Be proud, progressives, Democrats, Axis hacks! That is a metaphorical smoking gun that proves exactly how unethical your favorite party and its leaders have become:
1. It was not a fair election, because the wording of the referendum was intentionally deceptive.
2. “Free elections” have to follow state laws. This one didn’t.
3. The decision was unprecedented because no previous Virginia legislature had ever tried to rig an election in defiance of the state constitution before. The Virginia Supreme Court pointed that out explicitly.
4. Gerrymandering is not “voter suppression.” This is a flat out lie. Or does Jeffreys concede that the nine states above are “suppressing” GOP voters?
5. Biden’s Big Lie that Republicans want to put blacks “back in chains” is still being wielded by the unscrupulous Left. It’s an absurd slippery slope contention: Democrats can’t’ discriminate against whites in the South, and that means color-based poll taxes and lynchings are right around the corner. How stupid do Democrats think blacks are?
Naturally the Axis scholarly wing is trying to figure out how to allow Democrats to fix elections so they maintain permanent power. Michigan State law prof Quinn Yeargain proposed gutting Virginia’s Supreme Court by forcing the retirement of the current justices, appointing partisan, liberal activists, and then overturning the opinion in time for the mid-terms.
Professor Yeargain called this is “a simple – and lawful – solution: Send the entire court into early retirement.” Unethical? Hey, the ends justifies the means, right?
Finally, red-pilled Democrat Prof. Jonathan Turley wrote a truth-telling piece on his blog, titled, “The Gerrymander Debacle in Virginia Leaves the Democratic Party with a Dangerous Agenda.” Read it all, though Turley is wrong in one respect: the Democratic Party has had a dangerous agenda for more than a decade. Here is a sample of his analysis:
“The court just cooked the party’s infamous lobster, a district over 100 miles long that was designed to help devour the GOP’s slender majority in the House of Representatives. It also cooked the ambitions of Gov. Abigail Spanberger and the Democratic establishment, which tossed aside any pretense of principle in a raw political gambit. The resulting faceplant is nothing short of legendary: Spanberger’s Democrats have succeeded in alienating half of the state. For the governor, the court’s decision was particularly embarrassing.Before assuming power, Spanberger denounced gerrymandering as “detrimental to our democracy and weakens the individual voices that form our electorates.” She ran as a moderate, but Spanberger immediately turned sharply left once in office and called for the most extreme gerrymander in the nation. The court found that effort was not only unconstitutional, but “wholly unprecedented in Virginia’s history.” It characterized the state’s position as “a story of the tail wagging the dog that has no tail.” While some of us had previously expressed skepticism over the rushed effort to circumvent the state constitution, the media almost exclusively relied on liberal experts who predicted the new districts would be upheld. It was a calculated risk for Democrats, who have now burned their bridges with Virginia conservative and Republican voters.”
Bingo.
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.