My goodness, what a talented writer you are. I really enjoyed this. (I don't enjoy living in this unendingly horrifying timeline, but I do enjoy the good writing coming out of it).
"(A)nd those of us nostalgic for a more innocent, honorable political age need to get over it."
Why should we? There was compromise, bipartisanship, statesmanship, and order. Things actually got done. Responsibility and critical thinking were evident. What we have now is crap and we should not normalize it. In fact, if we want our country to continue, we must not.
While I wavered in my support for Platner for a short time, the age question won me over for him. We do not need rookie senators in their high seventies, we do not need senators at all in their 80s and 90s. Are they all trying to beat Strom Thurmond's record?
For Pete's sake, if the staged assassination had been successful, the new regime leader would now be Grassley at 92! Scary!
Yes. We're in the Civil War Part II. The MAGA Army of racial & religious bigots has captured DC. Extraordinary measures are necessary to fight back. Throwing Kumbaya Cupcakes and wrapping oneself in a self righteous morallity blanket is a political suicide plan.
"Only Virginia has been thwarted by a state court. And only since January has Virginia had a Democratic attorney general."
Perhaps because the Dems didn't care about the proper procedure in their redistricting plan with regard to their own Constitution:
"Virginia voters last month had approved a state constitutional amendment that allowed the Legislature to temporarily draw new lines mid-decade, a move pitched by Democrats as a response to the redistricting in red states backed by President Trump. The map was set to give Democrats four more pickup opportunities this fall as the party fights to flip the House.
But legal challenges contended the push violated procedural requirements baked into the Virginia Constitution. To pass an amendment, lawmakers must vote for it in two separate legislative sessions, with an intervening election in between."
My goodness, what a talented writer you are. I really enjoyed this. (I don't enjoy living in this unendingly horrifying timeline, but I do enjoy the good writing coming out of it).
"(A)nd those of us nostalgic for a more innocent, honorable political age need to get over it."
Why should we? There was compromise, bipartisanship, statesmanship, and order. Things actually got done. Responsibility and critical thinking were evident. What we have now is crap and we should not normalize it. In fact, if we want our country to continue, we must not.
While I wavered in my support for Platner for a short time, the age question won me over for him. We do not need rookie senators in their high seventies, we do not need senators at all in their 80s and 90s. Are they all trying to beat Strom Thurmond's record?
For Pete's sake, if the staged assassination had been successful, the new regime leader would now be Grassley at 92! Scary!
Yes. We're in the Civil War Part II. The MAGA Army of racial & religious bigots has captured DC. Extraordinary measures are necessary to fight back. Throwing Kumbaya Cupcakes and wrapping oneself in a self righteous morallity blanket is a political suicide plan.
"Only Virginia has been thwarted by a state court. And only since January has Virginia had a Democratic attorney general."
Perhaps because the Dems didn't care about the proper procedure in their redistricting plan with regard to their own Constitution:
"Virginia voters last month had approved a state constitutional amendment that allowed the Legislature to temporarily draw new lines mid-decade, a move pitched by Democrats as a response to the redistricting in red states backed by President Trump. The map was set to give Democrats four more pickup opportunities this fall as the party fights to flip the House.
But legal challenges contended the push violated procedural requirements baked into the Virginia Constitution. To pass an amendment, lawmakers must vote for it in two separate legislative sessions, with an intervening election in between."
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5869616-virginia-supreme-court-tosses-redistricting-map-2026-midterms/