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13 minutes ago, Warhead36 said:

Appreciate it folks. He is going to go down as the greatest goal scorer in hockey history. We'll never see another D.C. athlete this great in our lifetimes most likely(actually Juan Soto might be able to but there's a good chance the Nats don't resign him).

 

I can't believe people actually tried to argue Darrell Green was better LMFAO.

It’s like the difference between Darrell Green and Payton Manning or Aaron Rogers (pre Covid idiocy).

28 minutes ago, tshile said:

Many poorly administered?

 

you mean, all of them?

 

I can’t recall any rave or concert I’ve been to where I felt like they had control of the situation to the point where if the entire main pit area started all crushing each other they’d be able to stop it. 
 

the real question is why. This obviously doesn’t happen often.  So why here? What was different?

 

and spare me the drug needles cause that sounds straight out of Reefer Madness. 

I read somewhere, and this was early Saturday so maybe it was an unsubstantiated report, but that most of the people were gathered near the main stage expecting Travis Scott to appear there. When he started his act, he was not at the main stage which cause a rush of people to wherever he happened to appear.

Apparently crowd crush does actually happen fairly often, but obviously not to this extent. Large crowds move as a fluid when they are packed in too tight. I’ve read reports about many concerts where this happens and while people don’t lose their lives, it’s a scary and traumatic experience.

Live Nation doesn’t seem to have a great safety track record, and I believe that this is where the lawsuits should be directed for the most part.

Reddit is the worst place to read about this right now. Pretty much every comment section is upvotes of how he is a trash human, and makes trash music, and how he should never perform again, and should be bankrupted personally because this happened.

I’m certain that I’m clouded because I’m a fan of his, but I feel like this could have happened to many poorly administered music festival acts that draw a young and raucous crowd.

Its tragic and I could never imagine perishing at a music show like that.

Republicans about to make this **** illegal all over again in the mid terms I bet. Rip weed.

32 minutes ago, Riggo-toni said:

Free porn.

Im glad somebody posted the most proper answer. Jesus you all are a bunch of rubes. Plus, the variety and scope of the aforementioned. You can literally get whatever your heart desires.

5 minutes ago, Ball Security said:

Lowering the price of housing?  Not a free market guy, this Youngkin.

Yep, he lamented to the Republican crowd about how VA is losing residents. They’re moving to lower COL areas like NC and TX. He’s talking 20 something’s, fresh out of college. Somehow, he plans on lowering the cost to live here. I have no idea how, because he didn’t expand, but he obviously blamed the democrats for VA losing new college graduates to other states where the COL is t as exorbitantly high. 

6 hours ago, Simmsy said:

More like "make things easier for them to win next time". I seriously doubt this guy has any ideas on what to do with Virginia.

Well he doesn't really have anything new or of substance.

He says he's going to remove some sort of grocery tax I didn't even know existed and give a gas tax holiday. Then after cutting all this revenue, he's going to raise teacher pay.

I was at a campaign event of his. He also mentioned lowering the price of housing. Trying to keep people from leaving the state of VA. Democrats causing lots of problems. Typical stuff for republicans.

He has the personality of a concrete wall.

I heard about this. Just a huge festival with people packed in and nowhere to go. It sounds horrifying really. Drowning in a sea of humanity.

I’m interested to hear a more cohesive report on what actually happened.

You don’t fix shipping. There are no available workers.

People who attend school board meetings are ****ing weird.

19 minutes ago, Cooked Crack said:Thankfully he doesn't have the Senate

As long as Dems don't have a Manchin or Sinema type in the VA senate then he can't get any terrible legislation pass. You probably will start seeing the state defend abortion and conservative causes in the court. Forgot about any vaccine mandates. He might just outlaw that.

Narrator: They do.

19 hours ago, Springfield said:

I guess white moms know what’s best for their kids.

👀
 

Hmmmm. 🤔

27 minutes ago, TD_washingtonredskins said:

 

I'm blown away by how much interaction I STILL have in my kids' school day (7th and 9th grade in Loudoun County). There is plenty of transparency into what assignments they have, what units they are covering, etc. In fact, I try to back off so that they can actually learn how to figure things out on their own...plus they are smarter than I am anyway. 

 

BUTTTTT....I don't think that's the context of "parent involvement" that I understood during this VA election. I understood it more as parent influence on topics and content being taught, not opportunities for parents to be made aware of what's been decided by others. So, the amount of information being shared by teachers isn't really relevant to this discussion from what I can tell. 

Oh yes. Absolutely.

The whole election was fought over exactly what children are taught. Which in VA the kids have it better than most.

Youngkin ran a school board campaign and won because people are stupid. If they want to change what’s taught in school then they should vote for school board.

25 minutes ago, steve09ru said:

Overall, VA schools are better than most but there’s still large gaps in quality, resources, learning environments.  10 miles can be the difference between a top rated public school and one that is well below average so we cant just blame it on poor parenting

Id blame it on socioeconomic forces.

Parents CAN already be involved. I don’t know what the big stink is about. I mean I know what it’s really about. But there’s plenty of room for parental involvement as it is right now, maybe too much if you ask me.

Republicans aren’t right on education and throwing a bad candidate under the bus to agree with them is silly.
 

There is very little wrong with the public education system in Virginia and what is wrong can probably be attributed to poor parenting at home. These are likely the same parents who republicans preyed upon to draw their votes this time around because just like assholes who think they no better than to get a Covid vaccine they think they can decided what their kid does and does not get taught in school.

2 minutes ago, Renegade7 said:

 

Nah, Youngin planned to repleal the grocery tax when grocery prices were going up.  I dont agree with it, but to many thats a pragmatic quick way to ease the inflation issue for folks. 

 

Then planning to increase education funding?  He went right after the moderate Republicans GOP lost under Trump and Terry had no answer for it. 

 

GOP has a plan to get their votes back, and Dems had no idea they wouldn't be allowed to keep them after Trump left. 

 

We needed more turn out from our own base and we ignored a huge chunk of it instead. Fail bus.

So I’m gonna pay what, like $5 less on my $300 grocery bill?

Increase education funding while cutting taxes? Seems logical.

This race was about culture and conservatives won.

1 minute ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said:

The Democratic leadership isn’t just Biden. Schumer and in particular Pelosi need to show a backbone.

or maybe put those old cows out to pasture 

Also, can we just break off the rest of this state and free ourselves of these leeches?

Shoulda ran Justin Fairfax instead

1 minute ago, TryTheBeal! said:

Mcauliffe is a bad candidate that ran a terrible, lazy campaign.

Wonder if he had the same campaign strategist as Hillary Clinton.

I guess white moms know what’s best for their kids.

2 minutes ago, tshile said:

CNN is calling youngkin an outsider 

 

he was hand selected by the va gop committee after they voted to *not have primaries* for the first time I ever remember. I didn’t even know that was an option. 

CNN is trash 

the first part of his campaign he wouldn’t even admit that he was a Republican.

I attended a paid Youngkin supporter event a couple months ago. It was… typical. Indoors, no masks, lots of fear of the Dems. Pat Herrity is a good politician though, I like that guy.

Put in my vote for professional educators but I’m kinda worried that the stay at home Jessicas who think they know how best to educate little Brayden will win.

If you aren't symptomatic then your shedding of the virus is reduced by an order of magnitudes.