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The Republican Closing Message?

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I don’t know how I got on all the Republican mailing lists – out of nowhere in the past few days – but I have heard from the Dumpster man himself (vomit), I have heard from Kimberly G. (vomit), and today Slimy Billy Barr just wrote to me.  (double vomit) He wants my opinion about what they should use for their closing message!!!

They believe these 3 are their most effective closing messages.  And this is absolutely confidential information – they told me so!  With lots of bright red and yellow!  This must all be really important. (eyes rolling into the back of my head)

The Republican Closing Message?

Oh, and we have met our $25,000 goal for boots on the ground in AZ!  You guys are amazing!  But the final $1k Balloon Juice angel is willing to donate the remaining $725 of his $1k if you guys match it, and if we do, we can send 27 pairs of boots to AZ!  For the remaining $725, donations up to $250 can be matched!

Totally open thread.

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177Comments

  1. 1.

    Nora

    That whole “defund the police/back the blue” has been all over the place in my Congressional District (NY-19).  Turns on the cash bail issue, which they are misleadingly claiming is a vote to put violent criminals back on the street.  Let’s hope it doesn’t work as a theme.

  2. 2.

    jonas

    It’s worth noting that all three claims are baldfaced lies, but it’s Republicans we’re talking about here, so here’s my surprise face. |:

  3. 3.

    Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony

    I so wish you had given them advice on which closing message would be best. Here are some things you could have suggested that would be 100% consistent with their values:

    1. Defund Medicare!
    2. Kids SHOULD have kids! No exceptions!
    3. Shut everything down! Shut it all down! Drown the government and everything else in a bathtub.
  5. 5.

    S Cerevisiae

    Vote GOP! We’ll put those uppity n*****s back in their place and women back in the kitchen!

  7. 7.

    FastEdD

    #1. No we didn’t. The deficit is down, growth in jobs is up, and inflation is a worldwide phenomenon not a US one. You’re full of shit.

    #2 Yeah, we need to separate babies from their Mothers like TFG did. Real Jeebus-y that one. No you’re full of shit.

    #3 Defund the police just isn’t a thing. If we want to reduce crime we can start by throwing a few Corrupt R’s in jail, starting with TFG. Did I say you’re full of shit?

  8. 8.

    Kelly

    @Nora: Democrats defunded the police is all over Oregon R’s advertising. The detail that every police budget in Oregon has grown slightly at around our inflation rate matters not at all.

  9. 9.

    bbleh

    The not-at-all-racist-no-way-you’re-the-real-racist “border” and “crime” trigger words are sprinkled through the literature and ads here, but it’s kind of like salt and pepper — added to everything but not really the focus.  Instead the focus is on “conservative” vs “liberal.”  Even lawn signs sport the word “conservative” prominently, and the negative ads rant about how “liberal” their opponents are.  It’s almost like none of those three arguments have any real traction, and instead it’s just pure tribalism.

  10. 10.

    The Moar You Know

    Cops have been on strike for years now, every since their precious feelings got hurt by a black President and then, horror of horrors, cops starting to be held accountable in court for actual crimes they commit.   And nobody has really noticed.

    No political party can fix that situation.

  15. 15.

    Dangerman

    Unless I missed it, TFG hasn’t said diddly shit about the Pelosi attack. Probably hurt because Nanci called him a gutless prick…

    …but Junior is letting his freak flag fly!

    Sure, not going to make a lot of difference, but if there is a percent or two of people that have their eyes opened that Senior and Junior are, indeed, POS, maybe they stay home next week.

    Only 7 more days until the Presidential Election begins!

  17. 17.

    Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

    The gibberish they sent you is proof positive that the GQP and day drinking are a poor mix. Could we add a crack about homeschooling as well

  18. 18.

    MattF

    Got an email from the Maryland Election Board saying my ballot has been counted. So, I’m all done.

  19. 19.

    Nora

    @bbleh: You are right, actually — they keep using the word “liberal” in their ads.

    Though I’ve also noticed that Republican signs do NOT list their party.  Democratic signs do.

  25. 25.

    eddie blake

    @Kelly:  the only people talking about defunding the police are the goddamn fascists in the gop who are actually raving and ranting at the top of their lungs about zeroing out the FBI and the DOJ.

    such cognitive dissonance. it’s amazing that their heads don’t explode.

  27. 27.

    Dangerman

    @WaterGirl: 2024 starts in 2022. Maybe not Wednesday, but soon.

    Anyone ever get Wordle in 1? I figure it’s impossible. Came close the other night. First word was STEAK (as I was jonesing for a) and got 4 Greenies. No, didn’t get it in 2; took 3.

  28. 28.

    mrmoshpotato

    The votes won’t be counted until well until December in some states. Don’t let any pundit tell you the blue tsunami is a bust like they did in 2018 and 2020. It’s called the red mirage and the GOP will attempt to capitalize on it.— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) October 31, 2022

  29. 29.

    Tony G

    I routinely see right-wing ads on Facebook — often from states that I’ve never set foot in.  It must be that “targeted advertising” that the kids talk about.

  31. 31.

    Martin

    So, the Affirmative Action case before USSC didn’t go well. I’m not too concerned about that, because the goals of affirmative action can be achieved without that mechanism, provided that universities put forward the effort – and most are.

    See, you can tune your admissions policies to admit minority students without knowing the are minority students, in sorta the way you can tune a political message to a minority group. The benefit of affirmative action is you get to be lazy about it – it’s really damn easy to just take their race and apply a rule to it. It’s a lot harder to adopt policies that focus on achievement in the local context, geographic diversity, and a host of other mechanism that produce the same outcome, but in a lot of ways those harder policies work a LOT better. My work didn’t produce a new HBCU mainly because the applicant pool didn’t allow it, but it did produce an HSI, and the top ranked university in the nation for low income and first generation students.

    Now, here’s where it gets tricky. See, my leadership wanted the HSI, but they didn’t care about the low income/first generation title, mainly because it didn’t exist at first. But in order to get to the HSI designation, we needed a way to target latino students without knowing they were latino students (because Affirmative Action remains illegal in CA, regardless of what happens nationally) and looking at students in a broader capacity provides the answer, but it also gets a LOT of other at-need students into the pool – Vietnamese and Filipino students that also tend to be low-income, and in poorly served educational communities also benefits, as do white students in rural areas.

    I disagree somewhat with UCs brief to the court, because they are deliberately avoiding the real reason why black students stopped applying/accepting to UC – at least during the period that I was there. It was a combination of two things:

    1. a steady stream of news stories involving anti-black hazing on campuses up and down the system. We could directly witness significant application drop-offs after each one of these incidents. UC needed to do more to improve campus culture, and did some pretty good work on various campuses, but cops maliciously pepper spraying students is bad for getting students that see themselves at risk of violence from authority to volunteer to come to your place.
    2. at the other end, black students are AGGRESSIVELY recruited by private universities with scholarships. We admitted loads of black students, but a free ride at USC would almost always win out over a subsidized ride at a UC. The publics can’t offer race-targeted scholarships (different from race-conscious admissions) but private entities can. Now, this is wrapped up in a whole set of problems around college affordability and equality of access, but it’s also no coincidence that bans on affirmative action coincide with cuts to higher education subsidies. Not only was it easier for UC to target black students in the 80s, but having an effective tuition of $0 meant that UC could compete on affordability as well. None of the affirmative action cases address the affordability issue that I can see, but that’s also an issue that we can directly address as a matter of public policy – we can increase taxpayer subsidies to public universities and zero out tuition if we want.

    At the graduate level the situation is a bit more complex, mainly because you add in the additional component of funding of students and because admissions at the graduate level is always decentralized to the faculty rather than professional administrators like myself. Diversity of student body won’t come without diversity of the faculty, and that’s a whole other set of problems to address.

  40. 40.

    Dangerman

    @Old School:

    @WaterGirl:

    OK, it’s possible. Good to know. I figure it’s 1 in 5 figures or so.

    Powerball night. Yes, it’s a total sucker bet, but I figure it’s the only way to find a woman that will forgive me for Sauerkraut and Kimchi (see above).

  41. 41.

    Ken

    @Nora: Though I’ve also noticed that Republican signs do NOT list their party.

    Though usually you can tell anyway, from the other signs in the yard. But I suppose the candidates don’t like to say “please don’t put this up if you still have a giant ‘TRUMP 2020’ sign in the front yard”.

  46. 46.

    jonas

    @Nora: In NY-22, all the anti-Conole ads seem to be about him somehow being responsible, as an unelected official and first-time political candidate, for the bail reform bill passed several years ago. And also, he’s somehow working for Kathy Hochul in Albany. Again, as a first-time congressional candidate. The mind reels.

    Unfortunately, it just might work. He’s neck-and-neck with his Trumpian rival in what was supposed to have been a relatively safe Democratic district.

  47. 47.

    jonas

    @RobertB:We get “Radical Biden/Pelosi agenda!”

    Which, if you asked someone to actually detail what that was, precisely, you would probably get a blank stare.

  48. 48.

    Cameron

    What should be your closing message?  How about “goodbye, cruel world?”  Don’t let the door hit you on the ass, etc., etc.

  51. 51.

    artem1s

    So they are pretty much relying on their racists greatest hits then.

    • they’ll end Brandon’s giveaways (Obama and Soros bucks) to blah people and godless liberal students
    • they’ll start putting brown babies from ‘shithole’ countries back in cages where they belong
    • and everyone’s favorite – give free reign to local LEO’s to murder all the Black people they want

    these guys really need some new material. interesting they’ve stopped promising to end ObamaCare though.

  59. 59.

    JML

    @artem1s: The ads are really ugly in MN. They’re running one now in the governor’s race that’s basically “scary n-words are carjacking everyone in the state and it’s all the democrats fault!”

    You would literally think that Minneapolis was actually on fire at all times right now based on the crap these miserable bastards are hurling around. Everything they do and say is about trying to make people in the suburbs afraid.

    And after spending all his time trying to scare everyone in the state with racist appeals, “Dr.” Scott Jensen claims he’s going to “heal” the state.

    With tax cuts, apparently.

  61. 61.

    Elizabelle

    Oh.  Just starting to sprinkle.  And not dark yet.  It’s the kids’ national holiday tonight … boo. Hoo.

  62. 62.

    sab

    @artem1s: I live in NE Ohio. We weren’t on the Mayflower but soon afterwards. I also had Scots and Swiss mercenary sncestors settle in Canada during and after the Revolution.

    I had great great grand-parents barely miss the Irish Great Famine.

    America ( and Canada)  is a big country with many people with many histories.

    Now I have some quite briliant Chinese from Shangai practicing medicine.

    America is a big inclusive country. My family proves it.

  63. 63.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Elizabelle:

    Oh. Just starting to sprinkle. And not dark yet. It’s the kids’ national holiday tonight … boo. Hoo. 

    Only the witches will melt.

  71. 71.

    mrmoshpotato

    @artem1s:

    interesting they’ve stopped promising to end ObamaCare though. 

    They got stupider shit now than “Obummercare will make us all Commies!”

  72. 72.

    Josie

    Voted early today in Houston (Harris County) and bullied my youngest son to join me. It was very quiet and orderly, no line but all machines were busy.
    We had a new method. You put your choices into a computer, it prints out the ballot, and then you take the ballot over to feed it into another machine.
    Lots of elderly conservative looking people, but my son assured me that I don’t look conservative even though I’m old. He may have been referring to my Halloween socks and skull earrings.​​

  77. 77.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Thanks to all you great Juicers who have been shelling out $$ for these causes.  You are all MVPS, for real!!

  79. 79.

    UncleEbeneezer

    IT IS DONE!!!

    My wife successfully got my parents moved in to their Retirement home on Saturday after a crazy month of prepping (all by herself), managing her parents’ personality bullshit, and despite a damn UTI infection that kicked in on moving day.  She’s better now and her Dad is living in the new place.  Friday, hopefully, M-I-L will be released from Rehab and join him at their new digs.  We will never have to see, visit or think about the shit-hole that is Sanger, TX again.  And now they are near downtown Dallas, with a Target, Trader Joes etc., just a couple miles away.  They will also have other people around them.  I’m so proud of my wife Kelly for getting through such a miserable and stressful ordeal.   Fourteen years together and twelve of those married, this five weeks is the longest stretch we’ve ever been apart. I’ll be picking her up from the airport on Election Day (hopefully a day of celebration) when she finally returns home :).

  80. 80.

    JoyceH

    I’m in the redrawn VA 7th, so adopted into Spanberger’s district. The ads against her are literally all “Pelosi Pelosi Pelosi”. Spanberger votes ONE HUNDRED PERFECT with Pelosi! She is Little Pelosi! And so on and so forth. They don’t even bother to say why that’s bad, so I guess they figure they’ve already villainized Pelosi enough.

    On the other side…

    Heh! Just as I was typing this, my television was running back to back anti-Vega ads. (And BTW, in a well-regulated universe, the name “Yesli Vega” would rightfully be assigned to a cool character, something like ‘Pirate Queen of the Rebel Fleet’, NOT a far right loonie-tunes.) There are no fewer than THREE different ads from different outside groups featuring different Republicans endorsing Spanberger because Vega is Too Extreme. Also a doctor saying that Vega is dead wrong, women CAN get pregnant from rape, a former law enforcement officer bashing her for praising the 1/6 insurrectionists, and several more about her extreme anti-abortion stance. Spanberger’s own ads are pretty much Above It All, about how she works across the aisle to get things done – probably what she has to do in this region.

    I’m just an Interested Observer now, voted ages ago, early in person.

  82. 82.

    patrick II

    5:00 pm Central Time and the first trick – or – treaters have already hit the door. I will he giving away a lot of Candy tonight.

  88. 88.

    Baud

    And this is absolutely confidential information – they told me so!

    So you’re like TFG with regard to protection of confidential information.

  89. 89.

    The Golux

    @Dangerman:

    Anyone ever get Wordle in 1?

    Yes.  That day’s word happened to be my usual starting word.  Of course, I then needed to come up with a new first word.

  93. 93.

    JoyceH

    BTW – in the charges against the Pelosi attacker, there’s the charge of Elder Abuse. Granted Paul Pelosi is in his 80s, but what’s the age cut off? I have the uneasy feeling that I’d qualify. (Medicare? Social Security?) I sure don’t feel Elderly! I’m just a kid with bad knees!

  95. 95.

    CaseyL

    I don’t remember ever getting a Wordle on the first go (but have gotten at least one on the second try), but I have gotten a hole in one on Unlimited Wordle.

  98. 98.

    Kay

    My youngest got a hand-lettered envelope from a group called Vote Forward. He’s at school so I texted him to ask if I could open – he hasn’t answered so I’m taking that as “yes” – he had 3 seconds, I can’t wait forever :)

    “Dear Kay’s Baby Boy (Name redacted)

    An important election is coming up on November 8, will you please join me as a voter? This is our chance to weigh in.

    Sincerely Greg S”

    The “handwriting” is that of a young person- their block printed scrawl.

    He absentee voted in MI with an OH ballot which I hand-delivered to the drop box so he’s good but this letter writing campaign was below my radar. Good! The more the merrier.

  99. 99.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: I doubt that you’ll find someone better at keeping confidences than me.  But that bullshit email?  Damn right I’m going to share that.

    I seriously wonder, though, how I got on their email list recently.  It better not have been you, Baud!  :-)

  111. 111.

    schrodingers_cat

    @bbleh: Not yet. My streak broke when I was flying to India and lost 10 hours while flying east

    ETA: Actually yes in the early days, when I had just discovered Wordle. ABBEY was the word I missed IIRC.

  113. 113.

    WaterGirl

    Oh, and I forgot to tell you what the Kimberly email said.  “Non-partisan 538” says that the R candidate is winning and is going to beat Lisa Murkowski.  All but guaranteed!

  115. 115.

    West of the Rockies

    Remember the days of genuine policy disagreement as opposed to the pure contrarianism and racist/misogynistic/homophobia Republicans sell today?

    Truly, I don’t know how the base goes through the day on a diet of rage and terror and resentment.  They must be miserable creatures.

  116. 116.

    WaterGirl

    @Leslie: That’s so kind of you!

    My veggies are roasting in the oven and I have leftover steak that I grilled yesterday, so I’m in good shape.  Just very hungry and my veggies won’t be done for another 15 minutes.  That seems like such a long time when I’m really hungry. :-)

  119. 119.

    bbleh

    @West of the Rockies: indeed! I believe most of their behavior, and their hatred, is rooted in FEAR. And fearful people take refuge in tribalism, simplistic and sometimes superstitious thinking, and of course anger.

  120. 120.

    Elizabelle

    GOP closing message:  Trick or Trick.

    Unless you’re a high wealth individual.  If so:  c’mon down!!

  122. 122.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @WaterGirl: Yes.  There is a Nursing Home right next-door, so if MIL ends up needing that it should be pretty easy to get her in there with FIL being able to visit all day and just going back to Retirement Home for meals and sleep.  One good thing about Dallas is that having a major medical center (including transplants) there, they have a bunch of Retirement, Assisted-Living, Skilled/Nursing Homes, you name it, all right near downtown and Love Field airport.

  123. 123.

    MomSense

    I’m watching The Beat and they are showing clips of Obama on the campaign trail.  He is the absolute best – the GOAT.

    Back in 2012 I was given the task of taking photos at one of his rallies for the Maine Obama social media pages.  I did take some of him but the campaign had photographers focused on him.  I mostly took photos of people watching him speak and people during and right after they shook his hand.  Those were some of the best photos ever.  He inspired such hope and joy in people.
    Such a contrast from the photos of the faces distorted by anger and cruelty at all the GOP rallies.

    I choose hope and joy every. damned. time.

    Let’s go win these elections!

  124. 124.

    SuzieC

    @Kay: My Indivisible Central Ohio group mailed about 10,600 Vote Forward letters.  It may have been one of ours!

  125. 125.

    Cmorenc

    @Nora:

    Even though gop candidates often omit mentioning their party affiliation on eg yard signs, nevertheless they do tend to use color coding (predominately red background) to strongly hint at it – speaking about prevailing practices in north carolina, but presumably this is a much more widespread phenomenon.

  126. 126.

    zhena gogolia

    @MomSense: I saw someone say (can’t remember who), I loved Obama but I would never put his name on a flag outside my house or put his picture on my wall, because I don’t belong to a cult. I agree, but I have to admit I do have a picture of him on my wall, because my husband and I are in the picture behind him! It’s on our bedroom wall. (But we’re not in a cult, we just love him.)

  127. 127.

    zhena gogolia

    Well, the only neighborhood kids we know just came for their treats, so I guess we’re done here.

  128. 128.

    Jackie

    WaterGirl, I was running some errands and turned the radio to a RW talk show. Since I live in Red Country, I wanted to hear what the local MAGAts are saying about local elections. The host was interviewing someone whose voice sounded familiar. A few sentences in, her voice broke as she mentioned her husband. BLECH! I quickly switched back to music LOL

  129. 129.

    Mike in NC

    Local GQP loonies are running some truly pathetic TV ads:

    – My opponent wants to defund the police

    – My opponent wants to raise the price of gas

    – My opponent wants to triple your taxes

    – My opponent wants to legalize crack and meth

    – My opponent wants to parole child molesters

    Etc.

  130. 130.

    martha

    @zhena gogolia: I still have my “Yes We Can” refrigerator magnet (the one where Barack and Michelle fist bump)…I see it multiple times a day and it makes me smile, so I’m with you!

  132. 132.

    Baud

    While HIV is a terrible disease, I’m kind of enjoying the spate of HIV medicine ads I’ve been seeing on the TV lately.  I bet it drives the GOP crazy.

  133. 133.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @C Stars: Thanks.  It’s all been a bit of a blur but now we have them in a much better scenario for dealing with their elder years.

  136. 136.

    Tokyokie

    Last week, my Filipina spouse got a mailer from some GOP-affiliated “independent” group filled with lies about how Democrats’ affirmative-action efforts will mean that Whites and Asians will no longer be hired for any jobs. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a campaign ad as openly racist, but I found the assumption that naked racism would appeal to Asians just as it does to Whites interesting. Like Asians think that the folks who put out that trash will be their buddies. (BTW, the spousal unit and I had already voted when the mailer arrived, and not for any of those hoping to benefit from it.)

  137. 137.

    Baud

    @Tokyokie:

    It’s topical since the Supreme Court is going to get rid of all affirmative action in college admissions.  The racists in that case are hiding behind Asians.

  138. 138.

    gene108

    @Nora:

    That whole “defund the police/back the blue” has been all over the place in my Congressional District (NY-19). Turns on the cash bail issue, which they are misleadingly claiming is a vote to put violent criminals back on the street. Let’s hope it doesn’t work as a theme.

    I see ads like that against Fetterman accusing him of letting violent criminals go free.

    I think it really depends on what scares voters more, losing access to abortion across the nation or something abstract like “out of control” crime.

  140. 140.

    randy khan

    I got an invitation today to join Glenn Youngkin, Karina Lipsman (the no-hoper running against the popular incumbent in my Congressional district), and Jim Myles (another no-hoper).  Weird that they’re doing that, honestly.

  142. 142.

    karen marie

    @rikyrah: “complete take down” overstates the case, as do most of these “watch this annihilation of X!”

    The overselling is ridiculous and damages the proponent’s credibility.

  143. 143.

    Geminid

    @randy khan: Foungkin Youngkin’s building up credits wherever he can. Across Virginia, and across the country.  He’ll try to cash them in 2024 or 2028.

  146. 146.

    Matt McIrvin

    @West of the Rockies:

    Remember the days of genuine policy disagreement as opposed to the pure contrarianism and racist/misogynistic/homophobia Republicans sell today?

    I remember when I THOUGHT it was genuine policy disagreement because I was a naive, earnest little kid who believed in playing by rules and being fair to your opponents.

    I’m not convinced it actually was.

  148. 148.

    Jim Appleton

    Here in Oregon two common lawn signs:

    “Facts Over Feelings.  Vote Republican!”

    “God.  Family.  Country.

    Vote Republican!”

    (This one bilingual)

  149. 149.

    karen marie

    @Baud: That attack is so ridiculous.  I don’t understand why it isn’t always greeted with “tell me, Republican office-seeker, what percentage you’ll be voting with the Democrats.”

  151. 151.

    persistentillusion

    @Kay: A local group I’m part of, Lady Dems (yes, formed during Bush The Lesser’s reign) chose to do Vote Forward letters.  I found it a well-thought project.  Letters which were directed to specific voters with room for a personal comment.  We were asked to hand write the comment and the envelope.  How it is effective!

  153. 153.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @Matt McIrvin: THIS!  The policy disagreements were always Racist Policy Vs. Less Racist (or even Anti-Racist) Policy.  Looking back, the GOP (and before that Southern Dem/Confederate) position was ALWAYS an argument against helping those people (Black, Women, LGBTQ, Muslims, Immigrants etc.) in any way possible and for upholding strict hierarchies.  Then as now, the GOP position was always that: There is no Ism/Phobia…but if there is, it is natural and they deserve it.

  154. 154.

    jonas

    @gwangung: ​
      Is that right? IIRC, the original suit was brought by an Asian plaintiff claiming they had been denied admission to Harvard because the school was effectively discriminating against qualified Asian/Asian-American applicants in order to admit more Blacks or something. Maybe I’m misremembering.

  157. 157.

    Baud

    @zhena gogolia:

    Just eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it

    Get yourself an egg and beat it

    Have some more chicken, have some more pie

    It doesn’t matter if it’s broiled or fried

    Just eat it, eat it, just eat it, eat it

    Just eat it, eat it, just eat it, eat it, ooh

  160. 160.

    Jackie

    @MattF: He promised not to testify against Trump, or Trump’s kids. But, his loyalty will be sorely tested if he is accused by the Trumps of tax cheating w/o their knowledge. Weisselberg already faces prison time for what he’s pled guilty to, but I doubt he will take the entire fall in protecting someone who turns their back on him.

  165. 165.

    WaterGirl

    @mrmoshpotato: Chicago-style crust is alternatively called “deep dish” or “Sicilian”.  It’s very thick, sometimes flaky (in the good way).  Way thicker than any of the nationwide chains that we might all know.

  177. 177.

    dave319

    @Nora: illuminating how the most obvious pushback to this Republican crime fear-mongering has yet to be deployed. Fact: the highest crime states in the US are all Republican led, so it’s obvious whatever the Republicans are doing on crime is not working. “What would you do about crime that would be any different from your fellow party members, Lee Zeldin, or Mr. New York 19?” “Back the blue!” Yeah, sure, into a corner with a bike rack and a flagpole, maybe…

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