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There are bills pending to dissolve the governing Board of Visitors, move the school under the control of some HBCU, and launch a witch hunt to determine if enough has been done to eradicate "lost cause" ideology. If these are passed it will destroy VMI. The Dept. of War is looking into this as VMI is a senior military college.

They'll probably change it to a military college that only accepts DEI type applicants to further change the future of our military.

Elections have consequences.

Colonel Kurtz said:

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Elections have consequences.

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So true. And if the GOP doesn't get off of their lazy asses this **** will continue across the country.

A VMI man is in a class of his own. Would be tragic for them to destroy VMI.

Exactly. They ran one of the worst candidates in gubernatorial history.

VA needs to be a stern lesson to the rest of the country

This woman ran as a moderate but the second she was elected the Democrats went full bore on seizing complete and total control over the state and and entrenching themselves permanently all while pushing the most insane far left agenda they could

NEVER believe a Dem candidate promising to be a moderate

Attended a unique (at the time) summer camp for those from the Corps going into the military upon graduation.

The only schools that could send cadets were from Norwich, VPI, VMI, The Citadel, and Texas A&M.

Maroon Dawn said:

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VA needs to be a stern lesson to the rest of the country

This woman ran as a moderate but the second she was elected the Democrats went full bore on seizing complete and total control over the state and and entrenching themselves permanently all while pushing the most insane far left agenda they could

NEVER believe a Dem candidate promising to be a moderate

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Just don't believe any dem candidate

There is NO SUCH THING as a moderate democrat any more.

VarkAg77 said:

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Attended a unique (at the time) summer camp for those from the Corps going into the military upon graduation.

The only schools that could send cadets were from Norwich, VPI, VMI, The Citadel, and Texas A&M.

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Was this different from the ROTC advanced camp at Ft. Riley?

Maroon Dawn said:

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This woman ran as a moderate but the second she was elected the Democrats went full bore on seizing complete and total control over the state and and entrenching themselves permanently all while pushing the most insane far left agenda they could

NEVER believe a Dem candidate promising to be a moderate

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Yep. The VA Dems/Libs are going Warp Speed to ram through as many Dem/Lib Policies as they can before the residents actually wake up and realize what is being done to them. The Damage will be done and nearly impossible to undo.

They want to make VA another solid blue state and a blue suburb to D.C.

Jarrin Jay said:

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There is NO SUCH THING as a moderate democrat any more.

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We know that

But the squishy normies are all too eager to believe a Dem who runs as a moderate Republican

identify a respected institution...

we know the rest

Maroon Dawn said:

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VA needs to be a stern lesson to the rest of the country

This woman ran as a moderate but the second she was elected the Democrats went full bore on seizing complete and total control over the state and and entrenching themselves permanently all while pushing the most insane far left agenda they could

NEVER believe a Dem candidate promising to be a moderate

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And this is exactly what they will do at the federal level if given the chance.

That's why Republicans don't need to be shy or worried about retribution for enacting conservative polices for fear of the blowback down the road. We already know what will happen. They need to nut up, enact as conservative a policy agenda as possible, and do everything they can to win elections. It's a full blown war, and the opponent is playing for keeps this time. They won't hold back, so we need to beat them to the punch while we hold the executive and legislative branches. End the filibuster in the Senate if that's what it takes. That's what they will do next time they have it.

e=mc2 said:

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Colonel Kurtz said:

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Elections have consequences.

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So true. And if the GOP doesn't get off of their lazy asses this **** will continue across the country.

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GOP are a bunch of *******s. We need to apply pressure and elect candidates with political will in the face of the looney circus.

e=mc2 said:

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Colonel Kurtz said:

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Elections have consequences.

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So true. And if the GOP doesn't get off of their lazy asses this **** will continue across the country.

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Half of the GOP is too busy being offended by silly memes accidentally posted by Trump staffers to do much of anything worthwhile.

It seems like my expectations for them get lowered on a weekly basis.

So loons on both sides are now interfering in the way universities are run. The right is burying TX institutions while the left is over in VA doing it. Yay arms races between crazies!

As it turns out, they had their own experience getting rid of a marxist professor, then they failed to renew the contract for a DEI loving commandant (who happened to be black). Of course, there's this little video of the reaction of the cadets to Trump winning reelection:

Colonel Kurtz said:

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Exactly. They ran one of the worst candidates in gubernatorial history.

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You say that on every single Virginia thread.

How about you tell us why for once.

TA-OP said:

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So loons on both sides are now interfering in the way universities are run. The right is burying TX institutions while the left is over in VA doing it. Yay arms races between crazies!

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Holy false equivalency. Texas A&M is simply demanding faculty follow state/federal DEI laws. Nobody is talking about disolving the Board of Regents and turning over control of the University to some other quasi-governmental agency.

Rubicante said:

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A VMI man is in a class of his own. Would be tragic for them to destroy VMI.

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Someone has to be collateral damage of the left.

DevilD77 said:

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VarkAg77 said:

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Attended a unique (at the time) summer camp for those from the Corps going into the military upon graduation.

The only schools that could send cadets were from Norwich, VPI, VMI, The Citadel, and Texas A&M.

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Was this different from the ROTC advanced camp at Ft. Riley?

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I'm sure the course was very similar, just the players were all members of a (full time) Corps of Cadets, and it was at Eglin AFB in Florida. We all had to bring our dress uniforms for the graduation ceremony. It was very cool to see all the other uniforms.

Jarrin Jay said:

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There is NO SUCH THING as a moderate democrat any more.

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Bottom line. The Democrat party is a Marxist party to its core.

Hopefully DOW can blunt any potential damage. I've gotten to know quite a few damn good guys/officers from VMI over the years. They produce solid officers as far as I'm concerned.

They also passed today a vote to have VA join the national popular vote coalition which will award their electors to the winner of the national popular vote.

TA-OP said:

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So loons on both sides are now interfering in the way universities are run. The right is burying TX institutions while the left is over in VA doing it. Yay arms races between crazies!

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Texas A&M was built by old fashioned conservative values. It's time we got back to that.

4stringAg said:

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They also passed today a vote to have VA join the national popular vote coalition which will award their electors to the winner of the national popular vote.

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Unless a republican wins. And then they'll frantically change the law before electoral college meets.

It's helpful if you stop using made up words. "Radical Left" = communist. She's a communist.

ALL democrats are marxists.

Marxists are satans children.

It has, unfortunately, become a political football. And it all started with Governor Blackface himself who, as a VMI graduate, should have done more to protect his school rather than turn it over to the whims of the racists of his bottom-feeding party

There was a lot of anger towards VMI's Superintendent, MG Wins. Much of it justified. But I wonder if Youngkin and the Board of Visitors would have been better served retaining him rather than moving on after the contract expired. With Northern Virginia a leftist cesspool loaded with politicians out for blood against any institution deemed enemies of their particular Maoist philosophy, VMI needed a period to cool things down rather than get put back in the bullseye. They never got it.

I would loathe knowing The Institute was never to be heard from again. It has done much good for this nation.

Think SECWAR will need to step in and take the necessary measures protecting George Marshall's alma mater from destruction. Sure as hell looks like Skankberger is out to kill it or render it a community college for a second rate HBCU.

I've been following the saga since 2020 when all of America became super racist all of a sudden following the death of St. Floyd.

There was a writer at the Washington Post named Ian Shapira who wrote several articles about how unjustly VMI had treated Blacks and women.

Shapira dug deep and found very little.

VMI has a strict honor code and one of his charges was that Black cadets are unfairly targeted for dismissal from the Institute when they are charged with honor code violations.

No different than Texas A&M, a large percentage of the Black cadets at VMI are athletes. A large percentage of the athletes don't really care for all the military business with VMI, they just want to play a sport, especially if they're on scholarship.

The simple math says that the real correlation to look for with dismissal from VMI wasn't race but, whether they were athletes or not. But never mind that. Racism was an easy sale in 2020.

And by the way, Governor Northam ("Coonman") was not only a VMI alum, he had been President of the Honor Court.

VMI winds up with the dismissal of the Superintendent (GEN Peay - who led the 101st ABN in Desert Storm) and they bring in MG Wins who still holds some of the basketball records from the 1980s.

They removed the Stonewall Jackson statue and removed his quote from "Jackson Arch" and renamed the entryway to barracks.

So, racism solved, right?

Luckily, I grabbed a few pics of the Stonewall Jackson statue when I was there in June 2020 to get my daughter's stuff from the barracks once Northam allowed the cadets back on Post after the March 2020 Covid closure.

Obviously not good enough and with the election of Youngkin, VMI had a bit of a reprieve.

But now that the Democrats are back in power, they're full on targeting VMI as a symbol.

There is a proposal in front of the VA legislature to transfer all of VMIs assets to Virginia State University (a HBCU) and to make VMI a child college of VSU.
https://www.vmialumni.org/landing/mobilize-for-vmi-speak-up-for-state-support/bill-information/

It is absolutely insane.

There are people hoping that either VMI will go private, or maybe Hegseth / Trump will somehow federalize VMI and make it a Service Academy.

It's all very nuts and does nothing for the mission of the Institute.

There is even fearmongering out there about the Institute being dissolved and athletic commits not wanting to go to VMI due to the uncertain future of their athletic scholarships.

TLDR; you can't hate Democrats enough

TA-OP said:

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So loons on both sides are now interfering in the way universities are run. The right is burying TX institutions while the left is over in VA doing it. Yay arms races between crazies!

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Texas institutions are getting back to educating instead of indoctrinating. Sorry that hurts your feelings.

It occurred to me last night that a significant portion of the Virginia economy is from federal spending, especially defense spending. I'd bet Hegseth could bring this bull**** to an end by threatening to redirect a big portion of that funding to other states if they don't leave VMI alone.