Adams was a cop for decades.
Cops lie. A lot.
No one should trust this fucker.
Cop turned politician, why wouldn’t you believe him?! /s
It’s the two most lyingist professions so they cancel each other out, right?
He was interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition today. My favorite part of the interview was when they asked how he knew there were “outside agitators” and he said “I just had a gut reaction”.
My second favorite was when they asked what made him decide to go in, and he said “when I learned that one of the outside agitators’s husband was arrested for federal terrorism charges”.
Not someone who was actually there, not someone who was tried or convicted or sentenced, but one person who was present is married to someone who was once arrested for federal terrorism charges, and I assume released with charges dropped since he only said “arrested”.
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/02/1248634146/columbia-university-mayor-eric-adams-nypd-student-arrests
I like a lot of things about New York, but they really don’t know how to pick a mayor.
He won by 7k votes in a city of 8 million.
404,513 to 397,316.
I would’ve preferred Wiley but either her or Garcia would’ve made loads better as a mayor.
Problem is there was this constant barrage of news stories tilting the election in his favor: deliberate fearmongering about crime to pump up his popularity.
Such bullshit but it was definitely enough to swing 7k votes… if not 70k+.
The population of NYC is 8 million, and they had fewer than 1M votes for mayor? That, like, 12.5%.
Even if you limit it to just citizen population, I found that number to be 6-7 million. Thats still only a 14-16% voter turnout.
The fuck?
That was technically the primary. That’s 1M registered Democrats - which you had to be to vote.
Okay, but he’s not exactly the first terrible mayor New York has had in the past 50 years or so.
He’s not, but he’s the first one elected using ranked choice.
Pisses me off to no end that anyone believes this corrupt fucker.
As so they should. Fuck him.
I was confused for a minute because the article says the outside agitators were against Israel. There do seem to be outside agitators at these uni protests, but they are pro-Israel:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-israel-agitator-shouts-kill-the-jews-gets-everyone-else-arrested
By “outside agitators” they mean people who aren’t affiliated with the university. I can’t speak for Columbia specifically, but I wouldn’t characterize the non-university-affiliated protestors that were at my university as “agitators” any more than the university-affiliated protestors were.
