No, they’re trying to rig the midterms with mid-decade redistricting.
ETA: Ninja’d.
It bears repeating, as frequently and empathetically as possible. All of these people holding their breath until Trump’s ‘underwater ratings’ sink the GOP are going to be in for a nasty shock when statehouses in ‘red states’ have suppressed votes, gerrymandered districts within an inch of a cartographer’s life, and if necessary just deny the validity of transparent and verifiable elections.
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Oh, goody. Family Feud is on.
So far, the Democrats are being very successful in recent elections. Even in Florida and other States with Republican governors, with a “master suppressor” like Meathead. Sure, you can say that they won in safe districts, but the margins of democratic victory are way more than what the districts got in 2024.
I hate all 77 million individuals who voted for this autocratic child molester.
Those are special elections that are sparsely attended and generally not of much consequence. Getting out the vote is often challenging for the party in power because it just doesn’t seem important, and frankly most Republican members of Congress seem to be hiding from their constituants. The proof in the pudding will be the 2026 elections, and while I am not making any specific predictions I just don’t like what I see, both in terms of Democratic complacency (good at fundraising, not so much at grassroots organizing, which the DNCC absolutely hates) and what is being done in ‘red states’ to undermine public confidence in and voter access to elections.
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The Republicans in the house have less of and edge now. That is consequential.
As noted before, conservatives used to have an edge in special elections. What one has to do now, is to do what Robert Reich recommended:
Should be “Must See Tv” when Jimmy shows up on Colbert’s show to riff on events…
I hope he does. Colbert’s show will be ending, so both he and Kimmel have nothing to lose.
I watched Colbert tonight. Nothing about Kimmel, nor anything remotely controversial. I found that surprising, but I guess he’s trying to fly under the radar for now.
It could be that Colbert taped his show before the announcement was made.
I think they tape around five so, yeah, the show was already in the can when they announced. Convenient, huh?
Nothing except their freedom. It’s getting scary out there. GOP lawmakers all over are openly talking about jailing peaceful dissenters.
Technically, this isn’t “cancel culture”, it is first amendment government censorship. Cancel culture is when employers drop awkward employees due to non-governmental social pressure.
Isn’t this the exact reason for the second amendment?
Only when Democrats are in the Whitehouse.
That’s the part that gets me. He criticized Trump and MAGA, but neither celebrated violence nor criticized our newest martyr.
I’ve said it before: One of the many ironies of the last +/- decade: the strongest 2nd Amendment supporters in America are the ones who voted in the absolute textbook definition of the kind of tyrannical government that they’ve been so worried about: Trump.
‘If the DemonRats aren’t going to vote in a tyrannical government then we’ll do it ourselves!’?
Kimmel said nothing at all disrespectful about Kirk. He just said that MAGA was desperate to connect the shooter to the far left immediately before the shooter was even identified or apprehended which was absolutely true.
And yet, Brian “Kill them all” Kilmeade still has a job at FOX.
And, crucially, mocked Trump for turning a question about his mourning for Kirk into an advert for his gaudy White House ballroom expansion. You can see how that kind of ‘hate speech’ by the host of a dangerously moderately popular late night talk show would threaten the underpinnings of American democracy and needs to be shut down tout de suite by all possible means.
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