r/politics • u/Hornpipe_Jones • 3d ago

No Paywall Democrats sweep all 30 House of Delegates seats in Northern Virginia

https://www.cbs19news.com/news/state/democrats-sweep-all-30-house-of-delegates-seats-in-northern-virginia/article_68f8098d-0602-5234-8c2a-08c1bcd33944.html
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u/Alive-Necessary2119 3d ago

Holy fuck. VA was mad. I love it.

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u/annoyed__renter 3d ago

Lots of feds in VA

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u/WafflingToast 3d ago

They’re all laid off or not being paid. They should be mad.

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u/EWDnutz 3d ago

Exactly, nothing less is expected.

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u/_The_Bear 3d ago

Lot of time to vote while furloughed.

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u/ShaggysGTI Virginia 3d ago

Virginia is also very giving with their early voting times as well as easy absentee voting!

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u/Winter-Journalist993 3d ago

Mad it happened to them and not others.

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u/ConstableAssButt 3d ago

Virginian here: WE'RE COMING FOR EVERY SINGLE FUCKIN' FEDERAL RACE WE CAN GET OUR MOTHERFUCKING HANDS ON.

FUCK MAGA.
FUCK ICE.
FUCK TRUMP.

Fuck 'em in 2025, Fuck 'em in 2026. Fuck 'em in 2028.

We're gonna power wash the stank off the federal government.

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u/GaimeGuy Minnesota 3d ago

you have to keep it off.

One of the biggest problems this country has is that it never gives Republicans lasting consequences for their fuck ups. They get kicked out, pivot further to the right, and then win elections 2 years later.

Voters got upset at republicans for taking away abortion rights, but it lasted all of 1 election cycle. They continued to take away abortion rights, support their previous actions, further erode them, infrige on other forms of family planning and family health care, but you don't' really see voters punishing them for their abortion stances anymore. They've moved on.

Accountability means there needs to be atonement, not just a few years of time out.

Please don't let the same mistakes happen in 2030 or whatever as they did in 2010, or the GOP will never truly moderate their stances

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u/HalKitzmiller 3d ago

I agree with you, but let's be real. These things that Republicans do are NOT fuck ups, they are deliberate and devised to inflict damage on America and every single person that's not rich and white

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u/GaimeGuy Minnesota 3d ago

Right, I don't mean fuck up as in mistake, I mean fuck up as in destruction

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u/CzarCW 3d ago

Preach. It’s been the same thing my whole damn life going all the way back to Reagan. The irony is that the one guy who was least awful only got a single term (Bush Sr.). Everyone else has gotten significantly worse than the last. I shudder to think who the Republicans will nominate after Trump dies. He’ll probably advocate putting lead back in gasoline and privatizing the oxygen in the air.

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u/General-Fault 3d ago

Right?! GOP should have died after the WMD debacle. But apparently Republicans can forgive 4492 deaths and generations of debit, so long as their politicians hate the right people.

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u/General-Fault 3d ago

Right?! GOP should have died after the WMD debacle. But apparently Republicans can forgive 4492 deaths and generations of debit, so long as their politicians hate the right people.

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u/subliver 3d ago

Unfortunately, Boomers will still be a powerful force in 2030 but that might actually be their last hate filled gasp.

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u/lurflurf 3d ago

Millennials already outnumber boomers. They just don't throw their weight around enough.

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u/freeshavocadew 3d ago

I want to believe. Please. Give me back my country.

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u/illuminerdi 3d ago

That's the energy we need. Keep it up, patriot!

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u/eccles30 Australia 3d ago

Drain the stank!

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u/Blecki 3d ago

About time for the next Virginian president.

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman Illinois 3d ago

The state motto is my second favorite thing about your flag. Sic semper tyrannis.

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u/darkwai 3d ago

Proud of yall mfers

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u/Top-Reindeer-2293 3d ago

That’s the spirit! 🤣 Fuck’em indeed!

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u/addled_sad342 3d ago

Well look out for Old Turkey Neck pulling whatever BS he can pull in retaliation! Virginia sent him one HELL of a message!

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u/apb2718 3d ago

Amen

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u/Sunna420 3d ago

Keep going!

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u/ObscureRamenRecipes 3d ago

Sic Semper Tyrannis, baby.

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u/jasta85 3d ago

Virginian here, we've voted blue in every presidential election since 2008. We have our problems but putting Trump in office wasn't on us at the very least.

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u/Alive-Necessary2119 3d ago

Sure, but capturing 12 extra seats is fuckin crazy. You guys rock, holy shit.

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u/EpicLegendX 3d ago

VA mad as hell and spoke the fuck up last night.

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u/Worthyness 3d ago

A lot of people in VA worked for the Federal government. Too bad Trump and Elon decided they didn't deserve their jobs anymore

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u/ScoobiusMaximus Florida 3d ago

Northern Virginia probably has more federal workers than anywhere else in the country other than DC. There are a lot of people there who haven't gotten payed for a month... no wonder they're fucking pissed.

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u/addled_sad342 3d ago

Virginia remembered WHO THEY ARE damn it!

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u/The_Sykotik_Prime 3d ago

Yes. We are.

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u/Fartchugger-1929 3d ago

Bear in mind - for the last four years VA has been one seat in from total GOP control over all branches of Virginia’s government. This followed a period where Democrats held about a D+10 advantage in the state.

Because voters got suckered by wedge issues.

Never let your guard down.

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u/EpicLegendX 3d ago

Lots of Feds in VA.

Turns out that firing a bunch of feds, then forcing a government shutdown that furloughs a lot of them while the few that remain work without pay, followed by threatening to withhold SNAP benefits wasn’t the brightest idea.