The Virginia Democrats are in shambles. To a casual observer, it’s hard to decide whether to laugh or cry. Is it a comedy or a tragedy? Well, perhaps it is more of a soap opera, because this story never ends and is chock full of Grade B drama.
Cast of Characters: Governor – Ralph S. Northam, Lt. Governor – Justin Fairfax, Dr. Vanessa Tyson – The victim, Katz Marshall & Banks – The Lawyers, and in a supporting role, appearing in Act 3, Mark Herring, The Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Governor – Ralph S. Northam. On January 30, 2019, Northam gave an interview to WTOP defending Virginia’s new sweeping laws on late term abortion, during which, his comments on abortion were rather offensive. Here is the 54 minute long video, so you can view his comments in context. A few days later, a photo appeared in Big League Politics which was from Northam’s East Virginia Medical School Yearbook, where two men were photoed, one in blackface, and one in a KKK outfit. Other MSM outlets rushed to confirm the photo as real. Northam originally released an apology on February, 1, 2019, on the official Governor’s website seen here. Later in the evening, after scathing press, the Governor released a video statement where he apologized but would not resign.
“Northam faces a flurry of resignation calls from top Democrats and Republicans after the surfacing of a photo showing the embattled governor with another individual in blackface and a Ku Klux Klan attire in his 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical yearbook.” ~ Breitbart.
While the media swirled around Governor Northam, our attention turned to his natural successor, Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax.
Lt. Governor – Justin Fairfax. Within hours, we learned Fairfax had serious problems with a scandal of his own. Fairfax was immediately connected to Dr. Vanessa Tyson in a cryptic Facebook post where she wrote “campaign staffer who assaulted me during the Democratic Convention in 2004 was about to get a big promotion”. Fairfax released a statement. , which acknowledges the Washington Post has investigated these charges for months. Surprised? According to Kasie Hunt of MSNBC, Fairfax was in a private meeting last night and speaking to two sources who confirmed, Fairfax said of Dr. Tyson, “fuck that bitch”. Fairfax has also inferred/accused his political superior, Governor Northam, of releasing the allegations from Tyson to smear him.
Dr. Vanessa Tyson – The victim, the accuser to Fairfax. Tyson, through her law firm, Katz Marshall & Banks, released a lengthy statement which can be read here. According to Massachusetts law, this particular assault, forced oral penetration, fits the legal definition of “rape”. Yes, Katz, Marshall & Banks, is the same DC area law firm who represented Christine Blasey Ford
The Washington Post – Who knew about the allegation surrounding Fairfax, allegedly investigated, allegedly could not corroborate, and thus, spiked the story. According to Heavy , Dr. Tyson “saw a news story about Fairfax, who was running for lieutenant governor.” Got that? She saw the photo – WHILE HE WAS RUNNING for office. Fairfax’s statement, above, clearly claims the Washington Post investigated the charges for months. Continuing in HEAVY, “She brought her story to The Washington Post but the paper declined to run it: “After The Washington Post decided in March 2018 not to run my story, I felt powerless, frustrated, and completely drained.”” Thus, we know, The Washington Post was involved in this story from BEFORE the November 2017 election until they notified Dr. Tyson they would not run the story in March of 2018.
Got that? From at least November of 2017 – March of 2018, the Washington Post had juicy information about a sex scandal for a potential Lt Governor of Virginia, which they CLAIM they could not corroborate and refused to run the story.
That’s called precedent, or a establishment of a pattern of behavior to confirm sourcing and responsible journalism. This is the kind of cautious reporting we should expect from reliable and prestigious media —- like The Washington Post once was. So, why did The Washington Post change procedure 180 degrees, throw caution to the wind, and report salacious and unverified accusations of high school gang rape, when it came to Justice Kavanaugh? Three MONTHS later?
There’s the $64,000 question, folks.
With the Governor and the Lt.Governor embroiled in controversy, we turn our attention to the Attorney General of Virginia, Mark Herring, who would be next in the line of succession. Yet again, we have a problem. Today, Mark Herring admitted to wearing blackface as part of a costume in college. What do the Dems of Virgina do now?
Herring was 19yrs old and the event happened in 1980. Herring claims he and two friends dressed up like rappers and went to a party. Allegedly, they admired the rapper Kurtis Blow. Now, I graduated high school in 1980, and rap was not a big thing at the time. Yet, I checked, and Kurtis Blow did have a song, “The Breaks” which reached #87 on the Billboard top 100 list in 1980. Here’s the youtube video.
Herring plans/planned (?) on running for Governor of Virginia in 2021, and he also issued a statement about the incident, seen on his official Twitter account, here.
We should all, TUNE IN TOMORROW, as the sands of the hour glass shift through time, to see what happens with the Virginia Dems, the Bold, but the not so beautiful.
Virginia Dem's Soap Opera ~ Bold But Not So Beautiful
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All original sources and video links included. I sourced the blazes out of this one.
Thanks for doing this, daughn. It is helpful to have all of these various stories combined into one coherent piece. It is simply unbelievable.
This is one of those times when I put on my tin foil hat and start to wonder. What IS going on here? It seems almost orchestrated. The series of events is so off the wall and contrived and so uniquely positioned to boomerang back on the pieties, vanities, and virtues the Dims like to pretend to embue.
So what is really going on? I have no idea and no real theory. But what are the odds???
Somebody keeps a little black book to keep everybody in line.
(Herring may have been collateral damage.)
BTW, excellent article. Well written and sourced and very informative. You write really well and I enjoy reading your pieces.
Daughn247, your followup article supports my premise from the “Ralph Northam’s Brotherhood of Silence” – that they were all involved in covering up stories regarding these Democrat candidates. Now we can move to the a new title: “A Conspiracy of Silence.”
The MSM can lie all they want, but they work hand and glove with the Democrats, so Northam’s yearbook issue would have been known – Dems DO their research! Bongino knew in Oct. 2018, and didn’t release the info. Then we have Fairfax and his story, and WaPo doing nothing. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was information long before 2017 – it happened at the 2004 convention, Dr Tyson likely would have told others.
Dr. Tyson did an interview in 2007, where she talked about being sexually assaulted, I found out that tidbit today while I was digging.
She didn’t name names in 2007, but pretty obvious she was talking about this incident.
VMI is a great school, and I would have had no problem sending my son there.
VMI is a great school. Their only connection to the Northam story was they have to known about him in their brotherhood. These schools stay in brotherhood for life. Like my husband at the Naval Academy. I don’t blame them for this, my use of the word “brotherhood” was more to focus on the inner circle, which Northam certainly had in medical school days. That circle then expanded to the Democrat Party and the media – who I’m convinced colluded to keep it all quiet.
Awesome report Daugn…..
(Q sent me) 🙂
Wavin’!
Back atcha 🙂
Also, I have to ask. I am not from the South. All I can do is attempt to recall my high school and college days out here in the West. I never saw anyone go “black face” ever to any kind of costume thing. It wasn’t because we were so politically correct or terrified of being branded raycissss like we are now, but it just never seemed like a good idea or funny or anything. I’m utterly puzzled.
But perhaps this was a thing in the South? Sort of daring, out there, on the fringes? I don’t know because I don’t have that historical experience.
Any of you from that time and place have any comments?
TBH, in my youth we were not especially into adults dressing up for Halloween or things like that. It was a youthful extravagance and I was busy working to earn tuition money and stuff. Maybe it was just me or the circles I ran in, I don’t know.
I kind of don’t get the whole thing.
I went to parties at Country Clubs in 6 southern states, high school parties, my sorority parties, other sorority parties, college fraternity parties by the zillions, corporate parties, church parties, neighborhood parties, Italian, Irish, Greek, Jewish, Cajun, Caribbean, Indian, and Polish festivals and parties.
I graduated in ’80.
I’ve never, ever, seen anyone at a party in black face, or dressed as a joke or seriously in a KKK outfit.
It simply wasn’t done and would have been castigated or shamed back then.
What the hell? Not cool.
Thanks for that. I was having a discussion with a family member about it and neither of us could ever remember seeing anyone doing that or hearing any discussion about it. Essentially, it would have seemed in bad taste and foolish. This was in seventies and eighties. We hadn’t been to the corporate re education camps known as diversity training yet so we weren’t in touch with our inner racists yet, but honestly it would have seemed like a really dumb idea.
Makes me wonder a bit about the quality of our elected officials.
The funny thing is, my state is 39.6% black. LA is about 25% and so is Alabama. We all know black people and have black friends, that are generational. Unlike at NYC where most blacks live in NYC but are nonexistent, upstate.
When I started dating husband and visited Boston all the time, I asked him, where are all the black people?
There are none that live within varying neighborhoods. They have a ‘section’ and that’s it.
We don’t live that way.
While Arkansas is not Virginia……..
It appears that the state Government here was more into drug running (Mena – Clintons)
Than into playing “Blackface” or KKK Games.
I too graduated High School in 1980
BTW…… “Halloween” is considered “The DEVIL”s Holiday to me.
Me and my family do NOT participate in it either.
I grew up “out west” too and don’t quite get any of it either. Race issues seemed to be a thing of the past back then, something we were lucky to have not experienced. I don’t remember anybody’s skin color meaning a thing, what mattered was what what kind of person they were. I’ve actually had a pretty hard time with the blatant racism from the left the last few years and the projections they put on decent people.
On a side note, I showed drillerwife how to access her wordpress app and use it a little and how to access it from her browser too. She just made her 1st post on the open thread
Thank you for telling me, I’ll go make a comment.
Hooray! That’s awesome!
Exactly. Race divide seemed like some kind of an ancient thing back then, long over and done.
And yet, here we are.
That page is actually a twofer.
I would imagine that some of these kids are the children of racist Southern Democrats.
The parents were in college in the 50’s.
These traditions go back to Jim Crow days and earlier.
A mock lynching is not just “blackface”.
Considering the age (late teens) and place (college), it could also be that they were doing some of these things precisely because it was perceived as ‘taboo’.
It is an age when many young people hear “you can’t do that”, and the response is “Oh yeah? Just watch me”.
Wow. I’m kind of shocked, frankly.
And I can’t believe that idiot AG was talking about how racist the Gov was….until it turns out he had done the same thing.
WTH? What on earth is going on in Virginia? I swear, there has to be something going on that we can’t see. I can’t believe this is all coincidence.
BTW I heard a little more about the Lt. Gov and his #meToo story. The charge made by the woman is pretty awful. It sounded believable at this point.
Sylvia, I grew up in Texas and black- face was definitely not a thing in the 80’s! That is exactly what startled me!
^^^^^^^^^^^ Jan Phillips.
Thanks. I guess this makes the behavior even more outlandish than I thought.
I have been holding back on telling this tale since all of this broke, but I can’t anymore.
I graduated high school in 1982. I went to a state school, but a good friend went to a private Presbyterian college in South Carolina. Very posh, expensive, and elitist.
One of the “activities” at the school was called “Old South.” For that weekend, the guys dressed as Confederate soldiers, the girls wore hoop skirts a la Scarlett O’hara, and you guessed it, underclassmen dressed as “slaves.” I doubt there were ten actual black people in the whole school.
No idea when “Old South” became “Gone With The Wind,” but in 1982-83, they were still doing it.
I was invited, but never went. I thought it was stupid, and racist.
I’ve lived in different parts of the country, including the South, and never heard of anything like this before, or known anybody who would have done anything like this, or thought it was funny.
So this is not a normal thing. Anybody reading this from the North or the West or wherever shouldn’t think that the South is like that. In fact, the South, as daughn alludes to in this thread, is the part of the USA where it is the most normal for white people to have next door neighbors who are black.
In the far West, outside of a few big city neighborhoods, things are integrated like they are in the South, but there just aren’t nearly as many black people. In the Northeast they passed Zoning around the 60s so that they would have a mechanism to force most black people into certain zones.
About 2/3 of American blacks live in the South. The last time I read statistics (early 90s,) more of them from the North and West were moving back South than there were black people leaving the South.
All that said, I don’t see why wearing blackface in college to some type of costume event is a bigger deal than wearing Klan robes to the same event. Or why either would compare with actually joining the KKK, or with actively recruiting for the KKK, or with bringing the KKK to a state that didn’t have it before, or with serving as a founding member of its chapter in that state, all four of which were in no way incompatible with the political career of Robert C. “KKK” Byrd, or with his Democrat colleagues in the United States Senate electing him to the post of Majority Leader, both before and after Gov. Northam’s 1984 appearance in costume.
So what is up with Virginia Dims, and their strange attire? With 2 out of 3 top Democrat officials in the Virginia state government being photographed in these incidents, all I can surmise is that they belonged to some sort of secret society that had political clout, and/or that they were being gaslighted somehow to encourage them to appear thus, perhaps so as to facilitate later extortion. Could these incidents have been initiation rites of some type? And, if so, into what? Any chance the actual Klan is involved here? I haven’t heard that question even asked on Fox News.
And considerin that the medical school photos, at least, were an open secret in some circles, there has been a heck of a lot of cover up going on.
Democrats are having a bad year so far – and that isn’t going to change.
Here’s their leader: “Border security is just a colossal distraction.”
https://www.weaselzippers.us/410325-dnc-chair-tom-perez-the-whole-conversation-about-border-security-is-a-colossal-distraction/
Distraction?
Yeah, it’s distracting us from the fact that it’s their attempt to bring in a new voter block. They are literally creating future voters. It’s shameful.
I remember watching something on al jolson as a kid thinking that was really inappropriate then. How anyone post civil rights era could contemplate this as appropriate, even as a young adult, says far more about social circles and actual character than a one off mistake.
PS: I’ve been responding to tweet today as people are asking “what is wrong with Virginia Democrats? I say, “Nothing! This is who they are!” They’ve been lying and hiding the truth about themselves for decades.
We lost a lot of seats in 2018 – some of which would not have been lost if this came out prior to Nov elections. Northam? He wouldn’t been elected in 2017.
Agreed, no way he would have been elected had this come out.
Virginia seems to have become an extension of DC
It is. Federal employees live in Northern Virginia. Called “bedroom community” to DC. 🙁
Just another reason to BREAK UP DC….
Send the various Government Agencies across the country. There HAS to be a BETTER way!
But why didn’t the Gillespie campaign release it? Hmmmm?
Of course they had it.
My theory about Gillespie…….
Took a Romney (Dive)
He is IN ON THE GAME (Deep State – GOPe)
Exactly! (Maybe.)
These people are sick.
Ok,
Here goes. I do think wearing a KKK costume paired up with a white guy in blackface is beyond sketchy and actuallly quite nqsty.
While I think it is hysterically funny that the dims are caught up in behavior that they themselves say is socially abhorrent, and I like seeing them fried for it, there’s a problem. Maybe it’s my thinking, please correct me if I am wrong. Please know that I was never raised to be bigoted. Although I am scared to be in neighborhoods where black, white, brown, yellow or purple young men or women hang together acting like animals so I avoid such.
I never would have seen it as bigotry to go to a Halloween party as perhaps Sapphire or Aunt Jemima until everybody got touchy about everything. I still don’t see it as bigotry. The thought of a loving, chubby lady who makes tasty food is a nice thought. Sapphire was funny and a good comedic actress. I didn’t see her as anything more than a character from a funny sitcom. Nor did that sitcom make me think poorly of Blacks.
As a former fat child and fat lady, and having a loving mother who had visible, serious spine and chest deformity, I do cringe when I see such persons spoofed, because those conditions tormented me and my mother. I fought paunch since I was nine, and didn’t overcome it untilI I was 16. I never got skinny, but very acceptable in size until 3 babies and “life.”
Then when a diabetes diagnosis hit me after 3 children, and info filtered into the US via the internet 20+ years ago, I was able to lick it again, learning about the glycemic index from sources in Australia and the UK, which then led to Atkins. Obviously, my mother went to her grave with her painful hunched back and “chicken” chest. (When I was about 12 I punched out a boy who called my mom a hunch back and didn’t regret it.)
With all the black “sensivity,” out there, are people really not comfortable in their skin, or is it now that they have been told to not be comfortable? The race baiters seem to have made life sad and intollerable for Blacks who don’t see that they are being used.
The whole thing is horrific to me.
I mean, stop and think about it.
Where in the HE$$ does one go to RENT a KKK costume?
I think the KKK thing is awful, besides there had to be much thought put into making it. There is a message there.
Renting…I doubt it’s possible, fortunately.
Evidently CONgress has some…..
Not sure why they left off the hoods though.
LOL.
Haven’t you heard—KKK has gone hoodless—“white out” in the open!
I have now 🙂
KKK Mart ?
/s
Spit, lol.
And, there’s no such thing as a Simplicity Sewing Pattern for a KKK outfit, either.
God has a way of taking care of things.
I have a neighbor whose grandmother was a big honcho on the state level in the woman’s sector of the KKK back in it’s heyday. My neighbor herself was very bigoted. She grew up that way.
Her kids rebelled either purposely or however. Two of them married Black persons. My neighbor now has mixed race grandchildren. She can’t help but love them though. I sure do get a kick out of how God takes care of things.
Guess who’s coming to dinner?
Xactly. 🙂
LOL.
“Where in the HE$$ does one go to RENT a KKK costume?”
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As a transplanted Northerner (NY), and from the West, (Colorado) and now decades in Virginia, let me share this observation. It obviously was some kind of thing for Northam to do those pictures, and not as uncommon as some of us may have thought being from other parts of the country – especially the Klan thing – because that’s always been a no, no in my understanding of the world.
I agree with you Plain Jane about the “oversensitivity” – and that’s a tool the Dems have been using – alternative term? POLITICAL CORRECTNESS – that’s what’s going on. Northam did in 1984 what some people did then. Just like HIllary and Bill.
Northam has two problems – the first , which showed his overt racial feelings – how he treated Reverend E.W. Jackson in 2013 in the Lt. Gov. debate. Refusing to shake Jackson’s hand, and Northam ignoring Jackson – that looked racist to me. The second issue – which is important from our Virginia politics’ perspective, is that many of us believe that the Blacks would not have come out to vote for him in 2013 or 2017 if that yearbook picture had been public.
While we’re living in oversensitized times, it’s still relevant. The Dems would have destroyed the GOP if it was the other way around.
He should have been destroyed on the basis of the hood and the robe getup alone, and it should have gone public sopeople could have made up their own minds in how to vote. The robe is over the top. Not funny, and just as horrible as someone dressed as an Auschwitz furnace at a bar-mitzvah.
It’s the mea culpas of black face impersonations of a famous or not so famous person costumes is what really don’t understand as bigotted. Heck if I had the body for it back in the day, I would have readily gone to costume parties as Tina Turner. Heck, Icould even dance like her. Thought she was great.
Right, the KKK thing is shocking. So, while the blackface may not be the racist thing, KKK is.
Yep. Virulently racist.
Tina Turner was a goddess. TAUGHT women how to walk in heels.
My tiny mom taught me that. Even with her pain from deformity, she wore 3 in spikes well into her late 60s.
Yes, Tina was a goddess. Guess she showed up the bully Ike. 🙂
We still enjoy watching old videos of her performances.
Walk? Oh no! PRANCE in heels! She was fabulous.
As far as the handshake…that was overt dissing, and it appears that was it because Northam is a bigoted dick. Too bad more voters didn’t see it happen.
CNN did the debate, they covered it up, and all the media covered it up. By not covering these stories they protect these people,. Obviously Northam was someone they thought they could get elected… they were right. 🙁
Dang. That’s awful.
Still doesn’t’ make sense to me. I knew guys like him. I dated guys like him.
Don’t leave out the elephant in the room……..
MURDER of BABIES!
What if…
Northam was consciously sabotaging the Dems by graphically revealing the truth as a pediatrician.
(He had thought about switching parties.)
Maybe he is pro life but not pro infanticide.
The Dems knew what he did and were VERY angry so they played the race card.
They always play the race card.
What if Northam is a good guy?
Guess it is “Possible”…..
But if a Frog had a Glass Ass…..
He’d only hop ONCE 🙂
Spit.
Rayzorbak, you’ve been stellar today.
Thanks again FRIEND……
I try 🙂
ps. Who needs the “news” when EVERYTHING “they” report is EXPLAINED here in much better detail(s).
Thanks to Wolf and ALL Q Treepers!
Why does Northsm address a different issue than what Tran’s bill addresses?
He talks about after birth infanticide.
Tran’s bill concerns a third trimester abortion – up to when the mother is dilating and about to give birth.
And can be based on the mother’s “mental health”.
Northam discusses what happens after a “severely abnormal” or “non viable” baby has been born.
Very strange.
Maybe he just hadn’t read bill.
Meant to say: Maybe he is pro choice but not pro infanticide.
No, appreciate your thinking, but being here in Virginia, can tell you he is simply a weak guy. Of the three, Northam is the weak sister, Fairfax and Herring are the mean S.O.B. types.
But Northam being “weak” doesn’t take away his overt racism, and I note that because of his behavior in 2013 towards Rev. Jackson, not his behavior in 1984. He got skewered on the infanticide issue because news had already broken about the bill being considered. They had the sponsor, Kathy Tran, on video. The day after, during his scheduled radio interview, he got asked about it. Then it went public bigtime.
Once again, the Dems are finding themselves “hoist by their own petard”.
They went after the Covington kids for wearing blackface – when it wasn’t even blackface.
And, of course, Megyn Kelly.
Otherwise, who cares?
Everybody gets a pass for 20+ year old costumes and makeup.
End of story.
On the other hand, KKK costume is pure racism.
Yep.
I was speaking with my brother about the three men. There is no way that the Lt. Governor goes and the other two stay. That would fit right into the racist card. The Black man payes while the two White men stay. The Governor and AG will not go while the Black man stays. Especially since his allegation is an actual crime against another Black woman.
In the end all three will remain. They can actually thank each other for giving them cover.
That is the worst nightmare for Democrats, MSM etc. They can no longer use the race card against our President or any other Republican. They can’t use the “Believe the Women” against our President, other Republicans or any other prominent Republican.
Also keep in mind that all 140 seats in the State Assembly (100 total) and Senate (40 total) are on the ballot in November. Every single Incumbent Republican and Republican Candidate can use their misdeeds plus the abortion stance against their opponents.
The State of Virginia has become a laughingstock. Independents in the state will get their chance to voice their disgust at the ballot box.
The results that night will tell the story of what will happen in 2020. I can actually see PDJT winning the State of Virginia.
Good for Repubs, politically, but the state is yes, a laughingstock.
Looking for the statute of limitations on rape in MA. Husband guess is 25-30yrs and both parties agree something happened.
Husband here: Massachusetts SOL for rape is 16 years.
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WoW…… Thanks for the invite.
Might have to consider this 🙂
Might be a pretty good game
What is the
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Really? You don’t know? It is a Bucket List must for any college football fan. I have attached one link representative video but they are all over YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwT6jeW-Bvk&t=507s
Link doesn’t seem to work?
Beautiful B&B…..
Helps to fill in the mental pictures 🙂
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Hey back! Note the profile name change. Made to coordinate political and on-line commentary under my personal as opposed to “hospitality and tourism” a/k/a non-political profile.
Incident was in 2004 – 15 years.
Go get him!
That is the criminal SOL Curry. So the AG or Suffolk County DA would have to pursue as a State v. Fairbanks thing. In rabid blue Taxachusetts where Massholes rule, fat chance. The civil lawsuit SOL is 3 years from “when you knew or had reason to know” of a civil wrong, a tort. Long ago expired. This avenue is a non-starter, unfortunately.
Husband here again. Note I have changed my public profile name to the previous and recognizable “Yzest5121” . It should update on previous comments eventually as well. I had 2 WordPress names for some reason. This was my on-line politics and discussion identity on the previous shall-not-be-named site as well. So “Hey y’all, Yzest, a member of the Lurking Lawyer subgroup and husband to the aforementioned and humbly erudite Daughnworks247, s on the Q Tree train.”
Welcome Yzest..:)
Great to have you Yzest5121.
Love the picture in my mind of you handing out roses on Valentine’s Day.
Awesome!
Flep, I hope it’s a nightmare for them in November. All 100 delegate seats, and all 40 senate seats are up for election. The Dems have been taking a lot of wins here in recent years, so maybe we’ll catch a break.
If we don’t catch a break in November after all of this, there is absolutely no chance of getting Virginia to go purple and hopefully red again. It truly is now or never.
Conservative Virginians were discouraged after our losses in 2017, and I think it carried over into 2018. This exposure regarding the deceitfulness of the Dems may be the catalyst that helps us – I’ve heard from several prolife folks are fired up now.
“They can no longer use the race card against our President or any other Republican. They can’t use the “Believe the Women” against our President, other Republicans or any other prominent Republican.”
What makes you think that? You don’t seriously believe this will stop them? Pffftttt….they will brush it off and keep up with the same old, same old.
“What makes you think that? You don’t seriously believe this will stop them? Pffftttt….they will brush it off and keep up with the same old, same old.”
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Oh they definitely will, because they’re stupid and they’re arrogant.
The difference is, when they do it this time, the Republican can call them out and make everyone laugh at them and their hypocrisy.
Nobody likes humiliation, but to a Leftist, it’s like a wooden stake to their cold, dark vampire heart. 😁
Meh – depends on the Republican whether they will or not. Don’t mind me – just got up and haven’t had my first cup of coffee!
You’re probably right. The scandal is so big for the state and, if I understand it correctly, would leave the Republican Speaker of the House in charge (NEVER GONNA HAPPEN!) if the top three were gone, so basically because there are so many they will all stay in place.
Too bad. I saw something earlier about the Gov of Virginia having an important role in redistricting Congressional districts so it would have been nice to have the Dims out and the Reps in charge.
What a disgrace.
We had NO choice in the color of skin we were born in……..
We DO….. have a choice in WHO we “run” with….
And WHAT actions we ENGAGE in……
There is NOT one slave or slave owner alive in this country…
“Knock out games” and “Polar bear hunting” are UNACCEPTABLE!
These types of “Games” are HARMFUL….. “WORDS” … Not so much.
I have NO use for “Liars” and/or “Thieves”…..
Just sayin’
Still think the Dems are trying to cover any expansion of dialogue regarding Northam’s infanticide comments. FDR said nothing occurs in politics by happenstance—if it happens, it was meant to happen (paraphrased). People knew of the yearbook photo, and it just so happens to be finally revealed after Northam’s radio interview? And so begins the domino effect—Lt. Governor then the state AG—the closets have been slung wide open!!!
It was great that PDJT brought back to light Northam’s infanticide reference last night at SOTU! Lord save us from this evil in our midst!
Pete, I would bet the mortgage you are correct.
How about the strand of Mikimoto pearls?😳😎
Nahhhh, I’m keeping those!
It was a great story you posted the other day! (Yesterday?)
Fun, funny and heartwarming. The kind of stuff we, at least I need.
Thank you!
Thank you, Kalbo.
About that story yesterday…….
Were they Hookers or not……
You never really resolved that part.
Here’s the part I didn’t say.
When I made the souffle and put candles in it, I moved to take a pic for her birthday. She stopped me immediately. No pictures. Her friend adamantly agreed, no pics.
I told my husband about it and he said, “Told ya’ so.”
He took it as confirmation.
Thanks for helping clear that up 🙂
YOWZA! What a story!
Lemme test the free speech here – I did not hear the guv defend the bill (according to the sound bites circulating on the net). I heard him explain what happens when a severely deformed (or unable to survive) baby is born. Whether this has anything to do with the satanic bill that bitch sponsored in the VA assembly or not, I don’t know. I do know that I have been acquainted with people who have had that happen to them over three decades ago.
Is it right or wrong? I suspect that this is one of those situations where “walk a mile in my shoes” is appropriate. No one knows whether they will do the right thing until they are tested with real life. FTR, I would never condemn any parent for giving up a child to hospice care or denying resuscitation to an newborn who would die without it.
I did not hear the governor say that he supports taking the life of the infant by active means.
I hope nobody hates me for this but if they do, then f**k ’em. /s
Extraordinary means to prolong life is not mandated by moral law. If I acquired cancer, I would not opt for chemo at my age.
I suspect that he is referring to babies born alive within the context of a botched abortion.
I included the 54 minute interview link for context.
TY, DNW. Will check it out. The clips I had seen didn’t seem to specify what he was really talking about, or I could have been distracted.
Maybe dislike, but hate…that’s a little strong! LOL! You sound like someone from Seattle!
I think there are 3 separate issues here.
1. Extending abortion to 9 months with only a “mental hardship” requirement is sickening and most of us agree on that one.
2. Changing those who can do an abortion to midwives and chiropractors is pretty weird.
3. Talking about what to do with a baby, which has been born alive, whether viable or not, and considering “keeping the baby comfortable”……… until it dies, is also pretty strange.
I was thinking about it today and tell me what you guys think, please.
There has to be a reason they want to loosen rules for attending physicians = cheaper.
If they had to keep the baby alive, if the baby were born alive, then they would need a doctor ——— as opposed to a chiropractor.
Could it be as simple as cost?
Could they be THAT callous?
Does your state law now require that the abortionist have nearby hospital privileges? If so, then authorizing others to do abortions might be a way to circumvent that law.
Not sure about VA.
My state is the LEAST abortion friendly state in the union.
I wonder about that. One notorious abortionist in Indiana did not…there was hub-bub about that. Can’t remember the outcome. However the rat got his license lifted for something else for sure.
Could they be THAT callous? …… YES….
and they ARE!
I personally think that ALL abortions should be outlawed…
As I believe GOD has a reason for everything….
And abortion = Murder of a HUMAN LIFE.
Just my take on it.
Human life begins at conception—otherwise, it is not conception. This morning over coffee and a cigar, I was watching the boy cats out in the yard chasing the girl cat, seeking a conceptual moment. But really, I just praised the Lord for His creation, and how He created human and animal kind male and female to be fruitful and multiply! Male and female must come together as one to bring about procreation—otherwise life (conception) cannot occur. So simple, yet so complex—something evolution could never conceive of! IMHO
I agree 100%…..
I think it is TRUE…… Not just your “opinion”.
All of the cycles of life “Created” by the Lord…..
Animal Kingdom
Water cycle Ocean>sky>rain>ground>rivers>Ocean
Cells>tissues>organs>systems>organism
How did the 1st blood cell “know” to clot? If it did NOT “clot”, the organism would bleed out and die.
There are many more examples of our Lord’s AWESOME planning.
But what if the boy cat was really a girl cat and just identifying as a boy cat?
LOL, Syl…!!! The progressive Left is soooo asinine!
A short reply that will be a prelude to a much longer abortion piece. I agree that Northam was analyzing what happens under Virginia law when a baby is born alive after an abortion. His sins, however, are several. 1. He is a pediatric neurologist. He is called in when there are traumatic, congenital or developmental brain-related injuries are presented at birth. In the clip, he speaks in the “past participatory” tense – he’s been there before. Thus, he has allowed infants to die in his presence “after discussion with the family ensued”. Thus, under then-effective Virginia law, he has confessed to, at best, voluntary manslaughter and has vilified his Hippocratic oath. 2. He is dissociative, almost sociopathic, in his lack of empathy or emotion toward the infant. 3. When called out, apparently unaware until much later he was on camera while on radio, he doubled-down and was comfortable with the implications of this law and his views. Finally, I am having a hard time deciding why the black-face/KKK picture went public now, knowing that its been in media hands since at least before the election. One group are his colleagues, especially other pediatric neurologists, who are dead-cold angry at his Satanic attitude. The other, more Machiavellian theory, is that the Va Dems did it knowing that he would survive the furor but that it would “news cycle” the abortion controversy away. fortunately PDJT took care of that in the SOTU last night.
Thank you, Sugar Bear!
Your Sugar Bear isn’t phoning it in anymore!!! 🤣😎😘 HI Suger Bear!!! Love your wife like a sister!!!
Great post Daughn !! and B&B–fantastic comment!!!
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Oh! Is he your man????? I really have missed out on a lot around here!
I agree with your views on the doctor, although I would not condemn him as strongly. Nevertheless, I find it intriguing that people are repulsed at the notion of discussing what should be done with a severely damaged newborn. Try to picture yourself in such a situation – would you want the doctor to decide? Or would you rather consult with the other parent or a close friend?
Keep in mind that I was only commenting on the short clip that all the conservative blowhards were using in order to label him all kinds of motherphuckers and such. I heard NOTHING to support those labels and conclusions.
My point is that if we aren’t better than the enemy, where do we get off complaining about their crap passing as news/facts?
@pgroup: “I heard him explain what happens when a severely deformed (or unable to survive) baby is born.”
That is what he talked about. He was asked specifically about the bill proposed by Tran, and he dodged by saying he “wasn’t present,” and then he explained what happens (currently, I guess) when a severely deformed, nonviable infant is born.
My understanding of the Tran bill is that it’s not about nonviable infants, but all infants. So nice dodge by the governor.
He has had plenty of opportunity since that video to go on record as NOT being in favor of aborting a full-term, viable baby, and he hasn’t done so. He’s had his hands full with the other scandal, but this is a crucial issue. All I heard him say in the video is that the government shouldn’t be involved — and of course, that also means the government would not be involved in saving the lives of unborn babies. I have not heard Northam say he disagrees with Tran’s bill.
Correct. Dodge. Never clarified.
Exactly. And why should he? He’s a democrat and these are democrat issues. It’s unreasonable to expect him to condemn the bill or disapprove of it. His best play is to dodge (which he did) and keep his mouth as shut as he can, hoping it blows over or that another shiny object shows up.
Is he amoral or immoral? I don’t know but I really dislike how our team is handling it. Just like I dislike Ann Coulter saying mean nasty things about our president. Right now, I wouldn’t give either one of them the time of day.
While, narrow in the context of the larger issue, your analysis is clinically accurate. I disagree with your more general indictment of the group reaction as this is broader discussion about the barbarity of late-term/4th term abortion. Let me restate. Northem is an unrepentant late term abortionist whose training is in saving damage babies and who, by admission, participated in voluntary homicide of otherwise-healthy babies wounded by doctors using medical instruments to dismember and injure their defenseless womb-bound bodies. He condones the procedure that presented him with the suffering baby that he then allows to die after making them comfortable, having handed over to others – parents and family – the infant’s fate.
Again, I respect your sincere views, but I cannot understand your “dislike” over the other sincere, strongly-expressed views in what is the fundamental moral issue of our lives. Ann Coulter’s attention-seeking, remarkably illiterate and scatological shrieks do not validly compare to the views on either side of the abortion issue. I condemn murder in all iterations and I condemn abortion, at whatever point after conception, as murder.
So, I am seeking further clarity. Are you upset with “the group” for strongly-held opposing views or simply how they express those views? As to the latter, you are probably offended by my description of Northem above. I’m disappointed if you are; it is merely a strong, necessarily graphic description of a late-term abortion.. As to the former, are you in favor of some or all forms of abortion? That’s fine but but don’t criticize the opposing viewpoint as mean-spirited because you disagree. That is deflection.
Abortion is a hot poker issue. In this group, it has been and will be discussed at great length in the context of current issues. Most of the views will be strongly anti-abortion; but no opinion on this or any issue will be criticized with ad hominem drivel – the curation is too good. So I encourage you to expand on your views on this issue and the group’s attitude. I have no doubt you have valid and perceptive opinions that will benefit all of us.
For example: Al Franken did not molest or assault that sleeping reporter. Yet “our side” had no problem with the #metoo thugs slandering him with false accusations. Then a little later, we went nuts over the way Kavanaugh was treated when he was falsely accused.
My outrage is that we diminish ourselves and our moral authority if we use the same distortions and/or fabrications against the left that they use against us. Since the governor spoke (in the oft-repeated clip) only about the procedure for handling a deformed or unsurvivable infant, I am appalled that our side jumps from that to what the bill was about. He may be guilty of all the things about abortion/infanticide that are bandied about but that is NOT what he was talking about. He was asked and he dodged it. The interviewer failed to pin him on the dodged question. The state of journalism is pathetic nowadays.
Agree on Al Franken. Heck, I defended him.
Wrote a LITANY excoriating the woman for not slapping the hell out of him and quitting on the spot, if she was so offended.
That’s what women did, when they were offended. The yelled loudly and walked away. I’ve done it. MANY women did.
Same thing with John Conyers, D Congressman from Michigan, who held meetings in his underwear. Suddenly, his interns are offended, 15 yrs later? Huh?
Why did it take 15yrs?
Yes, there are other jobs.
Always was suspicious the Franken resignation was pushed for unknown reasons. It didn’t make sense.
pgroup Many years ago I bought into the pro choice but choose life over abortion personally.
As I matured as a Christian and person I began to see that all babies born or not should be our concern and need protection.
Concerning a disabled child the Nazi’s killed disabled babies and children and even adults because they were imperfect.
Personally I would not be able to live with myself if I had killed my flesh and blood because it was not perfect.
My youngest son was born in 6 months and it was touch and go. The nurse told me his lungs almost collapse.
He would not eat . He made it and he had many problems after coming home. He was not handicap and seemed otherwise normal what ever that is.
I celebrated when he drank 1″ of milk. He could not drink formula and I barely got sleep. He spoke at 8 month full sentences and did not walk to almost 2. He had eye problems he learned to cope with.
He was hyperactive and we never put him on meds instead I cooked organic food and no sugar or coke.
He will be 50 this year PhD molecular biology .
He is a joy and he had and still has a mind that pushes the envelope.
Who am I to say what human life has value and what has not..? I met many so called normal people who I rather had not met and I have known handicap people who were gems.
We all stand before God for our choicest one thing I do know we can never reach or comprehend God’s love .
When I see a handicap child with its parent I know God put a little more of love in that parent and child than into most people.
The Democrats will never let all three of them resign, because then a Republican is next in line. I am in 3 different private Facebook groups here in Virginia, all politically connected. In less than one week, 3 conservative women have announced to the groups that they are going to run for office, and requested our help. One for the Va House of Delegates, one for the Va State Senate, and one in 2020 to compete against Abigail Spanberger for the 7th Congressional district. It wasn’t the blackface that did it, although nobody I knows likes that one bit. It was that so many of those Democrat women co-sponsored that horrific abortion bill. They know it is just a matter of time with the state assembly being so narrowly divided between the parties until they can push it through. It will be discussed over and over and over at teas and luncheons and women’s clubs, church circles, etc. for the rest of the year. Then the upset ladies will go home and make the rest of their families upset about it. The ladies of Virginia will not be distracted in this regard.
Ting, spot on.
Want action? Get the women upset.
You’re right, too. We’re not necessarily mad about 1984, we’re mad about the abortion issue.
That is great to hear Ting.
When NY is 💩 on you, you know it is bad!
https://twitter.com/breaking911/status/1093322580080160769?s=21
Ohhhh, burn. What a cover!
I’ll say it again—this feels like a Q production. Especially for all of the reasons fleporeblog listed in the above comments. It’s difficult for Democrats to successfully use the usual race baiting and #BelieveWomen tactics while prominent people in their own party have their own scandals. Now the next time they try to target a patriot with false racism or false sexual harassment accusations, Republicans can point to Virginia in response. The hardcore Democrats and Lefties won’t see the hypocrisy, but the moderates will understand.
“But why wait this long? What about the Republicans in Virginia who have to suffer a Democrat-controlled government because the Q team waited so long?”
Well, it appears that securing the Supreme Court was a vital part of Q’s mission. RBG will be replaced soon, which will secure a solid conservative majority for a long time. Maybe all of this Democratic drama needed to be fresh in the public’s mind before the nasty Supreme Court nomination fight begins.
And then there’s 2020 Election. Again, maybe this needed to happen closer to the Presidential Election than all the way back in 2017.
It is sooooooooooooooo hard to be patient.
My Q-radar is switched on, also. I don’t know what. I don’t know how. I don’t know why. But I don’t believe this all “just happened” in Virginia. There is something underneath the surface happening here.
And someone who knows all the secrets is behind it. Hmm….
Rut Roe
WHUT?????
This has been brewing for a LONG time.
Also, from the article..she told WaPo too a year ago. They did nothing. guess that’s no surprise since the’re the propaganda arm for the Dems..if they don’t get the go ahead..they don’t
OMG, we have a DEM Congressman, who will not protect a woman, who has been sexually assaulted, by another DEM.
Where the hell is #MeToo?
Let me get this straight.
While all the MeToo allegations were coming out, while Al Franken resigned, and Harvey was all over the news, another Dem Congressman CHOSE to hid this info? To protect a politician in his party?
WITH the help of The Washington Post?
But they went after Kavanaugh?
Yes, it appears that’s the case. Kavanaugh was the designated target that season..
Me Too is so last year.
Yep, I think you’ve got it.
All I can say in response, by mashing up all these scandals, is that black women just don’t matter to the Dims. (Come on, Candace Owens! Let’s drop this truth bomb!)
Typical Dem ploy….accuse others what you are guilty of yourselves.
Hey FLEP, I just realized, that’s ABC breaking the story.
Is the dam breaking on MSM for this story?
Odd they would chime in when WaPost took such great care to cover it up.
What do you think?
They can’t talk about our President after last night! They will be back to their old self starting tomorrow 😉
Oops.
WAPO: RALPH NORTHAM MUST RESIGN
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ralph-northam-must-resign/2019/02/06/b1703986-2a40-11e9-b011-d8500644dc98_story.html?utm_term=.e649d7cb24c2
https://twitter.com/jacobawohl/status/1093329562186829824?s=21
Now, this is really, really bad, if true. That will do some Democrat damage to Saint Mark around here.
This is getting better and better.
I feel for Tyson.
She went to the WaPost.
She went to a Congressman and was ignored.
She went to a Senator and was ignored.
It’s time for social media.
Mark Warner of the many chardonnays and “Secrets” SPIT
If Me Too won’t do it, then we will!
We need to March for Vanessa!
Where can I get a pussy hat?
Anybody own a vagina suit? 😏
I have some really hideous bright pink yarn. I could probably whip you up a pussy hat in an evening! Ha, ha, but you’d have to wear it!!!!
And promise not to tell anybody who made it. Otherwise, it’s shovel time for Curry.
SENATOR WARNER IGNORED IT??????????
Well, now, this is really fixing to get interesting! This is a horse race! I’d just love to see Warner taken out by this.
RE: The madness to be found among Democrats
When March Madness starts in the NCAA college basketball playoffs, maybe we’ll also be seeing a true March Madness **shiver** among Dems while their evil schemes are falling apart.
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“America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.
The reaction to 9/11 is beyond anything Osama bin Laden could have hoped for in his nastiest dreams. As in McCarthy times, the freedoms that have made America the envy of the world are being systematically eroded. The combination of compliant US media and vested corporate interests is once more ensuring that a debate that should be ringing out in every town square is confined to the loftier columns of the East Coast press.”
– John Le Carre’ (January, 2003)
Le Carre’ quote source: http://thirdworldtraveler.com/America/US_Gone_Mad_leCarre.html
I did some further looking into Le Carre’s political leanings. At times he comes across as a Leftist, other times more like a Libertarian with Conservative leanings. A maverick?
Proof that most brilliant writers are, first and foremost, “ahh-tists”. He was interviewed shortly after Trump’s election, on national TV but cannot remember who, and is an absolute irrational Never-Trumper of the worst order and as only they could be in the first three months post-election. Appeared to me as a doddering, sherry-swilling, shaky old sot with little redeeming social value or conscience who has spent too much time alone in the writing room living in his self-involved mazes of spycraft.
An afterthought:
Our MAGA movement is about a transition of going from:
dark to light.
madness to sanity.
tyranny to liberty.
What else?
…political correctness to truth.
Evil to Good. After a hellish fight no doubt.
Good article! The state of Virginia is a real hellhole! What has happened to those people?
They became politicians which is the gateway drug to becoming corrupted lying asshats?
They can all thank their hero, Obamination ,for this. He created the racial divide so deep and steeped in distrust that stupid stupid choices by teens or college kids is fodder to destroy whatever good or whatever type of adult that they matured into. That said, all of these guys matured into men worthy of the pain they’re getting
They’re Democrats.
Nah, he’s only the Communist son of the woman who helped found LaRaza.
WOW.
I did not know that. Good grief. And he was on BOs Cabinet. Sigh.
Ohhhhhh, guess what.
Husband the trial lawyer has been looking.
Statute of Limitations for rape in state of MA is 16 years.
Guess what…….
We’re at 15 years.
Great!!
From Molly Pitcher, here’s one link to source Fairfax implying Northam is behind accusations from Dr. Tyson.
Thank you, Molly!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lt-gov-justin-fairfax-suggests-gov-northam-behind-leaked-sexual-assault-allegation
YW
He has also blamed the mayor of Richmond, Lavar Stoney, who is a young ambitious man with aspirations of higher office. Wants to be the next Doug Wilder. But then Fairfax backed off of that claim. Who knows, and who really cares how it finally came out. I saw a tweet Sunday night that was not from a journalist. It had a short summary of the accuser’s story, not mentioning Fairfax by name. The tweeter, for lack of a better term, said she was a friend of the accuser and had the accuser’s permission to share. Maybe she had just tried to get it out there, to the Washington Post and to Bobby Scott, and was sick of being ignored.
The next morning it was starting to be reported on alternative media,so I guess a lot of people saw that tweet.
It’s amazing the smart, informed and amount of commentary this issue has generated
Daughn gives me an excuse to comment on Kurtis Blow (sort of).
Her reference to him is only the second time in my life to “see” the name. The first time was actually about a thousand times. His name appears in a song (Genius of Love) by a band I love, The Tom Tom Club, and at one point in my life I played them all the time.
The song (IMO) is about a naive young woman who is totally in love with her boyfriend, her favorite music, dancing and sex. I could be wrong, but I have always regarded the song as satirical, and that is as specific I can get without getting in danger. But the power of the song comes from the music.
This is probably my cu of tea only, but who knows. Link to the lyrics is below the tape.
https://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/tom+tom+club/genius+of+love_20138752.html
That is the wrong link to the lyrics. Here is the right one:
https://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/tom+tom+club/genius+of+love_20138752.html
Tonawanda for the late save. Good for you. At least you’ve heard of the guy.
I recently spoke with a friend of mine who lives one town west of here (upper PA). She is a den mother for the local cub scouts and every spring she takes the boys to the local museum where they get to see various artifacts, relics and old photographs of the town. And one of those photos is the town’s KKK chapter. There are no names listed on the photograph but you can clearly see the town’s “Welcome to …” in the picture.
She doesn’t shy away from the picture but uses it to teach what this represents, and why they must never allow this to happen again.
I was shocked for many reasons, but the fact that the town historian did not destroy the photo or hide it in shame, but instead chose to use it to teach right from wrong gave me hope.
We are not always right, but we can own our mistakes, correct them as best we can, repair what damage we can and learn and strive to be better.
It’s why some in the south insist the stars and bars should be kept in the state flags. It’s part of history and it cannot be denied or forgotten. The good, bad, ugly, doesn’t matter, we should be forced to own it all.
Ohhh really?
Joy Behar, age 29, dresses up as a “beautiful African American woman” for a costume party. https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/photo-of-joy-behar-dressed-as-beautiful-african-woman?fbclid=IwAR0_Q7QU_HrBO8XP9XxGF_bd-Ildxwok6aXtA36z8Uuh6M9Cbj4QxxklZ7c
Ted Danson in Blackface with Whoopi Goldberg: Remember, Ted Danson had an affair with Whoopi Goldberg, which ended his marriage.
https://lostmediaarchive.fandom.com/wiki/Ted_Danson_Blackface_Performance_at_Whoopi_Goldberg%27s_Roast_(1993)
More on Danson fro Roger Ebert, who was at the Friar’s Club Roast:
https://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/dansons-racist-humor-appalls-crowd-at-roast
From Whoopi Goldberg in Defense of Danson: “Goldberg, seated next to Danson, laughed and smiled at the material. Speaking last, she defended her friend: “Let’s get these words all out in the open. It took a whole lot of courage to come out in blackface in front of 3,000 people. I don’t care if you didn’t like it. I did.”
“Black model Beverly Johnson also defended Danson’s performance:
“If you can’t see the humor at a place where there’s supposed to be over-the-line jokes, then there’s something really wrong.””
The Wrap details Ted Danson’s comedy routine as “N” word laden and found 10 other Hollywood stars who have donned blackface including a skit Tom Hanks did with another actor who was dressed in blackface.
https://www.thewrap.com/blackface-star-backfire-ted-danson-julianne-hough-kylie-jenner/
Sarah Silverman in blackface, comedian and girlfriend to Jimmy Kimmel at the time:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/10/27/sarah-silverman-did-a-blackface-skit-at-one-time-but-did-it-get-her-ostracized-from-hollywood
Note that Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon also dressed in blackface during their careers.
1) I am going to RESPECTFULLY dissent from the prevailing opinions.
2) The blackface and the KKK robe had zero to do with “racism,” and questions of taste aside, there was nothing morally wrong with wearing them.
3) Yes, there is a great deal of pleasure in hoisting Demokkkrats on their own phony petard, but that does not erase the phoniness.
4) These costumes were intended to be humorous as far as anyone knows. Contrast the KKK robe with the well known photo of Byrd in his uniform. Byrd’s uniform meant terror and violence.
5) One man’s “insensitive and offensive” is another man’s edgy and hilarious.
6)Insensitive, offensive, edgy, hilarious are not necessarily “racist,” a word which for many, many years has had no definition.
7) IMO in America there is very little “racism” in any meaningful sense of the word. There ARE fears, but they are founded fears.
8) I had a very profound sense that America was doing very well in race relations until 2008.
9) BO had two main goals as far as I could see. Make black people hate white people based on unfair, unjust and even absurd “reasons,” and try to provoke white people into hating black people based on the frustration of being falsely accused. (The second goal was to strengthen Iran.)
10) White people do not hate black people despite the provocations, a good thing. But black people have been stoked into irrational hatred of white people.
11) Part of why BO wildly succeeded in his racial goal was the adolescent nature of wide swaths of American society, millions of people who are all on board with the childish “benefits” of victimhood.
12) I am going to ride my hobby horse once again. IMO normal, average Americans cheer for their own destruction by accepting and promoting “virtue” scams.
13) So, even when the left loses, they win. They lose two or three blackmailable guys, who cares. That’s why they were there, and there are plenty more blackmailable guys. And the blackmailed guys will get immense riches from some cushy “job.”
14) But what will remain is a major triumph for the Demokkkrats: a significant boost to the Meta Narrative of America as a Hell hole, and the tremendous energy given to a meaningless word whose value is promoted and reinforced by the very people who are the targets of the Narrative.
GREAT point, that we’ve all missed.
Whereas Byrd’s robes were oppressive, real, and tyrannical, ALL of these images were meant to be humorous or “not” hateful.
Indeed, mocking the oppressiveness of the KKK.