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In the aftermath, none of this will matter much to the kind of people apt to make noise about it.

Snow removal failure/ failure to close the highway is - for reasons I've never entirely understood - a politician killer.

 

Isn’t he already on the way out?

 

I believe so.

 

TV -- yes, he is.

AZ -- The Virginia Dept. of Transportation had a miserable day with all of this yesterday, and ultimately, that organization is under Northam's thumb.

 

Snowpocalypse Then: How the Blizzard of 1979 Cost the Election for Michael Bilandic

https://www.chicagomag.com/city-lif...-1979-cost-the-election-for-michael-bilandic/

 

Here in Northern-ish, Central-ish Virginia, I'm one of the few people I know with power, and the roads through Downtown Fredericksburg look like a shit show.

Already took in one refugee-friend last night, and it looks like I might have more family on the way over (... not that there's anywhere for them to park downtown).

 

In my experience, elected officials from places where winter storms are rarer tend to be treated more leniently by the public than officials from places like, well, here in Massachusetts where storms are a regular part of winter. Our officials are quite rightly expected to be prepared for what is an inevitability, whereas in, say Atlanta a highway-disabling snow storm is seen as more of an act of God. Virginia would be borderline in this regard. It gets storms, but not nearly as many as we do. (This doesn't cover the western ridge of the Appalachians, where it snows a good deal). I will point out that also people here are more likely to heed official warnings to stay the hell off the roads if a storm is forecast to strike.

 

We'll see if his successor (an amateur) will have more success in a job that is really more DOT than CRT.

 

Welp, then we're fucked. We've watched history rewritten in real time in the past year. The 1/6 folks are heroes to a lot of people.

That said, I am loving the disconnect between hardcore Trumpists who keep blaming antifa for the Capital breach and the fact he is planning a celebration at Mar-A-Lago on the one-year anniversary of it.

 

How is it that they always seem to own the "when the facts come out" phase of these things?.

 

Yeah, I plan on pointing that one out to the yammerheads on FB. Should be good for a laugh.

 

Amazon and Google deploy their armies to thwart antitrust bills

Amazon and Google deploy their armies to thwart antitrust bills