>Virginia’s New Laws on L.G.B.T. Protections, Guns and Marijuana Reflect a Shift in Power >The leftward transformation of Virginia since President Trump was elected crescendoed over the weekend, with the governor signing into law protections for L.G.B.T. residents, gun background checks, no jail time for simple marijuana possession and early voting. >Democrats have developed a political advantage in the heavily populated northern suburbs of Washington, where Hispanic and Asian voters make up a growing part of the electorate, as well as in places with a significant African-American population like Norfolk. >The chain of events began on Friday, when Mr. Northam said he had signed a series of gun control measures into law that includes a background check requirement for all firearm sales and a so-called red flag law that supporters said would give law enforcement officers a mechanism to confiscate the weapons of people deemed a danger to themselves or others. >On Saturday, Mr. Northam announced that Virginia had become the first state in the South to include language in its anti-discrimination housing and employment laws that protects people on the basis of their sexual orientation. The law, known as a the Virginia Values Act, goes into effect on July 1.
>“This legislation sends a strong, clear message — Virginia is a place where all people are welcome to live, work, visit, and raise a family,” Mr. Northam said in a statement. “We are building an inclusive Commonwealth where there is opportunity for everyone, and everyone is treated fairly. No longer will LGBTQ Virginians have to fear being fired, evicted, or denied service in public places because of who they are.” >Also on Saturday, Mr. Northam signed a law that his office said repealed racist and discriminatory language from Virginia’s Acts of Assembly and gave cities and towns the ability to remove or alter Confederate monuments in their communities. The measure also set into motion the replacement of Virginia’s statue of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee in the U.S. Capitol. >On Sunday, Mr. Northam announced that he had also signed a law allowing Virginia residents to vote up to 45 days before an election without a stated excuse. >Mr. Northam also removed a requirement that Virginia residents must show identification to vote.
This is the same guy who did blackface in his yearbook picture. No consequences, while someone on the right says something that isn't even racist and they're "cancelled" immediately and removed from office. How do they get away with it?
Ian Cox
Don't kill anybody, Yas Forums, it's much more effective to target remote yet critical infrastructure, drain their resources, and remove people's aircon right as we go into Summer than to kill lawmakers Except maybe their families. Their families would be great targets
Evan Hill
What? They get away with it because people sit there and let them
Jace Long
>a mechanism to confiscate the weapons of people deemed a danger to themselves or others. Deemed by whom?
Ryder Taylor
that kind of talking will have you put in jail indefinitely without a trial. bottom text
If that happens they win. Every leftie in the country will protest for gun control.
Logan Walker
Well young lad. When the gun laws came the good folks who planned to do something about it when the SHTF never came buried their weapons in the backyard and they've been collecting rust ever since.
40 years later they're all still waiting for the day they can dig them up but the grey hairs are turning white and fewer and fewer are left. And the beaners numbers grow ever so large that even they too are moving out to the distant ranch lands. I fear we ma already be encircled my young lad. Stay tuned for my next war diary.
I bet the next election won't be so rosy for Democrats in Virginia. People get complacent until government overreach jolts them into reaction.
Mason Carter
what happened to sic semper tyranis? I grew up in VA only leaving because it got too expensive for my profession. Im disappointed in the way the state has turned.
Jordan Price
I'm getting some War Room or Jimpact vibes from this crew. Breddy gud But no, I haven't. Podcasts are generally a waste of time
Angel Peterson
It'd be a shame if Ralph Northam voted Republican with no ID in 75 districts, 100,000 time in each one, with the only identifying factor with all these Ralph Northam Republican votes being a russian accent with no ID.
Daniel Diaz
What a lovely future awaits all of us as the non-whites vote en masse for these fucking power-hungry kikes who never met a problem government can't solve.
