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Home Front: Politix
Eric Adams: 'Racist' Curtis Sliwa is turning NYC mayoral election into 'circus'
2021-10-06
[NYPOST] If there was any doubt before, the gloves are now officially off in the 2021 race to be the next mayor of New York City.

Democratic nominee Eric Adams
...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black...
 on Tuesday called Republican rival Curtis Sliwa a "racist" — and accused the Guardian Angels founder of turning the general election to succeed a term-limited Comrade Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
 into a "circus."

During an interview on WNYC radio, the Brooklyn borough president offered some of his harshest words yet for his Nov. 2 opponent, saying the GOP contender "has been a leading voice of being a racist."

"I dedicated my life as a police officer for 22 years [to] fighting against the systemic racism
...the idea that the nation is racist to the core, always was, and always will be. 330 million Americans live in Selma, Alabama in 1965, and we're never, ever leaving...
 that exists, and just really how we perceive everyday New Yorkers. And so, it’s difficult for Curtis to talk about systemic racism, because he has been a leading voice of being a racist," the former NYPD captain said on "The Brian Lehrer Show," when asked about his perspective on nine FDNY members who were suspended for sending racist messages.

"It’s hard for him to address something that’s systemic, and I’m not afraid to point out where systemic racism exists."

His answer came after Lehrer noted that Sliwa on the same radio show a day earlier characterized the FDNY members as a few bad apples rather than part of a pattern of bigotry.

In response to Adams’ comments, Sliwa fired back with his own allegation Tuesday, saying Adams has a habit of accusing people with whom he has a difference of opinion of being racist.

"This is always his fallback position when he has a disagreement with you: He calls people racist," Sliwa told The Post. "This is all part of the tradition of Eric Adams. If you disagree with Eric Adams, you’re a racist.

"When his back is against the wall, he’s always calling his adversaries racist."

Sliwa cited Adams in January 2020 metaphorically declaring that gentrifiers should "go back" to Iowa and Ohio, as well as the Democrat’s harsh criticism of former primary opponents Andrew Yang
...Former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. Unlike most of the other Dem 2020 candidates, he actually did things besides politix in his adult life, which made him political poison. He worked in startups and early-stage growth companies as a founder or executive from 2000 to 2009. After he founded Venture for America, the Obama administration selected him in 2012 as a Champion of Change and in 2015 as a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship. His signature campaign policy is what he calls the Freedom Dividend, a form of Universal Basic Income for every American over 18. Yang believes UBI is a necessary response to the rapid development of automation that is leading to workforce challenges. The other two central elements of Yang's platform are Medicare for All and Human-Centered Capitalism....
 and Kathryn Garcia joining forces on the crowded Democratic primary campaign trail on Juneteenth, days before voters went to the polls.

"I’m just going to join the club," Sliwa said. "When Eric Adams doesn’t like you, he calls you a racist."

Adams in his interview also accused Sliwa of making a mockery of the election.

Posted by:Fred

#6  FEMA camps

The dark night of fascism? I am reminded of the story Tom Wolfe told about Günter Grass. To whit:

Grass plays a small role in Tom Wolfe’s 1976 essay, “The Intelligent Coed’s Guide To America,” reprinted in his 1982 anthology The Purple Decades, available on the Kindle and an essential introduction to both Wolfe’s early nonfiction, and life in America in the crazed ’60s and ’70s, which today often reads stranger than fiction. Wolfe uses a statement from Grass as a springboard for the saying he helped enter into widespread distribution: “The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.” The two men shared the stage at a ruckus 1965 panel at Princeton University, dominated both on the panel and in the audience by paranoid lefties convinced that fellow Democrat Lyndon Johnson was the new fascistic boogieman*, including Allen Ginsberg and Merry Prankster Paul Krassner, about whom Wolfe notes:

The next thing I knew, the discussion was onto the subject of fascism in America. Everybody was talking about police repression and the anxiety and paranoia as good folks waited for the knock on the door and the descent of the knout on the nape of the neck. I couldn’t make any sense out of it. I had just made a tour of the country to write a series called “The New Life Out There” for New York magazine. This was the mid-1960’s. The post-World War II boom had by now pumped money into every level of the population on a scale unparalleled in any nation in history. Not only that, the folks were running wilder and freer than any people in history. For that matter, Krassner himself, in one of the strokes of exuberance for which he was well known, was soon to publish a slight hoax: an account of how Lyndon Johnson was so overjoyed about becoming President that he had buggered a wound in the neck of John F. Kennedy on Air Force One as Kennedy’s body was being flown back from Dallas. Krassner presented this as a suppressed chapter from William Manchester’s book Death of a President. Johnson, of course, was still President when it came out. Yet the merciless gestapo dragnet missed Krassner, who cleverly hid out onstage at Princeton on Saturday nights.

Suddenly I heard myself blurting out over my microphone: “My God, what are you talking about? We’re in the middle of a … Happiness Explosion!”

That merely sounded idiotic. The kid up in the balcony did the crying baby. The kid down below did the raccoon … Krakatoa, East of Java … I disappeared in a tidal wave of rude sounds … Back to the goon squads, search-and-seize and roust-a-daddy …

Support came from a quarter I hadn’t counted on. It was Grass, speaking in English.

“For the past hour I have my eyes fixed on the doors here,” he said. “You talk about fascism and police repression. In Germany when I was a student, they come through those doors long ago. Here they must be very slow.”

Grass was enjoying himself for the first time all evening. He was not simply saying, “You really don’t have so much to worry about.” He was indulging his sense of the absurd. He was saying: “You American intellectuals—you want so desperately to feel besieged and persecuted!”

He sounded like Jean-François Revel, a French socialist writer who talks about one of the great unexplained phenomena of modern astronomy: namely, that the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-10-06 19:00  

#5  ^ FEMA camps.
Posted by: Slats Ulerert8448   2021-10-06 13:25  

#4  Marxism American-style.

Blacks = proletariat

Whites = bourgeoisie

Wokerati/Leftist Dems/BigTech = CPSU

BLM/Antifa = shock troops

Traditional Americans defending the Constitution and civil liberties = Enemies of The People

Small business owners = kulaks

What will be the American version of the gulag?
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690   2021-10-06 12:40  

#3  Sliwa must be doing something right.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-10-06 12:08  

#2  I am certain you have noticed that Fox News teevee advertising has suddenly gone totally woke. At least 70% of all Fox commercials now feature African American people. Strangely however, the people featured all dress and speak like mid-western white people and possess supervisory or business owner positions. The 'teevee land' houses they live in are single family, upper middle-class in style and neighborhood. The automobiles they drive also reflect white American tastes.

It's all very strange, but none-the-less interesting and sometimes humorous in a retro "I speak Jive" sort of way.

Posted by: Besoeker   2021-10-06 04:58  

#1  Well, obviously, if you stand in the way of a "African American" person getting something they want - you must be a racist.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-10-06 01:19  

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