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I know! You would think the first woman on the Court was Ginsberg with all the hoopla surrounding her.

According to liberals, Ginsberg WAS the first woman on the Court. They consistently believe their own LIES.

May she Rest in Peace...

LOL!

I haven’t check the rates, but if they are at a 50 year low, it is only because the rates are counted on convictions. If they’re not prosecuting crimes, the rates go down, despite there being more crimes committed.

Good point.

I am outside of Los Angeles - in a nice suburb, but things are certainly locked up around here.

I am just speechless, reading your post. I understand why things have to be locked up in the failing, crime-ridden Blue cities of California (and other states), but... you have to put up with this nonsense in suburban areas?? Talk about lack of freedom. Sounds prison-like.

Hubby and I are in Connecticut now (north of Hartford near the Massachusetts line). Nice area. We are moving to the South Carolina lowcountry (another nice area) we're actually in transition between the two places now.

I've NEVER seen merchandise locked up behind plexiglass (with a few rare exceptions) in any Target, Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, etc. It's just unheard of in both parts of CT and SC we live in. Life goes on as normal...

I didn’t either. There’s a slight amount of hope here... I guess.

I miss William F Buckley’s Firing Line where intelligent people with diametrically opposite views were able to debate without interrupting each other.

We all miss civilized debates like that, but those days are long gone. There really wasn't that much crosstalk during tonight's debate. The worst of it came near the end of the debate.

Many, many debates in recent years were far worse, as far as the candidates talking over each other.

Wow. Where are you in CA -- with everything locked up like that?

My husband and I recently visited Los Angeles a few times (visiting family there) and saw just about everything locked up inside many stores, but LA is a major city of course. Is the great California store lock-up going on all over the state?

Hubby left California (SF Bay Area) back in the mid-1980s. He has zero interest in going back.

I just hate seeing people crap on DeSantis because he is a truly good man with good ideals.

Totally agree. I like Trump and DeSantis. It's shocking to me to read a lot of the comments and slurs by pro-Trump / anti-DeSantis supporters here over the past year or so. Makes me wonder if some of 'em were rooting for Newsom earlier tonight.

San Francisco: Where the dogs step in human poop

ROTFL! 🤣

I agree with Penn that DeSantis had a good night. My only issue is agreeing with you that Sean did well as a moderator. No can do my friend. They were taking over one another and Sean lost control when he didn’t insist on getting his questions answered.

Mark Penn pretty much stated that Sean did a great job with tonight's debate. He congratulated Sean.

Call me crazy, but I went back and watched the debate again (minus commercials). There was some crosstalk between DeSantis and Newsom in only a few of the segments -- not as many as I remembered initially.

In the segment about homelessness (which was near the end of the debate), Sean did wimp out and let Newsom bloviate. Greasy Gavin really tried to dominate DeSantis, and he even interrupted Hannity in mid-sentence. Sean should've cut Newsom short right there.

And of course in the final question, Newsom never really answered the question about what he liked about Florida.

Overall, the crosstalk wasn't the worst I've heard in tonight's debate - not by a long shot. I don't remember the last time I ever heard many decent answers by democRATs to any moderators' questions over the decades I've been watching political debates. These a-hole smarmy democRATs always do what Newsom did tonight.

I still say overall Hannity did very good job as moderator tonight. Hubby and I are both surprised he did as well as he did. I fully expected Sean to interrupt and bloviate at times, and lose control on numerous occasions, which he didn't do.

I'm afraid we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one, FRiend. I'm not a super Hannity fan either. I just thought overall he did a very good job.

Watching the debate for the 2nd time: Ron DeSantis really knocked it out of the park tonight.

Great to see you on the thread tonight. :-)

Great points re Greasy Gavin’s body language tonight.

👍

Mark Penn: “Congratulations, Sean, on the very best political debate of 2023. It was substantive…. DeSantis had the best night of his campaign tonight.”

Yes, Penn is a democRAT, but he’s seen a ton of political debates in his life.

I agree. That and DeSantis holding up the infamous San Francisco POOP MAP. Hilarious.

Newsom is such an obvious SNAKE, it was clear to the audience Newsom couldn’t dispute all the lousy facts about his state. He changed the subject, attacked DeSantis (and all Republicans), lied about everything, etc.

We didn’t think this debate was out of control for the majority of the debate. Hannity did good to put up all those stats, too. This debate was better than many others we’ve seen over the years. Unique, too. Pitting a Red State governor vs. a Blue State governor, live on National TV.

ROTFLOL!!

Wow, that was fast! Thanks for that link. The SF neighborhood fecal guide. 😆

This is the most substantive political debate we’ve seen in a long time. DeSantis hitting it out of the park over lounge lizard Newsom…