(05-28-2023, 05:50 AM)loam Wrote:(05-28-2023, 05:36 AM)Ninurta Wrote: I'm surprised they even still pay lip service or try to keep up pretenses any more.
In the last few years, I'm not sure they even do that anymore.
Currently, the allegedly Republican governor of Virginia, Glen Youngkin, is paying lip service to the Second Amendment, saying he's some kind of 2A guy, yet doing absolutely NOTHING to uphold or defend it from the opposition onslaughts. As a matter of fact, there are those who believe he sent the order out to the speaker of the house in VA, one Todd Gilbert, to execute a "pocket veto" of a measure proposed to remove that diabolical "Red Flag" law, so ripe for abuse, and a "Constitutional Carry" measure that had been introduced... so now we are still in the same limbo the Democrats put us in, but now courtesy of alleged Republicans.
It's been speculated that he did that to further a run for US president, marching to a "centrist" tune. We don't need "centrists", which are just Marxist Lite, we need people in power who will vigorously defend the Constitution, as they promise to do when they take the Oath of Office, and then consistently fail to do after the oath is administered and they are cushily ensconced in their new job.
For that reason, I cannot support Youngkin in any bid for any office from here on out, unless and until he actually DOES something to uphold the Constitution, rather than just pay lip-service to it.
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