Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Justice Dept Orders Charges Dropped Against Eric Adams

The Justice Department on Monday ordered federal prosecutors to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams ...

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Commentary: Donald Trump's deal to drop charges against Mayor Eric Adams is part of a broader effort to legalize corruption, bribery, and covert foreign influence. We're all going to pay for it.

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-- rollingstone.com (@rollingstone.com) February 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM

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... The Justice Department on Monday ordered federal prosecutors to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, arguing in a remarkable departure from longstanding norms ...

Well, yeah.

Apparently, Mayor Adams kissed the most ample derriere of Pres Trump to make this happen.

So, is this a surprise?


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-10 09:32 PM

Adams Urges N.Y.C. Officials to Avoid Criticizing Trump Administration
www.nytimes.com

... In response to concerns about his cooperation with the Trump administration, Mayor Eric Adams on Monday told top aides that being confrontational could hurt New York City. ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-10 09:33 PM

That fat Floribama bitch is nothing but an ugly racist cow

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-10 10:08 PM

Not nice to talk about Danni or the LWN Florida wives of the Retort like that Teflon.

#4 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-02-10 10:12 PM

Or Yav, the little fella either.

#5 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-02-10 10:13 PM

@#4 ... Not nice to talk about Danni or the LWN Florida wives of the Retort like that Teflon. ...

I see no reference to Danni in this thread at this point.

What speak of ye?

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-10 10:17 PM

What speak of ye?

Learning to troll it's own threads, the Padawan is.

#7 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-10 10:22 PM

@#5 ... Or Yav, the little fella either.

Nor do I see any reference to Yav in this thread.

Were comments deleted?

Or might you just be having a bad night? Wish I knew.

What's up?

4 Non Blondes - What's Up
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Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
25 years and my life is still
Tryin' to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination
I realized quickly when I knew I should
That the world was made up of this brotherhood of man
For whatever that means

...

[Chorus]
And I say, hey-ey-ey
Hey-ey-ey
I said "Hey, a-what's going on?"
And I say, hey-ey-ey
Hey-ey-ey
I said "Hey, a-what's going on?"
...


An interesting tune, not only for what it proffers, but also for one of those tunes where the title of the tune is not present in the lyrics.


#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-10 10:24 PM

Gaslighter they must have you plonked if you can't see their posts.

#9 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-02-10 10:27 PM

gracieamazed, 21 plonks

LOL

#10 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-02-10 10:31 PM

What a ------- stupid MAGAT ----.

#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-10 10:32 PM

@#9 ... Gaslighter they must have you plonked if you can't see their posts. ...

OK, I don't "plonk" anyone here. I always want to see everyone's opinion.

That aside, I do not know what happens if I "plonk" an alias.

Do the message numbers change?

If the message numbers before plonking were 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5

And I plonked the alias that submitted the #3 comment, does the #4 comment now become #3?

OK, let me do an experiment ...

Please stand by ...

OK, this is tough. I guess my first question is ... how do I plonk someone?

I don't see a "plonk" option when I click on an alias.




#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-10 10:51 PM

#13 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-02-10 10:57 PM

Do the message numbers change?

No, the post will be gone, so the numbers will be missing.

So if LYD posts #45 I will see 44 and 46.

#14 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-02-10 11:01 PM

Also the option is called "kill file"

#15 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-02-10 11:03 PM

@#15 ... No, the post will be gone, so the numbers will be missing.

Yup.

I figured out the whole "kill file" thing.

I put an alias I respect into the kill file. And when I visited the threads, the numbers were no longer sequential, but skipped the numbers of the posts that the kill-file alias had posted.

So, my conclusion is that if an alias in in your kill-file, the message numbers of the thread do not change. You may see missing message numbers.

OK, going back to the cause of all this effort ...

#9

Hey Gracie, WTF are you talking about?

Stated differently, and more diplomatically ...

I had always read your comments with a certain amount of gravitas, but now with this episode, your alias seems to be wandering into intentional deception.

Did I misinterpret your comment?

If so, how?

thx.

#16 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-10 11:37 PM

My first post on this thread is this one.
It will also be the only one.
Trump is such an easy mark for anyone without morals.
Like Eric Adams.
How transparently and pathetically transactional.
"Well Eric, if you become a cult member, or at least pretend and say nice things about me, I can make those charges go away... what do you say my newest black friend?"

#17 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-11 08:09 AM

OK, I thought I'd make one post - but this gets better as I find out more.
Trump's weaponized DOJ has said "Oh, and if you don't stay in line? We can reinstate these charges."
So Trump's keeping ol' Eric in his back pocket and under control.

Blackmailed by the weaponized Trump DOJ.

#18 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-11 09:16 AM

More from the article...

... Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove sent a memo instructing prosecutors in the Southern District of New York to abandon the charges.

"You are directed, as authorized by the Attorney General, to dismiss the pending charges," Bove wrote in a memo Monday, adding that the department "reached this conclusion without assessing the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which the case is based," and "in no way calls into question the integrity and efforts" of the prosecutors who brought the case. ...


#19 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-11 12:47 PM

I had suspected this might have been the reason why Mayor Adams was kissing Pres Trump's most ample derriere recently.

#20 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-11 12:48 PM

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