Welp, Virginia is screwed

[Ben]

Wearing a mask is illegal?  WTF is that about?

Several states have one. I'm thinking AR or AL used it when antifa came to town. I'm pretty sure someone here posted video at the time.

I can understand what I think is your concern from he freedom side, but much like with cops who hide their faces, I think people looking to do something to me should buck up and show themselves.

In this case, it appears the majority of "mask wearers" were wearing neck gators for the cold as there appears to have been wind and wind chill going on.  I saw the cops were doing the same thing.

[Angel Eyes]

https://genesiustimes.com/breaking-23-killed-at-virginia-white-supremacist-gun-rights-protest-dozens-injured/

Babylon Bee has some competition.

Another from that site:

https://genesiustimes.com/virginia-dems-send-in-beto-orourke-to-confiscate-guns-in-2nd-amendment-sanctuaries/

RICHMOND, VA— Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill say local police who do not enforce gun control measures likely to pass in Virginia will have to face a flappy-armed Robert “Beto” O’Rourke.

In a statement, Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has announced that fervent anti-gun activist and former presidential candidate O’Rourke will personally go house to house and confiscate illegal weapons with his flailing arms.

“We are pleased to announce that our good friend ‘Beto’ will be single-handedly confiscating all the illegal firearms possessed by the the gun owners throughout the state,” Northam said.

Democratic Virginia Rep. Boog Allue suggested cutting off state funds to counties that do not comply with any gun control measures that pass in Richmond.

[brimic]

It's reported that one woman was arrested at the event, for refusing to remove the mask over her face.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/narrative-fail-minorities-lgbt-community-women-show-up-in-force-at-pro-gun-rally

I still find it odd, as NWS shows the temperatures as being in the low-to-mid 30s, with windchill in the 20s. You'd think cops in a southern city wouldn't try to stop people from covering up.

From what I hear, she was with antifa... still doesn't make it right to arrest her if she was protesting peacefully, but there may be more to the story.

[MechAg94]

Well after such a strong pro-gun rights rally, I sure hope Virginia Democrats learned something from this..............oh.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/20/gov-ralph-northam-suggests-he-saved-virginia-from-a-volatile-situation/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Northam tweeted, “We are all thankful that today passed without incident. The teams successfully de-escalated what could have been a volatile situation.”

[Angel Eyes]

[Perd Hapley]

 

[Angel Eyes]

http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1627

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Threats and harassment of certain officials and property; venue. Provides that certain crimes relating to threats and harassment may be prosecuted in the City of Richmond if the victim is the Governor, Governor-elect, Lieutenant Governor, Lieutenant Governor-elect, Attorney General, or Attorney General-elect, a member or employee of the General Assembly, a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, or a judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia. In addition, threats to damage property may be prosecuted in the City of Richmond if the property is owned by the Commonwealth and located in the Capitol District.

I see a major problem with regard to First Amendment freedoms.  Also might violate the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment, since the bill as written only protects certain government officials.

[K Frame]

Looks like the first step in reviving the Alien & Sedition Laws.

Next it will be made a crime to disagree with your liberal, supposedly betters.

[WLJ]

Looks like the first step in reviving the Alien & Sedition Laws.

Next it will be made a crime to disagree with your liberal, supposedly betters.

They refer to that as Hate Speech now and that falls under Hate Crimes

[Boomhauer]

Looks like the first step in reviving the Alien & Sedition Laws.

Next it will be made a crime to disagree with your liberal, supposedly betters.

In their minds it already is.






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[Ben]

In their minds it already is.






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I know there was a ton of that stuff that the left came up with during Obama. I don't know why the mainstream Rs aren't digging more of that up to use. That image would have been perfect for one of the House hearings. Or for Trump to tweet.

[brimic]

In their minds it already is.






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Stealing that.

[Boomhauer]

I weaponize it every time I see a #resistance retard pop up on my Facebook

[TechMan]

I weaponize it every time I see a #resistance retard pop up on my Facebook

Do you get the "But that was different!" line?

[Boomhauer]

Nah usually I get blocked lol

[brimic]

I weaponize it every time I see a #resistance retard pop up on my Facebook

I used it twice already today.

[Angel Eyes]

Secession redux?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/west-virginia-counties-gun-control

GOP House member Gary Howell, chairman of the Committee on Government Organization, told Fox News that 43 out of 100 West Virginia House members are sponsoring a resolution that would let West Virginia accept some of the largely rural Virginia counties unhappy with how things are being run in Richmond.

"It probably originally started as a way just to give them moral support, but it has been snowballing and we have been receiving all kinds of information from people and a lot of questions asking, 'How do we do this?' 'What do we need to do?'" Howell said. "It's turned fairly serious that some of these counties actually wanna leave, join the state of West Virginia, and we'd like to welcome them in."
...
While land has changed hands between states many times through U.S. history, it is exceedingly rare that it happens on the scale Howell is proposing and often only after arbitration or a ruling from the Supreme Court.
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The text of the resolution requires any Virginia jurisdictions wanting to join West Virginia to have their citizens vote on the proposal before Aug. 1. West Virginia voters would then have the option to accept those areas in a statewide referendum during the general election in November.

A better solution would be to throw the anti-gun politicians out of office in VA.  How many are up for reelection in November?

I'm certain that the Virginia state gov't would sue to block the move.  I'm not sure what the grounds would be.  Violation of state sovereignty?

[Ben]

Secession redux?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/west-virginia-counties-gun-control

A better solution would be to throw the anti-gun politicians out of office in VA.  How many are up for reelection in November?

Is it possible via a popular vote? How many commies have moved into specific areas of VA? Another reason for states to have their own Electoral College. Especially telling in VA, where nearly every county has gone to 2nd Amend sanctuary status. There have to be one or two very concentrated commie pinko voting blocks geographically speaking, for this crap to have started in the first place.

[bedlamite]

More problems in the state:

SJ 6 – Increases the term limit of the governor from 4 to 8 years.
SJ 8 – Allows Felons and those declared mentally incompetent to vote
SJ 14 – Restores voting rights to convicted felons
SJ 29 – The governor to be elected by majority of votes in congressional districts, not by statewide majority.
SB 65 – Eliminates photo ID requirements for voting
SB 399 – Virginia’s electoral college votes to be awarded to the winner of the national popular vote.

The biggest problem is that once this crap becomes law, it's harder to get rid of it.

[K Frame]

My biggest hope for an outcome for this "national popular vote" bullshit is that it will be challenged in court, work it's way up to the Supreme Court, and be declared unconstitutional because it essentially nullifies the electoral college.

[bedlamite]

My biggest hope for an outcome for this "national popular vote" bullshit is that it will be challenged in court, work it's way up to the Supreme Court, and be declared unconstitutional because it essentially nullifies the electoral college.

I don't expect it to happen, but I'd like to see Trump get the pop vote so the electoral votes from the far left states go to him. Imagine the wailing.

[K Frame]

I don't expect it to happen, but I'd like to see Trump get the pop vote so the electoral votes from the far left states go to him. Imagine the wailing.

Oh, that would be so sweet... But yeah, I don't see that ever happening.

[Unisaw]

I don't expect it to happen, but I'd like to see Trump get the pop vote so the electoral votes from the far left states go to him. Imagine the wailing.

  That would be great!

[AJ Dual]

Oh, that would be so sweet... But yeah, I don't see that ever happening.

Don't say never.

TDS is kind of what happened in Wisconsin back in 2010-2011 writ large.

When we got a GOP governor with GOP majorities in both houses of the Legislature, they started on a program of fiscal responsibility. And the Left/Teacher's and .gov Unions went nuts. They refused minimal concessions that still left them sitting pretty as compared to the private sector, to balance the budget.

So the WI GOP, getting no cooperation went and just busted all teachers and .gov unions in WI with Act 10. The WI Left then went turd-throwing-monkey nuts. They went on a full court press to recall the governor and several legislators. Strident leftists were seen in every retail parking lot approaching people to sign recall petitions. Families had fights and even a few marriages were split over it. Much like Trump's win in 2016. There was a chanting and a drum circle protest that ran in shifts inside the WI capitol rotunda for years.

Long and short of it, they made the WI Right dig in and get determined, and more importantly, they alienated the entire WI political middle. And the Governor won the recall election with more votes than he'd gotten in the general. And the GOP held onto the Legislature too.

I also see little signs that some of the American Left at the Federal level is getting a sinking feeling that all their efforts to oppose and remove Trump might actually create a backlash. Stuff like Adam Schiff already making excuses for Trump winning the 2020 election for instance...

https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/22/adam-schiff-is-already-claiming-the-illegitimacy-of-a-trump-reelection/

[K Frame]

I'll say never when Los Angeles County his more voters in it than what, something like 26 states?