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https://apnews.com/article/l-louise-lucas-corruption-fbi-virginia-redistricting-845b64e5f9df0beb5dbd10676f1be436
May 6, 2026 7:48 PM
RiotousSinner
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https://apnews.com/article/l-louise-lucas-corruption-fbi-virginia-redistricting-845b64e5f9df0beb5dbd10676f1be436
nccomputermechanics4
The most common Republican response ive seen is" what about the mara lago raid" as if they are at all the same.
urusername2
Surprised? I am not. Revenge is Trump's motto!
gayvillian
Notice he's too afraid to go after california.
dtcb131415
don't we kill nazis
foxpotate
Democratic leadership was fine when it was just the transfolks, immigrants and protestors getting fucked. I'm glad the leadership is getting their shit pushed in. They need a fucking wake up call that they ain't immune or above what their constituents have been suffering. They need to take this shit seriously instead of playing backdoor appeasement games like last fall. Bitch McConnell showed them every tool in the "fuck your majority" toolkit for 12 years and now they want to play dumb now.
Garwoodxx
This is criminal conduct by the administration and is the most recent impeachable offense.
mcoulter876
FTA: "One of the people said the investigation into Democratic Sen. L. Louise Lucas was opened during Democratic former President Joe Biden’s administration. Both spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing criminal investigation."
spontaneous9
At first I had to ask myself, why are the building all these massive holding facilities when we all know they're just going to deport people?
It's obvious now. They're collecting names. Taking a page from the stalin handbook.
karlfrack
Everyone knows exactly where we are in this country.......right?
BadPunsAplenty
Mein Vatergate
scarabrae
Hang out for this one - there should be an indictment, and if it goes like Comey's, the farce will be plainly obvious.
Leaps
It doesn't matter, everyone else still sees this and says you know what I don't want this to happen to me. Even if it does not result in a conviction it is still a massive time drain, stress inducer, and costs money.
KamiShino
While I agree it was politically motivated and intimidation for sure, it's important to note that they raided the business offices for her cannabis business, not political offices. So apparently someone in the FBI still has a shred of intelligence left, or they lucked into it, because that would have been an even bigger shitstorm if it was the political offices that were raided.
NZSheeps
I might be wrong, but I'm beginning to suspect Trump might not be good for the USA
ConstitutionalHeresy
What are you going to do about this USA? Push back a bit I hope.
rfleming1080
Man, could you imagine if Congress or the Supreme Court weren't controlled by fascist and they actually did their jobs? Hell, even if the military upheld their oath and removed them from office?
icantbelieveistillhavetoprotestthiscrap
Yeah I spent 2016 telling people how important it was for Hillary to win for that exact reason and people screamed "how dare you hold my vote hostage" and "she's just as bad as Trump".
Turns out she wasn't. What a shock.
INeverReadTheTOS
Oh hey it's a sitting president weaponizing law enforcement against his political opponents.
Weird. I could've sworn I remembered right-wingers being super upset over that sort of thing.
Comet260
IOKIFYAR. And that acronym is NOT new.
TheOneFreiman
Only when it was Mar-a-Lago, and they actually found Trump retained classified documents including (but not limited to) war strategies, plans, and capabilities after he was no longer in office, therefore no longer authorized to have them, and had reason to believe he was going to sell that information. Totally not stuff military servicemen get put in prison for life for.
spontaneous9
The ones he had weren't near as much of a problem as all the empty folders. Just ask Kashoggi about all our field operatives who suddenly disappeared.
Oh wait.
TheImgurWarsMadeMe
Us suffering any kind of consequence for any of our actions? Political activism done by anti-American terrorists.
You attempting to stop blatant power grabs and illegal raids, arrests, and extrajudicial killings? Place your jaw on the curb, now.
Johnsky
The rotten orange wipes its ass with the constitution. Disgusting.
Comet260
The ENTIRE GOP wipes its ass with the Constitution. And yes, it's fucking VILE.
PhooBar
I keep waiting for the FBI to investigate insider trading and child sex trafficking with the same determination and zeal.
camn333
I had no fucking idea who that person was. I sure as shit know now.
State senator Louis Lucas.
I must say, Republicans make the best Democratic campaigns. They push obscure names out into national headlines. It's great for name recognition.
FlaskandStein
Don’t worry, I fully expect democrats to go for compromise and want those MAGA votes and fuck it all up
smegginhell
Louise* Lucas
NZSheeps
I love the irony in that
Sebastopol140
Yeah because they want democracy to die.
foreverinchains
American democracy died quite a long time ago.
The government has been doing a Weekend At Bernie's with the corpse of democracy while they entrench the fascist oligarchy.
Comet260
January 20, 2010. That was the date the Citizen's United case was decided.
taez555
Yup, the coup was in place for decades, but once the SCOTUS stole the election from Gore in 2000, and W could put Roberts and Alito in place it was basically game over.
ChelVanin
Republicans are acting like they’re never going to be out of power ever again. Makes one wonder what they’re planning.
theworldcouldbeflat
Democrats haven't had full power since the 1970's, lol, I think they are planning for this trend to continue.
LetThemEatPie
I'm thinking more about what we're planning for them
Poppypoppoppop
That's one thing he said out loud, but your guys went "nah it's fine. He can't do that anyway" instead of stopping him.
Skawomplious
If you're still wondering what they're planning, I'm sorry to say that you're part of the problem now.
ghostofGracchusBabeuf
That is what they’re planning. Federal Elections from here on will be so rigged that Republicans can’t lose. They’re gerrymandering and cutting voters from the roles, and they’re intimidating voters at the polls, but ICE is their big weapon. They’ve already arrested and deported US citizens on suspicion of being illegal, without trial, and they’re pushing hard to make Trans people an undesirable class they can strip voting rights from. We’re ready for the Reichstag fire and Kristallnacht
jetact12
Hmmmm.....almost like they have the election ALREADY RIGGED!! (per Elon Musk, the guy who did it the first time.)
IhopeUgetwhatUvoted4
To never cede power.
Imalwaysready
Whatever they want given the lack of consequences, I suspect.
MirroredImage
I mean.. they've been incredibly loud about all their plans? They even published a bunch of them in a big document? RFK said the word "camps" out loud?
JustFeedMePieDammit
They've not been nothing to hide it. The media and credulous idiots simply acted like the evidence didn't exist
Evi1Gav
They're planning to not be out of power ever again.
FajitaPrinceofAllMexicans
They're planning on saying, "Oh this is a fascist dictatorship." And people will once again wave signs angrily then go home.
AtmaDarkwolf
And here we are folks, it arrived on imgur. The *Hands over mouth* "GASP, nobody could have seen THAT coming!??!!!?!?" act. Watch as it plays out over and over again as all the predictable shit we have been saying was going to happen, happens, and those who, earlier in the timeline of events, COULD have stood up and did something but did nothing (but meme) attempt to absolve themselves of any responsibility by pretending it was utterly inconceivable that something like that could have happened.
ItsACrazyWorld
Jesus fucking christ. Its not a big secret. They have been doing it out in the open since he got into office. Are you kidding me with this "what are they plotting!?" bullshit? Holy fuck this country is so stupid.
idrinkcheapbeer
That's EXACTLY the plan.
anononanonanona
Planning? Do you not mean *DOING*? Liking gutting the VRA? Threatening troops at the pools? Destroying the USPS? They are already *DOING* what they are *PLANNING* how are people so obtuse? If you want to know what they are planning you can read their actual plan they published, "Project 2025" and anything missing from that you can glean from what Orbán did in Hungary (and take a small bit of solace in the fact that despite it taking a long time, Hungary did finally eject him).
unluckyandbored
I think it's pretty fucking obvious what they're planning. They're not hiding it.
Lugh314159
....to never be out of power again. I thought that was obvious.
qPRdxH4UXm36HS9rJgLA
No need to wonder they were publicly open about Project 2025
HitandRyan
Putin. Trump wants to be Putin. He will be a fascist dictator unless we stop him.
Kyen155
WhoToldYouLifeWasFair
We stopped wondering a while back and just started preparing.
SunBrolem
"makes me wonder"
Meanwhile, the GOP with a bullhorn: "GLORY TO THE FUHRER, RESISTANCE WILL BE CRUSHED"
TheOneFreiman
After the wealthy seize the means of production with machines, own most real estate and make it too expensive to live anywhere, cut public support programs, and make it extremely hard to vote them out of power, what typically comes next, according to history?
taez555
Given the SCOTUS ruling last week on the voting rights act, the save act, the fact numerous states have already handed over voter rolls to the DOJ, beefing up funding for ICE, voter roll purging, meddling with the USPS and recent law changes about the USPS not delivering mail or being held accountable, Louisiana already postponing their primary (that had already started)... you really don't have to wonder. They're already doing it publicly on a daily basis, right in front of us.
Strategicgnomer
Why do Americans not just kill the ones doing the damage? They've got guns. It wouldn't be hard to take them by surprise.
pandemicmodedad
Because they are the most well armed cowards who keep complaining that their country is really big even though they can start by overthrowing local governments.
fluxfusion3
Agreed. But I'm much more cynical than this. I've no doubt he and his minions are planning to negate the midterms, due to the evil democrats corrupting the whole process, taking complete "emergency" control of the government in order to set things great again. This will take a while, so future elections will be "temporally" cancelled, so that President For Life Trump will be able to enjoy his goldplated ballroom, and his Great Trumphant Arch! ( Jan. 6th, was a beta test )
ParaspriteHugger
Given its oil fields, it was expectable that the United States would overthrow the United States government in an attempt to bring it democracy.
alcamar
That might work if the US was capable of installing a democracy anywhere instead of raising generations to hate the US.
Ih8thisSoMuch
Anyone who can't picture an America where being anti-trump is classified as a mental illness (so they can strip your rights, lock you up, take your guns, and keep you on a list) and every single television channel is all maga all the time just isn't paying attention. Fox News has been calling the Left "demons" and promoting violence against anyone critical of trump for a while now and the other channels are gradually falling in line. It's like how the Nazis took over Germany only much stupider.
rossimus
There is a wide gulf between imagining a worst case scenario for an authoritarian takeover of the US and whatever paranoid nonsense you're describing here. You do the opposition no favors peddling in this drivel because it makes people roll their eyes.
crazyspelling
Your point reminds me of another point: all the bots and europeans wondering why we haven't revolted. Like, open up your own history books - anybody see any entries anywhere that read "this horrible person came to power and he didn't last six months?" No, it's always "and then 20+ years later there was a revolution."
prosper020
This. Things have to get REALLY bad for most people to be willing to risk even their livelihoods, let alone their lives.
Things have to get to the point of “I will literally die later today if I don’t…” before most people are willing to risk their lives.
People typically have to be very broken before they are willing to throw it all away. And as someone with depression who has tried to throw it all away a couple of times, being already ready to die is being a type of broken.
hyperchondriac
They also have to have an idea that things could be better. Once a populace has been oppressed for an entire generation, they start to think that's the only way it can be.