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US PoliERA 2019 |OT2| #PresidentPelosi
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Somebody will refuse to step down. Virginia Democrats are not going to completely hand over the executive branch to the Republicans. Virginia voters will (right or wrong) view this as a transparent power grab by the GOP, attempting to overturn an election, and refuse to condone it.
God, if VA ends up with a Republican governor . . .
Yeah, if worst came to worst and all three of them ended up resigning, they'd make sure to appoint a Dem Lt. Governor first (who would then ascend to Governor and appoint their own LG).
Northam won by a landslide, there's no justifiable argument to buck the will of the people like that.
Southern state where a lot of the party power structure is still based on the old Dixiecrat politics that dominated it until recently. If Northam was a candidate in 1984 and that photo came out I don't think it would have done him much damage.
Nothing. She's just trash.
Have we reopened ethics investigations into him yet? Take this corrupt fucker down already.
No but they'd probably have to run for an election in 2019.
You say that like Bernie would end his campaign right there. lol The dude does not care about Democratic decorum, he's going to continue until the very last primary to spite The Man.
Bullshit. Watch this video and tell me that Garfield doesn't have layers.
I miss good comic strips. I just bought a Krazy Kat collection and it's kind of blowing my mind.
EDIT: Oh shit I didn't even look at your name; of course you like good-ass comic strips lol
Republicans have a distinct advantage with this sort of thing now because, well, Democrats still largely seem to have a sense of shame and responsibility with these situations, Northam's hemming and hawing excepted. Trump has taught Republicans that it doesn't matter what you did, just deny, deny, deny and cry "fake news".
They're not all going to step down at once. They'll make sure to step down in an order that allows a Democrat replacement.
Jesus.
Right. Someone will get a chance to appoint a new LG (for god's sake a black woman, please) who will ascend to the governorship and then appoint his/her own LG and AG. We will not cede the executive branch.
There are Halloween stores full of costume choices. It's like super easy NOT to wear black face, folks.
Did all white people of a certain age in the South do blackface or something? What in the world...
I mean sure, but consider like, Roy Moore. Republicans would have been significantly better off if he hadn't stuck around. David Vitter in Louisiana thought he got a free pass for his own scandal until he lost the gubernatorial race.
Yeah, they don't always lose (Trump, obviously), but the notion that Republicans just get away with everything doesn't really hold up. When Franken stepped down, he was replaced by a Democrat. The Virginia Democrats will be too.
Oh dear God.
I'm going to go out a on limb and say someone does have a photo which is why he's getting out ahead of this. Now we have to hope that Justin Fairfax isn't a rapist and never got Halloween costume inspiration from the movie "White Chicks".
If he doesn't admit it now and someone finds a photo later then it looks even worse. Might as well just put it out now.
Although I'd suggest taking a look at the yearbooks of every official in VA.
My understanding is it's also very hard to get blackface off if you use shoe polish. There's the Roddy Piper story of him needing like two weeks to get it all off after he did it on half his face for WrestleMania. In other words, it's racism that just sticks around.
Virginia was an old, deeply racist state not even that long ago.
Its shift to being a blue state was very rapid, and there's some growing pains
Right, but that was a rather extreme example. Even conservative Alabamans were like, "I don't know about this" when it came to a pedophile. Wearing black-face 30-40 years ago? I have the sinking suspicion that many Republicans would just shrug that off, whereas most Democrats are calling for Northam to resign.
Well-liked incumbent for a billion years. Low turnout special election that reverted largely to its presidential trend.
Important to keep in mind that the Dem success in Minnesota didn't come from Obama-Trump places flipping back so much as the areas that were already trending D (i.e. wealthier, better educated suburbs) racing left.
Sure, but then it would damage them in the general.
If a Republican was caught in blackface in Virginia in 2019, it would absolutely doom them in the general election (assuming it was a statewide race and not some safely gerrymandered red district in God-knows-where). You're probably right that they'd be less likely to resign than a Democrat, but I wouldn't want to be in that boat as a Republican.
I can't watch the video but the first year or two when Davis actually wrote and drew the strip it was a lot better. It's when it turned into the licensing machine produced by committee (which Davis intended from the start) that it got bad.
No. This was extra-special racism, not the racism I grew up in.
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