Jim Gilmore on the VA Gerrymandering Lawsuits

I'm no lawyer...but it's hard for me to believe that SCOVA will let this stand. There are just too many apparent violations of law:

Jimmy Kimmel Not Being Funny Isn't Any of the Government's Business

Agreed.

Melania is right, though: Kimmel sucks.

California: Land of the Free...Everything...

Its free, you just raise taxes on other people and expand the already bloated budget and those actions have no economic consequences whatsoever. There are adults who actually believe this. https://t.co/10s6QlIFp0

— Bobby Panzenbeck (@Panzenbeck) April 29, 2026

You guys should do free food and free clothes while you're at it.

Oh, and free land, too.

Hell, just do free money and you won't have to do any of the free other things... 

Divine: Dems Must Heed Trump's Call for Unity in Wake of WHCD Shooting

Look, you know what I think of the contemporary Democrats.

They've lost their collective mind.

A large percentage is afflicted by rabid, delusional TDS.

And they've largely done it to themselves by immersing themselves in an echo chamber of lunacy and lies.

I continue to think that the fate of the nation lies largely with them, because we can't survive on one somewhat-reasonable political party.

And much of the Dem's rabidity is based on Trump just speaking the truth in plain terms.

Which the contemporary left absolutely, positively, cannot abide.

However.

You don't need me to tell you that Trump is doing more than his part to contribute to the general atmosphere of incivility.

A lot of the things he says are just inexcusable. They senselessly contribute to the ambient hostility between our two major political factions. I'm all for plain speaking, including refusal to use dumbass progressive newspeak. People in the country illegally are illegal aliens. "Trans women" are men. Blacks perpetrate far more violent crimes than whites. These are facts. The left tries to spin them out of existence via euphemism and plain denial.

However.

You can speak unpleasant and controversial truths without being a raving lunatic about it. If Trump really cares about promoting an atmosphere of civil disagreement, he'll turn his phone over to Susie Wiles. Or Melania. Or whoever.

I'm not saying he deserved it--the assassination attempt. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

But he's not helping.

I hope his remarks after the WHCD attempt mark a turning point for him.

But I doubt they do.

Some Dude at the Grauniad: Dems Should Go More Woke to Win in '28!!!!!11

Woketardation.

MOONBATS LOSE THEIR SHIT OVER: The WHCD Assassination Attempt

It's funny how many drooling morons on the internet.com are experts about...whatever it is that just happened...

Lefties Went Batshit After the WHCD Assassination Attempt

The right is bad...but...this bad?

The dumbest thing I've seen from the right this weekend is some THEY RIGGED THE VA GERRYMANDERING REFERENDUM nonsense.

Though, TBF, apparently Trump was repeating that nonsense too.

Which is a big part of the problem; the madness is widespread and crazier on the left...but it's largely coming from the top on the right.

The right can't lose an election anymore that isn't stolen or rigged... Something they never manage to prove. It's just allegation after allegation. And it's every time they lose.

But this eliminationist lunacy on the progressive left...man, it's nuts.

And it's not like it's just the lunatic fringe, or disconnected from their actions. A lone wacko murdered Charlie Kirk...but thousands of progressives online were encouraging it beforehand and cheering it afterward. Literally cheering. Literally dancing. Giddy. A meme on the left is "somebody's got to do it"...meaning: assassinate President Trump. They keep calling for it, keep trying to do it, keep cheering it on... I hope they all get visits from the USSS...but I'm not sure how they could visit them all..

In part it's the Twitter problem: get hundreds of thousands of people spewing out semi-serious, angry comments without consequence...not surprising you get this kind of stuff...

But that's not the whole problem.

The left radicalized. And 'radical' is, IMO, a near-synonym for insane. Utterly unhinged actions, ideas and rhetoric now pervade the American left. They riot, they perpetrate violence against their political opponents--repeatedly. They rationalize violence. They call for more violence. They characterize their opponents in ways which, if true, would make violence justifiable. (Though the right did that to Obama, too...remember how he was the Antichrist? Not everybody on the right was kidding about that.)

Anyway.

It's not just talk.

And it's not just the fringe.

How'd They End Up Wrong About Everything?

Taking the 20 side of 80/20 issues is basically them being at their most reasonable.

On a bad day, they take positions that are outright nuts:

Ezra had to write a column about why it doesn't threaten environmental apocalypse to have children because it was, by his account, the question he received more than any other.

An international educated class whose brains were boiled into letting male sex offenders into their… https://t.co/LdsMzCcvxR

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) April 25, 2026

The Deep Academy: John Murawski, "Is DEI Really in Decline?"

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So far as I can tell: yes, but unevenly.

My own university's modest retreat seemed borderline pro forma to me.

The Virginia Association of Scholars' report found dozens of people filling DEI jobs--full time or part-time). The university seems to have identified four people in DEI positions. One (the most senior and well-compensated) was moved to a different job in the university. On person, I'm told, retired. One was fired. I can't remember what happened to the fourth.

Now, this happened after Youngkin and Trump...but now we have Spanberger. Who has appointed a real kook as the Commonwealth's "diversity czar" or whatever it's called... So who knows?

They won't risk money. So if Trump makes good on that, I can't see us courting his ire. We're not on the cutting edge of wokeness, anyway. We're low enough on the academic totem pole WARNING RACIST ANALOGY! WARNING RACIST ANALOGY! that we'll do some things on the DL and wait for UVA, W&M, Tech, and Mason to take the lead.

Here's something from UNCA:

Harmeet Dhillon: DoJ Found 350,000 Dead People on Voter Rolls

Dhillon is great. So many of Trump's appointments are basically embarrassing...Dhillon is one of the really notable exceptions:

DoJ Drops Investigation of Fed and Powell

Thank God.

But what's important is that Trump started that madness at all.

What authoritarian insanity.

Chandra Bozelko: SPLC Allegedly Mimics the Worst FBI Abuses

I'm still withholding judgment on this.

But if it's true, I won't be all that surprised.

The SPLC, like the ACLU and so many other formerly-liberal and formerly-respectable organizations, was infected with the woke mind-virus years ago. They're now basically just another branch of the Cult. And there can really be no doubt that much of what motivates the Cult is fear that their raison d'etre...their religion...and their livelihood are endangered by the progress the U.S. has made over the last half-century-plus. The left has spent the last decade-plus hysterically exaggerating the amount of racial, sexual, etc. bigotry in America...even making up completely new kinds.

So I'll suspend judgment for now...but I know how these people--and their MSM propaganda wing--operate. They'll deny and suppress this information...until the story has cooled off. Eventually it will probably emerge and make the rounds...but its effect will have been diminished. The most important thing is to not let it come out while the story is hot and it might actually make a difference...

Make DC Square Again

Doo eet

Afroman: Will You Help Me Repair My Door?

SPLC Funding Righty Extremist Groups?

Sorta sounds that way.

SPLC claims they were paying off informants...but that isn't clearly true.

I don't think we know exactly what's going on yet.

C'ville was a big turning point for me, mostly for two reasons:

[1] The fact that the left and the MSM (but I repeat myself) refused to acknowledge that the Unite the Right protestors were denied their First Amendment rights. That was, in fact, by far the most important part of the story.

[2] Watching all my allegedly-liberal friends and acquaintances follow suit...and fall right in line with the Very Fine People hoax. Immediately.

The reaction to all that business really opened my eyes.

Then, of course, there was the fact that law enforcement illegitimately broke up the rally and drove the protestors into the teeth of the leftist mob surrounding them--where they were attacked with, e.g., a homemade flamethrower of sorts. (The bum who did that...sorry...I mean: person experiencing houselessness was turned into a C'ville celebrity for it.) Some of the UtR protestors went to prison for defending themselves. I have no doubt the James Alex Fields--who should actually be revered by the left--no one has ever done more to advance their cause--failed to get a fair trial...but we wouldn't know because it was basically blacked out. I mean, he was guilty--but that's not the point.

The left showed its hand there, revealing their playbook for the next decade.

And all the right-thinking people were blind to it.

The WSJ Knows Only One Tune About Iran

Everything is terrible.

They could be right for all I know.

But I have my doubts.

Trump Considering DC De-Retrocession?

Oh please oh please...

Also I have no idea whether there's a term for undoing retrocession...so I just made up the one in the title.

USAF Super Eagle Buy Doubled

It's the Super Eagle not the Eagle II

I will never give this up.

Though I will also accept: F1 5EX Eagle...

Tazwell Judge Rules Dem Gerrymandering Unconstitutional

Take that, blue loonies:

Retrocession in Response to Gerrymandering

This very thing, asap:

The proper response from Donald Trump to these Virginia shenanigans is to announce that the retrocession of Arlington and Alexandria to Virginia was unconstitutional and that they are and always will be part of the federal district

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) April 22, 2026

On the Gerrymandering Campaign/Vote

Democrats spent $70 million on this referendum.
Almost every penny came from out of state.
They broke laws.
They wrote a deceitful ballot measure.
They ran tv spots for two months, nonstop.
They brought in Obama.
They brought in Hollywood.

We had grassroots.
That’s really it.… pic.twitter.com/fHR86zkUa4

— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) April 22, 2026

Dems' Gerrymandering Plan Wins 51.5-48.5

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   And all it took was $50 million of dark money from out-of-state leftist groups and a ballot so deceptively-worded that I'll bet 5-10% of voters didn't even know what they were voting for:

Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia's standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?

   I'm pissed about this of course--but at least I can grudgingly semi-respect it. Unlike most of the Dems' major new policies and initiatives--which are insane--this one is mostly just playing hardball, IMO.

   Also, cosmically speaking, this is partially my fault anyway. When the TX redistricting dust-up happened, I was like Well, I'm totally against gerrymandering...but...CA/NY/IL...and illegal aliens counting for apportionment...and this is kind of an emergency...so I guess I'm ok with it...*

Karma's a bitch.

The VA Supremes are our only hope now.

Addendum:

Actually, TX gerrymandering was a response to NY gerrymandering, IIRC.