To the shock of absolutely fucking no one. We're officially at the "the rules are made up and the points don't matter" part of the US decline.
this post was submitted on 03 May 2026
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"The rules are made up" has been the ruling classes M.O. for all of history. No rule of law has ever applied to them.
The SC stole the 2000 election for Bush. The fascist oligarchy has been playing the long game and almost completely destroyed the American experiment. They control the entire R party, and enough D's to neuter meaningful resistance. The only question now is whether the American people will take the power back, or continue to accept the coup and embrace a totalitarian dystopia far worse than the Gestapo or KGB could have ever dreamed.
Also the court system. "We are pretty sure this is illegal but until we officially say its illegal in 2 years go ahead and keep doing it".
The harder they gerrymander, the thinner their margins get in the 'winning' districts. And then all it takes is a few percentage points of swing away from their expected results and they could be losing a lot of the districts they tried to gerrymander for themselves.
And can you think of anything that's happened in the past 2 years that might cause, say, a 5% swing in votes?
This is really the only thing that worries me here in VA. The recent legal gerrymandering is pretty risky when the referendum passed on such razor thin margins. I would love to get a blue rep, but the governor and state Congress are doing enough to get noticed, so that's probably gonna mobilize the chuds, especially if conservative propaganda focuses on this enough. The fascist will never poll below 30% and probably 40+% of my district is in that 30%. If the choices are a rizzless blue vs a Christian, gun nut red, my area stays red and dumb and poor and only gets worse.
I'm glad the yes votes won out, but the fight is only just beginning.
DeSantis and his handpicked Supreme Court have done this before.
To the shock of no one. Conservativism is about raw, naked power grabs and fucking children.