US PoliERA 2019 |OT2| #PresidentPelosi
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After much soul searching, and prayers with my IRS-recognized family unit, I must decline my run for the great commonwealth of Virginia. I have in the past made very sexist and demeaning comments towards women. I can only hope to become the man I expect of myself, and I beg forgiveness from the great people of Virginia.
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of
the not a rapist / racist
We set a super low hurdle to jump over and yet people keep finding ways to limbo under it.
How poorly can you respond to a scandal? jfc. There is an alternate universe where Fairfax mostly survives this, but he seems content to get as many people against him as possible. Who on earth is advising him?
This is what I'm trying to get at.
It's a lot like the morals that show up in Superhero movies. The hero wrestles with their moral obligations when there are unexpected outcomes, collateral damage. "No more dead cahps!" and that sort of thing. The hero is set between the temptation to cast their heroism aside simply to win against the villain, but they're also tempted to do so because they lose sight of what they're fighting for and let concerns about their own righteousness bog them down.
Meanwhile the villain knows this and structures their plans around it as part of an effort to demoralize them, adding to the hero's disadvantages.
1. The fuck is this shit?
2. Why doesn't he have a checkmark as a Lt fucking Governor?
Edit: this is also really cool but do city holidays typically affect non government workers?
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This is absolutely great. I wish more cities/states would follow
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This is absolutely great. I wish more cities/states would follow
1. Clearly Dr. Vanessa Tyson is an evil antichrist follower meant to stop LTGOV Fairfax from doing good for Virginia. :retch:
2. This is his personal account, not the account for his LTGOV office. I agree it should still be verified, though.
Well.... if 100% of repubs approve i mean... (different issue, this is a poll on black face, but uh... yeah) They prolly aren't too far away.
Didn't see this poll but in the poll I saw it was closer to 60% and that's of Independents who watched the speech, which skew very Trump in the first place. Like he was measured with an approval rating in the 60s amongst people who watched the speech.
Here is an article summarizing the CNN and CBS pools. Partisan tilt of the SotU was higher than it's been since 2001 IIRC
https://www.vox.com/2019/2/6/18213682/state-of-the-union-approval-ratings-polls
Warren taking questions about the Texas State Bar document. She basically reiterates what she's been saying the past couple months, but she walks away when asked by a reporter if she's thought about dropping out of the race.
People who watch SOTU are inclined to like the President. The people like us who hate watch aren't the norm.
In addition to threatening more gains in this years' and 2020's elections, this VA shitshowfestapaloozathon is drowning out good Hammer of God legislative oversight and rule of law doings.
No air quotes; it's just the term "investigations" in their minds means endless fruitless smear hearings and innuendo.
I think the end result of 3 scandals in VA means there isn't heat on one of them, so they all stay.
A reporter should ask if she dropped a tactical nuke on herself.
The icky, realpolitik saving grace of this is that Northam can't be elected again, anyways. That immediately solves one problem if he stays. Herring seems, from that release, like someone that at least has enough sense and maybe contrition to repair his own situation. And Fairfax can go fuck himself.
VA's gubernatorial restrictions allow for a very easy cleaning of the slate.
Also, I did this earlier and just never had an opportune time to post it -
When people tell their children (if they can afford to have any) that they can be President when they grow up, that should be amended to include, "so don't be an asshole to other people or fuck it up with stupid bullshit."
it would be uh, extremely something, if Fairfax was the only one of the three to lose his job.The icky, realpolitik saving grace of this is that Northam can't be elected again, anyways. That immediately solves one problem if he stays. Herring seems, from that release, like someone that at least has enough sense and maybe contrition to repair his own situation. And Fairfax can go fuck himself.
VA's gubernatorial restrictions allow for a very easy cleaning of the slate.
Also, I did this earlier and just never had an opportune time to post it -
True.
I honestly don't know if I have more than that, acknowledging the truth of it. This is a trainwreck, but the stereotype is a desire to watch those.
This whole thing feels more like watching a colleague give a terrible presentation. You feel sick just watching it happen. At least in that example it's because of empathy, but here I really want to just fast forward to the conclusion because I feel no empathy for any of those three men, but don't want it to impact VA Dem electability, but also realize that's a compromised viewpoint, but also understand that we are in that sort of timeline, but...
Being a big picture person too often means seeing every possibility play out and knowing they all suck.
ABC News: Rep. Bobby Scott learned of sexual assault allegations against Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax a year ago from the victim: Aides
Virginia Democratic Congressman Bobby Scott was made aware of allegations of sexual assault against now-Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax over a year ago by the alleged victim herself, ABC News has learned.
Scott learned of the allegations directly from Dr. Vanessa Tyson, who on Wednesday released a statement detailing the alleged 2004 assault, which took place at the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
Fairfax vehemently denies the assault claim.
In a statement given to ABC News on Wednesday, Scott wrote, "Allegations of sexual assault need to be taken seriously. I have known Professor Tyson for approximately a decade and she is a friend. She deserves the opportunity to have her story heard.”
Much more in the link.
When POCs talk about how fucked up shit is, remember they aren't talking about 100 years past they are talking about literally the recent past and even now.
I've been thinking, at first i figured, all three were done. No way they'd be able to survive. But then I thought about recent history, and how outrage has only really claimed big name celebrities, and how Kavanaugh survived an extremely credible account and I think all three probably end up staying. Northam, just won't go because he seems like he lost the plot long ago. Fairfax is probably going to run a Kavanaugh with a large portion of America believing he's innocent or she is lying, and the AG being so contrite will be "forgiven".
We can objectively say that 2/5 of these fuck-nuggets' time was spent being bigoted oxygen thieves. I'm sure i'm being generous.
These are the moments they're remembering when they talk about keeping their participation trophy statues up.
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