McAwful will win.
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300,000 mail-in ballots. The ballots most susceptible to fraud.
Color me unimpressed by the sanctimonious arguments. We either have fair elections, beyond reproach, or we are no better than a run-of-the-mill banana republic. And eventually, the man on the white horse will ride in and hit a violent reset button.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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@mik Can't agree. If something is established as an ideal, then it's an ideal. If it's attacked or damaged, it's still an ideal. Once it's established, the idealism of the ideal -- you should pardon that awkwardness -- doesn't depend on any reaction to it. It doesn't change. Only time can obliterate it, and the ideal of voting hasn't had enough time for that.
@catseye3 said in McAwful will win.:
@mik Can't agree. If something is established as an ideal, then it's an ideal. If it's attacked or damaged, it's still an ideal. Once it's established, the idealism of the ideal -- you should pardon that awkwardness -- doesn't depend on any reaction to it. It doesn't change. Only time can obliterate it, and the ideal of voting hasn't had enough time for that.
You obviously don't even know what the word "ideal" means.
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300,000 mail-in ballots. The ballots most susceptible to fraud.
Color me unimpressed by the sanctimonious arguments. We either have fair elections, beyond reproach, or we are no better than a run-of-the-mill banana republic. And eventually, the man on the white horse will ride in and hit a violent reset button.
@jolly said in McAwful will win.:
We either have fair elections, beyond reproach, or we are no better than a run-of-the-mill banana republic.
Gasp! Maybe you will stay at home and not vote until you think we have elections that are fair "beyond reproach." Lately, that's what Trump suggests that Republicans should do anyway.
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@jolly said in McAwful will win.:
We either have fair elections, beyond reproach, or we are no better than a run-of-the-mill banana republic.
Gasp! Maybe you will stay at home and not vote until you think we have elections that are fair "beyond reproach." Lately, that's what Trump suggests that Republicans should do anyway.
@axtremus said in McAwful will win.:
@jolly said in McAwful will win.:
We either have fair elections, beyond reproach, or we are no better than a run-of-the-mill banana republic.
Gasp! Maybe you will stay at home and not vote until you think we have elections that are fair "beyond reproach." Lately, that's what Trump suggests that Republicans should do anyway.
I'd tell you to stay at home and fuck yourself, but it's late and that's already happened
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@89th said in McAwful will win.:
Told ya he’d win, I can predict the future you know.
I think he'll win, too, but he must be getting a little worried...
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@89th said in McAwful will win.:
Told ya he’d win, I can predict the future you know.
I think he'll win, too, but he must be getting a little worried...
@jolly Oh it's closer than it might otherwise be. Heck, he might even lose if the passion of the turnout is on the GOP side, but still... What's so wrong with that statement that parents shouldn't be telling schools what to teach? Obviously it's not as cut and dry like that, but if the last 18 months have taught me anything, it's that there are a TON of idiots out there, on both sides. Almost like the pandemic has put a flashlight on the floor and we see the idiots scattering into the public arena.
Yes, at the end of the day the parents should have some control over what is being taught (or rather, who is in control of making those decisions), but the idea that the loudest (and most annoying) parents might have any say in what an objective curriculum should consist of, is scary.
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@89th You are completely missing the impetus of the question that was asked and the reason he gave his response.
The first part of the quote “I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions,”
A few days before, the big news was about a parent confronting the Fairfax County School Board over explicit and disturbing books being found in the schools libraries https://wjla.com/amp/news/local/fairfax-county-public-schools-pulls-lgbtq-books-graphic-sex-libraries-virginia-lawn-boy-gender-queer
Due to parents uproar over the next several days the books were finally removed, but there was a huge fight over it.
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@89th You are completely missing the impetus of the question that was asked and the reason he gave his response.
The first part of the quote “I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions,”
A few days before, the big news was about a parent confronting the Fairfax County School Board over explicit and disturbing books being found in the schools libraries https://wjla.com/amp/news/local/fairfax-county-public-schools-pulls-lgbtq-books-graphic-sex-libraries-virginia-lawn-boy-gender-queer
Due to parents uproar over the next several days the books were finally removed, but there was a huge fight over it.
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McAuliffe walks out on interview. Here's ABC's comment:
Here's the interview. Go to 10:35.
Link to video"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@lufins-dad Helpful to know, thanks. I was going off of the sentence/sound-bite that is being used in ads as referenced in that article.
@89th said in McAwful will win.:
@lufins-dad Helpful to know, thanks. I was going off of the sentence/sound-bite that is being used in ads as referenced in that article.
Even if that hadn’t been the impetus, it was still a very stupid thing to say when members of school boards are threatening to dox parents and get them fired for holding contrarian views.
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McAuliffe walks out on interview. Here's ABC's comment:
Here's the interview. Go to 10:35.
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@george-k said in McAwful will win.:
Here's the interview. Go to 10:35.
That was weird, almost like he thought he had a 10 minute limit.
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Well, that didn't age well...
Hey, Mr. Carville, why so much hate?
In the Monday fundraising email, Carville wrote, “Folks, I gotta tell you the truth: I hate guys like Glenn Youngkin.”
“First, he amassed tons of wealth by stepping on the little guy at a ruthless private equity firm,” the email continued. “Then he used that wealth to buy the Republican nomination in this race for governor.
Where McAuliffe got his campaign money is, of course, not a subject of discussion.
Now, he’s indulging Donald Trump’s dangerous lies about the 2020 election to win over support from right-wing extremists.”
Snort:
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Wait, Trump lies! That's disqualifying!
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/news/meet-press-october-31-2021-n1282808
But Chuck, we have a great school system in Virginia. Dorothy and I have raised our five children. Of course parents are involved in it. The question should be could an extreme Republican bill that would allow parents to take books off of shelves, should that be left in the hands of parents or should it be left to the school boards and others who do this every single day and focus on it?
So, (former) Governor McAuliffe, despite your statement, where did you send your kids?
The McAuliffes, it turns out, sent their children to the private Potomac School in McLean, Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C., and the candidate's wife Dorothy McAuliffe served as chair of the board of trustees for the school while their children were students.
An annual report published by the Potomac School in 2008 and obtained by Townhall includes a letter from trustee board chair Dorothy McAuliffe and later lists the family as having students in second grade, seventh grade, and tenth grade.
Current tuition at the Potomac School runs from $39,150 for kindergarten through third grade to $45,650 for ninth through twelfth grade. While there's nothing wrong with a family pursuing the best possible education for their children, it does become problematic when a member of that family runs on a record of vetoing school choice bills and a platform of denying parents the right to influence the education given to their children. That's exactly what Terry and Dorothy McAuliffe have done.$39K for kindergarten.
It's good to be the king.
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Oh, He’s screwed the pooch. It’s possible they can pull this off, but his flub has opened the door for Republicans across the US.
