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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #50 on: February 04, 2019, 09:36:29 AM »
I saw this morning that the LT Governor has now been accused of sexual harassment. Looks like it's turning into "Designated Survivor" there.
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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #51 on: February 04, 2019, 11:46:31 AM »
Yep. I posted that in its own thread. Thought about combining it here, but it's a different enough situation that it really deserved its own freak show thread.
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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #52 on: February 04, 2019, 11:50:27 AM »
Yep. I posted that in its own thread. Thought about combining it here, but it's a different enough situation that it really deserved its own freak show thread.

Yeah, saw that after I posted here. :)
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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #53 on: February 04, 2019, 09:35:17 PM »
Someone is finally asking the proper question in this mess. How the republicans missed both this picture and be nickname in the college yearbook.

Turns out that the Republican national governors association was responsible for opposition research for the Gillespie campaign. Gillespie wasn't exactly popular with them.  They were very lukewarm in their support. I'm working on the theory that this was not an accident. It was deliberately withheld from the Gillespie campaign to hinder his chances.



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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #54 on: February 05, 2019, 12:10:56 PM »
MAGA hats and blackface are different forms of expression, but they share a certain unfortunate DNA
https://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-maga-hat-20190205-story.html
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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #55 on: February 05, 2019, 12:48:58 PM »
MAGA hats and blackface are different forms of expression, but they share a certain unfortunate DNA
https://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-maga-hat-20190205-story.html

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MAGA hats simply don’t mean anything outside their implicit political message: The past was better because the country was whiter.

Must be one o' them dog whistles.  ;/
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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #56 on: February 05, 2019, 02:01:29 PM »
I figured it out. This is all a deep state plot to distract us with the moonwalk so we forget about dance dance ocasio!
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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #57 on: February 05, 2019, 09:45:24 PM »
I figured it out. This is all a deep state plot to distract us with the moonwalk so we forget about dance dance ocasio!

LOL

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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #58 on: February 05, 2019, 10:12:41 PM »
MAGA hats and blackface are different forms of expression, but they share a certain unfortunate DNA
https://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-maga-hat-20190205-story.html

Yeah,  I'm going to call complete bullshit on that coloration.
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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #59 on: February 06, 2019, 12:04:29 PM »
ANNNNNDDDD.... it may very well be a REPUBLICAN governor:

https://wjla.com/news/local/virginia-attorney-general-mark-herring-blackface

3rd in line for the Governorship has just admitted to a blackface photo from his college years.

YET AGAIN, it seems the Republicans are terrible at research. 

JUST when you thought it couldn't get any crazier... I'm just in awe.
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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #60 on: February 06, 2019, 12:11:23 PM »
This could turn into killing three birds with one stone.
I actually doubt it but who knows at this point.

BTW: I don't seem to recall all these blackface parties back in the day.
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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #61 on: February 06, 2019, 12:30:22 PM »
This could turn into killing three birds with one stone.
I actually doubt it but who knows at this point.

BTW: I don't seem to recall all these blackface parties back in the day.

You probably weren't hanging out with a lot of liberal Democrats.
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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #62 on: February 06, 2019, 12:31:29 PM »
I guess that must be it.
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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #63 on: February 06, 2019, 12:34:21 PM »
Wasn't there a picture of Hillary and Bill doing something along these lines. Fuzzy memory on it here and it may have been photoshopped anyway. May be getting my memory crossed up with something else.
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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #64 on: February 06, 2019, 12:41:51 PM »
Wasn't there a picture of Hillary and Bill doing something along these lines. Fuzzy memory on it here and it may have been photoshopped anyway. May be getting my memory crossed up with something else.


There's a photo of a woman in black-face who might be Hillary Clinton, as some have suggested, but I guess its authenticity has not been confirmed.
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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #65 on: February 06, 2019, 12:45:12 PM »

There's a photo of a woman in black-face who might be Hillary Clinton, as some have suggested, but I guess its authenticity has not been confirmed.

Snopes has said it isn't the Clintons so that has been settled once and for all.

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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #66 on: February 06, 2019, 12:46:00 PM »
This could turn into killing three birds with one stone.
I actually doubt it but who knows at this point.

BTW: I don't seem to recall all these blackface parties back in the day.
Me neither.  Some of it looks like it was done as a gag or a Halloween costume, but these same people would not hesitate to call a Republican a racist if they had done the same.  The Gov over there did call the Republican opponent a racist.

The only time I recall it being done was a group I was in doing a Halloween Scare thing at the school.  A few of the guys darkened their face and wore black and jumped out of a side hallway to scare people coming through.  If I remember right, I just had a big mosquito net over me.  
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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #67 on: February 06, 2019, 12:53:03 PM »

There's a photo of a woman in black-face who might be Hillary Clinton, as some have suggested, but I guess its authenticity has not been confirmed.

The person assigned to test it's authenticity was found dead after shooting themselves in the back of the head 5 times with a musket, then jumping off a 40 story building, then setting themselves on fire, and then hanging themselves after typing a 50 page note. Foul play is not suspected and their death has been ruled a suicide.
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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #68 on: February 06, 2019, 12:59:46 PM »
The person assigned to test it's authenticity was found dead after shooting themselves in the back of the head 5 times with a musket, then jumping off a 40 story building, then setting themselves on fire, and then hanging themselves after typing a 50 page note. Foul play is not suspected and their death has been ruled a suicide.


Sounds legit.
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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #69 on: February 06, 2019, 02:22:37 PM »

3rd in line for the Governorship has just admitted to a blackface photo from his college years.

NYT is "reporting" it as "He was in dark makeup". Hurray for unbiased journalism!
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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #70 on: February 06, 2019, 02:39:56 PM »
Wait til they find out who TJ did.  I am so proud of my state. :D
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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #71 on: February 06, 2019, 03:55:13 PM »
Snopes has said it isn't the Clintons so that has been settled once and for all.


Only if you believe anything Snopes says about the Clintons.
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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #72 on: February 06, 2019, 04:05:59 PM »
Note: The asterisks are my doing.

https://twitter.com/jonallendc/status/1093189392196427777
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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #73 on: February 06, 2019, 07:37:41 PM »
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Re: So Virginia will have a new governor next week....
« Reply #74 on: February 06, 2019, 07:42:11 PM »
I'm getting very interested in seeing how the LT Governor thing plays out with the people who were attacking Kavanaugh. His accuser hired Ford's lawyers and he just hired Kavanaugh's lawyers.
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