Democrats lose a statewide race in Virginia for the first time since 2009, breaking a 12-0 run in the state. They lost to an ultramillionaire who spent the whole campaign yelling about critical race theory while the Democrat just called him "Glenn Trumpkin" the whole race.
GOP about to triple down on campaigning against CRT, watch history curriculums in schools get changed to "How slavery in America wasn't so bad, actually/the slaves were treated well here" in an attempt to appease the frothing at the mouth chud parents.
Looking at msnbc, politics stormfront etc it definitely looks like the liberal takeaway from tonight is “we gotta get more racist”
Pros - sometimes the slaves rose up and killed their owners. :louverture-shining: :JB-shining-aggro:
Cons - everything else.
Cons - sometimes the good guys got killed :nat-turner::john-brown:
A testament to the propaganda machine in the US that the right is basically able to manufacture issues whole cloth to use as a galvanizing force. This and the elusive "migrant caravan" come to mind.
oh man remember that cold open
Chapo Trap House - Migrant Caravan (Classic Rock Radio) Cold Open
good times
“How slavery in America wasn’t so bad, actually/the slaves were treated well here”
Please stop, I don't need a preview of Thanksgiving Dinner. That is my whole God damn family. I've gotten my Dr. Cox Happy Place down pat, though.
Dems proceed to blame progressives for their failures and punch Left more in 3, 2, 1...
Biden is going prove he's not too far left by calling Kamala the n-word in a conference.
Alexa, add "Joe Biden accidentally says n word to confused schoolchildren in rambling story about segregated swimming pool antics" to 2022 BINGO card
Snopes:
"Mostly false. His dentures and his stutter make it sound like he said the N word, but he was actually saying she was "nagging" him to fund the police more"
420 Pinocchios and 69 disadulations
damn who could've thought running McAuliffe was a bad idea
Messing with the numbers on NPR, and atm he's losing 10-20 points almost everywhere Biden won :thinkin-lenin:
At least he's cleaning up all but one of the counties with median incomes over $100k. The suburban strategy seems to be going great :agony-turbo:
"If only our candidates were allowed to be a little more fascist we could win over the fascist housewife demographic. Instead, progressives spoil it for everyone."
We need to run a parallel government and completely forego elections like the Bolsheviks did.
There are those anarchists who fill pot holes in Seattle. That seems like a good start.
that's really the only way an agenda to the left of Mitt Romney would even work
They're so fucking awful. They will never learn a fucking thing, it's the same lines every time.
"The progressives make the moderates scared because the republicans use them to say the democrats are all communists!" Wow, guess the moderate voters shouldn't be so fucking agonizingly stupid then, huh? Or maybe the candidate and their campaign should better communicate their positions to their target demographics? Oh wait, the moderate democrats can never fail, they can only be failed.
The Lincoln Project tried they're best though, so we should obey them
See when moderates win it's proof you don't need progressives, and when they lose it's because they were too tolerant of progressives.
Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein)
McAuliffe’s loss in a state Biden just won by over 10% raises an important question: how do we blame progressives?
I'm surprised the CIA hasn't cloned and deployed her in South America.
The gubernatorial election result has basically nothing to do with the candidate or state politics. I know the media likes to say this all the time when it isn't true, but in this case it really is because people aren't happy with the president.
It does have to do with the candidate too, KY had a uniquely repulsive governor and replaced him with a dem in 2019/2020, brain farting on which, while every other state seat went red.
I agree with you that Kentucky in 2019 was a special case - a uniquely bad Republican for governor got a lot of people to ticket-split for the Democrat, that's not what happened here. This was a pretty uniform swing, and the GOP swept the governor, lieutanant governor, attorney general, and probably will flip the house of delegates too (that one's too close to call right now). This isn't one candidate running a bad campaign, this is voters rejecting the Democrats and swinging right.
Whether you think it's because of the economy, critical race theory, the pandemic, or whatever is another debate, but I think it's pretty fair to say this race in particular isn't canddiate-driven.
I hope the libs bleed the progressives over this, we need them to push radicals away, lines in the sand need to be drawn, let the libs become more hostile, its the hard medicine the left needs if it’s going to survive the coming reaction
The right is gonna acquire a majority and probably win most elections between now and 2024, the left has to become distinct from the Democrats or we’re fuckin all boned
the progressives are going to blame the fact that the Dems didn't deliver on promises for the american people for the loss.
if you never deliver, don't be surprised when people stop voting for you.
we shall see which narrative wins.
So weird, the Lincoln Project payed me $500 to endlessly tweet "Glenn Blumpkin" for the last week and a half. How could he win?
Probably more portentious of 2022 than 2024 (Democrats got annihilated here in 2009 after Obama won, but rebounded by 2012), but it's a bad night to be a Democrat for sure.
Dems are gonna get fucking bodied in the midterms. lmao
And I would say that's bad, but I'm guessing it'll be functionally indistinct from what we have now.
If they get the numbers I would not be shocked if the GOP impeaches Biden and Harris and installs Trump as president, constitution be damned.
