Focus, No Distractions, and Grind
Is Eric Adams actually a good orator? “This is a city not of socialism,” said New York City Mayor Eric Adams in a speech yesterday, referring to his challenger Zohran Mamdani’s recent win in the Democratic primary. “I’ve been to socialist countries. This is a city where you can come as a dishwasher and you can own a chain of restaurants. This is a city where you can be a cab driver and then become a doctor. This is a city where you can go from homelessness to building houses.”
“This is not a city where you use idealism to state you’re giving everything to everyone for free,” he continued. “There’s no dignity in someone giving you everything for free. There’s dignity in giving you a job so you can provide for your family and opportunities that you deserve. This is not a city of handouts, this is a city of hands up.”
Mayor Eric Adams: We utilize the letter F for Faith, our opponents use the letter F for Profanity
pic.twitter.com/KGu8UgwQYP— Eric Adams War Room (@AdamsWarRoom) June 26, 2025
“We utilize the letter F for faith, our opponents use the letter F for profanity,” he added, before leading the crowd in a chant: “Focus, no distractions, and grind.” Seemingly he means to focus on winning, but I kind of like it as a general mantra.
He’s kind of…insane, and hilarious, but also, the message of that speech is just gloriously American. Handouts are not dignified; you don’t need the state to provide everything for you. Choose your own destiny. It’s kind of Arthur Brooksy, and evocative of 15 years ago in American politics when “work hard and pull yourself up by your bootstraps” was still the dominant mode.
His social media messaging on diversity feels similarly retrograde, in a way that’s rather refreshing:
One of these campaigns looks like New York.
The other… doesn’t.
We’re the campaign of working people, real neighborhoods, and real progress.Receipts below: pic.twitter.com/NHXU3k36zO
— Eric Adams (@ericadamsfornyc) June 27, 2025
Meanwhile, a pressure campaign on Curtis Sliwa—the Republican nominee who champions both your right to carry a gun and your right to don a sick red beret at all times—has mounted for him to drop out and…
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