After Horrendous Start, Team Youngkin Has Now Resorted to Attacking a High School Student

[lowkell]

https://bluevirginia.us/2022/02/an-official-account-of-gov-youngkin-is-attacking-a-child-a-grown-man-bullying-a-kid-i-dont-even-think-trump-did-that

After a HORRENDOUS start to his governorship (a judge blocking his absurd/lawless executive order on masking in schools; getting taunted in an Alexandria Safeway to “read the room, buddy!”; an approval rating barely above water, during the normal “honeymoon” period, no less; etc), one can understand to an extent (even if it’s all his own fault) why Glenn Youngkin and his team might be frustrated at this point. But seriously? Attacking a high school student? This is completely pathetic on every level...

[uponit7771]

1. Youngkin is going to run for POTUS, we better over define his dumb ass RIGHT NOW !!!

[elleng]

2. Kick his ass, won't make it out the door.

[empedocles]

3. Good to learn of low approval rating. In my viewing, I see no charisma/charm, etc.

[monkeyman1]

10. Dorkkin don't have have the brain's ! already shot himself in the foot !!

[Phoenix61]

4. Because there is no bottom for repukes. nt

[Maraya1969]

5. I DON'T UNDERTAND! WHO WAS IN BLACKFACE? AND WHAT DOES THAT HIGH

SCHOOL STUDENT HAVE TO DO WITH IT? AND WHY DID THIS YOUNGKIN GOV. TWEET IT?

Who is Ethan?????

[likesmountains 52]

6. I'm in the same boat. I'm not seeing the attack..

[Me.]

9. Isn't That Gov. Northam

who faced a scandal because he attended a party in blackface when he was young and it, a pic, was in the yearbook. I'm just guessing at this.

[GB_RN]

12. It's The Previous Governor...

Ralph Northam (D-VA). So he’s attacking the kid for posing 1) with a Democrat, and 2) with a Democrat who made an admittedly bad choice of posing in blackface back in the early 1980s. And he gets a bonus with his crackpot followers by adding in a hit on Northam at the same time by bringing this back up.

[Sympthsical]

7. Is there some context for this?

Because I am not up to my elbow in Twitter all day, I am completely without context for what is happening. Google turned up nothing. So whatever's going on is an entirely inside-Twitter situation that the website doesn't feel the need to explain to anyone.

What is the tweet in response to?

The article is like someone walking into the room going, "Can you believe what's happening?!" when I don't even know what is happening. Was something said?

As for attacking high school students. Eh. We kinda burned our credibility on that one with Covington. So, let's maybe restrain the outrage just a touch. "Who would do this?!" Well, I mean, our side did for one. So maybe let's not go full Maude Flanders when the obvious retort from the Right is going to be that. That's just walking into things.

Still. On the surface it seems like a shitty cheap shot and beneath the office. I imagine one of his amazing social media people managed that one. Does Virginia not have good social media managers? First McAuliffe's screwed up with the Lincoln Project. Now this. If I were paid enough, I could hang out on Twitter and be shitty to people all day. I probably wouldn't even have to quit my current job.

Just saying. My hat's in the ring.

[GB_RN]

13. Judging By The Kid's Tweets...

He’s done some critical, but professional, tweets at/about Youngkin amidst his pro-Democrat tweets. Looks like the kid just attracted Youngkin’s attention and Youngkin or someone in his office was dumb enough to respond in this manner.

[PortTack]

8. I'm sorry for the ppl of VA...having had a trifecta with lots of great legislation to this

What were you thinking??!!

[Nevilledog]

11. Youngkin with same guy (Northam)

Link to tweet

[AverageOldGuy]

14. For those of you questioning what this is about:

The previous Virginia governor was Democrat Ralph Northam who served Jan 2018 to Jan 2022.

When he was a student at VMI, Northam posed in blackface -- that's the photo of a person in blackface.

That photo surfaced after Northam was elected prompting him to make a statewide apology tour to Virginia's Africa-American community -- who responded by letting him know they understood he did what he did in another era and they accepted his apologies. He built on his apologies by passing legislation supported by the VA African-American community, and, supporting the removal of Confederate statues, including the huge Robert E. Lee statue that was a landmark on Richmond's Monument Avenue since 1891.

However, Virginian Republicans continued to throw up the blackface photo day in and day out -- and they still do.

The photo of the young man standing with Governor Northam was taken -- I think -- from the young man's Twitter or Facebook page where he posted it to show himself standing proudly beside the Governor.

Now, for some reason known only to Republican idiots, Governor Youngkin -- our new shit-for-brains Republican governor -- used his official Twitter account to attack the young man for standing next to Gov. Northam by posting the old Northam blackface photo.

Republicans will revel in this Youngkin stunt while normal people will recognize it for what it is -- the desperate gasping of a new governor who -- three weeks into his term -- is already underwater in his approval rating and who just lost his first lawsuit.

[crickets]

16. Thanks for explaining it so clearly. Youngkin's actions here are pathetic and uncalled for. nt

[Maraya1969]

18. Thank you. eom

[dchill]

15. Youngkin, yo nuts!

[lagomorph777]

17. What a piece of shit.

Where the hell were my fellow VA dems last fall?

[scipan]

19. Ethan's response

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This appears to be what started it:

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[gldstwmn]

20. Can they recall him?

[Demovictory9]

21. he is horrible.