Virginia Dems are Cowards

[Indyfan53]

Last edited Thu May 14, 2026, 11:28 PM - Edit history (1)

How could Spanberger and state Dem leadership just accept this bullshit ruling from their state Supreme Court? The will of the people was thrown out and they are just going to accept it?

Republicans in Utah stacked their Supreme Court after they disagreed with the ruling regarding the one blue district. Ohio republicans straight up ignored their supreme court and pushed through their unfair maps.

This is why Dems keep losing when it matters the most. They keep playing by the rules while Republicans make up the rules.

I doubt we will flip either chamber of congress this November. If the Dems don’t grow a fucking spine, they will become permanently irrelevant and we will all end up in camps. Sometimes I think they are getting paid to roll over and lose

[CrispyQ]

1. I call it the missing unified voice of democratic outrage,

& it's not just VA dems. There isn't nearly enough outrage from party leaders & congressional dems as a block.

I think we'll flip the house, but only cuz the repubs are soooo awful. If we do, we need a new Speaker, IMO, & a new Majority Leader too, if we get the senate.

[popsdenver]

4. The reality is

There are near 200 Dem Reps and Senators that just go with the flow, and we never hear a peep out of about the shit that is raining down..........

LOL, one of Colorado's U.S. Senators is suddenly, out of nowhere, having a few ads saying "Bad Repubicans". It's particularly funny that we haven't heard word one up until now, about anything.......But now he is bailing out of the U.S. Senate and taking a run at the Colorado governor's spot............Heaven Help us if he gets in to that position, he is not competent to run a pop-stand IMO....

[mikewv]

2. Agree!

Fight fire with fire. We have no other choice at the moment because we may not have a choice in the future.

[lastlib]

3. Correct!

I told my local Democratic group about a sign seen in WW2 outside a big military armaments plant. It said, "It takes MILLIONS to win a war. To LOSE one takes EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT."

In this political environment, "playing by the rules" is a loser's game. In this moment, ther ARE no rules because the Repuglykans have burned the rulebook and killed the referees. (Or at least put them on their payroll.) We had better think hard about doing same.

[calimary]

5. THIS!

THIS. DAMMIT!!!

[dalton99a]

6. Democrats have a weird disease called "KICK ME"

aka unquestioning acceptance, preemptive surrender, unilateral disarmament, etc.

[Fiendish Thingy]

7. Your defeatist doomerism is duly noted. Nt

[Boo1]

9. Some people

are math challenged.

[Fil1957]

8. I heard on Thom Hartmann that Republican operatives have been challenging tens of thousands of voters'

eligibility, I believe in Georgia. All the challenger has to do is send an email saying a particular voter is not eligible, even if they just randomly pick that person's name out of a phone book. The challenger doesn't have to provide any evidence. Then that person has to go through the hassle of proving they ARE eligible -- that is if they even find out they've been challenged. Otherwise they can't vote.

It's terrible, but there is a solution -- Democrats just do the same thing. If enough Republican voters aren't allowed to vote because of this, this rule will be scrapped right away.

But what do the Democratic leaders say? "We don't want to challenge anyone's eligibility, because we believe strongly that everyone has the right to vote". So Republicans can run rampant with this and we lose our democracy and end up in a concentration camp because Democrats are unwilling to counter this B.S. because "we have to be nice".

That in a nutshell, is what's wrong with the modern Democratic Party. Instead of understanding the historical moment and realizing this is a 5 alarm fire, they act as if it's 1985, and everything is normal or will return to normal. Too many Democratic leaders just don't get it, and it's depressing and terrifying.