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Donald Trump said the Department of Justice will sue California over Gov. Gavin Newsom’s efforts to draw a new congressional map.
Newsom, a Democrat and 2028 presidential contender, promptly responded on social media: “BRING IT.”
Trump has praised a similar effort by Texas Republican legislators to codify a new map that would give the GOP an even greater advantage in key House seats in the 2026 midterm elections.
I want a Maga idiot to look me in the eye and tell me that any of these things are democratic, arenl not dictatorial, and completely fair and normal, and why.
I want to see the removed mind in action, see what it’s truly capable of, what kind of extreme gymnastics it’s capable of
Most of them don’t even know this is happening. Their whole news feed is about crimes committed by immigrants.
You will be awe struck.
Bro wants to cancel the midterms so badly
Redistricting California was the reason why Dems in Texas capitulated to Republicans and returned to the state to allow them to have a quorum and pass their redistricting plan. Now it looks like they’ll potentially get absolutely nothing out of the deal after giving Republicans everything they wanted. How unsurprising. That seems to be the running theme for the “opposition party” these days.
Gotta think a little further, CmdrShepard49. If the DOJ brings California to court, then whatever decision the court makes will also set a precedent for what happened in Texas. You best believe that if the courts strike down California’s attempt at redistricting, then Texas will be next.
Perhaps, but you should also remember that SCOTUS ruled in July that federal courts can not issue nationwide injunctions and that rulings now only apply to the specific parties named in a specific case, meaning that if Dems in California lose their case, that ruling only applies to them and cannot be applied toward Texas unless SCOTUS says so.
A nationwide injunction may not be issued as easily, but the precedence does still matter in a case like this.
And California is moving forward. The object was to make sure people knew texas went full fascist. The plan is to fight their stupid games with more stupid games… the fun part is its all stupid! Cause when you play those games all the prizes are stupid… I just want to have the circus leave town cause I’m tired of clowns.
I was kinda shocked when they were done doing their fund raising protest only to delay it a couple of weeks. “We tried”. I haven’t looked, but did they release the map and several Dems said “oh it’s not my district, I’m coming back.”
Trump has praised a similar effort by Texas Republican legislators
Trump ordered them to
allowed* them to
Texas has been wanting to do that for ages, way before Trump. It’s just that the Republican party used to still have a smidgeon of dignity back then and wouldn’t allow it.
This is how you lose a star on your flag, Donald.
Silver lining, it would be easier to draw if they lost one or two.
Please sue California! It will be hilarious
While I genuinely hope this will serve as a wake up call (not in the seemingly fake and preformative way done by the California governor) for the locals, from my time living there I have my doubts, it seems that Americans are a bit too well off and risk averse to take action.
Perhaps it may make sense to share a vignette from an Asian country I was travelling in.
We took the train from a regional capital to a smaller city. A week later, we were on our way back to the regional capital to catch a plane.
We go to the railway station and find out that Maoist rebels bombed the railway. So we we find a driver with an off-road vehicle to travel through the jungle road (it was in a terrible state, don’t think a regular car would have managed) to the regional capital.
On the way through the jungle we approach a group of burned out trucks with the military surrounding them. We ask them what happened. The military said the Maoist rebels stopped the trucks, let the drivers go (I believe they were actually treated well and the military said they were dropped off at the nearest village completely unharmed and with their belongings). The truck drivers were merely employees and get shit pay with significant dangers (trucks are often heavily overloaded, you constantly see them crash because of this).
So you might say, well what does this have to do with the US? While I don’t support Maoists (even though they likely had good reasons as that region was particularly corrupt and did not benefit from broader national economic growth), one has to admit that they definitely are not risk averse and are willing and able to go through.
To cite another (fictional) example, it’s like that scene in The Godfather 2 where Michael Corleone sees the commitment of the Cuban rebels and realizes that the Batista regime is not going to hold after he sees the Cuban rebel blow himself up to take out the goon leader, rather than face arrest (and likely torture and death).
America is not that kind of place (for better or worse).
P.S. Note this is not doomerism, nothing is final until it is. That being said nothing in this world comes easy. Freedom is not a mere polemic statement. Freedom requires painful, scary choices and immense sacrifices.
