Consolidated VA Elections Thread

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Anonymous wrote:Dems: “We are tolerant, kind people. So anyway, like I was saying..Republicans are gutter trash.”

I won’t vote to harm you. I won’t try to force you into a closet away from society. That doesn’t mean I have to like you or that I won’t call you out on your shitty behavior.

Voting for someone you don't like is not shitty behavior.

Why did you vote for that person? Still haven’t heard an explanation.

You won’t get one. You’re just looking for an excuse for more name calling, no matter how thoughtful the posters response would be. It’s not worth anyone’s time.

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Anonymous wrote:Dems: “We are tolerant, kind people. So anyway, like I was saying..Republicans are gutter trash.”

And this whole thread illustrates that. And when called on it - more name calling. It’s pretty funny.

Agree. Behave like gutter trash- expect to be called out as such. There are reasons those things are said.

Face it. You put up a shitty candidate, and not enough people voted for him. That doesn’t make the people who voted for the other side “gutter trash.”

Face it. Most of the Youngkin votes were from uneducated whites.

You have to keep thinking that. The alternative is just too painful.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it done? This is so awful. I don’t even live in VA anymore, but I am devastated. What the F is wrong with our country??

You don’t want to live in VA or the USA?

Not PP, but I thought Va was smarter than this. You learn something everyday.

Your opinion.

Well we have different definitions of smart

A majority of people in a state having different opinions does not make them less intelligent than you. I’m sure it easier for you to believe you are superior.

Actually non college educated white women came out in droves for Youngkin. So it can be inferred with a fair degrees of confidence that his voters were defiantly not of superior intelligence, based upon that one little factoid, not to mention that they were so easily encouraged to vote against their own self interests. So yes the lack of a college degree. Especially when we are talking about white women in this area is a pretty good indication of a less than average level of intelligence. superior but by definition definitely more intelligent, you do know that white women without a college definition came out in droves for Yoingkin.

I’ll never understand why people vote against their own self interests. If you only knew just how insulated people like me are from decisions people like you make you’d never stop weeping. The fact is that many people vote for dems because we want our country, states and towns to be better for everyone. I didn’t lose a dime under trump. I didn’t miss a day of work because I was able to work from home, and I will be able to going forward. I have great health insurance, I live very comfortably in a really safe neighborhood, my kids go to the best public schools in the area, oh and I will retire in a few years because I’ve amassed more wealth than I could possibly spend in my golden years, and I’m 50, which means I’ll pass on wealth to my offspring.

Yep I am a democrat but the truth is there are a lot of people in this area whose lives aren’t really affected one way or the other. They don’t live anywhere near the edge. I do well regardless of who is in power. I truly feel sorry for all of the rubes who bought into the nonsense that was spewed during this election. But keep voting against your own self interests after all the less you have, the more I have, and quite frankly if you don’t care why should I.

Now buckle up buttercups, or should I say bittercups and hang onto those bootstraps Because you are going to need too. Youngkin lied to get your vote your life and your schools will be no better this time next year and mine will be not have changed at all.

The quiet parts out loud.

The bolded is the coldest, meanest, snarkiest thing I've ever read and I love you for it!!! If I could say that to my MAGA aunt who posts disinformation on Facebook every day of my life, I would

So now we’ve seen like Mother Teresa on a bender looks like, and it’s not pretty. Shocked.

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Anonymous wrote:Gotta love southwestern Virginia that was just starting to see some relief from their massive shortages in healthcare providers after passage of the ACA and Medicaid expansion voting for someone who opposes the ACA and Medicaid expansion. Good luck with that!

Exactly. Why do folks vote against their own interests?

Like regressive taxes?

taxes help everyone - schools, roads, city services. ACA and the medicaid expansion helps the poor the most, but also self employed people, too.

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Anonymous wrote:How is Youngkin personally going to do anything about a rape case in Loudon county?

He can’t. Thatissue wasn’t really about the assault, it was a proxy for their anti-trans agenda (even though the kid isn’t trans and the trans rights policies they’re fighting against weren’t put into place until after the assault occurred).

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Anonymous wrote:Is it done? This is so awful. I don’t even live in VA anymore, but I am devastated. What the F is wrong with our country??

You don’t want to live in VA or the USA?

Not PP, but I thought Va was smarter than this. You learn something everyday.

Your opinion.

Well we have different definitions of smart

A majority of people in a state having different opinions does not make them less intelligent than you. I’m sure it easier for you to believe you are superior.

This. And yet, when called on it, they double down. Talk about sad.

If you don’t want us to think you’re dumb then stop pretending and just come out and tell us that “different opinion”.

Which is it?
You like status quo because you are doing ok. Screw everyone else.
You are ok with systemic racism. It doesn’t hurt you so it’s ok.
You don’t want to break the cycle of poverty.
You think people are struggling because of moral failings.
You think some races are inherently better than others.
You want to restrict elections to make it different for some people to vote.
You don’t like LGBTQ+.
You do want to ban abortions.
You want to force your religious beliefs on everyone else.

Could be more than one. Or all?

Check, check, check. Straight down the list of Dem talking points. There is one party that seeks to segregate people into their little boxes and one party who has talked about poverty but done actually done nothing about it and it ain't the Rs. As for your #1, see above smug elitist posts.

So share this “different opinion” that you have. What informed, rational opinion led you to vote for Youngkin?

Show us how you weren’t manipulated.

I don't have to explain myself to you, but if you want to know what drove a lot of people to vote for Younkin, reread this post as well as the smug little nitwits' posts above who think they are superior people to the "uneducated."

This should be easy for you to prove me wrong.

What is this “different opinion” of yours? This well-informed, rational opinion.

You will never get an explanation. Half of them don’t really understand why they voted that way, and the other half who do won’t say it allowed.

You won’t get an explanation because we already know your reply will be all about right wing talking points, and propaganda, and how low information and stupid anyone is who voted for Youngkin, and how they all fell for it, blah blah blah. You’re not interested in what any Youngkin voter has to say. You’re just waiting to jump on it, call names, and say how stupid R voters are.

I’m very interested to hear and I will not call names.

I can’t figure out what these informed & rational “different opinions” are.

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Voter fraud!!! We need to demand an audit. Where's cyber ninjas when you need them.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone else have a wife in a really bad mood this morning?

That’s what you get for marrying a women’s studies major.

I’m annoyed this morning but I’m a nurse who worked throughout the pandemic. I also had to manage kids at home and deal with all the BS at work. Basically a bunch of mostly white well off suburban women have been melting down now for over 1.5 years and this was their way to get back at the people they felt were responsible.

This +1000! White women suddenly had to endure a hardship the is usually reserved for Black & brown folks and they pointed their anger at the wrong source. Be mad that we had a GLOBAL PANDEMIC. We all suffered.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like exit polls said a lot of white people flipped to Youngkin but other groups picked McAuliffe. Youngkin did an awesome job playing on the white victim card in a gentler way than Trump did.

I heard a lot of Latinos voted Youngkin. I don’t think it was just whites and the Ds need to reckon with that.

Asians too.

And Youngkin doubled the republican AA vote.

Did you even click the link — sorry, I don’t know how to post the screenshot. Every group, including Asians and Hispanics, voted for McAuliffe. White people voted for Youngkin by a lot.

https://mobile.twitter.com/morganicink/status/1455734674639126528?s=10

I would be interested in what you’ve posted if the sample size weren’t minuscule! I think AAPI and Hispanics voted for Youngkin in far greater numbers.

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Anonymous wrote:Gotta love southwestern Virginia that was just starting to see some relief from their massive shortages in healthcare providers after passage of the ACA and Medicaid expansion voting for someone who opposes the ACA and Medicaid expansion. Good luck with that!

Exactly. Why do folks vote against their own interests?

Like regressive taxes?

taxes help everyone - schools, roads, city services. ACA and the medicaid expansion helps the poor the most, but also self employed people, too.

You’re kidding about the ACA helping the self-employed, right?

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Ds, I'm upset, too. Youngkin and Sears are loons. They are gun extremists and pander to the Q types. As other PPs have said, white angry suburban moms didn't want schools closed and lashed out. Here we are.

But don't lose hope. VA trends blue. We've had a D gov since 2009. That's a long time. There was bound to be a bounce back to R, for a short period. I have no doubt that when COVID passes and kids are back in school, we'll trend back D with a better candidate.

This is the ebb and flow of politics - particularly in VA which tends to do a DD, R, DD, R kind of situation. You can never get to greedy in politics because power always switches hands. Much like Trump, though, I think this will be a one term R because once Rs rear their ugly little head most voters remember why they were repulsed in the first place.

And remember, we have elections every year in VA so be sure to show up next year!!

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Anonymous wrote:Dems: “We are tolerant, kind people. So anyway, like I was saying..Republicans are gutter trash.”

I won’t vote to harm you. I won’t try to force you into a closet away from society. That doesn’t mean I have to like you or that I won’t call you out on your shitty behavior.

Voting for someone you don't like is not shitty behavior.

Why did you vote for that person? Still haven’t heard an explanation.

Because I read through McAuliffe's plans on his campaign website and didn't like them. And our Democrat-run city has been enacting policies that are 1) a waste of money and 2) not working and making things worse. I was actually pretty conflicted about who to vote for but decided on Youngkin.

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Anonymous wrote:Dems: “We are tolerant, kind people. So anyway, like I was saying..Republicans are gutter trash.”

I won’t vote to harm you. I won’t try to force you into a closet away from society. That doesn’t mean I have to like you or that I won’t call you out on your shitty behavior.

Voting for someone you don't like is not shitty behavior.

Why did you vote for that person? Still haven’t heard an explanation.

You won’t get one. You’re just looking for an excuse for more name calling, no matter how thoughtful the posters response would be. It’s not worth anyone’s time.

Not at all. I’m legit trying to understand. Because right now it looks like most people voted for Youngkin for misinformed, irrational reasons. Please prove me wrong.

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For all those “so confused” about how this happened:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/03/politics/us-election-day-analysis-virginia-new-jersey-democrats-reckoning/index.html

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Actually non college educated white women came out in droves for Youngkin. So it can be inferred with a fair degrees of confidence that his voters were defiantly not of superior intelligence, based upon that one little factoid, not to mention that they were so easily encouraged to vote against their own self interests. So yes the lack of a college degree. Especially when we are talking about white women in this area is a pretty good indication of a less than average level of intelligence. superior but by definition definitely more intelligent, you do know that white women without a college definition came out in droves for Yoingkin.

I’ll never understand why people vote against their own self interests. If you only knew just how insulated people like me are from decisions people like you make you’d never stop weeping. The fact is that many people vote for dems because we want our country, states and towns to be better for everyone. I didn’t lose a dime under trump. I didn’t miss a day of work because I was able to work from home, and I will be able to going forward. I have great health insurance, I live very comfortably in a really safe neighborhood, my kids go to the best public schools in the area, oh and I will retire in a few years because I’ve amassed more wealth than I could possibly spend in my golden years, and I’m 50, which means I’ll pass on wealth to my offspring.

Yep I am a democrat but the truth is there are a lot of people in this area whose lives aren’t really affected one way or the other. They don’t live anywhere near the edge. I do well regardless of who is in power. I truly feel sorry for all of the rubes who bought into the nonsense that was spewed during this election. But keep voting against your own self interests after all the less you have, the more I have, and quite frankly if you don’t care why should I.

Now buckle up buttercups, or should I say bittercups and hang onto those bootstraps Because you are going to need too. Youngkin lied to get your vote your life and your schools will be no better this time next year and mine will be not have changed at all.

The quiet parts out loud.

Truth, and I love you for saying it. The lives of the people in Red Virginia will get shittier under Youngkin and they will never figure out that they did it to themselves. I have enough money to buy my way out of any mess Youngkin creates, but they can’t say the same. Sure, put vouchers in place. It won’t be enough to cover private school tuition but I can more than afford the difference. Middle class Bob in western Loudoun? Not so much. Enjoy your defunded public school, Bob!

Are you sure yiur chikdren have the intelligence for private schools? They do have entry exams. Better try Phillips, Newton, and Oakwood now.