NYC Mayor Eric Adams charged with wire fraud, bribery, and solicting money from a foreign national.

[daveman]

The back guy has never been angry with indy whiite boy.

That's because as a white leftist, Indy kisses your ass.

 

[IM2]

I'm sure they're genuinely grateful they have white Democrats like you taking care of them. The poor dears, they just can't do anything for themselves.

You don't think when you post do you white scrub. The government has taken care of whites since America strted. When equal oppotunity became law white losers like you started crying because the government wasn't giving you everything. Your white asses have had to compete. You can't, so you made up some fake shit called anti white discrimination and whine incessantly to the government for help. Poor deers, you just can't do anything for yourselves.

I mean everything you racists say about us, white scum, is exactly what you are doing. You racists project your own insecurity and failure on others because you were raised to believe in a racial superiority that doesn't exist and now you live in a constant state of psychosis.

 

[daveman]

Whites are where you are because of the actions of others. But you are committing the same acts. Your attitude shows this. It's not about apologizing for being white, that a lie in the right wing white race hustle. It is about fixing the damage whites have done that you continue benefitting from.

I don't benefit from anything, and you're not being held down. If you want something, work for it like I did.

 

[IM2]

That's because as a white leftist, Indy kisses your ass.

Indy has been completely honest wth me. A white person who opposes your racism isnot kissng anyones ass. You are evil, an example of why some blacks call whites devils.

 

[daveman]

Here we see another lie that is part of the white right wing race hustle. If we use this assholes logic he's genuienly grateful that white right wing repubicans are taking care of him.

Nobody's taking care of me. I have what I have because I worked for it. Your bullshit race hustling is pathetic.

 

[daveman]

You don't think when you post do you white scrub. The government has taken care of whites since America strted. When equal oppotunity became law white losers like you started crying because the government wasn't giving you everything. Your white asses have had to compete. You can't, so you made up some fake shit called anti white discrimination and whine incessantly to the government for help. Poor deers, you just can't do anything for yourselves.

I mean everything you racists say about us, white scum, is exactly what you are doing. You racists project your own insecurity and failure on others because you were raised to believe in a racial superiority that doesn't exist and now you live in a constant state of psychosis.

I'm sure that makes you feel better about your utter lack of self-respect, but it's simply not reality.

 

[daveman]

Indy has been completely honest wth me. A white person who opposes your racism isnot kissng anyones ass. You are evil, an example of why some blacks call whites devils.

Oh, you mean my racism that you've never been able to give examples of?

Your one-note song is boring.

 

[IM2]

I don't benefit from anything, and you're not being held down. If you want something, work for it like I did.

Your ass has benefitted from racism punk. That's the way it is. Whites have not worked for what they have. Your asses have been given at lest 8 handouts over the course of this nations history and in the last century alone, whites were handed the equivalent of 1 quintillion dollars worth of government economic assistance. Don't be white lecturing a person who desccends from people who worked 7 days a week for free for over 200 years, then for less than half price for over 100 years, and now for 82 cents for every dollars a dumb white piece of garbage like you makes now, about work. You descend from lazy shiftless dependents on the government. You can't tell me shit about work.

 

[IM2]

I'm sure that makes you feel better about your utter lack of self-respect, but it's simply not reality.

But it is reality. And you deny it because you can't face it.

“Racism has distorted reality for many whites. Teachings about history, the world, the pursuits of thought, expressions of culture, and personal relationships have for most whites been both limited and false.”
-Horace Seldon

“Because most whites have not been trained to think with complexity about racism, and because it benefits white dominance not to do so, we have a very limited understanding of it. We are the least likely to see, comprehend, or be invested in validating people of color’s assertions of racism and being honest about their consequences. At the same time, because of white social, economic, and political power within a white dominant culture, whites are the group in the position to legitimize people of color’s assertions of racism. Being in this position engenders a form of racial arrogance, and in this racial arrogance, whites have little compunction about debating the knowledge of people who have thought deeply about race through research, study, peer-reviewed scholarship, deep and on-going critical self-reflection, interracial relationships, and lived experience. This expertise is often trivialized and countered with simplistic platitudes, such as people just need to see each other as individuals’ or ‘see each other as humans’ or ‘take personal responsibility.’

White lack of racial humility often leads to declarations of disagreement when in fact the problem is that we do not understand. Whites generally feel free to dismiss informed perspectives rather than have the humility to acknowledge that they are unfamiliar, reflect on them further, seek more information, or sustain a dialogue.”
- Dr. Robin DiAngelo

 

[daveman]

Your ass has benefitted from racism punk. That's the way it is. Whites have not worked for what they have. Your asses have been given at lest 8 handouts over the course of this nations history and in the last century alone, whites were handed the equivalent of 1 quintillion dollars worth of government economic assistance. Don't be white lecturing a person who desccends from people who worked 7 days a week for free for over 200 years, then for less than half price for over 100 years, and now for 82 cents for every dollars a dumb white piece of garbage like you makes now, about work. You descend from lazy shiftless dependents on the government. You can't tell me shit about work.

Yes, yes, the poor black man needs a handout.

That's all you're saying.

Get it from some self-loathing white leftist. I'm not interested.

 

[daveman]

But it is reality. And you deny it because you can't face it.

“Racism has distorted reality for many whites. Teachings about history, the world, the pursuits of thought, expressions of culture, and personal relationships have for most whites been both limited and false.”
-Horace Seldon

“Because most whites have not been trained to think with complexity about racism, and because it benefits white dominance not to do so, we have a very limited understanding of it. We are the least likely to see, comprehend, or be invested in validating people of color’s assertions of racism and being honest about their consequences. At the same time, because of white social, economic, and political power within a white dominant culture, whites are the group in the position to legitimize people of color’s assertions of racism. Being in this position engenders a form of racial arrogance, and in this racial arrogance, whites have little compunction about debating the knowledge of people who have thought deeply about race through research, study, peer-reviewed scholarship, deep and on-going critical self-reflection, interracial relationships, and lived experience. This expertise is often trivialized and countered with simplistic platitudes, such as people just need to see each other as individuals’ or ‘see each other as humans’ or ‘take personal responsibility.’

White lack of racial humility often leads to declarations of disagreement when in fact the problem is that we do not understand. Whites generally feel free to dismiss informed perspectives rather than have the humility to acknowledge that they are unfamiliar, reflect on them further, seek more information, or sustain a dialogue.”
- Dr. Robin DiAngelo

If this is the bullshit you believe, no wonder you're screwed up.

 

[odanny]

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Ruth Marcus: Why do a foreign mayor favors? To invest in your future.​

There’s always an ask, always a quo for the quid. If not right away, then down the road. The bill comes due. The moment arrives when your benefactor announces, as a Turkish official allegedly did in the case of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, that it’s your “turn to repay.”

It’s easy to be distracted, reading the five-count federal indictment unsealed Thursday, by the pathetic seediness of the favors Adams allegedly received from his Turkish benefactors. At least Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) got gold bars. I’ll leave it to others to discuss the far more serious matter of the illegal campaign cash that allegedly flowed Adams’s way, in the form of banned contributions from foreign and corporate sources disguised through straw donors.

Let’s consider, instead, the ask, and the larger question of what the Turkish officials and business executives allegedly involved in the bribery scheme were up to — why they invested the money and energy in cozying up to Adams even when he was only the Brooklyn borough president, a largely ceremonial role.

According to the indictment, the inevitable request arrived in September 2021, after Adams had won the Democratic mayoral primary and was on the verge of becoming mayor. The Turkish Consulate in New York City was desperate to obtain city approval to open a swank new diplomatic building in time for a visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

But the fire department was balking, according to the indictment, “citing numerous reported fire safety defects, some of which were serious.” So Turkey’s consul general in New York — known as “the Turkish Official” in the indictment — asked Adams, directly and through a staffer, to intervene.

He didn’t mince words. Turkey had helped Adams, the official told an Adams staffer. Now it was “his turn” to help Turkey. Adams’s response, according to the indictment: “I know.”

And so the mayor-in-waiting turned up the heat. He contacted — repeatedly — the fire commissioner, who was lobbying to keep his job in the new administration, emphasizing that he was “loyal and trustworthy.” When a lower-level employee reiterated that “this building is not safe to occupy,” the fire department brass got real. “The Chief of Department informed the Fire Prevention Chief, in substance, that if the FDNY did not assist the Turkish Consulate in obtaining a TCO [temporary certificate of occupancy], both the Chief of Department and the Fire Prevention Chief would lose their jobs.”

You know what happened next. “You are a true friend of Turkey,” the consul general wrote Adams, complete with thank-you-hands emoji.

If this seems like a small-bore favor, think again. On one side of the transaction, public safety officials were dissuaded from doing their jobs out of fear of losing their jobs. On the other side, Turkish officials who desperately wanted to please the country’s autocratic president got the response they needed. Their investment paid off.

And investment it was. Some of those who allegedly plied Adams with benefits had in mind, according to the indictment, that he might end up being president. And when a construction company executive from a “different ethnic community” was arranging to make illegal donations to Adams’s mayoral campaign, the indictment states, Adams employees didn’t mince words: Donating $10,000 would give the businessman influence with Adams when he became mayor, and “gaining such influence with Adams would be more expensive at a later date.”

Get in on the ground floor. Make your ask down the road. The turn to repay always arrives.

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Matt Bai: Another off-year savior falls from grace​

If we’re going to ponder the question of how New York Mayor Eric Adams could fall so quickly from the peak of political celebrity to the nadir of trying to stay out of jail, then maybe we should ask ourselves another question, too.
How was he able to ascend that peak to begin with?

Sure, the newly elected Adams had plenty of roguish charm — no argument there. But even during his campaign for mayor, Adams seemed to exist in shadow; there was that weirdness about him supposedly sleeping on his office couch, no one being quite sure where he actually lived. He had little political experience and no discernible philosophy.

But he was also elected in 2021, the off-year after a presidential election, and you shouldn’t underestimate how much that matters. Had Adams been running in 2020 or 2022, he might have been little more than a passing curiosity. But there’s a tendency in both parties, fueled by the outsize news coverage that a sudden vacuum creates, to take off-year candidates for governor or mayor and transform them into Marvel heroes.

Which is in large part why Adams was hailed as the future of his party, brought before President Joe Biden and Democratic lawmakers to advise them on reaching working-class voters and encouraged to think about seeking national office. He packed fundraising events in Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami. Political swami Nate Silver proclaimed that Adams was in his “top 5 for ‘who will be the next Democratic presidential nominee after Joe Biden.’” Maybe not.

But, you know, a lot of Republicans said the same things about former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell, elected in 2009 and immediately called upon to deliver the State of the Union response. His career went down in a blitz of federal corruption charges (although the Supreme Court threw out his conviction). Chris Christie was elected governor of New Jersey in that same year and became even more of an overnight icon — a status he lost after his own administration became mired in “Bridgegate” during his second term.

The point here isn’t that no one elected in an off year is ever as promising as we think; Sen. Mark R. Warner, for instance, became a Democratic celebrity when he won Virginia’s governorship in 2001, and he remains a senior figure in the party. The point is that we ought not to make saviors of untested politicians simply because we need someone to exalt in the moment.

Too often, the only ones they end up saving are themselves.

 

[otto105]

Could be. Perhaps he's afraid of being an independent person, someone who doesn't need patriarchal Democrats powdering his behind and holding his hand.

That's what happens when you're told you're helpless all your life.

Hilarious, deplorable.

 

[Rigby5]

The Turkish Consulate in New York City was desperate to obtain city approval to open a swank new diplomatic building in time for a visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

But the fire department was balking, according to the indictment, “citing numerous reported fire safety defects, some of which were serious.” So Turkey’s consul general in New York — known as “the Turkish Official” in the indictment — asked Adams, directly and through a staffer, to intervene.

That clearly is a lie.
A Turkish consulate does NOT have to follow NY building codes in ANY WAY.
Attempting to force a Turkish consulate to follow NY building codes is totally illegal.

 

[odanny]

A Turkish consulate does NOT have to follow NY building codes in ANY WAY.

What?

It was not the consulate.

The Turkish Consulate in New York City was desperate to obtain city approval to open a swank new diplomatic building