Virginia governor Northam (D) is toast

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Lifer
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Was born in the early 80s.

Well, there you go. Come to that, your entire country is younger than Halloween.

Pretty sure the 'dressing in costumes related to contemporary celebrities, recent history and shocking news stories' is a fairly recent invention. Not sure how far back it goes though. Be surprised if it goes back any further than the 1950s even in the US. Certainly wasn't the practice in the UK in the 1970s, for example, but since then it's been cribbed from the US.

Like I say, change is bad. Everything was done the optimal way in my youth, dammit.
 

UglyCasanova

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I mean ok maybe it’s changed in the last 30 years, I’m not going all the way back to he advent of Halloween. I’m going back to relevant times. For as long as I remember shocking costumes were a staple of Halloween, primarily for adults but kids to a degree too (like I said I was Bobbit)
 

ch33zw1z

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I’m not saying I disagree with him, I’m saying there are a lot of people that do.

So you're saying there's a whole bunch of illiterate people in our country. gee, i wonder why they were so easy to meme into believing anything.
 

UglyCasanova

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So you're saying there's a whole bunch of illiterate people in our country. gee, i wonder why they were so easy to meme into believing anything.


I’m saying there are a lot of people who are against abortions period. When he said what he did you bet they’re gonna go hysterical. I get what he meant and I don’t disagree (although the recent push for third trimester abortions should be met with pause) but you bet they’ll get pissed. They don’t want abortion period much less after the baby has been delivered.

“So in this particular example if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen, the infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”​
 
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Feels like Franken 2.0. Did something really stupid and terrible a long time ago. Doesn't have much of a history or even remotely modern pattern those views or decision making. But he has to go.
Wow. He was totally Frankened, but I don't see how he could get away with this. There's still a certain kind of Democrat you can find in the South...the kind who had all the trappings of a white privileged Southern upbringing before changing their tune on racial inequality.
I don't know where y'all are getting this idea that Franken was just pushed out over some minor stuff. His behavior was bad and he deserved the boot:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...me-by-an-army-veteran/?utm_term=.d3fe43de8f1c
 

ch33zw1z

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I’m saying there are a lot of people who support abortions period. When he said what he did you bet they’re gonna go hysterical. I get what he meant and I don’t disagree (although the recent push for third trimester abortions should be met with pause) but you bet they’ll get pissed. They don’t want abortion period much less after the baby has been delivered.

“So in this particular example if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen, the infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”​

You're not telling me something I don't know, and they are willingly ignorant. But hey, such is America.
 

SlowSpyder

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1988? Has this man been known to be a racist in his actions, does he have a demonstrated past of such activity? Or is this another example of over-PC liberalism?
 

abj13

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“So in this particular example if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen, the infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”

Nice deceptive quote. Why don't you post the line before he says "this particular example?" He was referring to a very specific situation:

"... and its done in cases where there may be severe deformities. There may be a fetus that’s not viable. So in this particular example, if a mother is in labor..."
 
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UglyCasanova

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I don't know where y'all are getting this idea that Franken was just pushed out over some minor stuff. His behavior was bad and he deserved the boot:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...me-by-an-army-veteran/?utm_term=.d3fe43de8f1c


He’s a comedian that took a frickin picture pretending he was grabbing some boobs. Sorry but that’s not reason to get the boot. Social media is cawusing us to be fragile outraged little snowflakes. People aren’t perfect. Every politician in a Washington has done something at some point. Problem is uh oh now there’s a picture that can be tweeted. Franken should have apologized and that’s it.
 

UglyCasanova

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Nice deceptive quote. Why don't you post the line before he says "this particular example?" He was referring to a very specific situation:

"... and its done in cases where there may be severe deformities. There may be a fetus that’s not viable. So in this particular example, if a mother is in labor..."


I didn’t have the line above it handy but like I said I know what he meant,
 

K1052

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Well it looks like Northam is going to deny that it’s him in that picture and refuse to resign despite calls from basically every Dem and aligned org including his own party in VA who is still demanding his resignation even with this new denial. I uh don’t think this is really tenable for him.
 
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He’s a comedian that took a frickin picture pretending he was grabbing some boobs. Sorry but that’s not reason to get the boot. Social media is cawusing us to be fragile outraged little snowflakes. People aren’t perfect. Every politician in a Washington has done something at some point. Problem is uh oh now there’s a picture that can be tweeted. Franken should have apologized and that’s it.
Hi, my name is UC and I don't know how to read.

He was fucking groping people. I think we can hold our senators to a minimum standard of not being a serial groper.
 
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Well it looks like Northam is going to deny that it’s him in that picture and refuse to resign despite calls from basically every Dem and aligned org including his own party in VA who is still demanding his resignation even with this new denial. I uh don’t think this is really tenable for him.
He’s already said it was, in fact, him and called it racist last night.

“I am deeply sorry for the decision I made to appear as I did in this photo and for the hurt that decision caused then and now,” he said. “This behavior is not in keeping with who I am today and the values I have fought for throughout my career in the military, in medicine, and in public service. But I want to be clear, I understand how this decision shakes Virginians’ faith in that commitment.”
 

HomerJS

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The 80s, a time when it was ok to laugh and be offensive. We live in a boring world of sanitary Halloween and such now
Do we know for sure it was Halloween?

If you think its just the left that gets all PC, just let a picture of Cory Booker surface from a party dressed up an an aborted human fetus
 

Jaskalas

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Nobody will buy it, wrong approach. Just makes him look like a liar. Own it, say it was Halloween, and move on.

Wrong approach, for what exactly?

Nothing he says or does will change this outcome. So... someone has convinced him to make a final stand on deniability. To save as much face as humanly possible. Probably so those that can live with him in that bubble will still speak to him. However small and minuscule that crowd will be.
 

K1052

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This is a difficult thing to effectively unapoligize for.
 

HomerJS

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It's kind of sad that something most thought was funny 35 years ago comes back to haunt him today.
Know any black people who even 35 years ago walking in on that kind of party would find it funny??
 

Atreus21

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Exactly. All those black people need to learn to take a joke. The lynchings and minstrel shows were fuckin funny amiright? KKK all the way mother fuckers!

The KKK has been parodied many, many times in lots and lots of media. The constant pearl clutching is childish.

This guy is an idiot independent of this picture, but it's sad that he is excoriated by democrats while Robert Byrd, an actual leader in the Klan, was exonerated on the basis that he apologized.
 

1prophet

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Still, I don't get it.
WHY is everybody facing the music for what they have done or had said in the past, like this governor Northam and Elizabeth Warren, yet all the while Donald Trump runs amuck?
Is Donald "special" ???
Does Donald have an protective invisible shield surrounding him?
Is it some mass hypnosis?
Witch craft?
Satan?
Why does Donald Trump always get away with a free pass?
After all, Donald has done and said much worse than any of those already dethroned.
The list is endless.

I suggest Northam play the Donald Trump card.
DENY EVERYTHING despite any photos or video.
Label it all FAKE NEWS.
Change the subject.
Release a speech telling his state how incredibly great he is.
Invite Vladimir Putin over for a visit.
Governor..... it would be so easy.
Because Donald Trump was always Donald Trump, perhaps if the democrats paid serious attention to him instead of treating him like a joke candidate during the election campaign maybe he wouldn't be President today or any other day for that matter since you would need no more than a spoon to easily dig up his past.
 
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