[Note:I apologize for the funky formatting here, but it’s not my fault: WordPress again messed with its (terrible) “block system” with no warning and I’m trying to figure it out.]
I’m posting the graphic above again because it is res ipsa loquitur, rebutting on its face what so many of the hysterical Democrats, elected officials, pundits and partisan reporters are screaming as they survey the results of their own corruption and hypocrisy.
As Ethics Alarms has been asserting (and proving) for a decade now, the Left cheats. Its “they go low, we go high” mantra has always been cynical gaslighting, but the somnolent Right allowed them to escape accountability (and their just desserts) far too long. Donald Trump, whatever his ethical flaws may be, has always understood the concept of fighting back. This time it really paid off, and all Americans should be grateful. Yes: we should fervently seek fair districting in every state. Maybe the current chaos will eventually lead to that. However, letting one party rig the system unanswered while the other party just sits and shrugs is worse than the chaos.
Scott Greenfield, defense lawyer, blogger, Jack-hater and progressive legal pundit, deserves praise for a nearly completely ethical and unbiased analysis of the Virginia Supreme Court decision striking down the dastardly gerrymandering trick Virginia’s “moderate” governor and its corrupt Democrats tried to inflict on half the state’s voters. He writes in part,
“The confluence of a few unfortunate circumstances resulted in the Virginia Supreme Court holding that the state constitutional amendment to allow the redistricting plan as a counterbalance to other states’ legislative redistricting plans to eliminate congressional districts deemed “safely” Democratic was unconstitutional. Wags and cynics will imagine this ruling to be the product of radical rightist activists. It was not…Neither the majority nor dissent took unprincipled positions, both having some merit to their position, but the point of a ruling is to reach a determination. The Virginia Supreme Court did so, in a principled fashion, and it ruled the redistricting amendment unconstitutional under the state Constitution. It was a crushing defeat for Democrats, but that doesn’t make it partisan or radical. Sometimes, you lose. While the combination of the Supreme Court’s Callais decision and this Virginia ruling has set in motion a partisan war that serves to make congressional elections a by-product of widespread cynical gerrymandering rather than a reflection of the will of the voters, perhaps one of the most noxiously anti-democratic efforts to rig an election possible, don’t blame the Virginia Supreme Court for “losing” safe districts for Democrats. The court did its job and its ruling, no matter what outcome you would have preferred, was grounded in a principled reading of the state Constitution.”
Good for Scott. He is still, however, a Trump Deranged, biased progressive (like most trial lawyers), so he also wrote…
“If you want to find blame, it’s in the legislatures that decided to sell out their citizens, their voters, at the open and notorious behest of Trump. For all his baseless bluster about rigged elections, we’re finally going to have one and Trump demanded the rigging.”
Bad Scott. Bad. Look at the damn chart above. Democrats had already rigged Congressional elections. Did you wonder why the predicted “red wave” in 2022 never materialized? Wonder no more. Nine Democrat-dominated state legislatures made it virtually impossible for Republicans to get elected. President Trump, that kingly fascist, had the sense and combative instincts to get his party to try to even the odds. The “red” states that did that through redistricting (gerrymandering) followed their constitutions. Virginia did not. Naturally, the losers blame Trump.
Former DNC chairwoman and current ABC contributor Donna Brazile naturally took the same dishonest path. Remember, Brazile was the Democrat who first tipped me off to her party’s cheating ways: as a paid CNN “contributor” in 2016, she used her insider status to tip-off Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton regarding the questions she would be asked at a CNN “town meeting.” This was so unethical even CNN couldn’t tolerate it, and she was fired. Yesterday Brazile joined GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw and HBO’s “Real Time”host Bill Maher to give a masterclass on double standards and leftist gaslighting. Republican redistricting efforts are, she said, “immoral,” while Democratic efforts are what “voters decided.”
Voters in Virginia “decided” on the gerrymandered map based on the referendum’s false statement, indeed exactly the opposite of reality, that the new map would “restore fairness.” Remember?
“Restore fairness” by making sure that a 50-50 party split would be represented by a 10-1 Democrat district map. Sure.
Then Brazile played the race card, as Democrats inevitably do when the facts aren’t in their favor. “I come from one of those states that all of a sudden, the Supreme Court said, ‘Well, we don’t like partisan gerrymandering. No, we don’t like racial gerrymandering.’ So, one out of three voters in Louisiana is a black voter. One out of three. And they are now thinking of eradicating. So, that says people from some parts of Louisiana can represent New Orleans better than the folks who are representing—or Baton Rouge. It is wrong, it is immoral, and it is unjustified.”
Well-said, mush-mouth. “They” are thinking of “eradicating” black voters? I think Donna was trying to say that the Jim Crow laws that were still in effect de facto if not de jure in Southern states in the early Sixties justifies “good racial discrimination” in 2026, 60 years later. You can read her logic- and law-free rant here.This is, however, apparently the fake narrative the Axis has decided to run with, proving with its attempted cover-up just how desperate and unprincipled it is.
On yesterday’s MSNOW propaganda-fest “The Weekend,” Rep. Joe Morelle (D-NY) compared the 1857 Dred Scott ruling to the SCOTUS decision that the 1965 Voting Rights Act could no longer justify anti-white discrimination in the Southern states, and declared the Roberts Court “one of the most racist courts in American history.”Got it. If the Court doesn’t allow the Democrats to rig its Congressional maps to pack the House with as many blacks as possible, it’s racist. Morelle also parroted the “will of the voters” lie in attacking the Virginia Supreme Court’s rejection of redistricting referendum. Did the MSNOW host point out for its viewers that Morelle was misrepresenting both decisions? Is a bear Catholic? Does the Pope shit in the woods?
This how House minority leader Hakeem Jeffreys reacted to his party being foiled in its unconstitutional, dishonest power-grab in Virginia:
22 thoughts on “Ethics Update On the Axis Freakout Over Virginia and Tennessee’s Redistricting Results”
Always remember the first rule of American politics:
If democrats are crying about republicans doing something, it’s because democrats have already been doing it with impunity or are setting the stage for doing it themselves.
In the case of gerrymandering-
They are furious that republicans are finally playing hardball gerrymandering in ways democrats have done for generations and they are extra mad that they can barely retaliate because they can’t squeeze much more gerrymander juice without making their maps look like a hearty plate of blue spaghetti.
While the combination of the Supreme Court’s Callais decision and this Virginia ruling has set in motion a partisan war that serves to make congressional elections a by-product of widespread cynical gerrymandering rather than a reflection of the will of the voters,
For a moment I was confused. I thought it was gerrymandering in states like in the north east and most recently in Virgnia that served to make election a cynical byproduct of gerrymandering. My sarcasm is relieved to know that this is not the case but that the cynical byproduct is the result of a war blamed on court decisions. Is it only war that makes elections cynical byproducts? What are elections if they are the result of illegal unconstitutional naked raw gerrymandering rather than run-of-the-mill naked raw gerrymandering?
“It was a calculated risk for Democrats, who have now burned their bridges with Virginia conservative and Republican voters.”
Based on the play, I’d submit they didn’t care about any of those bridges anyway- reasonably confident they can proceed roughshod with only verbal protest in their way.
How stupid do Democrats think blacks are? Hard to say.
All Democrats want is single party rule. They want Congress to look like the Russian State Duma and Federation Council and the Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba. Anything short of that is deemed undemocratic.
The fact that the drafts do not resemble the final post when published is inexcusable. Now the “classic” block, just when I had mastered it, has vanished. The “Quote” block doesn’t do anything but gray out every non-quote you type after it. I spent 45 minutes arguing with a bot, and never got an explanation. And how do you darken the type now, without the “Classic” block? “WordPress is asshole.”
Not exactly. What’s the black dot? I never saw that before. Without the now missing “classic” I can’t do clean quotes, move paragraphs to the left or right, change text from gray to black or red, etc. No idea what those three stars mean or do. Ditto the six dots. There are no explanations anywhere. And I have a premium subscription.
The six dots are some kind of Drag function, the three stars are AI Assistant, and the black dot is Add Animation. I don’t use any of that stuff. I try to keep it simple; text, lists, photos, quotes, boldface & italic text, and once in a while heading for a bit larger text on something. I did use the Gallery of photos once, that took a while to practice how it worked.
P.S. I scrapped using all the classic editor (I liked it too) and dove into the blocks. There’s loads of stuff I’ll never use, and I don’t care one bit about it, I just ignore it. I learned how to use the basic editing tools that I needed and I haven’t looked back. I generally pick up new computer software really quickly and try to help others that could use it, I had a small business back in the early 1990’s training some small company personnel when they got new software. It all comes naturally to me, but I completely understand when it’s not natural.
I just confirmed that you are creating blocks inside of the quote block without ending the quote block by pressing the Enter key. I just did the same sort of thing…
I wrote, “Go to the end of the last word in the first and press just Enter, save it and see what happens.”
Let me rephrase that…
Go to the end of the last word in the first quote on this blog post and press just the Enter key TWICE, save it and see what happens. It won’t wreck the post.
Something needs to be said here about Republicans, as they should have learned some important lessons last week:
The Republicans in Virginia are saved by the Supreme Court of Virginia; however they should look at themselves in the mirror for sitting out the elections in last November, and let the Democrats win bigly including the AG who made horrible statements about killing children. The voters should have expressed their outrage in the voting booth, fresh off the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Now the Democrats have shown their hand in Virginia the Republicans should know that elections matter.
The Republican State Senators in Indiana who voted against redistricting, and were up for reelection have gotten their ass handed back to them in the primaries. This is great news and excellent play by Donald Trump who campaigned against these incumbents. The problem for the GOP is that many Republicans in safe districts actually vote like Democrats in things that matter a lot to the GOP. Democrats almost never do that (Fetterman being the exception). We can excuse Republicans in districts that voted for Kamala Harris for voting liberal once in a while as a MAGA type will not be electable; however a Republican in a safe district ought to vote the party line, and if he does not do that he/she ought to be primaried. The saying goes “If Republicans are elected they are in office, if Democrats are elected they are in power”; that needs to change.
The GOP in Congress need to go scorched earth to pass the SAVE act to make election safe, even if they have to nuke the filibuster. The US Senate has the same problem as the Indiana State Senate; too many RINOs who actually vote the Democrat agenda (Tillis, Lankford) or are unhelpful (Thune, McConnell).
A GOP that fights instead of being complacent will also be better positioned to turn out voters as they will be more energized about the actions and voting record of their Senators and Representatives.
Jack, I see the latest idea floating in VA is to pass a law reducing the maximum age of VA’s Supreme Court Justices, thereby forcing them all into retirement. Then completely pack the court with progressives and get them to pass the redistricting law.
Does this kind of naked partisan power play have any legs?
I doubt it. Citizen Free Press headlined “Virginia Democrats shocking plan to overturn state Supreme Court ruling on Virginia congressional map,” but all links go to the same wack-job substack by the law professor. There is no evidence that this is a serious “plan,” and if it were tried, I suspect the pushback would be massive.
Ethics Alarms 
Always remember the first rule of American politics:
If democrats are crying about republicans doing something, it’s because democrats have already been doing it with impunity or are setting the stage for doing it themselves.
In the case of gerrymandering-
They are furious that republicans are finally playing hardball gerrymandering in ways democrats have done for generations and they are extra mad that they can barely retaliate because they can’t squeeze much more gerrymander juice without making their maps look like a hearty plate of blue spaghetti.
For a moment I was confused. I thought it was gerrymandering in states like in the north east and most recently in Virgnia that served to make election a cynical byproduct of gerrymandering. My sarcasm is relieved to know that this is not the case but that the cynical byproduct is the result of a war blamed on court decisions. Is it only war that makes elections cynical byproducts? What are elections if they are the result of illegal unconstitutional naked raw gerrymandering rather than run-of-the-mill naked raw gerrymandering?
“It was a calculated risk for Democrats, who have now burned their bridges with Virginia conservative and Republican voters.”
Based on the play, I’d submit they didn’t care about any of those bridges anyway- reasonably confident they can proceed roughshod with only verbal protest in their way.
How stupid do Democrats think blacks are? Hard to say.
All Democrats want is single party rule. They want Congress to look like the Russian State Duma and Federation Council and the Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba. Anything short of that is deemed undemocratic.
Jack wrote, “WordPress again messed with its (terrible) “block system” with no warning and I’m trying to figure it out.“
Maybe this will help a little…
A Little Instruction For Fellow WordPress Bloggers – BLOCKS!
The fact that the drafts do not resemble the final post when published is inexcusable. Now the “classic” block, just when I had mastered it, has vanished. The “Quote” block doesn’t do anything but gray out every non-quote you type after it. I spent 45 minutes arguing with a bot, and never got an explanation. And how do you darken the type now, without the “Classic” block? “WordPress is asshole.”
Don’t you have this formatting bar floating over your block?
Not exactly. What’s the black dot? I never saw that before. Without the now missing “classic” I can’t do clean quotes, move paragraphs to the left or right, change text from gray to black or red, etc. No idea what those three stars mean or do. Ditto the six dots. There are no explanations anywhere. And I have a premium subscription.
The six dots are some kind of Drag function, the three stars are AI Assistant, and the black dot is Add Animation. I don’t use any of that stuff. I try to keep it simple; text, lists, photos, quotes, boldface & italic text, and once in a while heading for a bit larger text on something. I did use the Gallery of photos once, that took a while to practice how it worked.
P.S. I scrapped using all the classic editor (I liked it too) and dove into the blocks. There’s loads of stuff I’ll never use, and I don’t care one bit about it, I just ignore it. I learned how to use the basic editing tools that I needed and I haven’t looked back. I generally pick up new computer software really quickly and try to help others that could use it, I had a small business back in the early 1990’s training some small company personnel when they got new software. It all comes naturally to me, but I completely understand when it’s not natural.
I have the premium plan too; it’s the right amount of bang for my buck.
Jack wrote, “The ‘Quote’ block doesn’t do anything but gray out every non-quote you type after it.”
I just tested it and it seems to work fine. I think you might have put blocks inside of blocks, I have no idea how you did that.
If you continue to press Shift+Enter inside the Quote box it continues to think you’re inside the quote.
Go to the end of the last word in the first and press just Enter, save it and see what happens.
I just confirmed that you are creating blocks inside of the quote block without ending the quote block by pressing the Enter key. I just did the same sort of thing…
https://societysbuildingblocks.com/2026/05/10/a-little-instruction-for-fellow-wordpress-bloggers-blocks/#TestingQuoteBlock
I also confirmed that the “Preview in new tab” doesn’t know how to display blocks inside of blocks.
I wrote, “Go to the end of the last word in the first and press just Enter, save it and see what happens.”
Let me rephrase that…
Go to the end of the last word in the first quote on this blog post and press just the Enter key TWICE, save it and see what happens. It won’t wreck the post.
I fixed some text that wasn’t very clear, refresh your screen and it will update.
Something needs to be said here about Republicans, as they should have learned some important lessons last week:
Jack, I see the latest idea floating in VA is to pass a law reducing the maximum age of VA’s Supreme Court Justices, thereby forcing them all into retirement. Then completely pack the court with progressives and get them to pass the redistricting law.
Does this kind of naked partisan power play have any legs?
My apologies…I missed “Page 2” where you discussed this.
Blame WordPress and its stupid “1,2” format.
I doubt it. Citizen Free Press headlined “Virginia Democrats shocking plan to overturn state Supreme Court ruling on Virginia congressional map,” but all links go to the same wack-job substack by the law professor. There is no evidence that this is a serious “plan,” and if it were tried, I suspect the pushback would be massive.