VA Governor's Race (McAuliffe vs. Youngkin)

And so it begins...

Important to note that this shit all stems from a fuckin' high school senior who cried to his mom that Toni Morrison's Beloved gave him nightmares. Mind you, he was reading this book in AP American Literature - a college-level course. Youngkin used the mother of this boy in one of his campaign ads.

Blake Murphy (the former high school student at the center of this "controversy") is now a 27-year-old lawyer working as the associate general counsel for the Washington D.C.-based National Republican Congressional Committee, Raw Story reported.

This may have actually worked to his detriment, particularly the latter two

And yea McAuliffe had one job. Just don’t tell parents that you can’t have a say in what your kids learn in school or take the side of the ppl defending a dude in a skirt raping girls in the school bathrooms then covering it up because it doesn’t fit their political agenda and calling the father of one of the victims a domestic terrorist for having the audacity to voice his displeasure about the whole thing at a school board meeting. He had this in the bag until he shot himself in the foot with all the school related stuff

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Yes, well that's a verrrrrrrrrrrrrrry pacinoyes-y type commentary .......one of the things I always talk about is who "owns" the language - and I have often said the "Left" have been gross manipulators of language in the last few years - though that's a historically "Republican or Right" tactic that they just recently appropriated...........it's a pet issue of mine - even in my posts on movies I try to always use the EXACT correct words  that you can't manipulate against me. ......

......... at this moment - for the first time in a while - the "Right" is somewhat cynically recapturing that war on cultural language - which is a voting problem for Democrats at the very least in 2022 ...............and maybe culturally a bigger problem even.

I think the Democratic Party would be better served by watching how Mayor Pete uses language - he never loses his cool, never seems like a provocateur is able to distill nuanced positions down to short digestible sound clips without appearing threatening to common sense. 

I think at a National level the problem is really how the Right - at this moment - is being so brazenly aggressive about language - the words racist, woke, Critical Race Theory or even code language ("Let's Go Brandon") - are all mocked terms now and it happened rather quickly too - it's a bad sign when you see how that spreads and the Democrats unless they somehow redefine those terms or define new terms are in a bad spot for mid-terms unless they straighten the ship

I always wanted to write a book about the history of US politics through cultural language but that book would be like a million pages long............I mean............have you ever read my posts on MAR? 

Maher is grifting the right. The man’s just looking for a bigger audience by taking advantage of the fact that his fellow comic talk show hosts have gone completely off the deep end. It’s why Gutfeld has the highest ratings off all late night talk shows, he’s simply just not the other guys and basically has that market to himself. Amazing how some liberals are starting to do what conservatives have been doing for a long time. You always see some conservatives trying to appeal to liberals by coming off as the “rational conservative” or “acceptable conservative”, now you got Maher trying to be the “sane liberal”. Maher was very wrong of course for calling for a recession to take out trump. You don’t wish for recession ever, and he should know that the people worse affected by recession, most likely to suffer and maybe die, are the poorest. The wokeism he’s been lashing out against has also very much been a byproduct of this recession. Sure it’s been there for a really long time but it really started exploding last year when everyone was locked down and people had nothing better to do than spread their dumbass beliefs on the internet and social media. The man is reaping what he sowed. A lot of what he’s said recently has been right but I can see right through him

Youngkin plans to fill key Virginia posts with former Trump aides.

Gotta think that part of it is also Youngkin knows it’s only a 1 term job so he figures he can afford to really piss off dems and build himself a national profile. Republicans outside of Virginia are hearing about what he’s doing and loving it just as much as you hate it, especially that new AG you got

Have you prank called the "Critical Race Theory tipline" yet?