Lockheed liberals is an impressive insult
Yeah, definitely gonna be working Lockheed liberals into conversation
This is deeply depressing. She’s either stupid enough to think this is the way to go about things, or she’s a fucking snake. The former would actually be worse.
Spanberger’s proposed changes sought to delay provisions of the bill until 2030 and shift authority over how the system operates to a state board.
My first thought: she doesnt want to deal with how it impacts the budget, so she wants to get credit for putting it through without the budget impacts during her tenure.
Thursday afternoon, Spanberger defended the changes she’d suggested for the bill.
“While preserving the enrolled bill’s focus on allowing public employees to achieve collective bargaining, my amendments would have also provided additional flexibility for public employers to take into account existing local budget timelines and processes,” she wrote. “However, the General Assembly rejected these amendments.”
My second thought: Nailed it.
The snakes learned the stupid and innocent strategy is effective.
The Democratic party had been overrun with Republicans for decades now
That entire RINO thing, Republican In Name Only? Yeah, every accusation is na admission of guilt. Again, this is what Republicans have been doing for ages now. This woman too is just a Republican working for the best interests of her handlers
Schumer/Jefferies Democrat. Lame
Isn’t it strange that these kind of posts only seem to start to appear about half a year before an election in the USA?
Isn’t it stranger that these watered down republican politicians appear on democratic tickets at all?
In a purple state? Not really
She was just elected.
And is generally off to a pretty poor start, she is more of a centerist that a lot of progressives would like and with the gun law restrictions has already managed to piss off the 2A crowd (not like they were going to vote for her anyway). Overall, barring her event handling skills (see: disasters, hurricane season which we have yet too see), I dont see her policies wooing anyone new, I sorta expect her to be a 1-term gov.
You should expect almost every governor of Virginia to be a “1-term gov” since article V of the Constitution of Virginia only allows for non consecutive terms. Reelection to the office has only happened twice. The last former governor to seek a second term was Terry McAuliffe, who lost the election to Youngkin in 2021.
You’re worried their PR before an election more than them continuously, predictably fucking over their constituency again and again, huh?
Isnt it strange that liberals can recognize patterns except when it’s their own people?
“everybody who doesn’t think exactly like me is a liberal”
The only ones that claim this bullshit are liberals
Nice try, but I’m not a liberal.
The news is recent. Your comments makes no sense
I never stop seeing them. Every fucking week.
“Why won’t leftist vote for liberal democratic candidates?”
Tben they scream ‘youre trying to get Republicans elected’ and end up with Republicans regardless
The goal is to push for a progressive candidate in the primary, if no progressives win the primary then your average corporate Democrat is still marginally better than their Republican counterparts.
If there isn’t some form of Ranked Choice Voting system in place, in that state, then it’s pretty much a non-starter for any third party candidate’s campaign.
Accepting marginally better isn’t better in the long term. As Republicans shift to the right and Democrats are in lockstep behind them, ‘marginally better’ keeps shifting to the right too. That’s how we got into this mess.
Marginally better is better if we’re failing at the very first step of getting a progressive in via the primary or general election who would actually bring progress.
If we can’t muster real progress through a progressive then marginally better is progress or at least not an active slide backwards.
They could be the most progressive candidates to ever win. But if they challenge the status quo or ruffle too many feathers they will not be given any committee assignments that would threaten the system and will be primaried out of government. Reform is always a path towards failure
Your version of marginally better is how we went from a former president that builds homes for the homeless to a president denying a genocide they funded and provided weapons for. Incrementalism always faces right.
The race in this post was regarding a governor level seat at the state level. It’s a position which could apply a decent amount of pressure if there was a progressive elected to power.
If it’s a progressive running for a federal level seat in the House, like your comment is implying, then there is a more limited scope to what they can accomplish on their own if there are not more federally elected progressives to help boost their effectiveness. Even at the state level, it sounds like an issue of over promising and under-delivering which gets them voted out.
Reform is not always a path towards failure, just look at how much Mamdani is accomplishing for New York City residents for instance.
Also as opposed to what? The bare minimum is supporting candidates trying to better the system. You can do other important actions like trying to change the voting system to be RCV and you can try to get third parties off the ground as well at the same time.
We would have had that issue anyways, imo, as there are not enough progressive leaning people in the country that care to prevent those kinds of actions from being taken. Especially not when looking at how power in split in a country of 50 different states.
Biden would be proud.
It’s sad that I think a Republican representative would be worse.
The difference is a Republican will tell you to your face they hate you. Democrats will say the opposite, then legislate like they hate you.
You need to vote for a deeply problematic representative who’s a genocidal monster whose fitness routine involves drowning five kittens in whiskey and tossing them in a blender with some kale every morning before worshipping at the altar of a genocide cult but also claims to be in favor of a single thing you like and kind of also need and embodies in themselves a terrible unconscionable moral compromise that’s going to keep you up at night and if you don’t support them whether they win orblose that one thing they said they would do good and also the bad things they promised are also your fault rather they win is lose who will try their hardest to throw the game and potentially just gp home if they can get the court to declare them loser after they win a and if they fail at that will betray everything they said and step on your neck and use their fevered minions to harass you for not actively working to get them elected then if they are elected they’ll do all the evil stuff they promised while betraying the one good thing they promised which is also your fault even if you campaigned for them because a trillionaire donated a gajillion dollars to get them elected why couldn’t you have helped that muchand if yyou complain you’re just sabotaging them for next time
No of course democracy means electing representatives and nothing else what kind of insane regressive nonsense are you trying to trick me into
Username checks out.
Kind of curious who game me down votes for that with the unpunctuated, uncapitalized wall of text.
You’re welcome
Mrs Fetterman I presume
