Election 2021

[Ball Security]

42 minutes ago, Springfield said:

 

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.

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

[Springfield]

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. 

[China]

Glenn Youngkin condemns report his son twice tried to vote in Virginia

 

Glenn Youngkin, the Republican victor in this week’s election for governor in Virginia, reacted angrily to a report which said his 17-year-old son twice tried to vote in the contest.

 

Responding to the Washington Post on Friday, a spokesman for Youngkin said: “It’s unfortunate that while Glenn attempts to unite the commonwealth around his positive message of better schools, safer streets, a lower cost of living and more jobs, his political opponents – mad that they suffered historic losses this year – are pitching opposition research on a 17-year-old kid.”

 

The Post did not name Youngkin’s young kin, because he is a minor. It quoted a local elections official as saying the boy tried to vote once on Tuesday, then came back 20 minutes later and tried again, saying a friend the same age had been allowed to do so.

 

The official, Jennifer Chanty, said she told him: “I don’t know what occurred with your friend but you are not registered to vote today. You’re welcome to register, but you will not be voting today.”

 

The paper identified Chanty as a Democrat. She said the Youngkins were not registered to vote in her precinct and added: “It was just weird. He was very insistent that he wanted to vote in this election and I said, ‘Well, you’re not old enough.’”

 

 

 

Youngkin’s spokesman said the governor-elect’s son “honestly misunderstood Virginia election law and simply asked polling officials if he was eligible to vote. When informed he was not, he went to school.”

 

Elections officials told the Post no laws were broken.

 

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[NoCalMike]

Everyone still remember almost a decade ago when Common Core math was being labeled as "marxist/socialist takeover of math"  and why?  Because the parents saw it as something weird and different and "that's not how I grew up learning it" as if new methods to teach never develop.  

 

If you look up the origins of CRT it is a specific aspect under the larger umbrella of Critical Theory which was something more class-based than race-based.  It was about critiquing modern democracy/captialism etc etc....not as systems themselves but the weaknesses and where/how people were left behind from it and figuring out the how/why.  Critical RACE theory merely takes those same principals and examines why it has been especially devastating to the African American community.  That is basically all CRT is to begin with and why it is taught at legal school, because it has nothing to do with the individual and everything to do with the systems and infrastructure created. 

 

All this gabagool about "it makes my innocent white child feel bad about themselves" isn't even related to CRT itself, and more what a handful of teachers around the country who just decide to include race issue discussions in their classroom.  For example, there was the video from a month (i think the video itself might be older, but it made the rounds recently) or so ago where the class is debating whether the confederate flag should fly at school/public buildings.  A lot of people would wrongly identify even having that discussion as "CRT" which is incorrect.   You can still teach issues related to race in the classroom and it has nothing to do with CRT specifically.  

 

And this is why I have said from the beginning that there will be an attempt to parlay the "No CRT in classrooms" into trying to just remove some of the more painful aspects of our history relating to race period.  That is what this has been about, the frenzy and outrage directly specifically at CRT was the perfect way to get the foot in the door because none of these people actually know what CRT is, have never studied it, so they have this myopic generalized idea of what it is, so it makes it easy to move the goal posts on it. 

 

 

Edited November 7, 2021 by NoCalMike

[Larry]

3 hours ago, Ball Security said:

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

Just based on my opinion of Republicans in general, he's going to lower the price of housing by doing things like:  

 

1. Gutting building codes. 
2. Mandating a freeze on property tax increases. 
3. Outlawing unions in the construction industry. 
4. Allowing Richmond to override zoning rules. 
5. Eliminating making new developments pay for the increased roads that their development will create. 
    

Think I'm on the right track?  

[LadySkinsFan]

Good news from the Georgia elections! Democrats flipped some districts in their state legislature. Guess the people of Georgia don't like what the Republican Death Cult is doing.

 

 

https://www.georgiademocrat.org/democrats-net-30-seats-statewide-in-municipal-elections/

[Ball Security]

On 11/7/2021 at 9:26 AM, Springfield said:

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. 

I’d be interested in understanding that dynamic in an honest way.  For years SW Va has lost residents, not because of HCOL, but because of lack of opportunity - disproportionately affecting college graduates (brain drain).  I wonder how many VA college graduates leave the state, but then return (I did).  And if college graduate exodus is a VA issue or how it compares to other states.  You would figure that college graduates have more mobility.  Walk around Clarendon, there’s not a lack of young professionals.

[88Comrade2000]

1 hour ago, Ball Security said:

I’d be interested in understanding that dynamic in an honest way.  For years SW Va has lost residents, not because of HCOL, but because of lack of opportunity - disproportionately affecting college graduates (brain drain).  I wonder how many VA college graduates leave the state, but then return (I did).  And if college graduate exodus is a VA issue or how it compares to other states.  You would figure that college graduates have more mobility.  Walk around Clarendon, there’s not a lack of young professionals.

I wouldn’t just classify that to college grads. If you live in area with no opportunity/jobs; then you are going to move to where there is. Doesn’t matter if you’re a college grad or not.

Edited November 8, 2021 by Rdskns2000

[LadySkinsFan]

I moved to Texas for two reasons: 1) my family live here, and 2) it's cheaper than where I was living in Alexandria. Certainly not for the political climate.

Edited November 8, 2021 by LadySkinsFan

[Cooked Crack]

 

NJ results actually not that bad