Bro wants to cancel the midterms so badly
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Trump has praised a similar effort by Texas Republican legislators
Trump ordered them to
allowed* them to
Texas has been wanting to do that for ages, way before Trump. It's just that the Republican party used to still have a smidgeon of dignity back then and wouldn't allow it.
Texas has always been a Texas first US second state. Not really sure they’re bootlickers.
Redistricting California was the reason why Dems in Texas capitulated to Republicans and returned to the state to allow them to have a quorum and pass their redistricting plan. Now it looks like they'll potentially get absolutely nothing out of the deal after giving Republicans everything they wanted. How unsurprising. That seems to be the running theme for the "opposition party" these days.
Gotta think a little further, CmdrShepard49. If the DOJ brings California to court, then whatever decision the court makes will also set a precedent for what happened in Texas. You best believe that if the courts strike down California's attempt at redistricting, then Texas will be next.
Perhaps, but you should also remember that SCOTUS ruled in July that federal courts can not issue nationwide injunctions and that rulings now only apply to the specific parties named in a specific case, meaning that if Dems in California lose their case, that ruling only applies to them and cannot be applied toward Texas unless SCOTUS says so.
A nationwide injunction may not be issued as easily, but the precedence does still matter in a case like this.
Well the rub here is that a new case will need to be filed in Texas' federal district and their federal district judges always rubber stamp everything the president wants.
There a specific spot in Texas where you're guaranteed one MAGA guy, there are other places with more sympathetic judges that can be chosen.
No it won’t. There is no rule of law. They will just do whatever they want to do.
And why can't California do the same?
Because we’ve been invaded by an army with guns and stuff.
And California is moving forward. The object was to make sure people knew texas went full fascist. The plan is to fight their stupid games with more stupid games... the fun part is its all stupid! Cause when you play those games all the prizes are stupid... I just want to have the circus leave town cause I'm tired of clowns.
I was kinda shocked when they were done doing their fund raising protest only to delay it a couple of weeks. "We tried". I haven't looked, but did they release the map and several Dems said "oh it's not my district, I'm coming back."
I want a Maga idiot to look me in the eye and tell me that any of these things are democratic, arenl not dictatorial, and completely fair and normal, and why.
I want to see the removed mind in action, see what it's truly capable of, what kind of extreme gymnastics it's capable of
Most of them don’t even know this is happening. Their whole news feed is about crimes committed by immigrants.
Yup. All this "MAGA is pissed off" and "wait till MAGA finds out" crap that keeps getting posted is just that. What "MAGA thinks" is entirely based on what FOX NEWS or NEWSMAX tells them, nothing else effectively exists for them.
They don’t even watch those anymore. They are fully off the deep end with “news” sites I don’t even recognize.
When your media diet consists only of propaganda, your concept of reality is going to be quite skewed.
You will be awe struck.
This is how you lose a star on your flag, Donald.
Silver lining, it would be easier to draw if they lost one or two.
I don't care what distraction bullshit the useless cunt is talking about now, I want the full unredacted release of the Epstein list.
Please sue California! It will be hilarious
He got PMS all over his expression.
While I genuinely hope this will serve as a wake up call (not in the seemingly fake and preformative way done by the California governor) for the locals, from my time living there I have my doubts, it seems that Americans are a bit too well off and risk averse to take action.
Perhaps it may make sense to share a vignette from an Asian country I was travelling in.
We took the train from a regional capital to a smaller city. A week later, we were on our way back to the regional capital to catch a plane.
We go to the railway station and find out that Maoist rebels bombed the railway. So we we find a driver with an off-road vehicle to travel through the jungle road (it was in a terrible state, don't think a regular car would have managed) to the regional capital.
On the way through the jungle we approach a group of burned out trucks with the military surrounding them. We ask them what happened. The military said the Maoist rebels stopped the trucks, let the drivers go (I believe they were actually treated well and the military said they were dropped off at the nearest village completely unharmed and with their belongings). The truck drivers were merely employees and get shit pay with significant dangers (trucks are often heavily overloaded, you constantly see them crash because of this).
So you might say, well what does this have to do with the US? While I don't support Maoists (even though they likely had good reasons as that region was particularly corrupt and did not benefit from broader national economic growth), one has to admit that they definitely are not risk averse and are willing and able to go through.
To cite another (fictional) example, it's like that scene in The Godfather 2 where Michael Corleone sees the commitment of the Cuban rebels and realizes that the Batista regime is not going to hold after he sees the Cuban rebel blow himself up to take out the goon leader, rather than face arrest (and likely torture and death).
America is not that kind of place (for better or worse).
P.S. Note this is not doomerism, nothing is final until it is. That being said nothing in this world comes easy. Freedom is not a mere polemic statement. Freedom requires painful, scary choices and immense sacrifices.