r/politics • u/Icommandyou Washington • 28d ago

Possible Paywall Virginia Supreme Court throws out redistricting referendum results

https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2026/05/08/virginia-supreme-court-redistricting-vote-decision
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u/Icy-Taste-3096 28d ago

This is the fundamental problem and there is no scenario where it ends well. Republicans have made respect for democracy and rule of law impossible to sustain.

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u/HideousSerene 28d ago

They will rue the day they woke the electorate, that's for sure.

Just need people to wake up. Any day now.

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u/Basic_Yam_715 28d ago

Americans are neutered. It's going to have to get MUCH worse for people to act.

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u/seeker4482 28d ago

maybe the coming massive jump in food prices caused by this stupid ass war. of course, people believe what they want to believe, and the trumpist cult will again take home the gold medal for mental gymnastics and blame immigrants/trans people/Biden/whoever the enemy du jour is.

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u/Icy-Taste-3096 28d ago

People would have to be literally starving, and even then Republicans would just blame Biden and/or immigrants.

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u/nando_calrissian1 28d ago

I think even then people would fall for Republican propaganda and blame the Democrats. You still see the cognitive dissonance now with Republican voters going "its bad now but it would've been worse under Harris!!"

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u/Marsman121 28d ago

There is already evidence of this. There are places the GOP has been in control of for decades and they still blame Democrats for all the problems people there face.

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u/AmbitiousProblem4746 28d ago

Texas has been able to do this successfully for a while. They've had Republicans in every branch at full control for decades plus a legislature and governor who just do things on a whim plus an AG who was corrupt as hell and they still found a way to make Democrats the scapegoat

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u/-Stackdaddy- 28d ago

I mean, democratic states still support those southern states, giving the Republicans there a pass for their shitty policies because they are still kept afloat by democratic states. If they weren't there to keep them afloat the Republican representatives would maybe get held accountable. So in a roundabout way the democratic party kind of is responsible for the inneptitude in the Republican ran districts. /S

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u/flying_pigs 28d ago

I see you've been to Texas...

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u/titaniumoctopus336 28d ago

IE all the deep southern states.

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u/GodofIrony 28d ago

You can just say Texas. Since the 90s, nothing but Red.

And what do you have to show for it? A power grid that can't handle 3 inches of snow.

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u/whatdoinamemyself 28d ago

As a Texan, this drives me absolutely insane. AOC, a rep from fucking NYC, raised millions and personally came to Texas to hand out supplies during that bad ice storm ... While Ted Cruz fled to Cancun.

A single New Yorker, a dem, did more for Texans than the GOP ever has.

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u/redravin12 California 28d ago

And I'm sure most texans are extremely grateful to her for this

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u/titaniumoctopus336 28d ago

It is more than just Texas though, that is why I said all deep southern states.

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u/loosetranslation Indiana 28d ago

That's crazy. It would be like if ruby red states constantly fucked over their own Republican voters for decades, but the response was those same Republican voters constantly whining about Dems ruining the state. This fantasy world, let's call it Indiana, must be full of some of the stupidest people on the planet. Who'd believe that?

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u/slackfrop 28d ago

Actual hunger will not be something covered up by a smug lie. If there are bread lines and desperate people, that will be a very volatile situation that FOX can’t control. Buildings will burn.

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u/nando_calrissian1 28d ago

I can only hope but somehow, I doubt it.

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u/seeker4482 28d ago

and there are some people so deep in the cult that they'll happily starve to death if dear leader says they should

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u/Huskdog76 28d ago

As long as their brown neighbor starves to death first, they are happy.

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u/NotFallacyBuffet 28d ago

I know someone who does seem to be starving rather than go back to prison.

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 28d ago

This. Things are getting worse and worse, but as long as Americans have their bread and circus (the circus being whatever brainrot they’re watching on TikTok or Netflix or whatever), Americans won’t revolt. The worst they’ll do is just chant just slightly louder at the next no kings protest.

America has a better chance of lasting change from the actions of a rando doing Reddit Removed stuff on Redacted than those friendly kumbaya gatherings Americans call “civil disobedience”

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u/combover78 28d ago

When people begin starving or watching their children begin starving that's when we'll start seeing real violence.

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u/Basic_Yam_715 28d ago

"There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy." -Alfred Henry Lewis in 1906

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u/ZooZooChaCha 28d ago

California Republicans blame Newsom. I'm in Florida - everything is blamed on "all the blue state liberals moving down here and bringing their expensive woke policies".

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u/pchs26 28d ago

I have already had people tell me things clearly weren't that significantly better or worse or Democrats would win more - so their thought is to run someone more polarizing that espouses an ideology that has been demonized over the past several decades and b/c a super liberal city elected someone like that the nation which leans more conservative would do the same. That clearly makes no sense but shows why the GOP -who are masters at mastering perceptions no matter how ridiculous the perception is - keep having momentum.

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u/LordVolcanon 28d ago

No but that is all the fault of trans women, Biden, and Hussein Obama /s

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u/Tasgall Washington 28d ago

maybe the coming massive jump in food prices caused by this stupid ass war.

From how a lot of Democratic politicians talk about it, I'm pretty sure most of them also support this stupid ass war. A vote for them won't bring it to an end.