... The Justice Department on Monday ordered federal prosecutors to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, arguing in a remarkable departure from longstanding norms ...

Well, yeah.

Apparently, Mayor Adams kissed the most ample derriere of Pres Trump to make this happen.

So, is this a surprise?

@#4 ... Not nice to talk about Danni or the LWN Florida wives of the Retort like that Teflon. ...

I see no reference to Danni in this thread at this point.

What speak of ye?

@#5 ... Or Yav, the little fella either.

Nor do I see any reference to Yav in this thread.

Were comments deleted?

Or might you just be having a bad night? Wish I knew.

What's up?

@#9 ... Gaslighter they must have you plonked if you can't see their posts. ...

OK, I don't "plonk" anyone here. I always want to see everyone's opinion.

That aside, I do not know what happens if I "plonk" an alias.

Do the message numbers change?

If the message numbers before plonking were 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5

And I plonked the alias that submitted the #3 comment, does the #4 comment now become #3?

OK, let me do an experiment ...

Please stand by ...

OK, this is tough. I guess my first question is ... how do I plonk someone?

I don't see a "plonk" option when I click on an alias.

@#15 ... No, the post will be gone, so the numbers will be missing.

Yup.

I figured out the whole "kill file" thing.

I put an alias I respect into the kill file. And when I visited the threads, the numbers were no longer sequential, but skipped the numbers of the posts that the kill-file alias had posted.

So, my conclusion is that if an alias in in your kill-file, the message numbers of the thread do not change. You may see missing message numbers.

OK, going back to the cause of all this effort ...

#9

Hey Gracie, WTF are you talking about?

Stated differently, and more diplomatically ...

I had always read your comments with a certain amount of gravitas, but now with this episode, your alias seems to be wandering into intentional deception.

Did I misinterpret your comment?

If so, how?

thx.

More from the article...

... Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove sent a memo instructing prosecutors in the Southern District of New York to abandon the charges.

"You are directed, as authorized by the Attorney General, to dismiss the pending charges," Bove wrote in a memo Monday, adding that the department "reached this conclusion without assessing the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which the case is based," and "in no way calls into question the integrity and efforts" of the prosecutors who brought the case. ...

I had suspected this might have been the reason why Mayor Adams was kissing Pres Trump's most ample derriere recently.