Liberals are idealists who believe in a titanic moral struggle between good and evil, in their mind the USSR “losing the Cold War” was a divine punishment from the cosmos for their negative gommulist 1984 karma. Quite literally magical thinking

The NYPD International Liason Program enters into obligations on behalf of the NYPD and represents the NYPD in foreign affairs. That’s not even remotely the same thing as entering into international treaties on behalf of the US. Sure, it’s US influence, but that’s influence that’s sanctioned by the feds, or else it wouldn’t be happening. NYPD pigs aren’t diplomats, the ILP is an international influence/intelligence op not a consular program. Officially the imperial footholds are cutting deals with the NYPD. It doesn’t give the NYPD the power to adopt the Rome statute on behalf of the federal government. If your boss sends you on a business trip to represent your department you don’t become the CEO of the company.

these are people who are not whatsoever skeptical of what the media tells them; they legit believe the bullshit they hear on CNN or CBC or whatever.

Hey wait a minute now, they do get extremely angry at the media whenever they accidentally imply that the Chinese or Russians might not be ontologically evil untermenschen, angry enough that they whip out the Protocols of the Elders of Beijing

A head of state is considered a diplomatic official, as well as everyone he’s with, unless they are not government officials. If the mayor of a city could have a foreign head of state arrested on an official visit, then the entire diplomatic system would break down.

2 FAM 232.5(a)

Foreign heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers enjoy immunity from criminal and civil jurisdiction during their terms of office^[1].

Also:

Sitting heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers are absolutely immune from suit during their terms of office. Head-of-state immunity is a status-based immunity (immunity ratione personae) that attaches to these officials while they occupy these positions “to ensure the effective performance of their functions on behalf of their respective States.”^[2]

What this means is that no arrest warrant would be enforceable, including the ICC warrant because the US is not a party to the Rome statute, and you can write as many jaywalking tickets to Satanyahu as you wish but he has no obligation to ever show up to court.

At most, the government can expel him from the country. The federal government, not NYC. If Mamdani took any independent action he would be committing multiple capital offenses relating to defying the authority of the federal government. I mean, he probably wouldn’t actually be sentenced to death, but I don’t think he’s going to choose life in federal prison in exchange for what would at most amount to a stunt.

TLDR: it would be even more illegal for Mamdani to have Satanyahu arrested than for any random person on the street to try.

If Trump doesn’t stop Trumping we’ll be back next time with snippier signs!

Well-off white liberals, the primary organizers behind this, go to protests as social events and as a break from their military contractor jobs. It’s no wonder they celebrated when SDPD called them good boys on twitter.

Heads of state have diplomatic immunity

Redditors are the state department’s loyalest good-boy chihuahuas ready to bark about Russia at the drop of a hat, zero evidence required

Unfortunately that would require the conservatives to be right and for him to be the second coming of Mao

Yeah it’s not happening, the mayor of New York can’t just order someone’s arrest on an international warrant issued by an authority the US doesn’t recognize, or order anybody’s arrest period. Mamdani can’t enter into obligations on behalf of the US. If he could that would mean giving a mayor the power to represent the country in foreign affairs, or to put it another way, handing over national sovereignty to NYC. Obviously, there is no legal framework for this. The only even remotely plausible path is for the NYC DA (who is not Mamdani) to indict Satanyahu for crimes that occurred within the jurisdiction of NYC, and have a NYC judge issue a warrant, two things that are not going to happen, because of the elephant in the room: diplomatic immunity. If Mamdani ordered Satanyahu’s arrest he would essentially be leading NYC as a rogue city attempting to exercise the powers of a state - legally speaking, rebelling against the authority of the federal government. He would be serving his head to Trump on a golden platter, with the latter’s DOJ indicting him on multiple capital offenses.

If he touches Satanyahu he will be at the very least spending the rest of his life in federal prison, if he doesn’t just get JFK’d (legally! after being sentenced to death)

TLDR: Attempting to arrest Satanyahu could end up with Mamdani being executed by firing squad

apart from the description of an actual event, there’s like one single sentence worth of coherent points buried in all the excessively verbose and obtuse rambling

Yeah that’s mandatory for all NYT articles

> new method to analyze personality traits

> look inside

> scientific racism

For every match they lose they have to push the train 1km further

How does LMM have time for this when he should be working on his next musical about Nazi Germany where the Nazis are played by Jews and Roma?

:the-democrat: We will establish a committee to evaluate the possibility of holding a vote at some point within the next five years to extend partial ACA tax credits for two months to Pell-grant recipients between the ages of 67 and 80 who operate a small business with at least 3 disabled parking spaces in a disadvantaged community located in an odd-numbered district for three years, and which has for at least two of those years donated between 1.5% and 2.5% of revenue to specified charities to be designated pending the formation of a special committee to evaluate the practicality of conducting a feasibility study investigating the expenses relating to the publication of such a list, following an audit to be conducted by designated third-party representatives, who shall be selected and confirmed by a committee to be formed pending a formal vote, which shall be initiated by a formal request to enter the audit slot lottery submitted on a form printed on agency letterhead, sent by certified mail and postmarked on or before the 8th day of the month on which it is mailed.

The pendulum is going to keep swinging back and forth between vapid democrat HOPE^TM and CHANGE^TM and Trump clones until the climate death of the earth. Enjoy the ride, the spectacle!

Per the NYCrimes

It contains something that many Democrats were quietly pressing for: a provision that would call federal workers who were laid off during the shutdown back to their jobs. It also would provide funds to ensure that federal workers who were furloughed during the shutdown can receive retroactive pay.

lol they’re trying so hard to pretend they got literally anything out of this shutdown. Hooray! We got concessions to address the effects of the shutdown that would not have existed were it not for the shutdown. Amazing win for the people!

The short-term spending bill would additionally bar the Office of Management and Budget from implementing any additional mass layoffs of federal workers through Jan. 30.

Did you hear that? They’re going to have to wait 2 entire months!

The shutdown never-surrender shtick served its purpose for the elections, now that that’s over with it’s time to wind down.

lol they “left a message” for a senator’s public number that gets probably 100k calls a day? Literally screaming into the void. Zero difference from yelling at a wall in your house, except that if you did that your neighbors might hear you instead of nobody

US puppets playing ball

They weren’t wearing glasses and misread it as “yassification”