Meghan McCain on X - "Screw any and all of you who lied to low information voters and sold Abigail Spanberger as some kind of moderate. She’s been in office like 6 hours and is already trying to turn Virginia into Minneapolis."
Christian Heiens π on X - "Democrats in Virginia have introduced a bill to eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing for rape, manslaughter, assaulting a law enforcement officer, possession and distribution of child pornography, and all repeat violent felonies."
Greg Koenig on X - ""When I attended the sentencing hearing for the man who raped my daughter, he gave a moving speech apologizing for his actions and claiming he didn't know rape was wrong. But the judge could do nothing—as moving as his words were, he had to impose the mandatory minimum sentence of 12 years. Abigail Spanberger finally got elected to fix that! Now, when rapists and murderers say they are really sorry, the judge can do the right thing and let them rejoin society without the long delay of a prison sentence. That's why she got my vote.""
Greg Price on X - "Democrats now control the legislature and Governor's office in Virginia. Here are just a few of the bills they've introduced
- New 4.3% sales tax on Uber Eats, Amazon, etc deliveries.
- New sales tax on admissions to a wide variety of businesses.
- Create two new higher tax brackets of 8% and 10% on people making over $600K.
- A new 10% tax bracket for anyone making over $1M.
- 3.8% investment tax on top of state income taxes.
- Raise the hotel tax.
- New personal property tax on landscaping equipment.
- Ban gas powered leaf blowers.
- Guarantee illegal aliens free education.
- Make it illegal to approach somebody at an abortion clinic.
- Extend the time absentee ballots can be received after election day to three days
- Allow people to cast their votes electronically through the internet.
- Expand ranked-choice voting.
- Extend the deadline for ballot curing to one week after election day.
- Redact the addresses of political candidates from FOIAs.
- Add Virginia to the National Popular Vote Compact for presidential electors.
- Make it illegal to hand count ballots.
- $500 sales tax on firearm suppressors .
- "Assault weapons" and large capacity magazine ban.
- 11% sales tax on all firearms and ammunition.
- Prohibit outdoor shooting of a firearm on land less than 5 acres.
- Lower the criminal penalties for robbery.
- Ban the arrest of illegal aliens in courthouses.
- Remove mandatory minimum sentences.
- Allow localities to install speed cameras.
- Replace Columbus Day with "Indigenous Peoples Day."
Theo Wold on X - "Democrats running for office: "I don't know why you're afraid to vote for us. We just want to make your life more affordable."
Democrats when they take power: "We're raising your taxes, crime is now legal, illegals have more rights than you, men will be in your daughter's bathroom, and all future elections will be manipulated in our favor.""
Coddled Affluent Professional on X - "This and the slate of legislation Spanberger passed immediately after winning Virginia support my hypothesis that kleptocratic leftism is now the default modality of Democratic politics and progressive institutions. Dems are dependent on feeding their constituencies either through black box NGOs that lack the transparency and regulatory requirements of government or through frank corruption. Libs also depend on the illiberalism of ‘wokeness’ to enforce their prerogatives even though they have lost the public debate. The crowds are thinning for the woke spectacles and wokeness is unfashionable. Progressive cultural, social, and technocratic authority is at a nadir. However, that doesn’t mean that progressives can’t invoke woke diktats to arrogate authority and expropriate resources within institutions. Because progressive institutions are so dysfunctional, so hungry for resources, and so lacking in authority, illiberal leftism with be the default for self-legitimization and to regiment the behavior and politics of institutional inhabitants. Because there’s less ambient woke energy Dems will play act that they’re reorienting to reasonable center left governance. However, middle aged CIA bugs like Spanberger are just a skin suit for the ubiquitous Leftism you’re going to get from Dems no matter who is elected. With Biden, the left figured out that you can just set up a prop out front and then do what you want. And so basically every Dem politician (outside Fetterman, Marie Perez, and maybe a couple others) should be understood on these terms, as props for an ascendent and ubiquitous kleptocratic leftism."
Christian Heiens π on X - "Democrats in Virginia just introduced a bill that will turn every city and county in the state into a giant California-style tent city for homeless drug addicts. It will now be illegal for localities to do anything to fine people for setting up permanent encampments in parks, underpasses, medians, and all other public spaces."
bumbadum on X - "Years ago I used to watch Destiny's stream in an attempt to understand the Neoliberal mind. Back when he tried to appear as a moderate, he would always say that in order to stay sane in politics you had to believe that your opposition wants to create a better world, but in a different way than you. I have tried so hard, to believe that libs/progs genuinely are trying to make a better world. But it's impossible. No other conclusion can be made than that they just want normal people to suffer and want to destroy this country. There is no other explanation for the mass exportation of disastrous California policy. I have watched people die on the side of the streets of LA all because of this shit. There's a reason why reasonable people in CA were begging SF and LA to adopt San Diego's homeless policy, which is the opposite of this. Liberals and progressive just want suffering and pain. They derive deep sexual pleasure from it. They want you to suffer, they want to make sure your gf can't walk around without fear, and they want the poor, drug addled, mentally ill, permanently homeless dreg to wither and die. No other conclusions can be made given their actions."
Virginia senator introduces bill to criminalize Islamophobia as hate crime - "A Bengali-American state senator from Virginia has introduced a bill to criminalize Islamophobia. The bill, introduced by state Sen. Saddam Azlan Salim, would define "Islamophobia" "as it relates to the crime of assault and battery as malicious prejudice or hatred directed toward Islam or Muslims.""
David M. McIntosh on X - "Virginia Democrats are raising taxes left and right. Here are some taxes they're looking to pass:
-corporate welfare tax
-gun tax
-delivery driver tax
-investment income tax
-event tax
-electric gardening equipment tax
-gym tax
-dog grooming tax
-home repair tax
-vehicle repair tax
-dry cleaning tax
-counseling tax
-storage facility tax
-concert tax
-travel tax"
Christian Heiens π on X - "Democrats in Virginia have two bills to mandate "unconscious racial bias training" for nurses to renew their license AND to mandate a Leftist narrative about January 6 in public schools. I remember about 10 years ago, Republicans introduced a bill to mandate teaching the Federalist Papers in public schools. They ultimately killed their own bill because they didn't want to impose another state-mandated lesson plan on school systems from Richmond. We believed in limited government, after all. This entire saga reveals something about why obviously Leftist-coded social mores are now virtually universally imposed across most of our institutions. Conservatives fell victim to the myth of neutrality and so refused to impose their own conception of the good out of fear of being called statists by their own side. Now, would teaching the Federalist Papers have prevented what we are now seeing? No. But when our "limited government" impulses tell us that the state must remain neutral between competing conceptions of the good, we forget that refusing to choose is itself a choice. This is ultimately why the education and credentialing systems have been turned into giant factories for cultural Marxism. Our side refuses to say "this is true and this is good, and we are going to mandate it" because we feel so uncomfortable with the "mandate" portion of that statement. Meanwhile, Leftists feel absolutely zero qualms about mandating anything that they believe is good. And so, little by little, year by year, they take over every institution around them because the necessary defense mechanisms to keep them at bay require using a degree of power that we are so terrified of wielding."
Abigail Spanberger on X (2019) - "This is good news for Virginia and the country. Gerrymandering is detrimental to our democracy and it weakens the individual voices that form our electorates. Opposing gerrymandering should be a bipartisan priority."
Andrew Follett on X (2026) - "I'm here from the future...and it turns out this was a total lie. Virginia Democrats broke the State Constitution to gerrymander Virginia so that they get 91% of the House seats with just 51% of the vote!"
Meme - William Meijer: "Collectivists seek consensus, and individualists seek truth. This makes the Left unable to tell the truth, and the Right unable to work together *chart showing that there's more ideological diversity on the right than on the left*"
Meme King on X - "Some men are sick… This happened in Sri Lanka"
pilleater on X - "Some people, especially Western women, think the world is an amusement park full of misunderstood nice people, that the West is evil and racist, and that they know better, until they firsthand discover the differences that language barrier was hiding."
On the Sri Lankan guy asking that white woman travel blogger for sex
spor on X - "I’m so fucking tired man. Whatever happens this time, they’re still gonna be out here harassing people, they’re still gonna be out here terrorizing people, and every few weeks, they’re gonna kill somebody again. And every single time, mfs on here will rise up in full-throated defense, like Karens, finding the tiniest little details to nitpick and defend the innocence of these oafs running around playing pretend cop. “Don’t resist! Don’t call them names! Don’t go out in public!” As if we didn’t live in the Land of the Free. Frankly, I don’t need to know the details of every new public execution, because even from the beginning it’s all counter to how we do things in this country. It’s counter to a just and fair legal system. It’s counter to values of freedom and our God-given rights. It’s counter to the goddamn Constitution. For fuck’s sake, it’s counter to common sense. So, we give these random dudes off the street guns and tell them to go harass and kill people? And for what? To defend our country from an “invasion”? Meanwhile these ICE fucks have effectively invaded and terrorized an entire state with their bullshit. Never thought I’d see the day a government police force of thugs would occupy an American city and kill American citizens and so many people I used to respect would stand up and support it. People like you, so willing to disregard principles for party allegiance, make me sick. It’s un-American and it’s deranged. I fear none of this is going to get any better, we’ve really crossed the chasm."
Zero HP Lovecraft on X - "so called "rationalists" when the dems don't get their way one time. How do you think we felt when they legalized gay marriage, when california prop 8 got shut down by a court, when troon propaganda started filling every school and tv show, when companies started bringing in diversity struggle sessions to teach all their white tech workers to respect black womens' hair, when they said they would fire you for not getting vaccinated, when Biden brought in at least 7 million additional illegals (impossible to know exactly) from thirdworld countries to flood our cities and DDoS the vote? But a few left wing terrorists get shot for interfering with law enforcement and this guy is "tired." This is how every right winger has felt for decades. "No matter what we do, the dems are going to keep escalating their homosexual race communism" That's how it felt. I am tired of all of your shit and your entire team and I hate you with every fiber of my being. I hope you never sleep again."
Raheem J. Kassam on X - "Most people who identify on the political right believe that sometimes, some cops get it right, and sometimes, some cops get it wrong. Almost EVERYONE on the political left believes all cops get it wrong ALL THE TIME except on Jan 6 where ALL COPS GOT EVERYTHING RIGHT ALL AT ONCE AND ONLY ONCE."
Meme - Common Sense Extremists: "Third world shitholes: seethe in anger that they lost a war/resources to us decades or even centuries ago and insist that this is why their countries are currently shitholes.
Japan: haha, y'all nuked us and essentially ran our country afterwards. We're cool!"
Japan Embassy DC @JapanEmbDC: "Japan is gifting the United States an additional 250 cherry blossom trees to celebrate America's 250th birthday! We'll use this logo when celebrating Japan-US friendship!"
Japan and Germany are proof that the US invading and interfering with foreign countries is the root cause of terrorism
Liam Rose π³️ππ³️⚧️ FREE π΅πΈ on X - "The LGBTQ crowd is mad because the Hawk Tuah girl is stealing their attention during Pride Month"
Cosmic Marvel on X - "Beau DeMayo has revealed that fans can visit his OnlyFans page to hear "the WHOLE truth.” He will seemingly reveal what happened between him and Marvel Studios. The subscription costs $9.99 per month."
Men Perform Pole Dance in Thongs Before Children at Berlin Event July 5, Free Tickets for 0-18, Organized by Mutti Pole Wear - "In Berlin, Germany, a pole dance event organized by 'Mutti Pole Wear' on July 5 in the Prenzlauer Berg district featured adult men performing in string thongs and engaging in sexually suggestive dances in front of an audience that included school-aged children. Tickets for attendees aged 0 to 18 were offered for free, sparking public outrage and online condemnation. Organizers have responded to the backlash, although details of their statements remain limited. Meanwhile, a German feminist publication reports that women, girls, and families are increasingly avoiding public swimming pools, opting instead to purchase private mini-pools for their homes, with sales figures rising sharply."
Kevin Bass on X - "I have a lot of former colleagues, friends, and acquaintances that hold positions at prestigious universities, in many fields. The one thing that unifies them is how much they read, write, and speak about helping the poor and how little they do it themselves. Their entire lives are a signaling game. You can see this when Covid hit. The Covid restrictions were a massive blow to the global poor and working class. But these same prestigious signalers were either silent, or accused you of being a bad person if you brought this up. Ideology trumped an actual discussion about how these policies actually impacted the poor and working class. You were either on the side of hysterical safetyist ideology or you were a Bad Person. This is all very easy to understand if you think about it. Wokeism is a very shallow ideology of virtue signaling. Most people who espouse it do not think about the second- or third-order consequences. They espouse it because it is the path to upper-middle class respectability. They do not care about truth or facts, or even what is actually good for the poor and working class. They say these things because they know they have to if they want the approval of their peers. When you have a ruling ideology that is so myopically focused on career advancement and not truth in this way, you know that the society where that ideology reigns is in serious trouble. And here we are. Of course, if you point this out, that gets you into serious trouble. "Are you saying that my life is based on a lie?" Imagine the cognitive dissonance of people confronting this kind of claim. It's enormous. So of course they lash out emotionally. Lashing out emotionally costs a lot less than accepting that one's life is built on a lie. That's the entire political and institutional situation today, reduced to its fundamentals. And so on and on we go."
Rob Henderson on X - "A truly shocking finding: Graduates of top medical schools are the most likely to support vague notions of "social justice," and the least likely to actually work in socioeconomically deprived areas."
Basil the Great on X - "π¨"I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY OUR ESTABLISHMENT IS SO KEEN TO PROTECT ISLAM?" - Rupert Lowe poses the question we need to answer Does Islam receive special protections in our society?"
Islamophobia!
Criticising religion should be exempt from harassment laws, say MPs - "The Freedom of Expression (Religion or Belief System) Bill would make clear that the provision of the Public Order Act does not apply in the case of “discussion, criticism or expressions of antipathy, dislike, ridicule, insult or abuse of particular religions or the beliefs or practices of their adherents”... Timothy said: “The Public Order Act is increasingly being used as a blasphemy law to protect Islam from criticism. The act was never intended to do this. Parliament never voted for this, and the British people do not want it. “To use the Public Order Act in this way is especially perverse, since it makes a protester accountable for the actions of those who respond with violence to criticism of their faith. This is wrong, and it destroys our freedom of speech...
England and Wales abolished blasphemy laws in 2008, and Scotland in 2021. Even then, those laws had not been used for decades. The last blasphemy trial took place in 1977, and the state has not brought a public prosecution for blasphemy for more than a century. However, blasphemy laws are back. In February last year, Martin Frost — suffering from poor mental health following the death of his daughter in Gaza — burnt a Quran outside the memorial for the Manchester Arena bombing victims. He will be tried later this year after being charged under the Public Order Act. And, last week, Hamit Coskun was found guilty of public order offences after burning a Quran and shouting “f*** Islam” outside the Turkish consulate in London. There he was attacked by two men: spat upon, kicked and allegedly slashed with a knife. Those men await their trial, but as Coskun was prosecuted, the judge said that his guilt was proved by the fact that he had been “assaulted by two different people”. Some say that public order offences are not the same as a blasphemy law, but the Crown Prosecution Service gave the game away when it first sought to prosecute Coskun for causing “distress” to “the religious institution of Islam”. Using the Public Order Act in this way destroys our freedom of speech. And it twists the law to make a protester responsible for the violent reaction of those who will not tolerate criticism of their belief. Some argue that while this may be regrettable, it is now an unavoidable consequence of the multicultural society in which we live today. By this logic, the state must police the boundaries between different ethnic and religious groups to avoid violence and disorder. We should, however, be clear that this means state intrusion and a loss of liberty on some occasions, and mob rule on others. This is the very essence of the two-tier policing row: rough justice for those belonging to identity groups that play nicely, and no justice for those who belong to groups willing to take to the streets and threaten violence. The judge in the Coskun case admitted this. He found him guilty because of the violent reaction of those offended by his actions. From Rushdie to the teacher from Batley still in hiding with his family, the threat of violence lies behind our new blasphemy laws. However, appeasing the mob never works. If we allow threats and violence to succeed, more threats and violence will follow until the mob gets its way and imposes its beliefs and culture even more emphatically on the rest of us. "
When Racism is Disguised as Anti-Racism - "I attended an event titled, “Students of Color Speak Out.”... I listened to students detail their daily trauma of existing on a campus that was majority white. Students representing many ethnicities repeatedly shared feeling unsafe. I was confounded because their anecdotes spoke of an experience that sounded similar to those who lived in apartheid-era South Africa or Jim Crow Mississippi — not something I remotely recognized in ultra-progressive Portland. Still, I was sympathetic and recognized that my personal experiences may not be shared by others. My optimism was challenged once I began to pick up on the theme connecting the speeches. It was the visibility of white students, or more broadly white people themselves, that made the activist students feel unsafe and unwelcome on campus. One speaker said she feared a white gunman would imminently massacre those in attendance. The language and tone of suspicion of others was jarring to the anti-racist activism I was familiar with in my undergraduate and high school days, which sought to unify diverse students through inclusion. In-between and during speeches, students sprinkled in various chants. What I heard was a siren’s song leading us to a culture of racial division and mistrust. Looking at the event guidelines, I was surprised that white students were explicitly asked to remain silent. Several speakers demanded the president dedicate separate spaces along racial lines in the student union. He later agreed. Even though the event was billed as a day of anti-racism, what I witnessed was, quite frankly, racism. Until that day, I’d never seen people overtly dehumanized and treated as racialized objects – amplified through the use of words like “bodies” to refer to people of color. I left the event wondering if the sum of my worth was on an identity I was born into. Since continuing my education, I’ve come to quickly learn that on campuses today, racism no longer means what I understood it to be all my life. According to critical race theorists, who permeate academe and its administration, racism is not ethnic prejudice and discrimination but rather prejudice and institutional power. Because whites have institutionalized privilege, they say it is impossible for them to be victims of racism... the student paper at Texas State University published an op-ed telling whites, “Your DNA is an abomination.” The opinion columnist opens by saying he has only met a dozen white people in his life that he would consider “decent.” The opinion columnist wrote: “Ontologically speaking, white death will mean liberation for all … accept this death as the first step toward defining yourself as something other than the oppressor.” He goes on to conclude: “Until then, remember this – I hate you because you shouldn’t exist. You are both the dominant apparatus on the planet and the void in which all other cultures, upon meeting you, die.”... In elementary school, I remember when I was taught a valuable lesson on race and identity. One of my teachers pulled out an illustration showing a variety of people engage in various occupations. “What do you see?” she asked us, pointing to a person with a stethoscope. I raised my hand and said: “a black man.” She told me to try again. “Doctor,” I eventually replied. She smiled with a nod. If that lesson was repeated again today, I’m not sure my second answer would be accepted."
From 2017. Good luck if "minorities" existing makes you feel unsafe or unwelcome
