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GOP navigates 'regret' and recriminations after redistricting loss in Virginia "Congressional redistricting typically happens once every 10 years, following a census, but President Donald Trump last year initiated a scramble by urging GOP-led states to redraw their maps ahead of schedule — an effort to pad Republicans’ three-seat House majority. The result has been a flurry of hyperpartisan gamesmanship that could end without a clear edge for either party. Republicans were successful in enacting new maps in Texas, Missouri and North Carolina. But other states proved trickier to Trump’s endgame. GOP lawmakers in Ohio, for example, settled on a new map that many in the party felt was too generous to Democrats. And Republicans in Indiana resisted White House pressure to redraw their lines. Meanwhile, voters in California signed off on a new map last year that could net Democrats four or five new seats."

Weird how you parrot unsubstantiated claims from Twitter without any concern for whether or not they are true. This is another of the far-fetched, far-right circle jerks that will go nowhere in the real world. Nor is it meant to. The DOJ knows this is as pointless as Comey, James, etc. It's a show they put on just for you. You have a good time though. Guess this is America now.

All that's left now is to stamp your little feet and shake your fist at the sky. On the house: 5 Ways to Address Aggression in Older Adults with Dementia

You lash out because you're frustrated. You're not American enough to matter in US politics--not even a voter. Not smart enough to have a proper debate. Mentally and physically impotent, as regards the world that's moving past you. You have my pity.

Go home and sleep it off, loser. Try again when you sober up. I still can't believe that your go-to insult (obsessed much?) is to accuse people of being akin your own son. What a piece of shit. Poor kid.

Trump picked a fight and people fought back? Crazy talk! It's entirely awful for democracy, but I don't recall you being concerned when the bloated orange "b1tch" declared gerrymandering a strategic priority. Wonder why?

I'm saying this is another dumb performative mockery of justice that will come to morning. That this is all absurd as charging Comey or threatening the Fed Chair with legal action because "he" wouldn't let Trump manipulate interest rates. This is exactly what Trump advertised when boasting about his plan to weaponize the DOJ to target political opposition and people in his enemies list. It's exactly why he appointed unprincipled, unqualified sycophants. And you've just self selected as someone dumb enough to think it's real.

Holy shit. This is the kind of clunky ham-handed propaganda they use on dystopian sci-fi shows, because it's deliberately surreal. And apparently it now works in real life too. You're really that far gone? Jeebus. Anyone who falls for this dog and pony show should be sterilized immediately.

WTF are you talking about? ^^This isn't even a thought.

Don't look at one state. Look at the country. Republicans are the most aggressive about gerrymandering. It's netted a 16 seat advantage, according to analysts. What would happen if if that advantage didn't exist? Now you know why Republicans love gerrymandering and won't support its prohibition.

You don't have any idea what you're talking about. Jackson was not making any commentary on the facts of the case. She's arguing that the it's the wrong to issue a summary reversal rather than hearing the case because there's clearly a gap in understanding and precedent between how the lower courts view reasonable suspicion and how the SCOTUS views it. Therefor it would be responsible to hear the case and address the gap. -- Her position is that unless the lower court made an error of fact, there should not be a summary reversal because that gap in understanding is an issue worth addressing. The other justices can disagree with her. You can disagree with her. But at least understand what you're disagreeing with.

You cannot possibly complain about this. Trump is actively pushing for gerrymandering every Republican state--TX especially. Ohio passed a constitution amendment for fair districting without gerrymandering, and the Republicans LITERALLY ignored it. And on and on. You're whining about Democrats playing by the Republican game. Democrats have been proposing anti-gerrymandering legislation for ages. There's a bill in congress right now. Guess who has opposed it at every turn? You don't seem to have caught on yet, but Republicans are, at this point, staunchly anti-democratic. They do not want "the people" voting. They do not want "the people" to be fairly represented. The numbers are not on their side. Instead of changing their positions and their arguments, they change the districting lines. Gerrymandering sucks. It should be illegal. No matter who is doing it. But like most things in the Trump era, the worst aspects of American politics are celebrated as a feature. The retaliation to Trumps nationwide gerrymandering push isn't great, but you can't expect Democrats to not fight fire with fire. Newsome's California effort was actually very clever. It was contingent on what happens in TX. If TX does X, we will do Y to counteract it. Put the blame where it belongs.

We are all shocked that an unqualified, amoral grifter nominated equally unfit and inept crooks to his cabinet. This is shocking. But when the only bullet point on the job description is "unwavering, sycophantic personal loyalty" I guess you take what you can get.

🤷‍♂️Harris was female and Black. I think that's radical to some people, but there wasn't really anything in her campaign platform that was extreme. I don't think she was a very compelling candidate, but she didn't propose anything crazy in the campaign. And no, the Democrats are not authoritarian. There has been no effort to consolidate power, or undermine the courts or the media--let alone threaten them. There's been no effort to, you know, overthrow democracy. Rather, they keep playing by the same old rules that we always have, even as the Republicans change the game. Hell, they're not even assertive enough to effectively combat authoritarianism.

WTF is wrong with you? For your sake, I hope your useless ass is just day-drunk again. Jeebus.

You're trying to make an equivalence that simply doesn't exist. Until you pop your infobubble and re-enter reality you're going to sound increasingly unhinged.

This is generally a good an insightful post. What's missing though is the acknowledgement that this is EXACTLY the playbook that authoritarians always run, and EXACTLY the playbook that Trumpco runs. From casting himself as a savior (literally, at this point) to speeches about immigrant invasion and American carnage and threats to suburbia, open talk of retribution and revenge, hardened tribalism (now with uniforms/merch!) etc. The boundary pushing and norm-busting. The unprecedented number of unprecedented actions. The aggressive attacks on the media and the judicial branches. Harnessing the legal authority of the government for personal and political purposes. Literally, people afraid, angry and mislead to the point of forming a mob to attack our own government. We're living through all of what you describe, but it feels like your premise is that Trump will save us from it--is an antidote to his own playbook. That's where it gets weird.

Hopefully the first of many.

Grocery is typically estimated at a 1-3% margin. Everything is made on volume. A 1-3% savings isn't going to change anyone's life. If they are subsidizing prices, that's a different story, but I haven't seen that discussed.

He has the strategic chops of a middle school bully. By pretending to act tough, he's made America weaker than it's been in decades. America is absolutely dependent on those alliances to project power globally the way we do. They know how valuable they are to us. They are laughing at him, denying airspace, etc. And because he's just not very bright and driven entirely by ego, they're also aware that he might follow through with the absurd threat to exit NATO. So everyone is diversifying their portfolios. It's lose lose for the US. NATO has never really cost us anything, but it's been immensely valuable to the US and to the world and world order. It would take a crazy fool to disrupt that order. Unfortunately, that's exactly who is sitting his fat orange ass behind the Resolute desk.

It has zero to do with the Iranians, and everything to do with how Trump has treated our once steadfast allies. He wants to be an a-hole and alternate people? He doesn't need NATO allies? He doesn't want to consult with allies before starting a war? Fine. They are letting him test drive that proposition.

You really could not have done a better job of making my point if you set out to do so. Joe Rogan? Jeebus.

That's a strange non-sequitur response to being embarrassingly wrong. Putin absolutely has ambitions to expand. He expected to take Ukraine quickly. A far more credible threat before the world discovered Russia is a paper tiger.

People are saying that. One of them is Vladimir Putin. "Peter the Great waged the Great Northern War for 21 years... He did not take anything from them, he returned [what was Russia's]... Apparently, it is also our lot to return and strengthen." — The Guardian "I have said many times that I consider the Russian and Ukrainian peoples to be one people. In this sense, all of Ukraine is ours." — DW News

Crazy overdue, but better late than never. Eastman is himself a traitor and party to an even greater treachery. Shame and curses upon him for drawing a roadmap for the end of American democracy on behalf of Donald J. Trump.