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- VA Elects GOP Governor -

This electoral result will cost lives. Expect Covid Delta variant to surge in VA from about six months as Youngkin's anti-vax/anti-mask politics kick in.
 
smartcooky said:
This electoral result will cost lives. Expect Covid Delta variant to surge in VA from about six months as Youngkin's anti-vax/anti-mask politics kick in.
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Which will actually be a good thing, because it will be only the COVIDiots, i.e. Youngkin's peeps, who will be largely affected and eventually killed off.
 
Warp12 said:
In refreshing news, VA has elected it's first GOP Governor since the 2009 election. Glenn Youngkin defeated Terry McAuliffe, who had previously served as Governor from 2014-2018. McAuliffe was joined on the campaign trail by none other than Obama....but still fell short.

How did this happen? A year ago Virginians voted Biden in, by a wide margin. What exactly is going on? Is this a harbinger of things to come in 2022, or even 2024?
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Aww! It wants an iddy biddy fite! What cute widdle diddums! :rolleyes:
 
Norman Alexander said:
Which will actually be a good thing, because it will be only the COVIDiots, i.e. Youngkin's peeps, who will be largely affected and eventually killed off.
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Hard to imagine a more idiotic position. More than half of the relevant vote went to him. I guess they are all stupid "anti-vaxxers". Like, you think Youngkin ran on a platform that discouraged vaccines? LMFAO.

Educate yourself. He ran on a platform that encouraged vaccines, while also not endorsing mandates.

Virginia is not in any trouble, here.
 
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Warp12 said:
Hard to imagine a more idiotic position. More than half of the relevant vote went to him. I guess they are all stupid "anti-vaxxers". Like, you think Youngkin ran on a platform that discouraged vaccines? LMFAO.

Educate yourself. He ran on a platform that encouraged vaccines, while also not endorsing mandates.

Virginia is not in any trouble, here.
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Do you hear yourself?
 
Armitage72 said:
I saw a thumbnail from the Fox News YouTube channel claiming that Democrats are having a meltdown over the election. Is anyone here having a meltdown? Anyone?
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Some Democrats are crying about Fox News' "misinformation"; others are talking about changing their messaging and "optics." What a bunch of wimps. A real man would declare overwhelming victory, massive electoral fraud, and mobilize their very fine supporters to march on the state capitol. Patriotic nooses and Confederate flags are optional (but bring them anyway).
 
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Next Virginia will be teaching the Dinosaurs missed the Ark because they forgot to reset their sundials to Daylight Savings Time.
 
Warp12 said:
Hard to imagine a more idiotic position. More than half of the relevant vote went to him. I guess they are all stupid "anti-vaxxers".
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One is not the other. The people who voted for Youngkin were certainly not all anti-vaxxers. But you can be sure that all the anti-vaxxers voted for Youngkin.
 
Norman Alexander said:
Do you hear yourself?
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Not a chance!

Bob001 said:
One is not the other. The people who voted for Youngkin were certainly not all anti-vaxxers. But you can be sure that all the anti-vaxxers voted for Youngkin.
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This, absolutely!

Pre-covid, antivaxxers were a tiny minority of mostly liberal suburbanites. They were of the same mindset as tree-hugging vegans who put their trust in homeopathy quacks and woo-woo remedies like grape seed extract.

Post-Covid, the GQP has embraced anti-vaxx into the mainstream under a heading of "Muh freedumbs" The VAST majority of people who are opposed to Covid vaccines Right wingers, Repugnicans and Trump supporters/sycophants
 
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Bob001 said:
But it really is racial dogwhistling, part of the culture wars that encourage right-wing whites to believe that they are about be run over by evil black and brown hordes.
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Must be why Republicans also elected a black lieutenant governor.

Wait... what? I think the narrative is broken.
 
Bob001 said:
It all ties together with Youngkin's promise to remove Critical Race Theory from the schools, where nothing like it has never been taught in the first place.
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This is a bit of a misdirection. The students may not have been taught CRT. But the Department of Education in Virginia did try to incorporate CRT into teacher training, and the entire point of doing so is to affect what and how teachers teach students.
 
Tulsi Gabbard posts:

McAuliffe’s loss is a victory for all Americans. Why? Because it was a resounding rejection of efforts to divide us by race, the stripping of parental rights, and arrogant, deaf leaders. This benefits us all.
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:rolleyes: cool story Tulsi
 
Norman Alexander said:
Which will actually be a good thing, because it will be only the COVIDiots, i.e. Youngkin's peeps, who will be largely affected and eventually killed off.
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The virus will have a better chance of mutation because of these people so it could affect more than just the Trump/Covidiots. Also, those fools are clogging up the medical system and hospitals.
 
Ziggurat said:
Must be why Republicans also elected a black lieutenant governor.

Wait... what? I think the narrative is broken.
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How? "I have a black friend" is a pretty common misdirection. While I certainly believe a black person can choose to be a Republican for perfectly valid reasons, it doesn't mean that Republican policies aren't hurting black people in this country in general. Or that Republicans don't tend to lean heavy into race-baiting and fear-mongering.
 
Armitage72 said:
I saw a thumbnail from the Fox News YouTube channel claiming that Democrats are having a meltdown over the election. Is anyone here having a meltdown? Anyone?
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I haven't seen much. Even the attacks on progressives have been fairly muted. A few news talking heads have tried to bait Democrats into blaming progressives and BBB, but even conservative Democrats like Blumenthal and Coons have dismissed that.

There was one elected Democrat who tried to pin it on Progressives, but when asked if he thought that's all it was, he said now was not the time to assign blame. After he did exactly that.

My amateur, uninformed opinion is that:

1) Democrats need to run on more than "Orange Man Bad", especially when Orange Man doesn't show up until a week before the vote. A lot of Republicans, including in the MAGAverse, lost their #$%^ when he did start showing up, fearing he would drive voters away.

2) Stop running right-wing "centrists" from the Clinton wing of the party who think ideas can be replaced by focused grouped slogans that sound like they came from company HR.

3) Stop letting republicans run the narrative. Youngblood didn't have any ideas about governing, just some race-baiting culture war nonsense and tin foil hat conspiracies. He was poking at the ugliest emotions in human beings to drive them. McAuliffe should have leaned more into why he was so popular to begin with and talk about things like family leave and expanding Medicaid and Medicare. Things that are really popular and directly affect the lives of all voters.
 
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