Posted on 11/01/2025 10:15:21 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Before Eric Adams can start explaining the conspiracy that took him down, the soon-to-be-former mayor of New York City must make his morning smoothie. On a chilly recent Friday, he is standing in the stainless-steel kitchen of Gracie Mansion, the stately official residence on the Upper East Side, layering blueberries and ginger and flaxseed and greens into a Nutribullet blender.
“People think that our stomachs are like a washing machine—that when you eat, everything mixes up together—and it is not,” he says, whirring the mixture into a greenish-brown sludge. “Our stomachs are like a sink, where what you put in it first goes down the drain first.” He pours me a sample. It tastes like ginger-flavored grass.
We are speaking a week and change since Adams bowed to the inevitable and dropped his bid for re-election. There is a lot he wants to get off his chest. When he was elected four years ago, Adams seemed poised to be a transformational figure. Amid rising crime and racial tensions, the former police captain promised there need be no compromise between safety and justice. Like Joe Biden’s election a year earlier, his win was a triumph of the Democratic Party’s moderate Black base over the radical-chic faculty liberals and their alienating ideas. “I’m the Biden of Brooklyn,” Adams boasted. “Look at me and you’re seeing the future of the Democratic Party.” Aides whispered that he could run for President.
Four years later, the Democrats’ future looks murkier than ever, and Adams’ lofty ambitions lie in ruins. His approval rating sank as low as 20% in the wake of his federal indictment on bribery and corruption charges and its subsequent dismissal by President Trump’s Justice Department. In the mayoral race between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo, Adams was relegated to an afterthought, an object...
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How come Bookschlep hasn’t kicked in to the Q4 Freep-A-Thon?
We’re getting tired of dragging his deadbeat freeploading behind around.
I truly believe there is a place in NYC for a tried and true conservative who won’t compromise. That people, including New Yorkers, do ultimately admire individuals of principle, even if they disagree…
Eric Adams believed in some practical considerations: like the need for more police to fight crime. But he had no solid backbone of principles.
And you reap what you sow. He claims to be a Christian, yet he went out of his way to make his city a sanctuary - for ABORTIONS. You can’t ask God to bless that! (Meanwhile the Devil is helping the other side plenty and they don’t care to hide it.)
“Thanks to this exhibit, New Yorkers can trace and understand our history of reproductive rights — from the early, dark days of criminality to our status today as a national role model. This month, during Women’s History Month, and every month, our city stands with protecting, empowering, and leading on women’s health care.”
His tragedy is being a democrat.
Eric Adams was one of the dumbest creatures ever to hold office in New York City — and that’s saying a lot.
Doesn't matter that he may have been right, or that he was actually trying to improve NY'ers lives. The NY Machine had to kill him.
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