Eric Adams - Mayor of New York City, Part 4

darkhawk30 said:I can't tell if you're joking or being serious, but it looks bad either way—if they're working around the clock or if they aren't working at all, something is clearly broken.
Though, I have a feeling they aren't working twenty-four-seven, nor are they doing nothing.
I’m convinced that everyone—past, present, and future haters of TT and his crew—will always find something to complain about, whether they do something or absolutely nothing.

To me, I see the Možemo team as people who walked into a house with a leaking roof, burst pipes, crumbling plaster, ruined woodwork, and walls that are falling apart. It's a house full of rats and cockroaches, and on top of that, the whole place is under a long-term mortgage.
And let's not forget the malicious neighbors who gloat when they don't see the specific kind of progress they demand, rather than the progress that's actually possible given the circumstances.

A while back, I wrote here that I would put my faith in a team willing to aggressively dive into all the stinking corners of the system and change things, even if there's a high chance it costs them their next term.

I honestly don't know what other option the critics think exists.
A new crew that will saddle the city with more debt than it's worth, just to show off "changes" and satisfy people who want a new car or a repaired fence paid for by the taxpayers?
Besides, I believe there are people within the Možemo ranks who actually care, alongside those who are just playing along because this setup has secured them lucrative positions. So, where are they?
At the end of the day, TT and his team were the very last group I would have ever voted for.
If they fail, they've only lost one tiny speck in the universe; the city and the country will just have to move on without my vote. Of course, it's a negligible loss, but it's my own personal tragedy.

I find myself in total agreement. In the grand scheme of things, the impact on the actual election results will ultimately be neither significant nor substantial.

Chloe Martinez7 said:And why on earth would you assume the streetcars are in any better shape?

I mean, where's the assumption that they have to build these things out of old, broken parts?
At the end of the day, it’s hard to argue this is worse than a fleet of neglected semi-trucks—
plus, it's definitely greener.

darkhawk30 said:I can't tell if you're joking or being serious, but it looks bad either way—if they're working around the clock or if they aren't working at all, something is clearly broken.
Though, I have a feeling they aren't working twenty-four-seven, nor are they doing nothing.
I’m convinced that everyone—past, present, and future haters of TT and his crew—will always find something to complain about, whether they do something or absolutely nothing.

To me, I see the Možemo team as people who walked into a house with a leaking roof, burst pipes, crumbling plaster, ruined woodwork, and walls that are falling apart. It's a house full of rats and cockroaches, and on top of that, the whole place is under a long-term mortgage.
And let's not forget the malicious neighbors who gloat when they don't see the specific kind of progress they demand, rather than the progress that's actually possible given the circumstances.

A while back, I wrote here that I would put my faith in a team willing to aggressively dive into all the stinking corners of the system and change things, even if there's a high chance it costs them their next term.

I honestly don't know what other option the critics think exists.
A new crew that will saddle the city with more debt than it's worth, just to show off "changes" and satisfy people who want a new car or a repaired fence paid for by the taxpayers?
Besides, I believe there are people within the Možemo ranks who actually care, alongside those who are just playing along because this setup has secured them lucrative positions. So, where are they?
At the end of the day, TT and his team were the very last group I would have ever voted for.
If they fail, they've only lost one tiny speck in the universe; the city and the country will just have to move on without my vote. Of course, it's a negligible loss, but it's my own personal tragedy.

Ah, so that's the logic we're using...

Everything is fair game for criticism, except for them.🤦

It seems people have a hard time accepting the fact that they are incompetent when it comes to actual necessities like sanitation. Heaven forbid a real disaster strikes; I doubt these "brilliant minds" could handle it.🍿

I haven't seen any significant changes, aside from the benches in Central Park, which were replaced immediately. Apparently, that's easy enough because it serves their interests; everything else is either sidelined or deemed impossible because it supposedly falls outside their jurisdiction or platform.☕

Harold Phillips54 said:Today?
Today, on a major religious and national holiday here in New York City, the Sanitation Department is out there running trucks and picking up trash?
What on earth is going on in New York City?

Waste management doesn't take a break just because it's a holiday. 😉

Jeffrey Long said:Those fanatics always seem to have a point... ☕

If the holding company thinks they can charge us for services they haven't even provided (which I'm pretty sure is their plan), they're in for a rude awakening. It’s just going to leave an even bigger hole in the budget. 😉

The May bill clearly shows eight pickups were scheduled, but they only actually showed up for six.
I'd love to see how they react when people simply refuse to pay for work that wasn't done.

darkhawk30 said:I can't tell if you're joking or being serious, but it looks bad either way—if they're working around the clock or if they aren't working at all, something is clearly broken.
Though, I have a feeling they aren't working twenty-four-seven, nor are they doing nothing.
I’m convinced that everyone—past, present, and future haters of TT and his crew—will always find something to complain about, whether they do something or absolutely nothing.

To me, I see the Možemo team as people who walked into a house with a leaking roof, burst pipes, crumbling plaster, ruined woodwork, and walls that are falling apart. It's a house full of rats and cockroaches, and on top of that, the whole place is under a long-term mortgage.
And let's not forget the malicious neighbors who gloat when they don't see the specific kind of progress they demand, rather than the progress that's actually possible given the circumstances.

A while back, I wrote here that I would put my faith in a team willing to aggressively dive into all the stinking corners of the system and change things, even if there's a high chance it costs them their next term.

I honestly don't know what other option the critics think exists.
A new crew that will saddle the city with more debt than it's worth, just to show off "changes" and satisfy people who want a new car or a repaired fence paid for by the taxpayers?
Besides, I believe there are people within the Možemo ranks who actually care, alongside those who are just playing along because this setup has secured them lucrative positions. So, where are they?
At the end of the day, TT and his team were the very last group I would have ever voted for.
If they fail, they've only lost one tiny speck in the universe; the city and the country will just have to move on without my vote. Of course, it's a negligible loss, but it's my own personal tragedy.

Interesting. If everything is exactly as you described, can you point to what has actually been fixed in that year, especially considering the budget is at an all-time high?

Anything I might have to say regarding the "crew" currently at the helm of New York City is, naturally, strictly limited to their public political conduct—their private lives simply don't interest me, not even by a fraction of a percent.

Eric Adams and his little inner circle—I’m talking about the whole lot of them, from Dolenec and Kekini to Celakoski, Korlaet, Sumpor, Borićka, Benčićka, and Urša—represent nothing short of a massive political fraud. Honestly, they have been an absolute catastrophe for New York City and everything surrounding it.🤦 Most of this so-called "leadership team" wouldn't know a day of real-world work if it hit them in the face—honestly, most of them are just activists funded by various foreign interests, the Soros types and their ilk. From the very moment they took over the helm of New York City, everything has just... ground to a halt. It’s all gone stagnant. Now, in the 21st century, this "crew" is out there trying to pose and look important next to old partisan campfires—it’s frankly quite pathetic. 🤦They’re out there debating whether the upcoming discussion should be titled "Mirko" or "Slavko"—it's one of those endless semantic squabbles that seems to go nowhere. 🤦 They’ve already gone ahead and painted those pedestrian crosswalks in "rainbow colors"—much like how they’ve already moved forward with those colorful benches... honestly, it feels like one step in a very long, very winding series of urban experiments.🤦 During this whole period, our New York City seems to be gasping for air—or rather, struggling just to stay afloat. But if you look beneath the surface, what they actually care about most isn't the grand vision or the lofty rhetoric; it’s that steady, reliable paycheck hitting their bank accounts every single month. At the end of the day, it all comes down to that financial security and, of course, those various little perks and benefits that make the grind feel a bit more manageable.🤦

Honestly, nothing is looking any better—not even the current way they’re running things here in America. We have hit rock bottom; we are essentially at the very bottom of the European rankings, practically begging for scraps on our knees. 🤦Economics, demographics... it all starts there—the foundation of everything.🤦

...oh, and just to be clear—I don't align myself with any particular camp. I’m not a member of the Republican Party, nor am I with the Democratic Party, nor do I subscribe to any of those other fringe factions... I simply hold a deep, unwavering love for my homeland, America—a nation that was forged through blood and sacrifice some thirty years ago, thanks entirely to our American veterans and the strength of the American people.🙏🙏

hollowmason64 said:And he will fix it. He still has three full years left on the clock. Why the rush to get worked up?

Yeah, that would be just perfect.
The biggest irony here, though, is your whole argument that the better alternative would be the dregs from a criminal organization—people who are usually just dim-witted hacks, incapable of anything except stealing and hiring more incompetent party loyalists, clueless relatives, and washed-up cronies. We all know they'd end up robbing us blind because of sheer incompetence, too. That’s probably why we're seeing this constant mantra coming out of the criminal group's media center lately: "hey, at least they aren't stealing while they work."

If you want proof of just how incompetent this criminal element is, look no further than the total mess with the gas situation in the city—which is directly the fault of one guy holding a Republican Party membership.
And he’s just one link in the chain.

Right, "he'll fix it"...

With which crew?

The bunch from Indianapolis who haven't accomplished a single thing back home?

Or maybe the guy using a company car for personal errands and pocketing $1,500 a month in travel expenses while ignoring every single regulation in the book? 🤣

In just one year, TT hasn't done a damn thing regarding staffing, other than dragging in more retired Democratic Party hacks...

Sam Wright21 said:If my memory serves me right, Korlaet suggested there was some sort of agreement in place, which later morphed into this idea of razor-thin margins. But let's be realistic: nobody operates without a margin. At the end of the day, it's probably still more cost-effective than trying to roll out Berkshire Hathaway kiosks on every single street corner in New York City.

Raymond Anderson4 said:Given that average margins usually sit around 20% or higher, there's no way retailers are going to walk away from that—especially on a product with guaranteed demand.

I find it hard to believe retailers would actually agree to zero markup. It’s more likely that Korlaet played hardball and put some real pressure on them. 😛

Look, you can't demand a retailer give up their margin, and you certainly can't dictate what that margin should be.
When you try to pull stunts like that, you end up messing with the market and screwing over small business owners—just like how Andrej Plenković messed with fuel prices or how the local utility companies handled gas.

Olivia Stewart2 said:Anyone! This group has proven themselves to be the absolute worst possible option. They are nothing more than ideological fanatics who lack even the basic competence required to run a major city like New York City.
In this country, you can easily sell people on the idea that tackling corruption is the single most important socio-political issue, and everything else will just fall into place. Well, that’s not how it works. You actually have to know what you're doing; being honest isn't enough on its own. That said, these people haven't even managed to build their corrupt octopus yet, so don't expect much progress on that front either.

It's not like the current administration is the absolute worst solution.
What we're seeing is basically what New York City residents want: keeping the same general policies used by Bandinjo, but doing it in a way that feels "HONESTER" and eco-friendly.

Let's take another look at the platform for NYC together:

About 99% of it is just a plan on how to spend money you don't actually have.
So, where does that leave us?
Are we really scraping funds together just for a truck tire and an oil filter?🤦

darkhawk30 said:I can't tell if you're joking or being serious, but it looks bad either way—if they're working around the clock or if they aren't working at all, something is clearly broken.
Though, I have a feeling they aren't working twenty-four-seven, nor are they doing nothing.
I’m convinced that everyone—past, present, and future haters of TT and his crew—will always find something to complain about, whether they do something or absolutely nothing.

To me, I see the Možemo team as people who walked into a house with a leaking roof, burst pipes, crumbling plaster, ruined woodwork, and walls that are falling apart. It's a house full of rats and cockroaches, and on top of that, the whole place is under a long-term mortgage.
And let's not forget the malicious neighbors who gloat when they don't see the specific kind of progress they demand, rather than the progress that's actually possible given the circumstances.

A while back, I wrote here that I would put my faith in a team willing to aggressively dive into all the stinking corners of the system and change things, even if there's a high chance it costs them their next term.

I honestly don't know what other option the critics think exists.
A new crew that will saddle the city with more debt than it's worth, just to show off "changes" and satisfy people who want a new car or a repaired fence paid for by the taxpayers?
Besides, I believe there are people within the Možemo ranks who actually care, alongside those who are just playing along because this setup has secured them lucrative positions. So, where are they?
At the end of the day, TT and his team were the very last group I would have ever voted for.
If they fail, they've only lost one tiny speck in the universe; the city and the country will just have to move on without my vote. Of course, it's a negligible loss, but it's my own personal tragedy.

As for Ti Možemo? They’re basically a pack of high as badgers that accidentally wandered into this nightmare house.
Everything about this place is falling apart, yet they’ve spent the last year playing PlayStation 5 and couldn't care less about any of it.😁

But honestly, we have losers like this running things at the national level too, so it’s hardly a surprise, is it?

A little light reading for those who were so confidently wrong about the LAPD solutions mentioning personal vehicles...

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/example-link

Furthermore—if you actually bother to look at Article 13, Section 2, Item 5 of the regulations—it explicitly states that payments from employers to employees aren't considered taxable income when they are reimbursements for using a private car for business purposes, up to a certain mileage rate.

Well, look at that—private vehicles exist. Who knew?

https://www.accountingtoday.com/example-article

Shall we move on? Maybe we can tackle those wild theories about how the administration hands over termination lists only for the union to report worker status back to them—just like some people were insisting?☕

TT and We Can probably pull off for the left exactly what the Bridge did for the right...

@SkyShark - here is my rebuttal to your rather serious assertion that the current leadership is merely a more transparent version of Bernie Sanders.

The issue isn't actually about the spending procedures themselves; those were clearly defined and open to scrutiny from the start.
Giving credit to New York City for its budget transparency

The real question concerns who held the authority to approve expenditures, and under what specific constraints they operated.
It was a matter of deciding where the priorities truly lie.
In that particular regard, Bernie Sanders was absolute—he held total dominion over New York City and its entire budget.

The current crew, however, seems to believe in this grand idea that "everyone" should govern the budget, provided we all spend it exactly according to their personal whims.
They might even attempt to obscure certain details here and there—albeit with a veneer of transparency. For instance, take the salaries of the administration or the various perks enjoyed by the executives at the conglomerate.

What makes today's administration even more cumbersome is the fact that they are utterly illiterate when it comes to finance, yet they refuse to trust anyone but themselves.

Gregory Hall66 said:@SkyShark - here is my rebuttal to your rather serious assertion that the current leadership is merely a more transparent version of Bernie Sanders.

The issue isn't actually about the spending procedures themselves; those were clearly defined and open to scrutiny from the start.
Giving credit to New York City for its budget transparency

The real question concerns who held the authority to approve expenditures, and under what specific constraints they operated.
It was a matter of deciding where the priorities truly lie.
In that particular regard, Bernie Sanders was absolute—he held total dominion over New York City and its entire budget.

The current crew, however, seems to believe in this grand idea that "everyone" should govern the budget, provided we all spend it exactly according to their personal whims.
They might even attempt to obscure certain details here and there—albeit with a veneer of transparency. For instance, take the salaries of the administration or the various perks enjoyed by the executives at the conglomerate.

What makes today's administration even more cumbersome is the fact that they are utterly illiterate when it comes to finance, yet they refuse to trust anyone but themselves.

The Congressional Budget Office, and even Janet Yellen, signed off on giving Bernie Sanders credit for budget transparency. All we need now is credit for actually implementing that transparent budget. 🤣🤣

There's no point in rehashing the old arguments regarding spending priorities.

Does anyone know if Ms. Yellen mentioned anything new regarding the bonds coming due?

Olivia Stewart2 said:Everyone looks better when compared to progressive fanatics or smooth-talking communists, including the Republican Party.

It seems your criteria for judging competence and intelligence are rather superficial: if they act tough and have an urban vibe, you're sold. Consequently, rural simpletons like Filipović and Banožić become units of stupidity, while hysterical gossips in plain clothes like Kekin and Benčić, who also happen to have massive egos, are apparently the benchmarks for capability and intellect. We aren't picking candidates for a high school debate club; we are selecting people for management positions.

Furthermore, the Republican Party is corrupt because it has ruled the United States for the longest period, not because it is some sort of aberration in an otherwise honest American society. Eric Adams came from the Democratic Party, I should remind you, and he eventually became what he is today—a textbook example of a corrupt official. It will be the same with these provocateurs from Možemo—the longer they stay in power, the more scandals will emerge. Kalinić is right about one thing: the entire country is systemically corrupt. Therefore, Možemo will end up just as corrupt, only likely even more incompetent than the rest...

Honestly, even the devil would be a better option than the Republican Party.
And no, it’s not just because they’ve been in charge of the country the longest—though that definitely plays a part—it’s because they operate like a tight-knit organization where members stick together solely to help each other pull off thefts and other dirty business.
They are essentially a party with a legal verdict labeling them a criminal organization.
Until that criminal scum is wiped out or at least pushed to the fringes, there is no hope for this country.

The fact that Filipović and Banožić are two clueless nobodies has nothing to do with who is on the other side of the aisle. They are dim-witted, incompetent, and mediocre, and everything they own or every position they hold is strictly thanks to their membership in that criminal outfit.

Harold Phillips54 said:Today?
Today, on a major religious and national holiday here in New York City, the Sanitation Department is out there running trucks and picking up trash?
What on earth is going on in New York City?

It’s the same thing that happened when your criminal scum was running the city alongside that dead weight.

Adam Collins4 said:Right, "he'll fix it"...

With which crew?

The bunch from Indianapolis who haven't accomplished a single thing back home?

Or maybe the guy using a company car for personal errands and pocketing $1,500 a month in travel expenses while ignoring every single regulation in the book? 🤣

In just one year, TT hasn't done a damn thing regarding staffing, other than dragging in more retired Democratic Party hacks...

We can discuss that in three years.

Nah, we don't need to wait three years to talk about this... we can start right now...

I mean, look—after a year passes, you can just look at the competent people in your orbit and realize the guy hasn't actually accomplished a damn thing...

Alex Moore3 said:The May bill clearly shows eight pickups were scheduled, but they only actually showed up for six.
I'd love to see how they react when people simply refuse to pay for work that wasn't done.

If citizens decide to withhold payment, the administration will likely just try to send out collection notices.

If residents file a formal dispute against a specific bill—citing the zoo and their contract with ZGH, which stipulates eight pickups, and listing the exact dates the service failed to materialize—then the dispute resolution board at ZGH (or whatever they call it) really should have upheld those complaints, provided they were actually acting with any sense. 😉

Given the level of incompetence currently running both the sanitation department and ZGH, I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to push through collections via public notaries. Then you'd just end up filing more disputes, and more appeals, until it finally hits a regular court, where the lawsuit would eventually be tossed out anyway. ☕

I went through a similar headache with the sanitation department a few years back when they tried to force me to pay bills that were already way past the statute of limitations... 🙂

driftingcrane18 said:The Congressional Budget Office, and even Janet Yellen, signed off on giving Bernie Sanders credit for budget transparency. All we need now is credit for actually implementing that transparent budget. 🤣🤣

There's no point in rehashing the old arguments regarding spending priorities.

Does anyone know if Ms. Yellen mentioned anything new regarding the bonds coming due?

That is precisely the level of discourse we are dealing with here. 👍

It is almost startling to observe that the maturity of these obligations is explicitly accounted for on the expenditure side of the budget. One would naturally assume, then, that sufficient coverage exists within the revenue side to meet them.
But then again, who among us has the inclination to bother with such tedious minutiae? 😉

Gregory Hall66 said:That is precisely the level of discourse we are dealing with here. 👍

It is almost startling to observe that the maturity of these obligations is explicitly accounted for on the expenditure side of the budget. One would naturally assume, then, that sufficient coverage exists within the revenue side to meet them.
But then again, who among us has the inclination to bother with such tedious minutiae? 😉

And what level of cheap trolling are you pulling with the Congressional Budget Office?

Everyone knows how they calculated the revenue side, and everyone saw what the expenditure side actually looked like.

The real question is whether the people praising you are just selling out.

The city should hire a few hundred new sanitation workers and give them their own personal vehicles to drive
They’d need a decent net paycheck—say, around $150,000—plus another $120,000 in gross pay to cover the car expenses
Honestly, I’d be the first one moving to New York City to work as a garbage man
No shame in it whatsoever

Adam Collins4 said:Nah, we don't need to wait three years to talk about this... we can start right now...

I mean, look—after a year passes, you can just look at the competent people in your orbit and realize the guy hasn't actually accomplished a damn thing...

You can't really see anything in just one year. Not when you're dealing with the public sector.

Gregory Hall66 said:That is precisely the level of discourse we are dealing with here. 👍

It is almost startling to observe that the maturity of these obligations is explicitly accounted for on the expenditure side of the budget. One would naturally assume, then, that sufficient coverage exists within the revenue side to meet them.
But then again, who among us has the inclination to bother with such tedious minutiae? 😉

Well, obviously it’s on the expenditure side of the NYC budget, and yeah, the citizens are the ones footing the bill. Is that really something worth highlighting? For what reason...?
It's not like from the very beginning nobody knew who was going to pay the money back. You made it sound like some big revelation, as if his old Bernie Sanders-style cronies had stepped up to cover the cost themselves.
Which actually would have been fair.
Just let us discuss where the money went and who was spending it—it was spent by the group of incompetent hangers-on he surrounded himself with just to look smart, wasting it on fake, inflated job postings, salaries for various clueless sycophants, and a whole bunch of other nonsense.
As for who set aside the funds and who's paying for it, well, that isn't exactly breaking news.
For over ten years now, the people of this city have been paying for the greed and the tribal, small-minded antics of the old guard.