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[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 82 points 1 day ago

Good. Neuter the fascists.

[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 11 points 20 hours ago

The only way to fight unconstitutional behavior, is with the same unconstitutional behavior.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Please please PLEASE let this work!

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 30 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You can quote me on this. Not only will this not work. They won't even actually implement anything to a degree that would even be able to make a difference.

Source: Democrats saying things and not following through for my entire lifetime.

[–] sploder@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

And the fact that he was literally mocking Trump with this message. The whole thing was essentially satire, written in Trump fashion.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 17 points 23 hours ago

The right wing voices I've heard talk about this say California has already had been doing this for decades and they don't have much more they can squeeze out of this. So now I want to see what they'll actually do.

Here's my prediction: rich keep getting richer, do you remember when we had a middle class?

[–] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Once you start tearing up democratically elected seats, and I’m not saying don’t because fuck fascists, but once you do you gotta think that republic is on flimsy ground.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 hours ago

You're democracy is long since dead and burned, friend.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The House is supposed to provide proportional representation, per the US Constitution. It has not since the early 20th century. Instead, it gives significant increased representation to people in lower population states.

[–] cy888@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Madison's Grand Compromise was to give EXTRA representation to low population states (2 senators regardless of a States population), not proportional representation.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Dude was talking about the House, and the Reapportionment Act of 1929

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reapportionment_Act_of_1929

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 13 points 1 day ago

Feels like you might have missed the first two words of the post you replied to

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, its already on really flimsy ground thanks to GOP fuckery and cowardice.

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Damn straight.

[–] Wazowski@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago

Bruh. Shit broke irrevocably in 2020. Might as well give up and start all over. This shit’s busted.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

This has already been going on for decades. It’s just the democrats are actually finally talking about fighting back as long as their oligarch backers approve.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago

This is where we’re at

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Let's say, for the sake of argument, California eliminates all Republican seats and Texas eliminates all Democratic seats... what would the new House look like?

Texas -12D, +12R out of 38 total. (+1 vacancy)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_representatives_from_Texas

California -9R, +9D out of 52 total.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_representatives_from_California

Net change? -3D, +3R.

House composition goes from 219R / 212D / 4 Vacant to 222R / 209D / 4 Vacant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives

Newsom - Nice try, but no.

Edit TIL - there are fewer Republican reps in California than there are Democratic reps in Texas!

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Other blue states are threatening to follow California's lead, though, New York being one of them. If New York alone follows suit, that'd be an additional -7R, +7D. But even without New York, similar threats from Illinois and Maryland would also tip the scales (-4R, +4D combined)

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

It would have to be New York or some equivalent. An additional shift of +/-7 would flip the house 215R to 216D, but that's also assuming Texas and California successfuly eliminate all opposition.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Let’s say, for the sake of argument, California eliminates all Republican seats and Texas eliminates all Democratic seats…

Texas will struggle to eliminate all Dem districts, simply because there are too many Dem voters. You're looking at a 1.5M spread of voters between R and D in Texas relative to a 3.2M spread in California.

When a given district has roughly 600k people (of whom barely half reliably vote), it becomes incredibly difficult to crack the existing Dem population into subsets small enough to guarantee a 55/45 split for each Republican candidate. The only real alternative is to pack as many Dems into a single district as possible, in order to dilute the remainder. That's why the current Texas map only promises to flip 5 seats and leave 7 remaining.

Even then, you're playing a dangerous game - a la 2006, 2008, 2012, and 2018 - in which a vibe shift costs you dozens of seats very quickly. The Republicans in 2008, for instance, lost every single House Seat in New England.

California can easily gerrymander their Republican minority out of another five seats (maybe more with some clever math) because of the hard liberal swing the state has been on since the Bush Era.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So... When are we going to stop pretending america is a democracy?

[–] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Probably not before an obviously sham election happens or not being a registered Republican is functionally outlawed

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Registered Republican here. I've voted blue pretty much across the board since 2002, though.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 5 points 15 hours ago

“Registered Nazi party member here. I’m not really on board with this whole Hitler thing, though.”

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Worth noting, midterm swings in the house almost always goes against the sitting president’s party by a lot. 2022 was a history low (-9). I think the expectation is for the swing to be much higher.

https://history.house.gov/Institution/Majority-Changes/Majority-Changes/

Edit: better link

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/seats-congress-gainedlost-the-presidents-party-mid-term-elections

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Good thing other states are looking to follow Newsom's lead.

[–] Karrion409@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

Inshallah. I hope he delivers the permanent super majority.

[–] Kronusdark@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am not sure how even if the change wasn't still in favor of republicans, how this would "END TRUMP PRESIDENCY". Even if they flip senate too it's not like they can impeach and remove him

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a quote from Newsom's tweets where he was heavily taking the piss out of how Epstein's best friend Donald writes his own posts. Because if there's one thing that gets under a narcissist's skin, it's being mocked publicly. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THE MATTER.

[–] Kronusdark@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Fair enough.