Mon Jul 29, 2019, 09:14 AM

underpants (159,289 posts)

Jamestown 400 - panel on Democracy to include Karl Rove and former Sen/Gov George Allen

Can’t find a link. Heard on the radio this morning.

Celebration of the 400th Anniversary of Democracy.

Mayor Stoney (Richmond) has already resigned from the committee because Trump might attend - he is going to speak.
Some Democrats in the General Assembly are boycotting because of Trump.
Republicans are whining about a Democrats “politizing” it.
I heard this morning that one of the panels they will hold to discuss Democracy will include Karl Rove and former Va. Senator and Governor George Allen.

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Jamestown 400 - panel on Democracy to include Karl Rove and former Sen/Gov George Allen (Original post)	underpants	Jul 2019	OP
Karl Rove and Democracy?	Botany	Jul 2019	#1
Just what we need right now.	countingbluecars	Jul 2019	#2
Here are some Twitter accounts that might help.	mahatmakanejeeves	Jul 2019	#3
Will there be kool-aid? oops, wrong town. nt	Hotler	Jul 2019	#4
No, but the settlers at Jamestown cannibalized one another. (Trigger warning)	Tanuki	Jul 2019	#7
Aha!	ProudLib72	Jul 2019	#9
Is this a comedy hour special ?	OnDoutside	Jul 2019	#5
Rove co-opting Jamestown.	no_hypocrisy	Jul 2019	#6
Election theft 2004: Karl Rove's "democracy"	CaptainTruth	Jul 2019	#8

Response to underpants (Original post)

Mon Jul 29, 2019, 09:17 AM

Botany (58,254 posts)

1. Karl Rove and Democracy?

Hello Ohio 2004?

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Mon Jul 29, 2019, 09:22 AM

countingbluecars (4,719 posts)

2. Just what we need right now.

George "macaca" Allen. The guy who displayed a confederate flag and some say a noose in his office.

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Mon Jul 29, 2019, 09:24 AM

mahatmakanejeeves (34,497 posts)

3. Here are some Twitter accounts that might help.

A week after the @RTDSchapiro scoop that sent Virginia politics into a tailspin, the WH confirms Trump is speaking at Jamestown next week

Link to tweet

Your weekend Insider, w/ @AndrewCainRTD at the helm.

Link to tweet

In the Va. Politics Insider from Team RTD: Trump's coming to Jamestown. Will Dems show? Powhatan supes "poked the hornet's nest"; Schapiro: Mueller on the Hill a tale of two Virginians; the fight of the bumblebee; Hanover neighbors tell VFW "no tanks."
https://www.richmond.com/newsletter/virginia-politics-insider/?8906 …

Link to tweet

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Mon Jul 29, 2019, 09:29 AM

Hotler (7,910 posts)

4. Will there be kool-aid? oops, wrong town. nt

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Response to Hotler (Reply #4)

Mon Jul 29, 2019, 09:45 AM

Tanuki (12,231 posts)

7. No, but the settlers at Jamestown cannibalized one another. (Trigger warning)

Maybe history will repeat itself.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/starving-settlers-in-jamestown-colony-resorted-to-cannibalism-46000815/

"The harsh winter of 1609 in Virginia’s Jamestown Colony forced residents to do the unthinkable. A recent excavation at the historic site discovered the carcasses of dogs, cats and horses consumed during the season commonly called the “Starving Time.” But a few other newly discovered bones in particular, though, tell a far more gruesome story: the dismemberment and cannibalization of a 14-year-old English girl.

“The chops to the forehead are very tentative, very incomplete,” says Douglas Owsley, the Smithsonian forensic anthropologist who analyzed the bones after they were found by archaeologists from Preservation Virginia. “Then, the body was turned over, and there were four strikes to the back of the head, one of which was the strongest and split the skull in half. A penetrating wound was then made to the left temple, probably by a single-sided knife, which was used to pry open the head and remove the brain." (More at link)

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Mon Jul 29, 2019, 10:57 AM

ProudLib72 (17,984 posts)

9. Aha!

A penetrating wound was then made to the left temple, probably by a single-sided knife, which was used to pry open the head and remove the brain.

They've found America's first deplorable!

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Mon Jul 29, 2019, 09:31 AM

OnDoutside (16,281 posts)