So our mayor is famous for this video where he talks about places your kid might be hiding drugs.
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I've kidded about crowd funding one. You know if they pay more attention to the concerns of one shady dude who gives them 10k than 5000 constituents who give them 2 bucks each... maybe we should simply pretend to be a single shady dude.
I've always thought - it's not just the money they get caught with. It's the money they don't get caught with. It's having an in with wealthy and powerful people who will invite you to fancy parties and other donor friends. And fluff your ego and make you feel important. Etc. They don't need normie money.
@futurebird @darkling -
I've always thought - it's not just the money they get caught with. It's the money they don't get caught with. It's having an in with wealthy and powerful people who will invite you to fancy parties and other donor friends. And fluff your ego and make you feel important. Etc. They don't need normie money.
@futurebird @darklingWell that's why we should make up a fake billionaire donor. The same contributions, but with that extra sheen that gets them so excited.
I can think of some way to fake the parties too.
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@futurebird I've been thinking that the red envelope was a harebrained preemptive excuse if it got exposed. Or could have been an inside joke for her own amusement
@funkula @futurebird Also it stops the bills from getting greasy and flopping all over the place.
Like, imagine if [you were okay with being bribed and if] you got a collection of miscellaneous bills in an open mostly-finished potato chip bag and they WEREN'T bundled together and surrounded by anything.
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@funkula @futurebird Also it stops the bills from getting greasy and flopping all over the place.
Like, imagine if [you were okay with being bribed and if] you got a collection of miscellaneous bills in an open mostly-finished potato chip bag and they WEREN'T bundled together and surrounded by anything.
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So our mayor is famous for this video where he talks about places your kid might be hiding drugs. Classic 80s paranoia.
Perhaps we should have paid more attention to his "sneak craft" game: recently this same man was responsible for a cash money bribe given to a reporter ... in a greasy bag of potato chips. YES.
I think for NYC our dislike of the mayor isn't just about his corruption, it's also about how BAD he is at being corrupt.
Eric Adams adviser suspended after giving reporter chip bag with cash inside
Winnie Greco, an adviser to New York Mayor Eric Adams, has been suspended from his re-election effort after attempting to hand a journalist a potato chip bag stuffed with cash. NBC News' Tom Winter has details on the incident and Greco's initial response.
NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)
It'd be so easy to do a parody of this video "Combating Political Corruption"
If Eric Adams is coming to your house after he is gone it is very important to check the pillowcases, he might have put bribes in there. Check the chip bags! You could fit *several* bribes in this "share size" bag.
In these troubled times, search the mayor's house for bribes too. Sometimes a politician's aid will try to disguise a bribe in a red envelope and call it "Chinese Culture" Don't fall for it!
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@futurebird I saw an article a while ago which looked at the sums that national-level politicians had been caught taking in, err..., "undeclared gifts". They were remarkably small -- like, few even topped £10k.
Conclusion: Politicians are *cheap*.
@darkling @futurebird Ben Goldacre talks about how doctors allow for freebies like pens from pharmaceutical companies companies influence them.
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So our mayor is famous for this video where he talks about places your kid might be hiding drugs. Classic 80s paranoia.
Perhaps we should have paid more attention to his "sneak craft" game: recently this same man was responsible for a cash money bribe given to a reporter ... in a greasy bag of potato chips. YES.
I think for NYC our dislike of the mayor isn't just about his corruption, it's also about how BAD he is at being corrupt.
Eric Adams adviser suspended after giving reporter chip bag with cash inside
Winnie Greco, an adviser to New York Mayor Eric Adams, has been suspended from his re-election effort after attempting to hand a journalist a potato chip bag stuffed with cash. NBC News' Tom Winter has details on the incident and Greco's initial response.
NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)
@futurebird Thanks for posting! How did this never cross my screen before? First time viewing. What a laugh.
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@futurebird Thanks for posting! How did this never cross my screen before? First time viewing. What a laugh.
He is so damn corny.
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Not only is he sneaking and stealing and passing around bribes they are not very large bribes and he's incredibly obvious bad at it. Always gets caught. It's so embarrassing for NYC.
Yeah, he's running for mayor again.
There are other options.
@futurebird he gets caught a lot. Does that mean he always gets caught? or are the times he gets caught are just the (metaphorical) tip of an even bigger slushburg
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@futurebird he gets caught a lot. Does that mean he always gets caught? or are the times he gets caught are just the (metaphorical) tip of an even bigger slushburg
You have a point.
And we REALLY need to start searching all of the pillowcases and chips bags anywhere near that man. Because I now think he legit is like that other politician who had gold bars hidden all over his house.
Gremlin behavior. Smaug the dragon behavior.
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So our mayor is famous for this video where he talks about places your kid might be hiding drugs. Classic 80s paranoia.
Perhaps we should have paid more attention to his "sneak craft" game: recently this same man was responsible for a cash money bribe given to a reporter ... in a greasy bag of potato chips. YES.
I think for NYC our dislike of the mayor isn't just about his corruption, it's also about how BAD he is at being corrupt.
Eric Adams adviser suspended after giving reporter chip bag with cash inside
Winnie Greco, an adviser to New York Mayor Eric Adams, has been suspended from his re-election effort after attempting to hand a journalist a potato chip bag stuffed with cash. NBC News' Tom Winter has details on the incident and Greco's initial response.
NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)
@futurebird how is he still the mayor? why hasn't Mamdani been sworn in yet?
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@futurebird how is he still the mayor? why hasn't Mamdani been sworn in yet?
Mamdani just won a primary the election still has not happened. (And there is no reason to think it will be easy)
