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There is no public record of how Lindsay Clancy voted in the 2024 presidential election, nor even confirmation that she cast a ballot at all. The American secret ballot still means what it says, so the particulars of any individual’s choice remain sealed from official inspection. What is known is the setting: an affluent coastal town in Massachusetts, a profession in labor and delivery nursing at a major Boston hospital, and a cultural milieu that treats certain forms of maternal breakdown as occasions for collective absolution rather than individual reckoning.

That combination alone is enough for most observers to place her, without hesitation, among the Democrats. Massachusetts suburbs of her sort vote as they live—comfortably progressive, institutionally trusting, and reflexively protective of narratives that explain away personal catastrophe as systemic failure. A labor-and-delivery nurse is trained inside institutions that have long absorbed the language of trauma, equity, and medicalized excuse. When a subset of American women responded to the strangling of three small children with letters of solidarity, profile-picture campaigns, and the insistence that the real villain was inadequate postpartum care or over-medication, they revealed more about their own political instincts than about the facts of the case.

The pattern is familiar. In the moral economy that now governs large parts of the professional class, especially among women who inhabit its therapeutic and medical ranks, certain acts are no longer permitted to stand as simple moral horrors. They must be reframed as symptoms of a larger injustice, preferably one that implicates the society rather than the actor. The defense of Clancy has followed that script with almost liturgical precision. Whether she marked a ballot for Harris or stayed home is ultimately beside the point. The assumptions that shape her world—the professional identity, the geography, the chorus of female defenders—already announce the political identity most people correctly assign her.

RebelGator » Today, 5:45 am » wrote: ↑

Today, 5:45 am

 

RebelGator » 53 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

53 minutes ago

Could it be we've finally got a topic too volatile for NHB?

Blackvegetable » 8 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

8 minutes ago

Where's the link?

RebelGator » 3 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

3 minutes ago

Democrats, the Party of Death.....abort, hang, suffocate your child,  and mail in that ballot, start laying the groundwork for your insanity defense.

Blackvegetable » 6 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

6 minutes ago

Written by

aDirect - Grok - Mr. W. C. C. T.

The rag was "launched" in Jan 2025...

It's a **** Rube Magnet, Ruba...

JuCo 5 percenter...72 “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime” ~ LAVRENTIY BERIA "Try to get past your passionate ignorance and learn to accept what actually happened." ~ brown's unheeded words of wisdom If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with? "Libruls are often fascists on vacation..."

Blackvegetable » 6 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

6 minutes ago

Written by

aDirect - Grok - Mr. W. C. C. T.

The rag was "launched" in Jan 2025...

It's a **** Rube Magnet, Ruba...

RebelGator » 2 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

2 minutes ago

So, did that make the points less salient....didn't think so, Goober.

Why don't you try addressing them?

RebelGator » 12 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

12 minutes ago

So, did that make the points less salient....didn't think so, Goober.

Why don't you try addressing them?

Blackvegetable » 28 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

28 minutes ago

Where's the link?

 

Huey » 44 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

44 minutes ago

Easy.  Highlight the first sentence up to the comma.  Right click and select search with google.

First hit.

Blackvegetable » 6 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

6 minutes ago

I'm not looking for directions, Stalky.

I'm looking for an answer.

You don't do that 

 

Huey » 4 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

4 minutes ago

Nobody cares.  This isn't about the source.

Blackvegetable » 11 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

11 minutes ago

It is, actually....

It is AI slop from a MAGA kiosk...

 

 

Huey » 37 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

37 minutes ago

Not that I really care or that it matters,  but there is a real good possibility she is a liberal dem.  At he federal level her area leans liberal, and she was living in MA.

In MA only 394,121 people are registered as republicans, with 1.2 million as dems, and 3.3 mil as independents.

And usually with events like this YOU are all about political affiliations.

Not that I really care or that it matters,

In MA only 394,121 people are registered as republicans, with 1.2 million as dems, and 3.3 mil as independents.

Blackvegetable » 14 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

14 minutes ago

 

 


I'm pleased to learn what it takes to get you to talk numbers, or objective facts in general.

I don't believe party affiliation has even come up in this trial.

What does it have to do with the case?
 

 

Not that I really care or that it matters,