Redistricting for Congressional Seats

[Suppressed Poet]

I just want to make sure I understand your latest mental breakdown correctly.

You think:
A) it can’t be a power grab if it is done after the census.
B) it can’t be a power grab unless people specifically say it is a power grab.
C) it can’t be a power grab if the president isn’t urging them to do it.

You do realize how dumb this all sounds right?

When Backlash was a level 2 empath fighting rats in the catacombs, a 3x capped sorcerer came along and casted a focused 720 inside his head. Whatever the real life equivalent of that is, that’s my theory about what is wrong with Back.

[Methais]

When Backlash was a level 2 empath fighting rats in the catacombs, a 3x capped sorcerer came along and casted a focused 720 inside his head. Whatever the real life equivalent of that is, that’s my theory about what is wrong with Back.

If you put stethoscope in Back's skull all you would hear are dial-up noises.

[Suppressed Poet]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

This is even better and more dishonest and retarded than the retardedness I expected.

Weasel rating: 100/10

Solkern’s weaselness + Seran’s full retardation = Back

The only way I can ever imagine Back being dethroned as PC GOAT retard champ is if someone else came along that possessed these same traits but also perfectly combined Shaft’s angry beta soy-boy rage.

[Back]

Democrats do it. Republicans do it. I say and agree that so long as that is the case, let each party do what they will within the confines of the law.

Great. We agree. I don't agree with gerrymandering in principal but if republicans insist on it and fight banning it at every step it would be foolish not to do it too.

Just don’t come at me with “oh those Republicans are threatening our democracy and subverting the will of the people!” bullshit when it’s the game of politics both parties play.

Republicans have blocked democrat's efforts to ban the practice. What more can I say?

[Tgo01]

Republicans have blocked democrat's efforts to ban the practice. What more can I say?

What effort are you referring to exactly?

[Suppressed Poet]

Republicans have blocked democrat's efforts to ban the practice. What more can I say?

You could stop lying. Democrats have made no efforts to ban or stop gerrymandering. Just look at Pennsylvania or Illinois as several have referenced which were redistricted fairly recently and for obvious partisan reasons.

[Back]

What effort are you referring to exactly?

Open our democracy act in 2017
For the people act in 2019

[Back]

You could stop lying. Democrats have made no efforts to ban or stop gerrymandering. Just look at Pennsylvania or Illinois as several have referenced which were redistricted fairly recently and for obvious partisan reasons.

They aren't going to stop if the republicans don't as well. Make sense?

[Tgo01]

Open our democracy act in 2017
For the people act in 2019

So I looked these up.

First of all both acts did much, much more than just address gerrymandering.

Second of all "Open Our Democracy" was introduced in the House 3 times, all three times were when Republicans controlled the House.

The "For The People Act" was introduced when Republicans controlled the Senate.

The "For The People Act" also didn't outlaw gerrymandering, it outlawed "partisan" gerrymandering.

Do you ever wonder why these pet projects by Democrats are never acted upon when Democrats control Congress and the White House? It's because they don't really want to pass these bills, they just want useful idiots such as yourself to point to them and say "See! Democrats tried!" No, they didn't "try." They don't actually want to lose the power to gerrymander in states such as California and NY, they would lose so many House seats they might never control the House again. But it sure sounds nice to say "We tried but Republicans stopped us!"

Just like Democrats never really wanted to enshrine Roe v Wade into law in the several times they controlled Congress and the White House since Roe v Wade was passed, because as long as the ruling was never overturned they could trot out their "The Republicans want to take away your right to kill your unborn child!" every election cycle and if the supreme court ever did overrule their previous ruling they could then campaign on "See! They took away your right!" And you lemmings fell for it each and every single time.

[Back]

So I looked these up.

First of all both acts did much, much more than just address gerrymandering.

Second of all "Open Our Democracy" was introduced in the House 3 times, all three times were when Republicans controlled the House.

The "For The People Act" was introduced when Republicans controlled the Senate.

The "For The People Act" also didn't outlaw gerrymandering, it outlawed "partisan" gerrymandering.

Do you ever wonder why these pet projects by Democrats are never acted upon when Democrats control Congress and the White House? It's because they don't really want to pass these bills, they just want useful idiots such as yourself to point to them and say "See! Democrats tried!" No, they didn't "try." They don't actually want to lose the power to gerrymander in states such as California and NY, they would lose so many House seats they might never control the House again. But it sure sounds nice to say "We tried but Republicans stopped us!"

Just like Democrats never really wanted to enshrine Roe v Wade into law in the several times they controlled Congress and the White House since Roe v Wade was passed, because as long as the ruling was never overturned they could trot out their "The Republicans want to take away your right to kill your unborn child!" every election cycle and if the supreme court ever did overrule their previous ruling they could then campaign on "See! They took away your right!" And you lemmings fell for it each and every single time.

Nice try but that's BS. The only reason they haven't been successful is because they can never get 60 votes to bypass the Republicans filibustering it.

If we went to a one-person one vote system Democrats would have the edge. That's why Republicans don't want to ban the gerrymander.

In fact in the United States more people identify and are registered as Democrats than Republicans.