HOLY SMOKES! The Texas House just REVOKED the derelict Democrat lawmakers' access to

[putnam6]

Im of the opinion that the Democrats might have screwed up.



Eric Daugherty

@EricLDaugh
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 HOLY SMOKES! The Texas House just REVOKED the derelict Democrat lawmakers' access to direct deposit - they CAN'T GET PAID until they step foot back on Texas grounds! AND - charging them $500 per day they're gone. Genius. The FBI is also involved. Texas Democrats WILL NOT receive their paycheck until they go back to the House. "Eventually, you WILL come back." FIGHTING BACK, at the pocketbook. Trying to thwart this new Congressional map was a bad move. It will end very poorly for the Dems here.

[UltraBudgie]

Haha there is already a GoFundMe with over $11K raised to support these "noble efforts".

Support Texas Democrats Defending Democracy

I will not post link here because of T&C

Somehow I don't think they're going to run out of money to buy chicken nuggets and merlot or whatever Texas Democrats eat.

[DBCowboy]

Im of the opinion that the Democrats might have screwed up.



Eric Daugherty

@EricLDaugh
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2h
 HOLY SMOKES! The Texas House just REVOKED the derelict Democrat lawmakers' access to direct deposit - they CAN'T GET PAID until they step foot back on Texas grounds! AND - charging them $500 per day they're gone. Genius. The FBI is also involved. Texas Democrats WILL NOT receive their paycheck until they go back to the House. "Eventually, you WILL come back." FIGHTING BACK, at the pocketbook. Trying to thwart this new Congressional map was a bad move. It will end very poorly for the Dems here.

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Democrats can't help stepping on their own dicks

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[putnam6]

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Democrats can't help stepping on their own dicks

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If they have one...

Ive never seen Republicans act with surety...
Unless it's all Kabuki Theater

[quintessentone]

Haha there is already a GoFundMe with over $11K raised to support these "noble efforts".

Support Texas Democrats Defending Democracy

I will not post link here because of T&C

Somehow I don't think they're going to run out of money to buy chicken nuggets and merlot or whatever Texas Democrats eat.

I am sure blue states will be kicking in support too, just like California does all the time for red states.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Im of the opinion that the Democrats might have screwed up.



Eric Daugherty

@EricLDaugh
·
2h
 HOLY SMOKES! The Texas House just REVOKED the derelict Democrat lawmakers' access to direct deposit - they CAN'T GET PAID until they step foot back on Texas grounds! AND - charging them $500 per day they're gone. Genius. The FBI is also involved. Texas Democrats WILL NOT receive their paycheck until they go back to the House. "Eventually, you WILL come back." FIGHTING BACK, at the pocketbook. Trying to thwart this new Congressional map was a bad move. It will end very poorly for the Dems here.

So "breaking quorum" to counter "gerrymamdering."

Never thought the glossary words from government class would be something that I'd ever use in conversation.

The whole Texas redistricting thing kinda seems a desperate way to save the midterms from swinging both house and senate blue. 

Usually when approval is this low its assured you have a midterm legislature flip... unless the glossary words are used.

So Texas has plans to add 5 republican seats. Which is weird considering his approval is currently underwater in the state - so it's not really too representative currently - but whatever, districts exist to selectively divide the population equally..

And in response, California is trying to bypass the redistricting commission through a "costly" special election in November. I'm sure we'll try to add back 5 democrat seats, to likewise alienate somewhere central valley.

The funniest thing in CA are the Darrell Issa-like Trump bootlickers complaining about the cost of the special election, when they NEVER brought up the cost of their failed politically charged recall election. Not even once. 

Now I'm losing focus, so anyway...

And after Texas and California, New York could follow, and then swing states state like Pennsylvania and Michgan.

far less likely are, Florida, North Carolina, Wisonsin, and Arizona.  For being already too red-district dominant to change much.

Like Arizona has 9 congressional districts, and 6-3 (current 6-2 and a vacant blue district) is about where Arizona always stays.

And thats because they already gerrymandered the shit out of Arizona in everyway they could. The conquered Tucson by dividing it in half and putting the largely Latino/Indiginous Southwest half with Tolleson, and Yuma, and the largely white Northeast Half with Sierra Vista and rural Southeast Arizona.

Arizona is really purple too. So many independents it's always 47-53%, yet it has 66% republican districts almost always.

You cant turn West Tucson/Tolleson/Yuma red, you cant turn Southwest Phoenix red, and you cant turn Tempe/East Valley red without losing elsewhere.

No matter what you do you cant make any less than 3 democrat districts in Arizona,  but you can redraw Phoenix and Tucson to make more blue districts. Several more. I'm sure the NAU students in Flagstaff and Sedona Hippies would appreciate being in a blue district, but they're not. 

That is true in Wisconisin (6-2), Ohio (10-5), and Florida (20-8) too.

There's not much left outside Texas and California to wring out. Not as much as there is blue.

And with Trump approval where it is, starting this gerrymandering war could backfire, because the only way to go in many states is blue.


But I'm finally almost at the "Burnout Threshold" where I just post this song for everything and hail the madness we probably deserve. 

[UltraBudgie]

But I'm finally almost at the "Burnout Threshold" where I just post this song for everything and hail the madness we probably deserve. 

And we're not even 1/3 of the way between Trump taking office and the next midterm election. With his Republic approval nailed in the high 90s, and probably no Democrats who voted Trump last election to sway to or from the "other side", the midterms seem likely to rest upon the "Independent" vote. And while Republican hold-your-nose support there is down right now, twice as much, um, "excitement" as we've seen so far really makes the impact unpredictable.

Oh wait, I forgot that it's all kabuki.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Oh wait, I forgot that it's all kabuki.

Something like that...

[putnam6]

So "breaking quorum" to counter "gerrymamdering."

Never thought the glossary words from government class would be something that I'd ever use in conversation.

The whole Texas redistricting thing kinda seems a desperate way to save the midterms from swinging both house and senate blue. 

Usually when approval is this low its assured you have a midterm legislature flip... unless the glossary words are used.

So Texas has plans to add 5 republican seats. Which is weird considering his approval is currently underwater in the state - so it's not really too representative currently - but whatever, districts exist to selective divide the population equally..

And in response, California is trying to bypass the redistricting commission through a "costly" special election in November. I'm sure we'll try to add back 5 democrat seats, to likewise alienate somewhere central valley.

The funniest thing in CA are the Darrell Issa-like Trump bootlickers complaining about the cost of the special election, when they NEVER brought up the cost of their failed politically charged recall election. Not even once. 

Now I'm losing focus, so anyway...

And after Texas and California, New York could follow, and then swing states state like Pennsylvania and Michgan.

far less likely are, Florida, North Carolina, Wisonsin, and Arizona.  For being already too red-district dominant to change much.

Like Arizona has 9 congressional districts, and 6-3 (current 6-2 and a vacant blue district) is about where Arizona always stays.

And thats because they already gerrymandered the shit out of Arizona in everyway they could. The conquered Tucson by dividing it in half and putting the largely Latino/Indiginous Southwest half with Tolleson, and Yuma, and the largely white Northeast Half with Sierra Vista and rural Southeast Arizona.

Arizona is really purple too. So many independents it's always 47-53%, yet it has 66% republican districts almost always.

You cant turn West Tucson/Tolleson/Yuma red, you cant turn Southwest Phoenix red, and you cant turn Tempe/East Valley red without losing elsewhere.

No matter what you do you cant make any less than 3 democrat districts in Arizona,  but you can redraw Phoenix and Tucson to make more blue districts. Several more. I'm sure the NAU students in Flagstaff and Sedona Hippies would appreciate being in a blue district, but they're not. 

That is true in Wisconisin (6-2), Ohio (10-5), and Florida (20-8) too.

There's not much left outside Texas and California to wring out. Not as much as there is blue.

And with Trump approval where it is, starting this gerrymandering war could backfire, because the only way to go in many states is blue.


But I'm finally almost at the "Burnout Threshold" where I just post this song for everything and hail the madness we probably deserve. 

[Video: https://youtu.be/b_ObqZtxuj0?si=th3CHOb6p_hhn596]

gerrymamdering? It's gerryMANdering

Back in the mid-80s, most every Friday night, we'd break quorum at one party, we'd get bored or they'd kick us out, and we would go gerrymandering into another party

Respectfully, gerrymandering has been going on forever.

And you are too intelligent to pretend the Democrats weren't flooding immigrants into states, counties, and districts, so the census calls for redrawing the districts. Big difference in a state transitioning from purple to blue organically and not because the American taxpayer is jetting in immigrants in the middle of the night.
 
How often does one party revoke financial privileges when the other party pitches a hissy fit over gerrymandering?

Thats what caught my eye scrolling through the X feed...

this too...

better late than never...
 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh


MASSIVE NEWS: It turns out, President Trump was right all along. JPMorgan is now forecasting a Federal Reserve interest rate cut next month - and four more cuts by the end of the year. They’re late.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

gerrymamdering? It's gerryMANdering

Back in the mid-80s, most every Friday night, we'd break quorum at one party, we'd get bored or they'd kick us out, and we would go gerrymanderdering into another party

Respectfully, gerrymandering has been going on forever. How often does one party revoke financial privileges when the other party pitches a hissy fit over gerrymandering?

I can assure you, "gerrymamdering" wasn't on purpose like saying "vagistics" or "clitteratti," but just one of the many many typos that end up in every post of length I write. Usually, it's butchered words made other words by autocorrect or incorrect homophones.

This is gonna wash-out by 2026 and Republican Texan redistricting will be balanced by Democrat Californian redistricting. 

It really does seem like showbiz by the Texas State legislature people.  It's like an absconding filibuster. Just a last ditch attempt to flip a middle finger at majority legislation. I understand their combative need to defy the majority, but they are self-immolating the perception of the left more than anything.  Just giving more of a reason to stretch the chasm a little further across. 

@ Texas @ Democrats everywhere. 

Just suck it up and LEARN TO PLAY THE GAME or fully commit to always losing

Like the "run and tell teacher" tendency of the left is annoying and self-defeating. Play the game they do, its the only thing that would work. 

And California still has a few days left to get a special election on the November ballot.  Support is there. And they even might "redistrict" more effectively than Texas. And Arizona (and others) could follow, because Arizona always follows either Texas or California.  

It could end a net gain of 8 seats for the democrats if others follow California and Texas and we all just commit all do eye for an eye politics exclusively.