The seven-MAGA-member Augusta County Board of Supervisors is against putting an ICE detention center in the county, but the 70 percent Trump-lovin’ populace in the county needn’t worry.
The people we put in charge signaled last week that they’re still solidly behind the toothless Second Amendment sanctuary resolution they passed in 2019, and they’re even sticking their noses in favor of protecting VMI from having to reckon with its history of institutional racism.
What county leaders are saying, basically: please, Mr. Trump, don’t be mad at us for not wanting an immigrant prison in our backyard.
“It was a nice brisk, December 4th evening, and Augusta County really showed us where they are with their rights and the Second Amendment. I think reaffirming this will be very good, because I don’t think the current people who are in control of the General Assembly really appreciate our rights,” Wayne District Supervisor Scott Seaton said at last week’s BOS meeting.
You remember Scott Seaton – he’s the one who pretended to have something on the rest of the Board on tape back in 2023 after a Board member stepped down suddenly amid rumors of a sexual-harassment controversy.
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Turned out to be a big nothingburger, but it allowed Seaton to position himself as being a maverick as he set up his 2023 re-election campaign.
I’ll admit – I fell for it.
Fool me once, shame on …
The maverick is telling us now that the “people who are in control of the General Assembly” – i.e., Democrats – don’t appreciate “our rights.”
Nice dog whistle you got there, doc.
The Board actually felt the need to vote to reaffirm its nonsense 2019 Second Amendment sanctuary resolution at last week’s meeting.
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- Augusta County jumps on the dumb Second Amendment sanctuary bandwagon
- Augusta County nixes dumb militia idea
Note: they didn’t declare Augusta County to be a Fourth Amendment sanctuary.
That’s the one we should all be striving to make sure is enforced.
I suspect The Supes are playing this game because of heat they fear they may have brought upon themselves for being so vocal in opposing the ICE detention center, which the Trumpers in DC had to have thought was a natural – I mean, we got ourselves an empty prison, Augusta County is 70 percent-plus Trump, what’s the issue here?
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NIMBY, is the issue – turns out, our folks here are all for rounding up millions of brown-skinned people; we just don’t want that business going on here.
Which seems to also explain the Board sticking its nose in the VMI matter.
The BOS passed separate resolutions at its meeting last week to note its opposition to legislation making its way through the General Assembly, one regarding the governance of VMI, a second bill on the proposed creation of a task force to look into how the state-supposed university did, or rather, didn’t, respond to a 2021 investigative report finding, among other things, that racial slurs and jokes among cadets were “not uncommon,” that the school “maintains an outdated, idealized reverence for the Civil War and the Confederacy,” and that “sexual assault is prevalent at VMI, yet it is inadequately addressed by the Institute.”
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Boiling things down here: our BOS doesn’t want the state to check if VMI has taken steps to root out systematic racism and rampant sexual assault on the post.
“I’m coming under the whole adage of, If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, and they’ve been operating for 186 years,” said Riverheads District Supervisor Michael Shull. “I do think we need to take a stand on this, just like every other county is doing along with us, so that they can see that we’re in opposition to it.”
To Shull, and the county BOS, continued racial slurs, jokes and reverence for the Confederacy, and prevalent sexual assault, is VMI indicating that it “ain’t broke,” so there’s no need to “fix” anything down there.
Don’t get me wrong, the folks on the BOS sincerely believe there ain’t nothin’ broke at VMI, and that what Fox News tells them about Democrats coming for your guns is infinitely more important than what we’re not doing for county kids when it comes to their dramatically underfunded educations.
Putting the racism and misogyny in writing was about trying to get Stephen Miller to aim elsewhere when the Trumpers decide to invade Virginia, now that they’re done with Minnesota.
We voted for the leopards to eat other people’s faces, not ours, is the message.
Video: Augusta County BOS leaders spout off
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