A protest like this is doomed to fail given the Right’s demonstrated immunity to nuance.
Exactly. You have to have a functional brain to get it. Trumpet brains are switched off.
A protest like this is doomed to fail given the Right’s demonstrated immunity to nuance.
Yes. It is precisely identical to saying that the people flying the "Trump Blimp" at anti-trump rallies were attempting to fool people into believing that donald trump himself was in attendance of the rally, and therefore was rallying against himself.Nope, the story is fake news. Nobody was being framed.
The Lincoln Project sent people to the campaign as a stunt to remind people about the white supremacy. They were not pretending to be white supremacists in the sense that is being claimed. They were "pretending" with the expectation that everyone would naturally know they were not really white supremacists. They did that as a stunt because they allege the Republican candidate refused to disavow various white supremacists.
Here is what the Lincoln Project actually stated:
"Today's demonstration was our way of reminding Virginians what happened in Charlottesville four years ago, the Republican Party's embrace of those values, and Glenn Youngkin's failure to condemn it," the conservative group said in a statement.
If you can't infer this from the photo, then you have SERIOUS PROBLEMS.
Yes, parents do have a fundamental right to make decisions regarding the upbringing, care and education of their children. And they can do so by making choices about how to bring up, care for and educate their children. For instance, they can choose a non-public school for their children or choose to home school them. However, they CANNOT decide that MY child cannot learn about biology or chemistry or physics or literature or history or art or music, even if they don't like what is being taught. Their decisions about their childrearing practices do NOT impinge upon my choices about MY children's upbringing and education.Agreed. Your average Joe and Jane Blow are no more qualified to be making decisions on school curriculum than they are on the safety of vaccinations. They should stick to what the know: screwing widgets together and making meatloaf. Then maybe, just maybe their kids will enjoy a better lot in life than mom and dad.Hey, any tactic is fair. After all, Youngkin is a dangerous far-right nutter who wants parents to have some say in their children's education, a viewpoint so eye-bleedingly absurd McAuliffe had to point out the obvious:
“I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decision,” McAuliffe said. “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
Whether you regard them as qualified or not, Virginian parents have the legal right to do so:
Title 1. General Provisions
law.lis.virginia.govA parent has a fundamental right to make decisions concerning the upbringing, education, and care of the parent's child.
Apparently to libertarians, the are use facts and reason in a discussion is considered "bad faith".There's quite a bad faith effort to paint this as something other than a bad faith effort. It seems to have backfired.
No, but you have ignored the fact both have two ears and a nose. Why the focus on one irrelevancy but not the other?So the "fact and reason" that two of the demonstrators were actual Democratic Party activists is going to be ignored?
That you call their political affiliations "irrelevancy" is telling.
Of course you would think so.That you think that "The fact you think their political affiliation is relevant is also revealing." is revealing.
Two of the people involved are indeed Democrats, even if the Lincoln Project organized this. They have been identified by name, something I declined to do in this thread.
Do you want me to name them so that you can be satisfied that Democrats are doing this?
Trump, the Tea Party, and the whole QAnon-GOP axis are manifestly the racists in today's Amerika. Yet you post this message and this signature! What gives? These are not babblings one might expect from a competent observer....
McAuliffe is endorsed by Biden, so it does not surprise me that his supporters wave tiki torches.
No Biden, no KKK, no Fascist USA
The word "know" has one silent k.
The word "knuckle" has two silent k's.
The word "Democrat" has three silent k's.
Are you a Youngkin fan or just like to “own the libs”?To the Democrat brain trust in Virginia who thought attacking concerned parents was a winning election strategy: Thank you.
Are you a Youngkin fan or just like to “own the libs”?To the Democrat brain trust in Virginia who thought attacking concerned parents was a winning election strategy: Thank you.
And Youngkin will be a better governor for parents? How will he govern that will be to the benefit of parents?Are you a Youngkin fan or just like to “own the libs”?To the Democrat brain trust in Virginia who thought attacking concerned parents was a winning election strategy: Thank you.
A parent.
Perhaps you could explain the relevency of two Democrats joining a Republican led demonstration where their interests are alligned.That you call their political affiliations "irrelevancy" is telling.