• ceenote@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    They didn’t need to be told. Frankly, I’m surprised Texas has room to be gerrymandered even more.

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      3 months ago

      If Barack Obama

      Told California Democrats

      To gerrymander their map so he wouldn’t lose the House

      Conservatives would have lost their goddamned minds.

      (Again.)

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        3 months ago

        Of course. Those two scenarios are totally different, though. As different as black and white …

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        3 months ago

        I remember when new Mexico a strong blue state gerrymandering and even though we a Lil guy republican cried and cried but we just said we playing by your rules fuck faces

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      3 months ago

      Congressional maps have always been redrawn by the party in power to ensure that they remain in power. I would expect Democrats to be doing the same thing if we were talking about California.

      Claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

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      AFAIK it’s not enshrined in the Constitution, it’s a Supreme Court ruling that said federal courts have no authority to assess cases of gerrymandering.

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    What they’re gonna do is redraw all the maps of the states they are in control of, and eliminate ALL Democrat districts. Every single one. They’ll do this and there will be challenges declaring it illegal but by the time it actually comes before a court it’ll be too late to redraw so they’ll just go ahead with the illegal maps and then Democrats won’t just not win the house, they will lose 30+ seats. All because the Republicans are fascists and people refused to vote for democratic candidates last election cycle.

    They might, might, leave one or two blue districts per state, but otherwise they will be gone. This is the plan in Ohio and in Florida, it’s happening. It doesn’t matter that it’s BS.

    Anyone who helped Trump win, including those who helped Harris lose, will be responsible for the downfall of the American democratic system.

    Guess it’s time for some successions.

  • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    At least he still thinks he needs control of Congress and sees them as a possible problem if Democrats were to retain control.