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What people aren't realizing is that MAGA may well have screwed themselves worse, especially in such a hostile political environment as this one.
Before all this redistricting, it was going to be a bloodbath, not just because EVERY Dems is going to vote against MAGA, but a lot of Republicans are as well. Even more aren't going to vote at all.
None of that has changed. In fact, the dishonest gerrymandering is going to make many people even angrier and more determined. They can gerrymander all they want, but the votes don't go away.
Take Tennessee, for example, in which they eliminated the single Democratic district - but they didn't get rid of the votes. They just spread them across 3 other strong Republican districts, weakening them badly. In a normal year, it might not be anything to worry about, but in a year in which the waters are flowing hard AGAINST the Traitors, it could easily lead to 3 districts going Blue, instead of just one.
Always remember this one important axiom of MAGA: they are profoundly ignorant, and virtuosically incompetent. They fuck up literally everything they contact, and they will fuck this up, too. The real problem is that we have to have leaders that will pounce on those inevitable mistakes, and exploit the shit out of them. We can't be polite, and say "Oh, MAGA stumbled, let's help them back up," we have to kick them when they are down, then drop a giant rock on their head.
I really hope you are right.
Because the alternative seems not just dark but pitch black
MAGAs are frequently wrong, but NEVER in doubt. They are BLUFFING. They are ALWAYS bluffing.
You are under no obligation to believe anything they say. In fact, if you are a patriotic American citizen, you have an obligation to ignore everything they say, for many reasons:
Why would you believe anything that these proven morons say? They're MORONS, do you really think they can do anything right? Their best strategy is to try to scare you into surrendering, and all you have to do is ignore them.
They may enjoy sniffing their own farts, but we don't have to.
I mean
I am with you, absolutly
But are the majority of the american people?
The Citizens have been conditioned to react in certain ways. We have to alter that conditioning, level up our Critical Thinking Skills, and start demanding that the government and the money supply serve the people, and not the wealthy.
Pitch white?
Are you sure you know how gerrymandering works?
Gerrymandering dilutes both sides' votes by making smaller majorities and larger minorities to favor one side.
well, no. "well done" gerrymandering dilutes only one side's votes, that is why republicans love it.
notice the disproportionate results in top right corner. the votes literally went away...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/DifferingApportionment.svg
But it doesn't weaken only one side. They may have gotten rid of ONE Democratic district, but they severely WEAKENED THREE Republican districts. That's the kind of thing that can backfire badly in a bloodbath election.
Never thought of that, lets hope you are right.
I know red politicians in Texas are sweating because of their gerrymander. They used 2024 voting data including the insane upswing of Latinos who voted for him for whatever reason... Now new polling shows those aren't guaranteed votes anymore, they might even vote blue.
Always remember this axiom about MAGA: They are profoundly ignorant, virtuosically incompetent, and fuck up EVERYTHING they touch. This will be no exception.
How is only one side diluted here? Out of five districts, there are two districts with a single yellow vote (diluted to half as much as proportional), and three with four blue votes (also diluted to 2/3 as much as proportional).
I was kinda thinking about the point you made about the gerrymandering might bite them in the ass. Texas announced they were doing it and I thought the districts were already somewhat gerrymandered. How far can you min/max that setup before your repub+ districts are so razor thin that you lose more than you gain in a high turnout vote? I'm sure someone smart did math but if it's maga math then I expect it to be wrong.
There is another nuance to midterm redistricting that doesn't get considered: Time.
Districts are normally redrawn following the Census, which is done every 10 years, based on those current demographics. As the decade goes on, those demographics change, as new neighborhoods are built, populations shift, etc. Also, the people themselves change. A person who answers the census at 20, is a very different person than who answers the Census at 30.
So when they redraw the districts deep into the decade, they are doing it based on old, inaccurate data, and they are not going to get the precise response they are expecting. Add to that, the variable that special election results show that Trump is underwater far worse than polls are showing, badly losing elections in districts that had been strong MAGA and Trump supporters in the past.
These districts are being redrawn based on old data, and while it definitely skews things in their favor, it isn't the slam dunk they think it is, for multiple reasons. Mostly, MAGA's confidence that this situation saves the House and Senate for them is all show. Don't let them get you down. All it means is that they are going to cry and scream even louder when they lose.
And in 2031, when they redraw the districts following the 2030 census, Blue states should do everything they can do eliminate as many Red districts as possible. Fuck those pedophile traitors.
The biggest issue America faces right now is the sheer number of people who still think rules, laws, and logic apply (they barely did in the first place but it's fully gone now). This administration, Israel, all the pedos, and all the oligarchs will not stop just because people vote against them. You cannot beat authoritarians with the system, you cannot beat them with laws, you cannot beat them with the truth, literally the only thing that can work against authoritarians is extreme violence against them.
We may get to that point, but we still have to work our way through all of our legal, Constitutional steps first. If we get to the point that they have thwarted every legal means, then it will be time to move to violence.
"Those who make peaceful change impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." -JFK
Has there been any case in history where a fascist dictatorship ended by voting them out? People need to accept the reality that a fascist takeover is happening
It just happened in Hungary after 16 years of Orban. The Soviet Union countries all fell with a minimum of violence. There weren't official votes, but the people made their choices very clear, and most countries accepted it, even Russia. Those that didn't, like Ceaucescu in Romania, met a bad end.
Sometimes a dictator realizes that he doesn't have a choice, and makes the smart decision. Other times their ego does the thinking, and it doesn't go so well. Guess which one Trump and the rest of his psycho henchmen will choose?Hint: they aren't known for SMART decisions.
Whoa, be careful, with quotes like that you might be considered a domestic terrorist /s
The violence comes when it is needed most.
In retrospect it will have been tardy.
If any of their gerrymandering schemes fail because of what you describe, the Republicans will claim that Dems must have cheated, and refuse to accept it. Like this time, I think actually refuse to honor the results.
They know that they simply cannot lose power, and I believe we are going to see as-yet unseen levels of fuckery to that end.
Oh, absolutely, "They Cheated" is their standard response to any loss. The problem is that Dems then take that claim seriously, and want to have a discussion and investigation about it, giving it credibility, instead of just saying "Go fuck yourselves."
Let them scream, who cares? If we win the House, then we control it whether they like it or not. Any MAGA politician who refuses to allow new Dem Reps enter the Capitol should be immediately arrested, and if they resist, treat them the way they like to treat prisoners.
If they won't turn it over, we will take it. Violence is entirely up to them.
Nah, the "both sides" crowd will blow it again
If they do, it's YOUR fault. They are politicians, so they are inherently lazy and greedy, and if you give send them the message that you expect them to do nothing, and you will accept it, that's exactly what they will do, and go back to their insider trading.
Instead, we should all be sending the constant message that we expect them to finally do their fucking jobs, or else. Or else we will primary them, and if they still won't work for us, we will investigate them, and throw them in the dungeon with the MAGA traitors. If you aren't with us, you're against us, and that goes for voters and politicians.
So knock it off with letting them off the hook. We should be threatening them with their jobs, and making the Dems fear us as much as the MAGAs.
Yeah, keep telling yourself that. The fact of the matter is that when the polls open these people will walk in and vote like they always have.
That statement is proven wrong by the dozens of special elections that have shown a serious downturn in MAGA voter participation.
Stop declaring the race over, and stop discouraging Democrats from voting, unless you're a MAGA Traitor.