Don't forget Mitch Turtle man McConnell and the role he played in getting us here. Also those, hiding in the background with their donations! SHAMEFUL!
💯 I also feel SCOTUS had a hand in this back in 2012 with Citizens United which essential changed the rules of Corp donations - aka bribes, aka purchase the outcome 🤬I sometimes wonder if that was the end result of having a black president. How pathetically sad.
My BLOOD IS BOILING 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬!! Capitol Police should be reorganized & given Authority to Arrest & Hold THE LAWLESS GOP WHO ARE BEHOLDEN TO TRUMP INCLUDING tRumpf, that regime called a cabinet and every damn j6 criminal with every other person who pled guilty to their crimes who was not pressured by dirty cops that he pardoned !! And don’t announce it !! Just do it damn it !!
You are really rude, and I'm really tired of it. You don't know what we are doing as individuals you don't know what we are doing in our neighborhoods. You have a good name for yourself. I don't have a problem with standing up to people but they do have a problem with being just as rude to my neighbors as other neighbors want to be. We can be civil and still be tough and strong and stand up to these ill-informed conservatives. So ask the right people this morning on the radio on PBS I was listening to people saying no more when they go, low we go high! That was Michelle Obama's saying not any politician that I heard. And who was she talking to? Kids moms not really to the politicians.
If the democrats who led the redistricting referendum in VA are not lawyers themselves, they should have gotten counsel to review the rules and make sure they complied with them. And they should have known republicans would jump on the slightest irregularities as a means to invalidate the results.
Correct me if im wrong but wasnt this a constitutional amendment? I'll admit im a little confused by the legalese and im not comfortable trying to undo this knot. It feels to me that they did it legally, but I could be wrong.
NOW?!! Just f*cking ignore the court & DO IT. Stop saying you respect their opinion as the idiot House leader said. *Was it House?) He must take whimpy lessons from Jeffries
Democrats are working their ass off and still it’s not good enough for some.. I say thank you for doing what you can in a corrupt country run by republicans!!!
Dumbocrats don't work hard. Why isn't the leadership out there EVERY DAY for 30 minutes doin a show & tell on horrors the regime is doing & what they're gonna do in fighting back.
Watch ms now they are reporting about it daily and how so many people in the states are out there telling their legislators they expect them to vote for the people. Problem is if republicans are on the majority BLAME them and vote them out .. or do what they want you to do stay home moaning about democrats. Then they win….
Wow, if you ever thought America was "post Racial", well now you know! Again you cannot take a knife to a gun fight. The "high and mighty" tac the Democrats were (hopeful) taking was just 'kicked in the private parts' by the Republicans. Today starts the real fight for America, and we will see where this goes. It is a downright travesty that the Supreme Court paved the way for the states houses to show their TRUE colors. What a time to be a descendent of the people who fought so hard and DIED for representation during the civil rights era. I hope no pray, we can find our way back! All Americans of ALL colors need to help reverse this madness. And we go into our 250th year with this heavy yolk around our necks!
Please tell how Virginia Dems should have dealt differently with the prohibition against redistricting in the VA Constitution. I’d really like to know.
The issue is that they passed the independent commission in the first place. How the hell did democrats ever think republicans would vote for a national gerrymandering ban if they kept voluntarily castrating themselves.
This article is nonsensical. Virginia Dems stepped up and did everything they could. The VA state Constitution was the problem. They had to amend it. Virginia Dems went for the most aggressive path in that regard. Four GOP justices shot it down.
The article makes no sense. We should be praising Virginia Dems for doing what they did.
BTC is right on, and has been for at least the last five years!
The authoritarian white Christian nationalist Republican so-called party is playing for keeps and has been since Reagan!
They are not going to play by the rules or law, and if Democrats don't wake up and start standing up to this shit, there is not going to be anything left to grapple over!
According to the Virginia Supreme Court, the referendum conflicted with pre-voting for primaries, which had just begun.
The governor could have cancelled the primary altogether, as the governor in Louisiana did, then put the referendum out.
Of course, the Republicans, hypocrites that they are, would have screamed bloody murder, but they were going to do that in any case.
Unlike in every redistricted state overseen by Republicans, Virginia put a referendum to the people as was done in California.
For far too many years, Democrats have not done the work needed on the local level - in school boards, city, and state elections, and the courts - and have therefore allowed the fanatical wing of the Republican Party to take control. Republicans only like elections that they have rigged to win because they know if the playing field were level, they would lose.
And it is not only up to the Democrats; we, the people, should be on the streets every day demanding that all parties play by the rules and law.
Republicans know, however, that the average American is easy to gaslight and suck up their lies!
They had to do a referendum to amend the Constitution. This was the only option. They did it.
Also, I hope that’s everyone here—and not just you—who have been screaming about how “Democrats should have not this” or “Democrats should have done that” include themselves in the definition of “Democrats”. It’s up to us.
A lower court said that the referendum to redistrict violated the constitution and did not say the constitution had to be changed to hold a referendum to redistrict. This ruling came from a lower district court that has a right leaning judge which goes to my point that not paying attention to the local grassroots level of politics has consequences.
You don’t know me, as I am a nobody, but I have been screaming for more activist involvement by progressives on the local level for years, and I do include myself. People have, however, been complacent, ill-informed, or just plain wilfully ignorant about how our government works, while the right wing has taken advantage, and encouraged this ignorance while they waltzed in and took control. This has been going on for years and is only now reaching the level where it is being felt on a national level. They are not going to stop now, and the question is not what should have been done, it what are we going to do now!
I see a lot of the problem as Namby pambi Republicans who don't know how to follow the law and stand up when they are required to they have allowed that Trump to walk all over them and all of us. But I know they went to school they have law degrees most of them. They know how to make the world work and they chose not to they chose to bow down to an idiot with dementia called Donald Trump
Sure, but that’s never going to happen if Democrat states voluntarily handcuff themselves with independent redistricting commissions by state constitutional amendment. republican state congresspeople have zero incentive to pass a national gerrymandering ban. The only solution is to repeal all these independent redistricting constitutional amendments first. Marc Elias and BTC are like the only ones saying it.
Republicans MAKE UP RULES to fit whatever it is that they want to do. Or IGNORE any laws they do NOT agree with. Republicans do NOT give a DAMN about the law says! They either just IGNORE it or MAKE UP one to fit what they want. Example - Mitch (1) We CANNOT have a new justice during an election and must wait until after the election (2) We MUST appoint a new justice right now! Or another "local control". For years Republicans have howled about "local control". And NOW they are passing laws to Preempt "local control" and saying you CANNOT pass a local law that violates what we say. "You can never get justice in a world where criminals make the rules" Bob Marley. "The people" mean NOTHING to the Republicans. They just USE "the people" to ABUSE "the people" to get what they want. And THEN SCREW the people. Example - About to go into effect AFTER the midterm elections - the SCREWING of Americans ALL across America by the Republicans Big BS Bill. And it is GOING to SCREW even the people who voted for Trump! Especially people who voted for Trump. But it will HELP the Billionaires that are behind the funding of Trump and Republicans ALL ACROSS America running for office. This courtesy of the MAGA Racist KKK White Nationalist Roberts 6, which includes a Black Man - Clarence Thomas! They are driving America to become a country like Apartheid South Africa and the Confederate States of America (who have been waiting to do this since the Civil War) where people of color will have NO voice in the affairs of where they live. Just rule by White Men. The fix? MASSIVE VOTER TURNOUT (like just happened to Orban in Hungary) and VOTE them ALL OUT OF OFFICE! And THEN hold them ALL Accountable! Every single one of them from Trump on down..........
Hey Bryan, you were on ABC World News with David Muir tonight. They gave you props for your reporting and quoted you, even showed your profile pic. Lol. You are making a difference. I know the work you do is hard and harder still because you are so dedicated to truth, integrity and exposing what isn't! That's so refreshing and gives us hope. Keep doing what your doing. Despite all the negativity and shameless disregard for justice and honor, I believe that with you and the others telling truth in the independent news network, we are going to make it. The take-down is coming. Truth will prevail. Believe!
We need bold and brass game changers! NO rules exists any longer, balls to the walls; grit and guts! Done with "the norms"....how stupid and blind can our leaders be? If they're worried about their donors, rest assured the everyday "Joe" won't contribute a dime if they don't show us some guts! Take a lesson from the Graham Platner handbook!
Enough is enough. Eric Holder said “when they go low kick the crap out of them”. Hope he is our next AG.
How “politically correct” Garland got us here. Never again.
Don't forget Mitch Turtle man McConnell and the role he played in getting us here. Also those, hiding in the background with their donations! SHAMEFUL!
💯. Mitch and justice Roberts brought us here.
💯 I also feel SCOTUS had a hand in this back in 2012 with Citizens United which essential changed the rules of Corp donations - aka bribes, aka purchase the outcome 🤬I sometimes wonder if that was the end result of having a black president. How pathetically sad.
SCROTUM needs to go, too.
I’m actually hoping Jack Smith is our next AG.
Same thing tho…ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
Of course, he’s great as well but think how delicious it would be to have all these white people prosecuted by a black man.
OMG me too!!! Jack Smith - he’s got the receipts!!
Yes, Holder is part of the system.
He’s been fighting for our rights constantly. What is your issue with him, exactly?
Well it's going to have to be again if you plan on winning the Midterms and Presidency. Then we can push forward with the arrests.
My BLOOD IS BOILING 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬!! Capitol Police should be reorganized & given Authority to Arrest & Hold THE LAWLESS GOP WHO ARE BEHOLDEN TO TRUMP INCLUDING tRumpf, that regime called a cabinet and every damn j6 criminal with every other person who pled guilty to their crimes who was not pressured by dirty cops that he pardoned !! And don’t announce it !! Just do it damn it !!
This is indeed a bridge too far. The dems need to get off their high horses and down in the mud. Jfc this is getting ridiculous.
You are really rude, and I'm really tired of it. You don't know what we are doing as individuals you don't know what we are doing in our neighborhoods. You have a good name for yourself. I don't have a problem with standing up to people but they do have a problem with being just as rude to my neighbors as other neighbors want to be. We can be civil and still be tough and strong and stand up to these ill-informed conservatives. So ask the right people this morning on the radio on PBS I was listening to people saying no more when they go, low we go high! That was Michelle Obama's saying not any politician that I heard. And who was she talking to? Kids moms not really to the politicians.
No. You told them for decades not to get in the mud with the pig because only the pig enjoys. They're not going to unlearn those lessons.
Please tell what they should have done differently to deal with the prohibition against redistricting in the VA Constitution. I’d really like to know.
If the democrats who led the redistricting referendum in VA are not lawyers themselves, they should have gotten counsel to review the rules and make sure they complied with them. And they should have known republicans would jump on the slightest irregularities as a means to invalidate the results.
Correct me if im wrong but wasnt this a constitutional amendment? I'll admit im a little confused by the legalese and im not comfortable trying to undo this knot. It feels to me that they did it legally, but I could be wrong.
NOW?!! Just f*cking ignore the court & DO IT. Stop saying you respect their opinion as the idiot House leader said. *Was it House?) He must take whimpy lessons from Jeffries
Democrats are working their ass off and still it’s not good enough for some.. I say thank you for doing what you can in a corrupt country run by republicans!!!
Yep
Dumbocrats don't work hard. Why isn't the leadership out there EVERY DAY for 30 minutes doin a show & tell on horrors the regime is doing & what they're gonna do in fighting back.
Watch ms now they are reporting about it daily and how so many people in the states are out there telling their legislators they expect them to vote for the people. Problem is if republicans are on the majority BLAME them and vote them out .. or do what they want you to do stay home moaning about democrats. Then they win….
Oh, please. They’re not doing shit. They’ve had a decade to plan for this. They are fucking useless.
Your choice to vote so give your vote to your representative that does for you. Mine happen to be democrats…
It’s time for Dems to follow, “The Chicago Way”, when it comes to politics. Period. Full Stop.
🎩🇺🇸💙
Vote early, vote often? Just kidding I agree.
Wow, if you ever thought America was "post Racial", well now you know! Again you cannot take a knife to a gun fight. The "high and mighty" tac the Democrats were (hopeful) taking was just 'kicked in the private parts' by the Republicans. Today starts the real fight for America, and we will see where this goes. It is a downright travesty that the Supreme Court paved the way for the states houses to show their TRUE colors. What a time to be a descendent of the people who fought so hard and DIED for representation during the civil rights era. I hope no pray, we can find our way back! All Americans of ALL colors need to help reverse this madness. And we go into our 250th year with this heavy yolk around our necks!
I am soooo tired of the dems being 5 steps behind always.
Wake the frick up!
No more Mr nice guy
I so agreee with you Brian
Please please help get that message through to them.
Seriously??
I have no fricken idea
I just know that project 2025 is a 20+ yr plan
I have a hard copy
Sometimes I Wonder if the Dems even know it exists or u derstand the plan?? Hello
Get in a fricken room
20 -40 of the smartest of the smart
And come up with a plan!!!
We are screwed for the next 10-15 but what about after that???
Plan something
This is not business as usual
The game has changed
Wake up!!!
Please tell how Virginia Dems should have dealt differently with the prohibition against redistricting in the VA Constitution. I’d really like to know.
The issue is that they passed the independent commission in the first place. How the hell did democrats ever think republicans would vote for a national gerrymandering ban if they kept voluntarily castrating themselves.
This article is nonsensical. Virginia Dems stepped up and did everything they could. The VA state Constitution was the problem. They had to amend it. Virginia Dems went for the most aggressive path in that regard. Four GOP justices shot it down.
The article makes no sense. We should be praising Virginia Dems for doing what they did.
@JCOK - you're exactly right. The author didn't bother to closely look at the logistics before firing off an extremely uninformed missive.
Democrats are slaves to the oligarchs. They love all of this. Their performative outrage falls hilariously flat. WAKE THE FUCK UP.
Everything every day is so damn discouraging anymore.. was starting to get some hope but need to disconnect again at this point
BTC is right on, and has been for at least the last five years!
The authoritarian white Christian nationalist Republican so-called party is playing for keeps and has been since Reagan!
They are not going to play by the rules or law, and if Democrats don't wake up and start standing up to this shit, there is not going to be anything left to grapple over!
Please tell what Virginia Dems should have done differently. I would really like to know how they should have dealt with the VA Constitution.
According to the Virginia Supreme Court, the referendum conflicted with pre-voting for primaries, which had just begun.
The governor could have cancelled the primary altogether, as the governor in Louisiana did, then put the referendum out.
Of course, the Republicans, hypocrites that they are, would have screamed bloody murder, but they were going to do that in any case.
Unlike in every redistricted state overseen by Republicans, Virginia put a referendum to the people as was done in California.
For far too many years, Democrats have not done the work needed on the local level - in school boards, city, and state elections, and the courts - and have therefore allowed the fanatical wing of the Republican Party to take control. Republicans only like elections that they have rigged to win because they know if the playing field were level, they would lose.
And it is not only up to the Democrats; we, the people, should be on the streets every day demanding that all parties play by the rules and law.
Republicans know, however, that the average American is easy to gaslight and suck up their lies!
That has to change!
They had to do a referendum to amend the Constitution. This was the only option. They did it.
Also, I hope that’s everyone here—and not just you—who have been screaming about how “Democrats should have not this” or “Democrats should have done that” include themselves in the definition of “Democrats”. It’s up to us.
A lower court said that the referendum to redistrict violated the constitution and did not say the constitution had to be changed to hold a referendum to redistrict. This ruling came from a lower district court that has a right leaning judge which goes to my point that not paying attention to the local grassroots level of politics has consequences.
You don’t know me, as I am a nobody, but I have been screaming for more activist involvement by progressives on the local level for years, and I do include myself. People have, however, been complacent, ill-informed, or just plain wilfully ignorant about how our government works, while the right wing has taken advantage, and encouraged this ignorance while they waltzed in and took control. This has been going on for years and is only now reaching the level where it is being felt on a national level. They are not going to stop now, and the question is not what should have been done, it what are we going to do now!
And you are correct, it is up to us!
I see a lot of the problem as Namby pambi Republicans who don't know how to follow the law and stand up when they are required to they have allowed that Trump to walk all over them and all of us. But I know they went to school they have law degrees most of them. They know how to make the world work and they chose not to they chose to bow down to an idiot with dementia called Donald Trump
The answer IS good government... but only if it applies to every single state.
Sure, but that’s never going to happen if Democrat states voluntarily handcuff themselves with independent redistricting commissions by state constitutional amendment. republican state congresspeople have zero incentive to pass a national gerrymandering ban. The only solution is to repeal all these independent redistricting constitutional amendments first. Marc Elias and BTC are like the only ones saying it.
“The left” talks about democrats…
Fight fire with fire. Go bold and start today. Push back at the maga morons. Peace
Republicans MAKE UP RULES to fit whatever it is that they want to do. Or IGNORE any laws they do NOT agree with. Republicans do NOT give a DAMN about the law says! They either just IGNORE it or MAKE UP one to fit what they want. Example - Mitch (1) We CANNOT have a new justice during an election and must wait until after the election (2) We MUST appoint a new justice right now! Or another "local control". For years Republicans have howled about "local control". And NOW they are passing laws to Preempt "local control" and saying you CANNOT pass a local law that violates what we say. "You can never get justice in a world where criminals make the rules" Bob Marley. "The people" mean NOTHING to the Republicans. They just USE "the people" to ABUSE "the people" to get what they want. And THEN SCREW the people. Example - About to go into effect AFTER the midterm elections - the SCREWING of Americans ALL across America by the Republicans Big BS Bill. And it is GOING to SCREW even the people who voted for Trump! Especially people who voted for Trump. But it will HELP the Billionaires that are behind the funding of Trump and Republicans ALL ACROSS America running for office. This courtesy of the MAGA Racist KKK White Nationalist Roberts 6, which includes a Black Man - Clarence Thomas! They are driving America to become a country like Apartheid South Africa and the Confederate States of America (who have been waiting to do this since the Civil War) where people of color will have NO voice in the affairs of where they live. Just rule by White Men. The fix? MASSIVE VOTER TURNOUT (like just happened to Orban in Hungary) and VOTE them ALL OUT OF OFFICE! And THEN hold them ALL Accountable! Every single one of them from Trump on down..........
Hey Bryan, you were on ABC World News with David Muir tonight. They gave you props for your reporting and quoted you, even showed your profile pic. Lol. You are making a difference. I know the work you do is hard and harder still because you are so dedicated to truth, integrity and exposing what isn't! That's so refreshing and gives us hope. Keep doing what your doing. Despite all the negativity and shameless disregard for justice and honor, I believe that with you and the others telling truth in the independent news network, we are going to make it. The take-down is coming. Truth will prevail. Believe!
If we piss away these midterms, we're lost for 20 years. Minimum.
We need bold and brass game changers! NO rules exists any longer, balls to the walls; grit and guts! Done with "the norms"....how stupid and blind can our leaders be? If they're worried about their donors, rest assured the everyday "Joe" won't contribute a dime if they don't show us some guts! Take a lesson from the Graham Platner handbook!