I can’t tell you how unpleasant it was living during that period when the conservative movement had a man crush on Chris Christie because his people were good at pumping out viral videos of him yelling at somebody. That period ended decisively during his dalliance with Obama after the hurricane.
It didn’t however keep him from being ‘around’. And he still is. Unfortunately.
Christie was about as conservative as Obama. He played the populist in video clips, but he just continued running a mafia state further into the ground by embracing every leftist agenda item.
Including letting criminals run loose. It’s so bad that Democrats are cleaning up after him.
Eight years ago, then-Republican Gov. Chris Christie teamed up with Democrats to pass a major overhaul of New Jersey’s criminal justice system, ushering through legislation that made the state among the first in the nation to effectively eliminate cash bail.
There was little political uproar.
Now, some of the state’s most powerful Democrats want to roll back those changes amid rising crime and political lessons from neighboring New York, where another bail overhaul became a major issue in the midterms and fueled key House losses for the party.
The new push in Trenton, likely to win supporters among Republicans who were already pushing to change the law, represents a stunning reversal for the social justice movement, demonstrating just how rapidly recent calls for reform have given way to a new era of tough-on-crime politics.
We’re a long, long way from tough-on-crime politics. These days, suggesting that we might need to stop releasing axe murderers 5 seconds after they get their fingers inked is considered controversial.
“We’ve ended a debtors’ prison in New Jersey with these actions,” Christie, who had an eye on the White House, said while heralding the achievement.
And he kept on defending unleashing criminals using the same fake tough guy routine.
Christie was responding to a comment from a listener who said bail reforms that took effect in January are not working and allow more violent offenders to be released without any oversight.
Christie argued that bail reforms target nonviolent defendants, many of whom are given electronic monitoring bracelets as a condition of their release. He also said he suspected the critic was either a bail agent or was repeating the “crap they put up there” on Facebook.
“The bail bonds community has made a fortune over the years predominately off of the poor in New Jersey, and we now are stopping them from doing that, and they’re pissed,” he said in a New Jersey 101.5 interview. “Too bad. You shouldn’t be making money off the poor that way.”
That was 5 years ago. Christie, as usual, has a whole new tune now.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie argued on Friday that New York’s bail reform failure and the attack on Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., could “catapult” the congressman to victory in the gubernatorial election.
“You add to it this revolving door bail reform that they did in New York that is foolhardy and always has been. And everybody from the beginning, who knows anything about law enforcement, has said that this is wrong,” Christie told “The Brian Kilmeade Show.”
“Because people are seeing this every day in their neighborhoods all across the state of New York, and they’re tired of it. And they’re tired of the woke liberalism that’s personified by D.A. Bragg in Manhattan and all these other woke legislators.”
All that woke liberalism, indeed.
The whole thing is a reminder that as much contempt as you might have for Chris Christie, it’s never enough. It ought to be as bottomless as his belly. It’s also as bottomless as the contempt he has for the people listening to him.
Gotta get in shape for 2024.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) indicated during a television appearance that aired Friday he was not ruling out another run for president.
During an appearance on “Real Time With Bill Maher,” Maher presented Christie with a viewer question, asking him if there’s any truth to the speculation that he’s considering a 2024 presidential bid, to which Christie quickly replied, “sure.”
Happy days are here again.
He can maybe waddle to the Presidency, but I doubt he can run.
No, I’ve seen him run (not far, of course), and it’s hilarious.
Of course, when I see an obese person jogging, or at the gym exercising to work it off, I send them heartfelt prayers and mental support for their perseverance and success.
he can eat the presidency
Thanks for the reminder Daniel. I had forgotten it, but at the time reading of chrisie’s bail ‘reform’ was a big wtf flag on him, for me. Figure’s some RINO was the first to kick it off, like mittens was with health care ‘reform.’
I already knew the GOP was infiltrated, but the reaction to Trump by the GOPe really opened my eyes to the extent.
When I returned to Pennington 10 years ago, I naturally visited Trenton, the city where I was born and raised thru young adulthood. I drove by the State House many times during my youth, it was vibrant with activity, as was the entire city…the bridge across the Delaware stated “Trenton Makes, the World takes” or something like that in bright, big red letters.
Trenton is now a dump, the city is dead, the great industries gone or abandoned (many plants have chain link fences around their properties to avoid EPA issues as best they can). The block homes where factory workers once lived are now run down and occupied by those on welfare. Criminals walk the streets where baby carriages used to be pushed–where kids like me played in the streets and the alleys every day.
Christie has been a part of this political mess, a big part in many ways. Just drive down State Street, thru town and note the expanding deterioration …see the hell hole this once great city has become!
it’s tragic, although unfortunately a story that repeats across many manufacturing cities
Christie promised to turn things around and made them worse instead, but you can say the same for Buttigieg and Booker, and look how far they’ve gone
Almost an archetypal story, a great city ruined.
If I’m not mistaken, Trump also screwed the pooch with his “Prison Reform” debacle. My short-term memory seems to recall that his actions were what endeared Kanye to him.
Trump did many good things. Prison Reform was not one of them.
“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” ― Lenin
It can be hard to tell if careerism-amoralism-corruption or moral conviction is what motivates a RINO. Either way it benefits the Leftists.
That’s why only a moral (rational selfishness) revolution for Capitalism can save America. It’s the true-believers for a moral cause that determine history. Amoral scumbags simply follow whichever way the wind is blowing.
“History is made by minorities—or, more precisely, history is made by intellectual movements, which are created by minorities.” – Ayn Rand
Democrats have their obese candidate too in Pritzker. Will be fun to watch both!