Day of Action

[hntnhole]

TO ALL OUR BROTHERS WHO HAVE ELECTIONS TODAY: 

You MUST vote, and vote for preserving our rights, our Constitution, and our Freedoms to live the lives we need/choose to live.  If you think the RepubliKans will leave us alone, after continuing to attack women's rights, suppress minority voting rights, with no respectable platform of their own other than appealing to the very worst instincts of Caucasians, you are DEAD WRONG. 

Even if it's out of nothing more than self-preservation, every one of us MUST vote - preferably straight-ticket Democratic.  Hopefully, we cast ballots to uplift the downtrodden, protect the defenseless, reinforce our Democracy, feed the hungry, house the homeless, care for our neighbors.  However, even if it's only self-preservation, please exercise your right to vote. 

[Philatanus]

TO ALL OUR BROTHERS WHO HAVE ELECTIONS TODAY: 

Vote Republican!  Save the U.S.A. from the current destruction and implosion within! Never has there been

a time, since Carter was in Office, do we need to take dire action!  Vote out the corrupt and greedy Democrats!

However, even if it's only self-preservation, please exercise your right to vote. 

Thank you for your immediate attention in this very important and dire matter.

[Philatanus]

Sweet to see demokRAT McAuliffe has been voted out and replaced by 

the esteemed Republican Youngkin! The great state of Virginia will rise again! 

Thank you Voters!

64% of Virginia voters have said, the country is headed in the wrong direction!  Speaks volymes!

[BootmanLA]

On 11/2/2021 at 11:17 PM, Philatanus said:

Sweet to see demokRAT McAuliffe has been voted out and replaced by 

the esteemed Republican Youngkin! The great state of Virginia will rise again! 

Thank you Voters!

64% of Virginia voters have said, the country is headed in the wrong direction!  Speaks volymes!

Where in the hell did you come up with "64%"? 

[Philatanus]

5 hours ago, BootmanLA said:

Where in the hell did you come up with "64%"? 

The news! 

"According to a Fox News Voter analysis survey, 64% of voters believe the country is headed in the "wrong direction" compared with 36% who believe things are headed in the "right direction.""

 

But of course, you will disagree with the source.  Buy heh, let's just say we differ in opinion!

 

Just glad to see the Commonwealth of Virginia is now headed in the right direction!  The voters have spoken! 

 

SWEET!

[boypole]

A survey only measures the thoughts of the people that participated. The survey didn’t ask every single voter in Virginia so it’s technically 64% of the voters who participated in the Fox News survey think that the country is headed in the wrong direction.

Yes, it’s a technicality but these details matter. When you think if it that way, the actual number of voters who have that opinion may actually be much smaller. Italics for emphasis.

[boypole]

I wouldn’t worry too much about Virginia anyway. The Democrats control that state’s Senate chamber so any legislation that Youngkin dares to propose or that the Republicans in the state House pass will be met with stiff resistance.

SWEET!

[BootmanLA]

52 minutes ago, boypole said:

I wouldn’t worry too much about Virginia anyway. The Democrats control that state’s Senate chamber so any legislation that Youngkin dares to propose or that the Republicans in the state House pass will be met with stiff resistance.

SWEET!

Sadly, the Republican won by trotting out the same old tired racism that the GOP always falls back on these days. Whether it's accusing immigrants from Mexico of being drug dealers and rapists, or shouting "Jews will not replace us!" while waving Nazi and Confederate flags, or screaming about "critical race theory", all the GOP has left is stirring up resentment by whites against everyone else.

Of course, the idiot we're responding to lives in "Europe" -  nothing more specific. Given that he can't seem to identify the country he's in, much less the city, I doubt he could find  Virginia with a map, a GPS unit, and a billboard that says "Welcome to Virginia". I'd lay odds he's either one of the French LePen racists or someone in one of the neo-Nazi parties in eastern Europe. 

[Philatanus]

All the anger in this thread!

 

Must be tough to wake up with so much hate in the body every morning!

 

Too lovely knowing demokRATS are going through the 7 stages of grief!

 

Time for my tea and biscuits!   SWEET!

[BootmanLA]

Reading a profile... Hmmm, main interest is cheating people - in other words, deception, lying, dishonesty, dishonor. Yep, sounds exactly like a Republican. Congrats, you've found your political home among equally contemptible people.

[boypole]

1 hour ago, Philatanus said:

All the anger in this thread!

 

Must be tough to wake up with so much hate in the body every morning!

 

Too lovely knowing demokRATS are going through the 7 stages of grief!

 

Time for my tea and biscuits!   SWEET!

oh please, you realize that nothing has changed in VA, right? the Democratic candidate didn’t win…ok, whatever. but realistically, nothing has changed. the Republicans don’t unilaterally control VA’s state government so what will happen — if the legislators want to get anything done … and they will (if they want to be re-elected) … — is that the GOP and the Democrats will have to … wait for it … they will have to work together and compromise to pass legislation. surprise! that’s how governing works.

and by the way, McAuliffe wasn’t my preferred candidate, so it doesn’t bother me that he lost. too centrist for my liking. and even if he won, he would still have to deal with a divided state legislature.

Youngkin will probably not govern like a typical Republican like the previous four years. he’s not a fool, he knows he has to work with the opposition to get anything done. that’s not “hate”, that’s discussion with your eyes wide open. LOL.

 

[BootmanLA]

5 minutes ago, boypole said:

oh please, you realize that nothing has changed in VA, right? the Democratic candidate didn’t win…ok, whatever. but realistically, nothing has changed. the Republicans don’t unilaterally control VA’s state government so what will happen — if the legislators want to get anything done … and they will (if they want to be re-elected) … — is that the GOP and the Democrats will have to … wait for it … they will have to work together and compromise to pass legislation. surprise! that’s how governing works.

and by the way, McAuliffe wasn’t my preferred candidate, so it doesn’t bother me that he lost. too centrist for my liking. and even if he won, he would still have to deal with a divided state legislature.

Youngkin will probably not govern like a typical Republican like the previous four years. he’s not a fool, he knows he has to work with the opposition to get anything done. that’s not “hate”, that’s discussion with your eyes wide open. LOL.

 

FWIW, Republican executives (ie governor or president) no longer really see the need to "govern" in the classic sense. They simply issue executive orders attempting to rule, not govern, by fiat. So a divided legislature is hardly an impediment to a determined GOP governor.

Especially since the GOP agenda, broadly speaking, consists of not doing anything and preventing other people from doing anything, either. When you're in favor of less regulation of industry, for instance, all you have to do is direct your agency heads (which are almost always appointed by the incumbent governor) to not enforce this or that or the other regulation. Someone may sue - this is America, after all - but lawsuits can take years to get to the point where anything is accomplished, and in the meantime, industry can run amok.

Additionally, even when the executive order accomplishes absolutely nothing, in practicality, the governor can still tout them as examples of his "leadership". Look for Youngkin to issue an order forbidding Virginia schools from teaching "critical race theory", for instance; even though critical race theory isn't taught below advanced college classes, and thus the EO does zero to change things, he'll still promote it as his standing up to the "socialists" who seek to "divide" us (even as it's his stoking of white resentment that really divides).

Really, the biggest difference between the Democratic and Republican parties is that the Democrats want government to actually DO things, and to do things requires legislation to be passed. Republicans, on the other hand, want to STOP government from doing things, and stopping it simply means ordering agencies not to do certain things any more. It's asymmetrical and it's a reason why Democrats always seem to be floundering on their agendas - because they're actually trying to do something. It's always easier to get people to do nothing.

[boypole]

He has to do that to mollify his base. Doesn’t mean he actually believes it. VA is effectively purple, same as AZ and CO.

I guess we’ll see what happens.

TM (McAuliffe) didn’t run a good campaign imho. It’s a job interview and he failed his audition, so better luck next time. His mistake was not running on kitchen table issues but trying to tie his opponent to Trump. Trump isn’t president anymore, so I’m unsure why he focused on that other than an attempt to turn out the vote.

ETA voters don’t want to hear what you’re against; they would rather hear what you are for.

Edited November 4, 2021 by boypole

[hntnhole]

I rather suspect that the ignoramus from across the pond is very poorly educated in the Humanities.  Once the retardliKans re-suppress the non-Caucasian CITIZENS

[BootmanLA]

29 minutes ago, boypole said:

He has to do that to mollify his base. Doesn’t mean he actually believes it. VA is effectively purple, same as AZ and CO.

I guess we’ll see what happens.

TM (McAuliffe) didn’t run a good campaign imho. It’s a job interview and he failed his audition, so better luck next time. His mistake was not running on kitchen table issues but trying to tie his opponent to Trump. Trump isn’t president anymore, so I’m unsure why he focused on that other than an attempt to turn out the vote.

ETA voters don’t want to hear what you’re against; they would rather hear what you are for.

I agree, McAuliffe was a terrible candidate. It didn't help that he was a former governor, running in one of the only states that prohibits a governor from serving consecutive terms. When a state has that rule, it's a sign voters generally don't want repeat faces.

As for what voters want to hear: I think Democratic voters want to hear what you're for, because Democrats want their officials to do something. Republican voters want to hear what you're against, because the defining principle of Republicanism these days is being "against"; against liberals, against socialism, against minorities (except those that know their place), against progress.

But to his credit, McAuliffe knows that Trump is still a danger. If he decides to run again in 2024, he's almost guaranteed to win the nomination, unless he's facing trial for tax fraud, and even then, he might still get the nomination. And if Republicans in places like Georgia and Arizona succeed in implementing the voting restrictions they're pushing, Trump might well beat whoever is the Democratic nominee. The problem is that too many Democrats don't recognize Trump, and his hold on the GOP, for the authoritarian danger that it is. Particularly if GOP gerrymandering enables them to take control of the House again.