head around people not voting.
schrodingers_cat
@Jay: Don’t ask. All the religious rituals which are thankfully over were driving me over the bend. Reminded me of why I left India in the first place. I also learned that my great grandfather was a part of social reform movement in British India. God knows where that reforming zeal has disappeared.
Jay
@schrodingers_cat:
I am glad the rituals are now over, and all you have to deal with is family.
schrodingers_cat
@Jay: Family is no picnic either. I find the lack of personal space jarring. Sorry I am a bit cranky.
strange visitor (from another planet)
@Jackie: i keep telling you jackals that nyc isn’t a liberal town at all.
it’s a blue, democratic city, but it isn’t particularly progressive or liberal in the slightest.
besides, nypd runs nyc. the mayor is really just for decorative purposes
@schrodingers_cat: glad you’re back.
Jay
@schrodingers_cat:
I understand, T and I are NC with all family except her sister, brother in law and their kids. Her parents are on limited NC because drama, drama, drama.
Jay
@strange visitor (from another planet):
I think she is still in India, it’s just that the rituals are over.
KrackenJack
@Dangerman: There’s a link on the right side of the front page just for that:
Helene Peeps
It’s slowed down a bit, not surprisingly. As BC said, hurricanes after dark suck. Hope everyone is safe.
NotMax
@HumboldtBlue
Would ya believe candied tomatoes?
;)
Sister Golden Bear
Rattus Norvegicus says: Tell Eric, I want him to know it was me.
Jay
@Sister Golden Bear:
strange visitor (from another planet)
@Jay: duly noted.
schrodingers_cat
@strange visitor (from another planet): Still in India.
NotMax
@schrodingers_cat
Hash tag SariNotSari?
//
schrodingers_cat
@NotMax: Have not worn a sari yet. Did not even wear a bindi. The priest asked me whether my husband was alive. So I showed him husband kitteh’s pic. Not kidding. This happened.
Gretchen
@schrodingers_cat: I’m sorry it’s been difficult. Family often is. Sending good thoughts your way.
schrodingers_cat
@Gretchen: Thanks! The thing I like least about India is that people feel free to tell you what they think about you and your appearance to your face. These are not strangers but still. I don’t need to be told that my hair looks like a mess. I know that it gets frizzy when it is humid. I am aware
After 2 weeks of fitful sleep this level of critique is grating.
Anne Laurie
@NotMax: My father, wild food believer, made Euell Gibbons‘ tomato ice cream for us kids… once. Dad learned to cook from a Sicilian neighbor who took pity on a kid condemned his mom’s flavorless Irish meals, and he never met a menu he thought couldn’t be improved with tomatoes (and usually garlic). We kids were not impressed, and I suspect the old man wasn’t crazy about that particular dish either.
opiejeanne
@Origuy: I didn’t realize that about birthday cards.
We had our 50th wedding anniversary in 2019 and I was not interested in acknowledgement from TFG, so I let it slide. I think I’ll request one for our 55th, because I regret not getting one from Bill Clinton for my Republican parents; Dad would have gotten a kick out of it, and after Clinton left the White House he contributed to the Clintons’ charity and talked it up. He adored Jimmy Carter after he was no longer president and volunteered for Habitat for Humanity. Mr opiejeanne stood in line for quite a while to get an autographed copy of his book as a present for my dad, and Dad loved it. Now that Dad is gone we have the book.
opiejeanne
@wjca: My family was Republican, so voting every time is what you did. I think I missed one local election, just one, when I was in my early 20s, and felt so guilty that I never missed another one and began volunteering for local races. Funny, these were non-partisan races and looking back at the candidates for mayor and city council, I’m pretty sure they were all Democrats. That was before I realized that I was a Democrat.
Rusty
@wjca: Your comment got me thinking, I’ve always been a voters too. Looking back, it likely comes from my dad being a school superintendent. Getting the budget passed was a big deal every year. We lived in a small town and a few votes either way made a real difference (originally it was all done at a town meeting, eventually changed to a voting day). I learned that all votes mattered, losing the budget vote had real consequences. I’ve rarely missed votes in my life.
opiejeanne
@schrodingers_cat: Was the priest going to fix you up with another husband? Or was he concerned that you were out of the control of a man?
Gretchen
@Anne Laurie: My Irish mother thought garlic was from the devil. She’d say she wanted to taste her food. Meaning no seasoning. When I met my Italian husband he’d say “ you won’t like this. It has flavor”. I’ve come a long way but I could relate when Walz said black pepper is at the top of his range.
Gretchen
@schrodingers_cat: My granddaughter’s Indian grandmother has been fighting her hair going frizzy her whole life. I have been fighting my stick-staight, aggressively straight, won’t do anything I want it to hair my entire life. Our mutual granddaughter has thick, black hair with just a slight wave, the sort of hair that will do anything you want it to. We are both enjoying having a grandbaby who has the hair we always wanted.
NotMax
@Gretchen
Home slathered and seasoned garlic bread is one of life’s culinary treasures.
Gretchen
@NotMax: not to my mom. She didn’t really approve of bread either, though. Empty calories in her book.
Eolirin
The idea that we needed Eric Adams to be able to win an election in NYC is so laughably ridiculous I don’t even know what to make of it.
Taking him out before his primary win would have done the city so much good.
Jay
Two astronauts trapped in space, have a voting plan,……..
So, no excuses.
Jay
@NotMax:
we call it “Texas Toast”,
Baguette, garlic, (preferably Ukrainian Red) crushed into butter and nuked soft, slathered on the bread, topped with a 1/4″ of Parmesan or Asiago grated cheese, ( not the bagged stuff, it has binders that keep it from clumping and melting),
Under the broiler until toast.
schrodingers_cat
@opiejeanne: Women without husbands have no place in religious ceremonies and are deemed inauspicious.
Jay
@NotMax:
Beats Gaelic bread,…………………
schrodingers_cat
@Gretchen: My hair is only slightly wavy, but humidity makes it a difficult to tame.
Jay
@schrodingers_cat:
What!!!!!!!!!!!
You have a cat.
That’s worse than a husband, and I know, because I am one.
Gretchen
@schrodingers_cat: I’m not sure how wavy son-in-law’s hair is. I know he spends some time on it to get it the way he wants, and he always looks good. Our babies, though. They’re my heart. They are boy/girl twins. The boy’s hair fell out after he got covid. I didn’t know that could happen, but apparently that’s a thing. Dad gave him a crew cut, so we’ll see how it grows out.
But this is pretty trivial stuff compared to what you’re dealing with. I hope you’re doing ok.
Gloria DryGarden
@schrodingers_cat: I wish they realized they are lucky to have you. And that they could manage to say a few kind and appreciative words.
surely they know nearly everyone with wavy or curly hair gets much curlier and/or frizzy in the humidity?
your sentence ”women without husbands” makes me need a bunch of deep breaths
your trip there sounds trying and isolating. I hope there have been some redeeming good parts to it, and that it helped you with your own goodbyes to your cherished mother.
raven
It looks like the winds are only 23mph or so. Flooding is the big issue for north Georgia.
Gloria DryGarden
@Jay: from your earlier comment, does NC mean no contact?
There’s been a fair bit if that in my family.
JPL
@raven: Glad to hear that. Helene stayed on the east side of me which I am glad for. There’s a few trees down but no wide spread outages so far, but the storm doesn’t pass through until 7
Trees in the Roswell area
Betty Cracker
We came through the storm unscathed! The only point of anxiety left for me is finding out how my aunts and uncles who live on the Suwannee River fared overnight. I’m reasonably sure they’re fine because they gathered at the house with the least flooding potential. Too early to contact them now though.
JPL
@Betty Cracker: Good.
Gloria DryGarden
I@Jay: Do they have a voting plan? I sure hope so.
we’re all throwing shade at Elon m, looking forward to dismantling his bullsh!t; yet, they are depending on a space x vehicle to bring them back down to earth. Just thinking’.
If he’s got one that the doors won’t fall off of; wasn’t there recently a problem with one of his space vehicles too?
Gretchen
@Betty Cracker: I’m so glad you’re ok! I’ve been worried about you. My son is in Naples, and works at a restaurant on the waterfront. It looks like they’re ok too. He moved there just before the last hurricane, and the restaurant was flooded and closed for months just after he was hired.
mrmoshpotato
@cain:
Don’t forget about their lame ass “salsa!”
“New York City!”
Gretchen
@Gretchen: Speaking of hair, my other daughter has two sons with our aggressively straight hair. She and her husband are very tight with a dollar, and he cuts their boys’ hair. He is not very good at it. Straight hair is hard to cut – it sticks out at all angles if you don’t get it right. I’d love to take the older boy to Great Clips and get him a decent haircut, but she’ll take offense if I do. How do I say « your husband is just not very good at hair cutting? Let me get someone who knows what they’re doing to cut his hair? » Yeah, that’s not going to fly, especially with someone who is inclined to take offence.
Anyway
@schrodingers_cat: what about single women? Where do they rank?
Jay
@Gloria DryGarden:
Yeah, No Contact.
We are NC with my side of the Family, ChristoFacists “White Supremacy*” a-holes, not revealed for decades.
*Sister in law is Singaporean, Chinese, funny that, not.
T’s parents are just 3 days of “glad to have you here”, then hate to have you here, insane drama. So, limited contact.
We have some great and supportive friends though.
Jay
@Gretchen:
One can still buy a Flowbee for hair cuts.
Central Planning
@mrmoshpotato: There’s a NYC salsa??
When we were in London back in June, we went to a Mexican restaurant for dinner. Towards the end of the meal, they brought out some kind of habanero crème salsa. It was phenomenal and HOT. My wife, who thinks a pinch of black pepper is too spicy, ate most of it. I think she was possessed.
MagdaInBlack
@Central Planning: It’s an old commercial>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbp9UrwC-mI
@mrmoshpotato: Ya i remember 😉
TS
I would appreciate an explanation as to why is the Mayor of NY indicted for luxury travel, perks etc when members of SCOTUS seem to do this with no repercussions other than being told maybe they should declare same.
Eolirin
@Central Planning: There was an old Pace Salsa ad campaign, where the punchline was that the proposed alternative salsa wasn’t authentic or good because it was made in New York City.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@TS: I’m going to assume “it’s okay if you’re a Republican” does not suffice? Because that seems to be the guiding principle for a lot of Republicans, even if they may have been wrong-footed by a DOJ investigation indicting a Democrat when the propaganda insists they’re on a witch-hunt for Republicans…
Central Planning
@MagdaInBlack: @Eolirin: Thanks. I don’t recall seeing that back in ‘94, and I was here in western NY.
At the risk of turning this into a salsa thread, the best store-bought salsa I’ve had was the Newman’s Own Roasted Garlic. I could have lived off of that. Sadly they don’t make it any more.
Also, I think Costco’s is pretty good.
Eolirin
@TS: They seem to have him dead to rights on quid pro quo for said things. He’s not being charged for receiving those things but for doing specific things in exchange for getting them.
Hence the amateur joke in the first tweet.
We will have to see if he and Menedez manage to get any convictions over turned this time around. The Supreme Court has already effectively made bribery legal as long as it’s after the fact without an explicit quid pro quo. I wouldn’t be terribly surprised to see them engage in some extreme contortions to get to a place where bribery is protected speech under the first amendment, even when it’s coming from foreign nationals.
snoey
@TS: They made it wholesale only. You can’t buy a specific vote, you have to buy the whole politician.
Jay
Gaelic Bread,
1/4 cup oats
1/4 cup boiled sheep’s stomach and/or sweet breads, cooled, diced
1/4 cup boiled nettles, cooled, diced
1/4 cup wild onions, dirt washed offed, diced,
4 cups self raising flour.
2 cups milk,
6 eggs,
Mix and knead, let rise,
Bake until golden brown,
Boil in a gallon of 2 cups salt and water until grey,
Drain and serve.
lowtechcyclist
@Jay:
Just don’t wash it down with some “Texas tea.”
Princess
I guess we know now that the person who leaked the JDVance oppo dossier to the press was the guy who created the JDVance oppo dossier because he was furious he spent all those weeks creating it and Donald picked him anyway.
MagdaInBlack
@Jay: Well, that’s remarkably unappealing. But the “boil til grey” part was my MIL’s method for everything.
prostratedragon
NYC salsa
MagdaInBlack
@prostratedragon: Ha! TY.
Also too, I find him much more appealing then Ben Affleck. Just sayin’
prostratedragon
The bobblehead index, Grand Rapids
prostratedragon
@MagdaInBlack: Electric live performer back in the say.
satby
@Betty Cracker: happy to hear that, hoping the news from your relatives is equally good.
Mousebumples
@wjca: when Mr. Mouse and I got together, I feel like I changed him from a November election voter to an every election voter. (I still remember his question as to why we were voting for State Superintendent if we didn’t have kids)
Post pandemic, our ballots arrive in the mail.
Need to work on that – maybe today, if the schedule allows. 😊
Mousebumples
@Gretchen: I bought a hair trimmer for my husband during the pandemic lock downs. It’s a 2 person job to buzz the hair for my 2 year old, but the 1/2″ length works pretty good and grows out evenly.
It’s not a fancy cut, but I don’t want to pay at this point for my squirmy worm of a toddler to get a professional haircut.
We have a Wahl set, I think. I can hunt for a link, if it sounds helpful.
Ken
My favorite bit from the Adams indictment: A warrant was used to seize all electronic devices. Adams didn’t happen to have his personal cellphone phone with him that day. When he did turn it over, he claimed he had reset the password after learning about the investigation to prevent his staff from deleting the contents.
But, he said, he’d forgotten the new password so couldn’t supply it to the FBI.
OK, the Justice Department said, and added it to the indictment as attempting to conceal criminal conduct.
Geminid
Gunji Otaku represent! From the news site Clash Report:
This Virginia Gunji Otaku was somewhat dismayed to see another Clash Report story: Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) reported to the Justice Department that some welds on “noncritical” components of US submarines and aircraft carriers were made without following proper procedures.
Huntington Ingalls owns the Newport News shipyard where the suspect welds were made. They informed the Justice Department that “early indications were that some errors may have been intentional” which apparently makes this a criminal matter.
TS
@Bruce K in ATH-GR:
@Eolirin:
@snoey:
Guess I have to accept I will never understand it – things aren’t equal for everyone. Too much money in politics.
CaseyL
@Gretchen:
Well, she’s not actually wrong. Bread is great for putting-things-on and sopping-things-up, but it’s also a big ol’ glycemic load. Something you don’t need to worry about unless/until you become diabetic, at which point bread becomes both The Devil’s Instrument and A Rare Treat. (Ask me how I know…)
Spc123
@dmsilev: Probably not even there. Nobody really likes Adams all that much and few are surprised at this outcome.
wjca
This.
jefft452
Egypt: “We have standards
What?
Yeah, I know, we were surprised too”