"10 Days That Shook the House Map and Democratic Confidence."
That's the top headline at the NYT this morning.
You know the story: "Just two weeks ago, Democrats felt increasingly emboldened about taking control of the House in November after seeming to fight the redistricting wars to a draw. But two court rulings — one by the Supreme Court and another by Virginia’s top court — and an aggressive new push by red states to carve up congressional maps have delivered the Republican Party its biggest burst of momentum in many months. Put bluntly, Republicans have roughly 10 more House seats that favor them than they did just 10 days ago, and Democrats are suddenly grappling with a new landscape."
This feels like one of those NYT articles that's mainly performing the service of tending to the readers' emotions. Let's all do panic together this morning. When I encounter that sort of thing, my natural instinct is to go somewhere else. If we're doing group emotion, I'm looking for the door.
So: I'm interested in the history of titles in the blank-days-that-shook-the-blank form. The original is "10 Days That Shook the World," the 1919 first-hand account of the Russian Revolution by John Reed. His editor described Reed's frenzy:
He was gaunt, unshaven, greasy-skinned, a stark sleepless half-crazy look on his slightly potato-like face—had come down after a night's work for a cup of coffee."Max, don't tell anybody where I am. I'm writing the Russian revolution in a book. I've got all the placards and papers up there in a little room and a Russian dictionary, and I'm working all day and all night. I haven't shut my eyes for thirty-six hours. I'll finish the whole thing in two weeks. And I've got a name for it too—Ten Days that Shook the World. Good-bye, I've got to go get some coffee. Don't for God's sake tell anybody where I am!"
It's absurd to portray the Democratic Party's distress about the 2026 midterms as anything like that. Drama queens.
But the blank-days-that-shook-the-blank format has been used a lot since the days of John Reed. For example, there's a documentary titled "Diana: Seven Days That Shook the World and the Windsors."
But I wouldn't compare the Democrats' emotional turmoil to the death of Princess Diana, which might have toppled the British monarchy. Here in America, we have a system of state legislatures drawing districts and various parties challenging them in court. That's what happens and there are winners and losers. The world is not shook. Oh, but their confidence is shook.
Yes, Democrats thought they could coast into control of the House and even the Senate. Suddenly, they need to wipe that smugness off their gaunt, unshaven, greasy-skinned, half-crazy-looking, potato-like face.
Good! Now, get to work.
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The walls are closing in.
Even worse for the democrats is the generic republican vs democrat congressional polling.
We are in the silly season right now. 6-10 months before EVERY election democrats are 20 points ahead in the polls.
Then magically as the election approaches the polls get closer.
Nobody is falling for that anymore. The only reason democrats get elected at all is because of fraud in big blue cities and shenanigans like race based districts.
It is all coming to an end.
OMG, the Democrats are not going to take control by default without campaigning on anything? That's how Starmer took power, he got an "overwhelming mandate" with thirty percent of the vote in a country where people were disgusted with the sellout Tories, and he got to make up his own mandate, and the Democrats were hoping to be given the keys to power without articulating any policies to the voters, just to their funders and other cronies in private, but now they are going to have to deal with the voters.
"What a world! What a world, where the voters have to be considered!"
Expect (D) Party operatives to get to work on Fetterman. Yes, he's a Senator, but they'll lean on him anyway to toe the party line.
No Senate primary this year here in PA, for which I am grateful.
Prog Panic Porn.
but muh democracy!
The left ignore the unfair congressional maps of New England.
Sound and Fury. Significance to be determined later.
Meanwhile, "events, dear boy, events."
Newspapers have less space to fill that they once did, but it's enough to get this kind of stuff into print. There will be more.
I know you want to talk about the headline format, but I just want to say that I don't think any of this midcycle redistricting happens without the census being rigged in 2020. It has been well established that the errors kept blue districts at the expense of new districts in red states.
"gaunt, unshaven, greasy-skinned, a stark sleepless half-crazy look on his slightly potato-like face"
Why, that sounds just like Warren Beatty.
Since Trump has kicked a significant part of his coalition to the curb in favor of a country, whose leader just said that the Iran war will not end until Israel's borders have expanded, just like Huckabee said, well, we will see how wrong the polls are. They certainly overstepped in VA, which was a bald faced grab for seats without considering the voters, but I am not so sure that the numbers are wrong.
Look at the UK. Starmer was totally pro-war, and has promised Ukraine billions of Euros when the country is broke, look at Germany, where the AfD is the largest party now, on a platform of peace and cooperation, same with France, where Macron is incredibly unpopular, yet still clings to power, despite support in the teens for his war-mongering.
You go ahead and tell us how rich we are all going to be after we get done stealing the resources of all of the other countries, maybe there is a majority for that, but I doubt it.
My recollection is that race-based districting ended up benefitting Republicans, not Democrats. It allowed map-drawers to segregate a super-majority of blacks into one district and then spread Republican voters over more districts so there were more 51% Republican districts.
It's an election year. The question isn't whether the NYT will become hysterical, the question is what will the NYT become hysterical about.
When Biden took power, he immediately adjusted the census, and once the districts had been drawn, it was admitted that 'mistakes were made," in favor of the Democrats of course, and we all know that the immigration flood is to game the system, since districts are assigned based on total number of people living in a state, not citizens, residents.
So let's hear what the Democrats have to say, all I need to hear is that they plan to impeach and remove Trump for getting dragged into this catastrophe of a war, while putting a foreign country first. But the Democratic leadership, despite the feelings of their rank and file, have no appetite to bring Trump to account on that score. They will probably make something up again, like the last impeachments. But that's all right with me. I want the error of my last three presidential votes mended as best is possible, by whatever means.
I remember all those days Democrats fled Texas to prevent the legislature from meeting. It was embarrassing as a state to have such childish behavior from our representatives, yet it made headlines across the country. Still, it didn’t shook the resolve. It simply delayed business.
I predict that every state that redistricts for this coming midterm will be unhappy with the results in their own states. When you try to gerrymander, you necessarily have to make some of your safe seats less safe by spreading out your voters.
Birches. indeed.
If the dems cannot cheat - they cannot win.
imTay said...
You go ahead and tell us how rich we are all going to be after we get done stealing the resources of all of the other countries, maybe there is a majority for that, but I doubt it.
Historically illiterate dishonest losers who hate the United States should leave.
You just cannot be honest about what the war in Iran is actually about.
Sorry Tim, China does not get to monopolize heavy manufacturing and Lloyd's or London does not get to determine who can ship goods internationally.
People like you belong in Europe where you can be ruled by men like Starmer. it is what you deserve.
When Progessives lose, this is what they crank up the hysterical reactions and histrionics to Get Out The Vote.
The Democrats confidence has been shaken - but not stirred. I hope it recovers.
The fact of the matter is that midterm swings can be a lot bigger than 10 seats. The most amusing parts of this saga?
- Gov Healey threatening, redistricting of MASS, from 9-0 to???
""Donald Trump, Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton have left us no choice. That’s the reality."
- the Faux outrage at TENN redistricting that will "disenfranchise black voters" when the seat is now held by a white male Jew who will be challenged by a black female GOP
- the next nails in the DNC voting coffin are:
-- purging voter rolls
-- the 2030 census that should reflect BOTH the blue-red migration and claw back the seats stolen during the 2020 census when technical issues only impacted red states negatively...
I always love how John Reed - a bloodthirsty commie became such a hero. Even Warren beatty made a movie about him and turned him into a lovable lug who gosh just loved those workers and peasants.
Reed always talked about "Storming the winter palace" giving people the impression the Communists overthrew the Czar, when in fact they overthrew the democratically elected politicians running the Government headed by Kerensky.
What hath Roberts wrought
I would pay to hear ann karaoke Gimme Three Steps...
Lol.
Freeing Venezuelans from tyranny and opening up the oil to them and us - was a cool idea and it's working.
The biggest push with all of the house cleaning is forcing corrupt Chinese Communists into a corner.
The democrat party - Chinese communist money flow alliance is real.
Peace sells: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/germanys-afd-verge-absolute-majority-eastern-saxony-anhalt-just-months-election
No matter how many times the actual Nazis call AfD "Nazis"
When you're building a house of cards you're very sensitive to any shaking.
The (usually) unspoken premise of all dem electoral outrage is that dems have the inherent, exclusive right to govern the U.S., regardless of election laws, the Constitution, the actual will of the people, etc. That's why we have executive branch employees who openly engage in "resistance," lawsuits and injunctions against any policy Trump attempts to put into place, approval of gerrymandering in blue states but condemnation of it in red states, opposition to voter ID, and proposals to eliminate the electoral college, pack the Supreme Court, and carve out 16 new states from DC. When dems talk about "our democracy," they really mean their unitary control over the country.
Althouse said…
You have to be very deeply into Democratic Party politics to write a blank-days-that-shook-the-blank headline about this."
Or be Gene Rayburn hosting the Match Game in the 1970s.
"By the bedpan of Gene Rayburn, Ron Burgundy is back!"
In Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues...Ron Burgundy, frequently uses the exclamation "By the bedpan of Gene Rayburn!" The phrase is one of the film's absurd, vintage-style exclamations, fitting the 1980s setting of the movie. Gene Rayburn was the iconic, witty host of the classic television game show Match Game. The phrase is part of the character's signature fast-paced, improvisational dialogue designed to highlight the colorful, over-the-top nature of 70s/80s media personalities.
itStain: Look at the UK. Starmer was totally pro-war, and has promised Ukraine billions of Euros when the country is broke ...
This is exactly the kind of historically illiterate bollocks you continually spew.
Starmer cannot have possibly have promised billions of Euros. Why? Because the UK is not in the EU, and the UK's currency is the pound, not the Euro.
It is obvious why you never include links, because you are BS all the way down.
My reflexive response to any Dem complainer about redistricting: "Massachusetts. 9:0 Democrat reps for 25 years."
@ Dogma
Add to the list, funding their campaigns by massively defrauding the social welfare system and laundering tax money and foreign contributions through a system of NGOs.
The only work the left have are lying, cheating, hiding, etc..
In COLO - the left banned open records - Open records of what our democratic betters are doing behind closed doors.
The left are busy - institutionalizing and enshrining their power and corruption.
boo hoo to their set backs. Telling the left to get to work = More Trump hate and more schemes. The left do not work for the greater good - they work for their own power and access to our money.
A decaday that will forever bray in infamy.
"and an aggressive new push by red states to carve up congressional maps"
Blue states already did that. There was no whining from the left.
And importing literally millions of new dependents to vote for them.
Starting around January 25, 2025 we be reading the pre-packaged narrative about the inevitable takeover of the House by the Democrats in the 2026 elections. "The incumbent President's party always loses seats" is asserted without argument.
Consistent patterns may be evidence of some underlying dynamic or they may just be coincidences, but they are not Natural Laws.
It's the same error as thinking that a batting average is some inherent characteristic of a hitter when it really is an observed pattern of the interaction of the hitter, multiple pitchers, fielders, game situations, and physical conditions plus the randomness caused by the spinning round ball, the round bat, and the variations in the playing field surface.
The "party out of the White House gains in midterm elections" rule is only relevant if the dynamics of the current situation are the same as in previous examples. Is that true this year? The 'normal' dynamic was for a party to gain the White House and then fail to do most of what was over-promised in the campaign, with the result that many supporters became disillusioned and did not turn out, and some switched sides.
I don't have a sense that Trump voters feel this way about the President. It just isn't there. The tiny but exceedingly loud minority constantly screeching about Iran and gas prices and the midterms* doesn't seem to reflect day-of-day conversations (even among very left-wing academics) in the real world.
*I recognize that a substantial fraction of these people are just monomaniacally anti-Israel, many are paid, and even more are bots of the functional equivalent of bots.
Did the earth move for you?
Wasting our money and lining their pockets - is job one for the modern Democratic Party.
The Day the Earth Stood Still was a demonstration of Alien Intelligence (AI) superior to Anthropogenic Intelligence (AI).
"They took down a few confederate monuments so we took down some of the civil war era congressional districts. I would say we came out ahead there." - somebody on the internets
Deeply embedded. The Ass doctor's selfie-treatment in 10 days goes horribly wrong.
Media will churn out all kinds of scare stories between now and the midterms to gin up the Dems base. It’s like what they do before every Presidential election when they post the panic stories about how Republicans are raising more cash than Democrats. Then the election happens and it turns out Dems outspend Reps by about a 4 to 1 margin. It’s all theater.
Democrats are always using procedural tricks to retain power, and running away from the issues.
It doesn't matter which side or who it helps. The lines cannot be drawn racially. If your group is only 13%, then that's the most votes you can get. Anything else is unfair and undemocratic. Everybody is in some minority group, and that group shouldn't get outsized representation unless people in other groups agree with them. It's pretty simple.
I think AI can draw fair lines, emphasizing geography only, to keep the districts as contiguous and compact as possible, using township, county, and state lines, plus rivers and roads when needed.
Cranial inversion not easily treated,
Yes they have given assumption which are almost wrong
Recall the kabuki kickboxer delivery man in 18, in '22 pelosis duaper wearing stalker (who they pretended was maga)
Yes reed got most everything wrong from the kornilov on, he wasnt a times reporter that honor went to duranty
And i use the word advisedly gareth jones a welsh workman got the holomodor right only hearst would publish it
Brendan boyle is the worst stakhsnovite
There is no paper that does the same cheerleading for the red team
"Dem panic porn"
I'm gonna use that.
What's Tim having vapors about today?
Sometimes the law and or state constitutions get in the way and block Democrat's wet dreams of seizing power. Sad--but true.
“…titles in the blank-days-that-shook-the-blank form. The original is "10 Days That Shook the World”…”
10 Mentos that shook the Diet Coke bottle.
EVOLUTION :( The Cost to Public Trust)
When voters can see that district maps are drawn to protect incumbents and predetermine outcomes, the message is clear: the system isn’t designed to represent you. That perception erodes confidence in elections regardless of whether your preferred candidate wins. If the map itself was rigged, what does winning or losing even mean? Gerrymandering undermines democracy by letting politicians choose their voters instead of the other way around. Beautiful degradation of what was once a good thought , DEMOCRACY..... :(
@ Hey Skipper: Starmer joined the EU's promise to provide Ukraine with billion of Euros. Of course his nation's contribution to that pledge would be in his nation's currency. He also pledged to loan them billions directly in pounds. Is this comment a joke?
I wanted to find out if John Reed was bipolar, or if that was just Warren Beatty. Louise Bryant may have had the same problem. No word online about any of that, but I did find out that Reed was on the Harvard water polo team and possibly its captain. Water polo in 1910?
I dont think so, she did marry william bullitt who went from a staunch lenininst to one of the staunchest anticommunists because of his experience as ambassador
DINKY DAU 45 said...
EVOLUTION :( The Cost to Public Trust)
When voters can see that district maps are drawn to protect incumbents and predetermine outcomes, the message is clear: the system isn’t designed to represent you. That perception erodes confidence in elections regardless of whether your preferred candidate wins. If the map itself was rigged, what does winning or losing even mean? Gerrymandering undermines democracy by letting politicians choose their voters instead of the other way around. Beautiful degradation of what was once a good thought , DEMOCRACY..... :(
Democrats hate democracy.
That is why they demand mail in ballots with no chain of custody and why they gerrymandered every state they control.
Now you cry when republicans do the same.
Get fucked you dishonest scum.
Democrats do not clear 40% nationwide in honest elections. Nobody wants what they are doing to the places they control.
Super, duper delegates. #NoKinks
@ Hey Skipper: Starmer joined the EU's promise to provide Ukraine with billion of Euros. Of course his nation's contribution to that pledge would be in his nation's currency. He also pledged to loan them billions directly in pounds. Is this comment a joke?
No, it isn't a joke. itStain continually spews stuff without any attribution, and frequently it makes no sense.
If, instead, itStain had said how many UK pounds Starmer wanted to send to Ukraine, then his comment would have made sense.
Moreover, EU/UK loan package discussions are still ongoing, with no amount yet specified for the UK.
itStain is dead wrong that the UK has promised any amount.
One wonders why itStain never links to anything, considering how dead simple it is.
Darn, forgot to include the link.
Moreover, EU/UK loan package discussions are still ongoing, with no amount yet specified for the UK.
“ When Biden took power, he immediately adjusted the census, and once the districts had been drawn, it was admitted that 'mistakes were made," in favor of the Democrats of course, and we all know that the immigration flood is to game the system, since districts are assigned based on total number of people living in a state, not citizens, residents.”
Here is the thing. Trump(45) had the Census apportioning using the number of citizens and, I believe, legal resident aliens, in each state. But within a week of taking office, the Biden Administration switched this to counting everyone, legal or illegal, and using those counts for allocating House seats among the states. Never been done before, at least in our lifetimes.
What this (obviously) meant that the states, for the first time in memory, got credit for their illegal populations. Which means overrepresentation by the big Blue states, and especially with their large (to get larger shortly) population of illegals.
I worked for the Decennial Census Division in the late 1970s. We had one of few really hard deadlines in the govt - to get counts to Congress. It was their seats that were at issue. Which was good for us. Normal employment rules were routinely waived by the Census Director. Esp involving overtime, and how much comp time you could carry forward, month to month, and year to year. We ran double the allowable comp time, year to year, and some of us ran triple. You would get a deadline late. Tell your manager you couldn’t do it without exceeding the current limits, and the next day you would have a waiver signed by the Director and sometime Sec of Commerce.
The downside was that our Asst Dir was able to have the Dir personally block my lateral transfer to the Systems Programming branch. It would have come with an immediate promotion, and greatly increased chance to make GS-14 before the end of the decade. Probably faster. One of the only places in Census to get there without being on a management track. In any case, the branch chief who had been trying to hire me, after such a high level denial, mentioned it to a good friend working for the company supplying Census with their computers. He offered me even more money to do what I had been going to do with that lateral. And assigned me to NOAA, one wing over and one floor up, in the same building (FOB 3, Suitland Federal Center). And ultimately got me transferred back to CO.
“I'm interested in the history of titles in the blank-days-that-shook-the-blank form.”
I’ve always preferred the “Now it can be told!” format.
Having mastered epidemiology, large language models, balloon dynamics, submarine design, naval military history, toilet paper supply chain logistics, Austrian economic theory, and elementary Farsi, I'd like to explain why the Virginia court decision is correct...~ Achilles
I suspect the Republicans have diluted their advantage in most of those states that have set new maps. They may find there are more competitive districts than they thought. If they are using 2024 and 2022 voting patterns, they are likely to find their political brand fares substantially worse than those elections. They could just be making a blue wave bigger.
(Repeat comment): Democrats are upset that the redistricting wars are not going their way. They had expected a Democrat Speaker, third in line for POTUS, to be elevated as their assassin-promoting rhetoric paid off. Regardless of the midterms, expect an uptick in Democrat provocation.
Before I read this post, I bought a paper copy of the NYT here in Omaha. On nearly every page, there is a story about how Trump is "destroying" America. There's even a letter titled, "Trump the Destroyer" allegedly written by Marc Chafetz of Washington.
Mr. Chafetz claims he is 73 and tht he has grandchildren. Trump is engaged in "malicious actions" that will cause "long-term damage" that will harm his grandchildren.
I'm guessing that Mr. Chafetz is Jewish. I suggest that he open his eyes to the plain fact that our President has eliminated the possibility of the IRGC dropping a nuke on Israel. Maybe some of his kids or grandkids live Israel. That's possible.
In the same Saturday edition of the NYT there is a two-page spread with the body count and pictures of the drug smuggling boats we have eliminated.
The NYT spins its opinion on this practice by writing it is a "drastic departure." To which I say, good. What we were doing before wasn't working.
Then more spin by quoting unnamed legal experts who have reached a legal conclusion that the strikes are "illegal extrajudicial killings." To that I say, I'm sure that the War Department's lawyers disagree.
When I first saw the two pages my reaction was: Great! Narcoterrorists were killed and deadly drugs didn't reach our shores. More Americans will live as a result of this pro-America and pro-life action by the Trump Administration. But I suppose the coke heads in NYC are seeing higher prices.
The NYT is one of the most malign forces in American life. A total and complete disgrace. The sad part is that so many people swallow its twaddle daily and believe it.
Verdad que si, that is true mr Begley
"10 Days That Shook the World" was the basis of the movie "Reds," an exceptionally well made (but now largely forgotten) epic that portrayed the Russian Revolution mostly from the perspective of American supporters. (It starred Warren Beatty as Reed, Diane Keaton as fellow journalist Louise Bryant, and Jack Nicholson as playwright Eugene O'Neill.) Some people saw it as way too sympathetic, but it does depict the characters becoming disillusioned when Bolsheviks almost immediately started purging their own ranks. According to Wikipedia, the film was screened at the White House for President Reagan.
Hey, Kak (IEE)--why don't you explain to us all why the Virginia court decision is not correct?
The NYT is group therapy for rich progressives
Yes maureen stspleton as emma goldman who tries to get some sense into beatty's reed without success
And there are the real witnesses james eastman among them who came to realizr the truth
Andy garcias The golden city is the only Film that depicts the cuban revolution and its precursors in totalitarian
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It is to laugh…
“The Day the Dems Stood Down”… from American International Pictures
“Golden City” is a helluva movie, narciso!
"I'm all shook up." - Elvis
None of this can be true. Why just here - on this very blog - I've been assured by a retired, professional attorney that the mid-terms are a foregone conclusion. A bloodbath, as it were.
Maybe it's time for another Des Moines Register poll to figure out what's really going on.
It is, and andy had a heck of a time getting it distributed sp when he does schlock like expendables its usually for a good cause
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-other-aliens-saturday-may-9-2026?
The Dems are engaging in predatory government rather than representative government. They assign themselves high salaries that suck up monies appropriated to help the poor. The lesson of the Somali pirates in Minnesota is that Mamdani or any other mayor could get money needed for the budget if they eliminated naked obvious fraud. They already have the money, in fact. But it's going to fraud. Still no one in the big blue cities investigates. Half the country knows this and knows why there's no investigating. The other half is in a dream where it's fighting 1930's-style fascism and racism by supporting the Dems in 2026. When Nick Shirley simply went to the day cares and looked at the empty building that was Ten Minutes that Shook (Half) the Country.
Ten Seconds that Shook Djibouti! Or my bouti. The important thing is bouti! The Trump Twerk is reshaping the known world! CC, JSM
C3
@C_3C_3
Barack Hussein Obama is the first President in over 100 years to stay in Washington, DC after his term was up.
Malia graduated high school in 2016.
Sasha graduated high school in 2019.
He’s still there.
Now why do you think that was?
I think it’s because he’s a malevolent, disruptive, mendacious Marxist piece o’ EXCREMENT.
Personally, I don't think the Virginia redistricting map was great. But I understand its importance as a temporary expedient measure.
One of the architects of the current ballot measure, Louise Lucas, was raided by the FBI this week, which is a clear signal about where things are heading in November. There is a zero percent chance that Trump and the Republicans will accept the outcome of the upcoming election and there is a 100% chance that they are going to do a lot of illegal stuff to interfere with this process.
The one saving grace here may be a situation similar to Hungary and Orban, where the rigged maps end up backfiring due to the degree of popular outrage in November, where Republicans end up losing more seats than they would have otherwise, because they have reduced their margin of safety in what would have otherwise been a smaller number of safe Republican seats. This was actually one of my concerns with the Virginia redistricting measure. e.g. could very easily backfire in the next redistricting cycle in 2030. Whether still have a democracy in 2030 is an open question. 2026 is a major test of the system.
Gerda Sprinchorn said...
My recollection is that race-based districting ended up benefitting Republicans, not Democrats.
That certainly was the story line two decades ago.
It was probably crap then, it's definitely crap now
Which is why the Dems are so pissed they're losing those seats
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...
One of the architects of the current ballot measure, Louise Lucas, was raided by the FBI this week,
Yep. For fraud. In an investigation started by the Biden Admin.
Leftists are such worthless shit
Gerda Sprinchorn said...
My recollection is that race-based districting ended up benefitting Republicans, not Democrats.
That certainly was the story line two decades ago.
It was probably crap then, it's definitely crap now
Actually, it kinda did. Race based districts are often 90% Democrat. Through that percentage of one party into a single district, it becomes much harder to create competitive districts.
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...
"One of the architects of the current ballot measure, Louise Lucas, was raided by the FBI this week, which is a clear signal about where things are heading in November."
As a Virginia resident, i can tell you that Louise Lucas has been under investigation for a long time, and Federal investigation was started in the Biden administration.
She is not a good person.
In the UK labour got wrecked and Reform picked up the pieces. The Tories are even worse then Labour. Starmer at least is honest, he hates White Englishmen with a passion. The Tories pretend and lie. "Oh, gosh we're against illegal immigration and for freedom of speech. Oh whooops, guess that wont happen. Sorry we keep saying that every general election. But this time we *really* mean it. And here's our new Nigerian babe leader who loves open borders and hate speech laws to show how we've changed".
BTW, the number 1 goal of all the UK elites in every party is not the safety of the British people but "making England comfortable and safe for Jews". But then if you give them enough money they'll do anything.
"Leftists are such worthless shit"
Leftists are an embarrassment to worthless shit everywhere and can only aspire to one day reach that lofty status.
Ocean, British Jews are voting with their feet and moving from traditionally Jewish neighborhoods, such as Golders Green, where the stabbing happened last week, to...Israel! A frakking war zone is safer for them than UK. Great article in the New Statesman:
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/society/2026/04/terror-in-suburbia
The results of the elections also kind of show that the British uniparty doesn't serve anyone who's been in the UK for a long time: Anglos, Celts, Jews, or even the assimilated Afro, Carib, or South Asian Brits. That's why Labour and the Tories got it broken off in their asses. CC, JSM
don't people REALIZE?
that without special district mapping..
and "special voting rules"..
No Democrat Congress?
RCOCEAN II said...
BTW, the number 1 goal of all the UK elites in every party is not the safety of the British people but "making England comfortable and safe for Jews". But then if you give them enough money they'll do anything.
Yeah, that must be why all those Palestinian marches through London have been shut down.
Oh wait.
And why the people screaming "death to Jews" have been arrested and charged with hate crimes.
No, not that, either.
In fact, RC, the British "elites" love the same Jew hating 3rd world trash that you love
Gospace said...
Actually, it kinda did. Race based districts are often 90% Democrat. Through that percentage of one party into a single district, it becomes much harder to create competitive districts.
That's only needed when your State is relatively close.
By the time your State is =15 - +20 GOP, you can pretty much make every district a solid GOP district, at least when you're in the single digits
GTCT: In fact, RC, the British "elites" love the same Jew hating 3rd world trash that you love.
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Rich (IEE)--Let me repeat it--"Why don't you explain to us all why the Virginia court decision was incorrect?"
I didn't ask you to explain why you claim that you don't like gerrymandering, or why you are nonetheless bummed that the Dems aren't going to allowed to gerrymander the Republican voters out of any representation in VA (as a "temporary expedient measure"). You criticized Achilles for (apparently) supporting the VA appeals court upholding the lower court decision declaring the Dems gerrymander legislation invalid (1:03 PM). Don't weasel. Explain yourself. Was the decision correct--as a matter of law?
Outcomes are determined by incentives. It is a benefit and source of power for politicians to gerrymander--they will never give it up voluntarily.
Easy solution- Zip codes. The post office draws zip-codes to be contiguous. The census can tell you how many people live in each zip code. Simply add up the totals for each code until you reach the target size and that will be a congressional district. (there are exceptions for things like islands or a zone on the wrong side of a river with no bridges, and parts of the west have huge zones where the codes are not in sequence etc but that could be dealt with by legislation)
NO ONE WANTS A SOLUTION TO THE GERRYMANDER PROBLEM.
Sorry for shouting but its true. The only way it could be put in place is in those states with citizen lead constitutional amendment initiatives.
...and furthermore since nobody asked my opinion I will also say that the Congress should have about 3000 members. Today each asshole in the house represents about 750,000 people. How could that ratio ever be considered a 'representative'. No one can represent 3/4 of a million people.
The ration should be about 30k per house member. Eveyones first objection is 'we don't have enough chairs for representative democracy' Well RFK stadium is just down the street for those rare occasions when congress needs to meet as a committee of the whole.
Political parties have conventions with thousands of delegates and are able to create platforms and vote on amendments and nominate candidates. So I do not believe that having too much democracy would bog down the system. Rules of Order work for a small town council of 6 people and they would work for 3000 assholes too.
Today too much power is in the hands of too few. We need to dilute and spread out that power and get it closer to the people.
With modern technology we could make the House look like the Star Wars Imperial Senate - mobile pods stacked to the ceiling that move to the center when someone wants to speak.
But slight bit of pedantry: you'd need more like 10,000 members. Not to worry: Capital One Arena has a capacity of 20,000, and it's climate controlled, with built-in food and bev. The USG could just seize it by eminent domain, and the sports teams could spend their own damn money on an arena. CC, JSM
You could have a big laser show, with Mike Johnson on the big screen yelling "Let's get ready to GOVERRRRRNNNNNNNN!!!!" CC, JSM
Would we be better off with 3,000 or 10,000 grifters in the legislature rather than the current batch of only 535? Not sure.
I do know this: our founders gave us a constitution designed to limit the power of government. If we actually followed the Constitution it would not much matter how many congressgrifters were bloviating in D.C.
> Would we be better off with 3,000 or 10,000
> grifters in the legislature...
I appreciate the goal here, but I think this is barking up the wrong tree. Even if Dunbar was off by an order of magnitude, clearly 30,000 citizens in a district is far too many for most of them to personally know their representative.
My completely immodest suggestion to address this problem attacks it from the skin in the game side, as far as the representative himself: a serious residency requirement both in order to stand for election, and continuously in place during the term of office. I should write up something on substack or somewhere where I can detail this out in full, but the basic idea is that we want to structure it so that our representatives have, and continue to have, serious ties to the place they are purporting to represent, rather than getting elected to Congress, moving to DC, and going native once they get there.
Olson Johnson is right! said...
NO ONE WANTS A SOLUTION TO THE GERRYMANDER PROBLEM.
Sorry for shouting but it's true. The only way it could be put in place is in those states with citizen lead constitutional amendment initiatives.
I'd love one!
Require every single district to be compact, contiguous, and honor political and geographic boundaries (no city / town / county can be part of more than 1 district that is not completely contained within the city / town /country).
But doing that would destroy the Dems, so it isn't going to happen.
And since the Dems aren't going to accept "no gerrymandering", I want "max GOP gerrymandering".
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