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lenaitch said:
In a normal world, deploying preemptive lethal force on foreign nationals in international waters would considered a bad thing, but since he has labelled them "terrorists" it makes it all better I guess.
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It was settled back in the Obama administration that you can do this even to an American citizen, without any sort of due process, if you label them a "terrorist".
 
Yeah, I was against it at the time because it's so easy to abuse. I kind of trusted Obama with this type of power, but Obama was never going to be around forever.
 
thettctransitfanatic said:
NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been reluctant to abandon his bid for reelection — but an influential post in President Donald Trump’s administration could incentivize him to bow out and make it easier to halt Zohran Mamdani’s rise.

Adams has been offered a position at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to a person with direct knowledge of the offer who was granted anonymity to speak candidly about a sensitive matter.


The mayor, who has a friendly working and political relationship with Trump, met with the president’s team during his visit Monday to Florida, the person said.
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Seems like only post black folks are appointed to in Trump's cabinet is Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In his first term it was Ben Carson and currently it is Scott Turner.
 
thettctransitfanatic said:

Election interference in a local mayoral race? Check.

Advisers to President Trump have discussed the possibility of giving Mayor Eric Adams of New York City a position in the administration as a way to clear the field in November’s mayoral election and damage the chances of the Democratic front-runner, Zohran Mamdani, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions. The talks have also involved finding a possible place in the administration for the Republican candidate, Curtis Sliwa. The goal, the people said, would be to give former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo a better chance of defeating Mr. Mamdani in November’s general election. The discussions within Mr. Trump’s orbit about making a potentially audacious intervention date back weeks — and it is unclear if they will ultimately amount to anything. But the topic has taken on added urgency in New York in recent days as an already chaotic race steams into the last stretch of the campaign season.

Overlapping conversations have been playing out among some of the city’s biggest real estate executives and among allies of Mr. Cuomo, 67, a moderate Democrat who has known Mr. Trump for more than 40 years. Mr. Cuomo is running as a third-party candidate after badly losing June’s Democratic primary to Mr. Mamdani. Those New Yorkers have been frantically searching for any way to halt the rise of the assemblyman, a 33-year-old democratic socialist who they fear would sour the city’s business climate, and have discussed potentially offering the mayor public or private sector jobs to encourage him to drop out. John Catsimatidis, a billionaire grocery and oil magnate in New York, said in an interview that he had spoken with Mr. Trump about the race on Sunday and expected the shape of the contest could change in the coming days. “He’s very concerned,” Mr. Catsimatidis said of the president. “How do they say it, this is for all the tea in China. This is serious.” Any move by the Trump administration could be explosive in a deeply Democratic city like New York, where the president remains unpopular.
Most senior Republicans in Washington like the idea of a Mamdani victory, seeing him as a useful foil with which to paint the entire Democratic Party, in what is shaping up to be a rocky midterms climate. But Mr. Trump is not most Republicans. Despite switching his residence to Florida in 2019, he owns property in New York and is empathetic to some wealthy New Yorkers’ concerns. He also still considers New York home, and has marveled at how he fared better in the 2024 election in the city than he did in either of his previous races. Intermediaries for Mr. Trump have been in touch with the associates of Mr. Adams, a Democrat running as an independent, about the possibility of leaving the race, according to two of the people briefed on the discussions.
Despite their shared party affiliation, Mr. Trump has fewer connections to Mr. Sliwa. The founder of the Guardian Angels, Mr. Sliwa has a history of bucking his party and has repeatedly said he has no interest in a job in Washington. Nonetheless, people in Mr. Trump’s orbit have talked about whether Mr. Sliwa might be amenable to a federal job, according to two people briefed on the conversations.



NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been reluctant to abandon his bid for reelection — but an influential post in President Donald Trump’s administration could incentivize him to bow out and make it easier to halt Zohran Mamdani’s rise.

Adams has been offered a position at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to a person with direct knowledge of the offer who was granted anonymity to speak candidly about a sensitive matter.


The mayor, who has a friendly working and political relationship with Trump, met with the president’s team during his visit Monday to Florida, the person said.
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An update on this, leading New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is now challenging President Trump to a debate, accusing Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo of being Trump's middle men

nypost.com

Exclusive | Zohran Mamdani challenges President Trump to public debate: ‘Let’s cut out the middle man’

The dare came after ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo called on the Queens socialist to debate him five times — once in each borough — during a press conference Thursday.
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UtakataNoAnnex said:
I mean it would suck if this was found out to be just a fishing vessel they just made an example of...


/bleh
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One thing that we know for sure is that this boat was not drug running to the United States. First, it was 1300 miles from the United States. You can't get 1300 miles in a fast boat. If it originated in Venezuela, it would not get much further than Aruba. Secondly, if this were a drug-running boat, there would not be 11 people on board; there would be 2 at most. What if these were people fleeing Maduro's Venezuela? Trump just murdered them in cold blood.

I was surprised by how muted the reaction to this unprecedented extrajudicial killing has been. Trump is taking a page out of the playbook of his favorite country. Label any group you want to get rid of, and you can kill them with impunity.

Venezuela has never been known to be a source of fentanyl that is killing Americans. It is a source of cocaine, a recreational drug that I bet is popular with many in Trump's orbit. Don Jr. has been rumored to be a cokehead.
 
They hypocrisy of this all is that countries make drugs that by and large are shipped to consumers in the United States. Thus, the problem is not really with other counties but with them...but of coarse they like to point fingers at everyone except for themselves. So even if this boat is as it what was claimed to be, sinking the suppliers is never going resolve anything here outside this administration saying really stupid things about it in the photo ops.

...and it goes without saying, there should be special places in Hell made for those involved in snuffing out lives without due process and in cold blood, IMO.
 

Adams Considers Dropping Out of Race After Secret Meeting in Florida

Mayor Eric Adams of New York City has told confidants that he would consider abandoning his re-election bid. President Trump said he favored a “one on one” mayoral race.

Facing a swirl of questions about a potential job in the Trump administration, Mayor Eric Adams of New York City stood outside City Hall on Thursday and suggested he was not going anywhere.

But in private, Mr. Adams has told a small group of friends and advisers that he is seriously considering job opportunities that could prompt him to suspend his re-election campaign, according to people familiar with the conversations.

The talks about Mr. Adams’s future have involved intermediaries for President Trump, including Steve Witkoff, a New York real estate investor who is one of Mr. Trump’s closest advisers. The mayor and Mr. Witkoff conferred in Florida this week in a previously undisclosed meeting, according to four people briefed on it.

The meeting was a closely guarded secret. City Hall said at first that the mayor was attending to a “personal matter”; Mr. Adams’s campaign spokesman then asserted the mayor was in Miami to celebrate his 65th birthday. Pressed later, Mr. Adams said only that he was meeting with “political figures,” including the mayor of Miami.


The talks about Mr. Adams’s future have involved intermediaries for President Trump, including Steve Witkoff, a New York real estate investor who is one of Mr. Trump’s closest advisers. The mayor and Mr. Witkoff conferred in Florida this week in a previously undisclosed meeting, according to four people briefed on it.

The meeting was a closely guarded secret. City Hall said at first that the mayor was attending to a “personal matter”; Mr. Adams’s campaign spokesman then asserted the mayor was in Miami to celebrate his 65th birthday. Pressed later, Mr. Adams said only that he was meeting with “political figures,” including the mayor of Miami.

What exactly the two men discussed was not immediately clear, including whether Mr. Adams had been offered a position or would accept one. Even people close to Mr. Adams acknowledged it can be difficult to predict what he might do.

But several of the people, who insisted on anonymity, said that the job discussions have accelerated as the mayor’s chances of winning a second term have faded. He has faced a cloud of corruption scandals and sagging poll numbers, driven in part by the Trump administration’s February move to abandon a corruption case against Mr. Adams so he could help implement its immigration agenda.

Mr. Trump, a native New Yorker whose voter registration is now in Florida, has taken an intense interest in the race for mayor since the Democratic primary in June, when Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist state assemblyman, won an upset victory over former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

The New York Times and other media outlets reported on Wednesday that intermediaries for Mr. Trump had been in touch with the mayor and his associates about a potential job in his administration. The Times reported that Trump advisers had also discussed finding a job for Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee, in hopes of creating a two-man race between Mr. Cuomo and Mr. Mamdani.

Asked at a White House event if he is trying to get a candidate out of the mayoral race, Mr. Trump said “no” and attacked Mr. Mamdani’s politics, but then appeared to confirm that he wants the field to condense and is paying close attention to the campaign.

“I don’t think you can win, unless you have one on one,” he said. “I would like to see two people drop out and have it be one on one. And I think that’s a race."

Another person close to the mayor said that Mr. Adams was considering job options that may only be available to him if he quits the race. They would not necessarily require him to resign his mayoralty before his term ends in December.

Even if Mr. Adams was to step aside, it would be an uphill fight for anyone to stop Mr. Mamdani. Most polls show the assemblyman with a comfortable lead in the heavily Democratic city, and even tacit Trump backing for Mr. Cuomo, 67, could alienate voters who disdain the president.
 
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Putting aside the fact that a sex predator is backing a sex pest in this upcoming municipal election here, he's more dangerously trying to stack the deck where ever he can that favours him where elections are involved. Anything from eliminating the competition to redistricting to sending in the military on polling stations and what not. Why play fair when you know by all indicators that you'll probably lose? /bleh
 
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced from the backyard of Gracie Mansion, the Mayor's residence, in NYC, that he is staying in the race and running for re-election. This follows much speculation that he would accept a job in the Trump administration as the Trump administration attempts to narrow the race in favour of Andrew Cuomo against leading candidate, Zohran Mamdani. The Mayor stated that ''Andrew Cuomo is a snake and a liar…he has a history of pushing black candidates out of races. This is his career and this must stop, with me.” The mayor also argued he is running against "two silver spoon candidates... they are not like us.... I'm going to beat Mandani... Do you want a working class mayor, or one of the two elitist?" After this he walked away from the micrphone and took no questions...
 
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UtakataNoAnnex said:
Putting aside the fact that a sex predator is backing a sex pest in this upcoming municipal election here, he's more dangerously trying to stack the deck where ever he can that favours him where elections are involved. Anything from eliminating the competition to redistricting to sending in the military on polling stations and what not. Why play fair when you know by all indicators that you'll probably lose? /bleh
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I still think that the ultimate GOP dirty trick would be to shift from popular vote to counties won as a determinant of victory--landslides forever...
 
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