It’s really impressive how Glenn Youngkin never lets up with his smarmy, faux-“sincere”-but-actually-completely-dishonest routine, while simultaneously gaslighting the public on the dire threat of Trumpism and Project 2025 (“Trump’s promise to purge the civil service could devastate Virginia’s 140,000 federal workers. Youngkin claims they can just find jobs elsewhere.”) – including to the federal workforce and the Virginia economy. Case in point? Check out Youngkin’s response, below, to a question earlier today at a press “gaggle.” It’s HIGHLY revealing; that is, if you can separate Youngkin’s misdirection, bulls*** and lies from reality.
Question: “Governor you spoke about federal employees returning back to the office what about uh the proposal to
have over 100,000 employees moved out of the state and out of the region?”
Youngkin’s rambling response: “Yeah, so first of all I think that’s a complete mischaracterization [editor’s note: it’s definitely not a mischaracterization at all!] and I hope you correct it when if you write something on this. First of all, we could sit around and play… games [editor’s note: this is not a “game”; Project 2025 and the threat of Trumpism are deadly serious] on both sides on what they’re going to propose and what they’re not going to propose. And the reality of course is it’s all speculative [editor’s note: it’s definitely NOT “all speculative”]. Second of all, to think that should there be any movement in workforce, that there aren’t enough jobs in Virginia to absorb that supply of talented workers is a complete mischaracterization [editor’s note: so basically Youngkin’s doubling down on support for firing potentially hundreds of thousands of federal workers, while minimizing the potentially disastrous impacts!]…in fact we have 300,000 jobs in Virginia that are available…we have a hugely talented workforce…my biggest challenge…is keeping keeping people in Virginia as opposed to moving away because of lower taxes in other states and lower cost of living [editor’s note: this is misdirection and also has no relevance to the question being asked]. And so what I would really appreciate that people would pay as much attention to the reality of the migration out of Virginia that has happened over the course of the last 10 years. What we need to fix, as opposed to speculating on one candidate’s proposals – which by the way I think are totally misunderstood [editor’s note: they are NOT ‘totally misunderstood,” except maybe by dishonest politicians like Youngkin who actively WANT people to misunderstand Trump’s/Project 2025’s extremist proposals] – and another candidates proposals that people seem to be ignoring.”
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