Eric Adams - Mayor of New York City, Part 4

You can really see the lack of experience and all that amateur energy coming from Tommy. I mean, he’s got to have a legal department at City Hall he should've consulted before scrapping this measure, just to figure out what kind of legal mess he's walking into

We can debate whether these measures are good or bad all day long, but what honestly baffles me is how nobody is calling Tommy out for lying during his campaign. He specifically promised he wouldn't touch the existing rights of parents and childcare providers, yet here we are.
So, I guess Tommy lying is just fine now?

Look, everyone lies during election season, and honestly, Tom is no different than the rest of them

Robin Gray8 said:Look, everyone lies during election season, and honestly, Tom is no different than the rest of them

But... but you previously maintained that they aren't all cut from the same cloth... that Tom was actually quite different from the rest! 😢

So, when is that new decision about scrapping the parent-caregiver measure actually hitting the City Council floor?

Benjamin James6 said:But... but you previously maintained that they aren't all cut from the same cloth... that Tom was actually quite different from the rest! 😢

We played ourselves a little bit 🤷

I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?

https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp...hrome&ie=UTF-8

It didn't even take us a full year before reality finally set in.

driftingtinker said:

That moment when some legacy political hack who only got their job through cronyism calls for your resignation 😢

Can we sink any lower? I suppose we’re about to find out.

"Fuzzy little creatures," I said... What kind of legal department are we even dealing with here? It’s just a bunch of clueless bureaucrats and yes-men. Seriously, they couldn't find their way out of a paper bag. You don't have actual, high-quality legal counsel—the kind that actually stands up and says, "Hold on, you can't do it that way, try this instead," or challenges a bad call, or warns you before you walk off a cliff. You know, people who actually *do their jobs*. End of story. Their dreams of making any real changes are dead on arrival. Of course the decision went against them.

driftingtinker said:

That moment when some legacy political hack who only got their job through cronyism calls for your resignation 😢

It would be interesting to see how he justifies being away from his desk if he isn't using PTO or sick leave.

Looking at his advisor salary, I’d add a clause that he can't leave his office without permission or make any public statements that cause trouble.

Benjamin James6 said:But... but you previously maintained that they aren't all cut from the same cloth... that Tom was actually quite different from the rest! 😢

It seems like every single day it becomes more obvious that he didn't really have any actual projects ready, or even the right people or ideas to actually shake things up here in New York City. I guess before the elections, nobody could have really known that, which is probably why he ended up getting all that support from the business community and folks whose outlook on life is pretty much the complete opposite of what his party stands for.

Samuel Rodriguez52 said:It seems like every single day it becomes more obvious that he didn't really have any actual projects ready, or even the right people or ideas to actually shake things up here in New York City. I guess before the elections, nobody could have really known that, which is probably why he ended up getting all that support from the business community and folks whose outlook on life is pretty much the complete opposite of what his party stands for.

I mean, honestly, anyone who voted for them despite having completely different values is just totally clueless, I guess.

Casey Cook10 said:I mean, honestly, anyone who voted for them despite having completely different values is just totally clueless, I guess.

They were really hoping for some actual change, you know, like finally tackling corruption or fixing those local infrastructure issues. Instead, I suppose they just got more of the same old political maneuvering and a continuation of the previous administration's policies with all the exact same people running things in New York City.

Not quite 😁

What’s the actual reality here? Could you walk me through some tangible achievements from this past year?

brightpuma said:Look... I was hoping, and I still hope, that things could be better.

Take the municipal recycling shredders, for example. He claimed the City had the capacity to handle this internally without outsourcing it. So, he went out and bought the machinery to make it happen.
But the machines are just sitting there. They haven't even started because they're stuck waiting on permits—we're talking over a year now.
So what am I supposed to say? That he was wrong? That he should have gone a different way?

And then people turn around and bash him for it. They miss the real issue: a broken system where you're stalled for a year because of a single piece of paperwork that probably should've been cleared in a month.
We could argue, "Oh, he should have prepared for that." But honestly, how do you prepare for that? Is every decision he makes going to be delayed by a year or two? It’s not that we won't see results; it's that the results will be held hostage by endless red tape.

What can anyone actually accomplish in a four-year term when the parameters are set like this?

The shredders have actually been operational for quite some time now.

Sam Wright21 said:What’s the actual reality here? Could you walk me through some tangible achievements from this past year?

I certainly can. We’ve seen the total collapse of the proposed waste management plan despite trash pickups hitting record lows. We've watched the failure to roll back the ROD tax, the most massive financial deficit in New York City history, a budget that looks more like fiction than math, and an MTA fleet that's shrinking by the day. It's a pretty long list. 😁

Jeffrey Long said:I certainly can. We’ve seen the total collapse of the proposed waste management plan despite trash pickups hitting record lows. We've watched the failure to roll back the ROD tax, the most massive financial deficit in New York City history, a budget that looks more like fiction than math, and an MTA fleet that's shrinking by the day. It's a pretty long list. 😁

"I could..."

it's not like everyone in this city is just splitting the loot among themselves...

Are you somehow caught in the crossfire or something? Is that why you won't stop whining?

👍

They claim the era of embezzlement is over, though I find myself skeptical. All I see are these pointless, vanity projects being greenlit and billed at triple the actual cost. It’s a stroke of luck that Eric Adams actually turned out to be as competent as he boasted and is sticking to his platform, but somehow, that seems to have become an afterthought to him lately.

Sam Wright21 said:They claim the era of embezzlement is over, though I find myself skeptical. All I see are these pointless, vanity projects being greenlit and billed at triple the actual cost. It’s a stroke of luck that Eric Adams actually turned out to be as competent as he boasted and is sticking to his platform, but somehow, that seems to have become an afterthought to him lately.

Man, all he really needed was one successful project under his belt. Then everyone would be praising him regardless of whatever other crap he pulled. 👍

Even if he does pull something off, until someone else comes along who has to be bribed or pushed just to get a single project approved, Eric Adams will remain persona non grata.

He really should have leaned harder into his actual platform instead of letting this haphazard, developer-driven urban sprawl reminiscent of the Michael Bloomberg era take hold. There is a glaring lack of any cohesive strategy in how this city is being built. If there were an actual, functional system in place, any project that met the established zoning requirements would pass automatically. Instead, we see the influence of people like Michael Bloomberg pulling the strings behind the scenes. I was certainly expecting some level of progress, but this feels like a massive step backward. It’s as if these old-school figures act like local sheriffs, dictating terms to everyone else. He swore he wouldn't govern that way, which just goes to show that breaking promises is practically part of the job description for him.

Even here in New York City, I don't really see anyone worth my vote—and Tommy would likely be my absolute last resort. Having known some people from his circle, specifically their tendency toward being incredibly insular, I saw this ideological vetting process coming from a mile away. But then again, I thought to myself—given how much he talks about ecology, how much weight he puts on waste management and all these "sustainable development" buzzwords—maybe we could at least lean into that? Maybe we’d actually see something tangible happen for once.

But instead, things just get progressively worse and more incompetent by the day; it's like leaving a group of toddlers to play unsupervised without any adult oversight whatsoever.

The only thing I'll say is that neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party has followers quite as loyal—people who will spin every single blunder as a "strategic move" or cry defeatism, essentially arguing that it's better if our guys fail than if the other side succeeds.

And so, we wait until the public's very last drop of patience is drained, until this open secret of incompetence becomes the collective memory—the baseline understanding of what the current administration's team is capable of during this temporary stint running the city. And then what?

Then, a new crew will come in and strategically staff their own people, and the public might just be even more numb than before, choosing strictly based on who they *don't* want. What will New York City or its actual residents get out of all this? Absolutely nothing.

He managed major metropolitan projects, served as an advisor to the UN on environmental organization—and now we see exactly what all that expertise is worth. It feels like I'm flipping through some political party handbook where every little seminar is logged as a massive achievement. To be given that much freedom, only to deliver:

Absolutely Nothing!

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