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Hochul up 16

NEW YORK GOVERNOR

🟦 Kathy Hochul (inc): 50%
🟥 Bruce Blakeman: 34%

Concord Public Opinion, for Education Reform Now (Dem)| 8/19-21 | LV

IOWA SENATE


🟥 Ashley Hinson: 50%
🟦 Josh Turek: 45%

IOWA GOVERNOR
🟦 Rob Sand: 49%
🟥 Zach Lahn: 46%

Emerson 8/31-9/1 | 750 LV

FL-16

🟦 Kelly Kirschner: 40%
🟥 Sydney Gruters: 39%
⬜️ Not sure: 21%

Sea Polling – D Internal | 8/24-30 | R47-D34 | LV

FL-09

🟦 Darren Soto (inc): 41%
🟥 Dan Green: 41%
⬜️ Not sure: 18%

Sea Polling – D Internal | 8/24-30 | LV

[11:30 a.m. update: two more polls added:]

NM-02 POLL

🟦 Gabe Vasquez (inc): 46%
🟥 Greg Cunningham: 43%

KOB4/SurveyUSA | 8/28-9/2 | 554 LV

Two years ago SUSA polled NM-2 and found Vasquez ahead 51 to 42 for the Republican. The final results were 52 to 48, meaning they were off by 5 in favor of Vasquez.

CA-48 POLL

🟦 Marnie Von Wilpert: 45%
🟥 Jim Desmond: 42%
⬜️ Not sure: 13%

🔵 Definitely voting: Von Wilpert +5
🔴 Probably voting: Desmond +12
🔴 Indie: Desmond +29

KGTV/SurveyUSA | 8/27-9/1 | 522 LV

91 responses to “Hochul up 16”

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  2. DeItaone

    US JOBS SMASH EXPECTATIONS August nonfarm payrolls surged +162K, crushing the +53K consensus. Unemployment held at 4.1%, in line with expectations. Private payrolls rose +127K, while government added +35K. Hourly earnings increased +0.27% MoM / +3.09% YoY. Labor-force participation: 61.6%. Previous payrolls revised to +21K in July and +31K in June.

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  3. How is Cruz being quiet here about his 2028 run?

    https://x.com/PhilipWegmann/status/2095333848405987681

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  5. I think the Russians manipulated the jobs data with trump

    -freepaser

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  7. Tina has completely lost it.

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  8. RMG Research has Trump approval at 46/52

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  9. ssq texted me.

    She wants to know about all the commercial ships in the Persian Gulf. She wants to know why there are so many commercial ships.

    Are they full of TV commercials or radio commercials? Are they old commercials like Burma Shave, and Brylcreme, or new commercials? Who is buying all these commercials? Each commercials ship holds millions…

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  10. A woman went to the adult store to buy a new battery for her vibrator and put it on her charge card.

    When she got her charge card statement, she was surprised to see she was charged with “sexual battery.”

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  11. I just updated the thread to include two more US HOUSE polls, both from SUSA. These two are among many where if it was true we were headed for a national blue-wave, these two seats would not even be close. But they are.

    NM-2 is rated by all the toupees as either lean or likely D. CA-48 is lean D by most of them.

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  12. official: Mistrial in the Clancy case

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  13. in the forest where all the trees were alphabetized, nobody could get onto it.

    Seems there was no “N” tree.

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  14. “JG, seriously, are you or you not a parent?” Yes, GF, I am.

    Regarding the Lindsay Clancy case…

    Yes, she is a murderer. She viciously and savagely killed her three children. She even admits that herself.

    This is also the clearest case of insanity I’ve seen in American law in a long time.

    You see, GF, I have three daughters. My wife, after the third birth, severly suffered from postpartum pyschosis. She heard not one voice in her head, but eleven voices. I still remember her slamming her fists against her head to stop the voices, then trying to cut off her hair…anything to stop the voices.

    At all costs, I had to seperate their mother from her children. At all costs.

    I admitted her to the Harborview (Seattle) Mental Health Hospital. Still remember them locking the doors. When released a couple of weeks later she appeared comatose from over medication.

    Then the voices came back and the crying started. The constant crying. She had thoughts-terrible thoughts.

    I couldn’t make sense of her thoughts. Sounded like madness. The only thought I had was to take the girls to a safe place and away from their mother.

    Again, I took her to St. Francis mental health facility. This was all the while of taking care of my three young children at home. And thankful for the Family Leave Act.

    This went on for about five years. Admitting her to hospital stays. Signing papers. Taking care of my children. I reached out my church and especially the CPS (child protective services) and they helped.

    Postpartum pyschoisis is real. Mental illness is real. And so is insanity.

    If you are going to charge Lindsay Clancy with first degree murder, then might as well indict her then husband and mother of crimminal liability for not taking the children away from their mother.

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  15. Breaking News – 3 children killed by Clancy still dead.

    I recommend starting the new trial on Tuesday and sequester the jury.

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  16. A panel decided to induct the late Dolly Parton into the Best Amricans Hall of Fame.

    The vote was not unanimous though. It was “9 to 5.”

    ********

    The jury of 12 Jamaicans was unable to come to a verdict when they tried the Jamaican rapper. They were DREADlocked.

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  17. John Goggin, how is your wife’s mental health today?

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  18. On a serious note, the one data center to be built here in my county will provide a combined ANNUAL payment to the County government and the county school system of $65 MILLION. @$20 million per year to county government and @$45 million to county schools.

    CURRENTLY, the total COUTY GOVERNMENT budget is $55 million.

    The total county SCHOOL budget is @ $350 million.

    I cannot for the life of me figure out how a data center gets the income to pay $65 MILLION. EVERY. YEAR. in just LOCAL taxes.
    Plus state taxes….federal taxes…

    A data center does not manufacture anything.
    WHAT IS their source of revenue that would provide such income to pay all these ANNUAL taxes and still make a profit?

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  20. Jan, still diagnosed with Bi-polar but on Latuda along with other meds. The voices have ceased years ago and so have the thoughts.

    The occasional crying is still there.

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  21. JG – I was not aware of the extent of your wife’s issue. It is good that she is making progress but it must be difficult.

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  22. If you are going to charge Lindsay Clancy with first degree murder, then might as well indict her then husband and mother of crimminal liability for not taking the children away from their mother”

    Ah yes, indict the husband, the mother, the shrinks, the society, the free passers, the mailman.

    ANYTHING to divert responsibility for these planned and horrendous killings from the real killer (now the victim) of the real victims.

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  23. This is also the clearest case of insanity I’ve seen in American law in a long time”

    LOL

    This is the clearest case of bastardizing the insanity defense I’ve seen in American law in a long time.

    Fixed it for John Goggin.

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  24. Postpartum pyschoisis is real. Mental illness is real. And so is insanity”

    They are all real.

    However, they are not all an automatic get of jail card and the are not all a license for premeditated murder of your children.

    This woman was not insane by ANY measure. In fact she was seen by a whole host of practitioners none of which diagnosed insanity. Her husband, her co-workers, her family, her friends? Nobody deemed her insane. Experts who reviewed her case, one who interviewed her for 11 hours, clearly stated she knew right from wrong and was criminally responsible.

    Crazy? Like a fox.

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  25. Breaking News – 3 children killed by Clancy still dead.”

    The pink brigade could care less.

    This is not about the children.

    It is about making Clancy the victim.

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  26. Maybe the case can now be prosecuted with a less woke judge and a less woke jury.

    Not optimistic.

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  27. Here is an update on US House polls of individual races where the pollster is NOT a D or R pollster, no internal polls, etc. What is listed below are districts where independent polls have been released, and whether or not each one indicates a forthcoming blue wave or if its essentially par.

    Shows a Blue-Wave forming:

    AR-2*, FL-14**, ID-1

    Shows a competitive “Par” election:

    AK-1, AZ-2, CA-48, MD-1, ME-2, NC-1, NH-2, NJ-7, NM-2, NY-17, NY-21, OH-1, WA-3

    *Hendrix college, notorious for gaslighting the Dems’ chances.
    **St. Pete’s Polls, one of the least reliable in Florida.

    This illustrates how so far the VAST majority of polls released have been internal polls or partisan polls done by a PAC. Noticeably absent so far are polls of individual races by Siena. Normally they pump these out a lot, but its been crickets from them.

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  28. John, was your wife diagnosed with bipolar earlier in life? You are to be commended for hanging in there, taking care of your kids while standing by your wife. That would be a difficult role to take on for most people.

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  29. And just to be clear, a competitive “par” election doesn’t mean for sure that the GOP will hold the house. But the point is whichever party does control it would be narrow like it is now.

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  30. WHAT IS their source of revenue”

    It is really like those self storage facilities where you rent out a locker or a space.

    Companies put their servers in the data center and pay a monthly fee. They also buy power and the data center gets a markup. Data centers also provide networking capability.

    It’s basically a leasing of space and service.

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  31. I really have little interest in the Clancy case. There have always been legal cases where everyone is a loser and there are no winners, and there always will be.

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  32. as well indict her then husband and mother of crimminal liability for not taking the children away from their mother”

    Zzzzz………………

    Based on what exactly?

    The defense says she was a great mother, a great wife, a great worker, just a wonderful person all around.

    If that is all true (why would the defense lie) why would you take her children away.

    “During the trial of Lindsay Clancy—the Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three children—several mental health providers and medical professionals testified that she displayed clear, linear thinking and never indicated she had a plan or desire to harm her children.

    No Homicidal Warnings: Mental health clinicians, including her psychiatrist and a therapist friend who saw her weekly, testified that during sessions leading up to the tragedy, Clancy did not report any homicidal ideation or express that she posed a threat to her family”

    I think based on that it would be an uphill struggle to accuse her husband and mother of “criminal liability”.

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  33. For the record, I am sympathetic to mental health problems; I was born into a family with such issues, was married to it far too long, and contend with it myself (part of my VA disability). That said, I am in lockstep with Jason; mental health does not preclude ultimate responsibility for one’s actions. Even if she is insane (I don’t think she is, the premeditated aspect throws that out, she just has/had some sort of depression and rolled with it. YOLO, I guess!), the woman needs to be put away for a long time as she has demonstrated that she cannot control her urges at a minimum. At least another jury can weigh all these factors and hopefully not be tainted by whacko women trying to make “murder by feels” a thing. I am not terribly optimistic, but at least society has a chance to get it right.

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  34. Then there are behavioral clues. I have long said that if you want a peek inside the Real internal polling, watch how candidates behave. If the Dems were confident of a huge blue wave, you probably wouldn’t see this headline:

    “Democrat Candidates in Close Midterm Races Tell Kamala Harris to Stay Away”

    Same with all the stories where Dems are desperate to distance themselves from the DSA loonies.

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  35. There have always been legal cases where everyone is a loser and there are no winners, and there always will be”

    I think you are wrong about there being no winners.

    If this woman is given a free pass for premeditated and intentional murder of her children, it will be a solid political win for those who are bent on making society, not individuals, responsible for criminality.

    This is a real movement. Defund the police, no bail laws, Marxist DA’s, judicial “reform”, changing felonies to misdemeanors (except for Trump), end of incarceration, end of death penalty, end of mandatory sentencing, etc. are all part of the left wing’s attempt to move away from the concept of personal responsibility and punishment commensurate with the crime to the concept of “society is to blame for all ills and punishment should account for that”.

    This woman killed her children because society did not protect them. Mangione killed the health executive because he was a victim of the healthcare system. Charlie Kirk’s killer should get off because he was the “victim” of supposed hate speech.

    The perps have become victims. The real victims are forgotten and irrelevant.

    I think there is a definite winner in this scenario.

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  36. Jan, no she wasn’t. The birth of our third child triggered postpartum depression, then postpartum pyschoisis then bi-polar.

    However, two of my daughters have been diagnosed with Bi-polar 2 and are on disablility, for which their mother can’t forgive herself for that.

    Both are at home.

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  37. Is EVERYTHING Jason disagrees with woke or just most things?

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  38. That said, I am in lockstep with Jason; mental health does not preclude ultimate responsibility for one’s actions.”

    That is the key.

    Approximately 20% to 23% of adults in the United States experience a mental health issue in any given year.

    “About 54.6 million adults had a mental illness in 2025. That’s the equivalent of 20.6% of the adult population of the US, or 1 in 5 adults.”

    If mental health issues are a license to kill your children, family or anyone else as a matter of fact, we are going to have a real bloodbath on our hands.

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  39. Is EVERYTHING Jason disagrees with woke or just most things?”

    I will be happy to rule on wokeness for any issue you want to give as examples.

    In this particular case I stated:

    Defund the police, no bail laws, Marxist DA’s, judicial “reform”, changing felonies to misdemeanors (except for Trump), end of incarceration, end of death penalty, end of mandatory sentencing, etc. are all part of the left wing’s attempt to move away from the concept of personal responsibility and punishment commensurate with the crime to the concept of “society is to blame for all ills and punishment should account for that”.

    I think this is an example of wokeness. Feel free to disagree.

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  40. The DA in this case is not a Marxist. They charged 1st degree murder and had nothing to say regarding government ownership of the economy.

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  41. I will be happy to rule on wokeness for any issue you want to give as examples.

    Supermarket scanners?

    The Designated Hitter in MLB?

    No shirt. No service.

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  42. Not woke, introduced in 1974

    Not woke, introduced in 1973

    Not woke, but was ok during Cleopatra’s reign.

    Wokeness is a relatively new phenomenon.

    2014: The phrase re-emerged prominently and entered broader digital lexicons via the Black Lives Matter movement during the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, following the police killing of Michael Brown. As users on Reddit discuss, it transitioned from localized AAVE into a general internet hashtag and symbol for social justice awareness.
    Late 2010s–2020: The meaning broadened to encompass awareness of other social inequalities, such as gender, sexism, and LGBTQ+ rights.
    2020–Present: Following the widespread racial justice protests of 2020, political conservatives increasingly adopted “woke” as a pejorative term to criticize progressive policies, identity politics, and corporate activism.”

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  43. The DA in this case is not a Marxist.”

    I don’t know if this DA is a Marxist or not. If you read what I said, I said the advent of Marxist DA’s is part of the movement I described.

    However, there are plenty of Marxist DAs who don’t bring up ownership of the economy in their cases. Not doing so doesn’t mean they aren’t Marxist.

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  44. Lindsay Clancy is reportedly “very sad” and “scared” as a Massachusetts jury deliberates whether she should be convicted of murdering her three young children or found not criminally responsible because of her mental health.”

    I wonder if she is as scared as her little kids were while she unmercifully strangled them to death.

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  45. First, Hocjul will not win by 16.

    Maye 8 to 11.

    ******

    Second, DATA CENTERS

    it boggles my mind as to how muchwver multiplying info needs to stored by businesses, credit card companies, schools, local / state / federal government, agencies of all kinds for deeds, wills, tax records, Court cases, national security threats, investigations,

    ALSO, I read that in THIS County and practically every county around me for 100 MILES are taking up applications to build data centers in their counties.

    Of course there is massive opposition everywhere as nobody wants a Dara center in THEIR county. Each data center being proposed is many BILLIONS of dollars in investment.

    I can never remember seeing a line item in any government’s budget for storage of information. County government, city government, county school systems, various other governmental units, state government, for military records. Medicare or Medicaid records, prison systems, school systems, retirement systems, court systems, tax systems, etc., etc., etc.

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  46. I think most of the opposition to data centers is emotional and manipulated and lacks any real substance. Rural roads in PA are now dotted with signs “NO DATA CENTER”, most of these people have no idea what they are opposing or why.

    In my view the benefits vastly outweigh any downside. It brings revenue and jobs. The “environmental” issues are BS. The higher cost of energy is certainly an issue, but most of the data center builders address that.

    Meanwhile, China is smiling.

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  47. Not doing so doesn’t mean they aren’t Marxist.

    Actually, it does mean that. Marxism is an economic/political theory.

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  48. https://425161.us16.myftpupload.com/events/19th-annual-coal-minersheritage-festival-and-picnic/

    I could go tour the mine where my ancestors worked, eat, listen to bands, and shovel coal!

    I know at least one ancestor died there in a mining accident.

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  49. The jobs report surprised the “experts.”

    ”Some 77 economists were surveyed and 77 were wrong. Oh, also notice the rise in full time jobs vs. part time jobs. Oh, and notice that the federal share of the workforce reached the lowest in post FDR history at between 1.5% and 2%. The Atlanta Fed has the real growth rate after inflation at 4.7%. Nominal (with inflation) is about 8%.

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  50. John, there are no words to offer to empathize with the difficulties your family must face. I only hope, as time goes by, they will work themselves out becoming easier to deal with.

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  51. Prediction….there is going to be retrial and the outcome will be similiar if not outright NGRI.

    Don’t have the official count yet on this mistrial but according to the defense council it was 11-1 in the defense’s favor-if that is the case I was close at my initial prediction at NGRI.

    If Lindsay Clancy is tried again with same results maybe there should be a suicide watch for Jason whose told us everything we should know about this case but rarely correct.

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  52. Jan, I appreciate that.

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  53. So its now silly season in polling. We know Baris is officially a joke because he wants the GOP and Trump to be punished for the Iran war. He’s also a quasi-Paul-bot, loved Massie, and kept putting out false polls showing Massie tied when he was not. But he puts out generic ballot polls of D+10, even though most of the other data out there does not warrant that kind of gap, like the two SUSA polls posted above and the others I mentioned earlier in this thread.

    As many of you know, Scott Rasmussen left Rasmussen Reports many years ago now and started RMG Research. For the past five years, Baris-like Mark Mitchell has been running Rasmussen Reports. I never really liked him because he often wasn’t very professional, and more than once I questioned his judgment.

    But he left some months ago and founded his own firm called “The Honest Poll.” And he too feels betrayed by Trump so he puts out a Baris like generic ballot poll today with Dems +10, just like Baris. While I think the Harvard-Harris GOP +2 is too optimistic, the other data out there doesn’t jive with a Dem +10 environment.

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  54. Not doing so doesn’t mean they aren’t Marxist.

    Actually, it does mean that. Marxism is an economic/political theory.”

    Wait, so if Marxist DA’s don’t advocate for Marxist economic/political theory on every case they are not Marxists?

    Wow, this is absolutely brilliant.

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  55. If Lindsay Clancy is tried again with same results maybe there should be a suicide watch for Jason”

    Zzzzz….

    Except I predicted she would get a free pass many times here, I was under no illusions there would be justice for the children.

    I am pleasantly surprised at least one juror stood up for justice and the dead children and against the screw personal responsibility crowd.

    I have no doubt a new trial will have the same dynamics: forget the actual murder victims and instead make Clancy the victim.

    But I am surprised you haven’t killed yourself yet considering all the emotional investment you had in getting this murderous bitch (ok, I borrowed that from GF, sue me) a free pass.

    So the only thing I got wrong was that it was a hung jury, not a free pass (yet).

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  56. Wait, so if Marxist DA’s don’t advocate for Marxist economic/political theory on every case they are not Marxists?”

    “Before we read this indictment we would like to take 45 minutes to quote some of my favorite passages from the Communist Manifesto, thank you very much”

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  57. Not suicidal Jason. Too many people depend upon me. Also, don’t have hatred in my heart.

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  58. However, I do think there are things the prosecution could do better to debunk the insanity BS.

    They need to focus more on the testimony of the two psychiatrists who actually treated Clancy, both of which stated they saw no signs of psychosis in their evaluation.

    They need to show that the overwhelming majority people with the exact same symptoms of depression Clancy had do not kill their children, let alone in such a premeditated, planned and cruel manner.

    Still, it will be uphill to get what she should get, first degree murder.

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  59. Also, don’t have hatred in my heart.”

    I think there is something wrong with a heart that ignores the true victims in favor of making a killer the real victim.

    So spare me “I have a good heart” garbage.

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  60. On a lighter note the summer horseracing season will be coming to a close on Labor Day for both Saratoga and Del Mar.

    Sunday, trainer Bob Baffert has a promising two year old colt, Hughes, that will probably be the favorite in the Del Mar Futurity. Since 2013 three winners have gone on to win the Kentucky Derby. And Baffert himself has won the KD six times.

    And yes, Hughes is named after Jack Hughes who scored the winning goal against Canada.

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  61. “Too many people depend upon me.”

    Zzzzz…..

    I think those 3 little kids depended on their mother too. Yet you want to give her a free pass for killing them while feigning insanity.

    Hypocritical at best. Really sick at worst.

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  62. I lost my ass on your last recommendation.

    I hope you can do better for the Futurity.

    Thank you.

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  63. Jason, you bore me. Why don’t you raise awareness to everything that involves in this case. Like her husband that was told by Ms. Clancy she had thoughts to harm her children especially a four month year old let alone two other children that were under the age of five. Or even her mother that was told the same. I already statement my descriptions of what Lindsay Clancy did.

    You become a bore.

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  64. Can we skip the next 40 posts. How about this?

    JG and Jason both agree that there are cases where there is an actual viable insanity defense. They disagree over whether it applies to this case.

    I will send my bill for serving as a Mediator separately.

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  65. There has already been a copycat in Southern Illinois. Same type of set up, well off woman in a $1M+ house kills her youngest son, managed not to kill the rest of the family. She was found to have been absorbed with the Clancy story just beforehand.

    WordPress will not allow me to post the link to the story, hence the “test” post above.

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  66. I disagree with BL on one thing; Marxism is not limited to being merely a political and economic philosophy; the Postmodernists, led by Sartre and Debeauvoir, amongst other, expanded it to a cultural movement as well, much like Mao and even the OG Bolsheviks did. The current strain is traced directly back to the Postmodern school of thought, but the general concept is pure Marxism as changing the “kultur” is a key component in getting the masses to fall in line and accept the new reality of collectivization.

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  67. I disagree with GF disagreeing with me.

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  68. ”I disagree with GF disagreeing with me.”

    Woke 2.0 is crazy 😁

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  69. How come on LABOR Day, most people do not have to go to work a d do labor?

    Is the holiday misnamed?

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  70. Why don’t you raise awareness to everything that involves in this case. Like her husband that was told by Ms. Clancy she had thoughts to harm her children especially a four month year old let alone two other children that were under the age of five. Or even her mother that was told the same.”

    Zzzz…..

    Hearsay and innuendo do not a case make.

    Both psychiatrists that actually treated her claim she never made any such statements and showed no indication of psychosis. Read their testimonies. f

    The psychiatrist who interviewed her for 11 hours said she certainly knew the difference between right and wrong and was criminally responsible.

    This is a con woman bastardizing the insanity defense in a manner it was never designed for. Of course she has the lawyer, the judge, most of the jury pool, the MSM and woke society pretending she has an insanity case. That is why I predicted she would get a free pass. She almost did and most likely still will.

    IF she was insane or even psychotic, it would have been fairly obvious to the professionals who treated her. It wasn’t.

    But, heck I will give her credit for one thing. Great actress.

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  71. here has already been a copycat in Southern Illinois. Same type of set up, well off woman in a $1M+ house kills her youngest son, managed not to kill the rest of the family. “

    It’s going to be opens season on children.

    And the “insanity” defense will be front and center.

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  72. We leave early in the morning for our flight to Halifax, Canada to start our 10 day trip.

    So I will soon go to bed…and probably not sleep….

    ***

    I had been to Canada when I was a kid with my parents and sibiings.

    Wife and I had done the Maritime Provinces a year ir so after we were married. Went there again when out boys were like 5 and 8 years old.

    I plan to tell everyone it is a FUN DAY on the Bay of Funday.

    And tell them when the tide comes in there it’s a “big bore.”

    I also want to eat mucho lobstero…

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  74. It’s going to be opens season on children.

    How many mothers do you think want to kill their children and why?

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  75. Perhaps a handful…..which is itself too many. It’s sick. Ask yourself how all these female Clancy leniency supporters would react if this would have been the father who had done this. Same reaction? Not on your life.

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  76. A lot of parents who kill their children do so because they are a burden.

    Now that they know the wokesters will always blame someone else for it and they can get a free pass why not get rid of the burden?

     “Over the last three decades U.S. parents have committed filicide — the killing of one’s child — about 500 times every year

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  77. sk yourself how all these female Clancy leniency supporters would react if this would have been the father who had done this. Same reaction? Not on your life.”

    Depends.

    If the father was gay or transgender or an illegal immigrant probably the same reaction.

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  78. Walt, the Canadian dollar is pretty weak, you should be able to get some cheap lobstero.

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  79. Can’t you see it now.

    “Terrorized by ICE, caring migrant father threw his children off the bridge because he understood they would be better off dead than deported, supporters say”

    “Beloved transgender father burns children alive as a result of having to cope with rampant discrimination and lack of adequate emotional support during transition, supporters say”.

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  80. But I agree, a white male who happened to have a Trump bumper sticker would get the death penalty as thousands of child welfare activists chant “hang him high” outside the courthouse.

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  81. BUT Hormuzzle is closed.

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  82. BUT Hormuzzle is closed.

    Tina – Who the F has said that at HHR? WTF happened to you? You went from stupid nicknames to just making up things nobody said so you can carry on arguments with the voices in your head.

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  83. I guess Bitter can’t recognize mental illness.

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  84. Yep. You could also add in the numbers of husbands killing their wives every year. It’s already in open season….’nearly three women are killed by previous or present partner every day. Three every day. (Violence Policy Center).

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  85. Maybe Bitterlaw can answer this. CNN, who has had a more balanced approach to the Clancy case than other cable outlets, brought up the fact that this lone holdout juror might have been, what they call, a “stealth” juror with a built in bias and a hidden agenda.

    Any safeguards to prevent this deceitfulness?

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  86. JG – The Jury selection I have done (voir dire) assembles a pool of potential jurors from the voting rolls. They fill out a form that is intended to determine bias. In a civil case, you ask have you or a member of your family been in an accident, sued or been sued, are you or a family member in healthcare or law or law enforcement, etc.

    In a criminal case, they ask have you or a family member been a victim of a crime, are you a member of your family in law enforcement, are you more likely to believe a police officer over a defendant, etc.

    Lawyer read the forms and then ask follow up questions of the potential juror.

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  87. Thanks Bitterlaw.

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  88. But Iran is winning:

    Centcom destroys 3 Iranian vessels.

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  89. JG – The goal is unbiased jurors but people can lie. However, it is not a process where you can show up and say, “Do you guys need a juror for that child-killer case.”

    I have heard that some people in the Eastern third of PA do not register to vote so they won’t be summoned to jury duty in Philadelphia for Federal cases.

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