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Site altered title “ALL HAIL CHAIRMAN TRUMP! WITH HIS GLORIOUS 10% PURCHASE OF INTEL, THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF AMERICA ENTERS A BOLD NEW ERA” -- California governor Newsom riles Republicans with Trump-trolling posts

https://www.barrons.com/news/meme-lord-newsom-riles-republicans-with-trump-trolling-posts-05b74794
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u/HeldnarRommar 1d ago

You see it with the whole gerrymandering debacle. Conservatives keep saying Dems have been gerrymandering for decades and do it more than conservatives when that’s not even remotely true and has zero basis in reality.

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u/RedditReader4031 1d ago

Search Tarrant County TX commissioner interview about redistricting maps. This clown says it with a straight face as if he’s the only correct one.

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u/ToastedWave 1d ago

It's even worse than that. Just go read the thread on r/conservative about Maxwell's comment about Trump. As soon as one of their own disagrees they completely disown them. Madness.

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u/HeldnarRommar 1d ago

Yeah that’s one of the tenants of a cult

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u/ausgoals 1d ago

It’s purposefully disingenuous.

Though it was amusing to watch people on Twitter ask Grok which party benefits most from gerrymandering and get annoyed when it replied that it was a mixed bag (and didn’t, actually, favor Democrats).

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u/Zalophusdvm 1d ago

Well…it doesn’t have ZERO basis in fact. It’s a twisted interpretation and an erroneous conclusion but there are a couple (literally 2) of democratic states just as guilty of it as the south.

https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/redistricting-report-card/

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u/HeldnarRommar 1d ago

They like to use Massachussets as an example because they have a decent amount of registered republicans and no GOP representative. But they fundamentally understand districts are just based on population but also population density. There are no dense Republican areas in Massachusetts that could make a district for republicans without looking like a ridiculous snake.

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u/Zalophusdvm 22h ago

I’m a little surprised there isn’t one in Western Mass to be honest. But I’m inclined to trust my own source so 🤷

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u/HeldnarRommar 22h ago

I think Springfield being the main population center in the district makes it impossible for western Massachusetts to be a strong red, although I know a good deal of small towns lean red out there, it’s just not enough

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u/Zalophusdvm 20h ago

Ya, that all certainly makes sense. Plus the colleges out there probably make even the small towns not so uniform themselves

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u/ackermann 1d ago

Eh, the R’s are worse, but California and Illinois aren’t too far behind Texas for gerrymandering:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/s/i3r4tSz6tu

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u/Shrike79 1d ago

California has an independent commission that draws their maps with public input. Republican gerrymandering has given them a +13 seat advantage, this isn’t a both sides are bad issue.

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u/Conscious_Level_4715 1d ago

Really should we compare popular vote?