@ForeArmGirth @TheRunAmoker @marceelias And then New York and Illinois will just do the same thing. We can play this game all day if you like.
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Daniel T. Goldkamp
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@TheRunAmoker @marceelias Gonna really sting when Florida does it, go from 20 R seats to 26r 1d. Did this to yourselves
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For the record: The Washington Post can go fuck itself.
Support pro-democracy media that doesn't have its head stuck up Donald Trump's ass. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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@TheRunAmoker @marceelias The problem is WaPo doesn't seem to have an even standard when weighing in on these issues. The same WaPo Editorial Board crying about the alleged unfairness of Virginia's new map was perfectly fine with the Texas gerrymander last year...
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@marceelias WaPo is 100 percent right. I agree Texas was WRONG when it pulled its gerrymandering stunt last year and that Republicans brought it on themselves. But it's wrong for the party in power to castrate the other party to deny them represenatation in Congress.
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Virginia tonight proved one thing:
When Democrats can’t win fairly, they change the rules. That’s not democracy. That’s a power grab. Shameful.
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@mark58088 @Acyn It's gonna get overturned on appeal to the VA state supreme court.
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@Acyn It so good to see that shit eating grin wiped off her clownish face after the judge just sank the smelly liberals chance at taking the house
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Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—
AOC: Wah wah wah.
We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. Republicans have fought for partisan gerrymanders across the United States of America. And these are the rules that they have set.
And so if the Republican Party wanted to start this, they did this in North Carolina. They drew out three Democratic members of Congress in North Carolina. They did it in Texas.
What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over, doesn’t fight, and takes everything sitting down. And what they’re mad at right now is that we are here in a new day. And we have been asking the Democratic Party to stand up and fight, and now they did—and now the Republican Party doesn’t like the fact that they are fighting against someone who actually will stand up for the American people.
So if Republicans decide that they would like to revisit a ban on partisan gerrymandering, I welcome them. We have the bill right here to end this all today. But they don’t want to, because they like pursuing and continuing to enact an unfair electoral landscape. And so we have an obligation to defend ourselves.
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@CodyTidwell16 @crunchytaters @MeidasTouch You do know the two states with the most undocumented immigrants after California are Texas and Florida, right? And that nearly half of all undocumented immigrants in the entire country are in those three states?
CA: 2.3M, TX: 2.1M, FL: 1.6M.
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@crunchytaters @MeidasTouch This is true. But also illegal aliens shouldn't be counted in the census. We are literally giving more seats to states who encourage ppl who aren't citizens in both dem and gop states just to get more seats. Ppl who aren't citizens should not count
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BREAKING: A Republican-appointed Virginia judge has struck down the Democratic-backed redistricting amendment in full, ruling it unconstitutional and “void from the start.”
All votes from the April 21 special election are now invalid, and the state is permanently blocked from using or implementing the new maps.
AG Jay Jones says he will immediately file an appeal.
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@crunchytaters @MeidasTouch Agreed. But until that day comes, Democrats have every right to respond to GOP gerrymandering efforts with gerrymandering efforts of their own. They shouldn't be expected to unilaterally disarm.
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@MeidasTouch Gerrymandering sucks and this back and forth when one side does it and the other hates it and vice versa is nonsense.
Redistricting should only be done by an impartial third party based on census results. It should not be a political weapon for either side to yield.
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@MeidasTouch It's gonna get overturned on appeal. The VA state supreme court has already rejected previous attempts to stop the redistricting effort.
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@MattZeitlin Yeah, but... that's literally what happened. The referendum to redraw the California maps was entirely contingent on Texas following through with their gerrymander. Had Texas backed down, California would not have redrawn their maps.
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Redistricting is fun because everyone just reverts to their partisan hack base mode, even people who are fair minded about everything else will be saying nonsense about how the other side “did it first”
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@CaseyMattox_ @rquig22 @Josh_PlainTalk They should decide whatever they think works best for them. If a majority of Virginians want to maintain the status quo for amending the state constitution, then that is their decision to make.
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Among many other things, it is absurd that a 50% +1 vote can amend the Virginia Constitution.
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@rquig22 @Josh_PlainTalk No, the process for constitutional amendment, as at the federal level, should have a high bar.
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@CaseyMattox_ You know what's even more absurd? The Texas and Missouri state legislatures implementing ridiculous GOP gerrymanders without giving their state's voters any say whatsoever. At least with CA and VA the voters got the final say.
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@Aesop_NPV @jbarro In 2024, ~40% of Missourians voted for Kamala Harris and Democratic candidates for the U.S. House.
Republicans just gerrymandered the state to give themselves a 9-1 advantage in the upcoming midterms.
This is your payback, bitch.
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@jbarro Fuck you. Look at New England, not one Republican seats. Look at Illinois, California.
Payback will be a bitch.
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Which stage of grief is this?
Casey Mattox@CaseyMattox_
Among many other things, it is absurd that a 50% +1 vote can amend the Virginia Constitution.
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There is a technical term for anonymous reports that say exactly what the Left wants
That term is….Bullsh*t
MeidasTouch@MeidasTouch
WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump was in such a volatile state after Iran shot down a U.S. jet that he spent hours screaming at aides in the West Wing, obsessing over the political fallout and invoking Jimmy Carter and the 1979 hostage crisis. Officials made the call to limit his access, only briefing him at “meaningful moments” instead of giving him real-time control. Meanwhile, the operation itself nearly fell apart, with aircraft stuck in desert sand and U.S. forces scrambling to avoid Iranian detection. The airman was eventually rescued, but the chaos didn’t end there. Just hours later, Trump woke up and fired off his profanity-laced threat online, warning Iran it would be left “living in Hell.”
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@schmidlein85 @JuddLegum What a brilliant well thought out rebuttal. Any thoughts about why a fund that was ostensibly created for Trump's presidential library was dissolved after $63M in settlements were wired into it? Where'd the money go?
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@JuddLegum Bahahhaha man the democrats are just pathetic. Their entire message, their entire personality, hell their entire life is just Trump.
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@Nobodyspec4502 @JillFilipovic You could argue that it's unfair of her to equate the current Israeli government to Hamas, but that's essentially her argument. She does not single out the entire Jewish population of Israel in assigning blame. Is a harsh condemnation of Bibi an insult against all Israeli Jews?
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@Nobodyspec4502 @JillFilipovic She wrote, "I am [snip] against the settlements, the occupation, and the brutalization of Palestinians". I think any reasonable interpretation would indicate she blames the Netanyahu regime, not all Israeli Jews in general. The words "Israeli Jews" appear nowhere in her tweets.
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btw I am not "anti-Israel." I'm not an "anti-Zionist," depending on how we're defining the word Zionist (I am like many normie liberals against the settlements, the occupation, and the brutalization of Palestinians, but supportive of a democratic Jewish state). I am a boring-ass two state solution person who thinks both Israelis and Palestinians would be best served by each group coexisting in side-by-side countries. Palestinians are incredibly ill-served by the murderous tyrants of Hamas (to put it very mildly). But if you think Israel is being well-served by its current government... then yeah we very much disagree.
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@TeamTrump Donald John Trump is the living personification of cringe.
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The Democrat Senate primary in Michigan is between a radical leftist aligned with Hasan Piker and a theater kid who thinks she has "McMentum."
Their entire bench is CRINGE!
Team McMorrow@TeamMcMorrow
Mallory McMorrow walked into the second half of today's convention flanked by DrumKINGZ and a whole lot of supporters. Many are calling it McMentum.
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@Nobodyspec4502 @JillFilipovic Where exactly in her post did she "blame Jews"? She blamed some specific people who are Jewish (eg Netanyahu), but that's not the same thing as "blaming Jews" in general.
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@JillFilipovic problem is you are still blaming Israel for "brutalizing" and you absolve Palestinians. They are "ill-served" by Hamas.
So Palestinians are passive little puppies. The problem is you give no agency or blame to Palestinians, and yet blame Jews. (I'm not one BTW)
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@sayl33056111 @ChrisCuomo Guarantee the story doesn't go to print without being cleared by an army of lawyers because The Atlantic knows that the Trump administration is litigious as hell.
There will be no settlement, and if he doesn't drop the suit, he's going to be humiliated at trial.
Bookmark this.
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@DanielTGoldkamp @ChrisCuomo He's going to win because the Atlantic fake story has no unnamed unknown source that actually exists.
Guaranteed the Atlantic will settle
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Suing is easy. Going through discovery is not. Ask Trump
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
BARTIROMO: So you're gonna sue them? KASH PATEL: Absolutely. It's coming tomorrow BARTIROMO: Tomorrow you will be dropping a lawsuit against The Atlantic? PATEL: Yes I will. For defamation
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BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel announces arrests tied to the 2020 election are “coming soon.”
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