US Politics, September 2024 -- “I’m Not Going to Apologize For Posting a Joke”

The former brooklyn borough president and a congressman from Brooklyn likely owe each other favors.

Josh! Welcome back!

hi josh! good to seeya, and classic turkish hairlines reentry

if the dem leader is out there repaying favors from some rinky dink brooklyn bs the idk what to say, borough president is a guy who just like shows up at events

maybe this is Jeffries' Pelosi move during June's Bidengate, i.e. "Mayor Adams has to decide what he wants to do for the good of NYC," etc. Or the Adams people have photos of Hakeem kissing teenage boys.

im sure theyll all be calling for his resignation before long just not sure why youd put out that inane press release

who was was borough president when i lived there marty markowitz he was hilarious always calling brooklyn the greatest city on earth taking juniors cheesecake to the dome

Mostly joking about favors. I don’t get the impression there is dirt on Jeffries. I think he just sucks and is incredibly cautious and he’s dealing with someone who 1) knows him way back 2) is completely insane and dgaf during an election year.

Watch hochul say and do absolutely nothing too.

Apparently Adams had his staff call him Mr President when he was borough president. Note the bp’s main job is providing cover for cops to park on the sidewalk at borough hall.

I think that press release is the first in a series where the tone will shift as we learn more

But I get where you’re coming from

jeffries was my state assemblyman around that time too used to see him around shaking hands and whatnot

Apparently Adams had his staff call him Mr President when he was borough president.

honestly this should be impeachable

is that all he was doing xpost

current racist x stupid titleholder

GOP Rep. Clay Higgins has now deleted this tweet after he was confronted by CBC Chair Steven Horsford on the House floor, and asked to take it down, multiple sources tell me & ⁦@heatherscope⁩ >> pic.twitter.com/10c8e5SZEP

— Melanie Zanona (@MZanona) September 25, 2024

Trump and Vamce are not "our President and VP."

If that bill introduced by Senator Wyden ever got signed into law, what are the odds that the Roberts Court would blandly declare it unconstitutional and expect the nation to pay fealty to their decision?

The Eric Adams anecdote that I will always remember:

"Curtis Mayfield at the Wingate Concert Series," Adams said when asked what his favorite concert was. "At that concert there was a rainstorm and the lights fell on Curtis Mayfield and they actually paralyzed him at that concert. He died a few years ago, but it was an amazing concert before that happened. Just so unfortunate."

A Los Angeles Times report about the concert noted that Mayfield had not yet begun performing when the rig fell on him. It's not clear what part of the performance Adams enjoyed before the accident took place.

that one is some true gazing into the void shit

this one is similar guy is a bit psychotic

Eric Adams wants to retire to the Golan Heights, land that is internationally seen as occupied by the Israeli government.

The latest example of what impact Trump’s recognition — and the Biden administration’s refusal to publicly change course — has had. pic.twitter.com/70lu810So4

— Yonah Lieberman 🔥 (@YonahLieberman) June 22, 2021

Eric Adams: I caught Nirvana live in 1995 and it was awesome

just say tel aviv compliment the falafel whats wrong with you xp

tbf Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes performed before the rigging fell.

Turkish Airlines is always the cheapest but even a flight from San Francisco to Toronto would somehow route through Istanbul and take 26 hours

good summary https://defector.com/the-most-unbelievable-bits-from-nyc-mayor-eric-adamss-indictment

I flew Turkish Airlines a few months ago. It was pretty nice.

Yeah my one experience on it was real nice. Way better food than U.S. airlines for one thing. If you're gonna be bribed by an airline, it's a pretty good one.

borough president is a guy who just like shows up at events

My Brooklyn borough president story is that when I was working as an usher at the 92nd St. Y, Adams' predecessor Marty Markowitz showed up at a comedy-night fundraiser. All the ushers had been given rubber arrows-through-the-head to wear, in keeping with the theme. Markowitz came through with a posse of staffers, and then a minute later one the staffers slipped back to talk to me and said Marty wanted one of the arrows for his kids or grandkids or whatever. I gladly relinguished mine, figuring that my boss would accept "Marty Markowitz wanted it" as an excuse for not wearing one. But yeah, that's what that job is, going around gladhanding and asking people to give you shit.

wtf was he doing outside his borough

extra-borough diplomacy?

suspect

this is how you win

North Carolina’s State Board of Elections has removed 747,000 people from its list of registered voters within the last 20 months, officials announced Thursday in a press release.

The State Board of Elections in the release said the majority of those stripped from the rolls were deemed ineligible to be registered because they had moved within the state and did not register their new address, or because they did not participate in the past two federal elections, prompting an inactive status.

If you don't vote, you won't GET to vote

would be curious to see what the party breakdown of those removed people is. In AZ where they recently tried a similar stunt the large majority of the voters targeted to be purged were (wait for it).... old Republicans.

NC also has a new photo ID voter law - and if you want to mail in a ballot, it has to be notarized or signed by two witnessess
crazy shit

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-the-jd-vance-dossier

Twitter suspended Klippenstein, but you can read the dossier at his Substack.

Hakeem Jeffries is by all accounts an EXTREMELY skilled game player and knows what's up everywhere. I wouldn't assume he does ANYTHING without it ticking some box somewhere, it just might not be one that is apparent or makes sense.

“Well, he thinks he’s really clever, and we’ve seen that, whether it was the awkward Diet Mountain Dew joke he made when he gave at his first solo campaign rally or a whole host of other things. He thinks he’s the smartest person in the room, and he’s just going to try and be smart and funny, and it just doesn’t work, because he’s not really that funny or smooth.

He’s going to scoff at a lot of points. Walz could make a fantastic point about Vance’s record on trade or labor, or the cost of living families are facing. And Vance will laugh it off like it’s something that really doesn’t matter and that everyone should be indifferent about. So he has a remarkable lack of sense of where voters are and what people are looking for out of their leaders.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/09/26/danny-oconnor-debate-prep-qa-00181063

walz shd just have that be his opening statement lol

when is the vp debate?

Tuesday.

How much guyliner will Vance rock at the debate

too much

Meantime, noting this that Newsmax and Smartmatic settled the latter's lawsuit re 2020 elections a la Dominion/Fox, no money total given as yet:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/business/media/newsmax-smartmatic-defamation-suit.html

As the piece notes, plenty of cases still on the books:

A Smartmatic lawsuit against Fox Corp and Fox News is expected to go to trial in New York in 2025.

Dominion has pending cases against Newsmax and One America News Network, as well as against Mike Lindell, the MyPillow founder and 2020 election denier; Sidney Powell, a former lawyer for Mr. Trump; and the former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who advised Mr. Trump.

This is all important because basically with these channels already taking clear financial hits (not to mention ol' Rudy getting his financial clock cleaned re defamation by the election workers) I suspect the appetite to repeat the voting machine fraud point on any level this year is about nil or less than; if anything it would just add to the pending cases and Dominion et al going "Oh you'd like to pay even more money to us? Sure, thanks!"

Separately, well well

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hahaha it's almost like something significant happened in July ;)

oh wait

"Et tu, Brute?"

interesting result out of AZ - it has Trump up by 3, but Gallego is beating Lake by 14

ultimately I feel like the final results never show vote splitting to that degree so maybe this is good for Harris

more good polls:

New Swing States Polling by Morning Consult for Bloomberg

Nevada - 🔵 Harris 52-45%
Pennsylvania - 🔵 Harris 51-46%
Wisconsin - 🔵 Harris 51-48%
Michigan - 🔵 Harris 50-47%
Arizona - 🔵 Harris 50-47%
North Carolina - 🔵 Harris 50-48%
Georgia - 🟡 TIE 49-49%… pic.twitter.com/JJydAr6hCO

— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) September 27, 2024

ultimately I feel like the final results never show vote splitting to that degree so maybe this is good for Harris

Or bad for Gallego!

Well yeah he’s not gonna win by 14

It would be weird if there were a huge amount of people who hated Kari Lake but were cool with Trump

Aren't we seeing lots of weird poll results from places like Florida and, yeah, Arizona, where the voters overwhelmingly favor abortion rights but also at least equally favor Trump?

I live in Arizona and people don’t like Kari Lake at all, she’s way less popular than Trump. It’s not going to be +14 for Gallego but he’s going to win