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In Blow to Trump, Indiana Rejects GOP Gerrymander

https://lemmy.ml/post/40199222

Dec 11 at 9:56pmWeb
Show threadslothropDec 11
It ain’t over until the obese treasonous traitor lying coward rapist convicted felon sings.
Show threadVupwareDec 12
This bottle of wine has already aged more than I would prefer
Show threadfinitebanjoDec 11
Hopefully the buck stops here because the SCOTUS have already ruled the opposite in past examples.
Show threadN0t_5ureDec 11

“When will I get credit for having created, with No Inflation, perhaps the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country?” Trump wrote, with characteristic hyperbole, in a post on his Truth Social network.

Show threadSconrad122Dec 11
Hyperbole. Yeah, that’s what that was. Totally. Just some overexaggeration for dramatic effect.
Show threadCharlesDarwinDec 12
He’s obviously delusional and probably referring to the situation he inherited, and then immediately started to break when he took office…
Show threadjballsDec 11

Jesus the quotes in this article are a real bleak loom into how fucked we are as a country:

“Some will say these maps are political. Let me be clear,” Sen. Chris Garten ®, another backer, said as he slapped the lectern. “You’re God damn right they are!”

and also:

“President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders: if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state,” Heritage Action wrote on X. “Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to blame.”

Show threadPacers31Colts18Dec 11
Jokes on him. Indiana roads already suck ass.
Show threadthe_qDec 11
They’re always working on the roads but somehow never improving them.
Show threadSerinusDec 12

Because semis put a ton of wear and tear on roads and Indiana is a huge bottleneck between the Northeast and the North/Northwest.

If only there were a better way to move freight from one dedicated location to another dedicated location. If we could basically teleport goods between Chicago, Atlanta, Kansas City, and Dallas, THEN we’d be able to have semis (or even smaller trucks) only handle the more local portions, and we’d save easily billions on road maintenance.

Show threadpinheadednightmareDec 12
But we need to remove the rail lines for walkways across the state…. Who needs trains?
Show threadjoostjakobDec 12
If only someone could invent a system where huge amounts of freight could be moved on something more durable than pavement. We can only dream of such technology of course.
Show threadtimbuck2themoonDec 12

I love how it papers over the fact the Republicans in Congress have abdicated all duty and made their own leader a king.

Also, I would hazard that heritage action is some bullshit foreign account? Maybe Nigeria?

Show threadjballsDec 12
Did they remove that feature that told everyone most MAGA mouthpieces were foreign actors?
Show threadBronzebeardDec 12
Sounds like it’s just a media arm of the Heritage Foundation (Koch’s are major backers), which is just homegrown fascism. No need to outsource that one.
Show threadtauisgodDec 12
They’re explicitly saying it’s for political reasons because the supreme Court said gerrymandering for political reasons is just fine.
Show threadHawkeDec 11

The proposed map would have targeted Indiana’s two Democratic U.S. representatives to hand all 9 seats to the GOP.  Around 45% of Indiana’s party-affiliated voters are Democrats.

So 45% of the constituents, 22% of the representatives.

Sounds to me like they approved a GOP-gerrymandered map.

Show threadCricketDec 11

So 45% of the constituents, 22% of the representatives.

That’s not what that sentence is saying. Note the “party-affiliated” qualifier. I checked and according to the first search result I found 25% of Indiana voters are registered Democrat, 31% are registered Republican, and 44% are “unaffiliated”.

Source: independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/in

Indiana Voter Registration Statistics

Learn more about Indiana's Partisan primaries, partisan voter registration statistics, current voter totals, political parties, and more from the Independent Voter Project.

Show threadlmmarsanoDec 11
Dang, literacy sure comes in handy over jumping to conclusions.
Show threadminorkeysDec 12
I think they mean keeping the current one is also gerrymandered.
Show threadHawkeDec 12
Correct.
Show threadHawkeDec 12

That exactly what the sentence is saying, unless you have reason to believe that the politics of the “unaffiliated” are drastically different from the affiliated.

Certainly it seems robe close to the presidential election results over the last 20 years, at 58-40-2 for republican-democrat-other, respectively.

Show threadtauisgodDec 12
They’ve been in control of the state for over 20 years, so yes. They carved out 2 tiny circles around 2 deep blue areas, and made the other districts much larger in comparison and diluted the blue votes there. I think Mitc Daniels was the last GOP governor (2005-2014) that wasn’t a total POS and he was still fairly regressive.
Show threadwatsonDec 11
I don’t think anyone expected this, which is what makes it. All of them are sweet and delicious.
Show threadSnarkoPoloDec 12
The Schadenfreude is as tasty as a fine Bordeaux.
Show threadwatsonDec 12
I fucking love a good Bordeaux
Show threadSnarkoPoloDec 12
Go insult a reporter, Piggy. It always makes you feel better.
Show threadLost_My_MindDec 12

No matter how you look at it, this is a headline that contain the words “Trump” and “blow” in the same sentence.

Nice little bonus that it happens to be a situation where cheeto mcpedo doesn’t get his way.

Show threadmnemonicmonkeysDec 12

“Cheeto McPedo”

Brilliant, I’m definitely copying it

Show threadsamus12345Dec 12
Huh, usually Trump’s the one doing the blowing.