"the gerrymandering abyss" is the name of my politics-themed sex tape

Whoever ends up on the democratic ticket in 2028 needs to know that we are a nation of single issue voters and that issue is “destroy the Republican Party and put the entire Trump administration in prison for the rest of their lives”.

2026 is the Finding Out election cycle

(2029) GOP: noooo you can't send the DOJ and IRS after our groups THAT'S CHEATING 😭 Dems: Ha-ha! indictments machine goes brrrrrrr

the true force that will reunite the Popular Front is conservative whining

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.

Drone strikes for faux health influencers

REDISTRICT EVERYTHING ESCALATE TO DE-ESCALATE GERRYMANDER EVERY SINGLE STATE IMMEDIATELY CREATE A DELICATE BALANCE OF TERROR NOW RESTORE DETTERENCE

if you want a vision of the future, imagine multi-member districts, stamping on a human face, forever

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

"we won the map," says the bitter GOP rancher the cows nod their heads in agreement and the sagebrush whispers its assent

it's a good year to completely take away the voice of conservatives in the federal government, ladies

the dividing line amongst democrats is basically do you view republicans as existential threats to the country or do you view them as sparring partners. it’s 2026. cuck democrats can either get on board or get primaried

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

Voters in the state where everyone is "Lawful" in the alignment chart just passed a partisan retaliatory gerrymander, we are going to win.

the only reason why this isn't a pure "me sowing/me reaping" situation is that Republicans don't really believe you're *allowed* to fuck with their votes. They're supposed to be protected, not bound! Disabusing them of this notion will be one of the great pleasures of my life.

Virginia:

THAT'S RIGHT REPUBLICANS

most gerrymanders are republican legislators saying fuck the voters these ones are the voters saying fuck republican legislators

strongest Democratic leader: "when we retake Congress, there will be hearings on this!" weakest Democratic voter: "they send one of yours to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the morgue"

"I fell for lies and bait, but it really says something that it seemed plausible!" it says you're a fucking moron

"I believed I was right, I still believe I'm right, and I'm right"

I think the "red mirage" driver of 2020 election denialism is overblown. People weren't watching cable voting returns the night of the election. The guy they like lied and said the election was stolen, and they made up a story to justify that. If it wasn't "red mirage" it would be some other shit

breaking news: being just and following rules earns temporal reward; cynics in shambles

It appears that there's a level of elision here between "revenge" and "a proportional response in a conflict that advances strategic aims"

in an iterated prisoner's dilemma you cooperate until someone defects persistently, and then you play tit-for-tat

When they've chosen friend-enemy politics, those are the politics we have now. We don't get to opt out. We just have to win, beat them until they stop moving, and then we can have a normal democratic conversation again.

Yorkists overthrowing Henry VI in 1461:

Marky threatening me with a good time

the core conviction of the modern right is that it not only should be, but already is, illegal to be woke

my friends you can go on Google Gemini right now - the one on your web browser - and ask it to write you a blog post like Jamelle Bouie you are lamenting an oncoming storm that arrived a year ago

it's bad to lie about things. even if people retweet it. even if it pushes the discourse in the direction you feel like it should go. even if you feel like it expresses a deeper truth. even if the people around you are repeating the lie. it's bad to lie!

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If the nickname I had acquired was “taco”, I would simply not set deadlines for tuesdays

did you remember to put on the codex that it's illegal to break the law? well, see, there's your problem, buddy

Come out, Virginia, don't let me wait Head to the polls to redistrict your state Vote YES on the measure to hand Trump his fate You might as well be the one

if you live in Virginia go out and vote Yes so i can live in the lobster district

Girls mechanize farming and get more charming, boys pray to Jupiter and get more stupider.

anti-wellness checkpoint: put water in the sink for your dishes and don't do anything about them. if you smoke cigs, light up indoors. have some crackers in bed. Go sign up for a bunch of apps you don't want. tell a stranger their dog or baby looks ugly and talentless

god dammit the one good thing Trump has done his entire term is continually sending his little pig man to eat shit in public and now we're not even getting that?

I had to make this

the right has exactly one strategy for bringing down health care costs: what if, when some people get sick, they don't get health care?

the wildly unpopular policy I would institute if I were dictator for a day is Australian-style mandatory voting (you can turn in a spoiled ballot, but you must sign and return your ballot).

I'm certainly not opposed to punishing these soldiers, but it is hard not to notice that they're facing harsher punishment than IDF soldiers who committed document war crimes against human civilians. www.cnn.com/2026/04/21/m...

never make the mistake of believing that because fascists are threatening they are also good at their jobs. they are incompetent buffoons. they are filled with ressentiment *because* they are incompetent buffons. fascist movements, governments, are doomed to collapse because of their dumbfuckery.

this dumbass is pissing on our founding fathers’ graves! george washington ordered the continental army be inoculated against smallpox 251 years ago

"vote blue no matter who" includes sewer socialists www.liberalcurrents.com/vote-blue-no...

Replying to @apogean.bsky.social Marry, a world of supplements for a single drop of valor! I knew a man who took such a potion and grew so potent he fathered a calf in Cheapside; the calf sued for maintenance, and the man for bankruptcy.