How should I feel about the fact that my next door neighbors put a Youngkin board on their lawn?

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Anonymous wrote:We are POC. Would never mention it to them, but should we be more careful in our interactions going forward?

Lt Gov candidate is AA. AA is in the POC category so I would not be concerned. https://winsomesears.com/

She has an impressive background. Thanks for sharing!

She seemed like a nut to be, but impressive is in the eye of the beholder.

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Anonymous wrote:Hmm. My first reaction was this post is simply designed to stir the pot.

I can and have been friends with people whose voting choices differ from mine. I've even let them drive my kids places without incident.

Guess you have been living under a rock

This is huge if the Lying Criminal GOP win in VA Democracy dies.

Some of you idiots want to live like people in Turkey or Russia the rest of us understand Democracy and in now way support the death of America

Authoritarianism equals Youngkin equals Trumpism

Get ready for bread lines morons you have ruined the best thing in the world for what? Lying GQP

Bread lines are more likely to be caused by Biden's inflation and higher gas prices. McAuliffe and Northam are adding to it in Virginia with their plans for higher energy bills by mandating purchase of renewable energy. Many states are around 10 cents/KwH. Virginia is close to 20, and the current plans will push them to 30 or 40 like in Oregon. Tripling people's energy bills is the plan of Virginia Democrats.

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Anonymous wrote:God forbid two people have differing points of view on politics and actually live peacefully next to each other...heck, maybe even get together and discuss why each of you look at things differently over a glass of wine?? Maybe both of you would actually learn a thing or two and be better people for it.

No, sorry. It’s not 1990 anymore. If you vote R, you vote for the Trump party, and we have absolutely nothing whatsoever to “learn” from you. Your vote told us everything about you we needed to know.

So you believe all R’s supported Trump? And all Dems support AOC? Sanders?

Or…could there possibly be moderates on both sides that could agree on like 75% of the issues? I’m an R (not the poster) and have plenty of Dem friends. Good friends. Family friends. Travel together. The whole thing. While I didn’t vote for Trump, I have voted R prob 80% of my life, including the last cycle. I have no idea if my Dem friends have ever voted R and I don’t really care. Won’t change how I feel about them either way.
More to life than politics. And devise, dramatic, sensationalized takes don’t change anyone opinions, it only hardens the side that each person is on.

There were primaries. Trump won his (not Virginia’s, but most of them) and Sanders didn’t. 90%+ of elected Republicans support Trump. This isn’t hard.

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Anonymous wrote:God forbid two people have differing points of view on politics and actually live peacefully next to each other...heck, maybe even get together and discuss why each of you look at things differently over a glass of wine?? Maybe both of you would actually learn a thing or two and be better people for it.

No, sorry. It’s not 1990 anymore. If you vote R, you vote for the Trump party, and we have absolutely nothing whatsoever to “learn” from you. Your vote told us everything about you we needed to know.

So you believe all R’s supported Trump? And all Dems support AOC? Sanders?

Or…could there possibly be moderates on both sides that could agree on like 75% of the issues? I’m an R (not the poster) and have plenty of Dem friends. Good friends. Family friends. Travel together. The whole thing. While I didn’t vote for Trump, I have voted R prob 80% of my life, including the last cycle. I have no idea if my Dem friends have ever voted R and I don’t really care. Won’t change how I feel about them either way.
More to life than politics. And devise, dramatic, sensationalized takes don’t change anyone opinions, it only hardens the side that each person is on.

There were primaries. Trump won his (not Virginia’s, but most of them) and Sanders didn’t. 90%+ of elected Republicans support Trump. This isn’t hard.

So you are assuming that all R's voted? Wrong assumption. And shocker...pretty sure the vast majority of a party in power supports the president. Even a guy like Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:God forbid two people have differing points of view on politics and actually live peacefully next to each other...heck, maybe even get together and discuss why each of you look at things differently over a glass of wine?? Maybe both of you would actually learn a thing or two and be better people for it.

No, sorry. It’s not 1990 anymore. If you vote R, you vote for the Trump party, and we have absolutely nothing whatsoever to “learn” from you. Your vote told us everything about you we needed to know.

So you believe all R’s supported Trump? And all Dems support AOC? Sanders?

Or…could there possibly be moderates on both sides that could agree on like 75% of the issues? I’m an R (not the poster) and have plenty of Dem friends. Good friends. Family friends. Travel together. The whole thing. While I didn’t vote for Trump, I have voted R prob 80% of my life, including the last cycle. I have no idea if my Dem friends have ever voted R and I don’t really care. Won’t change how I feel about them either way.
More to life than politics. And devise, dramatic, sensationalized takes don’t change anyone opinions, it only hardens the side that each person is on.

There were primaries. Trump won his (not Virginia’s, but most of them) and Sanders didn’t. 90%+ of elected Republicans support Trump. This isn’t hard.

So you are assuming that all R's voted? Wrong assumption. And shocker...pretty sure the vast majority of a party in power supports the president. Even a guy like Trump.

Trump isn’t the president anymore. When has a party supported the President that just lost the last election for the next election?

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Anonymous wrote:God forbid two people have differing points of view on politics and actually live peacefully next to each other...heck, maybe even get together and discuss why each of you look at things differently over a glass of wine?? Maybe both of you would actually learn a thing or two and be better people for it.

No, sorry. It’s not 1990 anymore. If you vote R, you vote for the Trump party, and we have absolutely nothing whatsoever to “learn” from you. Your vote told us everything about you we needed to know.

So you believe all R’s supported Trump? And all Dems support AOC? Sanders?

Or…could there possibly be moderates on both sides that could agree on like 75% of the issues? I’m an R (not the poster) and have plenty of Dem friends. Good friends. Family friends. Travel together. The whole thing. While I didn’t vote for Trump, I have voted R prob 80% of my life, including the last cycle. I have no idea if my Dem friends have ever voted R and I don’t really care. Won’t change how I feel about them either way.
More to life than politics. And devise, dramatic, sensationalized takes don’t change anyone opinions, it only hardens the side that each person is on.

There were primaries. Trump won his (not Virginia’s, but most of them) and Sanders didn’t. 90%+ of elected Republicans support Trump. This isn’t hard.

So you are assuming that all R's voted? Wrong assumption. And shocker...pretty sure the vast majority of a party in power supports the president. Even a guy like Trump.

Trump isn’t the president anymore. When has a party supported the President that just lost the last election for the next election?

When they've lost their bloody minds

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Anonymous wrote:God forbid two people have differing points of view on politics and actually live peacefully next to each other...heck, maybe even get together and discuss why each of you look at things differently over a glass of wine?? Maybe both of you would actually learn a thing or two and be better people for it.

No, sorry. It’s not 1990 anymore. If you vote R, you vote for the Trump party, and we have absolutely nothing whatsoever to “learn” from you. Your vote told us everything about you we needed to know.

So you believe all R’s supported Trump? And all Dems support AOC? Sanders?

Or…could there possibly be moderates on both sides that could agree on like 75% of the issues? I’m an R (not the poster) and have plenty of Dem friends. Good friends. Family friends. Travel together. The whole thing. While I didn’t vote for Trump, I have voted R prob 80% of my life, including the last cycle. I have no idea if my Dem friends have ever voted R and I don’t really care. Won’t change how I feel about them either way.
More to life than politics. And devise, dramatic, sensationalized takes don’t change anyone opinions, it only hardens the side that each person is on.

There were primaries. Trump won his (not Virginia’s, but most of them) and Sanders didn’t. 90%+ of elected Republicans support Trump. This isn’t hard.

So you are assuming that all R's voted? Wrong assumption. And shocker...pretty sure the vast majority of a party in power supports the president. Even a guy like Trump.

Trump isn’t the president anymore. When has a party supported the President that just lost the last election for the next election?

When they've lost their bloody minds

There was this guy named Grover Cleveland.

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Anonymous wrote:The concern I have about Youngkin is that too many voters are too stupid to realize how crazy and craven he is. I'm really worried that he's going to win.

Terry McAuliffe isn’t doing himself any favors when he says things like parents shouldn’t control what their children are being taught in school. I’m honestly not happy with either candidate and don’t know what to do on voting day. They’re both appalling.

But parents shouldn't. If you only want your child taught in school what you want your child taught in school, then you need to homeschool. Should flat-earther parents control what their children are taught in public school? How about creationist parents? How about parents who want their children to be taught a curriculum that includes the 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory?

Ideally I would like actual education experts deciding what is taught - not a partisan school board. Ugh.

The school board doesn’t decide the curriculum.

I would listen if you feel like telling my how it is selected. I’m in FCPS.

I’m responding to my own question that I don’t think anyone has answered - I think because I was right in the first place. From an NYT article on the VA Gov election:
“ Mr. McAuliffe shot back that he did not believe “parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” In the weeks since, he’s stood by those remarks, saying that the state Board of Education and local school boards should determine what is taught in the classroom.”

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Anonymous wrote:God forbid two people have differing points of view on politics and actually live peacefully next to each other...heck, maybe even get together and discuss why each of you look at things differently over a glass of wine?? Maybe both of you would actually learn a thing or two and be better people for it.

No, sorry. It’s not 1990 anymore. If you vote R, you vote for the Trump party, and we have absolutely nothing whatsoever to “learn” from you. Your vote told us everything about you we needed to know.

So you believe all R’s supported Trump? And all Dems support AOC? Sanders?

Or…could there possibly be moderates on both sides that could agree on like 75% of the issues? I’m an R (not the poster) and have plenty of Dem friends. Good friends. Family friends. Travel together. The whole thing. While I didn’t vote for Trump, I have voted R prob 80% of my life, including the last cycle. I have no idea if my Dem friends have ever voted R and I don’t really care. Won’t change how I feel about them either way.
More to life than politics. And devise, dramatic, sensationalized takes don’t change anyone opinions, it only hardens the side that each person is on.

There were primaries. Trump won his (not Virginia’s, but most of them) and Sanders didn’t. 90%+ of elected Republicans support Trump. This isn’t hard.

So you are assuming that all R's voted? Wrong assumption. And shocker...pretty sure the vast majority of a party in power supports the president. Even a guy like Trump.

Trump isn’t the president anymore. When has a party supported the President that just lost the last election for the next election?

Stop the lame gaslighting.

Trump is still in charge. The vast majority of elected Rs still support him.

Youngkin bent right over to get that Trump endorsement.

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Anonymous wrote:Neighbors two houses down the street also has one up. When I saw it, I just said, “Hmmm.” Made a note of it in my mind and went on with my life😉

^^^We are an AA family..

Why does that matter!

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I’m in Alexandria and have surprisingly seen a lot of Youngkin signs. Interesting. Never saw that before in my area.

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Anonymous wrote:The concern I have about Youngkin is that too many voters are too stupid to realize how crazy and craven he is. I'm really worried that he's going to win.

Terry McAuliffe isn’t doing himself any favors when he says things like parents shouldn’t control what their children are being taught in school. I’m honestly not happy with either candidate and don’t know what to do on voting day. They’re both appalling.

But parents shouldn't. If you only want your child taught in school what you want your child taught in school, then you need to homeschool. Should flat-earther parents control what their children are taught in public school? How about creationist parents? How about parents who want their children to be taught a curriculum that includes the 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory?

Ideally I would like actual education experts deciding what is taught - not a partisan school board. Ugh.

The school board doesn’t decide the curriculum.

I would listen if you feel like telling my how it is selected. I’m in FCPS.

I’m responding to my own question that I don’t think anyone has answered - I think because I was right in the first place. From an NYT article on the VA Gov election:
“ Mr. McAuliffe shot back that he did not believe “parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” In the weeks since, he’s stood by those remarks, saying that the state Board of Education and local school boards should determine what is taught in the classroom.”

What’s wrong with that? Parents don’t write curricula. The don’t design a scope and sequence or pacing guide. They don’t decide on standards. They can serve on the local, state, or national decision making bodies that do…but no, parents don’t get to tell teachers (directly) what to Teach. How can this be in dispute?

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Anonymous wrote:The concern I have about Youngkin is that too many voters are too stupid to realize how crazy and craven he is. I'm really worried that he's going to win.

Terry McAuliffe isn’t doing himself any favors when he says things like parents shouldn’t control what their children are being taught in school. I’m honestly not happy with either candidate and don’t know what to do on voting day. They’re both appalling.

But parents shouldn't. If you only want your child taught in school what you want your child taught in school, then you need to homeschool. Should flat-earther parents control what their children are taught in public school? How about creationist parents? How about parents who want their children to be taught a curriculum that includes the 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory?

Ideally I would like actual education experts deciding what is taught - not a partisan school board. Ugh.

The school board doesn’t decide the curriculum.

I would listen if you feel like telling my how it is selected. I’m in FCPS.

I’m responding to my own question that I don’t think anyone has answered - I think because I was right in the first place. From an NYT article on the VA Gov election:
“ Mr. McAuliffe shot back that he did not believe “parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” In the weeks since, he’s stood by those remarks, saying that the state Board of Education and local school boards should determine what is taught in the classroom.”

Terry completely aligned with the incompetent school boards that have done so much to destroy the reputations of local public school systems. No surprise he is so out of touch, since he sent his kids to expensive privates and a segregated public school.

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Anonymous wrote:The concern I have about Youngkin is that too many voters are too stupid to realize how crazy and craven he is. I'm really worried that he's going to win.

Terry McAuliffe isn’t doing himself any favors when he says things like parents shouldn’t control what their children are being taught in school. I’m honestly not happy with either candidate and don’t know what to do on voting day. They’re both appalling.

But parents shouldn't. If you only want your child taught in school what you want your child taught in school, then you need to homeschool. Should flat-earther parents control what their children are taught in public school? How about creationist parents? How about parents who want their children to be taught a curriculum that includes the 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory?

Ideally I would like actual education experts deciding what is taught - not a partisan school board. Ugh.

The school board doesn’t decide the curriculum.

I would listen if you feel like telling my how it is selected. I’m in FCPS.

I’m responding to my own question that I don’t think anyone has answered - I think because I was right in the first place. From an NYT article on the VA Gov election:
“ Mr. McAuliffe shot back that he did not believe “parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” In the weeks since, he’s stood by those remarks, saying that the state Board of Education and local school boards should determine what is taught in the classroom.”

What’s wrong with that? Parents don’t write curricula. The don’t design a scope and sequence or pacing guide. They don’t decide on standards. They can serve on the local, state, or national decision making bodies that do…but no, parents don’t get to tell teachers (directly) what to Teach. How can this be in dispute?

Because some teachers and admin are charging over the line when it comes to politics in the schools. They feel it is their duty to indoctrinate their students into their way of thinking which is directly at odds with the law and/or district policy. Both sidea do this but given that teachers tend to be Dems, it seems to be that side doing it more often. And I'm a Dem. I'm just not a far left Dem and I'm alarmed at what I'm seeing in our son's school.

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Anonymous wrote:The concern I have about Youngkin is that too many voters are too stupid to realize how crazy and craven he is. I'm really worried that he's going to win.

Terry McAuliffe isn’t doing himself any favors when he says things like parents shouldn’t control what their children are being taught in school. I’m honestly not happy with either candidate and don’t know what to do on voting day. They’re both appalling.

But parents shouldn't. If you only want your child taught in school what you want your child taught in school, then you need to homeschool. Should flat-earther parents control what their children are taught in public school? How about creationist parents? How about parents who want their children to be taught a curriculum that includes the 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory?

Ideally I would like actual education experts deciding what is taught - not a partisan school board. Ugh.

The school board doesn’t decide the curriculum.

I would listen if you feel like telling my how it is selected. I’m in FCPS.

I’m responding to my own question that I don’t think anyone has answered - I think because I was right in the first place. From an NYT article on the VA Gov election:
“ Mr. McAuliffe shot back that he did not believe “parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” In the weeks since, he’s stood by those remarks, saying that the state Board of Education and local school boards should determine what is taught in the classroom.”

What’s wrong with that? Parents don’t write curricula. The don’t design a scope and sequence or pacing guide. They don’t decide on standards. They can serve on the local, state, or national decision making bodies that do…but no, parents don’t get to tell teachers (directly) what to Teach. How can this be in dispute?

I think the school board is too partisan unfortunately. I have more education experience except I hate people so I can’t run.