THE CASH STUFF FOR FEB. 27, 2025

 

                                                                  CASH MICHAELS

      BACKWARDS TO THE FUTURE

by Cash Michaels

Last Friday, while the country was once again catching its collective breath after a week of more calamitous headlines from the "King" Trump Administration, came two pieces of important news.

First, a federal judge “largely blocked” Trump’s executive orders ending federal support of DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programs, saying that, according to The Associated Press, “the orders likely carry constitutional violations, including against free speech rights.”

The federal judge, a Biden appointee, agreed with the plaintiffs that Trump’s orders had a “chilling effect” on businesses and educational institutions that still wanted to openly support DEI through grants, hiring etc.

Hey, no argument from me, Your Honor! Obviously, Trump’s lawyers are appealing your order, so we’ll see how long it lasts.

But then something else happened last Friday night that was a rude harbinger of things to come.

The clown-president-who-would-be-king fired U.S. Air Force four-star General CQ Brown Jr., the distinguished chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Gen. Brown is Black, and according to The Associated Press, Trump gave walking papers to this ‘…history-making fighter pilot and respected officer as part of a campaign to rid the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in the ranks.”

Gen. Brown, who apparently ran afoul of Trump after making a video telling his life story after the murder of George Floyd, had just been only 16 months in the Joint Chief’s chair job, and devoted over 40 years of his life in military service to his country. More than qualified to be any president’s top military advisor.

Of course any and every president has the right to switch up on Joint Chiefs chairmen when they come in. In the case of Gen. Brown, a distinguished four star, the question is ...why.

I’ve seen the man interviewed, and he doesn’t strike me as anybody’s fool. I’m sure he knew that no matter how loyal he was serving the country, that was not the same as being loyal to the king. And in fact, his new boss, former Fox and Friends weekend TV host Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had already said in a podcast last November that in order to stay loyal to Trump’s abhorrence of DEI, Gen. Brown would have to be fired..

In his book, “The War on Warriors,” Hegseth even questioned whether Gen. Brown was promoted by Pres. Biden to be Joint Chiefs chairman because he was Black.

“Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt,” Hegseth, a minor military man himself with a bad reputation who couldn’t shine Gen. Brown’s shoes, was quoted as musing in his tome.

And who has King Trump replaced Gen. Brown with? A a retired three-star lt. general who once vowed to Trump that he would “kill” for him.

Trump never forgot that junior general from years back and has now tapped him to be his top military advisor.

For the record, it’s rare for a retired three-star general to be recalled to active duty. And its rare for a three-star to receive his fourth star without earning it in combat first, as King Trump’s replacement for General Brown will. He'll need a waiver.

A Fox weekend TV host. A retired three-star. 

With King Trump, it’s not about who is white and qualified, but who is white and loyal…to him.

Still hoping that DEI goes out of business?

Colin Powell must be rolling over in his grave.

In one sense, I’m glad that Gen. Brown doesn’t work for these clowns anymore. I know he is a creature of duty, and would have served the office of the president of the United States no matter what, as long as the orders from there were legal and made sense.

But on the other side, let’s face it, King Trump’s Administration is turning the clock back on so much progress in this country, even in our military, that who the hell really wants to be part of this nonsense, or even be associated with it.

Think about it. This country has always prided itself for moving forward. No matter what our problems, what made us strong was the sense that America was steadily working to open the doors to the future, with advancements in science, education, social and civil rights, etc.

You had the feeling that we had learned so, so much from our errors of the past, and were using those lessons to, again, open doors for everyone and anyone who wanted to prove themselves, and in the process, move the entire country ahead.

Such progress was vital for our children, and many of us took pride in the world we were working hard to build for them, so that they could correct many of our mistakes, and make America, as Dr. King once said, the nation“… it ought to be!”

During the Obama years in particular, you had the sense that he wanted this country to make the investments in leading on so many fronts heading into the future. Having broken down a major barrier himself, he wanted other progressive Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris to take over the reins of power with progressive vision that would maintain this nation’s leadership position in the world, and give everyone an opportunity to succeed, no matter what their color or gender.

There was tremendous pride in knowing that our government was funding important research grants and projects to unlock the mysteries of serious diseases, or discovering things we never knew about before. Those grants and projects helped to provide jobs for our brightest and our best, whether it be at one of our many research universities like NC A&T University in Greensboro or NC State University in Raleigh, or the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.

Many jobs were created, especially for Black people, helping them move into the middle-class from poverty. Those federal government investments in the future helped to lift all boats, and create a professional class of all hues.

This country was on the move, on the march. The only thing that could stop us was a damn fool who corrupted the reins of power with his greed and narcissism.  

And that’s just what happened.

In 2016, and again in 2024, we elected King Donald Trump, and now, thanks to his prehistoric and malicious way of thinking and behaving, all of the tremendous progress we’ve made in so many areas of this country is at risk.

All in the name of “making America "great" again.”

“We’re going to forge a new and lasting political majority that will drive American politics for generations to come,” King Trump vowed during remarks last weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland, all while bragging about how many thousands of federal employees are being fired in the same breath.

The Associated Press recently reported, “President Donald Trump is moving with light speed and brute force to break the existing order and reshape America at home and abroad.’

“He likes the ring of calling himself king.”

As we’ve mentioned in past commentaries, the rule of law has been trampled on in so many ways that were once hard to imagine.

The normal function of government has been so corrupted that we can’t even trust it to handle a national health emergency anymore, something we could always trust it to do before the Covid pandemic.

And now that King Trump and his rich, but insane buddy Elon “Chainsaw’ Musk, are cutting thousands of employees from the federal workforce in a backass “search” for government waste and fraud, we truly feel the shift in the firmament. As if we’re sliding backwards to a place we’ve all worked very hard to escape. The thing that confirms it for all of us is King Trump’s social agenda, spearheaded by his brutal assault on diversity, equity and inclusion policies.

Just last week, King Trump’s klan cut tens of millions in educational funding for North Carolina’s public schools, funding that helped pay teachers who worked in some of the poorest communities of our state to teach at-risk kids.

Funding originally devoted to giving poor children a chance by providing dedicated teachers for them to realize the fruits of education, and hopefully, one day, learn enough to lift themselves out of their desperate circumstances.

With the stroke of a pen, Trump has taken it away from them.

Why shouldn’t government - federal or otherwise - invest in the future of this country by investing in its young people? Where is the harm?

We’ve come too far to go back to the days when white Americans almost exclusively set the standard when it comes to excellence. Not a week goes by now when we don’t hear about some gifted child of color achieving some magnificent goal that we can all celebrate, and point to as a symbol of our collective national progress.

And yet, King Trump would have us think that such success should be suspect. That unless it’s in the fields of sports and entertainment, African-Americans and other people of color are just not capable of achieving a high standard of academic performance or business excellence.

Suffice it to say, I know firsthand that that kind of corrupted thinking is wrong, and yes, bigoted. And it angers me to no end that because this king of corrupt has a god-complex, scores of young people of all colors and backgrounds will be left behind because he has cutoff their opportunity to give back to the country that nurtured them.

The coldblooded bigotry that haunted this nation for most of its young history is back, ladies and gentlemen, led by none other than our president. We now lumber towards the future forsaking almost everything we fought, died for, and achieved as a nation.

What did Trump tell CPAC again?

“We’re going to forge a new and lasting political majority that will drive American politics for generations to come.”

Once again, THIS is what you voted for America! Live with it!

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THE CASH STUFF FOR FEB. 27TH, 2025

                                                        ROBERTA FLACK

GRAMMY AWARD WINNING 

NC NATIVE, SINGER ROBERTA

FLACK, DEAD AT 88

By Cash Michaels

Contributing writer

Her ballads were haunting. Her voice soothing.

And her artistry, legendary.

Songstress Roberta Flack, a native of Black Mountain, NC,  died Monday surrounded by family. She suffered a stroke in 2016, then two years later collapsed on a concert stage. That episode forced her to use a wheelchair for the rest of her life.

In 2022, Ms. Flack was diagnosed with ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease, which took away her ability to sing.

She was 88.

To a generation, her remarkable songs like ‘Killing Me Softly With His Song” and “The First Time Ever I saw Your Face” represented an era of black music that has rarely been duplicated since her debut in the 1970s. Ms. Flack was a classically trained musician, and during her career, performed on almost two dozen albums, which produced five Grammy Awards - two of which were consecutive honors for Record of the Year.

It wasn’t until 2020 that Ms. Flack received the recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award. That same year she told NPR, "I think everything you do as a Black person in this country represents a struggle for survival.”

She told the N.Y. Times in 1973 that she was 100% musician who was dedicated to her art.

Roberta Flack received a full music scholarship to Howard University at the age of just 15 years-old. Originally, she aspired to become an opera singer, or a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall, a goal that she finally did achieve later in life.

She was once a music teacher. It was 1970 when she was later the sole musical guest on a Bill Cosby TV special.  The following year, Ms. Flack released, “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” which won her her first Grammy Award, and was used in the Clint Eastwood film, "Play Misty for Me."

Ms. Flack holds the distinction of singing at the funeral of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, as well as for many philanthropic causes like AIDS research.

Later in the 1970s, Ms. Flack partnered with prolific singer Donny Hathaway for memorable hits like "You’ve Got a Friend,” “The Closer I Get to You” “Where is the Love” and the dance single “Back Together Again.”

Hathaway died after jumping from a hotel window in 1979.

Their partnership yielded two Grammy nominations in 1980.

The musical legacy of Roberta Flack is manifested in superstar singers like Lauryn Hill, India Arie and Alicia Keys.

Roberta Cleopatra Flack was born in Black Mountain on Feb. 10, 1937 to Laron and Irene Flack. Laron played the piano, and Irene was an organist in church. Little Roberta began playing the piano by ear when she was four, later mastering the craft to play Bach, Beethoven and Chopin.

A virtuoso, Ms. Flack attended the only black high school in Arlington, Va.after her family moved there before winning her full scholarship to Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she further studied piano, before changing her major to music education.

Ms. Flack graduated Howard at 19, and began teaching English literature in Farmville, NC. She later moved back to Washington, D.C. to teach, and moonlight during the evenings there performing in nightclubs, in violation of school district policy.

It was during a summer benefit concert in 1968 that she was first discovered by jazz musician Les McCann. He sent a tape of her performance to Atlantic Records, and from that day on, Ms. Flack never looked back.

Roberta Flack has always been fiercely independent, and fiercely protective of her work. She was also very proud to be a Black woman, and a Black female singer with a unique sound.

"I am a person who has managed to last because I have chosen to stay true to my own ideals and principles, and true to my own experience," she told the Washington Post in 1989. "I am a Black person who sings the way I do. I am not a Black person who sounds anything like Aretha Franklin or anything like Chaka Khan. I know what I am and I don't want to, and I shouldn't have to, change in order to be who I am."

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US DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE’S

“1890” STUDENT AID PROGRAM

SUSPENDED AT NC A&T, EIGHTEEN

OTHER HBCU’S ACROSS NATION

BY Cash Michaels

contributing wrier

A pioneering national scholarship program for Black students studying agriculture and “…food, natural resource and other related sciences,” has now been suspended by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the government, thus far, has not explained why.

North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro is one of the 19 HBCUs (historically Black colleges and universities) affected by the program’s suspension.

According to a February 21st story in the Economic Times, the USDA “…

has suspended its 1890 National Scholars Program, a significant initiative that provided scholarships to students attending HBCUs. This program aimed to support students from rural and undeserved communities pursuing degrees in agriculture and related fields. The suspension is pending further review, as indicated on the program’s official website.”

Per the USDA website, “It was established in 1992 as part of the partnership between USDA and the 1890 land-grant universities.”

        At North Carolina A&T, spokesman Todd Simmons issued the following statement Monday:

        We have had 104 scholar participants in the 1890 National Honors Scholarship Program since its establishment. We have 20 current scholars, and have been assured their funding will remain intact. We are discussing this important program with the UNC System and our elected representatives and are hopeful that support for the program’s future will be fully restored.

North Carolina Congresswoman Alma Adams (D-12-NC), an alumna of NCA&T, told the Economic Times she “…criticized the suspension, stating it undermines efforts to make higher education accessible and to correct historical racial discrimination within the land-grant system.”

Rep. Adams is co-founder of the Congressional Bipartisan HBCU Caucus. Last week, she blasted Pres. Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk for their efforts to close the U.S. Dept. of Education, firing thousands of employees.

At presstime, there have been no published reports about slashing USDA’s programming or personnel by the Trump Administration.

But that didn’t stop Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, from telling The Hill, “The Trump Administration’s decision to suspend the 1890 Scholars Program ‘pending further review’ is an outrageous disruption that undermines efforts to make higher education accessible for Black students and correct our nation’s history of systemic racial discrimination within the land-grant system.”

Rep. Clarke continued, “President Trump repeatedly promised the American people that he would work to lower the costs of living and create greater access to economic opportunity, including for Black communities,” she continued. “Since January 20th, 2025 this administration has been on a cruel rampage, showing us every day that hard working Americans are not their priority. Instead of working to make our lives better, the Trump administration continues to try to take our country backward.”

Per the USDA website, “The scholarship provides recipients with full tuition, fees, books, room and board. Scholars attend one of the 1890 land-grant universities and pursue degrees in agriculture, food, natural resource sciences, or related academic disciplines. The scholarship may also include work experience at USDA. The program is a crucial part of USDA’s Next Generation efforts.”

         The website continued, “USDA awarded 94 1890 scholarships in Fiscal Year 2024.”

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WAR AGAINST DEI

CONTINUES IN NC

By Cash Michaels

Contributing writer

President Donald Trump’s war against DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) policies has certainly hit North Carolina as legislation has been proposed to remove it from all of state government, and the president’s cuts to educational funding take hold.

Tens of millions of dollars of federal education grants used to “strengthen teacher recruitment and retention, reduce vacancies, and improve hiring processes” for at-risk student needs in schools across North Carolina, have been cut off by the Trump Administration, according to published reports. As a result, recruiting efforts for more teachers have been hurt, and those already on the job are at risk of losing their employment.

In their termination letter, those teachers are being told the special program they were working under “…includes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.” The letter also alleged that teachers were being trained in “divisive ideologies.”

  Many teachers may lose thousands of dollars in earned bonus and stipends as well.

Several school systems across North Carolina reportedly plan to appeal the loss in grant funding, arguing that the programs funded were working very well, and there was no evidence of waste, fraud or abuse.

Meanwhile, several Republican state lawmakers filed a House Bill 171 last week seeking to ban”…the promotion, funding and implementation of DEI programs within state agencies, including in hiring practices, training programs and the establishment of DEI offices.”

“House Bill 171 is about eliminating the divisive and ineffective DEI bureaucracy in state and local government,” primary bill sponsor Rep. Brendan Jones (R- Columbus) told the Carolina Journal. “These programs have injected politics into hiring, promotions, and contracting, prioritizing ideology over qualifications and competence. Government jobs and opportunities should be awarded based on merit, not forced quotas or political mandates.”

HB 171 also prohibits the use of state funds for DEI initiatives, as well prohibiting state agencies and local government from accepting federal funds requiring compliance with DEI policies.

Penalties for violating HB171, if passed, include criminal charges.

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THE NEW CASH COMMENTARY FOR FEB. 20th, 2025

                                                                 CASH MICHAELS

              THE ROT FROM THE TOP WON’T STOP

                                by Cash Michaels

In case you’re still wondering why there was so much noise last week about Trump’s Department of Justice moving to drop bribery corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, it’s not because of what has happened, but because of what is yet to come in "King" Trump’s America.

We have now entered a new era of legitimized political and financial corruption in this country, all because one rich deranged deity-wannabe is in charge.

        The Washington Post said it best about the crying shame that is the Eric Adams case: The damage here is “… the ugly impression of raw political force controlling Justice Department decisions.”

        Keep in mind that traditionally, the U.S. Dept. of Justice is supposed be independent of the Executive branch, for obvious reasons.

With that, consider the following:

FACT - In September 2024, Eric Adams was indicted by a federal grand jury in a sealed criminal indictment involving his 2021 run for NYC mayor. 

According to The Hill, “The indictment alleged Adams accepted and sought [foreign] bribes throughout much of his political career, dating back to at least 2014 and continuing through his 2021 mayoral campaign and his tenure as mayor.”

Adams was just one of several members of his administration to be implicated in alleged crimes. Some had to leave. In fact, published reports said that more charges were coming against him for destroying evidence.

Adams has maintained that he is innocent of any and all alleged wrongdoing.

FACT - January 17, 2025, Mayor Adams, a Democrat, meets with Republican Pres.-elect Trump at his Mar-a-lago Resort in Florida just days before Trump’s inauguration. The two get along swimmingly, raising eyebrows, though what they talk about is not revealed.

FACT - January 20, 2025, Mayor Adams skips attending Martin Luther King Jr. holiday events in NYC commemorating the slain civil rights leader (something the Black mayor of any American city should NEVER do), to attend the Trump inauguration in Washington, D.C..

        FACT - Jan. 31, 2025, The acting U.S. Attorney for Manhattan attends a meeting with Adam's attorneys where they "...repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid pro quo, indicating that Adams would be in a position to assist with the Department’s enforcement priorities only if the indictment were dismissed.”

FACT - Feb. 10, 2025. Trump’s Justice Dept subsequently orders the acting U.S. Attorney in Manhattan’s Southern District to drop its corruption case against Adams. 

Indeed, Trump’s Justice Dept justified the order “…citing concerns that the investigation was hindering [Adams’] ability to support President Trump’s immigration policies,” according to The NY Times. There was also some nonsense about hindering Adams’ ability to fight violent crime, and run for re-election in November 2025.

        You've heard of the notorious "Trump deal?" Well here it is!

NBC News added, Trump Justice officials “… are not permanently dropping the charges against Adams. They are planning to dismiss the indictment “without prejudice,” a legal maneuver that would allow federal prosecutors to restore the charges against Adams at any time — for instance, if he were to stop cooperating with Trump’s immigration policies.”  

        In plain-speak, if Adams behaves himself and does what he’s told like a good little boy who understands who his Daddy is, then he’s free to at least act as if he’s in charge of something until further notice. The classic quid pro quo.

Well guess what? In any other world but Trump’s, you can’t legally do that.

“No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives,” one of the seven outraged line prosecutors on the Adams case who subsequently quit, wrote in his 350-word resignation letter. “Our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials, in this way.” 

“It is unheard of in a criminal justice proceeding to suggest you not deal with the criminal allegations for political or policy reasons,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton, once a close associate of Adams.

Hey, when your mayor shows he’s willing to take a Trump deal to save his butt from even a day in federal prison (a deal that is definitely NOT in the public’s interest, but certainly in his own), THAT’s corruption folks.

As noted, seven federal prosecutors who worked the Adams case resigned rather than be part of a shady political deal that made a joke of the criminal justice system. Whether these dedicated prosecutors know it or not, their bravery, and devotion to duty in the face of clear political interference from the Trump Administration warmed the hearts of those of us who still believe in truth and justice. I particularly note the courage of their leader, acting Southern District U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon, a conservative Republican and Federalist Society alum who just flat out refused when she was first ordered to drop charges against Adams.

She firmly believed in her case against Adams, and was not going to give it up because  she believed she had the evidence prove Adams was corrupt, and had violated the public's trust.

Sassoon reminds many of us old-timers of Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, a conservative Republican who forced a crooked President Richard Nixon to release his Oval Office audiotapes despite threat of being fired, busting the Watergate scandal wide open, and sending Tricky Dick shamefully packing for civilian life.

Sassoon won’t save the nation like Cox, but she has shown us that she has the kind of courage it takes to stand up to Trump and his corruption. Maybe she and Liz Cheney can get together and have tea sometime.

I pray that there are more federal prosecutors like Sassoon, because we’re going to need them. The Eric Adams case is just the beginning. Let’s face it, as long as a politician or businessperson is trying get away with murder in this country, regardless of who is hurt or what U.S. laws are broken, they’ve got a friend in Donald Trump.

        To Trump, the rule of law is transactional, and applies to everybody but him, and those who support him.

Again, NBC News reports, “In a series of unprecedented actions, President Donald Trump and his deputies have scaled back or eliminated the government’s tools to ferret out and prosecute corruption, including efforts by foreign actors to interfere in American politics, experts and former officials say.”

The NBC News report continued, “The administration previously made other moves that place a lower priority on corruption cases and scaled back the grounds to launch prosecutions. The Justice Department said it will limit the enforcement of a law designed to expose secret lobbying by foreign governments, the Foreign Agents Registration Act. It also disbanded a Justice Department unit that prosecuted large-scale corruption by foreign governments or their allies who use the U.S. financial system to launder their stolen gains.” 

Now Trump counters that all he’s doing is preventing the weaponization of government by rolling anti-corruption laws back. In effect, he's saying that America runs best, when it runs on corruption. Talk about a "get-out-of-jail-free" card.

The source of this warped “thinking” ? Always the crooked businessman, Trump believes that screwing people is the natural order of things, and since that’s what he does best, why not make it legal, or at least protect the practice from the rule of law.

Remember when he vowed, “Everybody is going to be rich!” because of his economic policies? Yeah, just as long as they’re screwing “suckers and losers”- Trump's moniker for folks and countries he plans to scam.

Indeed, that’s how Trump intends to “save” America, by making it a haven for financial and political predators.

“He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” Trump bellowed on his social media platform recently. Consequently, this clown believes he IS the law now, he IS the power. and by making America more corrupt, either for money or power, he’s “saving” it!

 Hard to follow anybody else’s laws when you’re running around under the deluded notion that YOU are THE law!

This stuff is right out of a bad comic book!

The point is, if this is the way the U.S. Justice Department is going to operate under Trump, then it opens the floodgates for crooked elected officials and businesspeople from coast to coast to line up for their pat on the head from Daddy T. They won't ever have to worry about a federal prosecution for their crimes because they can be controlled like puppets.

          In Trump’s world, the good guys are always the bad guys, because they’re “suckers and losers.”Anyone seeking to uphold the rule of law, is the enemy, because to Trump, there is only one law, and that’s his. That's why he wanted everyone who's ever investigated him, or judged him, to be investigated, because they dared to try to bring him down for just following HIS law. That's why he hates the Democrats and Pres. Biden so much.

Corrupt Daddy can’t even stand for there to be a federal agency devoted specifically to saving innocent consumers from corruption, enforcing federal consumer financial restrictions or protecting consumers in the financial marketplace.

        Spent your money and got stiffed? Too bad, government has no business protecting you anyway, he says! 

       That’s why Trump and Elon Musk closed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and fired its employees. Trump called the CFPB “vicious,” whose only purpose is “to destroy people.” 

       If there were a flag honoring the sly, the slick, and the wicked, Trump would be flying it over the White House. Honesty is like rat poison to this despot. He can’t stand to be anywhere near it. I mean bad people just gravitate to him. And ultimately, that's bad news for the average citizen, the “suckers and losers” who get screwed, especially those who voted for him. 

As we've all seen, if you’re someone whose heart can be corrupted or bought, you have a home in Daddy Trump’s Republican Party. If you break the rule of law, but claim you’re doing it for Trump, he’s more than happy to go to bat for you. Just ask most of the folks he’s pardoned, including the 1500 convicted January 6th rioters.

Eric Adams, whose defense attorney also represents Elon Musk (well fancy that) is a “conservative” Democrat, but is so confident that he’s now in the good graces of Trump, he had the gall to show up on “Fox and Friends” with ICE enforcement chief Tom Homan last Friday morning grinning and back slapping, because he knew his new daddy was watching.

        Fox News NEVER defends a Black Democrat, so you knew something was up.

And Homan, of course, had Trump’s long dog leash unmistakably around Adam’s sellout neck for all the world to see, promising if the NYC mayor doesn't hold to a deal to allow ICE agents into the city's Riker's Island jail, Homan would come back to New York, back to Adams' office, and get right "up his butt."

        Gee, what a delightful experience to look forward to for a sellout.

And no surprise, the motion to dismiss the five-count federal indictment against Adams finally has been filed, waiting for a federal judge to sign off on, or not.

        Meanwhile, four deputy mayors working for Adams have quit in protest of his alleged Trump deal, and at press time, the governor of NY, Kathy Hochul, who has the power to remove Mayor Adams, is reportedly considering that. On Wednesday, a federal judge heard arguments about whether to grant the government's request to drop the charges without prejudice. 

        After hearing arguments from both Trump's Justice Dept. and Adams' attorneys, all pushing to have the charges dismissed as originally planned, Judge Dale E. Ho has decided to wait until he hears from an attorney he appoints to counter their argument, before making a final judgment. Meanwhile Ho has canceled Adams' April trial, and says he may make a decision by mid-March.

        Gov. Hochul, meanwhile, has limited the mayor's powers, a sure sign she doesn't trust the man.

        I expect Judge Ho to ultimately reject the Trump Justice Dept. argument, for the exact same reasons that NY prosecutors quit in the first place. If that happens Hochul may indeed remove him from office.

        Mind you, no New York City mayor has ever had to be removed from office by the governor in the city's 235 year history. In my opinion, Eric Adams should be the first!

        Meanwhile, Adams defiantly refuses to resign, comparing calls for him to do so to the Nazi persecution of the Jews during WWII. When you go that low in your defense, you're clearly hiding something.

        As you can imagine, that hasn't gone over well at all with New York's large Jewish community. 

        The N.Y. Daily News calls Adams a “hostage” to the president’s agenda.

        More like a hostage to the president's corruption!

Let’s be frank here. Our democracy is over. How do I know? Because rich, wealthy predators like Trump and Elon Musk can’t survive in a world where “suckers and losers” have an equal say and authority. In their worldview, the corrupted rich must be in charge. They must make the laws. 

They must, in fact,  be THE law! They must have control!!!

So yes, folks, we are rotting from the top, and there’s no end in sight.

Once again, THIS is what you voted for America! Live with it!

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