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“We can’t stand back and watch this democracy disappear district by district all across the country.”
Yep, step the fuck up everyone.
There was an ICE raid right outside the building he was in today as a total intimidation tactic. ICE only got one person for so many suited up chuds. Fuck this shit
I thought it was border patrol, not ICE. Are they the same thing?
They're both part of DHS
If they act without due process, there is no point in making a distinction.
Ah i also don’t know how those differ
I’m not sure the masked thugs even know the difference.
Can the US just break up already
The Republic of California has a nice ring to it.
Needs something more to distinguish it from the California of old, how about the New California Republic, or NCR for short?
If you want to win you have to play the game.
(Or cheat, a win is a win)
This is still a form of gerrymandering, right? I hope this does not kick off a wave of disenfranchisement across other red states.
We really need to get the US territories statehood/representation too. And DC.
We tried playing fair, that got us Trump twice
I understand. I just fear out of control escalation like bickering characters in a cartoon.
It's already out of control. This is self defense.
I understand, but, if playing the game by the rules doesn't result in victory...
Gotta beat 'em at their own game. Good thing they're parotting senile child rapists and are incredibly predictable. Clever is not in their playbook.
Hunh. Kinda like the Confederacy. 🤷🏼♂️
We already lost the rule of law to a dictator. We didn’t fire the first shot of this civil war, but we can’t ignore it.
I would hardly call it a civil war. It's a civil struggle for sure, but I don't think the majority of Americans have their heart in it, and nor should they. They're being ruled by a minority.
For my part, I don't consider MAGATs to be Americans anymore. It is a fundamental reason why I am learning how to use a gun, because I assume that the America we knew is no longer a thing. Concentration camps are not a sign of peace and civility.
I'm right there with you. These people have shown they simply don't understand what it means to be an American. They've betrayed every value.
When Jan 6th happened it should've been the final wake-up call. Every Republican should be filled with the deepest shame and regret.
There are masked men with guns in unmarked cars disappearing people without any law binding them. What would you call that?
Just a note that none of this impacts presidential elections.
But if Texas does their thing, this would be a necessary response for the house
True... but if Trump had to contend with Democrat majorities in the house and Senate then he would have an incentive not to do illegal shit because he could be removed from office.
For house, sure, Senate not so much.
He might have faced legislative resistance to his initiatives, but removal from office would never have been on the table.
Hopefully the results is that everyone is concerned about gerrymandering instead of just Democrats and something can be done about it at the federal level.
Somehow I doubt the trumpers are worried. They just want to win. If anything can guarantee their state goes for Trump they'll take it.
I'm not American, but from my limited experience, my QAnon relatives (who are immigrants themselves in another western country!) were ok with martial law and taking away women's rights as the price to pay to get out of the "dictatorship" they imagined with "forced vaccination" and "LGBT indoctrination" and immigrant "invasion". They also have no problem with taking away LGBT rights because "they have too many now, look at Hollywood". They constantly bring up about how Jews run the world and how bad Israel is, but they have no problem with Trump being their lapdog and enabling their worst atrocities and fantasizing about building a riviera in Gaza. When all the Palestinians there will have perished (something I dread is likely to happen), they'll probably credit Trump with ending the genocide. And don't get me started on Epstein, which was their whole reason for joining QAnon. Back in February they were excitedly telling me, unprompted, how Pam Bondi says the files are on her desk. They haven't said anything since. Wanna bet they'll get defensive if I ask them about it now?
My point is these people don't care about democracy or human rights, they just scream about them when they experience disconfort, but really all they want is a godking who punishes "the right people" and reminds them every 10 seconds how special they are and how they deserve freedom and sovereignty not like the bad people who they are always persecuted by.
Newsom, joined by congressional Democrats and legislative leaders, unveiled a plan, known as the election rigging response act, that would override California’s independent redistricting commission and draw new congressional lines
I don’t fault what they’re doing here; war is war. But just look at how easily the democratic process can be stripped away. Just a flick of the pen and it’s gone. No real safeguards. Not a single shot fired.
It's important to realize you can't really safe guard against authoritarianism once they already control the government
Agreed. We failed loooong ago. Now we are just along for the ride.
This plan will still require an approval from voters.
Conservatives never gave a damn about genuine fairness, it is time to stop playing ball with the fuckers.
...I don't like this game, but we don't seem to have any GOOD choices, just less awful ones.
The United staaaaahahahahahahahahahahaaa of ahahahahahahaha MURIKA!
The Disjointed States of Shitcanistan
Muh Jefferson!
Republicans are geographically dispersed while Democrats are generally packed into urban areas. We lose 100% of the time if we try the same gerrymandering tactics. We need to be smarter, not play their games.
If you think I'm wrong, show me a single state we could flip from red to blue by gerrymandering. You need to show your work though. You can't just say X state, you have to show HOW you could flip the state by gerrymandering.
You could make the maps do anything. You could make every district in the state pass through one city.