Comments on: Pelosi and the Democrats: the capturers in the rye https://thenewneo.com/2019/03/18/pelosi-and-the-democrats-the-capturers-in-the-rye/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 19 Mar 2019 17:26:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: F https://thenewneo.com/2019/03/18/pelosi-and-the-democrats-the-capturers-in-the-rye/#comment-2427760 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 17:26:07 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=85622#comment-2427760 You’re right, Neo — I missed that. Hard to believe. But then it’s hard to believe a lot of what Democrats have come up with since Trump’s inauguration: postpartum abortion, Green New Deal, the new wave of anti-Semitism. The lunatics have taken over the asylum.

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2019/03/18/pelosi-and-the-democrats-the-capturers-in-the-rye/#comment-2427759 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 17:06:56 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=85622#comment-2427759 F:

While I doubt very much that Pelosi has been in favor of this for long, she most definitely did not just think of it. In fact, it is a movement within the Democratic Party. They recently took a vote on it, with 125 Democratic members of Congress in support. That’s a majority of the Democrats in the House.

This needs to be taken very seriously. I believe they are intent on doing it if they ever get control of House, Senate, and the Presidency.

Perhaps you missed it; it happened on Mar 8. I think I’ll write a post about it.

]]> By: F https://thenewneo.com/2019/03/18/pelosi-and-the-democrats-the-capturers-in-the-rye/#comment-2427751 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:07:06 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=85622#comment-2427751 My take on this latest bit of tomfoolery by Nancy Pelosi is that she has learned well from Trump: keep the opposition stirred up! She has never thought about this before, despite her avowal that she has. The idea came to her, in fact, a few minutes before she said it. And once it came into her head, she realized it would divert the news media from their questions about Democratic anti-Semitism, about the Green New Deal, and generally about all the losing cards she has in her hand right now. But giving 16 year olds the vote — now there’s an idea that will dominate the news cycle! Go with it!

]]> By: melange https://thenewneo.com/2019/03/18/pelosi-and-the-democrats-the-capturers-in-the-rye/#comment-2427743 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:31:19 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=85622#comment-2427743 The young persons’ vote has always been thought of as somewhat unreliable. Reliably Democrat, no doubt, but unreliable when it comes to turnout.

By lowering the voting age to 16, the Democrats envision ways of making this bloc reliable. With the proliferation of “vote harvesting” practices, less-motivated young voters could have their ballots filled out and filed for them by just giving a Democrat party worker their say-so in person or over the phone. Plus, with high schoolers now on the voting rolls, schools can compel students to register and vote. Of course, the schools will hide behind the defense that they aren’t telling them WHO to vote for, but let’s be serious–the kids are all going to vote Democrat.

]]> By: Tom Grey https://thenewneo.com/2019/03/18/pelosi-and-the-democrats-the-capturers-in-the-rye/#comment-2427718 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:20:16 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=85622#comment-2427718 Byrds – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKKLIrOGfUo
Dylan – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7seZjqkk2n0

Great music. Always like the Byrds; only sometimes Dylan – in the mood, you gotta love him.

]]> By: Tom Grey https://thenewneo.com/2019/03/18/pelosi-and-the-democrats-the-capturers-in-the-rye/#comment-2427713 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 08:32:37 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=85622#comment-2427713 Dylan wrote it (and sings it on one of his Greatest Hits collections), but as usual with great Dylan hits, the Byrds do a better pop song with it. It’s also in their Greatest Hits.

The PC-Klan wants 5 & 6 year olds to be able to choose their genders, even against the consent of their parents.

If you’re old enough to decide what gender to choose, you’re old enough to vote, aren’t you?

It’s ridiculous. But now that the Dems have discovered vote harvesting, they’re ready to steal win more elections with their “new tech”.

Perhaps this is just a distraction attack, to help avoid talking about hundreds of Christians being murdered by Muslims in 2019.

]]> By: Bryan Lovely https://thenewneo.com/2019/03/18/pelosi-and-the-democrats-the-capturers-in-the-rye/#comment-2427709 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 07:47:52 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=85622#comment-2427709 Originally Dylan in 1964, covered by The Byrds in 1967. So saith Wikipedia, who I trust for this sort of thing. Really, just read the lyrics and you know it’s not a Byrds original. 🙂

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Back_Pages

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2019/03/18/pelosi-and-the-democrats-the-capturers-in-the-rye/#comment-2427706 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 06:16:16 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=85622#comment-2427706 Those who climb over your Facebook wall to virtue signal are those who virtue signal. It’s the ones who aren’t signaling who may make the difference. That’s what I suspect.

Not ‘virtue signalling’. The Democrats on our friend list just have to tell you what’s on their mind (usually stupid memes). The Republicans post pictures of their grandchildren. Different cultures in the parties.

None of my acquaintance wanted to talk about it

Again, I’m speaking of people who volunteer opinions routinely.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2019/03/18/pelosi-and-the-democrats-the-capturers-in-the-rye/#comment-2427705 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 06:13:19 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=85622#comment-2427705 Bob Dylan, “My Back Pages”

The Byrds.

]]> By: Bryan Lovely https://thenewneo.com/2019/03/18/pelosi-and-the-democrats-the-capturers-in-the-rye/#comment-2427703 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 05:48:02 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=85622#comment-2427703 I remember the kinds of things I thought about politics when I was sixteen. Yeesh.

“Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.” — Bob Dylan, “My Back Pages”

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