official other than he or she get the most votes.

up the tent hospitals now. Never thought Adams was the best choice and he seems to be proving it.

have eye issues myself and could see it coming, I have wondered if he will even last 4 years without a recall.. The first ranked choice election and this is who we got.

NYC residents seem to hate every mayor they've ever had. Maybe they just vote people in so they can hate on them.

Nutmegger. But that's man was never one I could have gotten behind.

No matter how much he screws up it doesn’t impact them, except for the traffic.

The video did not really reflect what the subject line said. I don't really like the word swagger all that much, but what he said was not that bad. He was basically saying that New Yorkers have spunk and would survive.

Did no one else read or listen to what the man ACTUALLY said----or are we just thread title readers?

how reactive some of the comments are. If we see something in quotes after someone's name, we assume they said it.

I listened to the very short video, because I couldn't believe he could be so insensitive and apparently he wasn't. Sadly, this isn't the first time I've seen a subject line or headline differ considerably from the content of a post or article. A lot of major publications do it as well and being we live in an era of Tweets and memes, it can be very misleading.

...but this afternoon I saw this on CNN's screen. Couldn't help laughing after I got over my initial nausea. trump "bare"?

said he did, but he didn't. And so many posters jumped on the bandwagon to disparage him. Did they even bother to watch the 15 second video?

He basically said the city will survive.

He's been in office two days and he's being bashed by some here worse than Manchin and Sinema, who deserve bashing after months and months of DINO-like behavior.

Let's see what he does before throwing him completely under the bus. He is a Democrat.

and republicans, we should be more careful passing judgment based on one or two sentences on the Internet.

I agree, we should give him a chance before we throw him under the bus.

Link to tweet

but you missed this one. The OP made up a quote and attributed it to Adams. And it's not the one you've posted.

The OP posted that Adam's said "we didn't have enough swagger to beat covid." We're not talking about the "wallow in covid" phrase.

And there's no context to justify the wallowing in Covid statement.

What was made up and in the headline of the OP is a made up quote saying that Adams said: "...we didn't have enough swagger to beat covid."

He didn't say those exact words in that exact order. That was made up.

Got it now?

If he had been "proper-like" and used the word panache - people wouldn't be choking on their lattes in anger.

He's not a progressive Dem, or even a center-left Dem but he is a Democrat and we should give him a chance.

I mean two days in and people on DU of all places are already giving up on him because an OP poster made up a quote and attributed it to him. In other words, the OP headline is a lie.

But they need their *opponent*.

The Democratic Party has a problem from within.

I wonder if they would be as angry if Curtis Sliwa was Mayor - and actually SAID something?

The guy didn't say it. I have a link to the transcript in the AfAm group.

The OP made up words and attibuted them to Adams.

I'm from the publishing world. You can't pipe a quote. When you say someone said something, it has to be the exact words in the exact order.

Copy and paste where Adams says "we didn't have enough swagger to beat covid." You can't because he didn't say those exact words in that exact order. He said he has swagger. The city has swagger and so on. He did not say the city didn't have enough swagger to beat covid.

Got it now? One has to accurate with quotes.

for a lifetime.

That elderly obese thing had ZERO swagger. Just an overgrown spoiled little brat who had everything handed to him on a platter.

I think black America - we desperately NEED swagger. I need it. I need to know that there are people out there that will get up in the grill of the white American racist and make them lose their shit - just for being fabulous.

This man came from NOTHING. I've read posts at du applauding elon musk - who is a menace to society, who had everything handed to him on a silver platter.

I give people that look like me, and who are successful, more room than white America to be themselves. I contrast all of the opportunities my parents gave me - with everything he had to fight tooth and nail for.

If I had been beaten while in jail in NY state as a teenager - my dad would have placed a personal call to Cuomo the first. And Cuomo would have taken it.

Swagger is the black police officer that stopped his beating. He was impressed with his 'swagger'. That 'swagger' that go two white cops to stop beating him.

Swagger is good in black folks. I've seen this gentleman compared to Ben Carson on this thread.

I'm like - are these people fucking kidding me?

Ben Carson is a dweebie mon zweebie - who played the part of the 'one black man' that Malcolm X warned us about.

The fact that he disgusts people - makes me like him more. If you are pissing off the dominant culture just being yourself and BASKING in well deserved success - you are my kind of people.

Plain and simple. The OP poster made that up.

And now you're saying it too. Read you post again. Watch the video again. Nowhere in either does Adams say "we didn't have enough swagger to beat covid."

I'm from the journalism world. One can't pipe a quote. If you attribute a quote to someone, it has to be the exact words in the exact order.

DU, we can do better.

And when the MF45 dies - I'm going to bring this post up. When people say - 'we are better than that' - I'm going to point out -

Nope - YOU are.

But I'm not. And I mean it, so there.

Two posts of the same type from a person - beginning of a pattern? We'll see . . .

I'm going to start doing regular original OPs on him. He's my kind of man. A god damn man. "You ain't dealing with no boy he's grown assed man - man!"

Sorry - I hear this in my head when I see him!

Evolution of a Man. Maybe my dad's love of Muddy and Howlin' is at play here. There was no 'Beatles' worship by my parents - it was all reserved for the Blues - the original rockers. And this man -he's got the 'blues' in his soul.

to DU. As for some of the others who seem so obtuse (I just watched "Shawshank Redemption on TCM and that word came up), it fits here but I don't think I need to go further as we seem to be on the same page.

And speaking of the same page, how about Howlin' Wolf's "Smokestack Lightning", all of the songs on BB King's "Live at the Regal" album, Albert King, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, and even some Taj Mahal.

I'm a huge blues fan too. Thanks for the video from the movie.

Exactly. How about some humility, hard-work and understanding for a change?

campaign. He took a mask and proceeded to try to set it on fire to show that he wasn't going to allow New Yorkers to be sheeple. Three or four times, he tries to get the mask to catch fire. Finally, it ignites.... followed by him burning his hand with it.

The campaign launch ended with him putting his hand in an ice bucket.


I laughed my ass off. (That's why my ex says I do everything half-assed).

Context is huge in communication, and so is culture. NYers understand because it's an old, evocative term about theirs.

Context certainly is key, and I'm only just beginning to feel at home in upstate New York, and have never even been to the City.

The subtler connotations of the word that ring out when I hear it, though, are of overbearance and pomposity, which I find either amusing or off-putting, depending on circumstances.

I truly hope he does well for New Yorkers. A great city needs a dynamic mayor.

without some measure of it (been there, done that). As Sinatra sang, "...if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere."

The OP poster did make up a quote and attributed it to Adams. He didn't say "we didn't have enough swagger to beat covid." Ya can't pipe a quote, it has to be the exact words in the exact order.

This should be good.

This fucking idiot is going to kill a lot of New Yorkers with that rhetoric, and it figures that he took his mask off to say that.

Put your damn mask on. Get boosted. Social distance. This is going to be going on for a LONG TIME and we still have a metric SHIT TON of unvaccinated, anti-science shitheads running around who caused the rapidly spreading Omicron variant.

Get yourself boosted. Mark your followup booster date on the calendar. Get the flu vaccine (pay extra for the high-dose version to get more antibodies). Get your pets their flu vaccine. Stockpile masks and put them all around your house. Take COVID seriously and your body will reward you.



^- that is my body hugging me, not another human. Practice social distancing people.

WHY would you say that? The only thing in common he has with ben carson is that they're both male and both black.

Look, Adams wasn't my choice for mayor... he didn't even make it into my ranking. But the negativity in this thread and the taking things out of context here are frustrating. He's a newly sworn in democratic leader facing a real challenge right now.

He's right. NYers will get past this bullshit. We always do. And he's trying to buck us up because many of us are furious about the state and insecurity that we are feeling. Seinding our kids back to school this week is scary with the numbers we have. We all feel like we are sitting ducks if we haven't gotten this thing yet. I can not plan work meetings, and we went back into lockdown in our house over Christmas break, cancelling plans to see close friends (vaccinated and boosted friends, like we are) because we've all been exposed and considered close contacts to covid positive people.

So, yeah, the man is trying to reassure us we will get past this because we are strong people.

How horrifying.

(Ben CARSON?)

the quotation marks in the OP?

Answer: NOWHERE.

That's why people keep saying that.

It's given people like you the chance to ignore the two full paragraphs of swagger about Covid that gushed out of his mouth.

the words said plus adding a few not said to fit the poster's agenda. Naming the motive for that would involve speculation, so I won't.

I have already called the Mayor's language "inartful", but the man was just sworn in to that difficult job when he used ill-considered terms in his attempt to encourage people.

....if you still think he's a foolish man.

I vote to ban Recount due to their biased, fake news headlines & opinion.

Clearly this qualifies.


Recount sets a low bar for reporting. 👎
Wow.

Care to provide context for that comment, buddy?

I was pointing out the timestamp, not the length, scooter.

Adam's speech is littered with these cavalier appeals to toxic positivity without acknowledging the crisis that is unfolding

Link to tweet

....disrespectful nicknames you've used to refer to me.

And keep supporting Democrats, you hear? 👌

Always support Democrats, even when it's not convenient

But this is about the mayor of New York City.

For the record though, Byron Brown was a four-term DEMOCRATIC mayor of Buffalo, and at the time he took the oath of office on January 1 he was the DEMOCATIC mayor of Buffalo.

You know, the politician you fully support who created the "Buffalo Party" in August in order to campaign against the real Democratic candidate for mayor?

No one should have to sit through a half hour speech to find out what he said. The whole speech can be read in 5.

https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/001-22/transcript-mayor-adams-chancellor-banks-deliver-remarks-concourse-village-elementary-school#/0

Mayor: When a Mayor has swagger, the city has swagger. We've allowed people to beat us down so much that all we did was wallow in COVID. It’s we did, and we no longer believed this is a city of swagger. This is a city of resiliency. And all of these messages out there of what is going to happen? What is going to happen? We're going to survive. And your message, your direct comment, your forcefulness matching yours and matching the rest of ours, we're not going to be defined by COVID, by crime, by economy. And you know why? Because we've went through some stuff. All of us, all of us have went through some stuff. So, this is nothing to those who have gone through a lot. We’re going to be here and turn our city around. You inspired me sister. You inspired me.

[Applause]

That’s why I got so much swagger. We need a Mayor of swagger. We need a Council Woman with swagger. We need Assembly Women with swagger. We need a Borough President with swagger. We need a Chancellor with swagger. We need a Police Commissioner with swagger. This is New York. It's a privilege to live in New York, and the leadership should have that swagger, that's what was what has been missing in this city. Well, you inspired me.

They had a character a few years back, a deputy chief who was kind of a weenie.

Was the character modeled after Adams?

The character was attempting to clean up the department.

Rudy Giuliani

What are these reactions . . .

I like the "Doesn't this black guy reminds you of another black guy?" reply.

This place sometimes.

It's all over this thread and is very disappointing.

The comparison to Ben Carson as a head scratcher…. Ben Carson?

It's not in even in the text of the tweet that contains that short video.

... It's okay to post made-up shit and lies about Democrats that we don't like?

on Morning Joe. Found him very irritating. Good Luck New Yotk!

Shitty journalism ya got there, Recount

Out of context, with a personal opinion to emphasize the lifted line.

RW media's got nothin over The Recount!
Did Axel Springer buy The Recount too?

This is exactly the shitty thing The Enquirer used to do.
Shitty low balling style of messaging ya got there Recount!

They carefully selected one line, out of context & ran it as a headline.

Sleezy propaganda journalism.

"We will tell you how to think"
~propaganda ops mastermind, joseph goebbels, on media as a propaganda messaging tool.

... it's disappointing to see that being done to Democrats on this site.

He basically said COVID has killed our spirits and we've lost hope, optimism, etc. and that we shouldn't let it do that.

Who are these "people" and what does "wallow in COVID" mean?

....and after that 28 seconds.

He was upbeat and positive, and everyone is trying to put a negative spin on it.

Overall, the entire 34 minute address, was encouraging and positive.