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The left has their narrative for VA: White Backlash
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PL got the memo.
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Wow, just read Greg this morning.
He sounds like a preacher circa 1985 talking about heavy metal.
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Love how he and Waldman just ignore things like the stunt the Democrats and (maybe) the Lincoln Project pulled with the fake white nationalists at Youngkin’s rally.
Had the situation been reversed, they would have been all over it for days. But at this point the hypocrisy is totally expected.
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It is. And I think a lot of the right leaning press would have been split (had this been some sort of right wing ploy to frame a Democrat for being supported by ISIS or something) between “this is awful, nobody on our side should be doing this” and “it doesn’t matter, it might as well be true” but wouldn’t just memory-hole it and ignore it–and most of it would have been “this is awful, there’s no excuse for this”.
Of course conservative and right-of-center news sources tend to overtly identify their biases while NYT, WaPo, CNN, MSNBC all pretend to be neutral presenters of objective facts. So I don’t suppose that should be surprising.
But also if a bunch of Proud Boys dressed up like ISIS fighters and showed up supporting a Democrat–some minority of right-wingers might dismiss it as a “protest” but I think most of them would acknowledge that it was an attempt to seriously shape the narrative, given how much of the first-tier response to the VA hoaxers was to uncritically tweet about it like it was 100% real. And the Lincoln Project retweeted those Tweets, apparently, without mentioning that it was in fact something they engineered as a kind of LARPing protest, their subsequent claim–but one that happened only after it was revealed.
There is a lot of both-sides-ism and hypocrisy on both ideological poles, but I have a hard time believing many on the right would just shrug that off and say: “Oh, well, nothing to see here”. There would be mea culpas and it would absolutely be the end of whatever conservative organization tried to pull that stunt.
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Have not read it, not sure I can (WaPo has gotten much better about enforcing that paywall, so they can write stories I can’t read behind it about how walls don’t work and border walls are boondoggles) but that’s the left generally now. Modern progressives are all Victorian-era prudes reincarnated.
Remember Pride & Prejudice and Zombies, the zombified re-write of Jane Austen? I really ought to write a woke-ified version of P&P. Because the emphasis on manners and knowing-your-place and strictures on speech . . . everything would fit. Just now you can’t get with Mr. Darcy because he’s a white European and the experts frown on the racism implied of white people coupling with white people. Although at some point a Twitter Messenger would ride up with good news: now miscegenation is racist, so it would be cultural appropriation to date outside of your own race! And it ends with everybody in their Equity Camp, doing force labor. Eh, I’d figure it out. I could make it work.
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“There would be mea culpas and it would absolutely be the end of whatever conservative organization tried to pull that stunt”
I don’t think this is true. Project Veritas is still around and has been doing similar things for years.
See also Roger Stone’s history. There’s a Netflix documentary on him.
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Maybe. Project Veritas isn’t exactly into false flags. They work at shaping a narrative but it’s more undercover reporting than staging fake incidents to feed the media. They clearly have an orientation and a goal beyond reportage but they aren’t The Lincoln Project having fake racists show up at a Youngkin rally, have they? Roger Stone’s history of false-flagging I’m not aware of but it’s believable.
Eh, maybe so. And I just haven’t noticed.
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How much you wanna bet the SPLC still lists the stunt as a hate incident?
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They list being conservative as a hate crime so … the GOP is a hate group, basically. So yeah if not true it’s morally true and therefor a hate incident.
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I would add he embodies the complete lack of awareness the left has about itself.
They control everything and still think they are oppressed.
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Which is a bad sign. When both sides control a lot of things (and from the leftist position, the right controls SCOTUS–although I’d dispute that, I get the idea, so that remains a problem for them) then both sides tend to feel oppressed. Both think they always lose, and that their side always rolls over for the other side.
But when the right has a lot of power, it tends to be very much of the position: it’s all good, we’re winning. When the left has a lot of power, or almost all the power, they tend to still feel they are losing and oppressed because they don’t control everything. That’s bad, because they will never–individual by individual–control everything. Even if they literally controlled everything, there would still be some fellow communist that didn’t see it their way on one issue, and they’d feel oppressed. They are hammering Facebook for not doing enough to deplatform conservative (or any contradictory) thought, despite the fact that Facebook spent hundreds-of-millions on getting Democrats elected in 2020. It created entire organizations dedicated to expanding liberal and Democratic power. But it still wasn’t enough for a lot of people, obviously.
So there is literally no point at which they will feel they have won and their thirst for power will be sated. I think COVID has made that clear–vaccination rates are very high, COVID itself is settling down into being a more flu-like illness in terms of mortality and illness, but until everyone is forced to be vaccinated, until everyone is forced to wear a mask, until everyone locks down until nobody is sick, some of them don’t want to stop.
… There is also the politician/activist problem of “you can never solve the problem, or you are out of a job”. Part of their problem is, as they set it up, they can’t ever actually win because if they do they no longer have a purpose, and potentially may not have a paycheck. So the Nazis are always at the door.
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voted straight R this morning.
i don’t know what the 3rd party person was all about.
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Princess Blanding? She’s a left activist I believe, but has some heterodox positions, like being in favor of gun ownership rights.
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I do not care for the GOP and have often voted 3rd party–not just in presidential elections but in down-ticket elections. In 2022 I’m showing up and voting a straight Republican ticket from dog-catcher on up.
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Sometimes 3rd parties really are about being spoilers.
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Voter voices: Anti-Biden sentiment resonates with some reluctant GOP voters in Virginia
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By Julie Weil, Rebecca Tan and Zinya Salfiti1:09 p.m.
Voters casting ballots for Republicans in Virginia on Tuesday said they were moved partly by Republican Glenn Youngkin’s tax-cut proposal and his comments about education, but also a general dislike of the country’s direction under President Biden.
“Youngkin? I don’t even know his name, to be honest,” Kyrstina Agresta said outside a polling precinct in Loudon County, where she cast a party-line ballot for Republicans.
Agresta, 34, usually doesn’t vote in the governor’s race, but given “everything wrong with the country,” she figured her vote would matter in Tuesday’s election.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/02/election-live-updates/#link-62SC7WF5TFA2PDBIHKCKMHZ5VM
bahabhabha!
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“Reluctant”. They have as big a problem with enthusiastic GOP voters, I’m betting. I know that (a) I do not like the GOP and (b) if the election was today, I’d vote a straight GOP ticket with great enthusiasm.
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This:
I think Youngkin was tactically smart to let McAuliffe do the work of letting Republican base voters know that Trump supported Youngkin while he focused on running against McAuliffe.
McAuliffe should have focused more on his previous record as governor and less on saying “Trump Trump Trump” all the time.
That whole piece is great.
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Have you seen the Trumpkin signs?
they look like Youngkin ones to the point where if you’re not really looking, you’d mistake it.
again, so Clintonian. too cute by half
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I’ve actually not seen any fake signs around here.
Edit: Just saw the first fake Youngkin sign today.
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I don’t think it is anti-Biden sentiment as much as it is a vote against the D party itself.
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They had the narrative to explain 1994: disgruntled news objective news anchors characterized the Democrats losing the house after 40 years as being the result of a white male temper tantrum. It’s tried and true, and they will always go back to that well. It makes them feel better about themselves.
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Example of media not getting basic facts right,
“Though Youngkin was widely considered the strongest Republican candidate, and defeated far Trumpier contenders in the primary,”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/glenn-youngkin-virginia-election-2021/620561/
There was no Republican primary in Virginia. Youngkin was chosen by a convention.
https://ballotpedia.org/Virginia_gubernatorial_election,_2021_(May_8_Republican_convention)
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And another one:
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Zillow is getting out of the home buying business.
Apparently they lost money on houses in Phoenix. Phoenix home price appreciation has been running at 30%+
How the hell does one lose money in that sort of market? You have to work hard to do that.
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Like Trump running a casino.
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The tough part about casinos is not the gambling, it is the hotels and foot traffic.
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Good prediction thread for VA Governors race:
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oh get bent.
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“Hard to accept”.
Also no mention of what McAuliffe might have done to hand it to Youngkin on a silver platter.
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The left never realizes when it has overreached.
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Wake me when Fairfax county is all in and Youngkin is still the winner. 50% chance he’s lost it by Saturday morning.
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Think the left prepared a vanful of absentee ballots, or did they think this was a shoe-in?
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Eh, swinging the election can be tough. There is always hinky stuff but I’m betting most of the fraud in 2020 was lone Wolf action. Lone wolfs or tiny fifth columns have to be highly motivated. Maybe they’ll find a thousand ballots in a car trunk but … I think for the most part McCauliffe is on his own.
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Wake up. Fairfax is all in and Youngkin is up 52% to 47.3%
Edit: It’s narrowing
“Virginia Governor
Glenn Youngkin (R) leads by 57,538 votes over Terry McAuliffe (D) with an estimated 94 percent of votes counted.
Youngkin 1.6m 50.6%
McAuliffe 1.5m 48.7%
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It ain’t over till the last trunk load of ballots is counted for Mcauliffe I guess .
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Still no concession. McAuliffe and Dems gearing up for their own “big lie”, perhaps? It would hardly be unprecedented.
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The New Jersey vote finding for Murphy is gonna be epic.
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Koskidz not taking yesterday’s election results very well.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/3/2061852/-Morning-Digest-GOP-wins-Virginia-governorship-as-surprisingly-tight-New-Jersey-race-is-unresolved#comment_82182545
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Because they’ve been so nice and accommodating thus far. These results are in no small part because you’ve been fighting. Look, nobody really likes the GOP or Republicans–you guys get them elected. They don’t get themselves elected. Because you “fight” and because of how you “fight”. And who.
That should work great. And when right wingers show up with equally emotional counter-arguments and, you know, maybe actual data about how kids don’t need manadatory vaccinations based on what we know, and how mask mandates have no proof of preventing the spread of COVID, gonna shout them down with they’ve got the numbers and cite the studies? That will definitely make you seem like the rational, trustworthy side of the debate.
You may be able to gaslight some schoolboards with that nonsense. But the parents? No, probably not.
A: he kind of has, but B: it’s clearly not true, and also doesn’t comport with the general public’s “lived experience”.
None of this is true (in fact, these same people complained that Desantis was making a deal with Walgreens or something to increase vaccine and treatment access). Florida vaccination rates are fine. Deaths are not worse in Florida than anyplace else on average and people are at work in Florida in Texas because most of them never left work–and both states are attracting businesses and people from the “good” states. If they were so awful, that probably wouldn’t be happening.
Yes, but clearly not as bad as the Democrats.
I don’t think anything cites can solely be laid at the feet of the right. The left does very little investing “bottom up”–and what it does do apparently creates employee shortages that help lead to inflation. And by what rational does the writer argue Democrats have fixed the Republican damage every time?
Given that it’s a framework with the details to be filled in later, that’s a lot of faith in the government just because the people doing it LARP at Utopian progressivism.
Yes, because the government has such a great track record here. You know, the 70s oil crisis and the Great Depression and Teapot Dome weren’t announced government policies. Most of them came from people and government policies asserting they were doing good and fixing problems.
And I’m sure they will. As mantras or touchpoints. What they want to is offering compelling arguments that they should be trusted with any of those things.
However, those are all better than “everybody is a racist”.
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Love their Energy Security” mantra.
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I’ve gone down that rabbit hole, goddammit, Troll. I’m on there posting as Kinda Conservative. Being very cordial but I’m guessing I’ll get banned at some point. But still: rabbit hole. What a time suck the internet is.
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Lol!
I’ve been banned as well. Took two days.
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Not all koskids are idiots, apparently.
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Of course they are going to say the election is stolen. And they won’t be hurting democracy when they do it. Because this time it’s true!
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He’s conceded.
https://nypost.com/2021/11/03/terry-mcauliffe-concedes-virginia-governors-election/
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Perhaps the SUV with fake Macaulliffe absentee ballots is stuck in Route 66 traffic.
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Kevin, you should watch Bill Maher’s latest episode from 10/29. He’s done with masks mandates and CRT.
He says he now prefers going to red states to do his stand up shows because they are back to normal and blue states are completely miserable experiences for him.
https://deadline.com/2021/10/bill-maher-real-time-hbo-sean-spicer-caitlin-flanagan-sen-ator-chris-coons-1234865249/
This was his arguement on CRT too:
When they lose Bill Maher…..
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The comments on Greg’s tweet are even funnier.
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CRT is a myth!
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They call it a dog whistle—and then immediately use it as a dog whistle. The projection and gaslighting is tremendous.
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Smartest thing the Virginia Republicans did was use a convention to pick the candidate this year rather than a primary. They intentionally picked the one most likely to win the general.
https://ballotpedia.org/Virginia_gubernatorial_election,_2021_(May_8_Republican_convention)
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and that’s how you control your base.
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Taibbi on the election reporting from Loudon County.
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FWIW, it cost me $70 to fill up my GMC Acadia last week. and i’m not even driving that much anymore.
i have to think that had more to do with the outcome than anything else.
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There’s also this:
McAuliffe perfectly feed into the Republican narrative, even into the closing days:
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“But the one option that is both intellectually dishonest and electorally disastrous is to insist on a verbal trick unworthy of a middle-school debate team: to keep claiming that widespread concern over these ideas is misguided because the term by which they have publicly come to be known technically applies to an academic research program rather than the lessons that real children are being taught in real schools. And yet, this is precisely what McAuliffe and so many others attempted to do—with disastrous results—over the closing months of his campaign.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/virginia-election-wakeup-call-democrats/620595/
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It looks like every single piece in the Washington Post today on the election results contains a version of this disclaimer:
“It was a dismissive formulation that made it far harder for McAuliffe to push back against Youngkin’s demagogic attack on critical race theory, which is not taught in Virginia’s schools.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/03/ej-dionne-youngkin-win-in-virginia-is-no-fluke/
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He also laid down a marker that frames a lack of D enthusiasm as evidence of voter suppression.
The left is going to bang that drum going forward.
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Does anyone beside their base believe it?
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Well isn’t that convenient? It’s not that the candidate is bad.
It’s their own version of “the election was stolen”.
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Hard argument to make when they’ve got the goods. The Virginia State education website under MCAuliffe explicitly talked about how they were teaching a critical race theory—by that name.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-dept-of-education-website-promotes-crt-despite-mcauliffe-claims-its-never-been-taught-there
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That’s a really good piece NovA. Surprising for the Atlantic to publish it.
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yeah, I was surprised by the candor.
and it’s spot on .. the Ds very much have an “actually, it XYZ, you dolt” problem.
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ackchuyally
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yes! i couldn’t recall how to spell it.
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