Let’s proceed traipsing across the Republican-controlled portions of the rustic to peer how they are the usage of gerrymandering to select just right and respectable American citizens up via the scruff in their necks and shove their faces in grimy bogs.
The day prior to this, Wonkette’s Liz Dye defined what is going down in Alabama, the place a three-judge panel simply tossed the state’s new map out as a contravention of the Vote casting Rights Act. You notice, Alabama, just like the southern states to the east and west of it, has an overly massive Black inhabitants, a miles upper proportion than in states in different areas of the South like Tennessee. Absolutely 26 p.c of Alabamians are Black. (In Mississippi it is 37 p.c.) And but one way or the other in Alabama, Republicans had drawn a map with just one congressional district with a majority Black inhabitants. The VRA has been gutted, however as Liz famous, the section that bans glaring racial gerrymanders remains to be slightly placing on.
YAY: Federal Courtroom Tosses Alabama’s Preposterous Racial Gerrymander
In order that’s an ongoing state of affairs.
As of late let’s discuss with Tennessee after which jump over to Kansas.
Tennessee!
Pop quiz: In a functioning democracy, do you suppose the biggest metropolis in a state, the capital of that state, the tourism hub, the a part of the state the place ALL THE FUCKING MONEY comes from that will pay for the remainder of the state to exist, will have to have illustration in Congress? If you happen to replied, “FUCK YEW, I’MA GO CLEAN MY GUN WHILE I JERK OFF TO THE BIBLE IN FRONT OF AN ABORTION CLINIC,” you could be a Tennessee Republican.
And if that is the case, you most likely simply gerrymandered town of Nashville absolutely out of congressional illustration. Once more: Nashville is the state’s greatest metropolis, the capital, and via farrrrrrrrr the richest metro space, all issues thought to be.
Tennessee most effective had two blue districts first of all, out of 9: Memphis (the 9th) and Nashville (the 5th). Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in Tennessee 60.66 p.c to 37.4 p.c. (To our enduring embarrassment.) If Tennessee were not already gerrymandered to fuck, the state should have, conservatively, 3 blue seats in Congress.
Democratic Rep. Jim Cooper’s Nashville was once Biden +24. Now, Tennessee Republicans have taken a lifeless knife to Nashville and break up it a number of the 5th, 6th and 7th districts, diluting the entire political energy of the great other people of Nashville and forcing them to get in an unmarked meth van with the agricultural white Republicans who make up the majorities in the ones new districts. That is referred to as the “cracking” manner of gerrymandering. Cooper’s new district, corresponding to it’s, is Trump +11.
Cooper introduced the day prior to this he’s quitting Congress as a result of it:
Democratic Rep. Jim Cooper, a 32-year veteran of Congress, will retire on the finish of this yr, after Tennessee Republicans shredded his Nashville-based seat into 3 items in redistricting. […]
“Nobody attempted more difficult to stay our metropolis complete,” Cooper wrote in a remark saying his choice. “I explored each conceivable manner, together with proceedings, to prevent the gerrymandering and to win one of the vital 3 congressional districts that now divide Nashville. There’s no manner, no less than for me, on this election cycle.”
Cooper referred to it as “dismembering” Nashville.
They might check out to try this to Memphis too, excluding that Tennessee’s 9th, represented via Steve Cohen, remains to be secure below the Vote casting Rights Act. And what in regards to the Black citizens of Nashville who would possibly not have illustration anymore? We promise you Tennessee Republicans do not care about that.
It is almost definitely positive that Tennessee will now have just one blue district, proper? Haha, in reality no. We imply it actually once we say Nashville now will haven’t any illustration, contra what Tennessee Republicans have stated in regards to the space now having 3 congressmen. Fashionable Republicans are not certified to constitute Democrats and are of 0 use, for the reason that trendy Republican Celebration is an anti-American racist authoritarian shithole birthday celebration. Does somebody suppose Marsha Blackburn or Invoice Hagerty represents Memphis and Nashville as their senator? Fuck no. We’re successfully with out illustration within the Senate, and, excluding Memphians, maximum folks will likely be unrepresented within the subsequent Congress totally.
Politico has a just right evaluation of simply how gross Tennessee Republicans had been in pulling this off. On the other hand, it additionally notes that Nashville is a fast-growing metropolis, and what occurs to fast-growing towns? They get bluer, and bluer, and bluer. A minimum of one Tennessee Republican lawmaker gave what reads to us as a bit of of a apprehensive quote about what they have got simply achieved, and what it would do to those new gerrymandered districts down the street:
“We will most effective hope and pray that people once they change into Tennesseans include our values, and our ethos, and in that regard, we will have to do positive,” stated Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.), touting the state’s low laws and taxes. “In the event that they don’t, there may well be some aggressive races, two or 3 cycles down the road.”
Hahahahahaha, cross devour a slice of deep-fried armadillo cum, dude. If Nashville grows such a lot that THREE NEW DISTRICTS finally end up turning into aggressive, smartly then it is your dick you shot off, we are not about to cry about it. And no, actual towns that draw in just right other people don’t “include” racist pigfucker Tennessee Republican values. That’s not how actual towns that draw in just right other people paintings.
Silly asshole.
Kansas!
Are you aware of Lawrence, Kansas? It is the house of the giant College of Kansas, and it is one of the liberal puts within the state. It is within the northeast nook, now not too some distance from the Kansas aspect of Kansas Town. It was once the atmosphere for The Day After, which scared your older Gen Xes in regards to the nuclear wars and made them Nuclear Freeze hippies, and it’s pretty and residential to many Wonkette shitlib readers. It was once massacred via Civil Battle reb assholes, as it was once stuffed with non-treasonous, non-Accomplice, Union Jayhawkers.
So you’ll suppose with all the ones liberals in combination, they could get some illustration in HAHA NO! GO SLEEP WITH A COW IN A CORNFIELD, YOU DEMOCRATS! That’s what Kansas Republicans are announcing, as they have got seized Lawrence and are seeking to stick it within the massive First Congressional District, a few of which is actually a five-hour pressure away.
Have a look at this shit:
Positive, the district begins round the corner from Lawrence, similar to the bumblefuck rural districts that now come with Nashville are “within sight.” It does not glance totally bonkers at the map like one of the most gerrymanders we are used to. However what it does successfully? Fuckin’ hell.
A metropolis that has a penchant for frustrating conservatives with liberal politics — it’s seeking to transfer to completely renewable power, as an example — can be moved into the sprawling 1st Congressional District of western and central Kansas the place former President Donald Trump gained nearly 70% of the vote in 2020.
The Kansas Area debated the invoice Tuesday for 4 hours and set a last vote for Wednesday. The Senate licensed the plan final week. Democrats don’t have the political power to stop its passage and may now not have the ability to maintain a conceivable veto from Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. Each events be expecting the strains to be settled in courtroom. […]
“It’s a travesty,” stated Democratic state Rep. Boog Highberger, of Lawrence, an legal professional. “It actually disenfranchises my district, my metropolis.”
The AP explains that the brand new line-drawing round Lawrence is in reality a part of Republicans’ efforts to fuck over the only Democrat representing Kansas in Congress, Sharice Davids, whose district contains Kansas Town. And if the 95,000 citizens of Lawrence finally end up and not using a actual illustration within the procedure, it is cool, as a result of Republicans do not imagine in democracy.
That is how The united states is now, is not it nice?
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