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@travelingflying I thought you were going to show gun and knife crimes. Would like to see those stats since it would relate to the quotes you showed.

Piers Morgan: ”Everyone in England used to have guns, now very few people have. And the consequence of that, we have almost 0 gun crimes.” Tucker Carlson: ”Oh, is London safe now!? 🤣” Piers Morgan: ”Now we have a knife crime epidemic.” Tucker Carlson: ”No, you have a people problem. It’s measurable. How many people got stabbed or shot in London in the ’70s? It’s a massive increase. The attitudes and actions of the people are totally different; you’ve got different people.” Yes. Here are figures for London, UK: 1960 98% White 0.01 Knife crime per 1,000 2025 36% White 1.82 Knife crime per 1,000

@PhilALarsen @DanCrenshawTX Wrong. D trifecta states have more seats than R trifecta states.

@DanCrenshawTX The reason why Democrats are freaking out right now about gerrymandering isn’t because they’re against gerrymandering. It’s because they’re almost tapped out on how many districts they can get through gerrymandering, while the Republicans still have a lot of room to go.

The gerrymandering debate always skips one inconvenient fact: Democrats dominated the redistricting game for decades and created wildly disproportionate representation in plenty of states.   California sends only a handful of Republicans to Congress. Illinois has a massive Democrat advantage. New England is a political monoculture. In all these states, congressional representation looks nothing like the actual partisan split of the voters.   But somehow the outrage only ramps up when Texas or Florida redraw maps.   If you want to reform the way district lines are drawn, go ahead and make the case. But don’t act like Republicans invented gerrymandering yesterday. And don’t pretend that whatever “independent” system you come up with won’t still be political in the end.

@kurps84518 @BTC_clips You can ask grok how many states have trifecta D and R, and how many us house districts are in those states. Maybe you can learn something?

@natelefko @BTC_clips Go back to school land votes in a constitutional Republic

"Democratic governors and state legislators need to realize that this is no longer about fairness; it’s about fighting back so that Democrats are not engineered out of the House forever. And I get that Democrats don’t have the stomach for this kind of warfare; find it. The time for good government solutions is long gone. Now it’s existential."

@kurps84518 @BTC_clips You are mistaken

@natelefko @BTC_clips Don't know how it works huh , Boris ?

@NickyFrank30 Just need to change the state laws to copy-paste red state laws. No referendums and not court rejections if your laws allow it

That's cute, but it still doesn't explain why so many Virginia Democrats voted "no" on the referendum or didn't vote at all. And Democrats don't control enough states for this to completely work.

@Bayou_Rebuilder @BTC_clips Wrong

@BTC_clips They can’t redraw their fucking Maps any fucking more than they already have you stupid fuck they’ve been doing what they are accusing the Republicans of doing they’ve been doing it for 30 fucking years

@kurps84518 @BTC_clips Same population

@BTC_clips Go ahead we own more states lolol

@PSmurph @alexchristy17 Even now Ny is not gerrymandered as extremely as tx or fl. They tried after the census and got rejected. Meanwhile TN gerrymandered from 8-1 to 9-0 in just 2 days! I live in TN so don’t tell me about doing what they want… NY is not in the same ballpark as red states sorry

@natelefko @alexchristy17 And that was a few years ago. Not after Texas or Florida. Before!

PBS host Amna Nawaz reacts to the Virginia Supreme Court by quoting Gavin Newsom, "He ends with this: 'Virginia's voter-approved maps are thrown out. MAGA has rigged the system.' David [Brooks] what do you make of that? Are Republicans rigging the system?" Brooks replied by saying everyone's terrible, "People have always been doing gerrymandering. It started getting worse in the 2010s, 2020s, when you had states like North Carolina, Maryland, Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania. These had totally rigged maps...The inhibition was, you only did it on the census, did it once every 10 years. So Trump blew through that restraint. And now you can redistrict whenever the hell you want to. And that's what Texas did. That's what Gavin Newsom did...And now we are stuck in a pseudo-democracy, where voters, when voting for House candidates, do not in most cases have the actual power to throw out a party that's doing badly. And so that democratic check is more or less gone." (1/2)

@SeanTrende can you point to an analysis that digs into which party gets more votes for house since 2000? Need to account for unopposed districts but you can’t just eliminate them, really should add the opposite parties assumed vote total based on presidential election.

@Dystop1anFvtvre @briantylercohen @grok The population is similar under full control. It comes down to swing/split states. Truly dystopian! And not what the founding fathers intended!

@natelefko @briantylercohen @grok, how many state legislatures are controlled by Republicans vs Democrats? Gameplan out what the House seats would look like if all of the legislatures maximized partisan advantage in gerrymandering.

Virginia is "a wakeup call to Democrats across the country - in NJ, NY, MD, IL, OR, WA, CO - this is the time to start fighting back... Republicans don't believe that Democrats have the right to exist as a party. If we don't start fighting back as a party, we're going to good government ourselves into obscurity." h/t @Elex_Michaelson @CNNTheStoryIs

@Andrews60David @briantylercohen All they need to do is change the law to match exactly the laws in red states. Then you can pass a new map in 2 days!

@briantylercohen Virginia Dems just got taken to the woodshed for a good ole fashioned ass whipping.

@BillyCastleX @briantylercohen All they need to do is change the law to match exactly the laws in red states. Then you can pass a new map in 2 days!

@briantylercohen I’m a Virginian. The Supreme Court upheld the constitution. I’m grateful they did. The Democrats deserve to never hold power again.

@MatthewClarkEsq @briantylercohen Tennessee just squeezed 100% Obviously that is the only option otherwise dems continue to fight with one hand tied behind their back

@briantylercohen * NJ: 9D–3R * MD: 7D–1R * IL: 14D–3R * OR: 5D–1R * WA: 8D–2R Exactly how much more blood do you think you can squeeze from these turnips?

@Dystop1anFvtvre @briantylercohen But now Tennessee showed the way. All states must gerrymander 100% so there is meat on the bone pretty much everywhere.

@briantylercohen Maybe you guys should maximize your gerrymandering? Oh snap, you already have. Guess you fucked up by showing Republicans what the rules of the game were.

@Dystop1anFvtvre @briantylercohen What are you talking about? Texas and Florida do extreme gerrymandering. Cali and NY have laws against it and have not done the extreme gerrymandering until the recent Cali referendum. These are the largest states on both sides. They are not equal

@ThisOldDude1691 @OcrazioCornPop In this map Tennessee has D 2 districts, in the new real map they have 0

🚨GROK's CONGRESSIONAL MAP: What would the MOST FAIR U.S. House map look like if we followed the Founding Fathers’ Principles? - Apportion seats strictly by population (census) - Draw compact, contiguous districts inside each state only - No partisan data, no racial engineering, no weird shapes - Prioritize whole counties & communities RESULT: A clean map with 265-285 R to 150-170 D seats in a 50/50 nation. Not gerrymandering - just geography. This is what neutral, compact redistricting naturally produces. The Founders wanted local geographic representation, not national proportional math. No salamanders. No tentacles. Just logical districts. True fairness under the Constitution isn’t forcing 50/50 seats. It’s letting Americans vote where they actually live. THIS MAP HONORS THE CONSTITUTION'S DESIGN. What do you think? MAP VIA: @JeremiahW2044

@Hutchkins48 @alexchristy17 IL would have been incompetent and derelict if they didn’t extreme gerrymander. Texas and Florida do extreme gerrymandering. Cali and NY have laws against it and have not done the extreme gerrymandering until the recent Cali referendum. They are not equal

@alexchristy17 In fact Brooks is right. I live in Illinois. Gerrymandered Dem all the way, as is New England. The nutty Dem governor of Massachusetts said she was going to redistrict a state that has no GOP representatives.

@PSmurph @alexchristy17 Texas and Florida do extreme gerrymandering. Cali and NY have laws against it and have not done the extreme gerrymandering until the recent Cali referendum. These are the largest states on both sides. They are not equal

@alexchristy17 They’re dishonest. Trump didn’t blow through this. First of all the census admits. It was rigged towards Democrats. Biden also demanded the census count illegals which skewed more seats for Dems. They say they undercounted Republicans. So why should we wait a decade to fix it?

@NickyFrank30 And merge North Dakota and South Dakota and add Puerto Rico as a state. Also institute proportional house representation.

If a future Democratic trifecta (LOL) does decide to pack SCOTUS, I think they should couple it with a constitutional amendment for 18 year term limits and cap the number at 13 permanently to prevent Republican retaliation

@pnwlawyerguy @speechboy71 Just have to change the law to be the same as red states

@speechboy71 Gerrymandering in WA requires a 2/3 legislative vote which they don’t have.

Democrats in Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, Maryland, New York, Oregon, and Washington will soon find themselves under enormous pressure to draw new maps in 2028 ... the gerrymandering arms race is actually going to get worse.