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motmelere's avatar

Watching MJ weep hysterically about this was delicious.

Andy Reed's avatar

Re: the WaPo's indelible, incredible, preternatural hypocritical hysteria:

Monday night on the eve of the Virginia vote I got a pleading message from WaPo asking me to resubscribe "for only $40 a year! (for the first year)." * *("$140 a year thereafter")I wrote back to their marketing division that Jeff Bezos should pay me $40 a week (for the first year) to read his hypocritical crap, and then $140 a week thereafter, since all the good journalists there have left and gone to Substackworld -- to which I subscribe happily.

Then yesterday they wrote me again: just $1 a week!!! for my first year as a subscriber! Which is fucking 25% higher than $40 a year the day before.

Gag.

Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Evan. Yes. Yes. We are going to finish it.

oscarphile's avatar

"It's becoming clearer and clearer that Trump’s 2024 numbers with Hispanic voters didn’t represent some kind of permanent shift."

No, not if his asshole racist posse continues to grab random brown people off the street. (Of course he'll still have the "I came here the RIGHT way" ladder-pullers on his side.)

Not to mention acting like a fucking little bitch to the Pope.

El Generico II's avatar

Sen. Lucas is a Virginia treasurer. In another life she would have won Hater of the Year for a decade straight.

Well Dressed & Incredibly Jen's avatar

It's funny.

When Texas did it- without consulting their voters- it was No Big Deal

But VA does it, with the consent of their voters, and it is The Worst Thing Ever!!!!!

Wonder if WaPo realizes it sounds like a kid caught with a pair of safety scissors while their baby sister has a new "haircut"

Dogfather's avatar

My latest missive to Lurch, currently residing way up don's butt hole:

"Hey John?

Seriously man, go fuck yourself.

No really, go fucking fuck yourself.

Can't wait to vote against you.

Sincerely,

I voted for your sorry ass you piece of shit."

Apollyon Danish's avatar

Maybe don’t spend your time shitposting and being spooge monkeys to everyone all the time and we won’t have to spank you with votes, assholes. But considering there hasn’t been a reasonable, decent Republican in my almost 58 years of farting on this planet, I’m guessing your response is going to post more shit and increase your spooge-monkeyism.

Stulexington's avatar

Best example yet of FAFO.

I also, as a math geek, want to point out that this is super dangerous for the GOP, because gerrymandering requires winning by thin margins, and if they messed up the expected vote counts by even a couple of points, they could accidentally turn their State blue. You know, when vote counts have been 15-20 points left of traditional numbers.

Well Dressed & Incredibly Jen's avatar

you mean like that one special in a "safe" district in Texas that went for a Democrat the other month?

i hate ted cruz's avatar

Bless everyone in Virginia who worked on this, as it made my day.

Shallow state's avatar

53% of Texas voters voted for Ted Cruz, but he's a turd to 100% of them.

Old Man Yells at Cloud's avatar

Turd LIbelz! Turds play an important part of the cycling of nutrients which is critical to the biota on the planet. Ted Cruz serves no useful purpose to anything.

bcb's avatar

I was born in Virginia and have lived here most of my life. It still feels absolutely wild that the friggin' *capital of the confederacy* is now gerrymandering to help black voters.

GH Swell's avatar

It’s like these people never come within three miles of population density higher than a small village. Eg, charlottesville. Or this vote, even Danville. I see their trumpabilia all the time when I drive five minutes out of town, but it’s like they never do the reverse. Maybe there’s some teleportation or memory loss involved.

Well Dressed & Incredibly Jen's avatar

Fucking DANVILLE

That made me lol for hours

Sherry's avatar

They seem so myopic that they simply cannot fathom that people, regular people with a brain, are pissed and do not want to see their democracy shrivel. Clueless isn't even the word for it all.

Lionel “8647” Hutz's avatar

If you want to pay attention to the propagandist of the proven rapist Trump, they are all saying this was a very close election, which means it doesn't count. Just to make sure you understand the numbers:

The Virginia election passed 51.%% to 48.%%.

The greatest landslide in the history of this country was by the proven rapist Trump in 2024, where he won, wait for it, 49.8%-48.3%.

So, we all should start referring to the Virginia election as the greatest landslide for democracy ever. And, heck, it even got a majority of the votes, something the proven rapist Trump never did.

Vic's avatar

I like the way you put things.

Goonemeritus's avatar

How can this be, I heard Trump say that we shouldn't vote to allow the Democrats to redistrict.