over the course of my lifetime, and i m old. i was born in 1973. i know, right? over the course of my entire life, every time a new president has been elected to the white house, the other party wins the virginia governor s race the following year. virginia holds its governors races in off years, in odd years, and so there s always a governor s race after a presidential election. the year after. and it happens every single time that whoever the new president is who just won the presidency, the other party then wins in virginia, every single time. when i was 3, jimmy carter won the presidency in 1976, a democrat, obviously, then in 1977, a republican wins for virginia governor. then in 1980, it was ronald reagan who won the presidency, obviously a republican, and so in 1981 it was a democrat who won the virginia governor the following year. it happens every time. when george h.w. bush won in 88 as a republican, democrat won as governor in virginia. when clinton won, virginia
virginia holds its governors races in off years, in odd years, and so there s always a governor s race after a presidential election. the year after. and it happens every single time that whoever the new president is who just won the presidency, the other party then wins in virginia, every single time. when i was 3, jimmy carter won the presidency in 1976, a democrat, obviously, then in 1977, a republican wins for virginia governor. then in 1980, it was ronald reagan who won the presidency, obviously a republican, and so in 1981 it was a democrat who won the virginia governor the following year. it happens every time. when george h.w. bush won in 88 as a republican, democrat won as governor in virginia. when clinton won, virginia governor s race went to a republican in 1993. when george w. bush won in 2000, a democrat won the virginia governorship the following year. after obama won in 2008, that s how we got republican virginia governor bob mcdonald in 2009, after trump won
A politically conservative mom from north carolina, from wilmington, north carolina, she expressed in her facebook profile an interest in politics, and parenting and christianity and followed just a few other facebook accounts, including fox news, and president trump: and that s it. just sort of a bare bones profile, and this fake account, this carol smith account never expressed any interest in conspiracy theories of any kind. but nevertheless it only took two days that facebook recommended that that person, carol smith should join groups dedicated to qanon, that democrats are a secret cabal of satan worshipping pedophiles and will be executed in a mass public execution at guantanamo, really, carol, so soon, and even though the researcher running the fake account did not engage with those groups, with those
Followed just a few other facebook accounts, including fox news and president trump, and that s it. just sort of a bare bones profile, and this fake account, this carol smith account never expressed any interest in conspiracy theories of any kind. but nevertheless it only took two days that facebook recommended that that person, care smith, should join groups dedicated to qanon, that democrats are a secret cabal of satan worshipping pedophiles and will be executed in a mass public execution at guantanamo, really, carol, so soon, and even though the researcher running the fake account did not engage with those groups, with those recommendations to join the qanon groups, within a week, carol smith s feed was filled with groups and pages that violated facebook s own rules because they were filled with hate speech and disinformation. that researcher published the story of that dummy account s journey in a 2019 internal report of facebook called