It's All But Confirmed: Someone is Trying to Take Down NYC Mayor Eric Adams
The New York Democratic Civil War is Here
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams is now being accused of sexual assault, as reported by the New York Post yesterday, Thanksgiving Day.
The allegations stem from Adams’ time as a police officer from 1993. He’s denied the allegations, telling reporters, “It absolutely did not happen.”
Something isn’t passing the sniff test here. The allegations could be valid, and if someone was truly a victim, I hope they find justice. But, the timing is just all too convenient amid already intense speculation that Adams is now on the receiving end of some sort of political retaliation.
The whole thing is reminiscent of the case of Governor Andrew Cuomo, who resigned in disgrace after he came under fire in 2021 for his mishandling of nursing home deaths in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.
At the time, he drew ire for increased deaths in nursing homes among the elderly as a result of policies that placed COVID-infected patients with non-infected nursing home residents, potentially worsening the spread and causing more deaths. It was also found that his administration allegedly covered up the full scale of deaths in nursing homes, understating the figures by as much as 50 percent.
Conveniently, sexual misconduct allegations against Cuomo surfaced shortly after. A few months later, he resigned, with most of the blame placed on the harassment allegations, not the nursing home scandal. There were no further probes into the scandal, and Cuomo faded from the public eye, for the most part.
The Adams situation has a similar feel, but there are some key differences.
Cuomo wasn’t rocking the boat. He was cooperative with the feds throughout COVID and in many ways spearheaded the regime’s abuse of lockdown powers. If Cuomo was a controlled demolition, it wasn’t in retaliation, but more so a red herring to draw prying eyes from the nursing home scandal.
Cuomo had more power than Adams and is seemingly more entrenched in the existing Democratic machine and is, of course, part of a political dynasty. Adams is certainly part of the machine, but also has displayed willingness to venture beyond if it would serve him better, i.e., his temporary party switch, becoming a Republican from 1997 - 2001.
If Cuomo really was the target of a coordinated hatchet job, it’s unclear if he was in on it. The benefit for him would be to avoid accountability for the nursing home scandal. With Adams, there’s no major scandal he’d want cover from. If the sexual assault allegations are a foil from the Turkish influence allegations, I’d take the latter any day if I were him. That kind of stuff brushes past most elected officials with little of it actually “sticking.”
After the Turkish influence allegations, there was already speculation that Adams was the victim of retaliation for his very public criticism of Biden and the Open Borders agenda fueling the migrant crisis. These latest charges all but guarantee there is an underground coup in progress.
Republicans don’t have the leverage (and arguably, neither the desire) to do something like this. So who? And why?
That NY progressives are foaming at the mouth should be clue enough:
The Council, dominated by progressives, and Adams have repeatedly clashed since the beginning of his term. In July, the Council overrode Adams’ veto of their housing voucher bill that would have expanded the program.
Eric Adams can no longer hedge his bets and is backed into a corner. Will he roll over and take whatever lower plea deal the NY progressive deep state will hand him? Or will he fight back, shake the right hands, and wrestle power away from the progressives? Desperate men do desperate things.
Whatever the case, both NY Republicans and Democratic discontents can have some hope as they watch the Great NY Democratic Civil War with popcorn in hand. There are now two very real scenarios that end up benefiting our side.
If Adams fights back, and wins, it could signal a return to common sense and the road to dismantling the progressive stranglehold.
If Adams loses or throws in the towel, the progressives will attempt to steamroll their agenda via the Council and cement their power with a progressive mayoral candidate in 2025.
If scenario #2 happens, Democrats will run great risk of opening the doors to a true Republican contender, as by then, the progressive-led degradation of New York will push even more of us to the right, as we’ve seen in recent NY elections. Knowing their lust for power, they would probably make this gamble.
As Napoleon is reported to have said, “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
Appeal Planned After New York Supreme Court Reinstates ‘Quarantine Camp’ Regulation (The Defender)
The New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division issued a ruling last week that effectively paves the way for quarantine camps in the future, the Brownstone Institute reported.
The court’s Nov. 17 decision reversed a lower court ruling that determined the March 2020 emergency rule 2.13 establishing “Isolation and Quarantine Procedures” was unconstitutional.
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Plaintiffs’ attorney Bobbie Anne Cox told The Defender they plan to appeal the decision.
Now that power-hungry Kathy Hochul and the Albany machine have tasted authoritarianism in the COVID era, they will never stop until they make permanent the temporary measures they used to circumvent our freedoms. The fight shows not all of Albany is against us: State Senator George Borrello, Assemblyman Chris Tague, and Congressman Michael Lawler are plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the state, along with citizen organization Uniting NYS.
Queens ex-con shoots building super, fires at cops in hours-long standoff (NY Post)
A Queens ex-con with dozens of prior arrests shot his building super before opening fire on responding cops, leading to an hours-long standoff on Wednesday that ended when he shot himself, witnesses and authorities said.
The gunman blasted his 48-year-old super in the stomach during an argument inside the apartment building on 54th Street near 31st Avenue in Astoria shortly before 11 a.m. and then shot at police from a sixth floor window, according to the NYPD.
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The attacker has served four prison stints for convictions in New York dating back to 1980 — three times for burglary and once for criminal possession of a controlled substance, according to state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision records.
He has a total of 45 prior arrests, including nine involving narcotics, according to law enforcement sources.
Forty-five arrests. We should not be engaged in the ridiculous cycle of bending over for criminals, hoping they figure out the basics of human civilization while those around them suffer. No one should get to the point of 45 arrests, violent or not, and walk free among us. But progressives always believe there is some sliver of hope, some Hollywood moment where they suddenly wake up and turn their life around. They hope for heavenly miracles while they create Hell on earth.
Geert Wilders is just the start of Europe’s Right-wing wave (UnHerd)
The dam is breached. The “shock election victory” of Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV) will reverberate through all of Europe. The Dutch people decided to cast their vote for the Right-wing firebrand — and massively so, at least considering the conditions of the country’s parliamentary system.
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The people of Western Europe are losing their hesitancy when it comes to voting for Right-wing parties, and Wilders’s success is most likely only the beginning.
Something’s happening. “Far-right” (as the media so lovingly portrays him) Wilders’ win in the Netherlands follows the recent rise of Argentinian president-elect Javier Milei, the famous wielder of the chainsaw of bureaucratic death. But Milei isn’t a right winger in the conventional sense; he’s a libertarian, more accurately, he describes himself as an anarcho-capitalist. The New Right Wing isn’t your dad’s old conservative party. It is a very specific reactionary movement responding to the globalist, woke tyranny that has manifested in various forms throughout the globe. It is the immune system of common sense, tradition, and Western logos. Let us pray for its continued strength, and its eventual blossoming in the United States, building upon the foundation laid by a certain Bad Orange Man.
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I largely agree with your take
See HONEST DEMOCRATS post on Eric Adams causing problems for President Biden:
https://honestdem.substack.com/p/bidens-fbi-raids-campaign-fundraiser
In terms of Cuomo a few points:
1) Cuomo['s take down WAS retaliation, but not linked to COVID
Cuomo was the most hated Democrat in New York because he ran the state as a Mafia Don. Cross Cuomo and you woke up with a horses head on the pillow next to you in bed.
Then the NURSING HOME SCANDAL hits and one brave Assemblyman RON KIM takes Cuomo on with very few supporting Kim initially. However the ME TOO allegations were the perfect excuse for Dems who already despised Cuomo to take him down without rocking the national boat.
I know these things because I'm from NY, and lived through it in real time