Authoritarian clown show
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The Eric Adams fiasco illustrates just how openly brazen Trump’s authoritarian thuggishness has become:
Apparently the White Trash Mafia thinks that the way you run the Prisoner’s Dilemma is to put the prisoners all together so they can figure out whether or not it makes sense to defect.
Meanwhile:
You’ve done a man’s job, Scotten.
Let’s hope that Kathy Hochul will still do a woman’s. If Hochul removes Adams, all incentives for Trump’s bottomlessly corrupt DOJ leadership to dismiss the indictment against him instantly disappear. A man who can no longer do you a service is no longer a friend, to quote Vito Corleone and/or Carl Schmitt.