What Republicans are doing to Wisconsin is a warning sign to all Americans

[Independent thinker]

What Republicans are doing to Wisconsin is a warning sign to all Americans | Andrew Gawthorpe

The state’s so gerrymandered that Republicans can lose the popular vote and win supermajorities. Now they want to impeach a liberal justice before she’s ruled on a single case

www.theguardian.com

The state’s so gerrymandered that Republicans can lose the popular vote and win supermajorities. Now they want to impeach a liberal justice before she’s ruled on a single case

Time and time again we see the GOP war on black voters in action. In Alabama and other southern states the gerrymandering is in full swing and denying black communities from electing the reps that they want.

I do wonder if it would not be easier to craft policies that appeal to black people rather than crush them under the iron boot.

But that really misses the point doesnt it ?

We've had over six years of warnings about the left taking democracy away and abusing their powers to go after political enemies, even wanting them to be taken off the ballot without any convictions of any kind.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

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[Votar Roja]

What Republicans are doing to Wisconsin is a warning sign to all Americans | Andrew Gawthorpe

The state’s so gerrymandered that Republicans can lose the popular vote and win supermajorities. Now they want to impeach a liberal justice before she’s ruled on a single case

www.theguardian.com

The state’s so gerrymandered that Republicans can lose the popular vote and win supermajorities. Now they want to impeach a liberal justice before she’s ruled on a single case

Time and time again we see the GOP war on black voters in action. In Alabama and other southern states the gerrymandering is in full swing and denying black communities from electing the reps that they want.

I do wonder if it would not be easier to craft policies that appeal to black people rather than crush them under the iron boot.

But that really misses the point doesnt it ?

You cry like a little girl

 

[berg80]

Time and time again we see the GOP war on black voters in action.

In this case it's a war on majority rule. I don't think they're going to get away with the impeachment. But it's telling they are even trying to undermine democracy right out in the open.

 

[Oldestyle]

What is fake about it?

For starters? The Guardian claimed there was an insurrection. When you start off your story with that line of crap then it's pretty much guaranteed that what follows will also by a load of crap as well. Are there any real Journalists left?

 

[Tommy Tainant]

In this case it's a war on majority rule. I don't think they're going to get away with the impeachment. But it's telling they are even trying to undermine democracy right out in the open.

You have a party that is not committed to the democratic process as evidenced by J6.
When you get that much in the gutter than anything is possible.

 

[OKTexas]

What Republicans are doing to Wisconsin is a warning sign to all Americans | Andrew Gawthorpe

The state’s so gerrymandered that Republicans can lose the popular vote and win supermajorities. Now they want to impeach a liberal justice before she’s ruled on a single case

www.theguardian.com

The state’s so gerrymandered that Republicans can lose the popular vote and win supermajorities. Now they want to impeach a liberal justice before she’s ruled on a single case

Time and time again we see the GOP war on black voters in action. In Alabama and other southern states the gerrymandering is in full swing and denying black communities from electing the reps that they want.

I do wonder if it would not be easier to craft policies that appeal to black people rather than crush them under the iron boot.

But that really misses the point doesnt it ?

Perhaps blacks should stop killing each other and aborting future generations, then they might become more than 13% of the population. BTW if you think the blue States don't gerrymander their districts, you're just lying to yourself.

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[d0gbreath]

You have a party that is not committed to the democratic process as evidenced by J6.
When you get that much in the gutter than anything is possible.

America has always been Mom, apple pie, and dirty politics. Let them draw, until they run out of ink. The lines will be fought over, it's guaranteed.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

For starters? The Guardian claimed there was an insurrection. When you start off your story with that line of crap then it's pretty much guaranteed that what follows will also by a load of crap as well. Are there any real Journalists left?

It was on the telly. We all watched it.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

What Republicans are doing to Wisconsin is a warning sign to all Americans | Andrew Gawthorpe

The state’s so gerrymandered that Republicans can lose the popular vote and win supermajorities. Now they want to impeach a liberal justice before she’s ruled on a single case

www.theguardian.com

The state’s so gerrymandered that Republicans can lose the popular vote and win supermajorities. Now they want to impeach a liberal justice before she’s ruled on a single case
Time and time again we see the GOP war on black voters in action. In Alabama and other southern states the gerrymandering is in full swing and denying black communities from electing the reps that they want.
I do wonder if it would not be easier to craft policies that appeal to black people rather than crush them under the iron boot.
But that really misses the point doesnt [sic] it ?

You do not even know what gerrymandering is, how it works, or what its effects and limitations are. This is a uniquely-American issue, and not one hat even an intelligent Brit would have any chance of properly understanding, much less a bottom-of-the-line Welsh ignoramus such as yourself.

Much more so even than in most cases where you ignorantly stick your nose in America's business where it has no legitimate cause to be, and presume to tell us how to run our country (even though, by your own repeated admission, you British cannot even govern your own country); her you are showing the world just how extreme your ignorance is.

Worry about the degenerate, ungovernable shithole in which you live, and just keep your filthy British nose out of America's business.

 

[whitehall]

Democrats invented Gerrymandering and the freaking hypocrites whine about it when republicans are in charge.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

You do not even know what gerrymandering is, how it works, or what its effects and limitations are. This is a uniquely-American issue, and not one hat even an intelligent Brit would have any chance of properly understanding, much less a bottom-of-the-line Welsh ignoramus such as yourself.

Much more so even than in most cases where you ignorantly stick your nose in America's business where it has no legitimate cause to be, and presume to tell us how to run our country (even though, by your own repeated admission, you British cannot even govern your own country); her you are showing the world just how extreme your ignorance is.

Worry about the degenerate, ungovernable shithole in which you live, and just keep your filthy British nose out of America's business.

I understand it very well dopey. Thats what pisses you off.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

I understand it very well dopey. Thats [sic] what pisses you off.

You don't have a clue.

You're at least as ignorant about gerrymandering as you are about American governance in general.

Or about the proper use of apostrophes.

 

[Oldestyle]

You have a party that is not committed to the democratic process as evidenced by J6.
When you get that much in the gutter than anything is possible.

Yeah, the next thing you know, Tommy...they'd be paying people to smear the opposing candidate with fake dossiers..or censoring opposition speech on social media platforms...or even using their control of the DOJ to go after the opposing candidate with frivilous lawsuits that tie him up and keep him from campaigning! Oh wait...that wasn't the Republicans! That the Democrats, Tommy? Gee, maybe you might want to think about some of these posts before you post them?

 

[Oldestyle]

It was on the telly. We all watched it.

You watched a protest that turned into a riot because the people in charge of security did such a piss poor job! Here's a hint, Tommy! You don't take down the US Government with a thousand unarmed people. The Capital was back in session the next day. Duh?

 

[cnm]

RCV, publicly-funded elections, term limits, bipartisan redistricting...

Burn him!

Burn the witch!

 

[BS Filter]

What Republicans are doing to Wisconsin is a warning sign to all Americans | Andrew Gawthorpe

The state’s so gerrymandered that Republicans can lose the popular vote and win supermajorities. Now they want to impeach a liberal justice before she’s ruled on a single case

www.theguardian.com

The state’s so gerrymandered that Republicans can lose the popular vote and win supermajorities. Now they want to impeach a liberal justice before she’s ruled on a single case

Time and time again we see the GOP war on black voters in action. In Alabama and other southern states the gerrymandering is in full swing and denying black communities from electing the reps that they want.

I do wonder if it would not be easier to craft policies that appeal to black people rather than crush them under the iron boot.

But that really misses the point doesnt it ?

You assume all Blacks are democrats.