She was responding to a question about Trump's use of the word hostages to describe those charged and convicted. He has promised to pardon these felons, some of whom viciously beat and injured police officers. The obstruction charge is being disputed in court. The assault charges are not.
Dennis, I appreciate your willingness to engage. Your circumstances here are the reverse of other participants in this GOP-dominated area. You do not really answer the question I posed: Hiw could you support Trump given his manifest unfitness for office? Did you ever think you’d vote for a man who said he could just “grab women by the pussy” because he was a star? Who mocked a disabled reporter with a grotesque imitation?
There should be a point at which personal failings are too large to overcome policy affiliations. Trump has been credibly accused by more than a dozen women of sexual assault. A jury in a civil trial just ruled he violent sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room. Numerous small business owners have testified he stiffed them. He mocked a disabled reporter in the most repugnant way imaginable. The list is long, and the behavior is far beyond the pale.
I agree. It was a positive action the House finally took. It's worth noting, though, that the majority of Republicans voted not to expel Santos. And our own Congresswomen voted not to expel him, as well.
<So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great "Founders" did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!>
That’s the great historian and constitutional scholar Donald Trump interpreting for us how the founders would want to suspend the Constitution so that he can continue being president.
Anyone voting for him should really do a check on their patriotic values.
Just for the record this is after he’s been told over and over that there’s no fraud. Other than him, of course. He used the election lie to convince the J6ers to take part in a coup effort for him. He’s used it to take in millions of dollars.
He should be charged with wire fraud along with everything else. Elizabeth Holmes is doing 11 years for less than Trump did.
Reminder that Trump has been found guilty of “sexual assault”in a civil suit. I know of no other members of either party who have that distinction. And this man was president.
Well stated. We once were able to speak with respect to others with differing ideas without a litiney of insults based on our differing opinions on politics. I could understand why many people are upset but it saddens me to see how nasty comments hurt people the commenters may have liked otherwise. Venting anger on people who once may have respected the person making the comments. Such comments often cause disrespect that is never forgotten. It surely isn't the way to bring your ideas for change to people who will never hear you over your the nastily stated comments. Let's focus on the things we can agree on and also agree we can disagree on politics and still have civil conversations about commonalities. By the way I am not a "Susie Sunshine" I have plenty of thoughts like those spoken by some others but I respect my friends family and neighbors enough to know what is best left unstated.
Based on facts, not meanness or hate, Trump's policies were utterly horrific. Not to mention his attempt to hold onto power like a dictator after losing the election.
I disagree 100% with Mr. Seeman but applaud his consistency. i like people who don't waiver and I know his position and where he stands. To continue the dialogue,
when Gillibrand was our representative in Congress didn't, she support the NRA, didn't Shumer suggest violence against sitting Supreme Court Justices and didn't Clinton question what the definition of "is, is".
No one who follows these posts' will change their opinion and, for most, some are obsessed with demeaning our Congressional Representative and this is daily choir practice.
Successful Republican Woman are always the target. The low point was an editorial penned by Will Doolittle years ago defaming Congressman Solomon's widow. She lost her husband but was "fair game" by the Post Star because she was a Republican Woman. Question where the hate speech started? Let's go after the deceased Congressman, Korean War Veteran's widow and see how low we can you go. Art Irving would have fired Will Doolittle. That's the difference.
Stefanik is the perfect puppet for Trump's sound bites. She has them memorized and knows exactly when to spin and spit them out. "Bias media, hoax, witch hunt, Biden crime family" etc. and while she is still stilted and mechanical with no real feeling of empathy or authenticity, it's been a stellar rise from the day she was interviewed on the front steps of the Glens Falls Senior Center by a local TV affiliate and she abruptly cut the interview short and retreated when they got the best of her nonsense conversation. This is a nobody who won because of a series of coincidences (more like Keystone Cop comedy of errors) and now is a likely candidate for VP with the most despicable, evil con man and grifter that has ever won the POTUS position. Beware the Devils in disguise, and she's just as evil as he is. Power is a very dangerous thing when it's in the wrong hands, and these two will destroy our version of democracy if they were to win.
Thanks, I met her the year she first ran. I was Deputy Town Supervisor, Town Councilman, and DEM Town Chair for Hartford NY township. She came to march in our annual Memorial Day parade as did other political candidates like Carrie Woerner. Our Town Supervisor asked each candidate if they won, would they come back and march next year. They all said yes, and Stefanik won and only showed up once about 7 years later. Carrie Woerner came back every year while Hartford was still in her district. For those who saw the local TV interview when she got flustered and shut down the interview and retreated, that was a telling moment. She never would have won if Matt Doheny had honored his promise to continue to run in the race on his other line IF he lost the REP primary because that would have split off a lot of the REP votes and allowed the DEM to win. But, ironically, since the only way you can get off the ballot once petitions are finalized, is you die, become a convicted felon or run for another office. Lo and behold, Doheny, REP from Alexandria Bay in St. Lawrence County, ended up running for a Judgeship in Brooklyn of all places? Imagine that? I wonder if a phone call from a very high level REP in DC might have changed his mind? That was the year she ran against Aaron Woolf, who like her had changed his permanent residency to a summer home in the district, but had been living in Brooklyn. Stefanik's REP marketing people branded Woolf as "Brooklyn's Upstate Congressman" and with Funnicello grabbing a percentage of the votes, she won. Had Doheny stayed in, we might be living a different story.
Thanks for the walk down Stefanik memory lane. I remember going to Old Forge to see the debate with all four candidates(pretty sure Doheny was there). I mainly went to see and meet Matt Funnicello and started to work on his campaign. In my opinion Matt was the best candidate there and I still hold him in high regard.
Thanks so much for sharing your enthusiasm for the LARAC show! It was the first time one of my pieces was exhibited and so much fun to be part of the whole experience, meet some of the other artists and see people of all ages enjoying a range of art and mediums.
Hi Pattie got pictures, post a link. I thought of being an artist once, there were just a few things I lacked, creativity for one. I could punch out widgets all day long but to think of a new, that’s one thing I lack.
I live nearby too and get to walk by Mr. Reynold’s home. His bold signs give be a boost! I knocked on his door to thank him once but he wasn’t home. Glad he answered your knock Will!
Sedition Stefanik isn’t fooling those of us who have seen through her behavior. Miss Harvard knows better but continues to spew MAGA rhetoric for one reason only. For Elise it’s all about self interest . Her political ambition has turned her into a cold calculating opportunist. She will do anything at achieve that goal.
Will, your wordsmithing is a pleasure to read. I, too, have often wondered about how angry Trump's and ES's supporters always are. But I do agree with you. I have known a few people in the past, and now many more, who are not happy unless they're in a permanent snit. I'll never understand it, but apparently "they" do, and have tapped into it royally. I love reading your and Ken's observations. Long time reader, first time commenter.
Thank you for shining a light on Bobby Reynolds’s life, past and present. As a former Cherry St. kid, my brothers and I lived next door to the Reynolds/Messita family home, and the aromas from their simmering Sunday “Italian sauce” permeated our Italian-Irish neighborhood. They even had their own backyard vineyard, and to this day the taste of ripe Concord grapes transports me back to those early childhood summers.
As a 5 yr. old standing on my tip toes at his Mom’s open bedroom window, I used to wave to her when she became ill. She was a beautiful woman. We were told one day “She has gone to Heaven…”
After not seeing Bobby in over 50 yrs., we had an unexpected reconnection after I moved back to GF, and I learned of his resilience and perseverance in building and rebuilding his life after all the fractures within his family experiences. Seeing him this morning in your photo, and knowing what courage it takes for him to proudly stand up for his convictions, with or without his brave signage, makes me so very proud of this former Cherry St. kid. God bless you, Bobby!
Dennis care to explain that one? Since you pointed out what you said you would not point it out. But that's not the one I would like you to explain.
She was responding to a question about Trump's use of the word hostages to describe those charged and convicted. He has promised to pardon these felons, some of whom viciously beat and injured police officers. The obstruction charge is being disputed in court. The assault charges are not.
Dennis, I appreciate your willingness to engage. Your circumstances here are the reverse of other participants in this GOP-dominated area. You do not really answer the question I posed: Hiw could you support Trump given his manifest unfitness for office? Did you ever think you’d vote for a man who said he could just “grab women by the pussy” because he was a star? Who mocked a disabled reporter with a grotesque imitation?
There should be a point at which personal failings are too large to overcome policy affiliations. Trump has been credibly accused by more than a dozen women of sexual assault. A jury in a civil trial just ruled he violent sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room. Numerous small business owners have testified he stiffed them. He mocked a disabled reporter in the most repugnant way imaginable. The list is long, and the behavior is far beyond the pale.
I agree. It was a positive action the House finally took. It's worth noting, though, that the majority of Republicans voted not to expel Santos. And our own Congresswomen voted not to expel him, as well.
<So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great "Founders" did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!>
That’s the great historian and constitutional scholar Donald Trump interpreting for us how the founders would want to suspend the Constitution so that he can continue being president.
Anyone voting for him should really do a check on their patriotic values.
Just for the record this is after he’s been told over and over that there’s no fraud. Other than him, of course. He used the election lie to convince the J6ers to take part in a coup effort for him. He’s used it to take in millions of dollars.
He should be charged with wire fraud along with everything else. Elizabeth Holmes is doing 11 years for less than Trump did.
Reminder that Trump has been found guilty of “sexual assault”in a civil suit. I know of no other members of either party who have that distinction. And this man was president.
Well stated. We once were able to speak with respect to others with differing ideas without a litiney of insults based on our differing opinions on politics. I could understand why many people are upset but it saddens me to see how nasty comments hurt people the commenters may have liked otherwise. Venting anger on people who once may have respected the person making the comments. Such comments often cause disrespect that is never forgotten. It surely isn't the way to bring your ideas for change to people who will never hear you over your the nastily stated comments. Let's focus on the things we can agree on and also agree we can disagree on politics and still have civil conversations about commonalities. By the way I am not a "Susie Sunshine" I have plenty of thoughts like those spoken by some others but I respect my friends family and neighbors enough to know what is best left unstated.
According the the Medical journal the Lancet: "Roughly 40% of the USA’s coronavirus deaths could have been prevented, new study says" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/02/11/lancet-commission-donald-trump-covid-19-health-medicare-for-all/4453762001/
Based on facts, not meanness or hate, Trump's policies were utterly horrific. Not to mention his attempt to hold onto power like a dictator after losing the election.
Dennis mine aren't, I think they're simple. Who I like, is who I vote for, not sure "like" is the word to use, but at the mount that's all I got.
Unless water starts running up hill on its own, both Elise Stefanik and ken Tingley are out;
I might think about the baker guy but he seems to have dropped out,
You keep changing the topic and not addressing the main topic of the column. That is why so many consider you a troll.
On behalf of millions of uterus having Americans, I hope your “win” for a conservative court turns around and bites you in the rump next election.
Heather Cox Richardson’s post this evening addressed this very topic…
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/january-21-2024?r=16oz5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I respectfully disagree Dennis. Can you point out Rep. Tonko, Sen. Schumer or Gillibrand, using buzzwords without facts, like Stefanik does?
It might feel good or seem balanced to say a pox on all their houses, but it's not right.
Democrats are by and large based in facts and science, utterly unlike Stefanik, Trump & co.
I disagree 100% with Mr. Seeman but applaud his consistency. i like people who don't waiver and I know his position and where he stands. To continue the dialogue,
when Gillibrand was our representative in Congress didn't, she support the NRA, didn't Shumer suggest violence against sitting Supreme Court Justices and didn't Clinton question what the definition of "is, is".
No one who follows these posts' will change their opinion and, for most, some are obsessed with demeaning our Congressional Representative and this is daily choir practice.
Successful Republican Woman are always the target. The low point was an editorial penned by Will Doolittle years ago defaming Congressman Solomon's widow. She lost her husband but was "fair game" by the Post Star because she was a Republican Woman. Question where the hate speech started? Let's go after the deceased Congressman, Korean War Veteran's widow and see how low we can you go. Art Irving would have fired Will Doolittle. That's the difference.
Really an inappropriate post which had nothing to do with anything written here.
I was gonna ask what in the holy hell that vulgar diatribe meant. It’s your page, Ken, but I urge you to consider blocking this guy.
Stefanik is the perfect puppet for Trump's sound bites. She has them memorized and knows exactly when to spin and spit them out. "Bias media, hoax, witch hunt, Biden crime family" etc. and while she is still stilted and mechanical with no real feeling of empathy or authenticity, it's been a stellar rise from the day she was interviewed on the front steps of the Glens Falls Senior Center by a local TV affiliate and she abruptly cut the interview short and retreated when they got the best of her nonsense conversation. This is a nobody who won because of a series of coincidences (more like Keystone Cop comedy of errors) and now is a likely candidate for VP with the most despicable, evil con man and grifter that has ever won the POTUS position. Beware the Devils in disguise, and she's just as evil as he is. Power is a very dangerous thing when it's in the wrong hands, and these two will destroy our version of democracy if they were to win.
Great insights Bob. Keep em comin
Thanks, I met her the year she first ran. I was Deputy Town Supervisor, Town Councilman, and DEM Town Chair for Hartford NY township. She came to march in our annual Memorial Day parade as did other political candidates like Carrie Woerner. Our Town Supervisor asked each candidate if they won, would they come back and march next year. They all said yes, and Stefanik won and only showed up once about 7 years later. Carrie Woerner came back every year while Hartford was still in her district. For those who saw the local TV interview when she got flustered and shut down the interview and retreated, that was a telling moment. She never would have won if Matt Doheny had honored his promise to continue to run in the race on his other line IF he lost the REP primary because that would have split off a lot of the REP votes and allowed the DEM to win. But, ironically, since the only way you can get off the ballot once petitions are finalized, is you die, become a convicted felon or run for another office. Lo and behold, Doheny, REP from Alexandria Bay in St. Lawrence County, ended up running for a Judgeship in Brooklyn of all places? Imagine that? I wonder if a phone call from a very high level REP in DC might have changed his mind? That was the year she ran against Aaron Woolf, who like her had changed his permanent residency to a summer home in the district, but had been living in Brooklyn. Stefanik's REP marketing people branded Woolf as "Brooklyn's Upstate Congressman" and with Funnicello grabbing a percentage of the votes, she won. Had Doheny stayed in, we might be living a different story.
Thanks for the walk down Stefanik memory lane. I remember going to Old Forge to see the debate with all four candidates(pretty sure Doheny was there). I mainly went to see and meet Matt Funnicello and started to work on his campaign. In my opinion Matt was the best candidate there and I still hold him in high regard.
I agree.
God bless Mr. Reynolds. Share this with him.
https://youtu.be/xOi2cYz5nXE?si=mI1nrnADa1ewcWfd
Thanks so much for sharing your enthusiasm for the LARAC show! It was the first time one of my pieces was exhibited and so much fun to be part of the whole experience, meet some of the other artists and see people of all ages enjoying a range of art and mediums.
Hi Pattie got pictures, post a link. I thought of being an artist once, there were just a few things I lacked, creativity for one. I could punch out widgets all day long but to think of a new, that’s one thing I lack.
I live nearby too and get to walk by Mr. Reynold’s home. His bold signs give be a boost! I knocked on his door to thank him once but he wasn’t home. Glad he answered your knock Will!
Diane Collins
Right on Will
FYI, Cynthia Pooler interviewed me, where I shared my observations about Trump's #1 sycophant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBbI2GoJHT0
You’ll like this, Joe.
https://x.com/sarahlarchmont/status/1748805969910562955?s=46
Sedition Stefanik isn’t fooling those of us who have seen through her behavior. Miss Harvard knows better but continues to spew MAGA rhetoric for one reason only. For Elise it’s all about self interest . Her political ambition has turned her into a cold calculating opportunist. She will do anything at achieve that goal.
Excellent point re Stefaniks use of word “hostages.” Keep up the great writing!
Will, your wordsmithing is a pleasure to read. I, too, have often wondered about how angry Trump's and ES's supporters always are. But I do agree with you. I have known a few people in the past, and now many more, who are not happy unless they're in a permanent snit. I'll never understand it, but apparently "they" do, and have tapped into it royally. I love reading your and Ken's observations. Long time reader, first time commenter.
Incisive description of Elise Stefanik’s particular vicious robotic awkwardness.
“Malatrumpism” needs to enter our lexicon.
Thanks for the gratuitous name check!
Oh! “Buzz-word saw!”
Thank you for shining a light on Bobby Reynolds’s life, past and present. As a former Cherry St. kid, my brothers and I lived next door to the Reynolds/Messita family home, and the aromas from their simmering Sunday “Italian sauce” permeated our Italian-Irish neighborhood. They even had their own backyard vineyard, and to this day the taste of ripe Concord grapes transports me back to those early childhood summers.
As a 5 yr. old standing on my tip toes at his Mom’s open bedroom window, I used to wave to her when she became ill. She was a beautiful woman. We were told one day “She has gone to Heaven…”
After not seeing Bobby in over 50 yrs., we had an unexpected reconnection after I moved back to GF, and I learned of his resilience and perseverance in building and rebuilding his life after all the fractures within his family experiences. Seeing him this morning in your photo, and knowing what courage it takes for him to proudly stand up for his convictions, with or without his brave signage, makes me so very proud of this former Cherry St. kid. God bless you, Bobby!