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(15,751 posts)triron
(22,020 posts)Very lopsided treatment so what's really going on??
GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)They can't beat them at the ballot box, so they'll force them to beat themselves. They know the treatment will be lopsided, so they're going to dig up dirt on every Dem they can, and then step aside and let the Dems eat their own. They saw how quickly the Dems railroaded Franken out of office, and they're going to try to do the same to every Dem they can. Northram is just the latest. He won't be the last.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)Snip from Crooks & Liars article....
This follows 48 hours of right-wing manufactured outrage over remarks Northam made on late-term abortions, a topic which Fox News has been flogging hourly in order to stoke up some wedge issues to reunite Trump's fractured base.
Link: https://crooksandliars.com/2019/02/va-governor-appears-blackface-or-kkk-hood
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Whiskeytide
(4,462 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)What is in the drinking water in Iowa ?
Between Steve KKKing and Chuckles Grassley, I don't know who is worse.
PeeJ52
(1,588 posts)Where is the outrage on election transparency? This is sickening. McConnell should be ridiculed endlessly for his remarks saying that more people voting is throwing elections to Democrats. McConnell is admitting they are suppressing the vote. Where is the outrage?
lunatica
(53,410 posts)and at the majority of Americans. I wouldnt just dismiss it. The blue wave was birthed in outrage.
JohnnyRingo
(18,641 posts)I remember when that line had a reassuring effect on republicans and caused them to overlook evidence to the contrary.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Imagine if REPUBLICANS could arouse this level of moral outrage for Trump.
Dems have proven that it only takes an offensive, morally reprehensible past or present act to engage our outrage...and we act upon it.
This has always been about Republicans not doing the right thing. Always.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)pnwmom
(108,994 posts)for dumping Trump.
And it's not as if black progressive Justin Fairfax would be a step down from Northam.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)He's a legitimately elected Governor. It's not up to outsiders to try to oust him, IMO, unless they go through the VA system.
If the people of Virginia don't want him, they can get rid of him.
I don't sanction torpedoing elected officials in states other than one's own. It's undemocratic. If he IS racist, which I don't know (although I'm waiting for a better explanation of that picture), Virginians are legally allowed to vote for him anyway.
But it's sick that Northam didn't address this before, so it wouldn't be a big issue now. Either voters would have accepted it and forgiven him and elected him, or maybe they would have rejected him.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)Virginia elected him.
Brieitbart is using him as a spectacular bomb to distract from Trump.
Oneironaut
(5,524 posts)Donald Trump called Nazis fine people.
Right wingers post fake naked pictures of AOC.
Democrats immediately demand the resignation of someone who did something 35 years ago and apologized for it.
maxrandb
(15,351 posts)King is doing and continuing to do this in 2019.
Northem was 24 years old and 35 years ago.
Also, it appears that Northem has dedicated the better part of his life to service and working on issues of equality for all.
Not defending what he did, but his life and record on issues of importance to truly forming a more perfect union in our country should mean more than a disgusting photo from 35 years ago.
triron
(22,020 posts)I'm really tired of these attacks on Northam.
This is a fucking distraction, damn it.
Out problems are Trump and his other evil and corrupt cabal.
Glad Mueller's not distracted by this BS.
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)Coming again in 2020
maxrandb
(15,351 posts)It was an outrage against inequality.
That's what Northem is working on.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)and we don't ever see the kind of outrage that should be vented against the monster.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It's truly amazing what republicans can get away with in this country. Actually, it's disgusting. I honestly can't believe most of these politicians are still in office given their abominable behavior around this issue. The difference is that the republican base approves of it, while the Democratic base does not.
Karadeniz
(22,572 posts)RussBLib
(9,035 posts)interesting to see so many people flocking to the "resign" side so quickly
John Fante
(3,479 posts)It's ridiculous to think he can credibly govern the state of Virginia now.
malaise
(269,157 posts)but ReTHUGs have no moral outrage for the Con.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Republicans leave out food, pile up dirty dishes and laundry, and fail to take out the trash.
Democrats have rightly called for Northam to resign; when will Republicans do that for Trump, Steve King, etc.?
treestar
(82,383 posts)this is why all black voters should support the Dotard. Yes, I've seen this argument made.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)for the media and too malleable for repugs to get THEM outraged. so seth, call it like it is.