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Top Republican gets UNEXPECTED SURPRISE at graduation ceremony (Original Post) IronLionZion May 14 OP
Good for you graduates. efhmc May 14 #1
Entirely deserved. Earthrise May 14 #2
White people gonna vote R. czarjak May 14 #3
??? IronLionZion May 14 #4
Same here in Texas If we were a smaller state we would drown those repugs. efhmc May 14 #5
Texan here, yea the Republicans lie, cheat and steal here. flying_wahini May 14 #9
I hope ya'll can turn Texas blue eventually IronLionZion May 14 #12
I'll add that Virginia elected America's first black governor, Douglas Wilder, in 1989 IronLionZion May 14 #10
Beware of blanket statements. They tend to be bigotted statements, especially ones that brook no exceptions Bernardo de La Paz May 14 #7
I'm White Deep State Witch May 14 #8
Really?? You don't think anyone here is white? onenote May 14 #13
I think you owe a lot of DUers an apology. Your call, though. Hekate May 14 #14
Bwahahaha! Deep State Witch May 14 #6
Ha ha governor Dumbkin!!! wolfie001 May 14 #11
That just WARMS my Heart. MagaSmash May 14 #15

IronLionZion

(45,792 posts)
4. ???
Tue May 14, 2024, 03:12 PM
May 14

Plenty of white liberals in Virginia. This state voted for Biden, Hillary, Obama, senators, state legislators, etc. One R governor is more of an outlier from an otherwise blue-leaning purple state.

flying_wahini

(6,798 posts)
9. Texan here, yea the Republicans lie, cheat and steal here.
Tue May 14, 2024, 04:05 PM
May 14

Of course trying to keep people from voting is an art form the Repugs have got down.

Throw out all college voters who don’t change addresses and then don’t have Tx drivers license that matches, close drive up mail boxes (Harris county went from 5 to 1 thanks to DeJoy…)
Erase voting people from Registered rolls who don’t respond to “address checks” in a timely fashion .
Have only a couple of voting machines at the Dems side of town which creates a VERY long wait, (sometimes 6hours, plus) but Republicans can vote in 10 minutes.
The list goes on and on. And don’t forget you can get arrested for giving people bottled water while in line to vote.

IronLionZion

(45,792 posts)
12. I hope ya'll can turn Texas blue eventually
Tue May 14, 2024, 04:15 PM
May 14

since it's so big and diverse with new people moving in all the time. It happened with Arizona and Georgia so it's possible.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,192 posts)
7. Beware of blanket statements. They tend to be bigotted statements, especially ones that brook no exceptions
Tue May 14, 2024, 04:01 PM
May 14

Is your statement one?

The essence of prejudice is PRE-JUDGING.

Deep State Witch

(10,518 posts)
8. I'm White
Tue May 14, 2024, 04:04 PM
May 14

But I was raised better than that. I grew up during Watergate. I didn't know that the word was actually "Republicans" because my grandma always referred to them as "Those damn Republicans!" I'm proud to have voted for only two Republicans in my entire life - Senator John Heinz and whoever ran against William Donald Schaefer for governor of Maryland in 1988, because I thought that Schaefer was a clown.

onenote

(43,029 posts)
13. Really?? You don't think anyone here is white?
Tue May 14, 2024, 04:39 PM
May 14

Your post is in the running for one of the all-time SMF posts here on DU.

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