Consolidated VA Elections Thread

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Anonymous wrote:Another here to report on the amazing crowd for Youngkin at an early hour on a Saturday morning. NOVA is going to shock on Tuesday

Wait until we see the Loudoun crowd tomorrow night.

Where in Loudoun will he be? Might try to go!

Did you already buy your tiki torches?

Oh wait - you still have the one you carried in Charlottesville back in 2017, don’t you?

My bad.

Everyone is tired of your race baiting identity politics. Go away. And go Winsome Sears!!!!

Winsome “Token” Sears? She’s not fooling anyone - people can see right through her. And Ayala is going to trounce her handily.

Wow, a liberal is posting this nonsense? Democrats are constantly accusing Republicans of being racists and here we have one poster making multiple racist comments on this forum tonight.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When are people going to learn that voters supporting the Democrat are not going to show up in the middle of a pandemic to a political rally?

It didn’t happen for Biden in 2020. Didn’t happen during the California recall. And now it’s not happening for McAulliffe.

I have no desire to attend a rally while my toddler is still unvaccinated. Meanwhile, I quietly make my donations around the country and cast my vote locally.

Keep thinking that rally size means anything. All it tells me is that those not worried about a pandemic support Youngkin. No shocker there.

To be fair, they could be fully vaccinated. However, yes, Biden's campaign showed that a candidate (at least a Dem one) does not need to leave their house to effectively campaign and win an election. Another problem I see is that the pictures show lots of middle aged white people showing up for Youngkin. There's a shocker.

Oh, the horror! Not "middle-aged white people"!

[Anonymous]

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I am going with teachers unions. Parents shouldn’t be telling schools what to teach. I am so done with this era where everyone thinks they know more than experts.

Teachers' unions are not experts. Teachers unions are out to promote themselves--not the teachers and not the schools, and definitely not the students.

signed:
Experienced Teacher who learned this in my first year of teaching. Never saw anything over the years to change my mind.

Oh yeah? Where do you teach? In a public school system, or some kind of unaccredited bible-thumper private? I’m betting the latter based on your absurd post. It reads like typical anti-union trash talking points.


Union teachers are the only bulwark standing between society and the brainwashed spawn being raised and indoctrinated by their rightwing loon parents. If it weren’t for public school teachers offsetting all these idiot parents and their lunacy, we’d be up to our eyeballs in school age little fascists. Teachers are typically the only people exposing these kids to Progressive ideals and questioning the nonsense these children are being fed at home.

Assuming you aren't a troll, you are part of the problem. Many parents don't want teachers indoctrinating/pushing political ideologies in a public school classroom.

If you think teaching facts and kindness is a “political ideology” then private is probably a good choice for you.

You're right. My kid goes to a non religious private school in another country (we are from DC but husband is on a temp assignment) and he has a "values" class once a week. It's great actually- they teach basics like honesty, respect, responsibility, perseverance, flexibility, empathy, etc, ALL without some stupid "Progressive" lens that teaches kids to hate each other.

+100
Happy to have my kids taught all of the above - at school and at home. No "equity/racial bias" lens needed.

How can you have those things with inequality? With biases?

DP.

Who said anything about inequality? PP said "equity."
And, as the Democrats have hounded for the past year - equity does not mean equality.

We don't need "equity." We need equality.

[Anonymous]

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I am going with teachers unions. Parents shouldn’t be telling schools what to teach. I am so done with this era where everyone thinks they know more than experts.

Teachers' unions are not experts. Teachers unions are out to promote themselves--not the teachers and not the schools, and definitely not the students.

signed:
Experienced Teacher who learned this in my first year of teaching. Never saw anything over the years to change my mind.

Oh yeah? Where do you teach? In a public school system, or some kind of unaccredited bible-thumper private? I’m betting the latter based on your absurd post. It reads like typical anti-union trash talking points.


Union teachers are the only bulwark standing between society and the brainwashed spawn being raised and indoctrinated by their rightwing loon parents. If it weren’t for public school teachers offsetting all these idiot parents and their lunacy, we’d be up to our eyeballs in school age little fascists. Teachers are typically the only people exposing these kids to Progressive ideals and questioning the nonsense these children are being fed at home.

Assuming you aren't a troll, you are part of the problem. Many parents don't want teachers indoctrinating/pushing political ideologies in a public school classroom.

If you think teaching facts and kindness is a “political ideology” then private is probably a good choice for you.

You're right. My kid goes to a non religious private school in another country (we are from DC but husband is on a temp assignment) and he has a "values" class once a week. It's great actually- they teach basics like honesty, respect, responsibility, perseverance, flexibility, empathy, etc, ALL without some stupid "Progressive" lens that teaches kids to hate each other.

+100
Happy to have my kids taught all of the above - at school and at home. No "equity/racial bias" lens needed.

How can you have those things with inequality? With biases?

DP.

Who said anything about inequality? PP said "equity."
And, as the Democrats have hounded for the past year - equity does not mean equality.

We don't need "equity." We need equality.

Amen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just saw a Youngkin ad that got me thinking. Youngkin is campaigning on cutting all kinds of taxes, but also claims he’s going to massively increase education funding. What funding is he planning to cut in order to pay for increased education funding while also slashing state tax revenues? I can’t find any explanation from the Youngkin campaign of how that math is supposed to work.

Grow the economy and you get more revenue. Eliminate wasteful spending.

“Grow the economy” takes years, and is heavily affected by forces completely outside the governor’s control. Youngkin won’t be able to count on increased revenue from this, especially not in the first couple years.

As for “wasteful spending,” that’s exactly the question. What does Youngkin view as wasteful and therefore would plan to cut? He hasn’t explained that yet, perhaps because the answer would be very unpalatable to voters.

It seems you've never even bothered to go on his website, where he has detailed plans for all of his platforms. DP

Cut Costs For Virginians
The cost of living is rising for Virginians, and people are leaving the Commonwealth to look for jobs and start lives elsewhere. Glenn will tackle the rising cost of living and cut costs for Virginians by:

Eliminating Virginia’s Grocery Tax & Suspending the Recent Gas Tax Hike for 12 Months
Providing a One Time Tax Rebate of $600 for Joint Filers and $300 for Individuals
Ending Runaway Property Taxes by Requiring Voter Approval for Increases
Cutting Income Taxes by Doubling the Standard Deduction & Cutting Taxes on Veteran Retirement Pay

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If Hedgefund Hero wins, I’ll never spend another penny in Virginia.

But where will you get your Confederate flags and cornpone, Mizzy?

Pssst - “Hedgefund Hero” is Youngkin. The people voting for him are the ones buying confederate traitor trash flags.

I’m so embarrassed for you.

Your embarrassment is exceeded only by your inability to read.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just saw a Youngkin ad that got me thinking. Youngkin is campaigning on cutting all kinds of taxes, but also claims he’s going to massively increase education funding. What funding is he planning to cut in order to pay for increased education funding while also slashing state tax revenues? I can’t find any explanation from the Youngkin campaign of how that math is supposed to work.

Grow the economy and you get more revenue. Eliminate wasteful spending.

“Grow the economy” takes years, and is heavily affected by forces completely outside the governor’s control. Youngkin won’t be able to count on increased revenue from this, especially not in the first couple years.

As for “wasteful spending,” that’s exactly the question. What does Youngkin view as wasteful and therefore would plan to cut? He hasn’t explained that yet, perhaps because the answer would be very unpalatable to voters.

It seems you've never even bothered to go on his website, where he has detailed plans for all of his platforms. DP

Cut Costs For Virginians
The cost of living is rising for Virginians, and people are leaving the Commonwealth to look for jobs and start lives elsewhere. Glenn will tackle the rising cost of living and cut costs for Virginians by:

Eliminating Virginia’s Grocery Tax & Suspending the Recent Gas Tax Hike for 12 Months
Providing a One Time Tax Rebate of $600 for Joint Filers and $300 for Individuals
Ending Runaway Property Taxes by Requiring Voter Approval for Increases
Cutting Income Taxes by Doubling the Standard Deduction & Cutting Taxes on Veteran Retirement Pay

That sounds like something a vulture capitalist would propose. Destroy the finances of the state government. Then? Declare bankruptcy?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Go Youngkin go

I'm not really seeing the potency of that issue. Loudoun is such a weird, sad place, but the rest of the country isn't having these issues.

Is it just the one poster who keeps coming up with these forced "nonchalant" posts, acting like none of this is happening elsewhere and no one could possibly care? I have to laugh every time you huffily state such stupid things.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/20/1047532269/school-board-elections-will-be-an-early-test-of-what-issues-motivate-voters

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When are people going to learn that voters supporting the Democrat are not going to show up in the middle of a pandemic to a political rally?

It didn’t happen for Biden in 2020. Didn’t happen during the California recall. And now it’s not happening for McAulliffe.

I have no desire to attend a rally while my toddler is still unvaccinated. Meanwhile, I quietly make my donations around the country and cast my vote locally.

Keep thinking that rally size means anything. All it tells me is that those not worried about a pandemic support Youngkin. No shocker there.

To be fair, they could be fully vaccinated. However, yes, Biden's campaign showed that a candidate (at least a Dem one) does not need to leave their house to effectively campaign and win an election. Another problem I see is that the pictures show lots of middle aged white people showing up for Youngkin. There's a shocker.

Oh, the horror! Not "middle-aged white people"!

And middle aged white people with money!!

Where are the poor blacks who are clinging to what’s left of The Berg and Madden Homes after multiple Democratic mayors have pushed longtime black residents out of Alexandria

[Anonymous]

It’s probably the same poster who said the Charlottesville scandal was “no big deal”.

Well, yeah…..if you stay in your basement all the time, it’s probably not a big deal to you.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world moves on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

I am going with teachers unions. Parents shouldn’t be telling schools what to teach. I am so done with this era where everyone thinks they know more than experts.

Teachers' unions are not experts. Teachers unions are out to promote themselves--not the teachers and not the schools, and definitely not the students.

signed:
Experienced Teacher who learned this in my first year of teaching. Never saw anything over the years to change my mind.

Oh yeah? Where do you teach? In a public school system, or some kind of unaccredited bible-thumper private? I’m betting the latter based on your absurd post. It reads like typical anti-union trash talking points.


Union teachers are the only bulwark standing between society and the brainwashed spawn being raised and indoctrinated by their rightwing loon parents. If it weren’t for public school teachers offsetting all these idiot parents and their lunacy, we’d be up to our eyeballs in school age little fascists. Teachers are typically the only people exposing these kids to Progressive ideals and questioning the nonsense these children are being fed at home.

Assuming you aren't a troll, you are part of the problem. Many parents don't want teachers indoctrinating/pushing political ideologies in a public school classroom.

If you think teaching facts and kindness is a “political ideology” then private is probably a good choice for you.

You're right. My kid goes to a non religious private school in another country (we are from DC but husband is on a temp assignment) and he has a "values" class once a week. It's great actually- they teach basics like honesty, respect, responsibility, perseverance, flexibility, empathy, etc, ALL without some stupid "Progressive" lens that teaches kids to hate each other.

+100
Happy to have my kids taught all of the above - at school and at home. No "equity/racial bias" lens needed.

How can you have those things with inequality? With biases?

DP.

Who said anything about inequality? PP said "equity."
And, as the Democrats have hounded for the past year - equity does not mean equality.

We don't need "equity." We need equality.

Amen.

Same.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone have the specifics of this -- how much per child, is it just a one-year thing, how is this sustainable if you use one-time relief aid to fund the first (and even second) year?

"Youngkin’s plan for the federal relief money also includes $1.2 billion to fund school choice initiatives."

Youngkin has not provided any specifics that I am aware of, probably because when you actually get into the specifics of school choice, all of the specific options tend to be pretty unpopular. School choice sounds nice until you realize your child could be left out of the “choice” in favor of other students.

Again: quit complaining because you're too lazy to actually read the specifics clearly laid out on his website. Not a good look.

Cut Costs For Virginians
The cost of living is rising for Virginians, and people are leaving the Commonwealth to look for jobs and start lives elsewhere. Glenn will tackle the rising cost of living and cut costs for Virginians by:

Eliminating Virginia’s Grocery Tax & Suspending the Recent Gas Tax Hike for 12 Months
Providing a One Time Tax Rebate of $600 for Joint Filers and $300 for Individuals
Ending Runaway Property Taxes by Requiring Voter Approval for Increases
Cutting Income Taxes by Doubling the Standard Deduction & Cutting Taxes on Veteran Retirement Pay

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go Youngkin go

I'm not really seeing the potency of that issue. Loudoun is such a weird, sad place, but the rest of the country isn't having these issues.

Is it just the one poster who keeps coming up with these forced "nonchalant" posts, acting like none of this is happening elsewhere and no one could possibly care? I have to laugh every time you huffily state such stupid things.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/20/1047532269/school-board-elections-will-be-an-early-test-of-what-issues-motivate-voters

Don’t tell Madam Nonchalant that 80% of internet traffic moves through weird, sad Loudoun County.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have the specifics of this -- how much per child, is it just a one-year thing, how is this sustainable if you use one-time relief aid to fund the first (and even second) year?

"Youngkin’s plan for the federal relief money also includes $1.2 billion to fund school choice initiatives."

Youngkin has not provided any specifics that I am aware of, probably because when you actually get into the specifics of school choice, all of the specific options tend to be pretty unpopular. School choice sounds nice until you realize your child could be left out of the “choice” in favor of other students.

Again: quit complaining because you're too lazy to actually read the specifics clearly laid out on his website. Not a good look.

Cut Costs For Virginians
The cost of living is rising for Virginians, and people are leaving the Commonwealth to look for jobs and start lives elsewhere. Glenn will tackle the rising cost of living and cut costs for Virginians by:

Eliminating Virginia’s Grocery Tax & Suspending the Recent Gas Tax Hike for 12 Months
Providing a One Time Tax Rebate of $600 for Joint Filers and $300 for Individuals
Ending Runaway Property Taxes by Requiring Voter Approval for Increases
Cutting Income Taxes by Doubling the Standard Deduction & Cutting Taxes on Veteran Retirement Pay

Go back and re-read the discussion. This is talking about Youngkin’s school choice plans, not taxes.

[Anonymous]

“At an event supported by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., in Norfolk, the former governor Terry McAuliffewas greeted by a crowd of roughly 40 people.”

40.

Well, that explains the terrible early vote numbers. No wonder desperation is setting in.