The massiveness of this full-blown assault on democracy is likely to give Tom DeLay a big enough boner to cause a fatal heart attack. Or, at least, one can hope.
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âDonât make us pull out the blackjacks, unspool the firehoses and release the hounds.â
â Samuel Alito, probably
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It depends on how much or oddly they gerrymander. Have you seen the shape ofJim Jordanâs district in Ohio? Itâs the most convoluted thing.
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The whole point of Gerrymandering is that it trades safe districts for districts that have, at best, a moderate R advantages. Republicans can keep a majority in such cases with, maybe, 47-48% of the vote. But if their percentage of the total vote drops below 45%, all of the districts where their advantage was only a few percent in a normal year will go blue. In such a case Gerrymandering will always exaggerate their loss. The more Gerrymandered a state is; the more âoddlyâ districts are drawn, the more they lose in a blowout election. Thatâs just math.
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âWeâre not simply part of the political process, and thereâs a reason for that, and Iâm not sure people grasp that as much as is appropriate,â Roberts said.
No, John. The problem is that you donât seem to grasp that as much as is appropriate.
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Woe is the burden faced by the John Roberts, reaching the pinnacle of a legal career only to find out that heâs likely to be remembered as the Chief Justice whose failures led to the (much needed) reformation of the Supreme Court. There where many opportunities for Justice Roberts to rein in the obvious problems of SCotUS, but at every opportunity heâs chosen the path which led to the conclusion that the conservative wing of the Court starts with a desired outcome and writes opinions that can be generously read to legally justify that conclusion.
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Having now long ago connections to Virginia and a love of it ever since, I have had a sinking feeling about the pending SC ruling since the morning after the election, when the buzz of the voting wore off. Without knowledge, obviously, it seems to me the court held off on ruling prior to the vote hoping they could dodge the question should it fail. The fact that they still have not ruled two weeks after the vote is discomforting to say the least.
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Thatâs if people get to vote more or less normally. If the rolls are purged, if enough voters canât, or donât for reasons, get their ballots in, if enough intimidation tactics at the polling stations and mail boxes impact voters, then math may not apply.
Something that needs to be addressed.
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If the VA Supreme Court nullifies the will of the voters then Dems in the legislature should take notice: fuck the laws, do it anyway. Thatâs what the GOP is doing.
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Nailed it. And thereâs certainly nothing political or racist about it.
How do we know? Because Roberts, along with fellow compatriots Kavanaugh and Barrett, who all got their sea legs working to shut down Florida vote counting in 2000, say so.
All 3 got their reward, didnât they?
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Well, it certainly hasnât been a great week.
BTW, Roberts is smug and smarmy. Iâm not going to call him a cunt, in part because of the offensiveness of the word and in part because Iâm saving that word for Alito.
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Feel better, chief?
Roberts: âI think they view us as truly political actors, which I donât think is an accurate understanding of what we do.â
âYou donât think,â eh? So, âothers my disagree?â âEverybody understands âpolitical actorâ in different waysâ? Hardly a ringing defense of his judicial disinterest.
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Rep. Bennie Thompsonâs (D-MI)
A Michigander would like a word. Mississippi is MS.
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Oh, the âbyproductâ is 20 House seats, you fucking moron? That is the main product, you incompetent buffoon. I hope you choke at a Cabinet meeting and everyone is too afraid or unable to reach around your gut to perform a Heimlich.
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I agree. In this midterm I suspect repubs will lose more due to gerrymandering. Heavy repub weighted becomes mildly repub weighted. Blowout blue wave and more repubs are taken out. Dumpy is extremely unpopular. I do handyman work for part of my income. Iâm always at Home Depot. So many shredded maga stickers on trucks. People openly say âthis guys made things worseâ - they donât need to clarify. They know I know who they are talking about.
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And I hope that the Dems will win enough seats to retake the House despite the abominable gerrymandering thats now unfolding in the wake of the Supremosâ destruction of the Voting Rights Act. Will Blue votes translate into enough Blue seats?
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I hope youâre right.
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