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He’s undoubtedly the worst mayor the city has ever had.
He is certainly one of the stupidest. I can almost see the cartoon birds flying around in his head.
Worse than Rudy?
Not really. When 200k people show up at your doorstep with their hand out what do you expect. The math isn’t that difficult to understand - it’s probably going to eat up $7 billion out of the budget over 1 year. Adams has tried to dissuade the tide of “asylum seekers” but it’s out of his hands. He doesn’t control the border.
I firmly believe he was backed by the GOP. He lived in New Jersey and used his brother’s NYC address to qualify.
Yeah, I don’t like cheaters. My current Congressional rep is a Texan carpetbagger MAGA fuck.
New Jersey isn’t really doing anything about their reputation as New York’s garbage dump.
NJ= Menendez
so we wait for him to be ejected. NJ, we are watching you now. Get your shit together.
New Jersey? Say no more, he’s cabbage
New York somehow has terrible politicians on both sides. Like, the gullibility is insane. Adams, Santos, Hochul, Giuliani, they all suck. I just imagine shady people are bankrolling these nut cases.
The USA in general has terrible politicians because they are controlled by business rather than workers.
Nah. I think Obama and Biden are fairly solid. Nobody is perfect, but they both seem to have a level of integrity that my other examples clearly don’t have.
Honestly, as a NYS resident, I don’t have a problem with Hochul. Santos is LI problem- they are idiots. Guiliani? It has been a long time since he was a NYS politician subject to a voting body. He is a sell out and frankly, sucked as a NYC mayor. I think the run off method for the mayoral vote is what gave us Adams. Garcia seemed to me to be a stronger and more experienced candidate. But I don’t live in NYC so don’t have a vote in that sector.
This is my take as a liberal Texan, just because I live in a red state doesn’t mean I think these “blue” states are role models, NY especially is very hypocritical. People think down here we are a bunch of shooty bigoted cowboys and that’s sort of true, but over the years I’ve picked up that the East Coast has a bunch of dark shit going on that’s not reported in the media. I don’t think NYC models a good multi-cultural society either, it’s just a bunch of segregated pockets of different ethnicities/races/classes who secretly hate each other and want to be dominant. Guys like Eric Adams therefore are a product of that, there is nothing liberal about him except that he’s black so he has to play the part. I’d argue that there are sunbelt Republican mayors who are more progressive than Adams.
OK, you are in TX and have not one point of interest nor any reasonable input. Solve your own problems first.
Capitalists will try to destroy every 3rd place that doesn’t involve spending money - don’t let them!!
Gotta have that money for more cops. Duh.
That’s insane
BOOOOOOO
Maybe that’s why the New York public library at Bryant Park didn’t open until noon today.
…why would they disrupt weekend hours instead of the slow-day hours? At my library, it wouldn’t matter if we were down to two people and a prayer, we’d still be open on Saturdays. (:looks back to that one year everybody was out with the flu & there were two of us to cover the entire Saturday shift alone: :shivers:)
Right?? At my library, Saturdays and Sundays are the busiest days. It’s almost like people go to the library on days they don’t have work or school haha
In my NYS county, our local library is funded by our property taxes. Also the county library system gets funds from not only our taxes but also the state income taxes. The city library system (NYC) also gets funds from our income, sales, regular transport fees and regular sales taxes. My complaint is the requirement to recertify for library borrowing privileges. I pay a lot. I expect the services from the state that I pay for. I have lived in shitty low tax states so I know how much they suck in comparison.
Thank you New York, and thank you Seattle as well.
New York could have had the incredibly competent Maya Wiley as its mayor, but they went instead with an absolute knob that didn’t even really live there. Eric Adams is such a tool that he makes the groundhog-killing Bill de Blasio look like a capable leader, which is no mean feat.
I wonder if they will reconsider their decision to let non New Yorkers use the Brooklyn Library now? I was paying $50 a year and it was a bargain.
I’m pretty sure that program was costing them more money to run than it was making, thus why they cut back on it. Anybody who bothered to sign up was a pretty heavy borrower of e-books, and those are expensive on the library’s side.
I live in NYS. so my state income taxes fund the Brooklyn Library. Even after you get a library card, you have to recertify which is bullshit. This is not SNAP. I qualify to borrow ebooks without being shamed for not living in the boroughs.
Cuts all around. Get ready for layoffs.
Why does a city like NY keep voting in crypto-republican scum like this?
Stark denialism if you think somehow that Adams’ politics are the reason for this. Where is the $7 billion supposed to come from to pay for something like 200k (or more) people who have been thrown into his care? We all knew it would lead to this, but all you want to do is deny that there are consequences for acting like NYC is one big charity to the world.
It is the money… the funding. The people with the money have bought the candidate they expect will protect their interests.
It’$ a my$tery.
Apparently, being a sanctuary city is expensive. Things will probably get worse as time goes on.
Adams sucks.
Should probably leave before the water gets too high.