It’s not hard for the feds to illegally imprison someone. We have a political dissident illegally locked up under house arrest for bringing a lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger

Honestly, if NYC voted to secede from the state, it would probably be pretty popular. Albany doesn’t even pretend to view us as anything more than a piggy bank at this point.

Your mistake is thinking the Democratic Party is trying to get members elected. Their primary goal is to keep the top brass in positions of power and then to keep their donors making money.

That second one is true of every political party, they just have different ways of going about it.

Depends on the publication’s editorial guidelines with respect to what words are censored and how. Probably not the author’s choice.

If he’s really a narcissist they’re not crocodile tears, he legitimately feels bad. That he is facing consequences.

The important thing is that we remain civil and use inclusive language while we discuss whether or not an entire population including children, non combatants, and international aid workers should be stripped of human rights and murdered.