{"id":2868,"date":"2009-05-05T09:13:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T13:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2009-05-05T09:13:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T13:13:08","slug":"whats-important-in-virginia-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/05\/05\/whats-important-in-virginia-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Important in Virginia Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theangrypotato.com\/2009\/05\/05\/breaking-leaked-ppp-governors-race-poll-data\/\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Step away from the polls, go outside and get some perspective. Find a hobby, hire a hooker. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter, but at some point, everyone needs to calm the fuck down and stop living or dying by Virginia politics. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a skillful sport; it comes down to money, connections, and not being a fuckup.<\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>Quit taking yourselves and this race seriously. The fact that you put so much energy into these things should probably tell you (and will demonstrate to your court-ordered psychiatrist) that the Virginia political machine is so filled with it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own self-replicating ego bullshit that it can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t possibly work for the people. You. Are. Not. Important.<\/p>\n<p>What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important to recognize is that while you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re donating 500 bucks to a candidate, there is a homeless guy down the street who hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t eaten a decent meal in a few days, or a food bank that has empty shelves. Think about that while you stress about some two-bit poll, you selfish bastard.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage each of you to take a day you would normally volunteer for a campaign and instead, after calling and politely telling the campaign volunteer coordinator to go fuck himself, find a worth charity or cause and donate your time to making a difference in the world and in the lives of others. Because, honestly, the rest of us think you people are real pricks.<\/p>\n<p>Now GTFO and do something useful with your lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hear, hear.\u00c2\u00a0 I have to admit that I&#8217;ve got multiple drafts of posts related to the Virginia governor&#8217;s race generated over the last month.\u00c2\u00a0 But halfway through each, I realize that it just won&#8217;t matter.\u00c2\u00a0 Plus, <a href=\"http:\/\/theangrypotato.com\/\">Angry Potato&#8217;s<\/a> probably already written what I&#8217;ve wanted to say, and is (usually) funnier in saying it.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 So I&#8217;m just going to keep leaving it alone, for the time being.\u00c2\u00a0 Except for saying that I hope you&#8217;re not suckered by the McAuliffe machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>here: Step away from the polls, go outside and get some perspective. Find a hobby, hire a hooker. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter, but at some point, everyone needs to calm the fuck down and stop living or dying by Virginia politics. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a skillful sport; it comes down to money, connections, and not being a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[62,278,64,63,497,505,502],"class_list":["post-2868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-virginia","tag-deeds","tag-governor","tag-mcauliffe","tag-moran","tag-politics","tag-primary","tag-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2869,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}