Re-visiting Christian Nationalism

[Calm]

8 minutes ago, Teancum said:

@Analyticsjust started a thread on.....that was immediately shut down. Yet this one remains open. Maybe he should post the OP from that thread here. I

I may have accidentally skipped reporting it in the mass of reports I did the other day and if no one else has recently reported it….

Edited February 14, 2025 by Calm

[Teancum]

2 minutes ago, Calm said:

I may have accidentally skipped reporting it in the mass of reports I did the other day and if no one else has recently reported it….

Massive reports?  You wanted these threads shut down?

[Teancum]

3 minutes ago, Calm said:

I may have accidentally skipped reporting it in the mass of reports I did the other day and if no one else has recently reported it….

This was the topic. Seems to cover LDS type things. Yes it is political but I don't think the thread should have been locked.

 

 Honest in Our Dealings: Civic Responsibility and Government Corruption

[Calm]

58 minutes ago, Teancum said:

Massive reports?  You wanted these threads shut down?

No, the spammer, the vulgarities, etc….wanted to make sure the mods caught them all.   As sometimes I notice if I just report the troll and assume mods will look at all their posts, they don’t always.  I assume that means they are short on time and given the gaps with moderating lately, that is my standard assumption these days.  I probably reported threads that had shifted purely political as well because of the board rule; if the mods had to show up, they should be able to get a full picture as easily as possible in my view since they don’t get paid for the work.

If threads go completely political these days, I don’t always report them as some have been decently civil.   And quite informative and almost always distracting which is great in winter.   My preference is they stay open and I sometimes mention that besides the politics rule, other board standards are usually being met in reports, but I think it important to report them at least sometimes so the mods are aware of what’s going on just in case they thinking it’s necessary to take a stronger hand.

Edited February 14, 2025 by Calm

[Analytics]

On 2/12/2025 at 5:55 PM, smac97 said:

Again, I would prefer to discuss the particulars of what sure looks like a lot of uncovered waste, fraud, corruption, etc., all at taxpayer expense.

Here's the latest on the corruption front. 

NYC Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat indicted under President Biden for bribery, fraud, and soliciting illegal foreign donations, suddenly pledged allegiance to President Trump—and watched his prosecution skid to a halt.

On Trump’s direct orders, top Justice Department official Emil Bove III demanded prosecutors drop all charges, but Acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon refused to commit what she viewed as an egregious breach of justice. Yesterday she resigned in protest, followed by lead prosecutor Hagan Scotten and others who refused to back down. (Yay for smaller government!)

Adams had faced a formidable case—until Trump weaponized federal law enforcement, bartering his protection for Adams’s newfound loyalty. This brazen maneuver exemplifies Trump’s corruption in plain sight, showing how far he’ll go to bend the system for political gain, even overturning a solid indictment brought during the Biden administration against a Democrat politician. By standing firm and resigning, Sassoon and her colleagues became the true guardians of justice, leaving Adams and Trump to face the stench of a cynical quid pro quo.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/nyregion/eric-adams-drop-charges-sdny.html

 

[ZealouslyStriving]

Although me thinks thou doth protest too much- it would be pretty awesome to see the guy the Creedists banded together to elect, and support with fervent zeal, turn out to be their dreaded "anti- Christ".

😂

[Calm]

39 minutes ago, ZealouslyStriving said:

Although me thinks thou doth protest too much- it would be pretty awesome to see the guy the Creedists banded together to elect, and support with fervent zeal, turn out to be their dreaded "anti- Christ".

😂

I guess you don’t have kids or grandkids?

[ZealouslyStriving]

44 minutes ago, Calm said:

I guess you don’t have kids or grandkids?

I'm not exactly sure what that has to do with my comment.

Edited February 15, 2025 by ZealouslyStriving

[longview]

1 hour ago, Analytics said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/nyregion/eric-adams-drop-charges-sdny.html

This rag LOST its credibility many years ago. It was in the forefront of beating the drums on the Russian Collusion HOAX for too long. Now most dominant media acknowledge that it was appallingly hysterical and FAKE. The same for the Hunter Laptop extreme counter offensive. Now proven to have REAL exposure of the ENTIRE Biden Crime family.

[ZealouslyStriving]

1 hour ago, longview said:

This rag LOST its credibility many years ago. It was in the forefront of beating the drums on the Russian Collusion HOAX for too long. Now most dominant media acknowledge that it was appallingly hysterical and FAKE. The same for the Hunter Laptop extreme counter offensive. Now proven to have REAL exposure of the ENTIRE Biden Crime family.

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[Calm]

2 hours ago, ZealouslyStriving said:

I'm not exactly sure what that has to do with my comment.

The antichrist means not nice things will be happening to the world according to many interpretations 

[ZealouslyStriving]

1 hour ago, Calm said:

The antichrist means not nice things will be happening to the world according to many interpretations 

It also means Jesus is coming soon!

[ttribe]

6 hours ago, longview said:

This rag LOST its credibility many years ago. It was in the forefront of beating the drums on the Russian Collusion HOAX for too long. Now most dominant media acknowledge that it was appallingly hysterical and FAKE. The same for the Hunter Laptop extreme counter offensive. Now proven to have REAL exposure of the ENTIRE Biden Crime family.

[sunstoned]

10 hours ago, longview said:

This rag LOST its credibility many years ago. It was in the forefront of beating the drums on the Russian Collusion HOAX for too long. Now most dominant media acknowledge that it was appallingly hysterical and FAKE. The same for the Hunter Laptop extreme counter offensive. Now proven to have REAL exposure of the ENTIRE Biden Crime family.

Delusional conspiracy theories. 

[Analytics]

11 hours ago, longview said:

This rag LOST its credibility many years ago. It was in the forefront of beating the drums on the Russian Collusion HOAX for too long. Now most dominant media acknowledge that it was appallingly hysterical and FAKE. The same for the Hunter Laptop extreme counter offensive. Now proven to have REAL exposure of the ENTIRE Biden Crime family.

Can you be more specific? The New York Times has about 1,700 journalists (out of 5,800 total employees). Which specific ones do you think did a sub-par job reporting on these events? Which articles didn’t you like?

And what source do you suggest I turn to for information on how Trump won’t prosecute the corrupt mayor of New York?

[Zosimus]

 

16 hours ago, longview said:

The same for the Hunter Laptop extreme counter offensive

No counter offensive can top the one that dropped today

“He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” - POTUS

 

[teddyaware]

2 hours ago, Zosimus said:

 

No counter offensive can top the one that dropped today

“He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” - POTUS

 

I doubt the Founding Fathers would have agreed with you. if they hadn’t violated the will of the English Crown and the laws governing British Colonial America there would be no United States of America and this land wouldn’t have been “redeemed by the shedding of blood” in the war of rebellion called “The War of American Independence.” The Founders believed they were obeying higher laws that superseded the inferior laws under which they were then being ruled. The Founders also knew that by formalizing and signing the Declaration of Independence that they were committing treason against the British Crown and singing their own death warrants. Do you believe they were justified in the actions they took? And if the Foundering Fathers had lacked the courage and steely resolve to wage a war of rebellion against injustice the restoration of the gospel couldn’t have taken place and the United States of America, “the Lord’s base of operations in the last days,” wouldn’t exist. And were the resistance fighters in Germany during World War Two doing anything wrong when waged guerrilla warfare against the unjust rulers and laws of the Third Reich?  I don’t think so. He who saves his country from unjust tyrannical rule when the Lord requires it fights to defend the law of God.

Edited February 16, 2025 by teddyaware

[Zosimus]

1 hour ago, teddyaware said:

He who saves his country from unjust tyrannical rule when the Lord requires it fights to defend the law of God.

I'll remember that when the Lord requires it, until then I'll follow the Constitution. Noone (not even the executive branch) is above the law. The Founders made sure of that.

[Teancum]

6 hours ago, teddyaware said:

I doubt the Founding Fathers would have agreed with you. if they hadn’t violated the will of the English Crown and the laws governing British Colonial America there would be no United States of America and this land wouldn’t have been “redeemed by the shedding of blood” in the war of rebellion called “The War of American Independence.” The Founders believed they were obeying higher laws that superseded the inferior laws under which they were then being ruled. The Founders also knew that by formalizing and signing the Declaration of Independence that they were committing treason against the British Crown and singing their own death warrants. Do you believe they were justified in the actions they took? And if the Foundering Fathers had lacked the courage and steely resolve to wage a war of rebellion against injustice the restoration of the gospel couldn’t have taken place and the United States of America, “the Lord’s base of operations in the last days,” wouldn’t exist. And were the resistance fighters in Germany during World War Two doing anything wrong when waged guerrilla warfare against the unjust rulers and laws of the Third Reich?  I don’t think so. He who saves his country from unjust tyrannical rule when the Lord requires it fights to defend the law of God.

Ok.  So who or what is Trump saving the nation from?  And then are you in favor of him trashing the constitution in the process this alleged saving?

[ttribe]

4 minutes ago, Teancum said:

Ok.  So who or what is Trump saving the nation from?  And then are you in favor of him trashing the constitution in the process this alleged saving?

That entire post is a rationalization known as "The Ends Justify the Means."

[CV75]

8 hours ago, teddyaware said:

I doubt the Founding Fathers would have agreed with you. if they hadn’t violated the will of the English Crown and the laws governing British Colonial America there would be no United States of America and this land wouldn’t have been “redeemed by the shedding of blood” in the war of rebellion called “The War of American Independence.” The Founders believed they were obeying higher laws that superseded the inferior laws under which they were then being ruled. The Founders also knew that by formalizing and signing the Declaration of Independence that they were committing treason against the British Crown and singing their own death warrants. Do you believe they were justified in the actions they took? And if the Foundering Fathers had lacked the courage and steely resolve to wage a war of rebellion against injustice the restoration of the gospel couldn’t have taken place and the United States of America, “the Lord’s base of operations in the last days,” wouldn’t exist. And were the resistance fighters in Germany during World War Two doing anything wrong when waged guerrilla warfare against the unjust rulers and laws of the Third Reich?  I don’t think so. He who saves his country from unjust tyrannical rule when the Lord requires it fights to defend the law of God.

I understand the Founding Fathers, but please describe wherein lies the tyrannical rule from which the USA must be saved in our day. Also, who has the Lord inspired to commit treason in the USA today as part of His latter-day work?

[longview]

18 hours ago, Analytics said:

And what source do you suggest I turn to for information on how Trump won’t prosecute the corrupt mayor of New York?

These:

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Holden is breaking with the majority of his party, who wish to “Trump proof” their states prior to Trump’s ascencion to the White House in January. He has seemingly taken inspiration from Trump’s incoming “border czar” Thomas Homan’s recent appearance on Fox News when Homan said, “It is a felony to harbor and conceal illegal aliens from [ICE].”
Homan also recently vowed to deploy “double the number of [ICE] agents” to New York and other sanctuary jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration-enforcement efforts.
“Shielding criminals who shouldn’t be here from federal law enforcement is a violation of federal law. New York must stop being a sanctuary city and state. We have enough crime here — why import more?” Holden asked on X. “It’s time for elected officials to listen to the people.”
Holden appears to have an ally in his push to end New York’s sanctuary city status in Mayor Eric Adams, who said in February that it was time to rethink the Big Apple’s sanctuary policy.
“I want to go back to the standards of the previous mayors who, I believe, subscribed to my belief that people who are suspected of committing serious crimes in this city should be held accountable,” Adams said.

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The face masks many Covid ritualists still wear may not filter out viruses too well, but they do stop authorities from filtering out different pathogens: criminals.
So warned New York City mayor Eric Adams recently when, in perhaps the ultimate Captain Obvious moment, he told Big Apple shop owners Monday that they should “not allow people to enter the store without taking off their face mask” — because it makes it impossible for police to identify shoplifters.
Ironically, Adams is the man who not even a year ago went to court to try to perpetuate NYC school mask mandates for children under five years old. This itself is a moral crime because masking children is more dangerous for them than the coronavirus ever was, as ex-child-mask advocate and CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen learned after masking caused her young son developmental problems.
What type of developmental problems cause prominent politicians and medical figures to apprehend the obvious only years too late has not been reported. As for Adams’s recent revelation, however, Business Insider informs:
“Do not allow people to enter the store without taking off their face masks,” Adams told a local radio station Monday. “When you see these mask-wearing people, it’s not about being fearful of a pandemic. (They’re) fearful of the police catching (them) for their misdeeds.
Adams said that stores need to be able to use technologies to “identify those shoplifters and those who have committed serious crimes,” but that face masks — an item that has become commonplace, albeit decreasingly so, due to the coronavirus pandemic — make it hard to do so. He added that once in the store, shoppers can feel free to wear face masks.
Adams’ comments come as retailers have sounded the alarms about above-average theft rates for months. Walmart President and CEO  said in December 2022 that stores would close and prices would rise if theft levels did not drop.
As to these levels, NPR writes that as NPR member Gothamist reports, “Robberies spiked in New York City last year, with 17,411 reported last year, compared to 13,831 in 2021, according to NYPD data. Before that, the number of reported robberies hadn’t exceeded 17,000 since 2013.”

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With the migrant crisis in New York City still running rampant, Mayor Eric Adams is no longer simply asking the federal government in America for help — he’s making pleas to other countries. 
Adams this week has been on an international trip visiting major Latin American sources of mass migration, during which he has urged the populations of the nations he has visited to not come to the United States.
On Thursday, the mayor was in Mexico City, where he told anyone thinking of illegally crossing the border that their experience would be a “nightmare” if they were to make the cross-border journey in an attempt to claim asylum.
“I say to those who are pursuing the American dream, it should not turn into a nightmare,” Adams said, per Breitbart News.
He added, “When you see children making the long trek through a jungle and then having to live in conditions of congregate shelters, of not having the real environment that they deserve, inability to work, it just makes it extremely challenging.”
Addressing his remarks “to the people of all the countries that are migrating,” Adams declared that there “is no more room in New York.”
“Our hearts are endless, but our resources are not,” he added.

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The home of Brianna Suggs, a top fundraiser for New York City Mayor Eric Adams, was raided on Thursday morning by federal agents.
According to neighbors, screams were heard coming from the home at about the time of the raid.
“I heard screaming maybe two or three hours ago,” a neighbor told the New York Post. According to the report in that paper, the neighbor also heard helicopters and said that the home is boarded up.
Suggs’ firm has earned more than $150,000 from the Adams campaign since 2021, the Post noted.
Update Nov. 3, 12:14 pm central
The New York Post reports that Suggs is a 25-year-old recent college graduate “on a meteoric rise in New York City’s Democratic politics.”
The paper reports that her youth and apparent relevant experience have raised questions about how she rose so quickly through the ranks of influence.
“Suggs has been touted as a key campaign consultant and fundraiser for Adams — but sources said the young operative’s lack of experience raised eyebrows during the 2021 mayoral race, with some attributing her apparently elevated status to her political connections,” the NY Post reported.
The raid on Suggs is part of a larger investigation, according to The New York Times.
The investigation “at the home of Eric Adams’s chief fund-raiser was part of an inquiry into whether foreign money was funneled into his mayoral campaign, a search warrant shows,” the Times said.
As part of what the Times termed a “broad public corruption investigation, federal agents are investigating whether the Adams campaign “conspired with the Turkish government to receive illegal foreign donations, according to a search warrant obtained by The New York Times.”

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The first-term Democratic mayor, who won office in 2021, claimed he was not surprised by the indictments. He said in a statement on Wednesday that he was innocent of all charges:
It is now my belief that the federal government intends to charge me with crimes. If so, these charges will be entirely false, based on lies, but they would not be surprising. I always knew that if I stood my ground for all of you that I would be a target.
“I will fight these injustices with every ounce of my strength and my spirit,” he concluded.
The fiery Adams has been at odds with the federal government over their lax immigration enforcement policies. He noted in his statement:
Despite our pleas, when the federal government did nothing as its broken immigration policies overloaded our shelter system with no relief, I put the people of New York before party and politics.
Adams has also said that he’d like to roll back the city’s “sanctuary city” policy, telling reporters in February:
I want to go back to the standards of the previous mayors who I believe subscribe to my belief that people who are suspected of committing serious crimes in this city should be held accountable.
The Charges
Specifically, Adams was charged with one count of “conspiracy to commit wire fraud, federal program bribery, and to receive campaign contributions by foreign nationals”; one count of wire fraud; two counts of “solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national”; and one count of bribery. The indictment appears here.
The Feds claim that once Adams knew he was going to be mayor, the malfeasance began:
As ADAMS’s prominence and power grew, his foreign-national benefactors sought to cash in on their corrupt relationships with him, particularly when, in 2021, it became clear that ADAMS would become New York City’s mayor. ADAMS agreed, providing favorable treatment in exchange for the illicit benefits he received.
The Turkish official then allegedly arranged donations to Adams’ campaign, as well as gifts such as free or heavily discounted airline travel, free hotel rooms, and meals in high-end restaurants.
The Biden administration denied involvement in the Adams case.

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“New Yorkers are angry. I’m angry, too. We have not asked for this,” Adams said. “There was never any agreement to take on the job of supporting thousands of asylum seekers.”
Adams’ contention that he and his city didn’t ask for an influx of illegal aliens simply doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. For months, overrun border states have been busing migrants to major cities including Washington, D.C., and New York.
They’ve been doing this because they cannot handle the massive influx of illegal aliens that have entered the country as a result of Joe Biden’s border crisis, and because these cities have described themselves as sanctuaries for illegal aliens. No city has claimed to be more welcoming of migrants than New York, which is the nation’s most dangerous sanctuary city, according to an analysis from the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI).
“We should protect our immigrants. Period,” Adams said during his mayoral campaign last year. “Yes, New York City will remain a sanctuary city under an Adams Administration.”
Shortly after taking office at the start of the year, Adams let an ordinance take effect that would allow non-citizens in New York to vote in local elections. Thankfully, that ordinance was halted by a judge, but the message Adams and other far-left politicians sent by letting it go into law is clear. However, Adams is far from the only New York politician who has sought to turn the Empire State into a haven for illegal aliens.
Earlier this year, the New York state Assembly approved $345 million in funding to go to healthcare for illegal aliens. It’s hard to think of a more direct way to invite illegal aliens to your city than to promise them government benefits and access to the ballot box once they arrive.
In 2017, then-Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order banning state agencies and State Police from asking about an individual’s immigration status in criminal cases. In 2019, then-Mayor Bill de Blasio ripped into the Trump administration over their efforts to remove criminal illegal aliens from the streets of New York, instead suggesting that the administration should have supported amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.
“Let’s do comprehensive immigration reform, let’s have a path to citizenship for 11 or 12 million people who have been here,” de Blasio said.
That same year, New York released more than 7,500 criminal illegal aliens into the United States, including some convicted murderers and sex offenders. Also that same year, the city banned the term “illegal alien,” and threatened violators with $250,000 fines.
For years, opportunistic anti-borders politicians in New York have taken political and rhetorical steps to turn their city into a sanctuary for illegal aliens. That those same politicians now have the gall to complain about aliens being bused into their city is an insult to us all. Thankfully, Texas and other border states appear to understand that, and aren’t letting up.
“Sanctuary cities like New York City experience a FRACTION of what Texas border communities face every day,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Twitter. “We’ll continue busing migrants to NYC, DC, & Chicago to relieve our overwhelmed border towns until Biden does his job to secure the border.”
As a rising star in the Democratic Party, Adams could use his influence to get the Biden administration to secure the border. Instead, he has continued to oppose secure borders, while demanding border states and cities pay the cost of his ideological extremism.
As with the elitist residents of Martha’s Vineyard, Adams has no problem with illegal aliens flooding our country as long as they stay out of sight and out of mind for him. But, if Adams and other New York politicians are going to continue to advocate for anti-border policies, then they should bear the burden for those policies.

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday a four-step program to reduce violent crime in the Big Apple. Since he took over from former mayor Bill DeBlasio on January 1, five NYPD officers have been shot.
His plan:
Reinstating the Public Safety Teams that were terminated under DeBlasio, calling them Neighborhood Safety Teams;
Employing state-of-the-art technology to identify if an individual is carrying a firearm;
Increasing funding for the department’s Gun Violence Suppression Division which builds cases against criminals; and
Appointing judges with a “demonstrated commitment to keeping violent criminals who use guns off New York City streets.”
Adams is attempting to fulfill a campaign promise to rein in violent crime, saying, “I know how to do this. New York has done it before.”
Without saying so directly, Adams is clearly inferring that he will allow officers in the new Public Safety Teams to infiltrate the highest crime-ridden precincts and reinstitute the controversial “stop, question, and frisk” policies that cost former mayor Michael Bloomberg his job when running against leftist Bill DeBlasio in 2013.
The officers will cruise high-crime precincts in unmarked vehicles and will wear street clothes. When confronting a suspect, under Terry Stop rules, they will identify themselves as officers by wearing jackets similar to those used by the FBI when they conduct raids. The new technology could amount to “a no-contact (no frisk) version” of the Terry Stop, said Nolan Hicks of the New York Post.
The Terry Stop, based upon the 1968 Supreme Court ruling in Terry v. Ohio, reduced the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee that “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated … but upon probable cause” to “reasonable suspicion.”  
Under Mayor Bloomberg, the policy resulted in major pushback from liberal groups who complained that it was enforced out of all proportion in black and Hispanic neighborhoods.
Bloomberg tried to explain his way out of the dilemma in 2015:
Ninety-five percent of murders — murderers and murder victims — fit one M.O. You can just take the description, Xerox it, and pass it out to all the cops. They are male, minorities, 16-25. That’s true in New York, that’s true in virtually every city … and that’s where the real crime is….
[We] put all the cops in minority neighborhoods. Yes, that’s true. Why do we do it? Because that’s where all the crime is.
The impact on violent crime in New York City apparently was inconclusive, and Bloomberg lost his reelection bid to DeBlasio, who shut down the effort.
The new mayor faces a daunting task: selling the resurrected team as a way to fight violent crime to hard-core leftists who are opposed to it. They include Keechant Sewell, Adams’ newly appointed police commissioner, who failed to show up at Adam’s announcement ceremony. Observers will remember that when Sewell accepted her appointment, she did so with a poster featuring cop-killer Assata Shakur behind her. Shakur was charged in 1977 with the murder of New York State Trooper Werner Foerster, escaped from prison in 1979, and now lives in communist Cuba.
Adams also faces resistance from Adrienne Adams, the newly elected speaker of the New York City Council. Her resume includes being a “long time member of the NAACP and the National Action Network (NAN).” The NAN was founded by tax-evader and race-baiter “Reverend” Al Sharpton. In June 2021, the NAN and the NAACP joined forces in a march down Fifth Avenue calling for an end to stop-and-frisk.
Also on the City Council is another hard-core leftist, Tiffany Daban, who, upon learning of Adams’ plans to reduce violent crime, said, “Much in the Mayor’s plan is cause for deep concern.… [It’s] built on a foundation of surveillance and punishment, which are ineffective and dangerous.”
There are other solutions to New York City’s spiraling violent-crime rate, such as allowing constitutional carry among its citizens. At present, the proposed reinstatement of stop and frisk is likely to go nowhere, and violent crime in the Big Apple will continue to increase.

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams may now be embroiled in more legal ordeals than any New Yorker not named Donald Trump.
Adams, once a close ally of Joe Biden, now finds his relationship with the White House strained due to two factors — the mayor’s hard-line rhetoric on migration in the wake of the Biden-precipitated migrant crisis, and a slew of scandals that have landed on his lap.
But given the timing of the legal troubles, is it possible these woes for Adams and his team are the result of back-door maneuvering by Biden-friendly operatives seeking payback on the administration’s behalf for Adams’ decision to bite the hand that once fed him?
For the last several months, Adams had been dealing with a quagmire of legal woes related to allegations of financial wrongdoing by his team. While the mayor himself has not been charged with anything, the FBI has searched his electronic devices, and at least one individual with long-standing ties to Adams is accused of being involved in a straw-man donor scheme.
One aspect the feds are looking at is whether the Adams campaign colluded with the Turkish government to get Turkish money in its campaign coffers in exchange for making the moves necessary to fast-track the opening of a high-rise consulate in time for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to cut the ribbon on the facility.
Even as that case remains open, Adams was slapped on Wednesday with a civil summons alleging that he sexual assaulted a coworker 30 years ago while he was in the New York City Police Department.
The news of the sexual assault allegation, broken by The Messenger, was met by the mayor and his office with a complete denial, with Adams claiming he never even met the plaintiff.
“It absolutely did not happen. I don’t recall ever meeting this person. And I would never harm anyone in that magnitude. It did not happen,” Adams said while speaking to reporters. “It’s going to go its course; it’s going take its process. But it did not happen. And that is not who I am, and that’s who I have never been in my professional life.”
According to the summons, the plaintiff is seeking $5 million in damages. “The claims brought here allege intentional and negligent acts and omissions for physical, psychological, and other injuries suffered as a result of conduct that would constitute sexual offenses,” reads the document. 
The sexual assault claim against Adams was filed under New York State’s Adult Survivors Act, which was enacted in May 2022 and expired on Thursday, meaning the Adams claim came in right under the deadline. The Adult Survivors Act allowed alleged victims of sexual offenses for which the statute of limitations has lapsed to file civil suits for a one-year period. Donald Trump, Bill Cosby, and Harvey Weinstein are among those who have been sued under the legislation.
The news of the allegations are sure to worsen the relationship between Adams and Biden, which reportedly had already been strained prior to the scandals due to the tension between the White House and the mayor’s office with regard to the migrant crisis. According to Politico:
Joe Biden and Eric Adams, once a perfect political match, haven’t spoken in nearly a year — and nobody expects that to change anytime soon.
… The silence between Biden and Adams has left the two top Democrats increasingly reliant on intermediaries to discuss federal funding to support the surge of migrants overwhelming big cities.
… The president and mayor last spoke — doing so only briefly — in January at an event in New York City. Adams was dropped in May from the president’s National Advisory Board. And the two didn’t meet when Biden was in town in September for the United Nations General Assembly.
It’s a long fall from February 2022, when Biden visited New York City and commended Adams at an event on gun violence strategies.
Biden and Adams were once very close, with Biden more than happy to have the support of a rising black politician, especially one who was elected on the reputation of being a moderate, in line with Biden’s own desire to play the role of a centrist.
But Adams has blamed the Biden administration for the crisis that has seen the illegal migrant population swell by more than 100,000 since the spring, exhausting New York City’s capacity to house all the arrivals and driving Adams to measures made popular by Republican leaders, such as transporting migrants to other cities, states, and even countries. 
Adams has openly stated that border security should be part of the solution, saying, “Any plan that does not include stopping the flow at the border, that’s a failed plan.”
Is it a coincidence that Adams is beset on all sides by legal problems at this moment? Or is it a well-timed retribution against the mayor for daring to speak out against the Democratic Party’s ostensible leader?

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New York City’s Democratic Mayor, Eric Adams, is not holding back in putting blame on the Biden administration for unfavorable images coming out of the City That Never Sleeps, where adult migrant men sleeping on the streets of Manhattan have become a fixture among the migrant crisis precipitated by the White House’s open migration policy.
“We need help,” Adams said on Monday, as Politico reported. “And it’s not going to get any better. From this moment on, it’s downhill.”
As seen in videos and photographs making their way through the internet, some of the newly arrived foreign men have taken to sleeping on cardboard boxes, as the city says it has reached its capacity for housing migrants.
“No one wants anyone sleeping on the street or being used as a pawn in a political fight, but it’s just plain reality that there’s no more room,” a city hall official said to Politico. “And week after week, the pressure is going to keep mounting on Washington to do something now or wait for it to impact the 2024 elections.”
Over 93,000 new migrants have set foot in New York City since last spring — and more than half of these are still under the city’s care. Adams lays the blame on the administration for failing to provide New York with sufficient money, and for dragging its feet on work authorization for the migrants.
Meanwhile, the White House has passed the buck to Congress, saying that the Legislature, not the presidency, must come up with a solution.
Of course, it is the White House whose actions led to this dilemma. The lax immigration enforcement and scrapping of Trump-era migration restrictions — such as Trump’s use of Title 42 to immediately expel illegal aliens who crossed the border amid Covid-19 — has led to a migrant surge at the border that has rolled over into a crisis in American communities, especially in New York.
Politico reported of the back-and-forth between Adams and federal policymakers:
“There were bordering states that received more money than us, and they’re using the money to bus people to New York,” Adams said Monday at an unrelated news conference. He said New York City has received only $30 million in federal aid thus far for a crisis he estimated would cost $4.2 billion by next summer.
New York congressional leaders also announced in June that New York City was allocated nearly $105 million in FEMA funds for the migrant crisis. Adams said the city has yet to receive that money.
Mayoral spokesman Fabien Levy told Politico that families and children are prioritized and placed in shelter every night. But the city’s capacities do not currently allow for the housing of all the military-age men spilling out onto New York’s streets.
“We continue to do our best to at least offer adults a temporary place to wait off the sidewalks,” Levy said. “But, in all honesty, New Yorkers may continue to see more and more migrants waiting outside as hundreds of asylum seekers continue to arrive in our city seeking shelter every day.”
The New American previously reported that the number of asylum-seeking migrants being taken care of by the city has surpassed the number of homeless New York residents under municipal care.
To meet the huge demand, the city has created 12 Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers and 176 shelter sites. An extension of contracts for 10 navigation sites (and the opening of an 11th) alone will be costing New Yorkers an additional $2.3 million.
The crisis has put Adams and other elected officials in a bind. To deal with the flood of migrants, Adams has enacted a program of transporting migrants out of the city to other counties, other states, and even other countries — though he has criticized Republican-led states such as Texas and Florida for doing the same thing.
New York City spent approximately $50,000 between April 2022 and April 2023 for the resettlement of 114 migrant families.
The top destination for these relocations was Florida, which took 28 families. Texas, with 14 families, came in second place. In third place was North Carolina, which received six families. In total, New York City’s Department of Social Services assisted with travel to 64 cities in 27 states.
Adams’ administration even purchased migrants plane tickets to foreign nations such as Colombia, China, Peru, Ecuador, and Venezuela. 
Adams has floated the idea of paying homeowners and landlords to house migrants in spare rooms.
Camille Rivera, a Democratic consultant, is one of many in her party pushing for private businesses and homeowners to take in migrants with the assistance of the state government.
“There are spaces and there are opportunities to make space for people,” Rivera told Politico. “This is an operational juggernaut and intake is hard, but this is New York City, and you do what you need to do to make sure people are taken care of.”
How well such policies would be received is uncertain. Would citizens support assuming the migrant load from the shoulders of the government when it was politicians that caused the crisis in the first place?

Eric Adams rose from the ranks of NYC police officer. He likely had much interactions with the common people which enabled him to have more empathy for the concerns of everyday Americans. Although he might be considered a typical Democrat, his display of independent thinking infuriated the "powers that be" that will punish any who stray from their most important "narratives". Remember what happened to Rod Blagojevich?

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24 minutes ago, longview said:

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Eric Adams rose from the ranks of NYC police officer. He likely had much interactions with the common people which enabled him to have more empathy for the concerns of everyday Americans. Although he might be considered a typical Democrat, his display of independent thinking infuriated the "powers that be" that will punish any who stray from their most important "narratives". Remember what happened to Rod Blagojevich?

Uhhhh, Blagojevich literally tried to sell Obama's Senate seat.

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1 hour ago, longview said:

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Eric Adams rose from the ranks of NYC police officer. He likely had much interactions with the common people which enabled him to have more empathy for the concerns of everyday Americans. Although he might be considered a typical Democrat, his display of independent thinking infuriated the "powers that be" that will punish any who stray from their most important "narratives". Remember what happened to Rod Blagojevich?

Why should I trust some random stuff that an anonymous guy pasted on the Internet without citations more than the most reputable news source in the country?

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1 hour ago, ttribe said:

Uhhhh, Blagojevich literally tried to sell Obama's Senate seat.

Which might seem reasonable on the surface for prosecution. But that is nothing for the usual day to day activities for mainstream democrats. There were other considerations under the surface which the "powers that be" went on the offensive. Something I am NOT going to discuss on this board.