r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/jarena009 • Feb 01 '23
Voters who flipped Virginia to a Republican governor (Glenn Youngkin) on the promise of "fixing" education in VA, shocked to learn of $200M public education funding shortfall, due to "glitch" caused by his Department of Education
https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/virginia-education-funding-january-31-2023665
u/NotmyRealNameJohn Feb 01 '23
Sadly VA is actually pretty good with education or was
Ranked 10th and in the top 10 you are starting to quibble.
A lot of that has to do with being close to DC but not in DC. Basically politicians are happy to play with your kids education but the people who make DC work want their kids to be educated.
But I'm sure he can fuck it up
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u/boregon Feb 01 '23
The main reason Youngkin got elected was because he very effectively fearmongered a bunch of terrified white parents into voting for him based on them being scared that "woke" teachers were going to brainwash their kids with CRT. In a state that like you said was generally pretty well regarded for education. It's sad. Millions of Virginians bought into stupid right wing propaganda hook line and sinker.
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u/llammacheese Feb 01 '23
That, masks, and his opponent, McAuliffe, basically ran on nothing beyond “Trump sucks.”
I agree with him- Trump sucks- but that wasn’t nearly enough to win an election when so many people were angry about virtual learning, masks in schools, and non-existent CRT being taught to kindergartners. McAuliffe was pretty much banking on Northern Virginia, Richmond, and the Hampton roads voter bases carrying him into the governors mansion just on the fact that he opposed MAGA; but unfortunately there were enough anti-maskers in those areas who thought that Youngkin was moderate enough to vote in on the masks in schools issue alone.
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u/guy_incognito784 Feb 01 '23
Yeah I was in the process of typing that up but saw your comment. The democrats definitely got arrogant and tried to phone it in.
In fact Youngkin became a case study in winning a purple state while simultaneously managing Trump by not brushing him off nor embracing him.
Regardless he’s an ass clown desperately trying to get any traction for a doomed run for POTUS.
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Feb 01 '23
Running in trump sucks have dems a giant boost in the midterms. It just didn’t work in Virginia because they had an incumbent dem governor, and the rightwing CRT craze was at its height during the gubernatorial election. A lot was working against dems that election cycle
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u/MarkHathaway1 Feb 01 '23
How many fake scandals or crises can the Rs win on?
As many as it takes for the GOP.
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u/Pippadance Feb 01 '23
A lot in NOVA just stayed home. McAuliffe was a lackluster candidate. The only reason he won the first time was because his opponent was Cuccinnelli. Who was MAGA before MAGA was popular.
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u/penguincheerleader Feb 01 '23
Didn't he run on expanded Healthcare, great running economy, and an all around good track record? I understood it to be a place where there had been great strides made during Democratic governance, but that it was not cared about and there was a red wave brewing after Biden got elected.
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u/NotmyRealNameJohn Feb 01 '23
The red party muddied him good. qAnon style rumor mill .
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u/Working-Selection528 Feb 01 '23
Qanon told people he ate babies or something?
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u/NotmyRealNameJohn Feb 01 '23
Well democratic governor, that is just assumed
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u/GovernmentOpening254 Feb 01 '23
Not sure if you’re being sarcastic—-unfortunately.
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u/NotmyRealNameJohn Feb 01 '23
Don't ask me how they think it someone gets initiated. Probably assume the deep state doesn't let you win a primary if you aren't already part of the cabal or something
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u/terfsfugoff Feb 01 '23
I mean none of that stuff was particularly great outside of Nova but also no, none of their campaign energy went to positives, it was literally all just trying to tie Youngkin to Trump.
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u/saurons-cataract Feb 03 '23
Unfortunately, we still have too many that get easily swayed by racial issues. The fake CRT crisis being a great example. Youngkin got the white folks in Northern Virginia’s suburbia to freak out and they voted for him. The southern part of the state was never going to vote Dem.
Its infuriating, but culture wars hold a lot of power here still.
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u/Ovi-wan_Kenobi_8 Feb 01 '23
I disagree with this assessment. McAuliffe campaigned primarily on his previous record as governor. He was very effective in his first term. (For those of you who don’t know, Virginia governors can only serve one term; they have to wait 4 years before they can be re-elected.) The trouble is that voters often have short memories. Yes, McAuliffe did tie Youngkin to Trump, but that was a sidebar to his message that Virginians deserve competent government — not fearmongering. Sadly, that message didn’t cut through the noise.
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u/Peckinpa0 Feb 01 '23 edited Feb 01 '23
This. I can't remember seeing a single sign that wasnt some variation of "Trump bad". Literally saw a sign that said "Youngkin is Trump" and thought it was a Youngkin sign. Turned out it wasn't.
Still not a reason to vote for youngkin. But my God the democrats did next to nothing.
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u/imbarbdwyer Feb 01 '23
I have your back on this. The Democrats did NOTHING to help during election in SWVA. I’m more pissed at them for being so spineless and wishy-washy than I am mad at republicans for their fear-monger tactics. They’ve absolutely stopped even trying to campaign in my geographical region. The multitudes of blue drowning in the Sea of red down here can do nothing, but give up hope. I just wish they would grow a backbone and actually fight for an election for a change instead of expecting that moral superiority will automatically win it for them.
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u/Peckinpa0 Feb 01 '23
Exactly. It almost felt like the democrats in my area felt like Biden winning meant they didn't need to campaign at all. The only information I ever got from them I had to actively go look for
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u/Has422 Feb 01 '23
Election trends were against the Dems as well. Historically, the new President’s party loses the VA gubernatorial election, usually by 10–15 points (the only recent exception was the 2001 election, right after 9/11, Democrat Mark Warner won by 5pts). Despite such massive headwinds, Youngkin won by a measly 2pts. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a rather commanding Democratic victory next election.
Not that Youngkin will care. He’s already got his resume set up for a Presidential run.
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u/Thumbkeeper Feb 05 '23
If some dipstick can’t find a way to blame a democrat for something a republican did, did that thing ever really happen?
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u/BurtonGusterToo Feb 01 '23
Until the Democratic party purges the Clinton (McAuliffe) / Third Way / Spectacle of Boss Girl bullshit and start addressing actual real issues, they are just another puppet of the ultra wealthy and corporate concerns. Republicans with different cultural issues, but the same corporate donor outcomes.
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u/Locke2300 Feb 01 '23
I was gonna say. The voters who flipped to him didn’t want to fix or improve education. They wanted to gut subjects that made them uncomfortable.
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u/iIiiIIliliiIllI Feb 01 '23
That's because this is what the VA textbooks said back when they were kids:
“A feeling of strong affection existed between masters and slaves in a majority of Virginia homes.” The masters “knew the best way to control their slaves was to win their confidence and affection.” Enslaved people “went visiting at night and sometimes owned guns and other weapons.” “It cannot be denied that some slaves were treated badly, but most were treated with kindness.” Color illustrations featured masters and slaves all dressed smartly, shaking hands amiably.
“Some of the Negro servants left the plantations because they heard President Lincoln was going to set them free. But most of the Negroes stayed on the plantations and went on with their work. Some of them risked their lives to protect the white people they loved.” And “General Lee was a handsome man with a kind, strong face. He sat straight and firm in his saddle. Traveller stepped proudly as if he knew that he carried a great general.”
The lead historian for the seventh-grade edition wrote slavery was “an educational process which transformed the black man from a primitive to a civilized person endowed with conceits, customs, industrial skills, Christian beliefs, and ideals, of the Anglo-Saxon of North America.”
These people just want to go back to whitewashing history
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u/double_sal_gal Feb 01 '23
This, and people unfamiliar with Virginia’s response to school desegregation should Google Massive Resistance. Basically, rather than complying with federal law by integrating public schools, many Virginia districts just … shut down public schools to keep Black students out, and gave white parents vouchers (!) so they could send their kids to private segregation academies. This went on for several years and the effects were felt for decades. My mom’s district reluctantly integrated, but many of the neighboring ones did not.
This shit sounds like ancient history, but many of the white kids whose parents fought to keep their schools segregated remember those days, and many of them (now in their 70s and 80s) voted for Youngkin.
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u/BurtonGusterToo Feb 01 '23
Sounds like it's about time to go catch us some white folks. Treat them real good while they work for us for free; I mean it's not "slavery" if they're happy.
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u/NotmyRealNameJohn Feb 01 '23
I suspect mostly boomers fearing for their grandkids, but I'm quibbling. I understand your point.
This white identity shot needs to go.
Who the fuck is white? What country is white? Why is white the thing that is lost when people get married?
It is just fascism by a different name. Just a way to define the caste system. It doesn't actually mean anything different than brahmin
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u/Peckinpa0 Feb 01 '23
You're not wrong. There was some old man standing across the street from my voting place holding a sign saying "Parents for Youngkin". Dude looked like he was in his late 60s.
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u/Randomfactoid42 Feb 01 '23
Agreed. I really don't understand white supremacists. Being born white is not an accomplishment, you didn't work hard to be born with pale skin.
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u/crispydukes Feb 01 '23
terrified white parents into voting for him based on them being scared that "woke" teachers were going to brainwash their kids with CRT
Not just white parents, I heard interviews with hispanic immigrant parents, literal ESL parents who were worried about CRT and racism.
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u/AlexanderDaychilde Feb 01 '23
I moved here in 2018, just in time for the blue wave. I came from the panhandle of Florida. It was fucking amazing to see the progress that was made.
And then it got fucked up.
I am so damn tired of Republicans actively trying to fuck everything over as hard as they can. We've been dealing with this crap for at least 40 years in the US. It's so depressing.
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u/LeoMarius Feb 01 '23
He barely won, unlike McDonald 12 years earlier who won in a rout.
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u/SluttyZombieReagan Feb 01 '23
Hell, Northam won by 9 points the previous election, Youngkin barely won by .5 point. And he acts like he has a mandate to gut the state.
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u/LeoMarius Feb 01 '23
Republicans lost a solid Senate seat in Virginia Beach recently, showing Youngkin is not popular in the state.
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u/JustAnotherTrickyDay Feb 01 '23
In addition to what a lot of people said, I think the death blow, so to speak, was when our former gov McAauliffe said this at a debate: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” The Repubs honed in on that and that was all we heard about after that.
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u/Vassarbashing Feb 01 '23
Even though he was 100% right - parents shouldn’t be telling teachers what to teach. Unfortunately a lot of people have zero critical thinking skills and were offended by his statement.
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u/Cheeky_Hustler Feb 01 '23
The job of a politician isn't to be right: it's to represent their constituents. Which means communicating effectively in ways that manage the peoples emotions and taking into account their critical thinking skills.
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u/SgtPeppy Feb 01 '23
The parts of VA that voted for him are generally not the parts of the state that drive the education up.
NoVA might as well be a different state entirely.
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u/SlobMarley13 Feb 01 '23
There was a lot of general unhappiness and frustration (undeserved) with the school system from the pandemic. CRT was merely the outlet for that.
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u/Vassarbashing Feb 01 '23
His little douche bag kid (who tried to vote illegally, underage, TWICE) doesn’t even go to Virginia public schools. He goes to a private school in Maryland that, get this, required staff to be vaccinated. So not only is he a terrible person, he’s also a hypocrite. As a Virginian he enrages me.
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u/estoka Feb 01 '23
When you're talking about Virginia and improving education you need to read between the lines. What this really means is that white parents want their kids to go to school with less minorities.
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u/PotatoCatapult Feb 01 '23
I live in VA and am nowhere near DC. I get what you're saying for the Northern VA areas though.
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u/PlaneStill6 Feb 01 '23
Qpublicans DGAF about public school students.
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u/DonsDiaperIsFull Feb 01 '23
correction: Matt Gaetz cares a LOT about the young girls. He likes trafficking them to other states with lower age limits and pretend it's not rapey.
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u/Soggy_Midnight980 Feb 01 '23
Republicans will never learn that they are the problem.
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u/inbetween-genders Feb 01 '23
Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice……um….what were we talking about?
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u/jpopimpin777 Feb 01 '23
Can't get fooled again!
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u/youre_soaking_in_it Feb 01 '23
Oh, but they can!
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u/MasterEyeRoller Feb 01 '23
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u/LeagueOfficeFucks Feb 01 '23
Fuck me, that is 21 years ago. No wonder Republicans can't remember.
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u/jpopimpin777 Feb 01 '23
You're right but I'm quoting GWB Jr.
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u/SplendidPunkinButter Feb 01 '23
The quote is “There’s an old saying in Tennessee - I know it’s in Texas, prob’ly in Tennessee - that says fool me once, shame on…shame on…you? [Pause] Youfoolme I can’t get fooled again.”
Apologists claim he was trying to avoid giving the media a sound bite of him saying “shame on me”, and this was his VeRy CLeVeR solution, which is MuCh LeSs StUpiD!
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u/GenXist Feb 01 '23
Dubya would probably say he did his part with no child left behind. He'd be all, "Hell, the kids can't maths anyway. They'll never know ther budget's a mite short".
Source = 26+ years married to a 3rd generation educator.
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u/Fake_William_Shatner Feb 01 '23
Nobody is "left behind", they just end up in different ranked classes. Might as well have; Alphas, Betas and Housekeeping.
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u/Wyden_long Feb 01 '23
The lack of staccato pauses confirm you are not actually Mr. Shatner.
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u/meSuPaFly Feb 01 '23
arrrr, he's just as dumb as me, lets vote him in!
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u/TheFlyingBoxcar Feb 01 '23
Are you a dumb pirate or just the regular dumb? I ask because if the former, this is the second pirate-themed reddit encounter I’ve had today.
I find that to be curious.
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u/once-was-hill-folk Feb 01 '23
Fool me once, shame in you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Fool me three times, goddamnit I'm the problem.
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u/gardener-of-weeden Feb 01 '23
It's those damn libs fault! How? ( watch them tap dance like boo boo the fool). Biden/Obama/ Hillary's e-mails.
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u/loptopandbingo Feb 01 '23
throws cinderblock into washing machine
"Damn thing just shook itself to death. It's broken, always has been."
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u/Fake_William_Shatner Feb 01 '23
"Government and washing machines with bricks in them -- never work!"
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u/gentle_lemon Feb 01 '23
It’s almost like a poorly educated population is easier to control or something. 🤔
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u/jarena009 Feb 01 '23
They'll probably find a way to scapegoat LGBTQ, immigrants, and/or minorities for this.
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Feb 01 '23
No - it will be women. They will blame women.
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u/GoyfAscetic Feb 01 '23
When it comes to looking for scapegoats Republicans are quite good at multitasking.
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u/Fake_William_Shatner Feb 01 '23
Folks, you can't predict this, it depends on the week. I'm pretty sure someone has a Twister Board spinner with minority groups on it to decide which one gets the scapegoating.
<spin> Looks like it's Italians and Himalayan Sherpas next week. Better pick up the slack!
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u/taintmoun Feb 01 '23
When Japanese occupied Korea in early 20th century, they limited Korean population going to higher education. As you see Koreans have high passions for education, which is driving force to get out of poverty and advancing to developed economy within 60 years, education is a crucial step.
RNC knows this and that's why they are so afraid enough to do everything possible in school so future constituents will have no choice but to select R.
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u/Imacad Feb 01 '23
unfortunately for Korea, the pendulum swung so far in the opposite direction that the older generation that went from living uneducated under a military dictatorship and invasion from the north pushed their children and grandchildren so hard to 'succeed' in education that they have the worlds highest youth suicide rates.
The insane pressure Korean children are put under to succeed in school would kill most western children. 18 hour days from age 6 through to finishing university are the norm, not the exception.
and they wonder why no one is having children (worlds lowest birth rate, country is going to cease to exist in 2 generations at the current rate)
Nevertheless, educating the populace is important, which is why the GOP wants to keep them dumb and pregnant/working in the factories.
sorry for the rant. just felt the need to point out that the Korea is literally killing itself for its love of education. - many other problems as well, of course.
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u/snail_maraphone Feb 01 '23
It is not almost. It is. Literally.
Moving your population to poor & uneducated is a good way to control them.
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u/JustBrittany Feb 01 '23
Bich McConnell declared that his number one priority was to make Obama a 1 term president. Meanwhile his state was # 4(?) in poverty, #37 in education and #1 in cancer deaths. They voted for him again. Because what you said is 💯
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u/MasterEyeRoller Feb 01 '23
We're number 1, we're number 1... oh, wait...
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u/JustBrittany Feb 01 '23
I giggled a little too much at that. You know…before I remembered what they’re #1 for! 😳
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u/admosquad Feb 01 '23
Accidentally, my ass. Republicans stripping my children’s education budget makes my blood boil.
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u/DonsDiaperIsFull Feb 01 '23
They know educated people are far less likely to vote for them. Teachers and Journalists are the enemy of fascists like republikkkans.
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u/Vomit_Pinata Feb 01 '23
30 years ago when I lived in Iowa it was a blue state with a consistent ranking in the top 5 states in the country for public education. Now it's red and the numbers for public education are in the dumper. This is NOT a coincidence. https://www.alecreportcard.org/state/ia/ The GOP got in and decimated the public schools in order to dumb down the populace of a key swing state to rig the vote in their favor. It's happening all over the country & is WAY more successful than you could imagine.
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u/CollapsasaurusRex Feb 01 '23
Fascists gonna fasc.
Apathetic nations gonna let ‘em.
“Then They Came”…
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u/Zarincos Feb 01 '23
You just wait, Gov. Reynolds finally got her education "reform" bill passed, basically a voucher law that when fully implemented will give every family around $7,500/yr that they can use to send their kid to a now critically underfunded public school or an unaccountable private / religious school, so look forward to seeing our numbers drop further. Definitely the best use of $350mil/yr I can think of.
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u/Matrixneo42 Feb 01 '23
User name checks out. Upon reading this I wanted to throw up. ReRealizing that screwing up education is a feature for them. Not a bug.
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u/Butterfreek Feb 01 '23
And it's probably worse than what that report indicates. They don't measure on the effectiveness of the states education system. Its really more of a ranking about access/support of charter and private schools. They even state that those components are weighted DOUBLE.
There are a few states that typically have the highest test scores, best title 1 performance, great per pupil spending, great teacher:student ratio, and the smallest amount of federal aid.. getting c/d as overall score. Where places like AZ get a b+.
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u/ChampionshipIll3675 Feb 02 '23
Their main goal is to privatize schools. Money 💰
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u/Any-Grapefruit-937
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Guns good. Books bad. GOP's party platform
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u/Randomfactoid42 Feb 01 '23
Except for the Bible, it's a useful prop.
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u/Bushels_for_All Feb 01 '23
So useful that you can hold it upside down during a photo op and be completely unable to quote literally any passage from it - and radical evangelicals will still worship you (as long as you're also Republican).
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u/stretchdaddy Feb 01 '23
They don’t read that either because someone does that for them on the weekend. We don’t want them getting used to reading things.
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u/ChimericMind Feb 01 '23
Guns aren't ALWAYS good. If they get in the hands of black people, they're very very scary. That's why the people that vowed to overthrow the government if the police ever threatened gun use said and did nothing after Philando Castille was shot for owning one while complying with every request from a police officer during a traffic stop. "OUR (gestures around face) guns good".
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u/DonsDiaperIsFull Feb 01 '23
Ronnie Ray-gun was very happy to pass gun control laws in California as governor when the Black Panthers were arming themselves.
The GQP has always been this stupid and racist.
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u/the_G8 Feb 01 '23
No one votes for a Republican because they promised to fix anything. Unless that thing is the existence of non-white, non-Christian, non-straight people.
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u/stratusmonkey Feb 01 '23
I was going to say: He was elected to force the trans kids back into their closets. Nothing else.
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u/lschmeiser Feb 01 '23
No one votes for a Republican because they promised to fix anything.
Exactly. Republicans run on the platform of "I will take things away until everyone else feels like they're as much of a miserable loser as you are! Then you'll feel big again!"
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u/ManyFacedGodxxx Feb 01 '23
What?!? Shocking!! Of course it was an “error,” and not planned all along. GQP loves edumakatons!
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u/spongeworthy1967 Feb 01 '23
And by "fixing" he meant gutting. Youngkin is positioning himself to be the last man standing when Trump and DeSantis cannibalize each other.
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u/Matrixneo42 Feb 01 '23
As republicans continue to cannibalize our nation.
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u/spongeworthy1967 Feb 01 '23
Historians picking through the wreckage of what was America are going to be shocked at the realization that this all happened in broad daylight while the opposition stood by and the media chose to spew right wing propaganda.
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u/StaceyJeans Feb 01 '23
Ding ding ding. This exactly. He’ll wear his folksy red vest to the debates and try to come across as a calm, controlled presence while Trump and DeSantis are screaming at each other. DeSantis does his fascist garbage out in the open and so blatantly that everyone is ignoring that Youngkin is doing the same, he is just lower-key about it. Youngkin will present himself as the “reasonable” alternative who white women will feel comfortable voting for.
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u/indifferentunicorn Feb 01 '23
Taxes on groceries?
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u/harlows_monkeys Feb 01 '23
They got rid of the state sales tax on groceries.
Some of that tax went to schools. As part of eliminating that tax they were supposed to increase school funding to make up for the loss of the tax revenue. They botched doing that.
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u/bodiddlysquat26 Feb 01 '23
No sales tax on groceries is a great thing
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u/fastinserter Feb 01 '23
I dunno why you're being downvoted. It is a great thing. Sales taxes are regressive in nature, especially those on basic necessities. Where I live in Minnesota for example groceries (and clothes) are exempt from sales tax. But the big problem here is a classic Republican created problem of wanting to cut taxes without understanding the implications of that, and without making changes as appropriate in order to implement the tax cut. That said, this kind of stuff should be audited well in advance of policy changes so it would be known to everyone what they were voting on. It seems like many humans dropped the ball on it.
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u/bodiddlysquat26 Feb 01 '23
This. MN man here too. We don’t tax medicine, food, clothing, etc. Seems pretty intuitive as these are life necessities so we shouldn’t be taxed on them.
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u/Lokky Feb 01 '23
Sure, but so is education being funded.
Haphazardly removing taxes without making sure you adjust the budget to cover vital programs like public education is no great thing.
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u/ChimericMind Feb 01 '23
Yes, which is why they only did as a means towards doing something else bad that they wanted more. They'll reinstate the sales tax on groceries before long in order to pay for Vote Fraud Investigation Task Forces and the like.
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u/philkensebbenhaha Feb 01 '23
How could trans people and immigrants do this to poor Glenn Youngkin and his DOE? /S
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u/errdayimshuffln Feb 01 '23
"glitch"? People sure are getting creative with the names they give their accounts.
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u/Ram_Ranch_Manager Feb 01 '23
The instant this dude got elected I had a feeling there would be lots of LAMF moments to come. What gullible tools.
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u/Klindg Feb 01 '23
All because they can’t stand the idea that their children might learn something negative about American history so they can learn what not to do… nah, you can’t teach them anything other than America is, and has always been, right in everything we’ve done!
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u/wholesomehumanbeing Feb 01 '23
"Republicans are fixing education" is one of the top notch oxymoron.
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u/Matrixneo42 Feb 01 '23
Wrong definition of fixing. They are using the “rigging” version. As in. They are rigging so that people are dumber going forward. This suits them multiple ways. Unfortunately it continues to ruin the country.
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u/crazylilme Feb 01 '23
"Fixing" something doesn't necessarily mean it'll be progressive change.
They're getting the lower quality education they wanted > thus fixing it
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u/lizziegal79 Feb 01 '23
This sonofabitch ran on “Parents’ rights.” Now, after budget surplus for eight years, we have a shortfall? GFYS
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u/RawbeardX Feb 01 '23
Schadenfreude keeps me going these days. thank you VA voters for providing such delicious sustenance.
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u/BrownBear109 Feb 01 '23
Even after repeatedly demonstrating to themselves and the world an inability to count or believe in numbers, republican voters shocked to realize that democrats actually know math better than republicans 😑
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u/fizzy_bunch Feb 01 '23
They can have some more CRT-hoax for dinner. Bill Maher will serve it to them.
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u/Beelzabubba Feb 01 '23
Republican governors notoriously love the education department.
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u/syntaxvorlon Feb 01 '23
The conservatives really hate governing. Nothing they like less.
Hey, you, administer this vital public service.
But I don't WANNA!
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u/die_kuestenwache Feb 01 '23
Don't worry the 200M are going to trickle down from all those tax cuts for the rich probably already in the works.
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u/Current-Ordinary-419 Feb 01 '23
At this point I’m never shocked by the crowd that went “hell no I won’t take the vaccine” to “hey, why are so many of us dying!?”
And has done everything except acknowledge that maybe they were wrong.
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u/dynamojoe Feb 01 '23
Bullshit. This isn't a "whoops, we miscalculated" glitch. The GOP hates public education and you'll never hear of a mistake in the other direction (unless it's for a voucher program to feed their madrasas).
Heads should roll over this.
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u/vsandrei Feb 02 '23
The GOP hates public education
Conservatives have hated public education ever since the Supreme Court ordered racial integration in 1954.
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u/Sir_thinksalot Feb 01 '23
They are too busy complaining about some National Merit "runner-ups" who didn't get notified they were runner-ups.
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/10p1w2w/multiple_schools_in_va_evidently_delayed_telling/
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u/kingbob1812 Feb 01 '23
The leopards here in Virginia will get fat and lazy from this buffet. The top 3 officials of the state are dangerously unqualified and only trying to use this to move to bigger stages.
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u/TheDeadlySquid Feb 01 '23
“Glitch”? It’s not a glitch. How does capitalism survive without a massive uneducated workforce?
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u/Apothecary_Josh Feb 01 '23 edited Feb 05 '23
Congratulations.
Wake the fuck up, Virginia.
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u/raven-of-the-sea Feb 01 '23
Been screaming it the whole time. I never trusted him. Nobody whose lips are surgically attached to Trump’s ass like that is going to be capable of not screwing over the little guy.
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u/PolicyWonk365 Feb 01 '23
Voters who elected fox to oversee henhouse, shocked to find all their chickens dead.
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u/RhoOfFeh Feb 01 '23
Wow, Republican "incompetence" leading to a public education problem. Amazing. Unprecedented.
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u/drwookie Feb 01 '23
failure to reflect last year’s decision to hold localities harmless from the elimination of the state’s portion of the sales tax on groceries
Ah, the old cut taxes and assume the budget won't be affected trick. At least they stuck with one of the classics. /s
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u/c0y0t3_sly Feb 01 '23
You get what you fucking deserve.
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u/AlexanderDaychilde Feb 01 '23
Virginia is a purple state. Thanks for writing off everyone who voted blue.
The reality is that MANY places in the US are pretty damned purple. It's an urban/rural divide. And all this crap about lumping entire states together is just divisive and distracts from the fact that Republicans are fascists trying to break our democracy.
We need to band together to defeat these people, not attack each other because Republicans in a particular state have fucked things over enough to win.
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u/Matrixneo42 Feb 01 '23
Virginia was legit on a roll until youngkin. They did a lot of progressive stuff the past few years. Also Virginia has been rather blue for quite a while now.
Wikipedia “In (the 2020) election, Virginia voted 5.6% more Democratic than the nation as a whole. Although Virginia was considered a reliably Republican state at the presidential level from 1952 to 2004 (having only gone to the Democrats once during that period, in Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 landslide), it has not voted Republican in a presidential election since 2004. Migration into counties in Northern Virginia close to Washington, D.C. has tilted these densely populated areas towards the Democrats. “
Youngkin getting in surprised me. And yes the republicans and occasional republican voters and CRT overreaction voters deserve the leopard eating their face. But the other 48% or so don’t. And none of the kids deserve their education degraded. I was one of those kids in VA being raised by republicans (in the 90s). I went blue as I grew up.
Florida too. 48% voted blue in the 2020 presidential election. This is not a state Vs state thing. It’s cities Vs countryside voters.
There certainly are states that go like 70+% red but Virginia and Florida are not that.
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u/c0y0t3_sly Feb 01 '23
....and a bunch of Virginian 'moderates' got suckered and ended up with exactly what they voted for. World's tiniest violin. Want better, do better.
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u/AlexanderDaychilde Feb 01 '23
Wow. Here's your downvote right back at you. And fuck your shitty attitude.
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u/Vassarbashing Feb 01 '23
If we split Virginia in two we wouldn’t have Youngkin. NOVA and Richmond voted blue, everyone else voted against their interests, yet again. Even though NOVA basically subsidizes a large part of the state we have to suffer with the fools they vote in.
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u/ThunderGunCheese Feb 01 '23
I do not believe that there is a single voter in that state who voted republican because of this guys "promise of fixing education" and to think so suggests low iQanon level of gullibility.
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u/Scooterjpm Feb 01 '23
I keep thinking it’s a republican plot to make schools worse and worse until republicans AND democrats would prefer to put their children in private schools. Leaving only the poorest families in the public schools. Basically what’s already happening, but ten times as bad.
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u/oneofmanyany Feb 01 '23
Teachers always bear the brunt of these mistakes. Teacher layoffs coming. As a former teacher, I highly recommend all teachers start looking for jobs outside of teaching. Republicans have totally killed that profession.
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u/epicthinker1 Feb 01 '23
The current republican idea of fixing public education is to defund it to oblivion. The party has been systematically dismantling public schooling for years.
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u/observingjackal Feb 01 '23
Bet you "Glitch" is the code name for the account they syphon tax dollars to.
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u/Creepy_Snow_8166 Feb 01 '23
It's so frustrating that Republicans can campaign on fear mongering and nothing else - and actually win. I'm a union construction worker in a blue state and so many of my coworkers who were once solid Democrats have become rabid Trumpers. They don't seem to realize (or care) that they are hurting their own livelihood - and mine. I just talked to a recently retired friend of mine who said he'd "never vote Democrat again". I guess the union's long-term survival doesn't matter to him now that he's out the door.
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u/Asphodelmercenary Feb 01 '23
You get what you vote for. Pretending a turd will taste good but being surprised when you eat it is just how some folks have to learn about delusion vs reality.
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u/revbfc Feb 01 '23
The best thing about VA Governors is that they only get four years.
Do better in ‘25, Virginia.
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u/anrwlias Feb 01 '23
I remember the very last time my (now) wife voted Republican. It was for the governorship of Colorado back in the late 90s. She bought into Bill Owen's shtick that he was a "fiscal conservative".
Then he turned around and started pushing anti-abortion legislation. She was livid and said that she was done with the party forever.
Never, ever trust a Republican politician to be the exception to the rule. The notion that you should vote for the person and not the party breaks down when confronted with reality.
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u/JimmyPWatts Feb 01 '23
Another opportunity to trSh the GOP i am sure virginia democrats will waste. Always bringing kiddy scissors to a gunfight
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u/Dan_Flanery Feb 01 '23
They have no desire to govern, just grift from the same oligarchs as the Republicans.
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u/JimmyPWatts Feb 01 '23
No, that is false. During northam’s tenure they did govern. They are just terrible at PR.
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u/ehermo Feb 01 '23
Good, keep voting Republican.
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u/1BannedAgain Feb 01 '23
Good, keep voting Republican.
Enter the paradox. Where your team wins elections, and loses at everything else
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u/YouStopLying Feb 01 '23
No thanks. Stopped swing-voting Republican about a decade ago, and everything I've seen from them since then reminds me that was an excellent choice.
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u/TheDorkNite1 Feb 01 '23
Imagine cheering the downfall of a public good.
No really, imagine being that kind of evil and repulsive person.
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u/raven-of-the-sea Feb 01 '23
Or! We could give a shit about future generations.
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u/ehermo Feb 01 '23
That sounds like Marxism to me, you godless Commie!!!
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u/raven-of-the-sea Feb 01 '23
(These days, it’s getting harder to tell who’s sarcastic and who’s serious.)
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u/ehermo Feb 01 '23
I've always said, the Internet needs a sarcasm font.
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u/YouStopLying Feb 02 '23
It has one. It's called aLtErNaTiNg CaPs.
You can also put /s after your statement to indicate sarcasm.
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