it's also remarkable that *no one else in the gop was willing to explain this to him.*

Greg Abbott was in a solid position to tell Trump, "this is probably going to backfire; maybe reconsider."

Abbott has his own power base, and still looks like a solid lock for governor. but nope, wouldn't do it

I think it is particularly significant that this has happened in Virginia. In our national mythology, it was the home of the father of the nation, and the spiritual heart of the so-called "confederacy" and racist movements that take inspiration from it. Today, it is the heart of the empire.

The meta story of the (imminent) Yes win in VA is the total inability of Trump to ever look down the game tree. He was apparently unable to comprehend that Democrats would respond to his push to redistrict in GOP-run states

This same pehenenon is also why we are losing a war to Iran.

gerrymandermogged

I'm sure Alito is fuming about the Virginia vote and itching to strike down the rest of the Voting Rights Act as petty revenge.

But Democrats are likely retaking the House, maybe the Senate, no matter what SCOTUS does now.

Killing the VRA would just be a final insult that speeds court reform.

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

Jeffries threatening “maximum warfare” if Florida redistricts

it's Her Turn

honestly this is why the House is the superior body lol

all these reps suddenly realizing that the Santos precedent (that they helped set!) of voting to expel someone on a bipartisan basis if they're enough of an embarrassment could get them kicked out too is...funny, I guess?

didn't scott presler go immediately from trying to push indiana to gerrymander out all the dems to virginia to complain about democrats gerrymandering?

R/conservative thread meltdown 🧵

every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"

yeah credit where it's due Jeffries is going hard on this, makes me slightly more optimistic he'll be willing to bully the CBC if VRA S2 goes down

Hakeem Jeffries naming specific representatives that they're going to destroy with counter-redistricting (in response to a GOP led initiative in FL) has real "I'm not fucking around, I'm gonna shoot the hostages" energy (laudatory)

lol

Hot take: the open fuck you energy of 10-1 did better than 9-2 would have. L. Louise Lucas was right. Soft-pedaling it wouldn't have sold, "you're goddamn right we are" did.

The GOP entered this redistricting under the rather childish delusion they were going to gerrymander, and nobody would gerrymander them. In TX, MO, and a half dozen other states, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind

Aw did Jake’s friends get cracker patrolled

and they should all continue to eat absolute shit

A lot of you people who used to complain about the imperial boomerang coming back to America are weirdly silent when a CIA officer engineers an election in the way you like.

Curious.

dems be like "everyone needs to vote" no y'all need to CHEAT

my take on the Virginia redistricting results:

(this is complimentary btw)

Kind of struck by how the VA redraw was *extremely* brazen compared to CA

Going from 43-9 to 48-4 is really kind of minor compared to going from 6-5 to 10-1

CA went from 82% —> 92% D seats
VA went from 55% —> 91% D seats

And they released the map in advance! It was kind of insane! lmao

Virginia is for haters now

lmao, Hakeem. this is kinda sick.

very good 👍🏾 keep it up

Passing the legislature twice with an election in between and then also passing a referendum is common but on the more difficult end of state constitutional amendment methods.

it is very funny how these people are so accustomed to essentially bullying democratic politicians that they meltdown when met with appropriate pushback.

in any case, the process to amend the virginia constitution has multiple stages where, at any point, an amendment can be defeated.