Before we dig into the story at hand, I feel the need to say the following — just to get it out of the way: New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul is a dishonest partisan clown in search of a circus.

There. I feel better. OK, maybe not — but let's continue, anyway.

On Monday's episode of MSNBC's ridiculous Trump-loathing show, "Morning Joe," Hochul was given a platform from which to make disingenuous claims (lie about) ICE raids in pursuit of illegal aliens in New York, and even worse, to suggest (more lying) that ICE abducted children — without cause.

Jonathan Lemire, who shares "Morning Joe" hosting duties with TDS-riddled husband and wife duo, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, kicked off the festivities by first scaremongering about President Donald Trump's officially-named "One Big Beautiful Bill Act."

Switching gears now, New York Governor Kathy Hochul and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries rallied against Republicans' steep federal health care cuts in Brooklyn yesterday. The pair say that the GOP's, quote "one big, ugly bill," will have major consequences for patients and health care providers. 

The governor's office estimates the bill will leave 1.5 million New Yorkers uninsured and devastate hospitals and clinics statewide. And let's now indeed bring in New York's Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul. Mike Barnicle, always happy to have the governor here.

And 81-year-old contributor Mike Barnicle, who has been a fixture on the "Morning Joe" set for years, responded to Lemire's comments in predictable fashion:

Dealing with the federal government, as you do nearly every single day, the role of the federal government in New York state is obviously enormous. What -- what happens when the federal government tries to intervene with people's rights to walk along a sidewalk because they assume that they may be Middle Eastern -- they may be not from this country -- they may not have visa rights. 

So masked people jump out of these huge SUVs and apprehend people who are here legally. Is there any role for New York state or any role for the governor of the state of New York to intervene here -- to do anything about that?

Stop the tape. 

Counter to Democrat lies that ICE agents wear masks because they're cowards or whatever other demeaning reason, they wear those masks, Mr. Barnicle, to hide their identities and protect their families from increasingly violent radical leftists who hate the America we love.

Hochul's ensuing diatribe was as predictable as Illinois Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker downing a sackful of McDonald's Double Quarter Pounders with cheese in one setting:  

Let me just get back to what Jonathan says. I feel like we're under attack every single day by the federal government. You know, you just mentioned the fact that we can't develop vaccinations. I mean, we are always the place where the vaccinations spread the quickest. We're a very dense city. And I want to make sure they're developing vaccinations. 

And I want my three-year-old granddaughter to be able to get a COVID shot and my pregnant daughter to get a COVID shot. So my number one job as governor is to protect people. So now you're undermining our ability to make sure they're healthy, which is preventative care, and now you attack people walking down the streets of New York City.

Oh, please. 

First of all, I wasn't aware that Hochul is a noted expert on vaccines — particularly, pretend COVID vaccines — which don't vaccinate anyone from anything.

Second, if Hochul's number-one job is to protect New York citizens — meaning if she understands that's her job — she couldn't be doing a worse job if she tried. And as for perps attacking people walking down the streets of New York City, or randomly pushing people onto subway tracks, New Yorkers can blame only themselves for years of Democrat rule.

Hochul continued (emphasis, mine):

I have said this before, and I repeat it ever — forever. The state of New York will assist ICE in the deportation and apprehension of people who are serious criminals — violent offenders. None of us want them on our streets. 

But now you're going after individuals not just on the streets of New York City, Mike — they took a third-grader out of her bed at 6 a.m. in Sackets Harbor — which is Tom Homan's home town -- her dad was already milking cows at 6 a.m. They took her, her mother, and her teenage twin brothers, scoop them up, and dump them in a detention center for 11 days. I raised hell. How dare you do this?

Yeah, just one problem — as even The New York Times correctly reported:

The mother and her children, who have not been publicly identified, were taken into custody on March 27 after immigration agents arrived at North Harbor Dairy to arrest a South African man sought on a charge of distributing images of child sexual abuse, court documents said.

The man was arrested, and seven other people deemed to be in the United States illegally were detained as well, Thomas D. Homan, the Trump administration’s “border czar,” said last week in an interview with a local TV station, WWNY.

“It wasn’t a raid,” Mr. Homan said in the interview. “It was a search warrant execution at a house where a family was found in the country illegally.”

Hochul continued to spew disingenuous bilge:

And this is the most Republican part of our state. It's Elise Stefanik's district, and the farm — it's literally called Old McDonald's Farm — it's been there for five generations. They were shocked. This community rallied behind this hard-working immigrant family, so that's what's happening not just here in New York but on farms all over New York. And it is debilitating for our farm community and people who just want to live their lives.

Uh-huh, governor. 

What difference does the nickname of the farm have? What difference does the number of generations who have lived on the farm make? And, if people just want to live their lives, as Hochul said, wouldn't removing an illegal alien sought on a charge of distributing images of child sexual abuse, as well as seven other illegals, be in the best and safest interests of those people? 

And finally, wasn't it the responsible thing to do to remove a mother and her children from a potentially dangerous situation until the whole thing could be sorted out?

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Kathy Hochul is a quintessential example of what's wrong with today's Democrat Party. 

Rather than tell New Yorkers the truth, Hochul chooses — at every concocted opportunity — to scaremonger, tell half-truths, and when she deems it necessary, reduce herself to bald-faced lies.

The Democrat Party has never been less popular as voters reject their globalist agenda.

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