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b-boy bouiebaisse@jbouie.bsky.social |
it is very funny that this piece is a detailed examination of glenn youngkin’s (not particularly hard to predict) failure as governor that pivots, halfway, into arguing that he is still a rare political talent. well, if true, he wouldn’t be a lame duck with a year and some change left in his term!
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Sysfin
@sysfin.bsky.social
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I do find it pretty tedious/comical how far some writers go to not update their priors.
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@LuLuRoche
@luluroche.bsky.social
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What happened to politico
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Peter
@cgblue.bsky.social
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He is a racist SOB who hides what he really is
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tara 🏖️
@magnolia2010.bsky.social
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it never stops being deeply satisfying that he was handed his actual ass by louise lucas, who has more style and talent in her little pinky nail than the entire VAGOP combined. they didn't believe a black woman was a worthy adversary, and they learned.
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Dan Houston
@johnbrownwasright.bsky.social
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He has a nice sweatervest. That nears he is "reasonable " or something something reasons.
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Joan Wendland
@bandcgames.bsky.social
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That's what happens when you get elected to fix a problem that you made up and doesn't exist. Very hard to show you've accomplished anything.
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King of Trains.
@exoid.bsky.social
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Considering that Virginia os becoming a blue state in presidential elections with a purple congress and red governor, my question is who the Democrats will run against Glenn? A major reason why Glenn won was the dems campaign focused on Glenn’s association with Trump more than his bad policy.
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comfortably_dumb
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Glenn Youngkin's talent was being two faced to former bush voting suburbanites that he was a return to "normal" gop politics they remember.
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Dessel
@dessel.bsky.social
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youngkin is the latest in a bipartisan line of ppl looking at a campaign and <2 years in office and going “yeah that guy could be president”
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Redir
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I call him Glenn Trumpkin. A buddy of mine met him in a diner when he just began running and said he was one of the dumber persons he's ever talked to.
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Mitch Solomon
@mitchsolomon.bsky.social
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Like the great romantics of the past, Politico loves the norms that they live to destroy, never finding satisfaction and writing indulgent paeans to an audience of fellow navel gazers
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Lee Rowan
@leerowan.bsky.social
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What happened to him? He was born a Republican or brought into the cult.
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That’s Too Much, Colby
@thatstoomuchcolby.bsky.social
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More people shoulda paid attention to his circumstances. Elected against a weak opponent in a backlash, and always having to deal with an opposition legislature uninterested in giving him wins.
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a bloo
@vlime286.bsky.social
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The Mid Atlantic DeSantis.
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whet moser
@whet.bsky.social
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my early read on him as "evangelical bruce rauner" has held up
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Travis Rosen
@trosen76.bsky.social
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Youngkin is a prime example of how so many voters really know nothing. He was portrayed as a "moderate" so people assumed he was despite the fact his platform was clearly hard right, incompatible with where VA is now.
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Jamin
@mackray.bsky.social
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“LoSt HiS wAy”
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En Buen Ora
@enbuenora.bsky.social
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absolutely wonderful that Youngkin's election was seized upon as the true political sign that maybe no public health policies should ever have been done about COVID-19 and time to stop doing any of them
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Chris B
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You absolutely can't overstate how poorly he's done the actual job of governor, not merely in failing to work with Dems in the Assembly, but failing to even coordinate with House & Senate Republicans. "Business success" is poor preparation for the work of governing. And it was so easy to see coming!
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Marvin M
@marvinm.bsky.social
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1. He sucks. 2. He never recovered from the dick punch by Lucas over Cap/Wiz stadium deal.
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Charlie Luband
@cluband.bsky.social
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Not disputing substance, but doesn’t Virginia have a prohibition on successive terms by a governor? So he was always going to be a lame duck.
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Darth J.D.
@starklyjd.bsky.social
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Honestly I live in the state and I couldn’t tell you much about him politically. He’s just such a non-entity. Of course all I remember about his campaign is that he ran on making schools worse so… it wasn’t like he was some amazing presence to begin with.
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer
@rickywlmsbong.bsky.social
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he wears sweater vests, he can’t be a comical failure
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SC Prince of Tides
@sctideprince.bsky.social
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The electorate could see right thru his red fleece vest to the brown shirt underneath
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Quasi Gentrified
@quasigentrified.bsky.social
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color me shalllow but what's the chance many of these talents suddenly find monied devils at the crossroads of their initial careers
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@ljevans.bsky.social
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Glenn Youngkin's sole appeal is that he wore a fleece vest, and that was not all that appealing.
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JNoodles
@jnoodles24.bsky.social
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Horserace narrative uber alles.
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Julie - TrexPushups
@trexpushups.bsky.social
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I'm convinced that people seeing talent in Youngkin simply hate trans people and want to reward him for attacking/hurting us.
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Ed Burmila
@edburmila.bsky.social
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There definition of political talent is how well someone can manipulate the media narrative around them. Winning elections and enacting in agenda don’t really matter except to us unsophisticated types.
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Justin Noormand
@justin-noormand.bsky.social
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Good at winning elections, bad at governing. Not exactly a rare political talent.
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Steve
@snark.bsky.social
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Jonathan Martin talking about the political talents of a generic Republican daddy?!?
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that Otter Sarah
@simsarah.bsky.social
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He sure has done a ton of damage n his failure though.
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Linguiça May Alcott🇺🇦
@silkscreenfiend.bsky.social
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My read was that he took advantage of the normal pendulum, which would then have brought the GOP back to full power in Congress in '22 were it not for them coming out en masse as bugfuck crazy. So Youngkin is left there as the one successful pushback guy, even though he's a bland mediocrity.
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Elliot Ghoul
@elliotghoul.bsky.social
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Being universally hated is its own reward
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Larry Wolfarth
@infoshaman.bsky.social
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"The donor class loves him.” It loved the fuzzy sweater vest and regressive policies.
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bumpin that (x8)
@usspcrichardandson.bsky.social
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personally I'm happy that the GOP donor class remains infatuated with a politician stupid enough to make 2023 a referendum on his proposed abortion ban
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Michael Mouse
@cinemichael.bsky.social
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Speak softly and wear a nice sweater vest.
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Jennifer Petitt
@jenniferpetitt.bsky.social
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He’s so terrible at being governor and a politician. I keep coming back to the Potomac Yards fiasco. He and his people weren’t smart enough to have the incoming Senate finance chair in the big initial meeting. It was dead from that moment and he had no idea.
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wishda
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Youngkin won because he convinced white liberal suburbanites that the schools were too woke. The crazies descended on their schools, and now they got what they asked for good and hard. That particular trick is not going to work again, and Youngkin doesn’t have another one.
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empty seats can't melt supreme court justices
@emptyjetseatbribes.bsky.social
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this is terrible writing lmao. business people are more used to being courted and solving everything with money or lawyers. no matter how many times they claim they will run government well they don't. it's like democratic party running troops. it's the old playbook even though it barely works.
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the sixers worrier
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the problem with youngkin is that he has not been openly and proudly racist and xenophobic enough. hard to book conservative media appearances if you're just a goofy looking bastard wearing a vest during a heatwave in June.
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Adeyinka Young
@jonswift.bsky.social
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He ran on wokeness (a term he can’t define) and Critical Race Theory (that he probably heard of 5 minutes before he ran). Well, that wore off and he’s been losing since.
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I am Jack's Cellphone
@jackscellphone.bsky.social
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“I bet they see her a** now” 👍
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Mother of a Ginger Claire ⚾️🪡🧵🧶
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Harrumph! Youngkin didn’t bother to engage with local officials on the arena deal. He is not a nice guy. He’s a fox on fleece clothing, albeit not a very clever one
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Mother of a Ginger Claire ⚾️🪡🧵🧶
@bethrich52.bsky.social
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When was he ever the “pragmatic governor”?
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Joshua Erlich
@joshuaerlich.bsky.social
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the youngkin wish wishcasting from this set is impervious to new information
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Oh, the Inanity
@jmcrowell.bsky.social
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Less a rare political talent and more the beneficiary of a good campaign against a not-well-liked former governor during a low-turnout election.
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@balzac.bsky.social
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After the election, POLITCO interviewed two of the people who ran his campaign. They listed every point where (they felt) Terry McAuliffe had screwed up, and how they had reined Youngkin in, to woo voters. I remember thinking he wouldn't survive without those handlers. He didn't.
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Jennifer Van Goethem
@jennvg.bsky.social
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Cannot adjust priors.
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MaggieKat
@maggiekat.bsky.social
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Everything about Virginia was looking like Virginia was about to take off and zoom to the front of the class in so many areas - there seemed so much hope & energy and then Youngkin happened so disappointed
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SⓐS🈂️ⓐ
@midnightblau.bsky.social
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Remember when his underage son tried to vote and was turned away, then went to another loc. and tried to vote again? In EVERY election, it seems Republicans are who predominantly chad, oops, I mean cheat. 🗳️
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Albert Burneko
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pretty amazing the credit bog-standard conservative chuds can get from the legacy media for simply having run against the most despised politicians in North America
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Jorvorskie Layne's
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His only real campaign issue (school closure backlash) became obsolete right after he got elected. There, I solved the problem Politico
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