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View submission: ‘Sovereign’ Status of Manhattan Federal Prosecutor Hangs in the Balance
"I am the mayor, and I lack the props of a mayor. I am a disembodied ghost. Here I am with a great many typical characteristics, many strong characteristics which have not disappeared throughout my life, decades of martyrdom and wandering, and at the same time I lack the props which characterize every mayor.
I ask today: 'What are the Poles? What are the French? What are the Swiss?' When that is asked, everyone points to a country, to certain institutions, to parliamentary institutions, and the man in the street will know exactly what it is. He has a passport.
If you ask who Eric Adams is - well, he is a man who has to offer a long explanation for his existence, and any person who has to offer an explanation as to what he is, is always suspect - and from suspicion there is only one step to hatred or contempt."
-NYC Mayor Eric Adams on his legal troubles.
Comment by Famous-Alps5704 at 03/02/2025 at 16:08 UTC
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Is this from something? Polite applause if not