I say the blue states band together and secede. Stop feeding these idiot swamps and let them live their trash existence. When their non existent economy fully collapses, they can come crawling back and then be told to get fucked like should have happened during reconstruction
monkeywithgun on
Is anybody surprised?…
PWL51 on
As U S democracy comes crashing down. This regime is so corrupt and unpopular they know the only way to win is to cheat which I’m pretty sure they did in 2024. “No one knows voting machines like Elon” we the words out of the felon elect’s mouth
InspectionIcy2452 on
All the red states will do this. And people were wondering how Trump was going to win the midterms with such low approval ratings.
Toadfinger on
Mee Maw has always had a Russian way of doing things.
WideAd1173 on
National Divorce, its only the south…
BaldPorqupine on
I’m surprised they weren’t the first but not surprised the Confederate states are moving with haste.
Ass backwards hicks.
gwsth on
Given the current makeup, if all blue states redrew their maps to lock the opposing party out entirely, they would lock up the House of Representatives by a count of 227 to 208, which would give them 9 seats of wiggle room. What the Republicans did at that point would literally not matter.
nyyanksfan81 on
Couldn’t this work against them? Dummymander as they say
absentmindedjwc on
My biggest hope is that they rush this shit through so quickly that they end up entirely ratfucking their own election.. even without any kind of wave.
Choice-of-SteinsGate on
Republicans knew exactly what they were doing when they schemed their way through the courts to dilute the minority vote by challenging section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
What’s even worse is how Republicans are trying to justify it by intentionally misleading voters about the purpose of the law.
And this isn’t the first time that they have argued against protections for minorities in BAD FAITH.
Their goal isn’t to prevent gerrymandering of any kind, that much is obvious.
Their goal is to consolidate power by suppressing the vote and disenfranchising large swaths of democratic voters.
Section 2 is a historically significant provision meant to protect these voting populations from being fractured and robbed of their agency.
But Republicans would have you believe that the Voting Rights Act is “racist.”
It’s an ass-backwards rationalization that they’ve relied on so often in the past to defend a status quo of systemic inequality and discrimination. A status quo that has historically worked out in their favor.
If they could say the quiet part out loud, it wouldn’t have anything to do with “election integrity,” and everything to do with preserving a system that accommodates them and their desire for a white, Christian hegemony.
Republicans have been suppressing the vote for years while taking advantage of voter geography.
Their recent voter suppression campaign escalated in the aftermath of January 6th and in response to Trump’s ‘big lie.”
The GOP has capitalized on this post Jan 6th environment to sow distrust in our elections.
They amplify Trump’s lies about “rigged” elections and have made use of all the conspiracy theories and baseless fraud allegations, all of the misinformation and propaganda that has emerged in recent years to deceive the public and advocate for a nation-wide campaign of voter suppression.
Republicans are also consolidating power at an alarming rate; abusing their trifecta and their control over state legislatures to give themselves the unilateral say on how maps are drawn—no referendum necessary (can you spot the key difference conservatives?)
MAGA can clutch their pearls all they want in response to recent changes in states like California and Virginia, but these redistricting wars are a consequence of the GOP’s extreme, mid-census gerrymandering schemes.
Democrats are just responding in kind—an effective, reasonable and common sense strategy.
For decades, Republicans have been exploiting the fact that Democrats are more vulnerable to gerrymandering. Republicans have also benefitted most from redistricting because they have broader control over state legislatures.
But the GOP has also tried other ways over the years to subvert the vote and influence election outcomes.
Republicans have frequently attacked or have even sought to eliminate election procedures and conveniences like early voting, mail in balloting, broader polling accessibility and extended polling hours, existing voting laws, automatic and same day voting registration, ballot boxes, ranked choice voting, voting rights, standardized election security measures, among other things.
Republicans try to disguise these voter suppression tactics as an effort to “protect election integrity.” But they’re not protecting anything other than their own political and electoral advantages.
And in recent years especially, Republicans have been exploiting the ignorance and distrust of their voters to empower themselves with more legal authority to challenge election results and obtain more control of the election system.
To make matters worse, Trump has been mobilizing trigger happy ICE thugs to US cities around the country where he likely plans to use this paramilitary force to suppress the vote in upcoming elections.
Then there’s Trump’s recent threats to “nationalize” US elections. Yet another red flag warning us of the Republican party’s intentions to do away with democracy altogether as they continue down their path towards authoritarianism.
So much for “states rights” huh? An argument almost always posited in bad faith.
Republicans have the gall to claim that they’re “protecting the integrity of our elections” while making every effort to do the opposite.
Worse yet, other systemic problems impede free and fair elections too. Issues that Republicans have either deliberately ignored or have failed to properly address.
Like the implications of foreign election meddling and the awful Citizens United ruling.
Like campaign finance corruption and the political power and influence of billionaires.
If MAGA is truly intent on “protecting election integrity,” they should focus on the myriad systemic issues that Trump/Republicans continue to exploit to their advantage instead of obsessing over baseless conspiracy theories.
Sadly, they’ve managed quite effectively to distract their voters from these ongoing efforts to erode the Democratic process by instead engaging them with culture wars, election denialism, conspiracy theories, and fearmongering narratives about rampant fraud and threats to election and national security.
Another one of their favorite tactics involves scapegoating immigrants, minorites and marginalized groups who they insist you blame for most, if not all of our nation’s problems, including manufactured issues like widespread voter fraud.
As it turns out, Republicans have always been the REAL threat to “election integrity.”
jcouball on
The Supreme Court ruling can be explained as:
When you are privileged, equality feels like oppression.
IUsedToBeThatGuy42 on
My vote barely matters here as it is. 🙁
Gregorious23 on
I’m sure this is all being drawn up by Steve Bannon. That fat, pedophile pig talked about how they’ll all be going to prison and he’s always over the dementia patients shoulder
JackBurton___Me on
Racist states gonna racist right out in the open thanks to SCOTUS. What a legacy of shit you’ve left, Roberts
RandCauthon99 on
Every blue state that has non-partisan gerrymandering laws needs to move to immediately revoke them. Enjoy an all blue CA and NY. It doesn’t work unless both parties play by the rules.
LeoIrish on
I cannot say I am too surprised. Many states have districts specific to S2 of the VRA. As such, continuing with those districts effectively goes against the ruling.
Efficient-Laugh on
Let’s goo 🔥 Now that the illegal racist ruling is finally over, a true Red Landslide is upon us. 😈
RCG73 on
Of course it does
No_Earth_1378 on
This is going to move quickly
suddenlypandabear on
If red states don’t want us to honor the results of their elections anymore so be it.
Sevren425 on
But her emails…
JiveChicken00 on
Would anyone really be surprised if the governor of Alabama just unilaterally announced that Black people are no longer allowed to vote there?
JMDeutsch on
“Worst person you know disappoints you again”
Cardoni on
United States, my ass
majorgriffin on
These people will do special sessions for stuff like this, but don’t even address anything in their standard sessions to address the affordability crisis and Healthcare failures.
alexredditauto on
Well I suppose if I have no representation, I should stop paying Alabama state taxes.
Pho-Soup on
The same state that can only elect senators based on football coaching name recognition? Shocking.
Worthless, poverty ridden state that consistently votes against their interests, and contributes absolutely nothing of value to this country.
CrotasScrota84 on
All Gerrymandering does is make it more competitive in those districts so it’s going to backfire badly for Republicans because Trump is doing everything in his power to destroy the country and losing the support in droves.
In no way will a President with a 30s approval rating do good in midterms. Not happening no matter how much fuckery goes on.
And by the time 2028 rolls around his approval rating will probably be 20%
DistanceToEmpty on
I don’t understand why Americans aren’t in the streets right now.
Low_Section2065 on
Another time I’m happy to be able to quote Truman Capote. “Sir, I’m from Alabama, and am going to stay as far from Alabama as possible. “
Agentkeenan78 on
Every red state is going to move on this. I also have no doubt it’s going to get messy fast in some purple states.
Taako_Cross on
I’ll never understand the propensity for people to vote against their own self interest.
It’s truly sad how much mental gymnastics they must go through to determine life is actually better now than 2 years ago.
Illustrious_Bad_2980 on
Alabama doesn’t get nearly enough hate
SumatraBlack on
No kings! Everyone has to go vote in the mid terms to get this vile lunatic impeached and prosecuted.
Swimming-Economy-870 on
Every state handles party affiliation differently, but if possible, Dems in these states could consider changing their party to independent or (trying not to gag) republican. This might make it harder for state governments to determine new district lines. I switched to independent after my district was split through the middle of my neighborhood to divide the 30% of dem voters between two districts.
feignapathy on
the supreme court effectively ended democracy in the united states of america
which is fitting since they themselves are not elected
having politicians choose their voters instead of voters choosing their politicians… death of democracy.
PIE-314 on
Trumplicans are terrified.
000ArdeliaLortz000 on
Why is it always the “South,” with the lowest rates of white education and rampant crime?
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I say the blue states band together and secede. Stop feeding these idiot swamps and let them live their trash existence. When their non existent economy fully collapses, they can come crawling back and then be told to get fucked like should have happened during reconstruction
Is anybody surprised?…
As U S democracy comes crashing down. This regime is so corrupt and unpopular they know the only way to win is to cheat which I’m pretty sure they did in 2024. “No one knows voting machines like Elon” we the words out of the felon elect’s mouth
All the red states will do this. And people were wondering how Trump was going to win the midterms with such low approval ratings.
Mee Maw has always had a Russian way of doing things.
National Divorce, its only the south…
I’m surprised they weren’t the first but not surprised the Confederate states are moving with haste.
Ass backwards hicks.
Given the current makeup, if all blue states redrew their maps to lock the opposing party out entirely, they would lock up the House of Representatives by a count of 227 to 208, which would give them 9 seats of wiggle room. What the Republicans did at that point would literally not matter.
Couldn’t this work against them? Dummymander as they say
My biggest hope is that they rush this shit through so quickly that they end up entirely ratfucking their own election.. even without any kind of wave.
Republicans knew exactly what they were doing when they schemed their way through the courts to dilute the minority vote by challenging section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
What’s even worse is how Republicans are trying to justify it by intentionally misleading voters about the purpose of the law.
And this isn’t the first time that they have argued against protections for minorities in BAD FAITH.
Their goal isn’t to prevent gerrymandering of any kind, that much is obvious.
Their goal is to consolidate power by suppressing the vote and disenfranchising large swaths of democratic voters.
Section 2 is a historically significant provision meant to protect these voting populations from being fractured and robbed of their agency.
But Republicans would have you believe that the Voting Rights Act is “racist.”
It’s an ass-backwards rationalization that they’ve relied on so often in the past to defend a status quo of systemic inequality and discrimination. A status quo that has historically worked out in their favor.
If they could say the quiet part out loud, it wouldn’t have anything to do with “election integrity,” and everything to do with preserving a system that accommodates them and their desire for a white, Christian hegemony.
Republicans have been suppressing the vote for years while taking advantage of voter geography.
Their recent voter suppression campaign escalated in the aftermath of January 6th and in response to Trump’s ‘big lie.”
The GOP has capitalized on this post Jan 6th environment to sow distrust in our elections.
They amplify Trump’s lies about “rigged” elections and have made use of all the conspiracy theories and baseless fraud allegations, all of the misinformation and propaganda that has emerged in recent years to deceive the public and advocate for a nation-wide campaign of voter suppression.
Republicans are also consolidating power at an alarming rate; abusing their trifecta and their control over state legislatures to give themselves the unilateral say on how maps are drawn—no referendum necessary (can you spot the key difference conservatives?)
MAGA can clutch their pearls all they want in response to recent changes in states like California and Virginia, but these redistricting wars are a consequence of the GOP’s extreme, mid-census gerrymandering schemes.
Democrats are just responding in kind—an effective, reasonable and common sense strategy.
For decades, Republicans have been exploiting the fact that Democrats are more vulnerable to gerrymandering. Republicans have also benefitted most from redistricting because they have broader control over state legislatures.
But the GOP has also tried other ways over the years to subvert the vote and influence election outcomes.
Republicans have frequently attacked or have even sought to eliminate election procedures and conveniences like early voting, mail in balloting, broader polling accessibility and extended polling hours, existing voting laws, automatic and same day voting registration, ballot boxes, ranked choice voting, voting rights, standardized election security measures, among other things.
Republicans try to disguise these voter suppression tactics as an effort to “protect election integrity.” But they’re not protecting anything other than their own political and electoral advantages.
And in recent years especially, Republicans have been exploiting the ignorance and distrust of their voters to empower themselves with more legal authority to challenge election results and obtain more control of the election system.
To make matters worse, Trump has been mobilizing trigger happy ICE thugs to US cities around the country where he likely plans to use this paramilitary force to suppress the vote in upcoming elections.
Then there’s Trump’s recent threats to “nationalize” US elections. Yet another red flag warning us of the Republican party’s intentions to do away with democracy altogether as they continue down their path towards authoritarianism.
So much for “states rights” huh? An argument almost always posited in bad faith.
Republicans have the gall to claim that they’re “protecting the integrity of our elections” while making every effort to do the opposite.
Worse yet, other systemic problems impede free and fair elections too. Issues that Republicans have either deliberately ignored or have failed to properly address.
Like the implications of foreign election meddling and the awful Citizens United ruling.
Like campaign finance corruption and the political power and influence of billionaires.
If MAGA is truly intent on “protecting election integrity,” they should focus on the myriad systemic issues that Trump/Republicans continue to exploit to their advantage instead of obsessing over baseless conspiracy theories.
Sadly, they’ve managed quite effectively to distract their voters from these ongoing efforts to erode the Democratic process by instead engaging them with culture wars, election denialism, conspiracy theories, and fearmongering narratives about rampant fraud and threats to election and national security.
Another one of their favorite tactics involves scapegoating immigrants, minorites and marginalized groups who they insist you blame for most, if not all of our nation’s problems, including manufactured issues like widespread voter fraud.
As it turns out, Republicans have always been the REAL threat to “election integrity.”
The Supreme Court ruling can be explained as:
When you are privileged, equality feels like oppression.
My vote barely matters here as it is. 🙁
I’m sure this is all being drawn up by Steve Bannon. That fat, pedophile pig talked about how they’ll all be going to prison and he’s always over the dementia patients shoulder
Racist states gonna racist right out in the open thanks to SCOTUS. What a legacy of shit you’ve left, Roberts
Every blue state that has non-partisan gerrymandering laws needs to move to immediately revoke them. Enjoy an all blue CA and NY. It doesn’t work unless both parties play by the rules.
I cannot say I am too surprised. Many states have districts specific to S2 of the VRA. As such, continuing with those districts effectively goes against the ruling.
Let’s goo 🔥 Now that the illegal racist ruling is finally over, a true Red Landslide is upon us. 😈
Of course it does
This is going to move quickly
If red states don’t want us to honor the results of their elections anymore so be it.
But her emails…
Would anyone really be surprised if the governor of Alabama just unilaterally announced that Black people are no longer allowed to vote there?
“Worst person you know disappoints you again”
United States, my ass
These people will do special sessions for stuff like this, but don’t even address anything in their standard sessions to address the affordability crisis and Healthcare failures.
Well I suppose if I have no representation, I should stop paying Alabama state taxes.
The same state that can only elect senators based on football coaching name recognition? Shocking.
Worthless, poverty ridden state that consistently votes against their interests, and contributes absolutely nothing of value to this country.
All Gerrymandering does is make it more competitive in those districts so it’s going to backfire badly for Republicans because Trump is doing everything in his power to destroy the country and losing the support in droves.
In no way will a President with a 30s approval rating do good in midterms. Not happening no matter how much fuckery goes on.
And by the time 2028 rolls around his approval rating will probably be 20%
I don’t understand why Americans aren’t in the streets right now.
Another time I’m happy to be able to quote Truman Capote. “Sir, I’m from Alabama, and am going to stay as far from Alabama as possible. “
Every red state is going to move on this. I also have no doubt it’s going to get messy fast in some purple states.
I’ll never understand the propensity for people to vote against their own self interest.
It’s truly sad how much mental gymnastics they must go through to determine life is actually better now than 2 years ago.
Alabama doesn’t get nearly enough hate
No kings! Everyone has to go vote in the mid terms to get this vile lunatic impeached and prosecuted.
Every state handles party affiliation differently, but if possible, Dems in these states could consider changing their party to independent or (trying not to gag) republican. This might make it harder for state governments to determine new district lines. I switched to independent after my district was split through the middle of my neighborhood to divide the 30% of dem voters between two districts.
the supreme court effectively ended democracy in the united states of america
which is fitting since they themselves are not elected
having politicians choose their voters instead of voters choosing their politicians… death of democracy.
Trumplicans are terrified.
Why is it always the “South,” with the lowest rates of white education and rampant crime?
I wonder how the ghost of RBG feels about this?
This is civil war level shit.