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Join Jim and Greg as they welcome Sen. Joe Manchin joining Sen. Sinema in refusing to end or reform the filibuster and hope he means it this time. They also shake their heads as another scandal emerges involving New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, this time that they kept track of all nursing home-related COVID deaths but did not report them all. And they sigh as Virginia Dems flock to once-disgraced Gov. Ralph Northam for endorsements and Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax ludicrously compares himself to George Floyd and Emmett Till.
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Oh come on. Manchin can always decide that weakening the filibuster is not really “weakening the filibuster.” Politicians never seem to have a problem doing things like that.
Depending on which county/city of Virginia you live in, the filing deadline for the convention is in the future. So you can still go to the convention. Check your county/city Republican party web site for details.
The issue is really whether Manchin wants to be re-elected in West Virginia or not. So far, it looks like he is not planning to retire at the end of his current term.
“Blackface“ is another example of how conservatives accept their opponents’ assumptions.
There is nothing inherently racist about wearing dark makeup, or even out-and-out blackface.
I keep thinking of Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer, singing about how a black man loves his mother. Filmed at a time when the Ku Klux Klan had millions of members and owned the Democratic Party in the South, that scene may have saved a few lives.
Judging from the famous picture, Ralph Northam‘s costume party appearance was intended as a comic representation of racial reconciliation, with a black man accompanying a white Klanswoman.
But didn’t Northam claim that he didn’t remember if he was the one in blackface, or the one in the robe?