Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) appeared to make light of the violent attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D) husband at a Friday campaign stop.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1437584
What a loathsome creature, and just one of many.
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Then you have this asshat….
and some responses….
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I guess if you’re gonna show your MAGA bona fides, declasse is de rigeur .
ETA: Like with the Orange One, for whom being a boor comes with the territory.
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v12nna
October 28, 2022, 6:55pm
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Christa’mighty, are all of these creatures Borgs?
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Newsmedia gave Gov. Fleece-em a huge pass during the campaign coz horserace. I hope VA got what they were led to believe they wanted
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Welcome to “The League of Exemplary Persons who Proclaim Christamitey!”
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pol
October 28, 2022, 7:05pm
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I live in Virginia and we didn’t deserve creep.
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It is absolutely clear that the Republican party has become unhinged.
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rptwiz
October 28, 2022, 7:08pm
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The cruelty is the point.
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Exactly, but many were led to believe, against their best interests, that this was the man to address their perceived grievances.
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TBF, I think that’s a road-kill possum on his head.
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Seems he is campaigning off a circumstance his party helped instigate. What an effing pr*ck.
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Nope. That’s what’s between his ears, not above them.
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noonm
October 28, 2022, 7:11pm
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We’re well past unhinged. They literally encourage or downplay violence against their political opponents. That’s one of the key pillars of fascism.
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An argument could be made that Paul provoked the assault on Pelosi and her husband.
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ralph_vonholst:
Exactly, but many were led to believe, against their best interests, that this was the man to address their perceived grievances.
“What have you got to lose?”
Quite a bit, as it turns out. Starting with decorum, comity and common decency.
Scientists need to identify the “empathy gene” and figure out how to activate it because there are way too many people who are severely deficient in that respect.
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Blowback city. What a gormless twerp.
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Rand Paul was attacked because he’s a shitty neighbor.
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I have no words for Youngkin that the group here would not hit out of the Park.
I grieve for the people he addressed those loathsome words to.
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