He sure wants to be. He wouldn’t be my first choice, but he has done what needed to be done at this time. I lived in CA most of my life and still have family there, and he’s none too popular with them. BUT… they readily admit he did the job this time and did a great job trolling Trump.
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Exactly. Take all 9 districts away from the bastards. Every district in CA should have the Pacific coast as a boundary.
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What I want to know is whether the billionaires and their related media are going to get the hint. America flirted with the right wing but most of the country is just not ready for an ultra hard right course correct.
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Interesting article. Sounds like some of the debates around DC exurb Loudon County VA when growth was exploding there in the early 2000s. (It happened to swing hard back to Democrats last night after drifting a bit toward the right in recent elections, harming statewide democratic candidates at the time)
Also reminds me of Dave Chapelle (the surprisingly popular comedian who takes pride in punch-down humor, with trans people a frequent target) deciding to lord over the small, quirky progressive town of Yellow Springs, Ohio, where I lived years ago and where his family hunkered down during the height of the pandemic.
Within a couple of years he was tossing his millions around to shut down a relatively small mixed-income housing development years in the making and pressuring local businesses, who were struggling at the time due to the shutdown, to put “Thanks Dave” placards in their windows for “saving” the community.
A thoroughly bizarre situation, strangely analogous to the “shock and awe” cult tactics of the Dump regime
Billionaires and democracy are an unhealthy mix without constraints.
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Prop 50 is a tit-for-tat response to Trump and Abbott’s Texas gerrymander. Texas tried to create 5 new GQP seats (we’ll see how that plays out next year–color me skeptical for now). California responded by countering the Texas move. California was not gerrymandered at all, so the California gerrymander has a much higher likelihood of success.
In iterated games, tit-for-tat is a pretty sound strategy. (Tit-for-two-tats has tested better in some simulations, but tit-for-tat tests well under a broad range of test scenarios. In fact, given Texas prior mid-cycle redistricting under CF Tom DeLay, one could argue that this is really a tit-for-two-tats action.)
This created a selling point to California voters: “We aren’t trying to do anything except rebalance for Texas’ violation of our national norms.” I think it was a smart move.
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Not to piss in the fucking punch bowl, but yippie that we countered Texas. Before you all light a blunt and pair up for a celebratory boink, we still have Utah, Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina and maybe Indiana to counter as well. Jesus, we need to stop taking victory laps until every one of these motherfuckers is in prison for life.
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I’m a California voter. I was very happy with our independent commission. But I jumped at the chance to vote yes here. And I was very pleased they wrote in an end date after 2030 where (hopefully) this fever dream has broken and we can enjoy the luxury of a fair and independent commission.
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UT might actually be another pickup - for Dems. Their state Supreme court ruled the existing maps too gerrymandered and apparently the Republicans decided to draw 2 competitive districts in SLC instead of 1 blue one. They might be regretting that decision after the ass-whopping the GOP got last night.
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“Not to piss in the punch bowl, but I’m going to piss in the punch bowl”. That (pissing in the punch bowl) seems to be your whole schtick.
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Some people thought the fever dream was broken when Biden won the presidency. So don’t count on it. There will always be another “emergency” upon which to base another special election to redraw the lines “just for a little while.”
I don’t think his old district is affected, but Darrell “the arsonist and car thief” Issa is set to be on the chopping block, so there is cause for additional celebration
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Sorry that reality isn’t to your liking, but the knee-jerk reaction to celebrating and going back to business as usual is part of our problem. Why is no one angry? At best I’d describe a Democrat as mildly miffed by a fascist white supremacist government. No one is nearly engaged or angry enough. Yeah, okay 7 million people came out on NKD, but it was a fun day out for most idiots. We are fighting for our fucking lives here. Do we even talk about the tens of thousands of people Reichmarshall Miller has deported? Do we know how many have died in foreign prisons. You all think this is some fucking school pageant. You think posting snarky comments from the comfort of your den and making a smart-ass sign every few months is enough? Sorry…you need to wake the fuck up and get truly angry. The right is winning. Tuesday will only make them fight back harder, and the dipshits leading the Democratic caucus have already capitulated with Schumer politely asking if he can bring his ventriloquist dummy Jefferies to the WH for a nice chat. They don’t get it and neither does anyone on this site.
I have decades of experience from elections gone wrong. One thing I know is that we the people will never get credit or recognition when we succeed in any small or large way. After a decent time, say, 40 or 50 years, political historians will quietly reveal what really happened. Police beat Blacks and hippies in the '60s and the Klan and the FBI and newly formed War on Drugs terrorized people who did what they thought was right. Progress that was made at the time was just made into wedge issues to use against us the people. But we got the ERA and Voting Rights and kept Kissinger and Nixon from dropping nuclear bombs on North Vietnam.
Mu point here is we are damn well entitled to celebrate every battle we win, even as the war drags on. I’m pretty sure the Wall Street Journal will do their level best to not notice what just happened. Today. I’m gonna be happy. Tomorrow is coming.
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You do you. But for the last decade all I’ve heard from the left has been excuses and overly optimistic bullshit. I’ll never forget Michael Moore insisting after the 2016 election that Fat Donnie wasn’t up to the job so he’d quit within 3 months. What stupid fucking bullshit. A complete failure of imagination. So how about we save the fucking celebrations for after we’ve retaken control and put these motherfuckers in prison. Because we have nothing to celebrate right now, especially with Schumer and his ventriloquist dummy Jefferies looking for any way possible to turn Tuesday’s victories into defeats in 2026. Jesus man, wake the fuck up.