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You pretty much nailed the sentiment here in your first visit. Although it’s across the border in Fairfax County, the changing of the admission standards at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology starting about one year ago lit the embers of this fire. The threat from the state to lower math standards for the stated objective of equity in math learning earlier this spring kept it rolling. I used to refer to this area as ethnically diverse but politically and economically homogeneous. That is no longer the case.

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A question: Where one can find a consolidated (all three parts) of Tucker Carlson video titled “Patriot Purge”?

Jan. 6 “armed insurrection” is as much a fraud and hoax as the “Russia-gate” – same lying team.

PS: Fox channel is completely disorganized and drowning in endless stupid garbage a la Hannity, etc. - you can’t easily find it there… Tucker Carlson should find another platform – the sooner, the better for him…

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Matt, I am a grassroots activist I'm VA that helped flipped VA blue. We noted in this election well funded parent groups, not organic groups like mine, working in VA and across many states. So called nonprofit organizations like Stand For VA and Parents Defending Education. School Boards are being weaponized. Recalls are being used to unseat elected board members. COVID disrupted life and school, parents are exhausted. Anti mask & vaccination folks showed up angry. This should be all be researched as well. Youngkin found the grievance and manipulated it, added words around race, added some Anita Bryant 1977 tactics, and succeeded in winning the message while McAuliffe was tone deaf, he never talked about our high school ratings, Dems huge investments in Education and teacher pay, and getting schools open and getting families back to work. Women were exhausted from COVID as they are care givers, left jobs and carried the burden of this virus on their free labor. Youngkin understood gas prices and groceries ... all politics are local. The CRT dog whistle is shameful in a state that birthed slavery and our US Constitution... but it worked.

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i'd love to read one of these sometime! Are you taking volunteers?

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It's a Trick! Pick a card. Any card.

Out of approximately 5.3 million cards eligible to be gov officeholders in Va., there were really only two cards in play: the Bue card or Red card. The odds were 50/50. .. like a sunny weather forecast.

Surprise. The Red card won. What are the odds? Nothing but blue skies from now on.

There will be furious recriminations, slicing and dicing of Polling data - micro & macro, late night strategy sessions and, perhaps, some introspection that the Blue card didn't do it's homework and squandered its 50/50 chance. But tomorrow the sun will shine. .. bet your bottom dollar the sun will come out tomorrow.

It's a trap .. . beware anyone who tells you any different.

* "You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more." ~ The Matrix

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I have paid a huge amounts of money to go see Dave Chappelle in Atlanta for his documentary. There are nuances. Neoliberal democrats are a waste. They might have to go to licensed social workers at this point to figure things out.

So my whole point in writing this is that I have figured out what to say when the let's go Brandon cheer erupts on November 21. I will take the lead and start cheering JOKES ARE FUNNY! clap clap clap, clap clap clap. Dave Chappelle deserves his place in society for being the master of joke making. Society has to figure out its own problems.

Thank you

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