Spanberger tells rural Virginia to drop dead

[JoeB131]

Bullshit. The democrat party has gerrymandered the shit out of every state they could.

The repubs are merely trying to fight back.

Both parties are doing it. Texas was just trying to do more gerrymandering on top of what they are already doing.

And it's not particularly helpful, given they might be creating more swing districts by mistake.

 

[JoeB131]

What a sick approach.
I know family farmers. Yeah, it's a struggle but they're doing well. Of course you hate corporations because you're a Communist.
I'm not terribly fond of them for other reasons.
But the point is you're wrong as always.

California, the Shit Center of America, was seriously considering banning them. I don't know if it passed. That state is so g.d. dumb, I can't keep up with all the Stupid that emanates from that Shit Center.
And, yeah, tampons in boys' bathrooms is just ffucking sick. But you'd approve of that, wouldn't you?

So, um, no one actually banned grills. (They did limit where you could operate a grill due to fire safety.)

The cisgender boys don't need them, but transgender boys might.

How is that affecting you in any way?

I'm betting you are the one who got upset when they ended segregated water fountains.

Transgender. Opposite of nature. Words mean things.

A low infant mortality rate is contrary to nature, guy. Living into your 70s is contrary to nature.

 

[Augustine_]

And so are the Republicans. Trump isn't even trying to hide the graft.

Pedophiles, though; he'll start wars to hide them.

 

[Lockback]

So, um, no one actually banned grills. (They did limit where you could operate a grill due to fire safety.)

California considered banning outdoor grills because of "global warming". Ffucking idiot assholes.

The cisgender boys don't need them, but transgender boys might.

You are now officially an idiot. A moron.
NO TRANSGENDER BOY CAN MENSTRUATE!
Just how ******* dumb are you?
How brainwashed by the Democrat Party/Far Left?
You just proved that you are a complete moron. You have ZERO credibility.
Don't ever bother to challenge me again.
You don't deserve a response.

How is that affecting you in any way?

I'm betting you are the one who got upset when they ended segregated water fountains.

GFY, asshole.

A low infant mortality rate is contrary to nature, guy. Living into your 70s is contrary to nature.

No it's not, you g.d. liar. The average white male in my state lives to be 76.
You're insane. You are a pathological liar, totally unhinged from reality.
Idiot.

 

[Lockback]

Pedophiles, though; he'll start wars to hide them.

Liar.

 

[westwall]

Both parties are doing it. Texas was just trying to do more gerrymandering on top of what they are already doing.

And it's not particularly helpful, given they might be creating more swing districts by mistake.

Democrats perfected it decades ago. There are 5 states with 40 percent of the population being republican and NO REPRESENTATION.

You are full of crap.

 

[JoeB131]

California considered banning outdoor grills because of "global warming". Ffucking idiot assholes.

Considered, not actually done.

Global Warming is a real problem. Even Republicans used to realize this until the Cult took over. Melting glaciers, shrinking ice caps, dying coral reefs; these are all huge ecological problems if you understand science.

You are now officially an idiot. A moron.
NO TRANSGENDER BOY CAN MENSTRUATE!

Actually, not true, as a transmasculine boy still has the female parts if he is pre-operative.

GFY, asshole.

You are kind of proving my point by your next sentence, where you think that "average white male" living longer is a good thing. (Why that qualification?)

No it's not, you g.d. liar. The average white male in my state lives to be 76.

Yeah, today. What was the life expectancy in 1900?

It was 49 years.

 

[braalian]

MSN

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has pursued a maximalist partisan agenda since being sworn into office. She is making housing, healthcare, and energy all more expensive. But nothing she has done so far is as insulting as the language her party attached to its ballot referendum to disenfranchise millions of rural Republican voters this April.

Six years ago, Virginia voters overwhelmingly passed a Constitutional Amendment creating a bipartisan Virginia Redistricting Commission. That commission drew a congressional map that was objectively fair. In 2024, when Vice President Kamala Harris won 52% of the vote to President Donald Trump’s 46%, the resulting congressional delegation was 55% Democratic (six seats) and 45% Republican (five seats).

It could not be fairer than that.

Now Spanberger and her Democratic Party majorities in the Virginia House and Senate intend to change the commonwealth’s congressional map radically in a distinctly unrepresentative manner. By cramming as many rural Republican voters as possible into one western congressional district, and extending the reach of overwhelmingly Democratic suburban Washington, D.C. voters far into rural Virginia, Democrats have changed a fair and representative 6-5 congressional map into a lopsided and undemocratic 10-1 Democratic advantage.

Voters in deep blue Arlington County, across the river from DC, would select congressmen for voters in deep red Augusta County on the West Virginia border. Voters in deep blue Fairfax County would be in the same district as voters in the Shenandoah Valley. There is no logical or policy reason for these changes. The voters in the new districts share no media markets and live hours apart. These changes would only be made for purely partisan reasons.

To add insult to injury, Spanberger and her Democratic allies have written the language that appears on the ballot in the most dishonest and partisan way possible. Instead of admitting that they want to throw out bipartisan maps and use partisan ones, the description on the ballot asks, “Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia's standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?”

Fairness? There is nothing “fair” or honest about taking a map that matches the partisan outcome of the last presidential election and replacing it with a map that favors Democrats by a 10-1 margin.

Virginia Democrats claim, like children, that since Trump “started it” by calling on Texas to change their maps, Democrats should retaliate by changing their maps, too. But this argument ignores two facts. First, before Texas moved to change its map, the states with the most gerrymandered maps were all Democratic. Despite only 55% of voters choosing Democrats in 2024, 82% of Illinois House seats went to Democrats. In California, 83% of House seats were under Democratic control while Democrats only got 59% of the vote statewide. In New Jersey, 75% of House seats belong to Democrats, while the party secured only 52% of the seats statewide.

Second, the Census Bureau has admitted it bungled the 2020 Census, overcounting people in Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Rhode Island (all Democratic states), while undercounting in Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas (all Republican states), costing Republicans six House seats. None of these facts made their way onto the ballot wording of Spanberger’s proposed Virginia constitutional amendment.

Democrats nationally, not just in Virginia, have been asking themselves how they lost rural America and what they can do to get it back. Perhaps the party ought to consider that disenfranchising millions of rural voters with blatantly partisan congressional maps is a step in the wrong direction.

Early voting has started for the proposed change and I'm not seeing any Vote Yes signs in my AO, only Vote No signs.

It must not look too good for the dems because I'm already hearing that they are going to try to use the courts to nullify a poor result if the voters shoot it down.

And if your side had won, and they told Arlington/DC suburbs to go to hell you’d be 100% okay with it

 

[westwall]

Considered, not actually done.

Global Warming is a real problem. Even Republicans used to realize this until the Cult took over. Melting glaciers, shrinking ice caps, dying coral reefs; these are all huge ecological problems if you understand science.





Actually, not true, as a transmasculine boy still has the female parts if he is pre-operative.


You are kind of proving my point by your next sentence, where you think that "average white male" living longer is a good thing. (Why that qualification?)



Yeah, today. What was the life expectancy in 1900?

It was 49 years.

No it isn't. Global warming is beneficial to all life on this planet.

 

[braalian]

No it isn't. Global warming is beneficial to all life on this planet.

Try telling that to people in Phoenix or Dallas

 

[1srelluc]

And if your side had won, and they told Arlington/DC suburbs to go to hell you’d be 100% okay with it

But why?

I suspect we would just have left them to their own devices as usual.

 

[westwall]

Try telling that to people in Phoenix or Dallas

Oh? They dying in Phoenix?

Try NOT BUILDING HUGE CITIES IN DESERTS!

Dallas is in trouble thanks to democrat policies. The towns around Dallas are doing great.

You should try driving to those places to learn about them.

 

[1srelluc]

Try telling that to people in Phoenix or Dallas

No idea of what'd going on in Dallas but whatever it is I bet it's caused by dems.

 

[JoeB131]

No it isn't. Global warming is beneficial to all life on this planet.

Um, no, actually, it isn't.

Besides rising seal levels, you have increased droughts in the Global South (Part of the reason why so many of them are fleeing to the US and Europe.

Iran's current economic crisis, which Trump is making worse with a rudderless military campaign, was triggered by a drought reducing available water on the Iranian plateau. (No snow in the mountains in Winter means no water in the spring.)

 

[braalian]

besides, republicans have absolutely no right to complain about gerrymandering….

 

[JoeB131]

Oh? They dying in Phoenix?

Try NOT BUILDING HUGE CITIES IN DESERTS!

Dallas is in trouble thanks to democrat policies. The towns around Dallas are doing great.

You should try driving to those places to learn about them.

The Republican Mantras.

"I got mine, screw you."

"It's always someone else's fault."

 

[hadit]

It’s an analogy. Tit for tat is the best strategy here.

Dems told Republicans they’d respond in kind if Texas and other states went forth with their unprecedented redistricting campaigns.

There are consequences for misbehaving.

Tit for tat.

Smashing a kid with a rock for stealing a toy is not tit for tat. Your analogy is wrong.

It's sounds like you're saying that petty revenge is an acceptable political strategy. Welcome to being Donald TRUMP!. Congratulations, you are becoming just like him. Enjoy your status.

This just means that, should the democrats seize the Senate, you should say it's perfectly acceptable for the Republicans to shut down the government until they get tax and spending cuts. We look forward to you championing their cause. After all, there are consequences for misbehaving.

 

[westwall]

Um, no, actually, it isn't.

Besides rising seal levels, you have increased droughts in the Global South (Part of the reason why so many of them are fleeing to the US and Europe.

Iran's current economic crisis, which Trump is making worse with a rudderless military campaign, was triggered by a drought reducing available water on the Iranian plateau. (No snow in the mountains in Winter means no water in the spring.)

What rising sea levels? There ARE NONE. What increased droughts? California has a history of droughts going back over 1200 years. Scientists have identified two droughts within that period that lasted over two hundred years.

What we are experiencing is nothing compared to that.

But that's science, and we all know you people don't do science.

 

[braalian]

 

[hadit]

besides, republicans have absolutely no right to complain about gerrymandering….

They have as much right as anyone else to complain about it, since both parties have been doing it for decades. You do know that, right?