Newsom says California to draw congressional maps to 'END TRUMP PRESIDENCY'

You can quote me on this. Not only will this not work. They won't even actually implement anything to a degree that would even be able to make a difference.

Source: Democrats saying things and not following through for my entire lifetime.

Other blue states are threatening to follow California's lead, though, New York being one of them. If New York alone follows suit, that'd be an additional -7R, +7D. But even without New York, similar threats from Illinois and Maryland would also tip the scales (-4R, +4D combined)

Let’s say, for the sake of argument, California eliminates all Republican seats and Texas eliminates all Democratic seats…

Texas will struggle to eliminate all Dem districts, simply because there are too many Dem voters. You're looking at a 1.5M spread of voters between R and D in Texas relative to a 3.2M spread in California.

When a given district has roughly 600k people (of whom barely half reliably vote), it becomes incredibly difficult to crack the existing Dem population into subsets small enough to guarantee a 55/45 split for each Republican candidate. The only real alternative is to pack as many Dems into a single district as possible, in order to dilute the remainder. That's why the current Texas map only promises to flip 5 seats and leave 7 remaining.

Even then, you're playing a dangerous game - a la 2006, 2008, 2012, and 2018 - in which a vibe shift costs you dozens of seats very quickly. The Republicans in 2008, for instance, lost every single House Seat in New England.

California can easily gerrymander their Republican minority out of another five seats (maybe more with some clever math) because of the hard liberal swing the state has been on since the Bush Era.

So... When are we going to stop pretending america is a democracy?

Worth noting, midterm swings in the house almost always goes against the sitting president’s party by a lot. 2022 was a history low (-9). I think the expectation is for the swing to be much higher.

https://history.house.gov/Institution/Majority-Changes/Majority-Changes/

Edit: better link

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/seats-congress-gainedlost-the-presidents-party-mid-term-elections

Good thing other states are looking to follow Newsom's lead.

Ah, its already on really flimsy ground thanks to GOP fuckery and cowardice.

The House is supposed to provide proportional representation, per the US Constitution. It has not since the early 20th century. Instead, it gives significant increased representation to people in lower population states.

Bruh. Shit broke irrevocably in 2020. Might as well give up and start all over. This shit’s busted.

You're democracy is long since dead and burned, friend.

This has already been going on for decades. It’s just the democrats are actually finally talking about fighting back as long as their oligarch backers approve.

This is where we’re at

It's a quote from Newsom's tweets where he was heavily taking the piss out of how Epstein's best friend Donald writes his own posts. Because if there's one thing that gets under a narcissist's skin, it's being mocked publicly. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THE MATTER.

Removing the voice of people is wrong

That's single-candidate districts for you. Put 40 Dems and 40 Republicans and 20 Swing Voters into a district and you're going to have a bare minimum of 40 unhappy voices.

There are alternative methods for choosing elected representation. But they don't play well with a country as committed to segregation, disenfranchisement, and power consolidation as the modern Americanized democratic system.

At this point, that's too fucking bad. War is messy. It's going to get way worse before it gets better.

So they just rollover and do nothing the? I don’t love it, but at some point we need to stop sitting around hoping we will play nice or do the right thing.