Obama wants to deny 3 million people congressional representation

[Moonglow]

MSN

Story by Amalia Huot-Marchand
Former President Obama joined a Zoom call with Texas state House Democrats on Thursday, calling the Republican redistricting effort in the state a “systematic assault on democracy.”

“What we all recognize is we can’t let a systematic assault on democracy just happen and stand by,” Obama said.

“And my hope is that rather than have a race to the bottom where every district is predetermined based on how it’s drawn, that over time, the American people, ideally with the help of the courts, realizes that there’s a better way,” he continued.

Texas Democratic state lawmakers fled the Lone Star State two weeks ago to break quorum and prevent a vote on a new redistricting map that would give the GOP five additional seats in the 2026 midterms.

Comment:
Barry Obama lied again.
The Texas population has increased by over 3 million.
Giving those 3 million new people representation in congress increases our democracy.
Obama wants to deny those people representation in congress which decreases our democracy.
Now if Barry is opposed to gerrymandering then he must demand that Democrat states undo their gerrymandering first.

Only the census used every decade with the number ending in zero can be used for proportional representation.

 

[BrokeLoser]

Your argument was that I was somehow "un-American" for wanting to change the deficiencies in our system. (Funny, I have a DD214 that says otherwise)

“Deficiencies”?
You mean lke flooding blue shitholes with Mexico’s people to count them for congressional apportionment? Like flooding blue shitholes with filthy foreigners from Somalia so Libs could own Minneapolis?
Those deficiencies?

 

[whitehall]

Democrats invented Gerrymandering. The freaking democrat hypocrites and their minions in the media whine about republican redistricting in Texas while half a dozen blue states have gerrymandered republicans out of state government.

 

[Hafar1014]

How about putting everything I suggested to a national vote?

I suspect I'd win on all those points.

Democracy is the tyranny of the stupid mean IQ is 100

 

[BrokeLoser]

Democrats invented Gerrymandering. The freaking democrat hypocrites and their minions in the media whine about republican redistricting in Texas while half a dozen blue states have gerrymandered republicans out of state government.

**** the gerrymandering…the filthy fucked in the head America hating ***** have opened their borders to the thirdworld…all for power grab.
They have 20-30 seats because of alien invaders, they own Mexifornia, NV, AZ, CO, NM and much of Texas because of alien invaders.

 

[Papageorgio]

I know that Apportionment can only happen once every 10 tens after a census, but I find nothing about redistrict ing being only once every ten years. I would think once every 10 years to be adequate but each state has its own laws and state constitutions.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Only the census used every decade with the number ending in zero can be used for proportional representation.

Is that a law?

 

[Moonglow]

Is that a law?

Yes, have you never heard about it? The Constitution? The ones ending in five are not used for proportional representation.

 

[Moonglow]

The U.S. Constitution, specifically Article I, Section 2, mandates a census to count all people residing in the United States.

 

[Papageorgio]

The U.S. Constitution, specifically Article I, Section 2, mandates a census to count all people residing in the United States.

Correct and then the delagates must be reappointed at that time, however nowhere does it state redistrict ing can only be done once every ten years, that is left up to each individual state.

 

[Moonglow]

Democrats invented Gerrymandering. The freaking democrat hypocrites and their minions in the media whine about republican redistricting in Texas while half a dozen blue states have gerrymandered republicans out of state government.

Gerry – fun fact, he pronounced it with a hard “g” – attained immortality in American politics not because he signed the Declaration of Independence decades earlier or became vice president in 1813 but by signing into law a new political map deliberately drawn to help his Democratic-Republican Party and hurt Federalists

https://www.usnews.com/news/u-s-news-decision-points/articles/2025-08-13/a-salamander-a-governor-and-a-redistricting-fight-the-history-of-gerrymandering

 

[Rambunctious]

Are you ******* retarded?

We had a census. Texas had a redistricting in 2021.

That's how it works.

Now, I would be all for ending the absurd gerrymandering all states do to get secure seats for their party.

It works how the democrats around the nation made it work... if they can redistrict at will so can Texas... now after the threats from CA and NY and Illinois other red states are gearing up to do the same....

 

[Doc7505]

Are you ******* retarded?

We had a census. Texas had a redistricting in 2021.

That's how it works.

Now, I would be all for ending the absurd gerrymandering all states do to get secure seats for their party.

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In some states, redistricting can occur outside the typical 10-year cycle following the census, especially if state laws or state constitutions allow it. However, this practice can lead to legal challenges and is often contentious.

 

[struth]

Representatives are reapportioned after the census which isn’t until 2030.

Do you guys not know anything about the constitution?

Where in the Constitution does it say that redistricting can only happen after the census?

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Yes, have you never heard about it? The Constitution? The ones ending in five are not used for proportional representation.

Does it say will or shall?

 

[BrokeLoser]

Moonglow

all people

“People” “persons” “citizens”
All synonyms words in the U.S. Constitution.
Our great framers never intended for foreign invaders to have representation in our country.

 

[Moonglow]

Does it say will or shall?

Try reading it.

 

[Moonglow]

Moonglow

“People” “persons” “citizens”
All synonyms words in the U.S. Constitution.
Our great framers never intended for foreign invaders to have representation in our country.

Unless you were a taxed Indian.

 

[Papageorgio]

Gerry – fun fact, he pronounced it with a hard “g” – attained immortality in American politics not because he signed the Declaration of Independence decades earlier or became vice president in 1813 but by signing into law a new political map deliberately drawn to help his Democratic-Republican Party and hurt Federalists

https://www.usnews.com/news/u-s-news-decision-points/articles/2025-08-13/a-salamander-a-governor-and-a-redistricting-fight-the-history-of-gerrymandering

That is how gerrymandering was named because one district looked like a salamander, so they called it gerrymandering.

However Gerry didn’t invent it and wasn’t confined to one party—both Democrats and Whigs, later Republicans engaged in it. Tactics included packing (stuffing the opposition into as few districts as possible) and cracking, splitting them across many districts to dilute their power.

 

[Moonglow]

That is how gerrymandering was named because one district looked like a salamander, so they called it gerrymandering.

However Gerry didn’t invent it and wasn’t confined to one party—both Democrats and Whigs, later Republicans engaged in it. Tactics included packing (stuffing the opposition into as few districts as possible) and cracking, splitting them across many districts to dilute their power.

Without free whiskey.