ErroneousBIG

They don’t have to vote Democrat. They just don’t have to vote and the Ds will roll. MAGA can’t win in the general election without the support of the RINOs they hate so much. It’s time for good people to punish MAGA. You don’t have to vote Dem, just don’t vote. Let Trump know that the president doesn’t get to select our representation down here in Texas. Or anywhere else for that matter. Trump’s disapproval ratings this weekend are higher than they were after J6…. His lowest ever. It’s not going well for MAGA right now.

Yep. I guess you think the sex offender registry is a problem, too.

Right? “Lots of people are sex workers… y’all are just mad that the best First Lady ever did it, too! You’ve got TDS!” No, sir… I’m a Christian, and I don’t judge right or wrong based on who it is that’s doing the act.

[Hidden Content] Yeah…. If Melania or her fellow “model” were minors, the photographer would be charged with producing child pornography. I may be a lot of things, but a list isn’t on that list.

I’ll give this as an example… ask Google “when has a president endorsed a primary challenger for a sitting senator from his own party?” It’s only happened twice… And it was Trump both times. Everybody knows that Paxton is corrupt… the only difference between him and Trump is that Trump’s corruption is on a larger scale. Paxton carries the stench of corruption, an ongoing divorce from his wife who accused him of cheating, a bipartisan impeachment in the Texas Lege, federal investigations into his crooked dealings, and an all around jerk of a human being. His opponent is a multi-term senator whose biggest “fault” is that he occasionally voted against Trump’s ideas. So when someone says “i don’t care… I’ll never vote for a socialist or trans,” but instead votes for corruption because Trump tells them to-it says all you need to know. They aren’t voting against socialism, they’re voting the way Trump tells them to.

I disagree… which president of either party has acted like Trump? Which president has a soft core porn actress for a wife? Which president has tried to rename half of Washington after himself? Which other president spoke so hatefully to our allies? Which other President had a felony conviction? The vulgarities… attacked his own party members openly? Endorsed primary challengers against incumbents from his own party? Bragged about sexually assaulting women? Threatens our allies like Greenland? Tripled his net worth with insider trading deals barely a year into his term? Tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power after losing? Ordered a mid-census redistricting to eliminate minority voters? That’s nowhere near a complete list… but i can’t think of another president who has done any of those things… from either party. So when you say “he’s just doing what the democrats do,” you’re just doing what Trump does all the time…being dishonest.

I was a kid when we celebrated the bicentennial. It’s really surprising to me to see how uninspired the country is for the 250th. There was red, white, and blue on everything…it was everywhere. Even as far back as 2001 we had a kindred spirit among people with opposing views. I think that the nonstop flow of hatred from the White House directed at allies, foes, democrats, fellow republicans, etc, combined with Trump’s cartoonish branding of anything American with his ironic last name have destroyed pride in the US. His supporters have confuse undying loyalty to a single man as patriotism and most people don’t want to be associated with that type of foolishness. Times were tough in 1976, also. You had high gas prices, high interest rates, conflict around the world, watergate was recent, etc… but Gerald Ford wasn’t sticking his name on every civic building in Washington, issuing dozens of daily attacks on anybody who disagrees with him, and lying to straight to our faces about the state of the nation… then calling us deranged when we point out the fact what he just told a lie. “Well, no one has been treated as badly as the Dumocrats have treated Trump, so…” Gerald Ford had two actual attempts made on his life… he just was just a decent person, unlike Trump. That’s the real Trump effect. The fact that since 2016, America has been polarized into two camps… Trump’s loyalists and the people that they hate… which is everybody else. And vice versa.

But Trump enjoys complete MAGA support when posting clips of the Obamas as apes, no doubt. He’s up all night posting hateful, violent, and racist images on Truth Social, but that doesn’t bother his drones . Most of them show up crying about “hateful rhetoric” by the Dems while ignoring the absolute trash that the supposed leader of the free world posts all night long. The only mental illness is a subject whose loyalty to a pig leaves them out of touch with reality.

We blew up more of their stuff, so that makes us the winner in his mind. He's really good and winning battles while losing wars, metaphorically. Like getting Cassidy taken out in Louisiana ( and probably Cornyn, too) but effectively losing his voting majority in the senate until at least the election. He’s unbelievably unable to see the big picture.

The concern isn’t whether an area is more heavily r or d…. It’s a mid-census redistricting that eliminates minority representation. You wouldn’t have a problem if the democrats suddenly redistricted your neighborhood in an off-census cycle and Sheila Jackson Lee suddenly became your state representative? I don’t care if everybody in ND is a Republican. I don’t care if everybody in NH wants is a Democrat. What I can’t stand for is when we have an election, then a little over a year later the rules change so that the ruling party can say “Guess what? We hold four out of seven seats, but next time we’ll have all seven because we redrew the maps!!!”

You know better than that… all we can do is flip (or stack) the court and have them rule it back into place. That’s the problem with flipping the makeup of the court and then reversing precedent. The justices were never supposed to be partisan hacks, but here we are.

Just one.

This type of thing happens every ten years when the Census comes out. Politicians scramble to carve out districts that give the ruling party the best chance of hanging on to power. But we’ve had the framework of the Voting Rights Act to keep the racists in check. There are two distinct differences this time. First, we’re halfway between census years… but Trump ordered “his” states to redistrict to eliminate districts that were historically Democratically held. The second is that the Supreme Court which has been stacked by ideologues from both sides, but now decisively split with a 6-3 neo-con majority, ruled that racism is in fact, legal again. The guardrails were removed and the racists are doing what racists do… putting “them” back in “their places.” To celebrate now is the same as celebrating when George Wallace stood up against the National Guard during the integration at the University of Alabama.

That won’t stop the racists. They stopped the election in Louisiana this month after votes were already being cast. [Hidden Content] You can call it whatever you want… the 15th and 19th Amendments were passed by Congress, signed by the president, and ratified by the States…. But the Voting Rights Act was enacted in 1965 to enforce those previous Amendments because the white racists in the South were doing the same thing that the white racists in the South are doing today. It’s just textbook Jim Crow Era racism.

Currently, there are 12 states that have no Democrats representing them in the U.S. Congress (across both the Senate and the House of Representatives). [1] These all-Republican state congressional delegations are: Alaska Arkansas Idaho Iowa Montana Nebraska North Dakota Oklahoma South Dakota Utah West Virginia Wyoming [1] And your point was?

[Hidden Content] This is how the law was interpreted and its implementation changed up over 60 years from 1965 to 2025. It’s been recognized since Reconstruction that given the opportunity, white racists would disenfranchise minorities to dilute voting power and therefore eliminate their voice in Congress. The Voting Rights Act was passed to eliminate the practice of redistricting to silence minorities. That was the law of the land until Trump’s puppets on the Supreme Court undid 60 years of progress with one Jim Crow era decision last month. Stop and think about it. Those “gerrymandered” maps that were just thrown out across all of the Southern States? You know, the changes that the racists keep celebrating? “Who-hoo!!! South Carolina has 7 white reps now! There’s no more of THEM!” Those maps were all drawn by Republican legislatures because it was the right thing to do. At least is was the right thing to do a couple of month ago. It’s also interesting to point out that there is will no longer a single black Republican in Congress after this term either. There have been 7,500 immigrants allowed into the US this year, and another 10,000 scheduled for the remainder of the fiscal year. All but three (3) were white people from South Africa. There’s no word as to the race of those three immigrants. But I’d bet they were white, too. [Hidden Content]

Yes… if it were done BEFORE those six justices re-litigated and then eviscerated the Voting Rights Act. Immediately followed by an off-cycle redistricting which is almost unheard of. Americans just voted a year and a half ago and selected their representation. If the same election were held today, you’d have republicans winning 25+ more seats by most estimations… without a single person changing their vote. That’s not a democracy, it’s cheating to steal elections. And it’s not some made-up fairy tale about election fraud that is believed with nary a shred of truth… this one is actually happening, and it’s happening before our eyes. And it will lead to bloodshed, in my opinion.

Is there a word you could use to describe a person who celebrates changing the rules to kick all of the minorities out of Congress?

NYT is reporting that the deal involves a complete cessation of fighting on all fronts (including Lebanon), all naval blockades lifted by both sides, no Iranian control/tolls in the Strait, plus the US releasing $25 billion of Iran’s seized funds back to them. The nuclear materials issue would be tabled for a later date. That’s what Iran is claiming per the NYT, anyways. There’s no way we’d make a deal that bad. There’s nothing in it for us, except an exit strategy.

I think that he really intended to have Iran, Greenland, and Cuba all firmly under control by 7/4/2026. In my mind, there’s a big possibility that he signs off on a “peace” deal so that he can claim victory and walk away, then attacks Cuba within the next two weeks or so. Any end that results in us paying reparations or releasing cash, Iran not turning over their enriched uranium, and the Strait of Hormuz under any form of Iranian control is an “L” for the USA. There’s no other way to spin it.

All of us saw what happened in J6 and are well aware that serious crimes were committed. The fact that Trump pardoned everyone, including those who’d already been convicted, and even those who admitted their crimes in plea deals was just wrong to any decent, law-abiding person. The idea that the guys who smeared their own human feces on the walls of Capitol offices during their attempt to overturn the results of the election are somehow entitled riches from the American taxpayer is an idea that no reasonable person will agree with. Trump and his followers might have finally blown past their last exit with a lot of former Republican voters.

Actually, it shows how not smart that Trump is… he just canned Cassidy from Louisiana and endorsed Paxton in Texas… that means that he just lost two votes in the senate until the end of the year. It’s why they just went home instead of passing his budget reconciliation that would have funded the 1.776 billion dollar slush fund for his friends and the billion dollar appropriation for the ballroom. Thune had no choice but to send everybody home because he doesn’t have the votes. Same thing with the war powers act in the House. Johnson canceled it because they don’t have the votes… Trump keeps stepping on his own party because they won’t rubber-stamp everything that he comes up with, and it’s about to bite him in the butt.