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NY Governor Ripped For ‘Tone-Deaf’ Tweet Bragging About Her Subway Safety Improvements After Brooklyn Train Tragedy

How can a Democrat be this awful?

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What have we become, when even police officers walk right past a woman engulfed in flames on the New York subway? While shocked bystanders do little but take videos of the horrifying situation? When even Democratic governor Kathy Hochul thinks it’s peachy-keen to take selfies of herself standing near the scene a couple of hours later and boasting about just how safe the New York subway system is.

I have to ask why Hochul, would even think this was a good opportunity to do this. What’s wrong with her?

@AlecLace wondered the same thing.

“GASLIGHTING 101 Just 2 hours after a woman is burned alive on the NYC Subway, Governor Kathy Hochul posts on X to boast about how safe the subway system is! These people are sick!”

He’s right. These people ARE sick. So is Hochul. This is the worst sort of self-aggrandizement and insensitivity I can think of.

This poor woman suffered horribly. If you’ve even slightly burned yourself on a hot stove you already know that. How absolutely awful. I watched the video taken of this nightmare because I couldn’t believe people would just stand around as if they were at a baseball game. Horrible, horrible. Now I can’t unsee it.

Per the BBC, the woman was on a stationary F train in Brooklyn at about 7:30 a.m., when a man approached her and used a lighter to set her clothes on fire, said Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who described Sunday’s incident as “one of the most depraved crimes one person could possibly commit against another human being.”

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The victim was apparently “motionless” when she was set ablaze but detectives are still trying to determine whether or not she was asleep. “We’re not 100 percent sure,” said the NYPD’s Joseph Gulotta.

A suspect has been charged with murder in connection with the attack. Sebastian Zapeta, 33, was charged on allegations of first and second-degree murder and arson on Monday. Per the BBC there was no interaction between the two before the attack, Gulotta said. Yes, Zapeta is a Guatemalan migrant. Yes, right-wing rags like The New York Post are losing their collective minds over it. What else would you expect? Right-wingers blame immigrants for everything except dandruff. And they’d blame them for that too, if they could.

Who could possibly believe that just a day later, Kathy Hochul would ghoulishly stand beside a subway train and take selfies? That’s insane!

Hochul is trying to walk back her insensitivity. Sort of.

This is the cringiest attempt at making excuses that I’ve ever seen. Fortunately, Hochul, who is an embarrassment to already embattled Democrats everywhere, is getting the comeuppance she so deserves.

New York Rep. Ritchie Torres, who’s also a Democrat, lit into Hochul for her incredibly insensitive behavior.

A woman burns to death while people stroll around blithely, and a cop walks right past. The world really has gone mad.

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Megan Hamilton

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Megan Colleen Hamilton was born and raised on progressive politics and she has long fought for liberal causes. She has lived in the Pacific Northwest, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, parts of Mexico, and now Central America. Her travels have further informed her progressive beliefs in these troubled times. She is currently owned by 10 cats, two dogs, and one naughty rabbit. She actually is one of those “childless cat ladies.”

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