Pols blast ‘The Simpsons’ over scathing upstate New York dis
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Carl Campanile
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Posted By: mc squared,
4/30/2019 10:29:00 AM
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other pols swung back hard Monday after an episode of “The Simpsons” Sunday skewered upstate New York as a region littered with ghost towns and crumbling infrastructure. “We’re headed to the one place that can never decline because it was never that great: upstate New York,” Homer says as the Simpson family heads to Niagara Falls. During the trip, a tractor-trailer is seen swallowed by a pothole. They pass a shut-down Kodak plant in Rochester as people snap selfies. They also whiz by a leaking water tower in Niskayuna, near Albany.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
abuela10 4/30/2019 10:33:04 AM (No. 72864)
Upstate New York is beautiful and Dem politicians and enviro-wackoes are responsible for stopping any developing of great resources.
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The left-tards don´t like the spotlight shown on their failures.
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Ha, ha, ha, ha. NY libs can dish it out when the target is conservatives or conservative causes, but they can´t take it. Typical libs, thin-skinned, no sense of humor, self-righteous.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/30/2019 10:59:53 AM (No. 72848)
As that great philosopher Nelson Muntz would say, Ha Ha.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Clinger 4/30/2019 11:05:05 AM (No. 72860)
Pardon me for coming in from an uninformed point of view, but hasn´t the uptick in Upstate NY coincided with the national Uptick since oh say January of 2017 or thereabouts?
I´d also suspect that there are differences between urban Upstate and not so urban Upstate. Urban America has been under the stranglehold of democrat control and Urban America and has been crumbling for many decades not just in NY. Chicago just lost another 20,000 or so 2017 to 2018 and they were already down to the population levels of 1920. Of course the refugees have turned my formerly ardently conservative collar county into democrat control.
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I lived in Utica for years and was always under the impression that someone should have taken a chain saw and cut New York City off the map. The majority of the state is conservative, except for the NYC area.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
fb2002 4/30/2019 11:16:30 AM (No. 72853)
I thought Hillary rebuilt and made Upstate New York a economic paradise based on her senate platform in 2002. NOT! New Yorkers bought it. Not a smart state. They could frack and be wealthy beyond comprehension...but Cuomo, the dunce governor says no, based on hysteria, not reality. I could go on an on. New Yorkers are just dumb.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
learner 4/30/2019 11:24:24 AM (No. 72868)
I would imagine that upstate is an after thought to most NY pols. The only thing that matters in their mind is NYC. I imagine the capitol, Albany, is a ghost town on weekends with all the pols heading for the City or the Hamptons.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
tyshab 4/30/2019 11:25:20 AM (No. 72867)
Truth hurts. Upstate NY has some beautiful natural resources, however the economic reality is just as portrayed by the Simpsons--the state has driven all but government funded and non profit enterprises from the state.
Consistently, NY ranks among lowest for individual freedoms and highest for taxes and regulations.
Democrat and liberal progressive have destroyed it, while enriching themselves and their cronies.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Achilles 4/30/2019 11:25:42 AM (No. 72841)
Ouch! that´s gonna leave a mark. But you wouldn´t get made fun of on the Simpsons if you weren´t being stupid. Then when you get all thin skinned about it, they are just going to make more fun of you. Look on the bright side, at least Poo Francisco yet. It is stupid to ban Fracking when we are Fracking the Frack out of the place next door in Pennsylvania.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
smsnod 4/30/2019 11:25:55 AM (No. 72866)
I’d vote for Homer over any Cuomo....make that any democrat, period.
He’s one heckuvalot smarter than any of them.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Delilah 4/30/2019 11:31:57 AM (No. 72847)
Anyone who thinks that fracking for gas leaves the countryside ugly knows nothing about it. I live next to a county in Ohio with over 500 wells so I drove around the roads looking for them. Never found even one. They are well hidden in the woods and have no effect on the environment at all. But they do effect the budgets in that county with millions paid in taxes.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
snakeoil 4/30/2019 11:57:48 AM (No. 72861)
No offense to anyone in Upstate NY. But when the last movie "The Last of the Mohicans" was made they had to make it in North Carolina because no place in NY looked like a wilderness. What happened in Rochester to Kodak was the march of technology. They made film for cameras. Digital cameras have made them obsolete. So Kodak went from a plant that employed 60,000 to one that has fewer than 1,000. Enjoyed PBS political satirist Mark Russell who is a native of NY. He had a contest with the first place prize being a week in Buffalo in February. Second place was two weeks in Buffalo in February. Too bad the Simpsons didn´t visit the district that keeps sending Nadler to congress to find out what makes them tick.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 4/30/2019 12:03:02 PM (No. 72862)
Whoever make up the LIE that Niskayuna, NY was
not doing well has never even been there, because it is a fantastic place to live andd/or work. Upscale homes, excellent school district, fine medical facilities, a mammoth GE Global Research facility, parks, recreation, 10 minutes to a major hospital,
major home and apt building occuring, 10/20 minutes to major roads linking the whole Capital district of NY. Just more FAKE INFO.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 4/30/2019 12:07:35 PM (No. 72856)
To Reply #14- They must have missed the Adirondack Mountains, one of the largest National Parks in the U.S. Maybe they ´scouted´ with their eyes closed, or maybe it was cheaper to film outside NYS.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/30/2019 12:08:22 PM (No. 72854)
Simpson best by far is still "Cheese eating surrender monkeys".
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Tennman 4/30/2019 12:14:19 PM (No. 72849)
Jeez, people. It´s a cartoon, it´s satire, it´s humor, it´s irreverence. The Simpsons have basically lambasted any and every thing.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Moritz55 4/30/2019 12:16:07 PM (No. 72843)
And who was it, Gov. Cuomo, who said “America was never that great”? If you stick your foot way out like that, don’t complain about someone stepping on your toes.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Deepthinker 4/30/2019 12:24:35 PM (No. 72855)
#9 is correct. If you load Google Maps and search for Pulaski NY you can scroll through the pictures to get a sense of what he/she is talking about. Remember these pics are selected to make the place look good. The most attractive pics are of the natural beauty in the area. The few pics of actual homes and main street stores give just a glimpse of a tired old rundown place. On the map you can see why I went into this place for gas when I was travelling Hwy 81 to Canada. Driving past paint-peeling old wood frame homes with glowering folk sitting on their front porches glaring at me as I drove by was like the stereotype of Hicksville in the movie Deliverance.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
jacksin5 4/30/2019 12:35:03 PM (No. 72839)
The entire Northeast is littered with Mill towns, consisting of Manufacturing buildings, now defunct.
The Pols always promise the citizens that they will get the Mills humming again, but until then, don´t leave for greener pastures, just stay on the Dole until the Jobs come back.
The original companies were there to take advantage of water power. They are now useless to Industry, being located too far from the end users of their products, with multi level buildings, that are decrepit and inefficient.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DynomiteThings 4/30/2019 12:48:32 PM (No. 72869)
If you can´t take a joke, you probably are one.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 4/30/2019 1:20:54 PM (No. 72865)
Somebody at the Simpson´s creative studio really doesn´t like NY anymore. I can understand that, for thanks to the duo of Dumb(Cuomo) and Dumber (DeBlasio), they are turning the state into an uninhabitable wasteland people can´t afford.
I am sure that upstate is still lovely scenery wise, but that doesn´t provide jobs, or even pay your outrageous taxes now does it? Plus there is the over the top abortion bill Cuomo just signed as well. Like it or not, The Simpson´s hit the target dead on.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Poca Dot 4/30/2019 1:46:18 PM (No. 72846)
So "The Simpsons" hired Kevin D. Williamson...
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
D S Craft 4/30/2019 1:56:38 PM (No. 72845)
I´m from Western New York and regularly talk with relatives still there. Nothing has changed since I lived there 45 years ago: high taxes with most of the money going to NYC. Some high schools can no longer afford football teams and are joining with neighboring schools in order to field a team. Long standing bridges over the Erie Canal have been taken down for lack of maintenance funding. NYC is a black hole that sucks the rest of the state dry and people hate it. And yes, Western New York and Upstate New York are conservative compared to NYC with the exception of a few urban areas.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Newtsche 4/30/2019 1:57:39 PM (No. 72844)
I was hoping the whole family would fall through the ice. Seriously.
FWIW "The Simpsons" is a chore to watch more often than not. Sometimes I think I WILL have a cow. That said, Lisa-centric shows are the worst, yikes.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
chance_232 4/30/2019 2:32:31 PM (No. 72850)
I lived in Rochester. I could see Kodak collapsing and Xerox was losing market share like crazy and Buffalo is a dump....
I could see the hand writing on the wall. Sold my house and moved south just ahead of Kodak shutting down.
High taxes, 9 months of winter and a shrinking economy. Whats not to love?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Penney 4/30/2019 3:04:59 PM (No. 72852)
The reach of the lefty NYC political machine extends far beyond it´s own state but across America, not only but most certainly through its socialist-biased, scripted media! ...NYC´s perspective seems to be through it´s weirdly skewed political correctness lens, which is indicated by the radical lefty pols elected there, is extremely disturbing & alarming to rational, thinking people.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/30/2019 3:43:18 PM (No. 72870)
When you are being dumped on by ´The Simpsons´, you have arrived. I´m flying back to upstate NY tomorrow. Its dead where I´m at. The airport I´m flying into has only one airline servicing it. It used to have four. Many of the large businesses have downsized or shutdown completely. Some places are doing good, but many others are awful. If there is a national economic recovery, some places in upstate NY will be the last place to see it. The area is conservative, but many people in NYC are being relocated there because they are housing NYC inmates upstate. The area is changing, and not for the better.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
NYbob 4/30/2019 4:10:24 PM (No. 72871)
I´m not sure there is a state in the union that doesn´t have dead zones that used to be on top at some point of US history. Upstate, and I don´t mean the strip along the Hudson out of NYC, was the boom area of the country for a long time. Then globalists wiped out US manufacturing and it became cheaper to ship everything across the Pacific and back instead of going to the plant in the next town. Kodak INVENTED digital photography, but the upper management treated it like the enemy. Kodak, Xerox and Baush and Lomb are case studies in all that is wrong with fat cat BOD and sleazy CEOs. It is not just Rochester, but collective stupidity turned one of the richest towns into one of the poorest, practically overnight.
A lot of lessons here, but don´t think the stupid is confined to one part of one state. Unfortunately it will get much worse. We have had a series of blatant, corrupt, rat leaders put in prison and NYC, Buffalo and Albany still keep them in power. Zero effort by media to put the spotlight on all of it. Look up the $750 million building in Buffalo to see how the graft and sleaze is done right out in the open. No media follow ups ever on that cuomo crime.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 4/30/2019 4:23:38 PM (No. 72837)
In 1980 New York had 41 electoral votes. Now it´s down to 29. After 2020 it´ll lose 1 or 2 more. That´s because the state is steadily falling behind. Cold winters, high taxes, and a hectoring left-wing government is a death blow for economic growth, and upstate NY has suffered the most.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Newtsche 4/30/2019 5:48:47 PM (No. 72851)
It´s a changing world and once essential upstate NY is now a relic. As such, many people have suffered.
This is funny to ´The Simpsons´. In this particular episode, the decay was unfavorably compared to a mostly dishonest, idealistic portrayal of wonderful Canada. Upstate NY as emblematic of a country in free fall.
One thing for sure, ´The Simpsons´ has no answers, just exploitation, derision and self-righteous posturing.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
chumley 4/30/2019 7:03:25 PM (No. 72842)
I work with a refugee from NY and even ignoring the rudeness, sense of entitlement and anti-gun laws, their taxes are so high it is a deal breaker. This guy was paying more in property taxes annually than my entire years worth of house payments. No thanks.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/30/2019 11:04:04 PM (No. 72857)
34, there are ongoing arguments about the definition of Upstate NY, but it is generally believed that the rest of NY, beyond the NYC and surrounding suburbs is upstate.
Upstate legislators are called ´apple knockers´ by the NYC legislators, a dismissive term.
The Erie Canal was responsible for the intial development of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Utica.
But things started going downhill in the 1950s, and remain in a downward spiral because of high taxes.
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Democrats have gone full Def-Con-Beclown. Now they don´t like The Simpsons. Don´t worry Homer, if you´re taking flack you´re on target.