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@No_Drumpf47 @DirtyDemocrat05 Indeed it’s hard to discuss this when you don’t know what you are talking about. nobody said “this year” but the bi laws were changed for him. Here is an article you are welcome to read it or you can keep being angry and wrong on the internet. Article: cardinalnews.org/2026/04/17/vir…

@shiit_n @DirtyDemocrat05 Also, there were no votes this year to extend his term or change term limits, that didn’t happen. It’s hard to discuss this if I constantly have to explain the basics. Please spend some time researching the issue yourself.

Okay but… why was he removed? I don’t really understand.

@No_Drumpf47 @DirtyDemocrat05 1. that’s the number the firm gave him bc he wanted to do it even quicker. 2. the july 1st deadline is undeniably a partisan choice regardless of if it’s relevance now 3. his term WAS extended by the conservative board he wants to keep so he can rush through a similar president

@shiit_n @DirtyDemocrat05 1. 6-8 months is longer than the UVA president search. Also, having an aggressive timeframe isn't malfeasance. 2. The July 1 timeline hasn't been relevant for a month. 3. He didn't extend him own term. The term for a Rector is 1 year. That was never up for debate.

@No_Drumpf47 @DirtyDemocrat05 6-8 months is a agressive time frame and he chose july 1st for the reason i outlined. After that period Spanberger would have more appointees and thus more influence on the process. He extended his own term + attempted to find a new president in the shortest time period possible

@shiit_n @DirtyDemocrat05 I don't think that's correct. In April he said he wanted to have a President hired by July 1. He then hired a search firm who told him it would take 6-8 months. So, he adjusted the timeline to 6-8 months. The BOV has been working towards the 6-8 month timeframe for a month now.

@LegislativeAI @BreRVA @gmoomaw @DwayneYancey That’s why they don’t do it in the committee they pass it by and make adjustments. The GA is a very fast paced environment, your point about pushing major adjustments down the road only demonstrates the many opportunities she had to make input. She didn’t at any point until veto

I mean literally being at a committee meeting and trying to draft substantive changes on the fly based on input is too late. It happens sometimes, but usually with a committee chair who really knows what they are doing. They also delay bills all the time, but if you look at the big priority bills, they usually just push those through to continue working on them. Especially the ones they know will go to conference.

Gov. Spanberger talks to @DwayneYancey on her 31 vetoes: "if I bowed to pressure and people trying to push me this way or that way, I wouldn’t be governor" cardinalnews.org/2026/05/27/spa…

@VApoliticalmeme @GovernorVA This is something that would only be written by a AI agent who hasn’t spent a minute in the GA or on the political scene. Yeah sure McAuliffe lost because of the general assembly overreaching. lmao do you hear yourself?

To understand why @GovernorVA is right to push back against the General Assembly, you must understand the original sin that weakened Virginia’s executive branch in the first place. During the 2019 political crisis, Gov. Northam effectively ceded meaningful governing authority to the legislature in exchange for the political grace necessary to survive the remainder of his term. This bargain handed the General Assembly a degree of influence over the executive branch that Virginia’s constitutional architecture was never designed to accommodate. That structural imbalance, more than any single policy dispute, helped create the conditions that delivered @GlennYoungkin to Richmond in 2021. A weakened executive invites a change election. The lesson of @TerryMcAuliffe’s fluke defeat was not that Virginia had suddenly lurched rightward, it was that institutional weakness, once normalized, compounds over time. Gov. Spanberger’s election resolved any ambiguity about the Commonwealth’s direction. A Democrat winning the governorship after a GOP incumbent in a roughly sixteen point swing is not a narrow mandate for cautious managerialism. It is a political earthquake. Voters were demanding both a correction and governance. .@SpanbergerForVA campaigned explicitly against the sort of legislative overreach that had come to define Richmond’s dysfunction, including her opposition to a redistricting referendum from the General Assembly. That referendum ultimately collapsed under the weight of its own excesses, exonerating the Governor. More importantly, the legislature’s attempted overreach was rejected twice: initially by the Supreme Court of Virginia and reaffirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States. That matters because much of the current commentary lazily frames the situation as some kind of intraparty feud among @vademocrats. It is not. A feud implies a live contest between competing centers of legitimacy, but there is no actual fight here because the central constitutional dispute has already been settled by the court; the General Assembly lost. What remains is not “Democrats in Disarray.” It is the lingering resentment of a legislature that spent seven years operating without meaningful executive resistance and who mistook temporary latitude for permanent entitlement. The failed 2026 referendum became the culmination of everything that had gone wrong in Richmond over the past decade dragging Virginia into performative fights over federal power while basic institutional governance at home deteriorated. The complaints about Spanberger’s governing style, the covertly misogynistic coded suggestions that she is somehow out of line for asserting the authority voters explicitly granted her, all need to be viewed in this context. No Governor who inherited a structurally weakened office, won by a landslide margin and confronted a legislature unused to limits was ever going to restore constitutional balance without friction. For the better part of a decade, the General Assembly operated with powers it had neither constitutionally earned nor institutionally been designed to hold. The Governor is doing precisely what her mandate requires.

@WithinSyr @AL_OOSH_DA Mali just need actual attention from the state if it intends to resolve it. africa corp has been rotating its limited supply of troops back to the front lines of ukraine. ending that conflict will do far more for the russian military then a chinese aircraft carrier ever could.

@AL_OOSH_DA A Russian carrier strike group will not go on a mission against France, it is meant to address to address situations like in Mali.

Unpopular opinion: Russia should consider simply buying a Chinese Type 004 aircraft carrier. China is still way behind on submarine tech, so the Russians could get a serious discount with a carrier in just 6 years maybe.

@RTDNEWS @AnnaBryson18 “Yes i know it’s wrong. Yes i know i can fix it. No i will not be fixing it.”

Spanberger: Reviving vetoed bills in a budget would be an 'abuse of the process' richmond.com/news/state-reg…

@LegislativeAI @BreRVA @gmoomaw @DwayneYancey committees are not too late. They delay bills all the time because a stake holder or elected has an issue with it that needs to be resolved. again this is the point of committee it literally happens all the time. It’s called “passed by for the day” very different from a pbi

@shiit_n @BreRVA @gmoomaw @DwayneYancey Committee meetings are way too late. I’d love to see evidence of a Patron of a vetoed bill sending Spanberger’s team a draft of a bill and asking for amendments prior to the bill being voted on.

@LegislativeAI @BreRVA @gmoomaw @DwayneYancey The legislature asked and looked for input repeatedly. The system is the patrons want to avoid their bills being vetoed so they ask for her input ahead of time. she didn’t give it. she didn’t plan on giving it. this is documented in the committee meetings you can see online.

It’s rare for even the patron to know what the bill is going to actually say the day before it’s get voted on. Everyone else usually finds out right before the vote happenens. She should have done more but there’s nothing about how our legislature is set up that gives the Governor the ability to meaningfully weigh in on complex bills except the Constitutional veto session.

@lewdgordo @Logically_Left not enough funds unfortunately. reporting at the time said he was seriously considering it after Lucas and others had made strong public and private pushes for his candidacy. My guess is the donors had already crowned spanberger due to her extremely moderate record in the house.

@shiit_n @Logically_Left Why didn't he

@Logically_Left Nobody should be surprised by this. Everyone with two braincells to rub together saw this coming even before the primary. Did we forget Bobby Scott almost got pushed into running bc of how scared people were of Spanberger.

@inthesamedevice This is not a subject i expected you to be engaged in lmao but i totally agree. War has reached heights unimaginable to veterans from previous conflicts I dont even want to imagine autonomous drone usage unless it means we will switch to wars of machines as opposed to human lives

even night vision fpv fiber optic drones still feel like it's not a complete technology it all feels something like world war one before the tanks showed up, there's some next step. maybe self-piloting? that's straight out of The Terminator

@WithinSyr This seems very unlikely and doesn’t make logical sense. Why would the cia show up after they already bombed the airbase (destroying evidence) to then confirm or deny the use of chem weapons by their adversaries when 3rd party orgs would do so shortly after with greater accuracy.

Oh yes, this may be one of the wildest stories that I heard during the war, and here it is in details: Following the alleged 2017 Khan Shaykhoun chemical attack, the US launched strikes on Shayrat air base in Homs. The specific fighter jet blamed for the attack was not hit.

@MikeWatson_VA Decent politicians are meant to project their financing beyond the coming fiscal year. She has shown 0 interest in this to the extent that her own finance secretary seems equally perplexed as the appropriation committees.

The Governor inherited a $2b surplus. She has what she needs.

@CandiMundonKing @notlarrysabato should be a wake up call for you that even if it’s not true people are willing to believe it after the way Spanberger betrayed her campaign promises. I wouldn’t be running cover for an anti union pro ice governor right now unless I was planning on staying as a “former” delegate.

@notlarrysabato if this is true then she has solidified herself as the next Fetterman and i sincerely hope she feels the consequences.

I’m going to say something out loud that will help make sense of things in Virginia. Spanberger is planning primaries to all of Senate leadership. They are looking at candidates against Lucas, Deeds, Locke and Surovell. Everything else makes sense if you see what’s coming.

@royermattw Yes when your in the party operative position, surprise, you have to do the parties bidding. this is precisely why i’m calling you a moderate. Progressives don’t pick up jobs advocating for genocidal candidates and against progressive causes like medicare for all. Moderates do.

Said in sarcasm but actually yes. I know it may be hard to believe because of some folks who have been in party leadership roles but it's not the role of leadership to always impose their personal wants and beliefs onto members instead of doing the job and achieving the goals of an organization which in this case was to elect Democrats and to get more young people involved in the political process while advocating for those issues that centered around younger generations. Hard thing to fathom in this world of ego politics I know.

I learned something about myself today. Fascinating.

@royermattw your right i’m sure your personality speaks a lot more to your politics then your actions and career as a party insider!

@shiit_n Then we clearly have never met. And that's fine.