Only one of a million problems with Voting Blue No Matter Who (VBNMW) - she was undoubtedly already a GOP-lite, conservative “Democrat.” Look, no one is saying that you should vote for a Republican, but for any primary election you gotta vote for thee most progressive candidate.

The Department of Justice has directed federal prosecutors to drop corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams, handing him a political lifeline as he seeks reelection.

News of the directive comes on the same day the Democratic mayor ordered his senior officials to refrain from criticizing President Donald Trump, whom Adams has courted since his reelection, according to the outlet . The Justice Department directed the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office to drop the charges “without prejudice,” according to a copy of a letter from the acting deputy U.S. attorney general by multiple outlets.

“The Justice Department has reached this conclusion without assessing the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which the case is based,” the letter reads, deferring to federal prosecutors. The letter notes that the case should be reviewed after the November 2025 mayoral election.

As the news broke, Adams was dining at a restaurant with John Catsimatidis, the Republican billionaire. In a shared on social media by a Fox News reporter, the mayor said his team had been notified of the possibility that the charges would be dropped.

“I’m going to reach out to my attorney,” Adams said, adding that he did not want to offer a reaction before learning more. “As I’m sitting here, calls are coming through,” he added.

Both Trump and Adams have claimed they were wrongly prosecuted by the Department of Justice under the Biden administration. Adams’ lawyer is Alex Spiro, who has represented billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk.

“As I said from the outset, the mayor is innocent—and he would prevail. Today he has,” Spiro said in a statement on Monday. “The Department of Justice has reevaluated this case and determined it should not go forward. There is good reason for that. The facts of the case are clear: the mayor never used his official position for personal benefit. Nor did he have any role in violating campaign finance laws.”

Spiro continued, “Despite a lot of fanfare and sensational claims, ultimately there was no evidence presented that he broke any laws, ever. The witnesses that were promised never materialized. The additional charges that were threatened never came. Now, thankfully, the mayor and New York can put this unfortunate and misguided prosecution behind them.”

Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Prosecutors accused Adams in September of accepting travel perks from people affiliated with the Turkish government. In exchange, they argued, Adams used his influence to expedite the opening of a new Turkish consulate on the East Side, overruling fire inspectors who had found safety violations.

Prosecutors also accused Adams of accepting straw donations to mask illegal foreign donations to his 2021 campaign.

“These are bright red lines and we allege that the mayor crossed them again and again for years,” said Damian Williams, who was the U.S. attorney for the Southern District at the time.

Look closely enough and you’ll find that Eric Johnson was always a Republican, or at least very susceptible to becoming one. Conservative “Democrats” are one bribe or one hurt feeling away from switching parties.

This highlights the significance of how much more important primaries are, because after the primaries are over, then it becomes an endless chorus of, “vote for the lesser evil” and “vote blue no matter who,” and we have more than enough bad examples of where that can lead to, right??

Honestly, always vote for the most leftist, progressive candidate you can in the primary elections, before it comes down to voting for a Republican vs. Republican-lite in the general election.

I don’t think there are primary elections for mayoral races, but I still love the idea that if a candidate switches political parties (any time after the primaries, I’d suggest), then they should A) not be allowed to hold the office they ran for until they run + win as a member of their new party, B) pay heavy fines from their personal funds, C) they should be forced to resign, and D) the election should be re-done.

The Democratic Party needs to tighten up and make some rules regarding who can and cannot run as a Democrat.

Literally months before SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade, Nancy Pelosi was backing a homophobic, anti-abortion, “Democratic” 🙄 candidate named Henry Cuellar, saying that a candidate’s stance on abortion wasn’t important. And Cuellar’s opponent was a young pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ immigration attorney named Jessica Cisneros! And it was a relatively safe blue district, meaning that whichever Democrat the DNC backed, they were likely to win and a Republican hadn’t won that district in forever. AND before that, Pelosi and the DCCC threw their weight behind another openly homophobic “Democrat” named Dan Lipinski.

Could you even imagine Mitch McConnell or Kevin McCarthy openly throwing their support behind a pro-abortion candidate who wanted gun control? No? So why tf does Democratic leadership constantly foist GOP-lite candidates onto the Democratic Party when other viable options exist?

Just a guess on my part, but if you want fewer anti-abortion laws getting passed, then you should probably back fewer anti-abortion candidates. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

“Vote blue no matter who” has bitten Democrats in the ass wayyy more than any converse slogan has bitten Republicans. Because Republicans actually vet their candidates and make sure that those candidates want the same deplorable things that their deplorable base wants.

And just for clarity, because I know how the internet works and how sycophants love twisting words: I am NOT saying don’t vote for Biden in 2024. I’m not even saying to support a third party candidate. I want Trump and all Republicans gone in the next few election cycles. What I am saying is, once the election is over and hopefully Trump/DeSantis have been vanquished, we need to seriously rework how the Democratic Party has been run. Losing Roe v. Wade is indicative of how poorly it’s been mismanaged.

Anyway, new laws can be made, so especially after the Supreme Court has ignored and undone so many standing legal precedents, I don’t wanna hear jack shit about “pie-in-the-sky” or “be realistic.”

I fuckn hate this Ebenezer Scrooge looking mutha fucka

Anyway, here’s your “vote blue no matter who” Democrat.

Look, I am not saying don’t vote, but there are limits to electoral politics, and the GOP + SCOTUS have successfully gamed the system.

Regarding the “He’s likely the best we can do in WV” tweet …… NO. Hell no. That’s ass backwards, defeatist thinking. This is the problem with the “vote blue no matter who” sloganeering. If your “Democratic” candidate is voting against voter’s rights, and voting against reproductive rights, and voting with Republicans on all the important issues, then WTF is the point of voting for a Democrat?? People may as well just vote for Republicans if they believe conservative Dems like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are the best we can hope for. If they aren’t voting for the big things, then what’s the point??

Do you realize how incredibly stupid it is to say, “Well yeah, they voted against the filibuster, they voted against voting rights, they voted against women’s rights and abortion, but hey, I won’t vote for a Republican—Vote Bluueeee!”

They are fucking REPUBLICANS.

If you can’t get a “Democrat” to support voting rights and Roe, then what the fuck is the point?

Primary tf outta those fuckers! Fucking find someone.

Joe Manchin is a Republican. Idk how many more times he has to show people who he is before they finally believe him. If Biden had an ounce of being an actual progressive within him, he would be kicking Manchin’s ass, and he wouldn’t stop kicking his ass until February 31st. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are walking talking examples of why “Vote Blue No Matter Who” is one of the most asinine, self-defeating things voters can do with their vote.