So its turning out like everything they do. Scary and aggressive, but not thought out and when the response finally comes they didn’t think it through.
bsport48 on
Dear Democrats of America,
This is the part where you take their playbook, page for page. Do not let up, do not falter.
Gerrymander the ever-living fuck out of every single red district that you can. If you don’t, then you will already have failed.
Sincerely,
Any thinking dipshit
WilsonMagna on
Gerrymander works by diluting your strongholds to win share in weaker areas. If there is a blue wave like we had with recent elections, that can overcome small margin majorities Republicans draw up. Democrats have been baited a few times into thinking they could win Texas, but if Texas actually were to rig their maps and there was a blue tsunami, that is a big L Republicans could face.
Important-Reading-84 on
Do not relent. Headlines are not reality. Even if it might come true, don’t let messages like this lull you back into complacency.
We have to push back against the far right tide with everything we can muster.
CuttlefishExpress on
Part of me is really hoping that they chop up the area and make more seats and then do such a bad job at governing that those seats end up blue in a few years, if not sooner.
ttpharmd on
I wouldn’t bank on it not working. Republicans may be wacko but one thing they do know is how to cheat and rig the system.
css555 on
There is a reason they call it dummymandering.
Most-Artichoke6184 on
Trump told Texas Republicans to bend over and they gladly did so.
dallasdude on
The Republicans might be able to salvage their party if they immediately impeach, convict, remove Trump from office and work to repair the immense damage they’ve caused – not just to our institutions but to their own reputations and ours as a nation.
They’ve spent far too long acting in bad faith. Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets, and they’ve got a huge bucket to fill. I’m not sure it is even possible.
rgvtim on
Gerrymanding is always going to be risky because your voters are not monolithic you can reach a tipping point. If things get bad enough, you have spread your base out and since not everyone is as committed to the cause those can and will either not vote or flip, leading to a potential near total wipe.
While yes, core MAGA is committed, it was not what pushed Trump over the edge in the election. Frustration with the economy and the status quo did. Trumps polices have been detrimental to population at large, and his propaganda can’t keep up with the set back people are feeling.
Complex-Ferret-9406 on
By rigging districts based upon party, you’ll win some but you’ll lose a bunch too.
raerae1991 on
Let’s hope this is true
CupidStuntNutter on
I love how stupid the GOP is sometimes. Sometimes.
BigBoyYuyuh on
Let’s hope.
ThrobbingPhyrexian on
The big thing about Gerrymandering is it it has diminishing returns and becomes more risky the further you go in.
Republicans going all-in on this may be their own undoing. Otherwise safe ratios and seats could now be in play and purple districts risk being unwinnable.
It really all depends on how disenchanted Republicans are this time around. Their base hasn’t backed off in congressional races since 2008.
Here’s hoping enough Americans are anti-pedo enough to make midterms and the following general a monumental win.
cataclysm49 on
From your mouth to God’s ear.
Mrmathmonkey on
To add strength in one area you have to take away strength from another area. With the democrats gaining, it’s possible to lose both areas.
fistswityat0es on
Go ahead and gerrymander. Once California figures out it works better for the left will get even more aggressive.
When you don’t play your cards right and just act on impulsive and egotistical terms…This is what happens.
warbunnies on
Of course it was a bad idea to try to go harder. The red states have mostly been gerrymandered to hell and back already. While most blue states are not. It was the only way they were able to get a majority for the past 20 years.
Now they are trying to increase the pressure with a maxed out tool and dems are done doing the “they go low, we go high” bullshit. Results = increased losses for gop.
Do I hate what this means for democracy yes, do i realize we will loose everything if we dont bend a little 100%. Time to take the moral high ground gloves off.
Ge856293 on
Dummymandering would be great in Texas in 2026
jarena009 on
I still wonder if in places like Texas, Florida, Ohio where Republicans have gerrymandered to the extreme, if they’ve thinned out the districts so much that gerrymandering might backfire in a mid term like 2026.
For instance, a district they thought was secure and went from 58% Republican voting before to 54% on paper after gerrymandering, but then because of voter backlash against Republicans becomes 48% in the mid terms.
Very possible when the total house vote for Texas for instance in 2024 the Republican house vote was nearly 59% to 39%, but in the 2018 mid term was only 50% Republican, 47% Democrat. And that’s a 17 point swing…Democrats might only need half that in a state like Texas, Ohio, and Florida to start flipping thinned out districts.
purgatori1 on
Hey Trump – heard you like to suck it. Suck on this.
PlainBread on
Gerrymandering is all well and good but you can only stretch each population so far; It has a great amount of potential to backfire in the case of a big Blue/Red wave.
Gerrymandering only really “works” when the country has no unifying direction and people are kept evenly split with wedge issues.
TastySnorlax on
Just get rid of the electoral college. The very first time a
President lost the popular vote and still became president should have been the last time.
oldbastardbob on
I’m having this crazy thought that here in Missouri, their efforts to gerrymander Emanuel Cleaver out of office will backfire.
They are splitting Jackson County, which is basically the majority of Kansas City, Missouri and a few suburbs, in half and adding those folks, who traditionally voted heavily democratic, to the red districts to the north and south of Kansas City.
I think voter turnout in 2026 is going to be heavy, and democrats are motivated. I would find it hillarious if adding those 300k to 400k blue district voters to each of those two congressional districts backfired and the GOP lost two seats to gain one.
It’s a longshot, I know. But I also have little faith in the intellect of whoever is behind drawing these new maps and wonder just how good they are at using demographics to predict the future.
therealmenox on
Gerrymandering works to a point, however after a few rounds of gerrymandering and regerrymandering youve stretched your margins across each district so thin that it all flips suddenly if voter apathy decreases.
mcotter12 on
Gerrymandering elections down to a a narrow set of competitive seats is manufactured consent in action!
Y0___0Y on
Right now is probably the worst time for them to do this. These upcoming midterms and 2028 are going to be historic blue waves.
AWholeNewFattitude on
But we’ve been told for decades how solidly red the vast swaths of empty land in the midwest votes, i’d imagine that translates to automatic election victory….
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So its turning out like everything they do. Scary and aggressive, but not thought out and when the response finally comes they didn’t think it through.
Dear Democrats of America,
This is the part where you take their playbook, page for page. Do not let up, do not falter.
Gerrymander the ever-living fuck out of every single red district that you can. If you don’t, then you will already have failed.
Sincerely,
Any thinking dipshit
Gerrymander works by diluting your strongholds to win share in weaker areas. If there is a blue wave like we had with recent elections, that can overcome small margin majorities Republicans draw up. Democrats have been baited a few times into thinking they could win Texas, but if Texas actually were to rig their maps and there was a blue tsunami, that is a big L Republicans could face.
Do not relent. Headlines are not reality. Even if it might come true, don’t let messages like this lull you back into complacency.
We have to push back against the far right tide with everything we can muster.
Part of me is really hoping that they chop up the area and make more seats and then do such a bad job at governing that those seats end up blue in a few years, if not sooner.
I wouldn’t bank on it not working. Republicans may be wacko but one thing they do know is how to cheat and rig the system.
There is a reason they call it dummymandering.
Trump told Texas Republicans to bend over and they gladly did so.
The Republicans might be able to salvage their party if they immediately impeach, convict, remove Trump from office and work to repair the immense damage they’ve caused – not just to our institutions but to their own reputations and ours as a nation.
They’ve spent far too long acting in bad faith. Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets, and they’ve got a huge bucket to fill. I’m not sure it is even possible.
Gerrymanding is always going to be risky because your voters are not monolithic you can reach a tipping point. If things get bad enough, you have spread your base out and since not everyone is as committed to the cause those can and will either not vote or flip, leading to a potential near total wipe.
While yes, core MAGA is committed, it was not what pushed Trump over the edge in the election. Frustration with the economy and the status quo did. Trumps polices have been detrimental to population at large, and his propaganda can’t keep up with the set back people are feeling.
By rigging districts based upon party, you’ll win some but you’ll lose a bunch too.
Let’s hope this is true
I love how stupid the GOP is sometimes. Sometimes.
Let’s hope.
The big thing about Gerrymandering is it it has diminishing returns and becomes more risky the further you go in.
Republicans going all-in on this may be their own undoing. Otherwise safe ratios and seats could now be in play and purple districts risk being unwinnable.
It really all depends on how disenchanted Republicans are this time around. Their base hasn’t backed off in congressional races since 2008.
Here’s hoping enough Americans are anti-pedo enough to make midterms and the following general a monumental win.
From your mouth to God’s ear.
To add strength in one area you have to take away strength from another area. With the democrats gaining, it’s possible to lose both areas.
Go ahead and gerrymander. Once California figures out it works better for the left will get even more aggressive.
The GOP can piss off with any whining after ‘28.
“Please proceed, Governor.”
https://youtube.com/shorts/uTlEA5IUiT8?si=1wTX9Wl0S5fo1jCR
I can hear that blue train coming.
When you don’t play your cards right and just act on impulsive and egotistical terms…This is what happens.
Of course it was a bad idea to try to go harder. The red states have mostly been gerrymandered to hell and back already. While most blue states are not. It was the only way they were able to get a majority for the past 20 years.
Now they are trying to increase the pressure with a maxed out tool and dems are done doing the “they go low, we go high” bullshit. Results = increased losses for gop.
Do I hate what this means for democracy yes, do i realize we will loose everything if we dont bend a little 100%. Time to take the moral high ground gloves off.
Dummymandering would be great in Texas in 2026
I still wonder if in places like Texas, Florida, Ohio where Republicans have gerrymandered to the extreme, if they’ve thinned out the districts so much that gerrymandering might backfire in a mid term like 2026.
For instance, a district they thought was secure and went from 58% Republican voting before to 54% on paper after gerrymandering, but then because of voter backlash against Republicans becomes 48% in the mid terms.
Very possible when the total house vote for Texas for instance in 2024 the Republican house vote was nearly 59% to 39%, but in the 2018 mid term was only 50% Republican, 47% Democrat. And that’s a 17 point swing…Democrats might only need half that in a state like Texas, Ohio, and Florida to start flipping thinned out districts.
Hey Trump – heard you like to suck it. Suck on this.
Gerrymandering is all well and good but you can only stretch each population so far; It has a great amount of potential to backfire in the case of a big Blue/Red wave.
Gerrymandering only really “works” when the country has no unifying direction and people are kept evenly split with wedge issues.
Just get rid of the electoral college. The very first time a
President lost the popular vote and still became president should have been the last time.
I’m having this crazy thought that here in Missouri, their efforts to gerrymander Emanuel Cleaver out of office will backfire.
They are splitting Jackson County, which is basically the majority of Kansas City, Missouri and a few suburbs, in half and adding those folks, who traditionally voted heavily democratic, to the red districts to the north and south of Kansas City.
I think voter turnout in 2026 is going to be heavy, and democrats are motivated. I would find it hillarious if adding those 300k to 400k blue district voters to each of those two congressional districts backfired and the GOP lost two seats to gain one.
It’s a longshot, I know. But I also have little faith in the intellect of whoever is behind drawing these new maps and wonder just how good they are at using demographics to predict the future.
Gerrymandering works to a point, however after a few rounds of gerrymandering and regerrymandering youve stretched your margins across each district so thin that it all flips suddenly if voter apathy decreases.
Gerrymandering elections down to a a narrow set of competitive seats is manufactured consent in action!
Right now is probably the worst time for them to do this. These upcoming midterms and 2028 are going to be historic blue waves.
But we’ve been told for decades how solidly red the vast swaths of empty land in the midwest votes, i’d imagine that translates to automatic election victory….