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Well he's no Bill Maher that's for sure
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As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. - Henry Louis Mencken - Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920 |
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Depends on what the "something stupid" actually was. Graffiti? Vandalizing a cemetery? Underage drinking? Rape? Torturing a small animal to death? Buying an American car?
I'm not going to excuse any and every misdeed on the basis of youth. A medical student, even in 1984, should have known better. |
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Trump tweets:
"Ed Gillespie, who ran for Governor of the Great State of Virginia against Ralph Northam, must now be thinking Malpractice and Dereliction of Duty with regard to his Opposition Research Staff. If they find that terrible picture before the election, he wins by 20 points!" But of course Trump is forgetting the Republican votes Northam would have gained if he had put out the photo as a campaign strategy. |
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As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. - Henry Louis Mencken - Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920 |
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Poor Donnie. He's still trying to win the races of those who he most avidly supported, but lost. I don't suppose he realizes that with the kind of people Gillespie surrounded himself with they actually did find it. They just didn't see anything wrong with it.
> Ed: Did you find anything in those yearbooks. > Buford: Naaah, just regular guys having fun making fun of minorities. > Ed: Nothing we can nail him with, then. No pictures of him at a Ban The Bomb rally? > Buford. No, sorry. The well's dry on this one. > Ed: I guess I'll have to just go kiss Donnie's ass and get him to tweet me some more support. |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0kC1B__CJ4
It's only 1:05 long. This is what the Republican side are reacting to, and what Northam was being asked about. |
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So much this. If any of us had not been in a picture like this it would have been "Hell man, not me, I never did anything like this". Instead the man said sorry yes it was me and then tries to walk it back. It isn't that he is too bigoted for an important job he is just too dang stupid!
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(did not read thread up to here... no need)
I find it ridiculous that he admitted to putting on shoe polish in order to portray Michael Jackson, "but only a little bit, because everyone knows that shoe polish is really hard to get off." That makes it sound like he's done it more than once. And this would obviously be for the pre-1990s Michael Jackson. |
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Yeah, after that train wreck of a press conference (that fool was really going to moonwalk until his wife told him it was a bad idea), even the congresspeople from Virginia came out and said "Well, we were trying to be nice about this, but you need to get out of here now."
Even his excuses make no sense. If his Michael Jackson blackface stunt is "seared into" his memory, how did he still manage to get confused and apologize for a photo he wasn't in? Was he lying about how important it was to him, or were there other incidents that he only vaguely remembers? Either way, he's made a complete mess out of something that already looked bad, and now wishes to remain as governor when nobody in his own party will want to be seen with him. THat's absurd. Again, he needs to go away. |
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At this point with his walk back and his "No, I was thinking of that other time I was in blackface, this isn't me." thing - the entire point of pushing this guy out is so that the dems (who have always had racial problems, that's just what comes with being American) do not become like the GOP. Recall that they are now cancelling primaries just to protect the most openly white supremacist, and overall incompetent and corrupt, president since at least WW2. They also just discovered, after over a decade, that Steve King is a white nationalist - and won't even censure him for it. As an analogy, we're getting the bug spray out while the GOP needs to have their house fumigated, yesterday.
Again, pretty much every democrat of importance, regardless of skin color, has called on him to step down. How does he continue to work as governor when nobody else wants to be seen with him? |
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I've seen that. My issue isn't so much the picture taken 35 years ago. It's the moronically stupid way he has handled it. After all, Robert Byrd was a member of the Klan so people can change, apologize and make amends.
I thought he could survive this when I first read about it. But not anymore. He really has no choice but to resign. |
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Could be. I was thinking something similar. We would have said he had jungle fever.
But it might have a specific meaning to just a small group of friends. I really have no idea. It could mean just about anything. But it could easily have resulted from wearing the blackface. Given where he was from and the time, he could have been balancing his cultural upbringing which would have included vestiges of the racist past and a serious attempt to move past that. Bigotry and racism doesn't just end with a hard demarcation. There is an evolution of individuals and society. |
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Own as many as you like or can afford, but over 2 you pay extra property tax on each extra property and that money goes to building social housing. If we have a world where the rich have that much disposable income and others have to live under tarpaulin or in cardboard boxes then the rich can start having some of their money taken from them to help those in real need. And yes I am a socialist.
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IMHO Northem is taking a page from Trump's book and living in his own reality,rhinking he can survive this.
Originally I though it was a sort of a kind of unbalanced puritanism to end a man's career because of something stupid he did 35 years ago but the second incident (Coonman) which showed a pattern begun to change my mind, and the totally inept and stupid way he has handled this, has convinced me he has to go,for no other reason then if I lived in Virginia, I would not want somebody that stupid as Governor. That press conferecnce was a pathetic a spectacle in politics as I have seen. And in the age of Trump, that is saying something. I note that Obama had not weighed in as of Sunday morning.. I think he is sort of holding himself in reserve if Northem continues his defiance; And, yeah, the Republicans hypocrisy on the issue in incredible. And so painfully obvious. |
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