MORNING RANT: The Virginia Redistricting Vote, Arlington & Alexandria Retrocession, and DC Statehood

As anyone who reads political blogs knows, voters in Virginia just approved* a redistricting plan that is designed to change its 11-person congressional delegation from a 6/5 Democrat/Republican split to a new map with a 10/1 split. This is being done by carving up the very blue Washington DC suburbs and attaching those hard-left voters to rural red counties. Fairfax County alone will be part of five different congressional districts. (*As Ace has documented, the redistricting election is facing challenges in Virginia courts.)

There has been much chatter since the election about having President Trump punch back by contesting the 19th century retrocession of Arlington and Alexandria from Washington DC to Virginia. The District was established in 1790 from land ceded by Maryland and Virginia, and was originally square in shape, straddling both shores of the Potomac River. But as Matt Margolis explains in this Townhall piece, the District had abolished slavery, so in 1847 the Virginia portion was retroceded back to Virginia to protect the slaveholders in Alexandria and Arlington. Several presidents since then have challenged the constitutionality of that action, and the U.S. Supreme Court has never ruled on it.

Since Alexandria and Arlington are populated by people who are dependent on Washington, returning those counties to DC would be an overdue homecoming.

In the 2024 presidential election, Arlington and Alexandria voted for Kamala Harris over Donald Trump at a ratio of 78% to 19%, with a margin of 121,000 votes. Although that number exceeds the margin of vote difference in this week’s redistricting vote, it would not have been enough in 2024. Kamala won Virginia by 259,000 votes, receiving 52% of the ballots ~~cast~~ counted.

Fairfax County is the great blue whale in Virginia. Fairfax voted 66% for Kamala in 2024, and provided her a massive 209,000 vote margin. Fairfax needs to be given to DC too.

DC statehood is a generally awful idea that won’t go away, and the next time Democrats control all levers of government, they plan to stuff it down our throats, with the intention of getting two more senators. But – DC statehood could be a politically helpful thing if we could just include Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax in the new state, which I’ll call “WaNoVa DC” for simplicity. Throwing Loudon County and Prince William County into the new state would leave Virginia beet red.

Here is what would really be great – the two current Democrat senators from Virginia actually represent metro DC, and they could continue to do so if they run for Senate from the new state. Virginia meanwhile would suddenly get two new Republican senators. The net result of WaNoVa DC statehood in the US Senate would be two new Senators, but they’d both be Republicans, not Democrats! Virginia would also then be free to elect an overwhelmingly Republican congressional delegation too, rather than being shut out as was voted for this past week.

At a bare minimum, simply returning Alexandria and Arlington to DC would make Virginia a purplish state rather than a blue state. Retrocession is a legitimate option that Republicans need to push. It also needs to be a poison pill inserted into any discussion of DC statehood.

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Other Stuff I’m Writing About

My latest piece at the The American Spectator has been published. “Under the Radar of the ‘Doomcasting’ Media, There Is Massive Industrial Investment Occurring in the U.S.” discusses the explosive industrial growth occurring in the U.S., and how companies engaged in industrial construction are seeing record sales and a huge backlog of new orders.

The media will not stop trying to spin economic news as being bad for President Trump, but the simple fact is that his effort to re-shore American industry is proving wildly successful. The explosive industrial growth in the U.S. and the cheap natural gas to fuel it have put us in a position for a period of remarkable economic growth and job creation.

This piece is not behind a paywall. I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.

My latest piece at The American Spectator has been published, “Under the Radar of the ‘Doomcasting’ Media, There Is Massive Industrial Investment Occurring in the U.S.”https://t.co/TA9JRhuQL3
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) April 24, 2026

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 Not first!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2026 11:01 AM (Wnv9h)

2 Wait...delay and a sock change and still 1st?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2026 11:02 AM (Wnv9h)

3 1 Not first!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

You lie!

Posted by: Joe Wilson at April 24, 2026 11:03 AM (oftw2)

4 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2026 11:03 AM (Wnv9h)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 11:04 AM (CfKHZ)

6 The District was established in 1790

It should be reconstituted!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 24, 2026 11:05 AM (YBtcQ)

7 Most important step is to true the vote. Everything else is a delaying action.

That said, I support this idea. Let the senators be elected by the people they actually represent. What a concept!

Posted by: Part-time Thinker at April 24, 2026 11:05 AM (aVO1v)

8 4 The Others have been summoned.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Crying shame you must do this. Everyone owns a clock and knows that the worm turns at 11AM ET. You have to lead these Feral Corgis by the nose!

Posted by: Canine Obedience Academy at April 24, 2026 11:06 AM (oftw2)

9 Fairfax County is the great blue whale in Virginia. Fairfax voted 66% for Kamala in 2024, and provided her a massive 209,000 vote margin. Fairfax needs to be given to DC too.

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:06 AM (Riz8t)

10 designed to change its 11-person congressional delegation from a 6/5 Democrat/Republican split to a new map with a 10/1 split.

It'll be funny if they redrew these with the assumption that their vote fraud remains intact. And it won't.

Posted by: t-bird at April 24, 2026 11:07 AM (Uh88k)

11 While I like the idea of sticking it to NoVa, think this would backfire bigly.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2026 11:07 AM (5xoct)

12 Why do blue voters love living in blue shitholes? It's GOT to suck for them too, doesn't it?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 11:08 AM (CfKHZ)

13 Slavery had not been abolished in the District of Columbia prior to retrocession. It would only be abolished during the Civil War. However, moves were afoot in the late 1840s to abolish the slave trade in DC, threatening the flourishing slave markets in Alexandria. This would actually occur in 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850. Virginia read the handwriting on the wall and proactively moved to protect slavery by reclaiming the Virginian portions of the District.

Posted by: Steven at April 24, 2026 11:09 AM (UTQRd)

14 I think the Dems may have shot themselves in the keister with this referendum. You simply can't tell the rest of the state that NoVa will now rule them all without people getting their backs up. The unbridled arrogance is going to cause them huge problems going forward, especially after conservative areas get a taste of NoVa governance.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:09 AM (Riz8t)

15 Good morning campers.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at April 24, 2026 11:09 AM (w3u3d)

16 I had a 1970 Rally NoVa that I really liked.

Posted by: Red, Racing Stripes at April 24, 2026 11:09 AM (oftw2)

17 The reason for D.C. not being a state is EXACTLY what we are seeing with CA and MN and others right, with their anti-ICE legislation: so no state could hinder the operation of the branches of the federal government. Therefore, it was set apart in the Constitution.

If they make DC a state, it violates the constitution AND gives some governor/legislature power over the federal gov't. (That sounds like a win-win-win for the Dems.)

Posted by: GWB at April 24, 2026 11:10 AM (4yJz0)

18 It'll be funny if they redrew these with the assumption that their vote fraud remains intact. And it won't.

Posted by: t-bird at April 24, 2026 11:07 AM (Uh88k)

I don't think that's really relevant. Fairfax has the voters to overwhelm the rest of the state even without fraud.

Republicans need presidential turnout in every election to even be close in Virginia.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 11:10 AM (iNUL3)

19 I've got a wildly dangerous rabid left of left sister living in Springfield. It would be hilarious to have her suddenly live in a red area.

Posted by: DanMan at April 24, 2026 11:10 AM (8uzBS)

20 Like everything else with our current government, the whole idea and management of "political districts" needs to be trashed. It's too prone to manipulation.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 24, 2026 11:10 AM (jehhT)

21 democrats have been talking about making DC a state since I was a kid back in the 60s, ain't gonna happen.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 24, 2026 11:12 AM (0N4FZ)

22 This is a lie. It is not on CNN!

DRUMMMPPFFFF is a stinky poo poo head!!!

Posted by: Open minded Liberal at April 24, 2026 11:12 AM (anL5R)

23 >> Why do blue voters love living in blue shitholes? It's GOT to suck for them too, doesn't it?

Good question.
For some, they are wealthy enough to be protected from most of the crime (gated communities, premium services so they don't interact with the riffraff, etc.).

They go nuclear when it starts to touch them, such as that entertainment couple - Samantha Bee and hubby - who led a parent revolt when their elite NYC public school announced they would be bringing in poor kids from outside the neighborhood.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2026 11:12 AM (5xoct)

24 Thx Buck.
Even an effort at reversing the retrocession would cause the Dems to go berserk. I sat Good To Go. They're trying every punk ass thing to gain more power , fight back in really funky ways

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 24, 2026 11:12 AM (gu0hJ)

25 Nice write up Buck!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2026 11:12 AM (2WIwB)

26 Why do blue voters love living in blue shitholes? It's GOT to suck for them too, doesn't it?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 11:08 AM (CfKHZ)

Because it doesn't. They don't feel it.

My folks - to the left of Maddow - live in Haymarket. In a retirement community. With strict access controls.

They order everything from amazon and have their groceries delivered. They will never, ever experience what they've forced onto the rest of us.

Most of the AWFLs are like this, I imagine.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 11:12 AM (iNUL3)

27 >>If they make DC a state, it violates the constitution AND gives some governor/legislature power over the federal gov't. (That sounds like a win-win-win for the Dems.)

THIS

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2026 11:13 AM (5xoct)

28 Are the fired government workers in NoVa staying put or moving to find jobs?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026 11:13 AM (DIbRX)

29 Most of the AWFLs are like this, I imagine.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

"We have a beautiful neighborhood and everything is taken care of. The people complaining are making things up!"

Posted by: NR Pax at April 24, 2026 11:14 AM (RjOoY)

30 democrats have been talking about making DC a state since I was a kid back in the 60s, ain't gonna happen.

Never say never.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:15 AM (Riz8t)

31 Are the fired government workers in NoVa staying put or moving to find jobs?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026 11:13 AM (DIbRX)

Initially, home sales skyrocketed but have stabilized. I think most of them are staying put.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 11:15 AM (iNUL3)

32 We should do what you say, combine them all but then completely deprive the end result of any representation whatsoever. That's what the dems would do to us. And all big cities require absolute disfranchisement. However you want to do it, cut things up to dilute their vote, I don't care. The left must be annihilated.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 24, 2026 11:16 AM (3uBP9)

33 Most of the AWFLs are like this, I imagine.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

"We have a beautiful neighborhood and everything is taken care of. The people complaining are making things up!"

Posted by: NR Pax at April 24, 2026 11:14 AM (RjOoY)

Honest to God, that's what they say.

"That can't be true. Rachel would have told me."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 11:16 AM (iNUL3)

34 Mrs. E gets 2nd part of first infusion this morning.

Posted by: Eromero at April 24, 2026 11:16 AM (7RAhE)

35 That said, I support this idea. Let the senators be elected by the people they actually represent. What a concept!
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at April 24, 2026 11:05 AM (aVO1v)

How about repealing an amendment and give back senator elections to state legislators.

Back to Constitutional basics!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 24, 2026 11:16 AM (g8Ew8)

36 "Since Alexandria and Arlington are populated by people who are dependent on Washington, returning those counties to DC would be an overdue homecoming."
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They also get the FSMP* and an airport!

*Five Sided Money Pump

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 24, 2026 11:16 AM (2Ez/1)

37 >>Are the fired government workers in NoVa staying put or moving to find jobs?

Good question. NoVa is very expensive, as you would imagine. Back when I lived there I would wonder how people could afford such expensive homes. Thanks to DOGE, I now know. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2026 11:17 AM (5xoct)

38 Eromero, prayers that the side effects are nill.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026 11:17 AM (DIbRX)

39 >>> Why do blue voters love living in blue shitholes? It's GOT to suck for them too, doesn't it?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 11:08 AM (CfKHZ)

Free shit, make work jobs, feeling superior.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 24, 2026 11:18 AM (3uBP9)

40 "How about repealing an amendment and give back senator elections to state legislators."

You want the full time thinkers in room D-7. It's just down the hall.

Posted by: connected and litigious at April 24, 2026 11:19 AM (cS1cw)

41 Statehood? D.C. shouldn't be a city.
It is a federal district to be administrated by congress. This city crap is just another part of them abdicating their responsibility.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2026 11:19 AM (XAeCh)

42 >>Are the fired government workers in NoVa staying put or moving to find jobs?

Good question. NoVa is very expensive, as you would imagine. Back when I lived there I would wonder how people could afford such expensive homes. Thanks to DOGE, I now know. . .

But OTOH, the traffic sucks.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

43 Carry me back to old Virginia
There's where the cotton and corn and taters grow
There's where the birds warble sweet in the springtime
There's where this old dreamer's heart am long'd to go

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 24, 2026 11:19 AM (DgMqy)

44 Does this mean I have to go job hunting?

I built two factories and got laid off once they were up and producing. I suppose I should get back into the rat race.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 24, 2026 11:20 AM (Fbc0I)

45 Voters decide little. Ballots and ballot counters decide a lot. They don’t go 70% Dem by themselves.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 24, 2026 11:20 AM (QZThv)

46 The propaganda ministries have been posting stories about how laid off USAID employees who made $200-300k are pretty much useless in the job market and can't find work. Ace talked about laid off "journalists" who are in the same boat. I can't imagine they are going to be staying in high rent neighborhoods for long

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 24, 2026 11:20 AM (gu0hJ)

47 Eromero, prayers up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2026 11:20 AM (XAeCh)

48 Why do blue voters love living in blue shitholes? It's GOT to suck for them too, doesn't it?
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They get a rebate on their state and local taxes, and a lot have high paying grifter govt -pseudo govt jobs because that's where the agencies and satellites offices are located mostly blue state shit holes. Its a self sucking blow job.

Posted by: It may be crude, but its what they are doing at April 24, 2026 11:21 AM (anL5R)

49 >>Why do blue voters love living in blue shitholes? It's GOT to suck for them too, doesn't it?

My experience from discussions with uber-Lefty colleagues: they genuinely don't see the connection between their policy intentions and the actual consequences.

Have had discussions where in one breath they call open border issues "fake news" and in the next, wonder why things have gotten so unsafe. They will reject anything that would identify these connections, they will have none of it "la la la la I can't hear you Orange man baaaaaad!"

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2026 11:21 AM (5xoct)

50 Honest to God, that's what they say.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

I've got a cousin who lives in Seattle and works for Amazon. He mocks the articles about how crappy that place is because he's never dealt with it.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 24, 2026 11:22 AM (RjOoY)

51 If a big chuck of Faifax County was put back into the District of Columbia, VA would be deep red.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 24, 2026 11:22 AM (qFwJc)

52 DC should be stripped of home rule and be governed by a Lee Kwan Yew/Pinochet hybrid.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 24, 2026 11:22 AM (rJ48h)

53 Okay, it's a fair cop. You got me. Repealing the 17th is also definitely called for.

Posted by: Part-time Thinker at April 24, 2026 11:23 AM (aVO1v)

54 Mrs. E gets 2nd part of first infusion this morning.
Posted by: Eromero at April 24, 2026 11:16 AM (7RAhE)

Prayers up!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2026 11:23 AM (2WIwB)

55 I can't imagine they are going to be staying in high rent neighborhoods for long.
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Between the fondness for unreality and financial illiteracy most liberals exhibit, 401Ks and second/third mortgages on pricey homes, they gonna be there till the banks kick them out.

Posted by: What do you mean I can't do what I want?! at April 24, 2026 11:24 AM (anL5R)

56 If a big chuck of Faifax County was put back into the District of Columbia, VA would be deep red.

There are other blue areas, including Richmond, black Tidewater, and Charlottesville, but yeah, FC is the big kahuna.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:24 AM (Riz8t)

57 28 Are the fired government workers in NoVa staying put or moving to find jobs?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026 11:13 AM (DIbRX)

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Probably holding out until they can vote their jobs back

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 24, 2026 11:24 AM (IurJ0)

58 Nice Rant 👍

Especially after the PA redistricting 👎 explicitly covering Southeastern PA a handful of years ago, I have great interest nationally.

(A major legal challenge to Pennsylvania's congressional map was initiated in June 2017 by the League of Women Voters, alleging unconstitutional gerrymandering of the 2011 map. This lawsuit, which continued into early 2018, resulted in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court striking down the map and ordering a new one for the 2018 elections.)

Jim Grimes
@j___rimes
Six states currently have zero Republican members in the U.S. House: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, Hawaii, and Delaware. Despite having Republican voters, all are represented entirely by Democrats. #Congress #Politics #TexasRedistricting
9:33 PM · Aug 5, 2025 1,108 Views

And this, in part, from AI Overview: "While not all New England states have Republican representation in the U.S. House as of early 2026, they do have Republican representation in their respective state legislatures."
Wikipedia + 6 (That makes it palatable?)
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NDRC bamn

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 24, 2026 11:24 AM (NFX2v)

59 Old Virginia ain't Virginia anymore.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2026 11:25 AM (XAeCh)

60 DC has no business being a state. It's just an attempt by the Democrats to get two more Senators. It's land set aside for the country's capital, it was never intended to be a state.
In other words, it's a political ploy to benefit the Democrat party.

Posted by: Case at April 24, 2026 11:25 AM (pvf3X)

61 37 >>Are the fired government workers in NoVa staying put or moving to find jobs?

Good question. NoVa is very expensive, as you would imagine. Back when I lived there I would wonder how people could afford such expensive homes. Thanks to DOGE, I now know. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2026 11:17 AM (5xoct)

One of the Fired Fed Workers went on Caleb Hammer's Youtube show. He'd moved to Austin TX and got a tech job there. (While also getting 4000/mo in Military Disability when he only did 2 years in the Reserves and his "disability" is mild depression).

And somehow this dude was still $400K in debt.

Posted by: XTC at April 24, 2026 11:25 AM (iXqHn)

62 >>The propaganda ministries have been posting stories about how laid off USAID employees who made $200-300k are pretty much useless in the job market and can't find work.

As much as I enjoy identifying these laid off USAID workers useless (and no doubt, a lot of them were), another big factor in them not finding work is that MANY Americans cannot find work thanks to foreigners being hired over citizens (H1B, OPT, etc.), massive layoffs in tech, entertainment/media industries, and more.

They are being laid off during a terrible job market, and I could not enjoy it more. Welcome to the Hell you helped create, lefty bureaucrats!!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2026 11:26 AM (5xoct)

63 Are the fired government workers in NoVa staying put or moving to find jobs?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026 11:13 AM (DIbRX)

Initially, home sales skyrocketed but have stabilized. I think most of them are staying put.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 11:15 AM (iNUL3)

They all know that the day a Democrat is sworn in as President, the gravy train starts up again.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 24, 2026 11:26 AM (ExV1e)

64 Mrs. E gets 2nd part of first infusion this morning.
Posted by: Eromero at April 24, 2026 11:16 AM (7RAhE)

Godspeed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 11:26 AM (CfKHZ)

65 NatGas going down is superb for our position in the world.
However.
We must win the midterms. It can be done, so long as GasolineGas prices come down.
Our fickle LIVs only think in the immediacy of the moment.

The Quest teeters on a knife edge.

Posted by: RI Red at April 24, 2026 11:26 AM (nZWpe)

66 59 Old Virginia ain't Virginia anymore.

Indeed. But I traveled through rural Virginy 'while back and it was beautiful.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 24, 2026 11:26 AM (DgMqy)

67 > Are the fired government workers in NoVa staying put or moving to find jobs?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026 11:13 AM (DIbRX)

Initially, home sales skyrocketed but have stabilized. I think most of them are staying put.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 11:15 AM (iNUL3)
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They're betting on a Democrat takeover of government in a couple years. They'll get their jobs back, and get back pay.

They'll use Trump's wealth to fund it.

I'm only half joking about that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 24, 2026 11:27 AM (jehhT)

68 And somehow this dude was still $400K in debt.
Posted by: XTC
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Easy come.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2026 11:27 AM (XAeCh)

69 Indeed. But I traveled through rural Virginy 'while back and it was beautiful.

It truly is, but every time I leave NoVa and head west, the suburban creep reaches further. It's great if you own rural land in front of the coming population tsunami, but it's really sad to see the Virginia that was starting to disappear.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:28 AM (Riz8t)

70 >>(While also getting 4000/mo in Military Disability when he only did 2 years in the Reserves and his "disability" is mild depression).

And somehow this dude was still $400K in debt.

Reminds me of Hunter Biden. He has no concept of money, he just spent until he ran out, then scrambled to get more. At least he did until Pops retired.

That guy in Austin is a great demonstration of why our government is so dysfunctional. Imagine how he managed his workplace funds. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2026 11:29 AM (5xoct)

71 Hey. Leave me alone!
I'm trying to become New Jersey.

Posted by: Virginia at April 24, 2026 11:29 AM (2Ez/1)

72 I think cleaning up the voting rolls and voting procedures in VA would do more for the GOP's prospects than moving any city back to DC. The votes in those deep-blue cities in VA are fraudulent. Period.

Those overwhelming vote totals for Kamala and the Democraps are pure bullshit. You couldn't get 78% of people in a large city to vote in favor of breathing. Probably a third of those votes are fake.

There's no doubt in my mind that VA would be reddish purple if there was real vote integrity in the state. But there ain't, so it ain't.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 24, 2026 11:30 AM (iFTx/)

73 Mrs. E gets 2nd part of first infusion this morning.
Posted by: Eromero

Prayers for both of you.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 24, 2026 11:30 AM (YBtcQ)

74 >>It's great if you own rural land in front of the coming population tsunami, but it's really sad to see the Virginia that was starting to disappear.

This is happening in every state.
They've brought in 10's of millions of people and then built like crazy. SO sad.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2026 11:30 AM (5xoct)

75 They are being laid off during a terrible job market, and I could not enjoy it more. Welcome to the Hell you helped create, lefty bureaucrats!!
Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2026 11:26 AM (5xoct)

Lizzy,
I mostly concur. But even in a bad job market, if one is willing to relocate, jobs are there. That's what I had to do in the dot.crash. And it turned out well. Many of the USAID dorks aren't willing to do that. Too bad for them.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2026 11:30 AM (2WIwB)

76 And somehow this dude was still $400K in debt.

I guess that depends on whether his "debt" includes his mortgage. If it does, then people in expensive areas are routinely in hock to that amount and much more. If not, he's got a serious problem.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)

77 They are being laid off during a terrible job market, and I could not enjoy it more. Welcome to the Hell you helped create, lefty bureaucrats!!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2026 11:26 AM

Point of order, the job market here is Texas is exploding. Florida's job market is doing good as well.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 24, 2026 11:30 AM (0N4FZ)

78 An interesting analysis, Buck. The theory sounds good. I would love to see NVA become part of the new "DC" state. After all, they will need a larger tax base to be a real state.

There are some practical problems. First, I don't think the DC democrats want to be overwhelmed by the NVA democrats as they would lose power. DC democrats have a really good deal going. And I think the NVA democrats do not want to pay for DC's money problems.

The next problem is schools. How is that funding going to work? Assume for grins, Arlington, Fairfax and others keep their independent school districts. They won't get money from Virginia at that point. Even with a higher tax base, DC will not send them as much as they now.

For these reasons alone, (and there are others), I don't think it works.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at April 24, 2026 11:31 AM (w3u3d)

79 The Constitution specifies that the Federal District can be no more than 100 square miles (I think) in area. So we can't throw too much new land in there without an amendment.

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2026 11:32 AM (77rzZ)

80 I'm trying to become New Jersey.
Posted by: Virginia

You certainly don't have our weather (although Va actually has some great grass-growing regions).

Posted by: California at April 24, 2026 11:32 AM (W5mpo)

81 >simply returning Alexandria and Arlington to DC would make Virginia a purplish state rather than a blue state.
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all those VA Democrats who suddenly found themselves residents of non-voting DC would sue

unless I'm wrong

Posted by: Don Black at April 24, 2026 11:32 AM (ZxPkt)

82 I lived in Alexandria, VA and then moved to Prince William Co. (Woodbridge) in the mid 80's through the mid 90's. IMO the leftist stench was stronger in Woodbridge than it was in Alexandria at the time.

The HOA concept was a rabidly enforced feature of Woodbridge. Communist even.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 24, 2026 11:32 AM (jehhT)

83 I can't imagine they are going to be staying in high rent neighborhoods for long.
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Between the fondness for unreality and financial illiteracy most liberals exhibit, 401Ks and second/third mortgages on pricey homes, they gonna be there till the banks kick them out.
Posted by: What do you mean I can't do what I want?! at April 24, 2026 11:24 AM (anL5R)

But, before that, they will lobby for legislation making it illegal to kick former gov't workers out of their homes.

Posted by: GWB at April 24, 2026 11:33 AM (4yJz0)

84

Reading about the severe weather in Oklahoma.

Do we have morons there? I hope everyone is okay.

Posted by: four seasons at April 24, 2026 11:33 AM (3ek7K)

85
The next problem is schools. How is that funding going to work? Assume for grins, Arlington, Fairfax and others keep their independent school districts. They won't get money from Virginia at that point. Even with a higher tax base, DC will not send them as much as they now.

For these reasons alone, (and there are others), I don't think it works.

There is absolutely no way the average resident of Fairfax Co. wants his kids going to a DC school. They will fight it tooth and nail.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

86 72 I think cleaning up the voting rolls and voting procedures in VA would do more for the GOP's prospects than moving any city back to DC. The votes in those deep-blue cities in VA are fraudulent. Period.

Those overwhelming vote totals for Kamala and the Democraps are pure bullshit. You couldn't get 78% of people in a large city to vote in favor of breathing. Probably a third of those votes are fake.

There's no doubt in my mind that VA would be reddish purple if there was real vote integrity in the state. But there ain't, so it ain't.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 24, 2026 11:30 AM (iFTx/)
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I'm not saying there's NO fraud in the votes in NoVA, but bro have you fuckin BEEN there lately? It is chock-a-block with FedGov drudges and AWFULs that would vote for a flaming dog turd if it had a D after its name. The schools are full of commie propagandists and groomers. The city and county governments are shot through with commies and the mismanagement they inevitably bring.

Sure clean up the voter rolls and prevent fraud, but I'd give you 5:1 odds that those counties continue to elect democrats by 60% of the ballots.

Posted by: ballistic at April 24, 2026 11:33 AM (oqH4h)

87 76 I guess that depends on whether his "debt" includes his mortgage. If it does, then people in expensive areas are routinely in hock to that amount and much more. If not, he's got a serious problem.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)

About half of it was his mortgage, I think.

Posted by: XTC at April 24, 2026 11:33 AM (iXqHn)

88 There is absolutely no way the average resident of Fairfax Co. wants his kids going to a DC school. They will fight it tooth and nail.

If they wanted to live in DC, they'd be in DC.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

89 >>Many of the USAID dorks aren't willing to do that. Too bad for them.

DC is an incestuous place. You can bet for most of them, their spouses are employed inside the beltway, in government, media, lobbying, defense contracting, other NGOs, etc.. They want to stay connected.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2026 11:34 AM (5xoct)

90 87 76 I guess that depends on whether his "debt" includes his mortgage. If it does, then people in expensive areas are routinely in hock to that amount and much more. If not, he's got a serious problem.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)

About half of it was his mortgage, I think.
Posted by: XTC at April 24, 2026 11:33 AM (iXqHn)

(His mortgage in Metro DC, not the one he had in Austin.)

Posted by: XTC at April 24, 2026 11:34 AM (iXqHn)

91 Fun fact: Arlington County is the smallest self-governing county in the United States by area, occupying approximately 26 square miles.

Posted by: The More You Know at April 24, 2026 11:34 AM (2Ez/1)

92
And somehow this dude was still $400K in debt.
Posted by: XTC

I assume Caleb brutalized him over that.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 24, 2026 11:34 AM (RjOoY)

93 The Commiecrat bureaucrats aren't moving away from DC cause they know that as soon as the Dem's regain control of the government, they will:
- refund USAID
- refund PBS/NPR
- refund Dep't of Education
- refund all DOGE cuts
- refund DEI programs across the Federal bureaucracy

They are just biding their time til Trump is gone and they, once again, run DC.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at April 24, 2026 11:34 AM (MNCvZ)

94 all those VA Democrats who suddenly found themselves residents of non-voting DC would sue

unless I'm wrong

You are not.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:34 AM (Riz8t)

95 Another issue with this is that the current DC government which is run almost exclusively by very corrupt black people would NEVER be willing to subsume that many crackas into their little fiefdom.

Posted by: ballistic at April 24, 2026 11:36 AM (oqH4h)

96 all those VA Democrats who suddenly found themselves residents of non-voting DC would sue

unless I'm wrong

You are not.

Fairfax Co. is all the fun of voting for racist, leftist lunatics, but with very little of the consequences of living in DC.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

97 Another issue with this is that the current DC government which is run almost exclusively by very corrupt black people would NEVER be willing to subsume that many crackas into their little fiefdom.

It's changing whether they like it or not. DC is no longer the DC of the Barry era.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)

98 Point of order, the job market here is Texas is exploding. Florida's job market is doing good as well.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)
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Texas is a simmering cesspool of rednecks and heat. Florida is controlled by that tyrant DeSantis and they've got another lined up after him.
And bugs and snakes and gators.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2026 11:37 AM (XAeCh)

99 Sorry, the size of DC as mandated by the Constitution is not to exceed 10 miles square.

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2026 11:37 AM (77rzZ)

100 >>Another issue with this is that the current DC government which is run almost exclusively by very corrupt black people would NEVER be willing to subsume that many crackas into their little fiefdom

OMG, if you want to talk incestuous, the DC political scene is a perfect example.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2026 11:37 AM (5xoct)

101 There should be no problem with retrocession. Heck, if you look at most health insurance plans that cover DC, including Medicare, they include Fairfax and Arlington under the same coverage plan as DC.

Posted by: Fish at April 24, 2026 11:38 AM (FmCHY)

102 Florida is controlled by that tyrant DeSantis and they've got another lined up after him.
And bugs and snakes and gators.

DeSantis had a lot of fun mocking Temu Obama for threatening to come to FL and gerrymander.

https://is.gd/z46Uti

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:38 AM (Riz8t)

103 Fun fact: Arlington County is the smallest self-governing county in the United States by area, occupying approximately 26 square miles.
Posted by: The More You Know

Some of the independent cities here, which are equivalent to counties, must be smaller than that.

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2026 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

104 Have Virginia's red counties secede, and join West Virginia

Posted by: Don Black at April 24, 2026 11:39 AM (ZxPkt)

105 *OMG, if you want to talk incestuous, the DC political scene is a perfect example.*

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Da bish set me up.

Posted by: Mayor for life Marion Barry at April 24, 2026 11:39 AM (2Ez/1)

106 Instead of making them part of D.C., how about nuking them from orbit? It's the only way to be sure...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 24, 2026 11:40 AM (cWffP)

107 It's changing whether they like it or not. DC is no longer the DC of the Barry era.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)
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Out of 14 members of the DC City Council, four of them aren't black.

Tell me more.

Posted by: ballistic at April 24, 2026 11:40 AM (oqH4h)

108 I've got a cousin who lives in Seattle and works for Amazon. He mocks the articles about how crappy that place is because he's never dealt with it.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 24, 2026 11:22 AM (RjOoY)

All you have to do is drive the cross-town freeway, and see all the graffiti covering absolutely everything, with no sign of any effort to clean up by the city, to realize it's become a shithole.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2026 11:40 AM (utfVc)

109 I have worn out my screeds about DC. It’s all self evident about the place.

Posted by: tubal at April 24, 2026 11:41 AM (Gqar8)

110 Falls Church, for example, is only 2.2 sq. m. in area.

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2026 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

111 I think cleaning up the voting rolls and voting procedures in VA would do more for the GOP's prospects than moving any city back to DC. The votes in those deep-blue cities in VA are fraudulent. Period.

Those overwhelming vote totals for Kamala and the Democraps are pure bullshit. You couldn't get 78% of people in a large city to vote in favor of breathing. Probably a third of those votes are fake.

There's no doubt in my mind that VA would be reddish purple if there was real vote integrity in the state. But there ain't, so it ain't.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 24, 2026 11:30 AM (iFTx/)
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Sure clean up the voter rolls and prevent fraud, but I'd give you 5:1 odds that those counties continue to elect democrats by 60% of the ballots.
Posted by: ballistic at April 24, 2026 11:33 AM (oqH4h)
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Well, yea. I didn't say the GOP would win those blue cities. But 60% of ballots isn't 78%. That's 100s of thousands of votes right there that would be GOP or at least not Dum.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 24, 2026 11:41 AM (iFTx/)

112 Trump has shown a penchant for renaming things.

Perhaps it's time to revert back to Federal City.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 24, 2026 11:41 AM (2Ez/1)

113 Texas is a simmering cesspool of rednecks and heat. Florida is controlled by that tyrant DeSantis and they've got another lined up after him.
And bugs and snakes and gators.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2026 11:37 AM (XAeCh)

One does not simply live in Florida. One SURVIVES Florida.

Posted by: The Australia of America at April 24, 2026 11:42 AM (TbWk/)

114 Gerrymandering a 6:5 D/R districting to an 11:1 D/R split is quite simply one-party rule by another name.

Posted by: muldoon at April 24, 2026 11:42 AM (I0N4X)

115 Perhaps it's time to revert back to Federal City.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Yeah, ditch the name of that slaveowner.

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2026 11:42 AM (77rzZ)

116 Out of 14 members of the DC City Council, four of them aren't black.

Tell me more.

Oh, I doubt anyone can tell you much of anything. Anyway:

In the first election of the Home Rule era held in November 1974, which established the new 13-member Council of the District of Columbia, 11 members were Black.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)

117 50 is a nice number. 51 is a retarded number -- totally f's up Old Glory.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at April 24, 2026 11:44 AM (GD2xa)

118 ANY metropolitan area that has a 1. University and 2. a Medical Complex located there is or will inevitably become a Woke/Leftist haven. How to remedy that I do not know.

Posted by: tubal at April 24, 2026 11:44 AM (Gqar8)

119 Fun fact: Elbridge Gerry's surname was pronounced with a hard "g," but "gerrymander" is almost always pronounced with a soft "g."

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2026 11:44 AM (77rzZ)

120 All you have to do is drive the cross-town freeway, and see all the graffiti covering absolutely everything, with no sign of any effort to clean up by the city, to realize it's become a shithole.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I have doubts that it would persuade him. But I wish him well and hope nothing bad happens to him or his family.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 24, 2026 11:44 AM (RjOoY)

121 Amusingly even with the $$$ spent on this, the allowed false wording, and the FNM propagandizing they still need a fake ballot last minute dump to "win"

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2026 11:45 AM (sKqQm)

122 Posted by: Eromero at April 24, 2026 11:16 AM (7RAhE)

Will keep your wife in prayer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2026 11:45 AM (3Aazl)

123 I was all gung ho for giving most of what's left of DC to Maryland, where it can add its own distinct flavor of diversity to the utopia of single party Democrat rule. And leaving 0 residents except the ones temporarily working for Leviathan. But I could be convinced to going back to the original square DC to try anything to reduce the influence of this blinding migraine.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 24, 2026 11:46 AM (Dv3i1)

124 There is absolutely no way the average resident of Fairfax Co. wants his kids going to a DC school. They will fight it tooth and nail.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

My point exactly. :-)

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at April 24, 2026 11:46 AM (w3u3d)

125 Anyone who says that the overall political tone of DC hasn't changed in the last 50 years is a fool. The white population has gone from 28% to 39%, which is almost as large as the black population.

While exact census data for 1974 is not listed, interpolating between 1970 and 1980 indicates that in 1974, the white population was somewhere between 171,000 and 200,000 residents, comprising less than 27.7% of the total population as the city's overall population declined, a period known as "white flight" to the suburbs

Based on 2025 population estimates, the White population in Washington, DC is approximately 262,549, representing about 39.07% of the total population. This makes the white population the second largest racial group in the district, following the Black or African American population at roughly 43.26%

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:46 AM (Riz8t)

126 Let DC residents register as Maryland voters.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at April 24, 2026 11:47 AM (GD2xa)

127
Hey. Leave me alone!
I'm trying to become New Jersey.
Posted by: Virginia at April 24, 2026 11:29 AM (2Ez/1)

How are you going to duplicate the wet cement/rotting lasagna/Snookie queef smell of NJ?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 24, 2026 11:47 AM (y9nCu)

128
Oh, I doubt anyone can tell you much of anything. Anyway:

In the first election of the Home Rule era held in November 1974, which established the new 13-member Council of the District of Columbia, 11 members were Black.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)
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Appreciate the snark on a Friday morning. Anyway, nothing is "changing" in DC, let alone anything resembling a trend toward a non-black majority on the council.

Posted by: ballistic at April 24, 2026 11:47 AM (oqH4h)

129 There's not a single GOP House member from the following 6 states, despite Trump receiving between 32% and 42% of the popular vote in 2024:
Connecticut - Trump got 42% No GOP House reps
Delaware - Trump got 42% No GOP House reps
Hawaii - Trump got 37% No GOP House reps
Massachusetts - Trump got 36% No GOP House reps
Rhode Island - Trump got 42% No GOP House reps
Vermont - Trump got 32% No GOP House reps
So whenever, you read Obama, or the rest of the political liars, tell you that the Virginia redistricting was "necessary" due GOP gerrymandering, know that they're full of crap.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at April 24, 2026 11:48 AM (MNCvZ)

130 Hakeem Jeffries to the Virginia Supreme Court: Uphold the new maps "or else."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 11:48 AM (iNUL3)

131 DC statehood could be a politically helpful thing if we could just include Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax in the new state, which I’ll call “WaNoVa DC” for simplicity.
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I would go farther. Add Prince George and Montgomery counties from Maryland. OK, they'd get one communist state, but we'd get a red VA and a purple MD.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 24, 2026 11:48 AM (AlhUl)

132 Thanks for proving my point though. In 50 years, they've managed to add one more non-black person to the council.

Posted by: ballistic at April 24, 2026 11:48 AM (oqH4h)

133 Well, yea. I didn't say the GOP would win those blue cities. But 60% of ballots isn't 78%. That's 100s of thousands of votes right there that would be GOP or at least not Dum.

After 2004 I looked at a bunch of precinct level results from Philly, and I focused on the ones that post 0 votes for Shrub.

They almost all were 100% for Kerry. Note - no votes for any of the third parties - no write ins, no Greens, no Libertarians, hell no votes for the "Free Drugs" party that ran that year.

Really? So, not only not 1 GOP voter but not even a vote for some leftwing third party? All these Philly voters just happen to be committed Dems and/or John Kerry lovers?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2026 11:48 AM (sKqQm)

134 Appreciate the snark on a Friday morning.

You're obviously a connoisseur. Try being less of a dick and it might not be necessary.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:49 AM (Riz8t)

135 Forty Eight is a perfect number.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2026 11:50 AM (XAeCh)

136 People getting testicle on a Friday at the HQ.

Posted by: tubal at April 24, 2026 11:50 AM (Gqar8)

137 123 I was all gung ho for giving most of what's left of DC to Maryland, where it can add its own distinct flavor of diversity to the utopia of single party Democrat rule.

That ain't gonna happen either. The MD democrats would end up losing power because the DC group would want a piece of the action. MD democrats have a really sweet deal.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at April 24, 2026 11:50 AM (w3u3d)

138 Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2026 11:41 AM (77rzZ

I have a friend who lived there for a number of years. I'm not sure what her husband did, but he was some kind of an engineer in a field I probably wouldn't understand. They are so glad to be back in rural VA where they both came from on her parents 200 plus year old cattle farm. I guess he just didn't talk about politics because they were both conservative even then and I think he worked for the government on an actual job- not like USAID.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2026 11:50 AM (3Aazl)

139 >>> Out of 14 members of the DC City Council, four of them aren't black.

Tell me more.

Oh, I doubt anyone can tell you much of anything. Anyway:

In the first election of the Home Rule era held in November 1974, which established the new 13-member Council of the District of Columbia, 11 members were Black.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)

They'll reach parity in 2110

Posted by: banana Dream - We are almost the priests of the temples of syrinx at April 24, 2026 11:50 AM (3uBP9)

140 It Sure Sounds Like Hakeem Jeffries Just Tried to Threaten the VA Supreme Court

https://is.gd/OLYmYw

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:51 AM (Riz8t)

141 There is absolutely no way the average resident of Fairfax Co. wants his kids going to a DC school. They will fight it tooth and nail.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

There should be no schools in DC at all. Nor homes. Federally-owned dormitories for legislators, staff, and civil servants, all of whom must maintain an official domicile in a State. Restaurants, bars, and shops? Sure, all occupying premises leased from the Fed. Employees of these businesses have to live outside DC, and commute. A DC without any full-time residents needs no Congressional representation at all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2026 11:52 AM (utfVc)

142 NYC has a jihadi mayor

hey look- Christian churches catch fire

https://tinyurl.com/b6jkm5nx

Posted by: Don Black at April 24, 2026 11:52 AM (ZxPkt)

143 Sure clean up the voter rolls and prevent fraud, but I'd give you 5:1 odds that those counties continue to elect democrats by 60% of the ballots.
Posted by: ballistic at April 24, 2026

Even RIC isn’t as bad as NOVA. VA is gorgeous. I liked living there. My oldest can’t really leave, her husband is a Norfolk police officer, he is one of those who wants to make a difference, he does so much of the outreach with schools to prove police officers aren’t bad. The are in VaBeach. My middle, however, needs to pack up and get here. Like yesterday.

Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2026 11:53 AM (Dd38x)

144 It's changing whether they like it or not. DC is no longer the DC of the Barry era.
Posted by: Archimedes

Bitch set him up!

Posted by: Crack Is Whack! at April 24, 2026 11:53 AM (oftw2)

145

We are researching our family history. Most of our ancestors came to the US as indentured servants.

It's interesting that one of them owned a lot of property in Georgetown and at some point sold the property.

We're still trying to find out who he sold it too.

Posted by: four seasons at April 24, 2026 11:54 AM (3ek7K)

146 VA is an odd state.

You've got Richmond as a traditional leftist shithole, but then NOVA where all the government workers/lobbyists live, balanced against the Navy in the southeast and the very red rest of the state.

Simple fix for this - civilian fed gov employees don't get to vote. NGO employees funded by even $1 gov dollar don't get to vote.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2026 11:55 AM (sKqQm)

147 >>> A DC without any full-time residents needs no Congressional representation at all.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2026 11:52 AM (utfVc)

Yes, everything AOP wrote.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 24, 2026 11:56 AM (3uBP9)

148 H1Bs in Harris County
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
2,553
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M.D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTER
2,411

WTFO
These are my local and state taxes paying for Foreign workers.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 24, 2026 11:56 AM (/+uur)

149 "Retrocession is a legitimate option that Republicans need to push. It also needs to be a poison pill inserted into any discussion of DC statehood."

That is its use.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 24, 2026 11:56 AM (tOcjL)

150 The main problem is that voting Democrat is the default position for most people. Has been for vast stretches post reconstruction.

The GOP doesn't help matters as well.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 24, 2026 11:58 AM (XV/Pl)

151 WTFO
These are my local and state taxes paying for Foreign workers.
These are TEACHING Hospitals that cannot TEACH their STUDENTS to work at where they are being TAUGHT.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 24, 2026 11:58 AM (/+uur)

152 "Retrocession is a legitimate option that Republicans need to push. It also needs to be a poison pill inserted into any discussion of DC statehood."

That is its use.

Would the Army of Northern Virginia then become the Army of DC?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:58 AM (Riz8t)

153 "NYC has a jihadi mayor"

Big deal... The UK has a muslim king.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at April 24, 2026 11:58 AM (Vpqw1)

154 The GOP doesn't help matters as well.

Not when they blow $100M trying to reelect that feckless RINO Cornyn.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:58 AM (Riz8t)

155 Trump could have fun with Retrocession - frame it as all these rich lobbyists don't want to pay DC's higher taxes versus VA's lower taxes...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2026 11:59 AM (sKqQm)

156 28 Are the fired government workers in NoVa staying put or moving to find jobs?
Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026 11:13 AM (DIbRX)

Mostly staying put. Public school system hired a metric ton of them.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 24, 2026 11:59 AM (tOcjL)

157 Mrs. E gets 2nd part of first infusion this morning.
Posted by: Eromero at April 24, 2026 11:16 AM (7RAhE)

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Thoughts and prayers for you both.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 24, 2026 12:00 PM (XeU6L)

158 Not when they blow $100M trying to reelect that feckless RINO Cornyn.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:58 AM (Riz8t)

They have no business at all being involved in primaries.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 24, 2026 12:00 PM (lFFaq)

159 In VA the 73% YES Mail In for does not match the Elections day 47% YES or the Early Voting 53%.
Seem to me that the law should state it must be with +-10%.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 24, 2026 12:00 PM (/+uur)

160 Dems will make PR and DC states the second they have the votes. If they get 52 senate seats with a D in the WH it’s a done deal.

Meanwhile with 53, the useless GOP can’t pass a voter ID bill
.

Posted by: Heroq at April 24, 2026 12:00 PM (q1qnK)

161 Hey. Leave me alone!
I'm trying to become New Jersey.
Posted by: Virginia at April 24, 2026 11:29 AM (2Ez/1)

Hey! We have Big Pharm here to fund our stuff!

Posted by: New Jersey at April 24, 2026 12:01 PM (5xuJ/)

162 Not when they blow $100M trying to reelect that feckless RINO Cornyn.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 11:58 AM (Riz8t)

Come se dice Amnesty Sellout?

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 24, 2026 12:01 PM (/+uur)

163 Another fun fact: Norfolk, Virginia is home to the world's largest Navy base.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 24, 2026 12:02 PM (2Ez/1)

164 "It's interesting that one of them owned a lot of property in Georgetown and at some point sold the property."

My idiot great-uncle owned a lot at the corner of M and Wisconsin. Idiot because he didn't hold onto it until it was worth millions.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at April 24, 2026 12:02 PM (Vpqw1)

165 @FirstLadyOffice
·
2h
.@FLOTUS
@MELANIATRUMP
announced the expansion of the @WhiteHouse
honey program with the addition of a newly installed and fully functioning beehive on the South Lawn.

Posted by: Don Black at April 24, 2026 12:03 PM (ZxPkt)

166 How does this new state stuff work? Just by act of Congress or does it need to be ratified by the states?

Don't know, just asking.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at April 24, 2026 12:03 PM (w3u3d)

167 > In VA the 73% YES Mail In for does not match the Elections day 47% YES or the Early Voting 53%.
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It was the exact same ploy used to steal 2020. "It worked, didn't it?"

And there's no guarantee it'll be overturned. I'd have to assume the VA legislature has been captured by the left.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 24, 2026 12:04 PM (jehhT)

168 166 How does this new state stuff work? Just by act of Congress or does it need to be ratified by the states?

Don't know, just asking.
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at April 24, 2026 12:03 PM (w3u3d)

Petition
(Usually a vote here to form a committee to write said)
Constitution
Vote on Constitution
Simple House and Senate

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 24, 2026 12:06 PM (/+uur)

169 148 H1Bs in Harris County
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
2,553
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M.D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTER
2,411

WTFO
These are my local and state taxes paying for Foreign workers.
Posted by: r hennigantx at April 24, 2026 11:56 AM (/+uur)

MD Anderson is one of the two pre-eminent blood cancer centers in the US. And foreign talent has been more on top of these rarer cancers and imagining new treatments. Not sure why, but they will think outside the box and work clinical trials better than US docs...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 24, 2026 12:06 PM (tOcjL)

170 159 In VA the 73% YES Mail In for does not match the Elections day 47% YES or the Early Voting 53%.
Seem to me that the law should state it must be with +-10%.
Posted by: r hennigantx at April 24, 2026 12:00 PM (/+uur)

When you go to a memory care facility or disabled halfway house and just tell them what bubble to fill in and their name, there's no surprise you'll have 100% Ds...Ds stoop to this kind of mail in harvesting. Rs don't.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 24, 2026 12:07 PM (tOcjL)

171 And there's no guarantee it'll be overturned. I'd have to assume the VA legislature has been captured by the left.

I think it will come down to the VA Supremes in the end.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 12:07 PM (Riz8t)

172 > How does this new state stuff work? Just by act of Congress or does it need to be ratified by the states?
----

Art IV Sec 3

Section 3

New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.

The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.

Posted by: Don Black at April 24, 2026 12:07 PM (ZxPkt)

173 168 166 How does this new state stuff work? Just by act of Congress or does it need to be ratified by the states?

Don't know, just asking.
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at April 24, 2026 12:03 PM (w3u3d)

Petition
(Usually a vote here to form a committee to write said)
Constitution
Vote on Constitution
Simple House and Senate

Cool, we need to make Alberta a deal. :-)

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at April 24, 2026 12:08 PM (w3u3d)

174 >New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union;
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it's not clear if by simple majority vote , two thirds of each House, etc

Posted by: Don Black at April 24, 2026 12:11 PM (ZxPkt)

175 Blues and Freebird

https://x.com/annieharvell/status/
2047347051680108758

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 24, 2026 12:11 PM (/+uur)

176 BREAKING: DOJ Drops Criminal Investigation into Fed Chair Powell

See. Nothing will happen.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 24, 2026 12:12 PM (IifOV)

177 as sure as night follows day

Posted by: Don Black at April 24, 2026 12:13 PM (ZxPkt)

178 176 BREAKING: DOJ Drops Criminal Investigation into Fed Chair Powell

See. Nothing will happen.
Posted by: Frank Barone at April 24, 2026 12:12 PM (IifOV)

The replacement is being held up in the Senate because one or more of the RINO's refuses to vote for him if that lawsuit wasn't dropped...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 24, 2026 12:13 PM (FR3qi)

179 I've seen this called "Make DC Square Again". Makes sense.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 24, 2026 12:13 PM (2ocoG)

180 176 BREAKING: DOJ Drops Criminal Investigation into Fed Chair Powell

See. Nothing will happen

Does it really matter? He will be gone soon in any event.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at April 24, 2026 12:14 PM (w3u3d)

181 Spain’s top bullfighter suffers 5 inch gash to the rectum in goring incident

el toro es muy mal

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 24, 2026 12:14 PM (/+uur)

182 Spain’s top bullfighter suffers 5 inch gash to the rectum in goring incident

Or, as Scott Weiner calls it, "Thursday".

Posted by: Ian S. at April 24, 2026 12:15 PM (2ocoG)

183 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at April 24, 2026 12:16 PM (2Ez/1)

184 Spain’s top bullfighter suffers 5 inch gash to the rectum in goring incident

el toro es muy mal
Posted by: r hennigantx at April 24, 2026 12:14 PM (/+uur)

(obligatory, and in this case, literally true)

Rectum? It nearly killed him.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2026 12:17 PM (utfVc)

185 Damn near wrecked 'em.

Posted by: Rimshot at April 24, 2026 12:17 PM (2Ez/1)

186 Eeeenteresting.

truly one of the most amazing developments in trans-Atlantic tech policy over the past 20 years is the way that Europe set out to regulate US tech giants into the ground, but only made them more dominant as a result.

This Economist headline really says it.

"How Europe regulated itself into economic vassalage."

https://is.gd/QMcKAP

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 12:18 PM (Riz8t)

187 Is it just me are do the bulls always aim for the asshoe?

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 24, 2026 12:18 PM (/+uur)

188 Spain’s top bullfighter suffers 5 inch gash to the rectum in goring incident

el toro es muy mal
Posted by: r hennigantx at April 24, 2026 12:14 PM (/+uur)

(obligatory, and in this case, literally true)

Rectum? It nearly killed him.

You think YOUR job is a pain in the ass...

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 12:18 PM (Riz8t)

189 New one:

Oh Dear! NYT Cries That the DOJ Is Increasing the Rate of Denaturalizations of Dirty Terrorist and Piratical Foreigners Who Lied During Their Naturalization Process

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2026 12:19 PM (Riz8t)

190 Thanks everyone. I rarely leave this many posts. It's been fun.

^..^(_____)~~~

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at April 24, 2026 12:19 PM (w3u3d)

191 Don't mess with the bull, son, you'll get the horns.

Posted by: Vice-Principal Dick Vernon at April 24, 2026 12:20 PM (X+NGn)

192 the video es muy mal

https://x.com/RapidReport2025/status/
2046332880721170732

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 24, 2026 12:20 PM (/+uur)

193 /punchline

the bull
he does not always to lose

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 24, 2026 12:21 PM (/+uur)

194 > Blues and Freebird
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There's a pretty epic video of the Blue Angels down in Florida doing some practice runs and the entire Freebird instrumental part runs in sync with it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 24, 2026 12:21 PM (jehhT)

195 Always wondered is they have a big cookout with the slaughtered bulls.

Posted by: tubal at April 24, 2026 12:21 PM (Gqar8)

196 There's a pretty epic video of the Blue Angels down in Florida doing some practice runs and the entire Freebird instrumental part runs in sync with it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 24, 2026 12:21 PM (jehhT)

Usually they return to NAS Pensacola the week after July 4th
You can see them 3 or 4 days in a row

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 24, 2026 12:22 PM (/+uur)

197 Obviously a good day for me to proofread before hitting “ post”. Sheesh.

Posted by: tubal at April 24, 2026 12:22 PM (Gqar8)

198 Noodz.

Posted by: Noodest at April 24, 2026 12:23 PM (2Ez/1)

199 Just because Powel is incapable of managing a billion dollar building renovation doesn't make him a criminal...seriously. It is a stupid ego thing but I doubt he's lining his pockets. He has internal constituencies demanding changes and upgrades to the facility and each change adds time and $ X10 and he has incapable construction managers (who cant make it in industry) managing this thing while the contractors get rich on change orders . Failure and cost is built in.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at April 24, 2026 12:23 PM (AdHga)

200 Bullfighter survives, speaks from hospital bed.

Joder, me duele el hinney

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 24, 2026 12:23 PM (/+uur)

201 Great idea. Then, draw the boundary of the District of Columbia to include federal buildings and federal property only, then give the residential areas, including the newly reannexed Northern Virginia territory, to Maryland. No voters...no DC statehood.

Posted by: Dantes at April 24, 2026 12:24 PM (flTuz)

202 the video es muy mal

https://x.com/RapidReport2025/status/
2046332880721170732
Posted by: r hennigantx at April 24, 2026 12:20 PM (/+uur)

Yeah, that will smart, for certain. I can't believe that they don't have medics with a gurney or stretcher on hand for events like this. Picking the victim up, and hand-carrying him could make his injuries worse. Very third-world, that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2026 12:25 PM (utfVc)

203 176 BREAKING: DOJ Drops Criminal Investigation into Fed Chair Powell

See. Nothing will happen.
Posted by: Frank Barone at April 24, 2026 12:12 PM (IifOV)

The replacement is being held up in the Senate because one or more of the RINO's refuses to vote for him if that lawsuit wasn't dropped...
Posted by: It's me donna

But the fun thing is you get a new Fed chief in and Powell out, you can reconvene a grand jury and nail Powell's ass anyway. And the new Fed Chief might have every reason to help with the investigation.

And the prime culprit, fake GOP and retiring senator Tillis from N. Carolina eats humiliation galore.

Reportedly, Tillis on Judiciary is blocking changes to the blue slip policy by threatening to vote with teh Democrats to block it. Contrary to belief, the blue slip policy is NOT a Senate rule but committee rule and can be changed by a simple majority vote (and it has been since it was created to block integrationist judges in the South during Woodrow Wilson's administration).

Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026 12:26 PM (E4rtv)

204 201 Great idea. Then, draw the boundary of the District of Columbia to include federal buildings and federal property only, then give the residential areas, including the newly reannexed Northern Virginia territory, to Maryland. No voters...no DC statehood.
Posted by: Dantes
=========
DC statehood requires an amendment to the Constitution. Democrats tried that, it failed in the 70's.

Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026 12:27 PM (E4rtv)

205 Seems like every time I pick up a newspaper a new industry is moving into the state. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being invested. And it's not just here but surrounding states as well. Big media don't like to talk about it for some reason.

Posted by: Case at April 24, 2026 12:27 PM (pvf3X)

206 Failure and cost is built in.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway
========
He lied on factual matters to Congress--that is the question, not cost overruns.

If he lied to Congress under oath, what does that say about him lying to the American people?

This is the problem of our bureaucratic heads, particularly of the 'independent' agencies is that they are not accountable without a president being the sole head of the executive branch. There is nothing that makes the bureaucracy in the Constitution, an independent power check on the President. That is Congress and the Court's role, not bureaucrats.

Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026 12:29 PM (E4rtv)

207 >>>Is it just me are do the bulls always aim for the asshoe?

Posted by: r hennigantx

>When you're running like a bitch there isn't much to aim for.

Less brains, more balls.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 24, 2026 12:45 PM (Fbc0I)

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