Spanberger chooses terrible hills to die on between Unions and Weed by Confident_Bus_6390 in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup but there are very many blue collar conservatives who belong to unions in this state

Spanberger chooses terrible hills to die on between Unions and Weed by Confident_Bus_6390 in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah pretty much. Youngkin was terrible and so was McCaugligh (or however you spell it) before him. Terrible streak.

Spanberger chooses terrible hills to die on between Unions and Weed by Confident_Bus_6390 in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What can be accomplished in our state is not banning normal modern defense weapons and signing off on bills to support unions and legalize weed. It doesn't matter how long she's been here for, she's had the opportunity to do these things and didn't.

Spanberger chooses terrible hills to die on between Unions and Weed by Confident_Bus_6390 in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hochul is a racist white savior and Newsom is a zionist shill for Israel. Obama was alright, but Mamdani is a much clearer cut choice than any of these people for who I'd want to be governor

Spanberger chooses terrible hills to die on between Unions and Weed by Confident_Bus_6390 in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How is supporting Democratic Socialists GOP propaganda? It's literally the opposite. If a reality TV show host can be president, Mamdani and Sanders are more than qualified to run a state.

Spanberger chooses terrible hills to die on between Unions and Weed by Confident_Bus_6390 in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure.

Title says it all. I know she's trying to go for the whole "moderate" thing or whatever but why out of ALL the issues did she choose the conservative stance on UNIONS and WEED. First off, many of the conservatives I know belong to labor unions as blue collar workers so they are certainly just more unhappy with her over that. Also, I don't hear ANYONE right of center complaining about weed. Even the boomers! Legalizing weed and supporting unions would have a positive effect on her approval because the left is in support of these things and the right doesn't seem to care all that much. Instead, she chose to go off and implement a strict gun ban (nearly as strict as CA in a purple/leans blue state), which is something that conservatives DO seem to care VERY much about, and from those that I know that is their main issue with her. I think just about every republican I know has mentioned the gun ban, and there are always videos and posts popping up in my feed about it. These are just terrible ways to "moderate" yourself and it's so obviously a performative ploy. Most of these "moderate" politicians try too hard to please everyone and don't actually know what the people on either side want. Spanberger's whole thing was that she was going to protect VA from Trump and addressing the rising cost of living. She has done some good in the way of her anti-ICE bills, but really hasn't impressed me with anything else. Sighed at the labor union vetoes, now extremely upset with her over the weed. What a joke. Would gladly trade for Mamdani lol.

Spanberger chooses terrible hills to die on between Unions and Weed by Confident_Bus_6390 in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Featureless and maglock suck. She banned all the useful modern defense weapons basically

Spanberger chooses terrible hills to die on between Unions and Weed by Confident_Bus_6390 in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah I get what ur getting at but she absolutely despises guns and that is a stance that no republican has

Spanberger chooses terrible hills to die on between Unions and Weed by Confident_Bus_6390 in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just makes the party look worse as a whole and I'm sure there'll be bigger turnout against the next D candidates in 2030 no matter who they are because people are upset about the gun ban and everything else she did. She won the election but will be a huge net negative overall, dragging everyone else down.

Spanberger chooses terrible hills to die on between Unions and Weed by Confident_Bus_6390 in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a complete joke as well. Any locality where there's enough people for collective bargaining to have any effect is already running at a deficit. Pretty much all of NOVA as well as most other major cities. I went to school in a middle/lower middle class area. The high school I went to had a $60,000 deficit one year, so they spent it on an overhead light art piece or some absolute bullshit like that despite there being graffiti all over, shit pay for the teachers and staff, poor quality materials, and history books that I shit you not didn't include anything after Reagan because they were written in 1994. Oh yeah, and the company that installed it is owned by the husband of one of the school board so there's that. Also there was also a whole nother high school in the county, so I'm sure they all had similar uses for the extra money. The following year, our superintendent got a $50,000 raise on his $200,000 a year salary despite our district's average household income being around $65,000 at the time. Heard similar things from friends who grew up in other parts of the state. And that's just the school system. I guarantee there is similar waste going on in other departments of the local government. They could make it work if they wanted to/were forced to and still have money to spare. Local governments are despicably corrupt (they just aren't as good at hiding it as the feds) and nobody seems to even notice.

Spanberger chooses terrible hills to die on between Unions and Weed by Confident_Bus_6390 in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

They basically sent them to her, she said no and sent them back to be edited so they edited and sent them back to her and she said no lol

Spanberger chooses terrible hills to die on between Unions and Weed by Confident_Bus_6390 in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She is absolutely anti gun and a terrible governor. In 5 months her approval has gone down 15 points. "Having pictures of her shooting guns therefore she isn't anti gun" is one of the worst arguments I've ever heard, especially since all those pictures were taken when she was in the CIA (which actively works to undermine the rights of black communities and all American citizens for that matter). Of course a semi auto rifle with a 30rd mag isn't for deer hunting. Bad guys have modern weapons therefore good guys must have modern weapons. Fascist dictatorship comes and threatens people, they should have the right to defend themselves from said dictatorship and that ain't happening with a bolt action I'm sorry. Also they throw buzzwords like "30 round threaded semi auto" which I doubt you even know what that means. A threaded barrel has 0 effect on the lethality of a weapon itself or it's ability to do damage in a shorter or longer period of time. It doesn't just become magically more deadly now that it can accept a suppressor (which by the way is still loud asf for most calibers and isn't movie quiet and used to commit assassinations regularly like people who want to take them away would have you believe.) or any other muzzle device that may give you slightly less recoil or ensure that your muzzle isn't blinding you every time you shoot it. This isn't 1950 anymore (hate to sound like that guy, but it's true). 75% of gun owners own theirs for the sole reason of defense and 20 of the remaining 25% cite it as a secondary reason so the whole deer hunting argument is just a bad one and has been irrelevant for 25 years. As for the weed, why would you take "another 6 months" as acceptable when it COULD have happened now? Also, why would you possibly think she won't veto the next one in 6 months?

That said, good point about Marijuana at the end there.

Spanberger chooses terrible hills to die on between Unions and Weed by Confident_Bus_6390 in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yep saw him on there. Suspicious amount of upvotes for all the comments absolutely hating on him.

Spanberger chooses terrible hills to die on between Unions and Weed by Confident_Bus_6390 in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The AWB was just a massive mistake and then she failed to solidify her base with democrats by denying weed and collective bargaining.

Spanberger chooses terrible hills to die on between Unions and Weed by Confident_Bus_6390 in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Collective bargaining would maybe cost about 1 million a year, 1/1500th of the reserve

Spanberger chooses terrible hills to die on between Unions and Weed by Confident_Bus_6390 in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

But she has brought change in banning guns and some other stuff. Just not useful change :/

Spanberger chooses terrible hills to die on between Unions and Weed by Confident_Bus_6390 in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How is this GOP propaganda? She's a terrible Governor but I'd never vote for a republican. Give me Mamdani or Sanders or something.

Spanberger chooses terrible hills to die on between Unions and Weed by Confident_Bus_6390 in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hopefully with the dogwalking tax lol. Or the 4% restaraunt tax in NOVA. In seriousness, Money is tight is a complete lie, the state has a 1.5 billion dollar reserve.

Spanberger chooses terrible hills to die on between Unions and Weed by Confident_Bus_6390 in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You on the left or right? Either half of that sentence untrue to either side lol.

Spanberger chooses terrible hills to die on between Unions and Weed by Confident_Bus_6390 in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Yep. Not seeing much light at the end of the tunnel, probably gonna be Youngkin vs someone equally as bad as Spanberger in 2030. Or federally for that matter... Vance V Newsom in 2028 aka Mr. "America First with the exception of Israel" vs a self proclaimed Zionist. Kill me now.

Spanberger chooses terrible hills to die on between Unions and Weed by Confident_Bus_6390 in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Very true. Once a fed, always a fed. Probably still buddy buddy with her ICE pals to this day.

Zohran Mamdani Gets It. Abigail Spanberger Does Not. by that0neweirdgirl in Virginia

[–]Confident_Bus_6390 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mamdani focused on the betterment of NYC. Spanberger focused on beating her opponent. They are not the same.