sometimes, occasionally, being a demonRAT is very fun

lol. lmao. rofl.

we must build additional housing in NoVA

the other piece of this glorious victory: Black southerners striking back

Oh shut up

Why are the white rural Appalachian mine workers more entitled to my sympathy than Black auto workers in Detroit?

It's not even the fight against climate change that killed coal. Coal died because the fossil fuel industry pivoted to combined cycle natural gas plants. Even the fossil fuel companies don't want it!

The Trump regime has had to *force* coal power plants to stay open. Their operators don't want to. They'd rather stick with natural gas or move on to solar and actually make money. It's a dead industry.

this would be true if anyone gave a shit about coal workers as human beings rather than an empty simulacrum of America's Left Behind White Male Working Class

might as well insult cowboys while you're at it

I think Democrats could, with very little actual fall-out, personally insult every coal industry worker and say they're going to destroy their jobs. Sure, West Virginia will be lost...but it already was.

We should actually just ban the coal industry and be done with it. Almost no lasting negatives.

Disney World employs about twice as many people as the entire coal industry.

Lighting the climate on fire, ruining the environment, and making people sick so that 39,000 Manly Men can stay employed in a dying industry is so dumb.

And don't forget everyone in "The Middle"/"Flyover Country" is a poor, dumb, clueless person, that there are no rich people or liberals/leftists, just blank reactionaries who can't help but do what they do.

I think Covid accelerated it as well. For the first time a generation was asked to exercise actual patience and endurance and a certain type of person went fucking *mental* over that

So, instead, we get endless made-up bullshit stories about poor little Okies in Michigan or Kentucky upset about the factory jobs going away under Nixon and Hillary Clinton doing Tumblrspeak so we don’t have to acknowledge that “para continuar en Español, oprima 2” made them crash out genocidally

THAT'S RIGHT REPUBLICANS

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

It is very, very important that the people who live in Northern Virginia specifically understand the political situation that we are in, and its stakes. This indicates that they do. Hopefully, this is the worst thing they have to do.

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 senate inocculates from consequences, whereas the house is nothing but consequences

honestly this is why the House is the superior body lol

THANK YOU VIRGINIA!

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So many people just need a prozac

I never want to hear any more analysis of mid-day turnout numbers. #VAredistricting

with yet another collapse of Hispanic voters compared to 2024 in Manassas City I rather hope they do, actually

i love how no images are loading so this is a real choose your own adventure for the elections results you want tonight

what if they made the entire administration out of katrina response

No we should definitely tilt the playing field against the fascist party. There's a pretty strong case that we should de facto ban the Republican Party.

At this point this race is completely callable for Yes, though I feel a little silly doing it when No is still leading lol

Loudoun is Yes +23 with 85 percent in lmao

Vance is suffering even worse than Harris did from Biden's unpopularity