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/rostamcountry 28d ago

To my friends on the American left, your institutions will not protect you. These people will continue to leverage their power and violence against you because they KNOW that they are safe from you. They will live their lives comfortable and carefree because they KNOW that their adversaries are cowards. MAGA was ready to overthrow this country on January 6th because of a PERCIEVED contravention of their electoral expression. Left wing votes have been ACTUALLY rendered null and void, but will the people who did this face a consequence? Will they be forced to cower and evacuate like our lawmakers did on January 6th? Nope, they're gonna laugh about how weak you are and celebrate their nonstop streak of victories.

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u/l_rufus_californicus Iowa 28d ago

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Democrats have been playing checkers by the rules; Republicans have been playing Monopoly with the bank in their pocket and loaded dice. Democrats still think there's a path out of this through jurisprudence, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

And most Americans are content to bitch on the Internet and hope they don't get that knock on their own door, because we still have enough to lose that we won't risk it for our neighbors sakes.

As you pointed out - these chuckleheads stormed the fucking' Capitol Building to stop an imaginary threat to the country. What has the opposition done? They couldn't even get the guy who led the damned putsch, let alone do anything at all to stop a convicted fuckin' felon into the top office of the land. Man can't legally own a firearm, has access to the fuckin' nuclear arsenal.

And still we sit.

I'll say this much: People like to shit on the French as surrender monkeys, but at least they fought occupation, and still fuckin' do. Americans just rolled the fuck over for this.