Oh, look, another flagrant abuse of power
this post was submitted on 06 May 2026
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Time for Democrats to wag their fingers
Best I can do is recommend the 25th
Don't bother. Someone will tweet about it.
Hakeem is probably going to write a mildly aggressive tweet.
Chuck Schumer is already resting his glasses on the bridge of his nose
The FBI raided the Portsmouth, Virginia, office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, a Democratic leader in the state behind its redistricting victory, on Wednesday, ostensibly over corruption allegations.
Lucas, an 82-year-old great-grandmother, has been a frequent critic of Republicans and President Trump, and is an ally to Virginia’s Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger. Fox News covered the FBI raid live.
Fox News covered it live
Because of fucking course they did
The revolution will not be televised, but the state propaganda definitely will be.
Why even do it if you're not going to make a spectacle of it? The whole point is to advertise Democrats as criminal and perp-walk them around to courts that will probably throw these shoddy cases out in a few minutes.
Republicans will end the 2026 campaign chanting "Lock Them Up". And maybe this time they'll actually mean it.
But also...
Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas
an 82-year-old great-grandmother
Wtf are you still doing in the Virginia Senate? Go home! Be with your fucking great-grandkids while you still can. Leave a little breathing room for anyone born before 1950 to hold office, ffs.
After?
Hot tip: They always meant it. And they never, ever cared about "the law".
They always meant it.
Trump spent every waking moment of 2016 saying "Lock Hillary Up" and not a single split-second from 2017 to 2021 attempting to do so.
Friendly reminder that James Comey and Christopher Wray could have done this at any time and choose not to.
If Democrats do manage to take back a Congressional Majority and pick up a few gubernatorial seats in 2027, they'll once again be empowered by the engines of the state to retaliate against Republican criminality and malfeasance.
And will then most likely proceed not doing that. The current dems are a punch of wimps who bow to the corporate interests, just like the republicans.
If they take back anything, they’ll do exactly what they’ve done for the past 50 years of right wing power creep: wring their hands and talk about taking the high road and healing as a nation.
We need a party that actually has the will to uphold laws. Impeach a president. Impeach congresspeople. Hold fucking trials. Throw fuckers in jail that belong in jail. We have a Supreme Court justice that has flagrantly taken bribes and refuses to recuse himself. Throw him in jail and say he can legislate from a steel toilet now. Just goddamn do anything.
If there were a To The Hilt Accountability Party, I'd vote for it.
they'll once again be empowered by the engines of the state to retaliate against Republican criminality and malfeasance.
Lol like they did in the four years between Trump's two terms? Or how about 2005-2017 after Bush and Cheney committed war crimes?
He said they'd be empowered. He never said they would do anything with that power.
Unchecked power is dangerous.
Would be cool if we had an opposition party interested in checking it
You are delusional if you think Democrats are taking power. The GOP isn't going anywhere. Fascism is there to stay.
Dems have been steamrolling races all over the country since 2025. The GOP is deeply unpopular and never had great margins to begin with.
They'll certainly lose the House this cycle. They've got a good chance of losing the Senate.
But if the swing vote in these Dem Majorities is John Fetterman, it won't matter
Sounds super-duper legal.
The best legal. All the legals are talking about it.
I just hope that the Democrats will do the same or worse if we manage to survive this shit. Not the coward crap they've historically done.
I don't want the same or worse, I want legitamte justice.
We don't have to be worse than them, they've done so many horrible things we just need to treat them appropriately.
Fascism isn't going away. Americans are not surviving this.
Something something watergate