honestly this is why the House is the superior body lol

It is impressive, in the current age of widespread shameful debasing of reputations in the face of far right authoritarianism, that no organization in the country has debased itself more or fallen further than the once great Washington Post.

I genuinely don’t recall reporting like this, focused on angry Dems in Houston or Austin, when this all kicked off in Texas (without any ballot initiative or referendum).

Democrats did not step back. We fought back. When they go low, we hit back hard. We won Prop 50 in California, reclaimed a seat in Utah, pushed back extremists in Ohio and halted toxic GOP efforts in Indiana, New Hampshire, Nebraska and Kansas. Tonight, thanks to the relentless work of Virginia Democrats, led by Governor Abigail Spanberger, Speaker Don Scott, State Majority Leader Scott Surovell and President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, “YES” won and Donald Trump lost. Virginians spoke with a crystal-clear voice, voting to stop the MAGA power grab and protect the integrity of free and fair elections. This war is not over. Next week, Ron DeSantis is hauling the Florida legislature back into a special session to redraw maps because Republicans know they are on the verge of an epic defeat in November. DeSantis is clearly more interested in illegal gerrymandering than lowering the high cost of living or fixing our broken healthcare system. Right now, nearly 5 million Floridians are facing higher premiums because Republicans failed to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. If Florida Republicans proceed with this illegal scheme, they will only create more prime pick-up opportunities for Democrats, just as they did with Trump’s dummymander in Texas. We will aggressively target for defeat Mario Díaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Giménez, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, Laurel Lee, Cory Mills and Brian Mast. We are prepared to take them all on, and we are prepared to win. Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.”

Hakeem Jeffries puts out a FAFO:

"We will aggressively target for defeat Mario Díaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Giménez, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, Laurel Lee, Cory Mills and Brian Mast....

Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time"

Eh I mean these guys are all swimming in “the Rothschild-Soros-USAID-CIA cabal overthrew Ukraine’s government with a Jewmagic coup d’état to attack based trad stronk Russia with globohomo” wastewater, it’s consistent

Their Putinist sympathies make them hate CIA about as much as it is possible to

GOP - *gerrymanders*

DEMS - hey stop that no fair

GOP - *gerrymanders even more*

DEMS - we mean it we’re gonna sue

SCOTUS - *legalizes gerrymandering completely*

DEMS - *start gerrymandering*

GOP - HEY STOP THAT NO FAIR!!!! 😭

I feel like this and many other things are sleeper issues in a Maslow's hierarchy of needs sense. We all know the corruption is outrageous and not hard to find, but we're predominantly preoccupied with an insane war in Iran or an insane pedophile ring or an insane domestic deployment of troops.

If you think spanberger is a radical, I fear the future is going to be more spooky

I just want to shut them up forever.

These people stub their toe or run out of paper towels and immediately write an OpEd bemoaning the collapse of Western Civilization and demanding that the army drown the streets in the blood of degenerates, it is so profoundly tedious.

okay look... this is very good

One big political divide is between people who believe germs cause disease and people who believe Those People cause disease. It was pretty evident right away during the pandemic

REDISTRICT EVERYTHING

ESCALATE TO DE-ESCALATE

GERRYMANDER EVERY SINGLE STATE IMMEDIATELY

CREATE A DELICATE BALANCE OF TERROR NOW

RESTORE DETTERENCE

AOC talking to RFK Jr. Her facial and hand gesture has the spiritual energy of that Italian hand gesture where you pinch your fingers and wave your hand (the "ma che vuo" gesture).

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

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

It seems like only yesterday that we were being told that there was nothing undemocratic about bending the rules to entrench your power. 😔

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.

DEl speedwagon EM @uhs...•51m X I loathe Spanberger as much as she loathes people like me but I do appreciate that she appears to be governing Virginia like Benjamin Butler governed the military dictatorship of Union-occupied New Orleans The Political HQ • @ThePolitica... • 1h € BREAKING F The Virginia Redistricting Amendment has passed. This changes Virginia's congressional maps from a 6-5 Democratic split to a 10- 1 Democratic split, representing a four-seat gain for Democrats.

the cool thing about being a progressive normielib is that I can just say “this is awesome” instead of doing a bunch of throat clearing about loathing Spanberger before I praise her for obliterating 4 Republican seats

Give L. Louise Lucas an armored division

The day the cops beat on a car dealership owner's kid is that day that the world becomes a better place.

Next up in the “fuck you traditional republican district” bucket list: treating rural counties the way state legislatures in Missouri, Texas, etc treat their cities

It’s his day

i think a lot of dem elites are still addicted to bipartisanship brain, compromise brain, antipolitics brain

thank the numbers the dem base is kicking that noxious habit

If this isn't your baseline state of existence you've got no business being in the admin that's going to be inaugurated at 1200 20 Jan 29

Fuck what you heard, revenge is good actually

the entire conservative worldview is "I'm allowed to do whatever I want to anyone but everyone else has to do exactly what I want because I'm the only person who matters"

Republicans have behaved with such inhumanity that people are seeing them as inhuman. They get treated as inhumans. This is entirely self inflicted.