"... what other Democrats across the nation are also learning: Crime and the economy are crowding out abortion rights and the former president’s troubles as top of mind issues for voters. The New York governor is responding with a last-minute shift in approach just weeks ahead of the election by promoting her efforts to create jobs and fight crime. 'You deserve to feel safe,' Hochul says in a new TV ad released Saturday as part of a $1 million-plus buy in New York City. 'And as your governor, I won’t stop working until you do.'"
"You deserve to feel safe... I won’t stop working until you do" — Shouldn't it be "You deserve to be safe... I won’t stop working until you are"? I know politics is just about how we feel, but if you want people to feel safe, you've got to convince them that they are safe, and giving it away that you are just going after their feelings gives the brain a bit of a chance to notice that this is nothing but an effort at emotional manipulation.
Here's that last-minute-desperate shift ad:
I made a new tag for Lee Zeldin. I will disclose that that represents a bet that he will win. I don't like tag proliferation, but I also don't like needing to go back and add tags to old posts.
She has been the governor for over a year and now she is realizing that crime is a major problem in New York? How stupid to you have to be to vote Democrat in New York?
"You deserve to feel safe... I won’t stop working until you do" — Shouldn't it be "You deserve to be safe... I won’t stop working until you are"?"
Not really, no. Certainly not for Dems. Feelings about Donald Trump and systemic racism and climate change swamp any rational thought.
"I know politics is just about how we feel"
Correct. Especially for people who don't hold any definite beliefs. People who vote mainly based on how they feel about a person.
"but if you want people to feel safe, you've got to convince them that they are safe."
In fact, most white and Asian people outside big Dem cities are pretty safe. But even people who are safe may want government to deliver law and order.
I thought it was foolish for the Supreme Court to come out with its decision when Democrats controlled everything. Now it looks like they were wise or clever. So many other things are wrong with the country right now that pro-abortion forces can't get any political traction.
Democrat voters might just be smart enough to realize that federal legislation about abortion won't pass the recent Dobbs ruling. Congress had 50 years to legislate Roe, and didn't. The issue, used solely to energize the base of each party for 50 years at the federal level, now gets resolved by state legislatures.
Hochul is stuck being appraised on her actual job performance. She might still win, but it will be a Pyrrhic victory as far as the issue of abortion goes.
"... what other Democrats across the nation are also learning: Crime and the economy are crowding out abortion rights and the former president’s troubles as top of mind issues for voters.
Slow learners. Youngkin showed the way 12 months ago. Democrats, living in their self constructed silo, never saw it.
Someone (maybe here) pointed out parents are showing a ?35% polling preference to Republican vs Democrat.
Crime, inflation, school choice. All things parents have at the top of their daily concerns. Democrats ignore or deflect the concern of parents.
Abortion, which they will get a chance to vote on every two years. But all these other things???Dems are ignoring.
Yes, slavery, diversity [dogma], and human rites have always been secondary considerations to progressive prices (e.g. redistributive change) and availability (e.g. every child left behind).
That said, keep women, and girls, affordable, available, and taxable, and the “burden” h/t Obama of evidence (“our Posterity”, demos-cracy) aborted, cannibalized, sequestered in darkness h/t WaPo.
And Republicans aren’t all about feelings and emotional manipulation?
Just because they don’t live in reality isn’t an excuse for them being as manipulative as they come.
Abortion rights vs. crime and the economy… Hmmm. Well forced gestation and forced birth is pretty criminal. And only someone who never talked to a woman or burns with absolute hatred toward them would detach forced gestation and forced births from economic deprivation.
The Party of the Incels needs to update and change its name to more accurately reflect its GQP Troll Party USA nature.
A Hochul loss would be a stunner, if only that the Democrat Party failed to bake in a sufficient margin of fraud.
But there's still time. Just need to impress some more vote harvesters into service, and increase the fake ballot supply.
I reckon this is why all of these articles are appearing now, clanging a firebell to all comrades.
Of course, a Hochul loss would simply provide Chiquita Khrushchev (D-NY 14th District) the opening to claim they lost because they haven't gone far enough Left.
I don’t remember any mass defunding of the police taking place. But since you bring it up, how would you characterize the use of their funding? Are they making as good a use of it as the mental and social institutions that the right successfully demanded to DEFUND?
In any event, don’t feel so bad. The right demanded to ARM THE MASS SHOOTERS and thanks to massive funding by the only recently bankrupted NRA, the FedSoc, and two stolen Supreme Court nominations, they’ve gotten their wish.
The right has armed the mass shooters, proliferated guns into the hands of every psychopath and invented an individual second amendment right to apply to every felon, convict and lunatic.
But that’s how it goes. You can’t deny rights to lunatics and criminals if your GQP Troll Party USA is literally chock full of them.
hpudding: "I don’t remember any mass defunding of the police taking place."
Yes, that does seem to be the latest and greatest talking point of the democraticals now that the reality of their Defunding the Police calls, election of Soros "prosecutors" and corrupted judges can no longer be denied.
hpudding, given that the entirety of the New Soviet Democratical Party was calling for Defunding the Police at the top of their lungs for years now, and the fact the DNC-aligned media "credibility" (yes, I wrote "DNC-aligned media" and "credibility" in the same sentence!) has completely collapsed across the board, and rightfully so, do you really think your old schtick of going Full 1984 and Attempted Mass Hypnosis ("we never said those things we said every day for years....oooooohhhhh") will be effective going forward?
You guys are certainly giving it the old college try with your inflation denying, recesssion denying, high gas prices denying, grooming denying, (insert all other ___-denying here).
Its a bold strategy. Let's see if it pays off for you.
Pro tip: You might want to add another 15 to 20 "incels" blurbs per comment in order to improve your chances of muddying the content of the thread.
But that’s how it goes. You can’t deny rights to lunatics and criminals if your GQP Troll Party USA is literally chock full of them.
"You Cannot Reason People Out of Something They Were Not Reasoned Into." J Swift.
The Democrat Party has descended into lunacy and you seem to be one more example. "Defund the Police" is a popular slogan on the left. Many leftist cities, like Seattle and Minneapolis have tried it. Now the lunatic governor of New York is trying to reverse herself.
Living in NY, even in my reddish upstate county, everybody knows that Albany (governor, state senate, state legislature) will be deep blue until the heat death of the universe, so nobody's really talking about the election. I completely forgot there was a US Senate race, Schumer vs. some black Republican guy who has zero chance of winning.
The Party of the Incels needs to update and change its name to more accurately reflect its GQP Troll Party USA nature.
Gee, these bots almost sound human, don't they? (No, not really.)
She has been the governor for over a year and now she is realizing that crime is a major problem in New York? How stupid to you have to be to vote Democrat in New York?
No crime was the rote catechism of the left. I distinctly remember, The Five, did a 'crime' block about once a week. One of the rotating progressives they had was Jaun Williams. Everytime the The Five shed light on the rising crime rate and the Soros DA's insane policies, Jaun would dutifully declare there was NO increase in crime. Just crime as usual. Any progressive to voice concern about crime, would have meant instant excommunication. ie, no invites to good cocktail parties.
New Yorkers vote their demographics. Only 55 percent of the state is White, and that includes a large number of Jews and Middle easterners who vote Democrat. The 13 percent that's African American will vote 80-20 Democrat. If you do the math, the Republican will have to win the White, upstate vote in a landslide to win. Will that happen?
I am still sticking to my prediction- the Democrats win the Senate seats in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and retain all their present seats. They will win all the governorships they hold today, pick up Arizona and Georgia, and Ron DeSantis and Marco Rubio will taken down in a month of vote counting in the big blue counties under court order and enforced by the FBI and federal marshals. If the senate races are close (under 3%) in Ohio and Iowa, they will count votes in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and Des Moine until they win those seats, too. The Democrats are playing for keeps now- the Rubicon was crossed in 2020.
Political ads are pure propaganda, but they're interesting to watch, and I've noticed a qualitative difference in them. Ads by Republicans against Democrats focus on issues, and frankly can be a bit corny. Ads by Democrats against Republicans focus on the person, the opponent, whom they portray as immoral--these ads are chilling to watch. It's as if Republicans believe Democrats have bad policies, and Democrats believe Republicans are bad people.
That caught in my brain as well. "You deserve to feel safe."
And that pretty much characterizes how people on the left are motivated. They are moved by what they feel, more than what they see or actually experience. More than data, more than facts, how things make you feel is how they rate their priorities. This is an example of feelings over action. Are you better off feeling safe or being safe? There is an obvious answer.
The disconnect comes when the left rates their priorities by how it makes them feel and project that onto the greater society. But what happens when the greater society does not feel the same way about, oh...drag queen story hours? And wonder why it's even being discussed when they're reading about someone getting pushed in front of a subway train and being told it doesn't happen very often, so don't worry?
This is why the left from Biden to Yellen to Hochul to Newsom to Brooks cannot understand anything about the pulse of America and the people doing the hard work every day, and Donald Trump, much to their dismay, can.
Shouldn’t it tell you something, that Zeldin knew already what issues were “top of mind” for NY voters, and the sitting governor (& probably lifelong pol) didn’t pivot (kind word, what do they call that when a Republican does it?) until she saw polling? Emblematic probably of her leadership and political instincts……
I would like to seer lose, but at best I think it will be like the recent NJ gov race. Much closer than normal, but the D will win by 3 or so. The demographics of New York state have changed so much since R Reagan won NY state twice in 1980 and 1984. Heck, Reagan even one NJ twice. That America no longer exists.
The right has armed the mass shooters, proliferated guns into the hands of every psychopath and invented an individual second amendment right to apply to every felon, convict and lunatic.
But that’s how it goes. You can’t deny rights to lunatics and criminals if your GQP Troll Party USA is literally chock full of them.
Whatever Hochul has done to make New Yorkers "feel safe" doesn't seem to have been very effective. Pretty much like NYC Mayor Eric Adams (in office since Jan 1) who campaigned on promises to "make the city safer" and apparently hasn't done anything very effective either.
You can run ads all day long, but when people look at the news they know it's all BS.
"Crime and the economy are crowding out abortion rights and the former president’s troubles as top of mind issues for voters.
Well 1: Needing an abortion is something that almost entirely under your control 2: The NY State Legislature isn't going to pass laws banning abortions 3: Donald Trump isn't President, Joe Biden* "is". And the Biden* Admin has brought high gas prices, high inflation, an utterly screwed up supply chain, and a recession
The New York governor is responding with a last-minute shift in approach just weeks ahead of the election by promoting her efforts to create jobs and fight crime. 'You deserve to feel safe,' Hochul says in a new TV ad released Saturday as part of a $1 million-plus buy in New York City. 'And as your governor, I won’t stop working until you do.'"
This ad is going to hurt her with voters. "You deserve to feel safe": yes, that's correct " I won’t stop working until you do": You've done jack shit to make me feel safe, and refused to actually take any positive steps. If you'd done ANYTHING to actually make us safer, you'd talk about it in your ad. But you don't, because you haven't. And won't, if you do win the election
"You deserve to feel safe... I won’t stop working until you do" — Shouldn't it be "You deserve to be safe... I won’t stop working until you are"? No, because she doesn't want you to actually be safe. That would require throwing criminals in jail and keeping them theirs nd they is verboten to the people Hochul actually cares about. Almost all of whom have private security to keep THEM safe
I'm beginning to think that the polls aren't BS, and Zelda might actually have a chance. What makes me believe that is that Hochul clearly now believes that
hpudding said... And Republicans aren’t all about feelings and emotional manipulation? Not nearly so much as the Democrats It comes from actually caring about reality. See the "trans" delusion for what happens when you value fantasy over reality
Just because they don’t live in reality isn’t an excuse for them being as manipulative as they come. You're talking about the Democrats here. You should have marked that switch
Abortion rights vs. crime and the economy… Hmmm. Well forced gestation and forced birth is pretty criminal. Yep, it's called "rape".
And Democrat policies have made more of those happen. It's one of the many things the Republicans are fighting to fix
And only someone who never talked to a woman or burns with absolute hatred toward them would detach forced gestation and forced births from economic deprivation. Which is why we oppose rape
Why is it that you Democrats are in favor of rape?
(Events that come about as the rational result of your freely made choices are, by definition, not "forced". We all know this)
@hpudding: Well forced gestation and forced birth is pretty criminal. And only someone who never talked to a woman or burns with absolute hatred toward them would detach forced gestation and forced births from economic deprivation.
It is true beyond debate that you eventually will die either by some form of homicide, or natural cause. There is no other option. And until your death, during your entire life from conception, that has been irrevocably true.
So, to put a precise label on it, abortion is a form of homicide. Which, when premeditated, is *always* criminal. Yet, for some reason, what would be first degree murder in any other circumstance, gets a bye if it happens during pregnancy.
Of course, the counter to that is that women cannot enjoy the autonomy men posses without access to abortion. Except there is a fatal flaw hiding there. Women do not enjoy autonomy as a class, but rather individually.
At the individual level there are all manner of situations that entail great personal sacrifices in both time and money. A spouse suffers a debilitating stroke, and lingers for years. An adult child with severe depression. Similar examples severely compromising individual autonomy could fill entire comment boxes without taxing the imagination.
For each of those examples, though, homicide to regain autonomy is punished. Yet murdering an unborn baby isn't.
Yancey Ward: "Puddinghead ain't listening even to Hochul herself."
hpudding is having a bad day/week/month.
Recall he/she/xe spent the early summer months pinging off the usual democratical/legacy media fake polls which "showed" (LOL) the republicans collapsing, falling far behind the New Soviet Democraticals, etc.
This happens every single election cycle. But only every single election cycle.
This effort is always designed to pump up democratical enthusiasm to increase donations to democraticals and attempt to demoralize republicans.
The good news, as always, for the democraticals is how many GOPe-ers are always at the ready to assist the democraticals in their efforts. McConnell is doing his part for Team Dem, as was (they don't seem to be doing it quite so much at the moment) the old McCainiac Machine Ducey-ites in Arizona, the typical Bushy/Romney types across the board, Lindsay Graham, the Raffensberger crew in GA, etc.
However, by the Fall the fake pollsters on the left, which includes the Fox News polling outfit run by a lifelong democratical, know they have to begin to reflect some degree of reality, so little by little, their push polls and horrific poll-reading/not-polling-analysis "results" are manipulated to begin to show races tightening and, eventually, in a down democratical year like this one, show "surprising" republican strength.
hpudding's problem (at least one of them): he/she/xe actually BELIEVED the inevitable and repeated polling lies and he/she/xe based alot of his/her/xer's commentary at Althouse on those fake polls. So now that reality has hit him/her/xer in the head like a sack of taters, hpudding is flailing and, in my opinion, simply phoning in his/her/xer's weak missives.
"feel" is the right word for Progressives these days. Remember when we were told that inflation and the recession was just in our minds, and that if we got over the feeling of inflation and recession, they wouldn't be happening. Same with crime, until you get mugged by reality.
Meh. Not a chance in Hell of any of these Blue states electing a Republican to statewide office.
I thought the Democrats made it very clear in 2020 that they have the means to subvert the wishes of legitimate voters. Odd that anyone thinks that apparatus has been retired two short years later. If anything, it’s been reinforced.
Biden is on video saying that defunding the police is not the answer, several times.
No shit. What in the hell do you think we were saying during the summer/fall of 2020 when you idiots not only demanded to defund the police, but actually did it in major cities across the U.S?
This level of dishonesty is stunning. Even for you.
"You deserve to feel safe... I won’t stop working until you do" — Shouldn't it be "You deserve to be safe... I won’t stop working until you are"?
But that would be admitting that crime is a problem. Democrats won't acknowledge the problem. The real subtext there is that crime isn't a genuine problem. It's just that those far-right racist Republicans have duped you into feeling unsafe.
I'm sure the Hochul ad is entertaining in its own way but the real 'news' in this post is that Lee Zeldin is a man-- all this time I figured that he was a woman.
I guess it is time to begin attending to Politics. Saw some hack on Twitter speculating that there's a real chance that Oregon will return three Republicans (we've got one now and six congressional districts beginning in 2023) to the House during Election Fortnight and that the awful Tina will lose the Demos the Governor's Mansion.
Biden is on video saying that defunding the police is not the answer, several times.
Mr Biden is also on video, more than once, saying, "Not must won't been this raised need personal out sign" but not a soul has taken that to be a confirmation of anything other than that he is in the throes of the onset of senile dementia, poor fellow.
hpudding talks about"forced gestation and forced birth [as] pretty criminal."
I am (1) a woman and (2) do not burn with hatred toward women, but there are alternatives to forced gestation and forced birth: (3) birth control and (4) abstinence.
Are women so helpless and feeble-minded that they can't navigate this?
Obviously a case of rape is a different state of affairs, but good Lord, all the women who talk as if abortion is their no. 1 method of birth control are full of prunes.
Biden is on video saying that defunding the police is not the answer, several times.
LOL!
Biden is on video (far more than several times) completely contradicting himself on that issue and several more.
Inga is just part of the Democrat hive mind. Democrat TV and internet ads seem really overblown lately , as if they want to make sure that she turns out to vote.
Never underestimate the ignorance and stupidity of liberal White suburban women.
Young peripheral happily sharing ultra sound at 22 weeks mildly disturbed when I informed her that the left supports chopping her baby into little pieces and selling best parts for science while the rest go in the one horsepower garbage disposal.
Abortion isn't an issue in play in New York, but it's a testament to how shallow and ignorant many voters are that they will vote on it anyway. But those voters won't need Hochul to remind them to vote Democrat, they'll vote Democrat no matter what.
Meanwhile, is anyone dumb enough to think that Hochul, who had to be dragged kicking and screaming to crime as a campaign issue will take crime seriously? Those people are already voting Democrat.
I think she'll win, but she doesn't deserve to. She'll win because it's New York and there are too many people in New York who will vote for a glass of water if it's who the Democrats field. Because they're the smart ones.
I worked with an attorney who, whenever he got a "I feel . . . " in an answer to a question he'd asked, would interrupt to say "Don't tell me what you feel, tell me what you think." I saw him use that when cross-examining expert witnesses in admin proceedings.
I pray you're right. As something like an atheist, I also am working with Moms for Zeldin (wish they'd called it parents for Zeldin but whatever) and burning remaining friendships/acquaintanceships left and right letting others in my ultra prog community know: there are other fascist, white supremacist, antisemitic, transphobic Christian extremists around, even in your local Jewish day school community. I just want them to know they're not alone. There are a lot of registered Ds actively involved in similar activities, also for the very first time as I am. I hate electoral politics and politicians even more, and I'd love to get out of this shithole prison of a city, but that's not in the cards. So we need to get that crazy witch out of office because I shudder at what this regime will resort to next.
Russia Collusion Truther and Hillary/FBI Hoax Dossier Dead Ender Inga: "Biden is on video saying that defunding the police is not the answer, several times."
tsk tsk tsk
The New Soviet Democraticals, so proud and brave and courageous and protective of our "norms" and "institutions" (except for all the ones that have to be destroyed...which is all of them) seem to be running pell mell away from all of their earlier passionately articulated positions in preparation for pulling another democratical switcho-chango in January of 2023 where they take their long held positions and assign those positions, and results, to the republicans.
Of course I like to say republicanos now given the mass migration of Latino (sorry dumb lefties, there is no such thing as a Latinx)) voters to the republican "freedom" side of the aisle. Sort of a modern day Underground Railroad for brown people rejected by the Martha's Vinyard types democraticals, which is all of the democraticals as they are either the Martha's Vinyard types or any democratical minion who follows directions unquestioningly from his/her betters...which is also all of the democraticals.
Yancey Ward said... I am still sticking to my prediction- the Democrats win the Senate seats in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and retain all their present seats.
Dems are not going to pick up any GOP Senate seats. They're going to lose AZ, NV and GA. They may lose NH, CO, and / or WA
They will win all the governorships they hold today, pick up Arizona and Georgia, and Ron DeSantis and Marco Rubio will taken down in a month of vote counting in the big blue counties under court order and enforced by the FBI and federal marshals
They will not pick up any GOP governorships. They will lose WI, will probably lose OR and PA, and may lose MI and MN.
If the Dems try the steal you mention they will be firebombed, truck bombed, and sniped until the steal attempts end.
If the senate races are close (under 3%) in Ohio and Iowa, they will count votes in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and Des Moine until they win those seats, too
Neither of these will be within 8%
The Democrats are playing for keeps now- the Rubicon was crossed in 2020.
We're playing for keeps, too. 2020 taught us that either we dont' allow the fraud, or we get screwed.
Jan 6 2021 taught us there's absolutely no point in peaceful protest. There's no reason to leave the guns at home, or worry about following the law. All there is is winning or losing.
And the Biden* Admin has taught us that we can't afford to lose.
400 million+ firearms in private hands. FI the Dems want to play Julius Caesar this year, there's plenty of us who are more than willing to play Crassus
I live in New York. I must say that the first time I saw an anti-Zeldin attack ad, I thought it was a pro -Zeldin ad. “He stood with trump. He supported the 2d amendment. He opposed all the stuff Biden had done.”
Abortion rights vs. crime and the economy… Hmmm. Well forced gestation and forced birth is pretty criminal. And only someone who never talked to a woman or burns with absolute hatred toward them would detach forced gestation and forced births from economic deprivation.
If they kept their legs closed and stopped having unprotected sex, they wouldn't have to worry about it. Nobody forced them to have sex. (usually. Of the hundreds of thousands of abortions daily, most are not from rape, but from people too lazy to use birth control) It is criminal to murder innocent babies because you are lazy.
New York State was practically a prison camp during COVID so don’t overlook Hochul’s full throated support of those policies and the news coming out about the effects of the lockdowns. Vermont was locked down for a couple of months and returned to normal pretty quickly and our Republican governor looks to be re-elected by ten points, crossing to New York was like going to another country, an Iron Curtain country.
There are literally hundreds of thousands New Yorkers who might have voted for Zeldin now living here in Florida and neighboring states. I doubt there are enough rational voters left in NY to elect a Republican.
Kathy Hochul's inner circle in Albany includes Brad Hoylman, head of State Senate Judy, who has sponsored a bill to grease the parole of every single offender over 55 who has served 15 years by granting them repeat parole hearings before the state's perversely anti-incarceration parole board, essentially gaming parole to destroy victims and free the worst of the worst.
Two consequences: every surviving victim or family member must now re-live their trauma regularly by appearing to testify under hostile conditions every other year. Their lives, and any hard-fought closure, are over.
Serial killers, serial rapists, cannibals, child rapists, cop-killers, murderers, torture-killers -- nobody is exempt from potential release. Imagine how much power this gives, not just to the bloodiest sociopaths but to criminal syndicates on the outside who can intimidate survivors into not testifying.
Screw that lying slag. For justice's sake.
This is a Working Families Party bill. Take a good look at how many purportedly moderate Democrats are WFP members. Including Schumer and AOC. The Democrats have been entirely taken over by sadistic, anti-social nutcases. Women and children and, frankly, minorities hit hardest. Not a punchline anymore.
You'd be surprised by how many men there are who raped or played with or ate their victims post-mortem who will now eventually wear down the survivors and be set free. Fox Butterfield, who never met a violent felon he didn't worship, must be feeling tingling up both legs.
Tweets like this one are more persuasive than one hundred campaign promises that “you deserve to feel safe”. You can’t feel safe when this is going on.
Ok, I was in high school pre-AIDS-going-mainstream, but here is what I heard more than once back then: "I'm afraid I might be pregnant." "Geez, didn't he use a condom?" "He won't use one - he says it doesn't feel as good." "And you can't - ?" "No, I can't get the Pill, my parents would kill me."
If this still happens, I'm going to say that "lazy" isn't always the right adjective. The high school girl who can't figure out how to get the Pill or another very reliable form of contraception for herself, and who knows on some level that the guy she loves, or thinks she loves, will not stick around if she doesn't put out but also doesn't want to be troubled with wearing that raincoat, is not being "lazy" - she's being afraid of being left. It's still a terrible excuse.
Thank you very much, Sexual Revolution, for making all the milk free and taking away just about the only currency young women held against the desires of horny young men.
Plus voters are starting to realize that trump isn’t nearly as disruptive as the democrat when in charge. Wars, halting energy production, rampant inflation, tremendous deficit spending, a covid emergency STILL ( yet no masks on Biden ), grooming children, inciting racial hatred, tagging parents as domestic terrorists, knocking down doors at 6:00am to arrest 80 year olds and fathers in front of children, their retirements down by almost 40%, political prisoners.
Ann, have you felt that Biden has been a calming POTUS?
Kathy Hochul's inner circle in Albany includes Brad Hoylman, head of State Senate Judy, who has sponsored a bill to grease the parole of every single offender over 55 who has served 15 years by granting them repeat parole hearings before the state's perversely anti-incarceration parole board, essentially gaming parole to destroy victims and free the worst of the worst.
Bored prisoners have plenty of time to plan revenge on those who testified against them. Most do not blame their lawbreaking for incarceration, they blame the witness, or the cops.
I know politics is just about how we feel, but if you want people to feel safe, you've got to convince them that they are safe, and giving it away that you are just going after their feelings gives the brain a bit of a chance to notice that this is nothing but an effort at emotional manipulation.
I always had the feeling (can't prove it) that Stephen Breyer was a high-performing sociopath. What gave me that feeling was his opinion in Stenberg v. Carhart. It's entirely possible to write about partial-birth abortion and late-term abortion without upsetting people. You just say that "liberty" shit. It's a woman's right to choose!
Breyer was simply incapable of doing that. His opinion got right down into the nitty-gritty of decapitation and dismemberment. Reading that damn thing made me a pro-lifer, no ifs, no ands, no buts.
It can be that feelings can get in your way if you're a doctor. It's no good operating on people if you start feeling stuff. "Oh, gosh, I hope I don't kill Bob, this is so important." So if you are on the sociopathic spectrum, I would encourage you to go to medical school and learn surgery, where your non-feelings will be a positive boon.
That becomes a problem, however, if our medical and legal authorities toss out the Hippocratic Oath and start decapitating babies and castrating little boys. You don't realize you're doing anything wrong, because you didn't get much of that human empathy, and all the other thinkers around you are also deranged sociopaths.
When the feelers in a society realize what you're up, you're in deep shit. That's why high-performing sociopaths typically learn to lie, lie, lie. For some reason, Justice Breyer decided he was going to be honest about what he was talking about. And that honesty, that fact-based opinion, is what me the pro-lifer I am today.
I have commonly said, “okay, that’s how you feel. Now tell me what you think”.
The distinction became clear when people would say “do you feel safer today than on 9/11?” as a knock on Bush. My response was how I felt on or before 9/11 wasn’t important. I felt perfectly safe going to my job at the Trade Center that day. I wasn’t.
Thank you very much, Sexual Revolution, for making all the milk free and taking away just about the only currency young women held against the desires of horny young men.
The masculinists are merry and gay. The feminists have leverage and a cause for-profit. The medical industrial complex has a sustainable market and supply. A wicked solution with "benefits".
Abortion rights vs. crime and the economy… Hmmm. Well forced gestation and forced birth is pretty criminal. Yep, it's called "rape".
So you agree that when the state forces a woman to carry a pregnancy to term it’s violating her in the way a rape would? I agree. Doubly so when the pregnancy was itself the result of a rape. Like that 10-year old that Ohio would have forced to birth a rapist’s fetus.
And then there’s Skipper, who mistakenly believes that methods of death are “options,” that it’s not murder to refuse to use one’s body to keep anyone needing their kidney, blood, or bone marrow to stay alive but somehow is if the body part needed is a uterus and if that entity is a fetus rather than an actual legal person. Even though refusing to sustain a fetus has never been prosecuted as murder, just as refusing to use one’s blood, bone marrow or other body parts to sustain a donor recipient has never been prosecuted as murder, either.
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Hochul doesn't win a legitimate election.
Even in New York State.
The only thing democrats have is voter fraud.
She has been the governor for over a year and now she is realizing that crime is a major problem in New York? How stupid to you have to be to vote Democrat in New York?
The left demanded to DEFUND THE POLICE.
In many large and small cities - they did.
Big Soros money installed pro-crime dems all over the nation.
"You deserve to feel safe... I won’t stop working until you do" — Shouldn't it be "You deserve to be safe... I won’t stop working until you are"?"
Not really, no. Certainly not for Dems. Feelings about Donald Trump and systemic racism and climate change swamp any rational thought.
"I know politics is just about how we feel"
Correct. Especially for people who don't hold any definite beliefs. People who vote mainly based on how they feel about a person.
"but if you want people to feel safe, you've got to convince them that they are safe."
In fact, most white and Asian people outside big Dem cities are pretty safe. But even people who are safe may want government to deliver law and order.
I thought it was foolish for the Supreme Court to come out with its decision when Democrats controlled everything. Now it looks like they were wise or clever. So many other things are wrong with the country right now that pro-abortion forces can't get any political traction.
Democrat voters might just be smart enough to realize that federal legislation about abortion won't pass the recent Dobbs ruling. Congress had 50 years to legislate Roe, and didn't. The issue, used solely to energize the base of each party for 50 years at the federal level, now gets resolved by state legislatures.
Hochul is stuck being appraised on her actual job performance. She might still win, but it will be a Pyrrhic victory as far as the issue of abortion goes.
She Pivots!
Media gives a huge sigh of relief.
Pivoting is very Obama. Pivot is a media approved word.
"... what other Democrats across the nation are also learning: Crime and the economy are crowding out abortion rights and the former president’s troubles as top of mind issues for voters.
Slow learners. Youngkin showed the way 12 months ago. Democrats, living in their self constructed silo, never saw it.
Someone (maybe here) pointed out parents are showing a ?35% polling preference to Republican vs Democrat.
Crime, inflation, school choice. All things parents have at the top of their daily concerns. Democrats ignore or deflect the concern of parents.
Abortion, which they will get a chance to vote on every two years. But all these other things???Dems are ignoring.
Yes, slavery, diversity [dogma], and human rites have always been secondary considerations to progressive prices (e.g. redistributive change) and availability (e.g. every child left behind).
That said, keep women, and girls, affordable, available, and taxable, and the “burden” h/t Obama of evidence (“our Posterity”, demos-cracy) aborted, cannibalized, sequestered in darkness h/t WaPo.
Wow. The ad sound great. We need some tough on crime people in office. I sure wish she was already the Governor......
Ds love killing babies...it's a weird fetish...
Now if only the governor of California would realize this simple fact
And Republicans aren’t all about feelings and emotional manipulation?
Just because they don’t live in reality isn’t an excuse for them being as manipulative as they come.
Abortion rights vs. crime and the economy… Hmmm. Well forced gestation and forced birth is pretty criminal. And only someone who never talked to a woman or burns with absolute hatred toward them would detach forced gestation and forced births from economic deprivation.
The Party of the Incels needs to update and change its name to more accurately reflect its GQP Troll Party USA nature.
I forget. What do they call it when a Republican changes their position three weeks before an election?
Law and order are the basic justification for government.
A Hochul loss would be a stunner, if only that the Democrat Party failed to bake in a sufficient margin of fraud.
But there's still time. Just need to impress some more vote harvesters into service, and increase the fake ballot supply.
I reckon this is why all of these articles are appearing now, clanging a firebell to all comrades.
Of course, a Hochul loss would simply provide Chiquita Khrushchev (D-NY 14th District) the opening to claim they lost because they haven't gone far enough Left.
The left demanded to DEFUND THE POLICE.
They did?
I don’t remember any mass defunding of the police taking place. But since you bring it up, how would you characterize the use of their funding? Are they making as good a use of it as the mental and social institutions that the right successfully demanded to DEFUND?
In any event, don’t feel so bad. The right demanded to ARM THE MASS SHOOTERS and thanks to massive funding by the only recently bankrupted NRA, the FedSoc, and two stolen Supreme Court nominations, they’ve gotten their wish.
The right has armed the mass shooters, proliferated guns into the hands of every psychopath and invented an individual second amendment right to apply to every felon, convict and lunatic.
But that’s how it goes. You can’t deny rights to lunatics and criminals if your GQP Troll Party USA is literally chock full of them.
"So many other things are wrong with the country right now that pro-abortion forces can't get any political traction."
There's very little traction to be had. But it's all the Dems got this election.
May progressives be mugged by reality, even if they never know what hit them.
Pro-Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. #HateLovesAbortion
"I won't stop working until...."
When are you going to start?
"They did?"
Do you really think that this kind of gaslighting works?
hpudding claimed: "I don’t remember any mass defunding of the police taking place."
There must have been a news blackout surrounding your 8 foot diameter bubble.
hpudding claimed: "I don’t remember any mass defunding of the police taking place."
There must have been a news blackout surrounding your 8 foot diameter bubble.
I used to identify the word proliferation solely with nuclear armaments.
Now that we're making Nukes great again, I look forward to proliferation, the word.
hpudding: "I don’t remember any mass defunding of the police taking place."
Yes, that does seem to be the latest and greatest talking point of the democraticals now that the reality of their Defunding the Police calls, election of Soros "prosecutors" and corrupted judges can no longer be denied.
hpudding, given that the entirety of the New Soviet Democratical Party was calling for Defunding the Police at the top of their lungs for years now, and the fact the DNC-aligned media "credibility" (yes, I wrote "DNC-aligned media" and "credibility" in the same sentence!) has completely collapsed across the board, and rightfully so, do you really think your old schtick of going Full 1984 and Attempted Mass Hypnosis ("we never said those things we said every day for years....oooooohhhhh") will be effective going forward?
You guys are certainly giving it the old college try with your inflation denying, recesssion denying, high gas prices denying, grooming denying, (insert all other ___-denying here).
Its a bold strategy. Let's see if it pays off for you.
Pro tip: You might want to add another 15 to 20 "incels" blurbs per comment in order to improve your chances of muddying the content of the thread.
Good luck!
Tim in vermont (to hpudding): "Do you really think that this kind of gaslighting works?"
I'll bet it works like a charm over at the DailyKos and DemocraticUnderground and other BlueAnon sites.
But that’s how it goes. You can’t deny rights to lunatics and criminals if your GQP Troll Party USA is literally chock full of them.
"You Cannot Reason People Out of Something They Were Not Reasoned Into." J Swift.
The Democrat Party has descended into lunacy and you seem to be one more example. "Defund the Police" is a popular slogan on the left. Many leftist cities, like Seattle and Minneapolis have tried it. Now the lunatic governor of New York is trying to reverse herself.
Living in NY, even in my reddish upstate county, everybody knows that Albany (governor, state senate, state legislature) will be deep blue until the heat death of the universe, so nobody's really talking about the election. I completely forgot there was a US Senate race, Schumer vs. some black Republican guy who has zero chance of winning.
The Party of the Incels needs to update and change its name to more accurately reflect its GQP Troll Party USA nature.
Gee, these bots almost sound human, don't they? (No, not really.)
@tim, it worked on him, didn’t it? But he only has a two digit IQ, and the first one isn’t a 9.
Hochul is a Democratic Party Machine plant, Installed late in the last dem's term, just like our OR gov. Brown.
It would be great if this pattern by Dems would fail once.
cubanbob said...
She has been the governor for over a year and now she is realizing that crime is a major problem in New York? How stupid to you have to be to vote Democrat in New York?
No crime was the rote catechism of the left.
I distinctly remember, The Five, did a 'crime' block about once a week. One of the rotating progressives they had was Jaun Williams. Everytime the The Five shed light on the rising crime rate and the Soros DA's insane policies, Jaun would dutifully declare there was NO increase in crime. Just crime as usual. Any progressive to voice concern about crime, would have meant instant excommunication. ie, no invites to good cocktail parties.
Puddinghead ain't listening even to Hochul herself.
New Yorkers vote their demographics. Only 55 percent of the state is White, and that includes a large number of Jews and Middle easterners who vote Democrat. The 13 percent that's African American will vote 80-20 Democrat. If you do the math, the Republican will have to win the White, upstate vote in a landslide to win. Will that happen?
I am still sticking to my prediction- the Democrats win the Senate seats in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and retain all their present seats. They will win all the governorships they hold today, pick up Arizona and Georgia, and Ron DeSantis and Marco Rubio will taken down in a month of vote counting in the big blue counties under court order and enforced by the FBI and federal marshals. If the senate races are close (under 3%) in Ohio and Iowa, they will count votes in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and Des Moine until they win those seats, too. The Democrats are playing for keeps now- the Rubicon was crossed in 2020.
She and her corruptocrats let NYC slide into the garbage.
Dear voters - you can trust her now.
Political ads are pure propaganda, but they're interesting to watch, and I've noticed a qualitative difference in them. Ads by Republicans against Democrats focus on issues, and frankly can be a bit corny. Ads by Democrats against Republicans focus on the person, the opponent, whom they portray as immoral--these ads are chilling to watch. It's as if Republicans believe Democrats have bad policies, and Democrats believe Republicans are bad people.
“The left demanded to DEFUND THE POLICE.”
Biden is on video saying that defunding the police is not the answer, several times.
That caught in my brain as well. "You deserve to feel safe."
And that pretty much characterizes how people on the left are motivated. They are moved by what they feel, more than what they see or actually experience. More than data, more than facts, how things make you feel is how they rate their priorities. This is an example of feelings over action. Are you better off feeling safe or being safe? There is an obvious answer.
The disconnect comes when the left rates their priorities by how it makes them feel and project that onto the greater society. But what happens when the greater society does not feel the same way about, oh...drag queen story hours? And wonder why it's even being discussed when they're reading about someone getting pushed in front of a subway train and being told it doesn't happen very often, so don't worry?
This is why the left from Biden to Yellen to Hochul to Newsom to Brooks cannot understand anything about the pulse of America and the people doing the hard work every day, and Donald Trump, much to their dismay, can.
Shouldn’t it tell you something, that Zeldin knew already what issues were “top of mind” for NY voters, and the sitting governor (& probably lifelong pol) didn’t pivot (kind word, what do they call that when a Republican does it?) until she saw polling? Emblematic probably of her leadership and political instincts……
I would like to seer lose, but at best I think it will be like the recent NJ gov race. Much closer than normal, but the D will win by 3 or so.
The demographics of New York state have changed so much since R Reagan won NY state twice in 1980 and 1984. Heck, Reagan even one NJ twice. That America no longer exists.
Zeldin and his family have been victims of violent crime twice just during the campaign.
The right has armed the mass shooters, proliferated guns into the hands of every psychopath and invented an individual second amendment right to apply to every felon, convict and lunatic.
But that’s how it goes. You can’t deny rights to lunatics and criminals if your GQP Troll Party USA is literally chock full of them.
Oh, I get it! Hpudding is doing parody!
[applause]
Whatever Hochul has done to make New Yorkers "feel safe" doesn't seem to have been very effective. Pretty much like NYC Mayor Eric Adams (in office since Jan 1) who campaigned on promises to "make the city safer" and apparently hasn't done anything very effective either.
You can run ads all day long, but when people look at the news they know it's all BS.
Every time I see "Lee Zeldin", by mind reads it as "Led Zeppelin" for just an instant before correcting to what I'm actually seeing.
"Crime and the economy are crowding out abortion rights and the former president’s troubles as top of mind issues for voters.
Well
1: Needing an abortion is something that almost entirely under your control
2: The NY State Legislature isn't going to pass laws banning abortions
3: Donald Trump isn't President, Joe Biden* "is". And the Biden* Admin has brought high gas prices, high inflation, an utterly screwed up supply chain, and a recession
The New York governor is responding with a last-minute shift in approach just weeks ahead of the election by promoting her efforts to create jobs and fight crime. 'You deserve to feel safe,' Hochul says in a new TV ad released Saturday as part of a $1 million-plus buy in New York City. 'And as your governor, I won’t stop working until you do.'"
This ad is going to hurt her with voters.
"You deserve to feel safe": yes, that's correct
" I won’t stop working until you do": You've done jack shit to make me feel safe, and refused to actually take any positive steps.
If you'd done ANYTHING to actually make us safer, you'd talk about it in your ad. But you don't, because you haven't.
And won't, if you do win the election
"You deserve to feel safe... I won’t stop working until you do" — Shouldn't it be "You deserve to be safe... I won’t stop working until you are"?
No, because she doesn't want you to actually be safe. That would require throwing criminals in jail and keeping them theirs nd they is verboten to the people Hochul actually cares about.
Almost all of whom have private security to keep THEM safe
I'm beginning to think that the polls aren't BS, and Zelda might actually have a chance. What makes me believe that is that Hochul clearly now believes that
Gosh! The polling must be terrible. If NY goes red what else turns red?
hpudding said...
And Republicans aren’t all about feelings and emotional manipulation?
Not nearly so much as the Democrats
It comes from actually caring about reality. See the "trans" delusion for what happens when you value fantasy over reality
Just because they don’t live in reality isn’t an excuse for them being as manipulative as they come.
You're talking about the Democrats here. You should have marked that switch
Abortion rights vs. crime and the economy… Hmmm. Well forced gestation and forced birth is pretty criminal.
Yep, it's called "rape".
And Democrat policies have made more of those happen.
It's one of the many things the Republicans are fighting to fix
And only someone who never talked to a woman or burns with absolute hatred toward them would detach forced gestation and forced births from economic deprivation.
Which is why we oppose rape
Why is it that you Democrats are in favor of rape?
(Events that come about as the rational result of your freely made choices are, by definition, not "forced". We all know this)
Inga loves her some Crook Biden.
Inga: "Biden is on video saying that defunding the police is not the answer, several times."
Bill Clinton is on video saying he did not have sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinsky, several times.
Mary Beth, you are not alone!
Zany mad cap humor
Political Junkie,
Reagan won Massachussetts twice!
@hpudding: Well forced gestation and forced birth is pretty criminal. And only someone who never talked to a woman or burns with absolute hatred toward them would detach forced gestation and forced births from economic deprivation.
It is true beyond debate that you eventually will die either by some form of homicide, or natural cause. There is no other option. And until your death, during your entire life from conception, that has been irrevocably true.
So, to put a precise label on it, abortion is a form of homicide. Which, when premeditated, is *always* criminal. Yet, for some reason, what would be first degree murder in any other circumstance, gets a bye if it happens during pregnancy.
Of course, the counter to that is that women cannot enjoy the autonomy men posses without access to abortion. Except there is a fatal flaw hiding there. Women do not enjoy autonomy as a class, but rather individually.
At the individual level there are all manner of situations that entail great personal sacrifices in both time and money. A spouse suffers a debilitating stroke, and lingers for years. An adult child with severe depression. Similar examples severely compromising individual autonomy could fill entire comment boxes without taxing the imagination.
For each of those examples, though, homicide to regain autonomy is punished. Yet murdering an unborn baby isn't.
Perhaps you could explain that?
7 minutes of various Democrats saying they want to Defund the Police. Or- reallocate funding away from the police - which is defunding the police.
right there - on tape. Some democrats using the line "Dismantle the police"
-Cuts
-radical re-imagining of police.
Mostly by the BLM fraudsters and white left elites.
Yancey Ward: "Puddinghead ain't listening even to Hochul herself."
hpudding is having a bad day/week/month.
Recall he/she/xe spent the early summer months pinging off the usual democratical/legacy media fake polls which "showed" (LOL) the republicans collapsing, falling far behind the New Soviet Democraticals, etc.
This happens every single election cycle. But only every single election cycle.
This effort is always designed to pump up democratical enthusiasm to increase donations to democraticals and attempt to demoralize republicans.
The good news, as always, for the democraticals is how many GOPe-ers are always at the ready to assist the democraticals in their efforts. McConnell is doing his part for Team Dem, as was (they don't seem to be doing it quite so much at the moment) the old McCainiac Machine Ducey-ites in Arizona, the typical Bushy/Romney types across the board, Lindsay Graham, the Raffensberger crew in GA, etc.
However, by the Fall the fake pollsters on the left, which includes the Fox News polling outfit run by a lifelong democratical, know they have to begin to reflect some degree of reality, so little by little, their push polls and horrific poll-reading/not-polling-analysis "results" are manipulated to begin to show races tightening and, eventually, in a down democratical year like this one, show "surprising" republican strength.
hpudding's problem (at least one of them): he/she/xe actually BELIEVED the inevitable and repeated polling lies and he/she/xe based alot of his/her/xer's commentary at Althouse on those fake polls. So now that reality has hit him/her/xer in the head like a sack of taters, hpudding is flailing and, in my opinion, simply phoning in his/her/xer's weak missives.
tolkein: "Gosh! The polling must be terrible. If NY goes red what else turns red?"
Whatever McConnell, the Republican Governors Association (RGA), Kevin McCarthy and the rest of the GOPe don't actively sabotage.
To hpudding:
Do you realize just how boring you are?
And insane?
This to laugh. Similar things are happening in Wisconsin due to the coddling of rioters a couple years ago.
"feel" is the right word for Progressives these days. Remember when we were told that inflation and the recession was just in our minds, and that if we got over the feeling of inflation and recession, they wouldn't be happening. Same with crime, until you get mugged by reality.
Blogger Inga said...
“The left demanded to DEFUND THE POLICE.”
Biden is on video saying that defunding the police is not the answer, several times.
Biden has been a habitual liar since he entered politics or even before if you count plagiarism in law school.
"I will disclose that that represents a bet that he will win."
Even money? We can let Tiny Tim hold the wagers. I suspect Althouse knows as much about NY politics as my pet cat.
Meh. Not a chance in Hell of any of these Blue states electing a Republican to statewide office.
I thought the Democrats made it very clear in 2020 that they have the means to subvert the wishes of legitimate voters. Odd that anyone thinks that apparatus has been retired two short years later. If anything, it’s been reinforced.
I don’t remember any mass defunding of the police taking place.
Memory like Biden's.
Biden is on video saying that defunding the police is not the answer, several times.
No shit. What in the hell do you think we were saying during the summer/fall of 2020 when you idiots not only demanded to defund the police, but actually did it in major cities across the U.S?
This level of dishonesty is stunning. Even for you.
Poor Democrats trying to hide from their past:
NYC cuts $1 Billion from Police budget
Oakland cuts police budget
LA City Council votes to slash police funding by $150M
Seattle cuts police department nearly 17%
Austin cuts police budget by 1/3rd amid national 'defund' push
Lastly: 7 minutes of Democrats saying Defund the Police
Wait, one more: Cuomo’s replacement selects anti-cop, ‘defund the police’ senator as her lieutenant governor
Wink, nod...
"You deserve to feel safe... I won’t stop working until you do" — Shouldn't it be "You deserve to be safe... I won’t stop working until you are"?
But that would be admitting that crime is a problem. Democrats won't acknowledge the problem. The real subtext there is that crime isn't a genuine problem. It's just that those far-right racist Republicans have duped you into feeling unsafe.
She needs to identify a single thing she has done to fight crime besides violating the Supreme court 2nd amend case.
I'm sure the Hochul ad is entertaining in its own way but the real 'news' in this post is that Lee Zeldin is a man-- all this time I figured that he was a woman.
I guess it is time to begin attending to Politics. Saw some hack on Twitter speculating that there's a real chance that Oregon will return three Republicans (we've got one now and six congressional districts beginning in 2023) to the House during Election Fortnight and that the awful Tina will lose the Demos the Governor's Mansion.
Biden is on video saying that defunding the police is not the answer, several times.
Mr Biden is also on video, more than once, saying, "Not must won't been this raised need personal out sign" but not a soul has taken that to be a confirmation of anything other than that he is in the throes of the onset of senile dementia, poor fellow.
(Eaglebeak)
hpudding talks about"forced gestation and forced birth [as] pretty criminal."
I am (1) a woman and (2) do not burn with hatred toward women, but there are alternatives to forced gestation and forced birth: (3) birth control and (4) abstinence.
Are women so helpless and feeble-minded that they can't navigate this?
Obviously a case of rape is a different state of affairs, but good Lord, all the women who talk as if abortion is their no. 1 method of birth control are full of prunes.
Biden is on video saying that defunding the police is not the answer, several times.
LOL!
Biden is on video (far more than several times) completely contradicting himself on that issue and several more.
Inga is just part of the Democrat hive mind. Democrat TV and internet ads seem really overblown lately , as if they want to make sure that she turns out to vote.
Never underestimate the ignorance and stupidity of liberal White suburban women.
Blogger Inga said..."Biden is on video saying that defunding the police is not the answer, several times."
Now do city governments in Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, …
And Mandela Barnes.
Wow. Just when I thought Puddinhead was stupider than Inga, she shows up to reclaim the crown.
"Gosh! The polling must be terrible. If NY goes red what else turns red?"
I bet the democrats don't even have fraud machinery set up in New York.
The most adamant and vicious supporters of anytime, anywhere abortion are those who have had, or have encouraged multiples themselves.
Being in a crowd that agrees with them makes them feel less guilty, momentarily.
BTW, a list anywhere of legal abortion death vs. back alley coathanger deaths?
Funny. The Progs think everyone is focused on the two things they hold dear, abortion and Trump.
Young peripheral happily sharing ultra sound at 22 weeks mildly disturbed when I informed her that the left supports chopping her baby into little pieces and selling best parts for science while the rest go in the one horsepower garbage disposal.
Abortion isn't an issue in play in New York, but it's a testament to how shallow and ignorant many voters are that they will vote on it anyway. But those voters won't need Hochul to remind them to vote Democrat, they'll vote Democrat no matter what.
Meanwhile, is anyone dumb enough to think that Hochul, who had to be dragged kicking and screaming to crime as a campaign issue will take crime seriously? Those people are already voting Democrat.
I think she'll win, but she doesn't deserve to. She'll win because it's New York and there are too many people in New York who will vote for a glass of water if it's who the Democrats field. Because they're the smart ones.
Iowans
"Deflect" concerns. Very good verb choice.
I worked with an attorney who, whenever he got a "I feel . . . " in an answer to a question he'd asked, would interrupt to say "Don't tell me what you feel, tell me what you think." I saw him use that when cross-examining expert witnesses in admin proceedings.
iowan2 said...
" I distinctly remember, The Five, did a 'crime' block about once a week. "
I know it's true oh so true cause I saw it on The Five.
John Fogerty
"I won't stop working until you do."
OK, I have stopped working,
Your turn.
Remember that AOC's last election had 23% turnout.
Hochul: "I won't stop working until you do."
It's hard to stop when you never started I'm the first place.
I pray you're right. As something like an atheist, I also am working with Moms for Zeldin (wish they'd called it parents for Zeldin but whatever) and burning remaining friendships/acquaintanceships left and right letting others in my ultra prog community know: there are other fascist, white supremacist, antisemitic, transphobic Christian extremists around, even in your local Jewish day school community. I just want them to know they're not alone. There are a lot of registered Ds actively involved in similar activities, also for the very first time as I am. I hate electoral politics and politicians even more, and I'd love to get out of this shithole prison of a city, but that's not in the cards. So we need to get that crazy witch out of office because I shudder at what this regime will resort to next.
Yes - Vote Led Zeppelin -
Russia Collusion Truther and Hillary/FBI Hoax Dossier Dead Ender Inga: "Biden is on video saying that defunding the police is not the answer, several times."
tsk tsk tsk
The New Soviet Democraticals, so proud and brave and courageous and protective of our "norms" and "institutions" (except for all the ones that have to be destroyed...which is all of them) seem to be running pell mell away from all of their earlier passionately articulated positions in preparation for pulling another democratical switcho-chango in January of 2023 where they take their long held positions and assign those positions, and results, to the republicans.
Of course I like to say republicanos now given the mass migration of Latino (sorry dumb lefties, there is no such thing as a Latinx)) voters to the republican "freedom" side of the aisle. Sort of a modern day Underground Railroad for brown people rejected by the Martha's Vinyard types democraticals, which is all of the democraticals as they are either the Martha's Vinyard types or any democratical minion who follows directions unquestioningly from his/her betters...which is also all of the democraticals.
In related Lying Democratical News, Kamalalalalala is now denying she tweeted this on June 1, 2020: "If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota."
Blogger Leland said...
"Poor Democrats trying to hide from their past:
NYC cuts $1 Billion from Police budget"
Fake news!
https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2022/06/was-nypd-budget-increased-year-yes-its-complicated/368239/
Yancey Ward said...
I am still sticking to my prediction- the Democrats win the Senate seats in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and retain all their present seats.
Dems are not going to pick up any GOP Senate seats.
They're going to lose AZ, NV and GA. They may lose NH, CO, and / or WA
They will win all the governorships they hold today, pick up Arizona and Georgia, and Ron DeSantis and Marco Rubio will taken down in a month of vote counting in the big blue counties under court order and enforced by the FBI and federal marshals
They will not pick up any GOP governorships. They will lose WI, will probably lose OR and PA, and may lose MI and MN.
If the Dems try the steal you mention they will be firebombed, truck bombed, and sniped until the steal attempts end.
If the senate races are close (under 3%) in Ohio and Iowa, they will count votes in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and Des Moine until they win those seats, too
Neither of these will be within 8%
The Democrats are playing for keeps now- the Rubicon was crossed in 2020.
We're playing for keeps, too. 2020 taught us that either we dont' allow the fraud, or we get screwed.
Jan 6 2021 taught us there's absolutely no point in peaceful protest. There's no reason to leave the guns at home, or worry about following the law. All there is is winning or losing.
And the Biden* Admin has taught us that we can't afford to lose.
400 million+ firearms in private hands. FI the Dems want to play Julius Caesar this year, there's plenty of us who are more than willing to play Crassus
I live in New York. I must say that the first time I saw an anti-Zeldin attack ad, I thought it was a pro -Zeldin ad. “He stood with trump. He supported the 2d amendment. He opposed all the stuff Biden had done.”
Abortion rights vs. crime and the economy… Hmmm. Well forced gestation and forced birth is pretty criminal. And only someone who never talked to a woman or burns with absolute hatred toward them would detach forced gestation and forced births from economic deprivation.
If they kept their legs closed and stopped having unprotected sex, they wouldn't have to worry about it. Nobody forced them to have sex. (usually. Of the hundreds of thousands of abortions daily, most are not from rape, but from people too lazy to use birth control) It is criminal to murder innocent babies because you are lazy.
New York State was practically a prison camp during COVID so don’t overlook Hochul’s full throated support of those policies and the news coming out about the effects of the lockdowns. Vermont was locked down for a couple of months and returned to normal pretty quickly and our Republican governor looks to be re-elected by ten points, crossing to New York was like going to another country, an Iron Curtain country.
Soros funding of D.A. races was supposed to have an outsized impact, and it did.
There are literally hundreds of thousands New Yorkers who might have voted for Zeldin now living here in Florida and neighboring states. I doubt there are enough rational voters left in NY to elect a Republican.
Kathy Hochul's inner circle in Albany includes Brad Hoylman, head of State Senate Judy, who has sponsored a bill to grease the parole of every single offender over 55 who has served 15 years by granting them repeat parole hearings before the state's perversely anti-incarceration parole board, essentially gaming parole to destroy victims and free the worst of the worst.
Two consequences: every surviving victim or family member must now re-live their trauma regularly by appearing to testify under hostile conditions every other year. Their lives, and any hard-fought closure, are over.
Serial killers, serial rapists, cannibals, child rapists, cop-killers, murderers, torture-killers -- nobody is exempt from potential release. Imagine how much power this gives, not just to the bloodiest sociopaths but to criminal syndicates on the outside who can intimidate survivors into not testifying.
Screw that lying slag. For justice's sake.
This is a Working Families Party bill. Take a good look at how many purportedly moderate Democrats are WFP members. Including Schumer and AOC. The Democrats have been entirely taken over by sadistic, anti-social nutcases. Women and children and, frankly, minorities hit hardest. Not a punchline anymore.
You'd be surprised by how many men there are who raped or played with or ate their victims post-mortem who will now eventually wear down the survivors and be set free. Fox Butterfield, who never met a violent felon he didn't worship, must be feeling tingling up both legs.
Tweets like this one are more persuasive than one hundred campaign promises that “you deserve to feel safe”. You can’t feel safe when this is going on.
https://twitter.com/leftismforu/status/1584039554020913152?s=46&t=-XriqNHp1Y7GUJXFa9tfkw
Inga: "Biden is on video saying that defunding the police is not the answer, several times."
He's also on video saying he was a truck driver.
People who merely walked thru an open Capitol door are in prison without trial.
Democrats across the US are releasing hard core murderers - and these murderers are committing more murder.
Vote Democrat - Inga.
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people too lazy to use birth control
Ok, I was in high school pre-AIDS-going-mainstream, but here is what I heard more than once back then: "I'm afraid I might be pregnant." "Geez, didn't he use a condom?" "He won't use one - he says it doesn't feel as good." "And you can't - ?" "No, I can't get the Pill, my parents would kill me."
If this still happens, I'm going to say that "lazy" isn't always the right adjective. The high school girl who can't figure out how to get the Pill or another very reliable form of contraception for herself, and who knows on some level that the guy she loves, or thinks she loves, will not stick around if she doesn't put out but also doesn't want to be troubled with wearing that raincoat, is not being "lazy" - she's being afraid of being left. It's still a terrible excuse.
Thank you very much, Sexual Revolution, for making all the milk free and taking away just about the only currency young women held against the desires of horny young men.
Plus voters are starting to realize that trump isn’t nearly as disruptive as the democrat when in charge. Wars, halting energy production, rampant inflation, tremendous deficit spending, a covid emergency STILL ( yet no masks on Biden ), grooming children, inciting racial hatred, tagging parents as domestic terrorists, knocking down doors at 6:00am to arrest 80 year olds and fathers in front of children, their retirements down by almost 40%, political prisoners.
Ann, have you felt that Biden has been a calming POTUS?
And that is in only two years.
"Don't tell me what you feel, tell me what you think."
ha ha ha
The answer to that is, "I think you're an asshole."
The whole courtroom cracks up. The judge has to hammer his gavel. And then you say...
"Sorry, judge, I was just answering his question. He wanted to know my thoughts."
Tina Trent said...
Kathy Hochul's inner circle in Albany includes Brad Hoylman, head of State Senate Judy, who has sponsored a bill to grease the parole of every single offender over 55 who has served 15 years by granting them repeat parole hearings before the state's perversely anti-incarceration parole board, essentially gaming parole to destroy victims and free the worst of the worst.
Bored prisoners have plenty of time to plan revenge on those who testified against them. Most do not blame their lawbreaking for incarceration, they blame the witness, or the cops.
I know politics is just about how we feel, but if you want people to feel safe, you've got to convince them that they are safe, and giving it away that you are just going after their feelings gives the brain a bit of a chance to notice that this is nothing but an effort at emotional manipulation.
I always had the feeling (can't prove it) that Stephen Breyer was a high-performing sociopath. What gave me that feeling was his opinion in Stenberg v. Carhart. It's entirely possible to write about partial-birth abortion and late-term abortion without upsetting people. You just say that "liberty" shit. It's a woman's right to choose!
You can read O'Connor's opinion or Ginsburg's opinion to see how a couple of women handled a tough case for the pro-choice side.
Breyer was simply incapable of doing that. His opinion got right down into the nitty-gritty of decapitation and dismemberment. Reading that damn thing made me a pro-lifer, no ifs, no ands, no buts.
It can be that feelings can get in your way if you're a doctor. It's no good operating on people if you start feeling stuff. "Oh, gosh, I hope I don't kill Bob, this is so important." So if you are on the sociopathic spectrum, I would encourage you to go to medical school and learn surgery, where your non-feelings will be a positive boon.
That becomes a problem, however, if our medical and legal authorities toss out the Hippocratic Oath and start decapitating babies and castrating little boys. You don't realize you're doing anything wrong, because you didn't get much of that human empathy, and all the other thinkers around you are also deranged sociopaths.
When the feelers in a society realize what you're up, you're in deep shit. That's why high-performing sociopaths typically learn to lie, lie, lie. For some reason, Justice Breyer decided he was going to be honest about what he was talking about. And that honesty, that fact-based opinion, is what me the pro-lifer I am today.
New York State was practically a prison camp during COVID
-19, 20, 21, 22 in progress, and, of course, planned parent/hood to relieve "burdens" and to spite Trump.
I have commonly said, “okay, that’s how you feel. Now tell me what you think”.
The distinction became clear when people would say “do you feel safer today than on 9/11?” as a knock on Bush. My response was how I felt on or before 9/11 wasn’t important. I felt perfectly safe going to my job at the Trade Center that day. I wasn’t.
Oh my gosh, how do all the feminist wymyn feel about their precious baby slaughter being crowded out by crime and inflation. THAT'S NOT FAIR!
"Top of mind...", a turn of phrase I had never heard before a few weeks ago. Now, it seems, we are supposed to accept it as an 'old saying'.
Thank you very much, Sexual Revolution, for making all the milk free and taking away just about the only currency young women held against the desires of horny young men.
The masculinists are merry and gay. The feminists have leverage and a cause for-profit. The medical industrial complex has a sustainable market and supply. A wicked solution with "benefits".
Abortion rights vs. crime and the economy… Hmmm. Well forced gestation and forced birth is pretty criminal.
Yep, it's called "rape".
So you agree that when the state forces a woman to carry a pregnancy to term it’s violating her in the way a rape would? I agree. Doubly so when the pregnancy was itself the result of a rape. Like that 10-year old that Ohio would have forced to birth a rapist’s fetus.
And then there’s Skipper, who mistakenly believes that methods of death are “options,” that it’s not murder to refuse to use one’s body to keep anyone needing their kidney, blood, or bone marrow to stay alive but somehow is if the body part needed is a uterus and if that entity is a fetus rather than an actual legal person. Even though refusing to sustain a fetus has never been prosecuted as murder, just as refusing to use one’s blood, bone marrow or other body parts to sustain a donor recipient has never been prosecuted as murder, either.
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