Eric Adams opened this morning’s press conference by rolling a garbage bin up to the podium, placing a bag of trash in it, and saying “welcome to our trash revolution” while Empire State of Mind played in the background
doubly hilarious b/c NYC could have voted in the actual sanitation commissioner as mayor (she seemed like an actual "get shit done" type of person) but somehow gave us this walking comedy sketch
I admire both the city and state of New York for constantly conjuring new types of sleazy Democrats. Like "Greaseball Failson" and "Coppiest Cop To Ever Copped"
Eric Garcetti once got shitcanned at a Stanley Cup celebration and then dropped an F bomb on live TV. Then he ran LA to shit and self-owned his way out of Biden’s cabinet despite being one of his top campaign guys.
truly underrated fail obscured by lack of prominence in East Coast media plus the general acceptance LA County Supes matter way more than the city's mayor
I mean on paper Garcetti should be a slam dunk: ran large city, got Olympics here, is a Jewish- Latino veteran with adopted and foster kids and a famous last-name. He should be in the Senate race or up for governor soon if he had any competency.
the job was always kind of a hiding to nowhere after Tom Bradley but I think Antonio Villaraigosa being in the news more for his extracurricular activities totally ensures no one takes the position seriously at all