thewhyteboar Posted Thursday at 04:21 AM Share Posted Thursday at 04:21 AM Adams is an elector for New York: Gonna put on my fortune telling jacket and predict that if this election is close, like 270-268 or something, Trump will be indicted for trying to bribe Adams for his vote. Like promising to pardon him or some dumb thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted Thursday at 04:44 AM Share Posted Thursday at 04:44 AM 22 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said: Adams is an elector for New York: Gonna put on my fortune telling jacket and predict that if this election is close, like 270-268 or something, Trump will be indicted for trying to bribe Adams for his vote. Like promising to pardon him or some dumb thing. NY has a faithless elector law, the votes are required to go to winner of the state's EVs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted Thursday at 04:45 AM Share Posted Thursday at 04:45 AM And that was apparently signed into law just a year ago. Good timing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted Thursday at 04:50 AM Share Posted Thursday at 04:50 AM 5 minutes ago, Jason said: NY has a faithless elector law, the votes are required to go to winner of the state's EVs. Does Trump know that? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted Thursday at 04:53 AM Share Posted Thursday at 04:53 AM This was posted at 10 AM Pacific today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted Thursday at 03:21 PM Share Posted Thursday at 03:21 PM Read the Eric Adams indictment WWW.NBCNEWYORK.COM Eric Adams has been indicted on federal charges out of the Southern District of New York, making him the first sitting mayor of New York City to face criminal prosecution. Adams has denied any wrongdoing on his part and any knowledge of wrongdoing regarding a series of probes surrounding his administration. He says the charges are based on lies and… Someone on twitter posted the follow excerpt. Pretty fucked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted Thursday at 03:23 PM Share Posted Thursday at 03:23 PM Obviously I'm not cut out for politics...but man, I get antsy if a vendor even tries to give us a t-shirt or two as swag after we buy $100,000 worth of computer gear. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted Thursday at 03:27 PM Share Posted Thursday at 03:27 PM 3 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: Obviously I'm not cut out for politics...but man, I get antsy if a vendor even tries to give us a t-shirt or two as swag after we buy $100,000 worth of computer gear. Because you are a little fish and subject to the law. Adams clearly thought he was above it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted Thursday at 03:29 PM Share Posted Thursday at 03:29 PM 1 minute ago, CitizenVectron said: Obviously I'm not cut out for politics...but man, I get antsy if a vendor even tries to give us a t-shirt or two as swag after we buy $100,000 worth of computer gear. I can say from experience that the Ivy Leagues are a bit more "fluid" than that. We didn't even have a "maximum value of gift" policy at my university until 2010. In a completely unrelated incident, half of my coworkers were let go in 2009 for "unsanctioned association with vendors". Those of us not removed during the great culling like to call those times "when we learned who golfs and who does not". 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted Thursday at 03:49 PM Share Posted Thursday at 03:49 PM While I'm always glad to see a corrupt politician actually face some consequences, it's also always a bit disheartening to read one of these things that starts with how he's been flagrantly breaking corruption and finance laws for a decade and how these abuses directly aided in the politician getting the position they have. It really feels like you have to be incredibly flagrant in your abuses to get caught at all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finaljedi Posted Thursday at 04:08 PM Share Posted Thursday at 04:08 PM 33 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: Obviously I'm not cut out for politics...but man, I get antsy if a vendor even tries to give us a t-shirt or two as swag after we buy $100,000 worth of computer gear. I was the manager of a cinema and I bought a bunch of printer ribbons for a dot matrix printer we had to get a free duffel bag. Another time a lighting supplier told me they'd give me a $50 walmart gift card for an order of two cases of fluorescent tubes, they didn't go through and when they called back for a re-order I told them I never got the gift card so I'd be going with another supplier. I should have gone into politics instead of going into this weird IT niche. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted Thursday at 07:02 PM Share Posted Thursday at 07:02 PM Reading the excerpts people are posting on Bluesky. I find it funny that the known favor that the Turkish asked for was to waive the fire inspection of their new consulate. I suppose that is the kind of thing that you'd bribe a mayor for, but it just seems like it might be easier to just build to code. I have the feeling that Adam's changing his password on his phone and "forgetting" it is not going to keep the FBI out for very long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris- Posted Thursday at 07:44 PM Share Posted Thursday at 07:44 PM I work in advertising so I have absolutely no sense of shame when it comes to vendor gifts. The media team at my old agency would straight up ask reps for tickets to things lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finaljedi Posted Thursday at 09:26 PM Share Posted Thursday at 09:26 PM 2 hours ago, TwinIon said: Reading the excerpts people are posting on Bluesky. I find it funny that the known favor that the Turkish asked for was to waive the fire inspection of their new consulate. I suppose that is the kind of thing that you'd bribe a mayor for, but it just seems like it might be easier to just build to code. I have the feeling that Adam's changing his password on his phone and "forgetting" it is not going to keep the FBI out for very long. It must have been a pretty rough fire code violation. That same cinema manager job I had they wrote down during every inspection that we had a sprinkler to close to the wall in like 3 places, it never got fixed, they never really cared. Bribing the mayor of NYC for waiving a fire inspection... did they have emergency exits that led to backup generator fuel tanks lined with trip wire? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted Thursday at 10:06 PM Share Posted Thursday at 10:06 PM He'll be Trump's running mate in 2028. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted Thursday at 10:06 PM Share Posted Thursday at 10:06 PM 35 minutes ago, finaljedi said: It must have been a pretty rough fire code violation. That same cinema manager job I had they wrote down during every inspection that we had a sprinkler to close to the wall in like 3 places, it never got fixed, they never really cared. Bribing the mayor of NYC for waiving a fire inspection... did they have emergency exits that led to backup generator fuel tanks lined with trip wire? Part of me wants to believe that they must have had a really good reason, like some sort of secret spy stuff that they didn't want disclosed so they had to avoid any inspection, but there's probably a better chance that it was a mundane thing, like they built something not caring about code or just needed to hit a deadline and couldn't deal with any more red tape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted 17 hours ago Share Posted 17 hours ago De Blasio: ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Mayor That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’ - The Onion THEONION.COM NEW YORK—Clucking his tongue with mock disappointment, Bill De Blasio announced to New Yorkers that “It’s not so easy to find a mayor that doesn’t suck shit after all, huh?” during a press conference... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted 13 hours ago Share Posted 13 hours ago Still be better than Andrew Yang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted 13 hours ago Share Posted 13 hours ago I'd like to see if its even possible to run a city like NY without a little corruption. Not saying I like it, I just don't believe there was ever a sitting mayor that was above it all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted 12 hours ago Share Posted 12 hours ago Corruption is a fact of life in big American cities, especially the biggest three. Adams is just an idiot and got caught! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted 11 hours ago Share Posted 11 hours ago 36 minutes ago, Uaarkson said: Corruption is a fact of life in big American cities, especially the biggest three. Adams is just an idiot and got caught! who was prosecuted (because he's black) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted 11 hours ago Share Posted 11 hours ago 4 minutes ago, SuperSpreader said: who was prosecuted (because he's black) I mean, yeah. Probably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted 11 hours ago Share Posted 11 hours ago 5 minutes ago, Uaarkson said: I mean, yeah. Probably. I mean this country can catch Diddy but Trump is flying all over the place and using Epstein's plane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted 11 hours ago Share Posted 11 hours ago 10 minutes ago, SuperSpreader said: I mean this country can catch Diddy but Trump is flying all over the place and using Epstein's plane Something something DEI 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finaljedi Posted 10 hours ago Share Posted 10 hours ago 17 minutes ago, Uaarkson said: Something something DEI I've seen some right wing doofuses already say this was retribution from the dems for complaining about illegal immigration or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted 10 hours ago Share Posted 10 hours ago fffuuu As Adams’s Fate Hangs in the Balance, Cuomo Waits in the Shadows - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM The uncertainty surrounding Mayor Eric Adams has fueled rampant speculation that the former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo may enter the mayor’s race. 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago Why is he such a weirdo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted 51 minutes ago Share Posted 51 minutes ago 11 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said: Why is he such a weirdo. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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