Don't let that happen.

The Democratic Party is not about morality or perfection. And the world is shades of gray, not black and white.

we are stronger together.

Own that shit.

Just a thought.

in the first place.

and the next and the next.

In the future, let's not nominate people who have dressed in black face and then offer weird lies explaining it and/or demand that other fucking people who wore black face should resign.

My God in Heaven.

In the future, we wait for FACTS and don't rush to judgement...even if someone keeps following us around about it.

Did they do it? Yep.

No further questions.

No further questions? Ummmm....No further answers are required for you either.

Blackface is wrong. Plainly. But it will always be something. Someone told an insensitive joke. Someone mocked someone....


We are being made a victim of our own calls for civility and common decency. That's how they are riling up their base by making our calls for human decency a negative. In doing this they put into people's minds that it is better to just do this out in the open rather than be the party that calls out indecency only to have individuals in that party not measure up to that standard.

We are targeted BECAUSE we call for decency even knowing that there are those among us (perhaps all of us) that cannot possibly measure up in all regards. On a broader scope they would ridicule us for calling to make our country a more perfect union because we will undoubtedly have missteps.

Flies in the ointment.

Jesus Christ.

Unless something really weird has happened.

I can respect some caution involving Fairfax.

Dude. No.

I'm weird like that.

Fool me once and all...

They can go piss up a rope.

Fairfax is, admittedly, trickier. Of course, if he were a Republican, we would be demanding his arrest. (Anyone here who denies this is lying).

Oh, good grief.

The fact that he is black makes that a total impossibility of course.

(I predate Trump by decades in giving people insulting nicknames).

The Sen. Franken deal was a hit job. And some DUers along with some out and out RW trolls were all over this site demanding he resign.

This may be actual evidence that the right just happens to have

Plus - I can't get past that Northam WAS ABOUT TO moonwalk

...unless all of us wake up.

Seriously, so what?

I don't understand why it's better to go into 2020 and 2021 with two racists and an accused rapist in power in Richmond than it is clear the decks now and come back fresh with people who aren't racists and accused rapists.

You're welcome.

That's a Seinfeld plot.

But thanks for trying to reduce it to a sitcom plot.

I have a strong "no blackface" stance.

She is the one that wants a criminal court to handle this.

Preemptive the narrative be implying that our standards today were their (Republican) standards THEN.

And that just isn't the case.

I was pretty woke.

Also, Herring was proactive and didn't dissemble like Northam. He was also nineteen and not twenty five.

Herring pisses me off, because he demanded Notham resign immediately and apparently someone had to remind me of his own dance with black face.

So fuck that guy too. Stupidity insults me as well.

I desperately want the allegations against him not to be true.


I'm not looking for moral perfection, just don't do racist shit, don't be rapey, et cetera.

It's hard for me to think fellow Princetonians are horrible liars unless they are named Ted Cruz. So, I have a weird tribal affiliation with her.

As to Ms. Tyson she's an African American Democratic feminist activist. Paula Jones she is not.


I will be distraught if her allegations are true.

We

won 40 House seats
won 367 state legislative seats
won 23 out of 35 Senate races
flipped six state House
picked up seven governors

elected the most diverse House class in history precisely because women and people of color correctly identified we aren't them. Anything that blurs the distinction hurts our brand.



P.S "No Dice", CalidDSB

I don't see politics as the next six months down the road as everyone else does here. I was here during the Bush years when people here literally believed that Karl Rove could control the weather. Seriously. I remember the discussions of hurricane machines and shit. We had to fight Bush with our hair on fire on every front at all times because the future of the republic was at stake.

Now we like Bush more than the Republicans do. Funny world.

Here's the point. I firmly believe that demographics is destiny. And the losses of House seats and statehouses and so forth during the Obama years was more of America adjusting to new demographics. I'm hoping that 2018 was us actually figuring out how to manage and activate our new demography which is very very brown and very very female.

Going to the wall defending two racists and an accused rapist seems very short-sighted considering who our voters actually are. If we lost the state house for two years so be it. I trust we can win it back. Virginia is a weird state electorally anyway.

more elections.

Funny that.

I have always been right on this by the way. I was a pariah mainly because I'm a jerk. But I thought all the black box voting/Diebold stuff was just nonsense. Republicans were never going to steal elections by rigging voting machines. And if they did, they deserved it, because frankly, that was always OUR thing.

No, Republicans were going to steal elections by making it damn near impossible to vote.

And lo and behold my wife went online in 2016 and was told she couldn't vote because we had moved and she had forgotten to update her registration 30 days before the election.

We're in Texas so it didn't matter much, but it would have mattered in 2018 when my state delegate (a Dem) won by 138 votes.

we will be redistricting and if we get out the vote Dems will prevail in the next election
stand tight, hold on shut out the Repubs

All while under indictment.

Maybe he had the weather machine all along.

They only maintained a slim one vote majority due to gerrymandering and a tie vote going to a Retrumplican when their name was pulled out of a hat.

Like Patton knew about Sicily... Virginia is the key for them. VA statehouse goes blue, North Carolina will be next.

Virginia is their southern firewall. They will stop at nothing to hang on to power here.

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I don't think they will get Herring. If Northam and Fairfax quit, Herring becomes Governor and picks his second. The republican Speaker is next in line after Herring.

I view what Herring did as youthful indescretion that had no elements of hate in it, even when he wore Brownface to mimic rappers whose music he enjoyed playing.

Repeat: Do not fall for their fuckery!

they don't have crap that can be uncovered and exploited for political gain. We need people with impeccable records running for us, or at least people that take care of crap like this head-on as soon as they announce.

don't let it happen.

STAND STRONG VA GOVERNOR AND LT GOVERNOR