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Setting aside the fact that we could easily imprison murders and rapists in our own country (because we have done it already in literally all 50 states).............. Congratulations, you got me again, well done. Getting back to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, why did he need to be sent to a torture prison run by a dictator in Central America exactly? And does keeping people up past the point of exhaustion, forcing them to kneel between the hours 2100 and 0600, striking them when they fall, and denying them bathroom access / allowing themselves to soil themselves seem out of character for said dictator? You seem evasive on this question....

Congratulations, you got me sir. Which murder or rape did Kilmar Abrego Garcia commit, exactly? That's news to me.

1.) Do you think Donald Trump is immune from prosecution? 2.) This Supreme Court, in large part because of that particular ruling, has breached the trust that I had in it. Am I supposed to just suck it up and swallow whatever they say after that?

Oh well, that solves it then.... seriously, this ****ing Supreme Court? The one that gave us Trump v. US last year? Case closed, lol

I am advocating for due process. Shipping people who commit immigration infractions who have no ties whatsoever to South Sudan to South Sudan is pretty much the opposite of that. Aside from that, we have plenty of murderers and child rapists locked up in our own country. Is your position that we are unable to lock up murderers and child rapists who commit infractions in the United States... in the United States? I don't get your argument.

There have been a few reported cases of actual US citizens being deported on account of this administration. Regardless of their tenacity, I don't know how you defend that. Yet they seem to get away with it.

Have you considered that voters might looking at the positions that Trump is currently taking and might not like them? See, OBBB

Why should people who have no ties to South Sudan whatsoever be shipped to South Sudan?

Why couldn't they be sent to Leavenworth, Kansas?

This is where I lose @GalagaGuy. I honestly have no idea whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the most perfect human being on the planet. But I can tell you right now that I do not support this government going and snatching people up and shipping them to foreign countries with no due process. Regardlelss of whether they are great human beings or not. I don't have to apporve of everything about Kilmar Abrego Garcia 100% sympathetic for me to believe that is anti-American and wrong.

I think you can support deporting illegal immigrants without approving of sending them to El Salvador and South Sudan and Djibouti.

To be clear, knowing the nature of the Nayib Bukele and the El Salvadorean government, does keeping people up past the point of exhaustion, forcing them to kneel between the hours 2100 and 0600, striking them when they fall, and denying them bathroom access / allowing themselves to soil themselves seem out of character? You can guarantee to me that every single person in CECOT is not being treated this way?

To be clear, there are many more individuals that we have deported to CECOT beyond Kilmar Abrego Garcia. @GalagaGuy, does Garcia's counsel's statement seem out of line with what all CECOT deportees might be experiencing? Does that surprise you in any way shape or form given what we know about CECOT, Nayib Bukele or the current government of El Salvador?

If given the option of believing counsel for Kilmar Abrego Garcia or Nayib Bukele, tell me who you would believe

Speaking of advocacy, do you advocate for this kind of treatment?

Garcia, by virtue of being the one CECOT inmate that's been shipped back, has documented conditions in CECOT that are inhumane and cruel. The arguments about whatever trumped up charges this government has brought against him are beside the point. CECOT is a concentration camp and, apparently, our government is OK shipping people there. It is unacceptable

Regardless of feelings on Zohran Mamdani, like, wtf Sorry Cody, but I gave up my subscription to The Athletic because of this ****

The way this is going to mess with Medicaid is going to cause a lot of stress, and it will absolutely result in hospitals in rural areas closing. That's pretty much baked in. God have mercy on their souls, because I do not.

Again, having watched BJ operate in Chicago for a few years now, I'm going to take the way under on Mamdani being anywhere near as bad as BJ. Just an otherworldly incompetent politician.... Pritzker has had to bail his ass out so many times.

It's worth noting that AOC was about as vocally supportive as anybody of Joe Biden as the walls were caving in post-debate last year. So I think she's more of a team player than you are giving her credit for.

Cuomo's campaign and backers employed a ton of scare tactics against this guy over the past month or two and that resulted in *checks notes* Mamdani overachieving against the polls and ending up with a relatively comfortable win. I do not see how Eric Adams, potentially with a split field, makes up the math. Especially when Eric Adams is also a wildly unpopular figure who is tied to a wildly unpopular President.

You will get some messaging tonight from Eric Adams, as well as Trump's team, that they are eager to make this a race, but Mamdani's win was pretty strong here tonight, he's likely to end up getting well above 50% when RCV are tabulated, and in a place with the partisan breakdown that New York has, that's just hard to overcome, barring some other epochal change down the road.

I'm definitely not sure that all of Cuomo's voters automatically go to Mamdani, I'm sure he'll get some but not all. But the math for Cuomo to run as an independent, especially with Adams and Sliwa in the race, is also very very difficult. Brass tacks, Mamdani would likely get a majority (if not a significant majority) of Democratic voters in an overwhelming Democratic city, with multiple other candidates fighting over the rest. The math isn't mathing.

The math would be very very difficult for Adams in a three or four way race, especially given all of the baggage and that his approval rating is in the toilet with New Yorkers