Can I just say how much I love Maryland?

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Anonymous wrote:A stomping of Trump by 30 points, nearing LBJ's record.

https://www.marylandmatters.org/2020/11/04/biden-may-fall-short-of-lbjs-historic-margin-in-md-with-no-winner-declared-yet/

An absolute shellacking by Democratic house incumbents except for the one crackpot on the Eastern Shore.

Montgomery County, which has had to look at Trump's literal a$$ from their backyard, obliterated him with 80% of the vote going to Biden. (Who was that rando who thought Trump would get over 40% of the vote in MoCo?)

They also rejected Robin Ficker's idiotic tax cap proposal and voted for the sane one, and they voted resoundingly against the Republican backdoor operative Nine Districts.

Much of this is not news, but it makes me happy still. Some may call it an echo chamber, but I call it a bastion of sanity. Maryland my Maryland you make me proud.

Explain to me how question D was a republican back door initiative. The lady who started it is a black democrat. The corrupt Montgomery county council fooled you into thinking this.

She didn't start it. She was chairperson of the group. So that the white Republicans from the upcounty pushing the effort could say, "Look, a Black Democrat from Wheaton is the chair of this group!"

Okay let's assume you're right (I'd like to see source for that), and even if she was the "chairperson" instead of founder, are you implying that she was forced into this role? Like she doesn't have her own thoughts and ideas? Please. And tell me again how this is even a partisan issue. Many dems (me included) voted for D.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A stomping of Trump by 30 points, nearing LBJ's record.

https://www.marylandmatters.org/2020/11/04/biden-may-fall-short-of-lbjs-historic-margin-in-md-with-no-winner-declared-yet/

An absolute shellacking by Democratic house incumbents except for the one crackpot on the Eastern Shore.

Montgomery County, which has had to look at Trump's literal a$$ from their backyard, obliterated him with 80% of the vote going to Biden. (Who was that rando who thought Trump would get over 40% of the vote in MoCo?)

They also rejected Robin Ficker's idiotic tax cap proposal and voted for the sane one, and they voted resoundingly against the Republican backdoor operative Nine Districts.

Much of this is not news, but it makes me happy still. Some may call it an echo chamber, but I call it a bastion of sanity. Maryland my Maryland you make me proud.

Explain to me how question D was a republican back door initiative. The lady who started it is a black democrat. The corrupt Montgomery county council fooled you into thinking this.

She didn't start it. She was chairperson of the group. So that the white Republicans from the upcounty pushing the effort could say, "Look, a Black Democrat from Wheaton is the chair of this group!"

Okay let's assume you're right (I'd like to see source for that), and even if she was the "chairperson" instead of founder, are you implying that she was forced into this role? Like she doesn't have her own thoughts and ideas? Please. And tell me again how this is even a partisan issue. Many dems (me included) voted for D.

What? No. I'm sure she did so voluntarily and believed in the cause. However, while you, as a Democrat, may have voted yes on Question D, it's a matter of public record that the main forces funding Yes on D were white upcounty Republicans and white Bethesda real-estate developers. Ask them how this was a partisan issue, not me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been here 60 years too and pp has selective memory.

Schools were full of drugs and rapists.

Moco is so much better now than ever and I hope the rednecks left move out.

I am so happy to live in MoCo right now!
And I have lived in Alabama and Georgia, and hope to never do so again.

It’s really nice that the red necks are getting pushed out.

Even Frederick ... formerly called Fredneck... they voted for Biden, if you stay in the educated areas of Frederick it’s totally blue.

You can thank the "Liberals" of Montgomery county who moved to Frederick for that. You know, those same liberals who love to cancel people and call people racist but at the same time moved to Frederick so that their own kids don't have to attend high farm schools with lots of minorities. Hypocrites.

Or they moved to Frederick because they are young people starting families and housing in Frederick is still affordable, unlike in most of Montgomery County. I have friends who bought an adorable house in a walkable downtown area for the same price as a run down un-updated shack of a townhouse in Gaithersburg. I know, shocking.

And I know many people who did the same thing and because they are my good friends, they tell me the truth. They did not want their kids going to schools with "poor kids". These are "Liberal" friends of mine.

So.....those of us who stayed have street cred? I live in SS and never sent my kids to MCPS. I went through MCPS and know firsthand you get what you pay for.

No, what I'm saying is that loud social justice liberals who avoid schools with poor and brown kids are hypocrites.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A stomping of Trump by 30 points, nearing LBJ's record.

https://www.marylandmatters.org/2020/11/04/biden-may-fall-short-of-lbjs-historic-margin-in-md-with-no-winner-declared-yet/

An absolute shellacking by Democratic house incumbents except for the one crackpot on the Eastern Shore.

Montgomery County, which has had to look at Trump's literal a$$ from their backyard, obliterated him with 80% of the vote going to Biden. (Who was that rando who thought Trump would get over 40% of the vote in MoCo?)

They also rejected Robin Ficker's idiotic tax cap proposal and voted for the sane one, and they voted resoundingly against the Republican backdoor operative Nine Districts.

Much of this is not news, but it makes me happy still. Some may call it an echo chamber, but I call it a bastion of sanity. Maryland my Maryland you make me proud.

Just for clarity, you do know this actually allows for uncapped property tax? The change wasn't to require all nine council members to raise it (that already existed) but to remove the rate cap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A stomping of Trump by 30 points, nearing LBJ's record.

https://www.marylandmatters.org/2020/11/04/biden-may-fall-short-of-lbjs-historic-margin-in-md-with-no-winner-declared-yet/

An absolute shellacking by Democratic house incumbents except for the one crackpot on the Eastern Shore.

Montgomery County, which has had to look at Trump's literal a$$ from their backyard, obliterated him with 80% of the vote going to Biden. (Who was that rando who thought Trump would get over 40% of the vote in MoCo?)

They also rejected Robin Ficker's idiotic tax cap proposal and voted for the sane one, and they voted resoundingly against the Republican backdoor operative Nine Districts.

Much of this is not news, but it makes me happy still. Some may call it an echo chamber, but I call it a bastion of sanity. Maryland my Maryland you make me proud.

Explain to me how question D was a republican back door initiative. The lady who started it is a black democrat. The corrupt Montgomery county council fooled you into thinking this.

She didn't start it. She was chairperson of the group. So that the white Republicans from the upcounty pushing the effort could say, "Look, a Black Democrat from Wheaton is the chair of this group!"

Okay let's assume you're right (I'd like to see source for that), and even if she was the "chairperson" instead of founder, are you implying that she was forced into this role? Like she doesn't have her own thoughts and ideas? Please. And tell me again how this is even a partisan issue. Many dems (me included) voted for D.

What? No. I'm sure she did so voluntarily and believed in the cause. However, while you, as a Democrat, may have voted yes on Question D, it's a matter of public record that the main forces funding Yes on D were white upcounty Republicans and white Bethesda real-estate developers. Ask them how this was a partisan issue, not me.

So just because you don't like these 2 groups, you automatically assume that it's partisan issue? Did you even research why many folks across the aisle wanted Question D? All the reasons why this is a bipartisan issue are all available online. I'm asking YOU why it's a partisan issue for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been here 60 years too and pp has selective memory.

Schools were full of drugs and rapists.

Moco is so much better now than ever and I hope the rednecks left move out.

I am so happy to live in MoCo right now!
And I have lived in Alabama and Georgia, and hope to never do so again.

It’s really nice that the red necks are getting pushed out.

Even Frederick ... formerly called Fredneck... they voted for Biden, if you stay in the educated areas of Frederick it’s totally blue.

You can thank the "Liberals" of Montgomery county who moved to Frederick for that. You know, those same liberals who love to cancel people and call people racist but at the same time moved to Frederick so that their own kids don't have to attend high farm schools with lots of minorities. Hypocrites.

Or they moved to Frederick because they are young people starting families and housing in Frederick is still affordable, unlike in most of Montgomery County. I have friends who bought an adorable house in a walkable downtown area for the same price as a run down un-updated shack of a townhouse in Gaithersburg. I know, shocking.

And I know many people who did the same thing and because they are my good friends, they tell me the truth. They did not want their kids going to schools with "poor kids". These are "Liberal" friends of mine.

So.....those of us who stayed have street cred? I live in SS and never sent my kids to MCPS. I went through MCPS and know firsthand you get what you pay for.

No, what I'm saying is that loud social justice liberals who avoid schools with poor and brown kids are hypocrites.

What I am saying is the school aren't good and it's not because of the students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been here 60 years too and pp has selective memory.

Schools were full of drugs and rapists.

Moco is so much better now than ever and I hope the rednecks left move out.

I am so happy to live in MoCo right now!
And I have lived in Alabama and Georgia, and hope to never do so again.

It’s really nice that the red necks are getting pushed out.

Even Frederick ... formerly called Fredneck... they voted for Biden, if you stay in the educated areas of Frederick it’s totally blue.

You can thank the "Liberals" of Montgomery county who moved to Frederick for that. You know, those same liberals who love to cancel people and call people racist but at the same time moved to Frederick so that their own kids don't have to attend high farm schools with lots of minorities. Hypocrites.

Or they moved to Frederick because they are young people starting families and housing in Frederick is still affordable, unlike in most of Montgomery County. I have friends who bought an adorable house in a walkable downtown area for the same price as a run down un-updated shack of a townhouse in Gaithersburg. I know, shocking.

And I know many people who did the same thing and because they are my good friends, they tell me the truth. They did not want their kids going to schools with "poor kids". These are "Liberal" friends of mine.

So.....those of us who stayed have street cred? I live in SS and never sent my kids to MCPS. I went through MCPS and know firsthand you get what you pay for.

No, what I'm saying is that loud social justice liberals who avoid schools with poor and brown kids are hypocrites.

What I am saying is the school aren't good and it's not because of the students.

DP- lol what’s the reason then? This should be funny.

[Anonymous]

Maryland is the best state

[Anonymous]

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So just because you don't like these 2 groups, you automatically assume that it's partisan issue? Did you even research why many folks across the aisle wanted Question D? All the reasons why this is a bipartisan issue are all available online. I'm asking YOU why it's a partisan issue for you.

Please stop. Question D was pushed by Republicans. That's a fact. That doesn't mean that you, as a Democrat, didn't vote for it, or other Democrats didn't vote for it. It just means that it was pushed by Republicans.

Now, why did the Republicans push it? I mean, you'd have to ask them, but in my opinion, it's because they believed it was their last best hope for getting a Republican on the county council. I'm not even sure that's true, because it would take a lot of gerrymandering to put together a council district where registered Republicans were the majority. One of the people who write for the blog Seventh State ran the numbers on that, so you can look it up there if you want.

I, personally, think that the Republicans would have more success in elections if they ran candidates that more voters in Montgomery County would consider voting for, but they don't seem to favor that approach. Or maybe they can't get anybody plausible to run as a Republican in Montgomery County.

I also think that more candidates who live in the upcounty would get elected in county-wide elections if upcounty residents voted in elections at the same rates as downcounty residents AND if upcounty candidates did more campaigning downcounty and broadened their message to appeal to downcounty voters. The state and local elections are coming up in two years, so if you want to get involved, the spring of 2021 is the time for you to get started.

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Or you could take away from the election that the country is pretty evenly divided on what people think an ideal role of government is, and that those who espouse conservative and Republican ideals are not some fringe group. But it looks like you’ll just keep spewing hate.

If you believe that the election results were about rational differences of opinion about the ideal role of government, then you must be referring to a different election.

Ultimately that IS what it’s all about. You can imagine it’s more - or less - but it really isn’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been here 60 years too and pp has selective memory.

Schools were full of drugs and rapists.

Moco is so much better now than ever and I hope the rednecks left move out.

I am so happy to live in MoCo right now!
And I have lived in Alabama and Georgia, and hope to never do so again.

It’s really nice that the red necks are getting pushed out.

Even Frederick ... formerly called Fredneck... they voted for Biden, if you stay in the educated areas of Frederick it’s totally blue.

You can thank the "Liberals" of Montgomery county who moved to Frederick for that. You know, those same liberals who love to cancel people and call people racist but at the same time moved to Frederick so that their own kids don't have to attend high farm schools with lots of minorities. Hypocrites.

Or they moved to Frederick because they are young people starting families and housing in Frederick is still affordable, unlike in most of Montgomery County. I have friends who bought an adorable house in a walkable downtown area for the same price as a run down un-updated shack of a townhouse in Gaithersburg. I know, shocking.

And I know many people who did the same thing and because they are my good friends, they tell me the truth. They did not want their kids going to schools with "poor kids". These are "Liberal" friends of mine.

So as we all know, we tend to choose friends with shared values who are similar to ourselves. So thanks for outing yourself!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Or you could take away from the election that the country is pretty evenly divided on what people think an ideal role of government is, and that those who espouse conservative and Republican ideals are not some fringe group. But it looks like you’ll just keep spewing hate.

If you believe that the election results were about rational differences of opinion about the ideal role of government, then you must be referring to a different election.

Ultimately that IS what it’s all about. You can imagine it’s more - or less - but it really isn’t.

If your president refusing to condemn white supremacy until asked dozens of times isn't a dealbreaker for you, you are complicit and a bad person. That's what it's about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Or you could take away from the election that the country is pretty evenly divided on what people think an ideal role of government is, and that those who espouse conservative and Republican ideals are not some fringe group. But it looks like you’ll just keep spewing hate.

If you believe that the election results were about rational differences of opinion about the ideal role of government, then you must be referring to a different election.

Ultimately that IS what it’s all about. You can imagine it’s more - or less - but it really isn’t.

Well, ok. If you think that the ideal role of government is to support grift, enrich the rich, ignore reality, and support white grievance, then you voted one way; and if you think it's not, then you voted the other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been here 60 years too and pp has selective memory.

Schools were full of drugs and rapists.

Moco is so much better now than ever and I hope the rednecks left move out.

I am so happy to live in MoCo right now!
And I have lived in Alabama and Georgia, and hope to never do so again.

It’s really nice that the red necks are getting pushed out.

Even Frederick ... formerly called Fredneck... they voted for Biden, if you stay in the educated areas of Frederick it’s totally blue.

You can thank the "Liberals" of Montgomery county who moved to Frederick for that. You know, those same liberals who love to cancel people and call people racist but at the same time moved to Frederick so that their own kids don't have to attend high farm schools with lots of minorities. Hypocrites.

Or they moved to Frederick because they are young people starting families and housing in Frederick is still affordable, unlike in most of Montgomery County. I have friends who bought an adorable house in a walkable downtown area for the same price as a run down un-updated shack of a townhouse in Gaithersburg. I know, shocking.

And I know many people who did the same thing and because they are my good friends, they tell me the truth. They did not want their kids going to schools with "poor kids". These are "Liberal" friends of mine.

So.....those of us who stayed have street cred? I live in SS and never sent my kids to MCPS. I went through MCPS and know firsthand you get what you pay for.

No, what I'm saying is that loud social justice liberals who avoid schools with poor and brown kids are hypocrites.

Ok, I'll bite. Is it still hypocritical if we're willing to have our taxes raised so that EVERYONE can have access to an excellent education?

Because conservatives are not only unwilling to fraternize with "the poors", they also don't support increased taxes or increased funds to social services to support the poor.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

So just because you don't like these 2 groups, you automatically assume that it's partisan issue? Did you even research why many folks across the aisle wanted Question D? All the reasons why this is a bipartisan issue are all available online. I'm asking YOU why it's a partisan issue for you.

Please stop. Question D was pushed by Republicans. That's a fact. That doesn't mean that you, as a Democrat, didn't vote for it, or other Democrats didn't vote for it. It just means that it was pushed by Republicans.

Now, why did the Republicans push it? I mean, you'd have to ask them, but in my opinion, it's because they believed it was their last best hope for getting a Republican on the county council. I'm not even sure that's true, because it would take a lot of gerrymandering to put together a council district where registered Republicans were the majority. One of the people who write for the blog Seventh State ran the numbers on that, so you can look it up there if you want.

I, personally, think that the Republicans would have more success in elections if they ran candidates that more voters in Montgomery County would consider voting for, but they don't seem to favor that approach. Or maybe they can't get anybody plausible to run as a Republican in Montgomery County.

I also think that more candidates who live in the upcounty would get elected in county-wide elections if upcounty residents voted in elections at the same rates as downcounty residents AND if upcounty candidates did more campaigning downcounty and broadened their message to appeal to downcounty voters. The state and local elections are coming up in two years, so if you want to get involved, the spring of 2021 is the time for you to get started.

Advocates thought that this had a good chance of breaking up the groupthink that dominates the current council. The misplaced priorities of the current batch of council members are absurd. They’re killing the business environment, abandoning all fiscal responsibility, and sending the county over an economic cliff, and no one seems to care. This wasn’t about politics; this was about preserving the economic viability of the county.