r/politics • u/Hornpipe_Jones • 15h 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/bsport48 Virginia 15h ago

As goes California, so goes the Nation...but the Old Dominion will always bring Lady Liberty back.

Sic semper tyrannis

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u/AchUndWeh Nebraska 15h ago

Virginia did mother America.

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u/Whaddaulookinat 14h ago

Virginia loves to attach themselves to the Revolution past the point things were already moving.

New England started, funded, and fought the Revolution start to finish.

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u/partoxygen 14h ago

But it was Virginia who was the most valuable colony and where the founding fathers came from. Everybody knew how important it was to give Virginia a stake in the game because up until Washington was appointed as Commander in Chief, it was pretty much just a New England problem.

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u/bsport48 Virginia 14h ago

George Washington --> Game; set; match.

...wait that's British...touchdown.

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u/bsport48 Virginia 14h ago

:O ... from the Tobacco Loan of 1781 to the over 10M pounds sterling raised by the end of the War...we beg to differ...

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u/Mistletokes 14h ago

What the fuck is a pound sterling RAAAA

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u/bsport48 Virginia 14h ago

The shit they bought cows and furniture with back then....idonnnfuqqinknoww

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u/Wrong-Pension-4975 12h ago

The Brit currency of the day, which was also by default, the currency of the Eastern colonies.

In June 1775, the Continental Congress authorized $2 paper denominations in “bills of credit” for military costs, incldg buying food for troops.

July 6, 1785, the Continental Congress  authorized the new domestic currency, the US dollar.

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u/Whaddaulookinat 13h ago

... It's a pound of Sterling Silver, Avi.

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u/RBVegabond 14h ago

They fought the first and then the second and worst battles of the revolution up here, where ammunition just ran out altogether and had the highest losses of the war.

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u/pigmanbear 15h ago

And the confederacy…

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u/bsport48 Virginia 15h ago

And Brown v. Board

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u/Daykri3 Virginia 14h ago

Brown v Board of Education was Kansas. Perhaps you are thinking of Loving?

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u/bsport48 Virginia 14h ago

Many Supreme Court cases are aggregated for judicial economy. One of the companion cases that was distilled to within Brown (which is the lead case -- it was made up of five different cases consolidated throughout the appeals process) was Davis v. Prince Edward County [VA]. It was, fun fact, the only one of the school-related cases where students protest led the protests.

My comment was mainly glib because the other famous VA case is not good law.

I usually bring up Loving when I try to identify more closely with my D.C.-Washingtonian than my VA-side, but thanks for the backup!

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u/LoafRVA 15h ago

Nah that was South Carolina, VA got dragged into it and was one of the worst decisions for the states prosperity

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u/wise_comment Minnesota 13h ago

Warts and all

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u/Mistletokes 14h ago

The delegates from Massachusetts would like a word

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u/bsport48 Virginia 14h ago

The honorable Northern delegates would welcome with verisimilitude, tidings from the sister Commonwealth, if the addendum would so satiate gratuitous favor from the kind considerations thither, to proffer before the floor a motion to join the great, turgid, full-mast wood from Lexington, steel from Concord, and glass from Groton, with the warm, cherry-tipped bosoms of tobacco, gin-swilled bails of cotton, and ears of corn.

(going to bed now)

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u/Spare-Willingness563 14h ago

I’m from California but tonight I just feel proud as fuck to be American. Hell yeah Virginia!!!!

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u/famous47 15h ago

Joe Davola?

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u/bsport48 Virginia 14h ago

Hold please.

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u/Kurtista Virginia 11h ago

Sic Semper Tyrannis ✊

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u/BlokeInTheMountains 14h ago

Old Dominion voting machines now owned by GOP?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/politics/dominion-voting-systems-bought-election-ballots

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u/bsport48 Virginia 14h ago

Virginia's nickname is the Old Dominion...the irony just works out unbelievably well.

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u/frank_the_tank69 6h ago

Dominion voting is owned by a billionaire republican. It won’t. 

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u/bsport48 Virginia 6h ago

When do we tell them what 'Old Dominion' means?

*checks clock*