The census is a tallying of the people that live in the country. Legal or not, immigrants do live here and should be counted. This argument is dumb on so many levels.
Jim Banks is dumb on so many levels.
Isn’t that a prerequisite for being a republican at this point?
There are a small portion of smart Republicans who are just evil and get the stupid ones to go along with them. See Project 2025 for an example.
Yeahhhhhh idk man. I just don’t think it’s smart to support the group of people spurring on the destruction of the very environment that they require to survive. Both in a global warming sense as well as a general societal sense. Absurd unethical greed has worked a couple of times in history, but it backfires really frequently.
I think the smarter tactic would be to simply keep the machine running the same way it has been, while giving fractions of your wealth to the poor as a pittance. That way you can still live an absurdly privileged life and not have to worry about being shot in the street in NYC.
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They preferentially select for Evil first, but being both evil and dumb on so many levels is definitely how to get ahead in the organization.
And Jim Banks isn’t even the dumbest Republican in the Senate. That honor goes to Tommy Tuberville, hands down.
Only surpassed by those that vote for him and those that don’t bother voting against him.
They’ve been trying to normalize the idea that it only counts citizens for a couple of decades now.
It certainly is strange that the “slavery wasn’t that bad” party is against non citizens being counted now.
Electoral college is why people care
Do they not live in those states?
Which includes quite a few red states btw. It’s hardly a partisan advantage… But if Texas and Florida wants to lose some seats…
https://brilliantmaps.com/number-of-unauthorized-illegal-immigrants-by-us-state/
I’m not saying right or wrong, but it could impact who gets elected. Illegal immigrants don’t need to vote directly to impact elections due to the electoral college.
Too fucking bad for the whiners because the Constitution straight up doesn’t care. Probably because they’d have thought we were being weird fuckheads on border control.
All voting rights addressed by the Constitution are amendments prohibiting various forms of discrimination. You don’t even technically have to be a citizen to vote per Constitutional law, that’s just a restriction agreed upon by all state laws.
Fundamentally, I’m not sure why being a citizen, or even legal status, should matter when it comes to voting. When you consider that a US citizen can move to a new state/local jurisdiction and immediately vote in those elections with just proof of residency in that jurisdiction, then it seems like the proof of residency is what’s really important in determining whether you can vote in a given election.
Also, the census doesn’t only count citizens.
Beat me by like 30 seconds!
Why don’t these idiots ever suffer any consequences for being so stupid and/or deceptive? Probably because most people are also kind of stupid and dishonest.
Largely because they’re being lied to by a media that doesn’t cover it, or says the other guy is eating babies.
Herd mentality is STRONG when the radio, tv, and all your neighbors are repeating the same talking points. I have family in rural maga country and visiting feels like walking into a radiated zone, it’s in the air everywhere
My elderly parents historically have been middle of the road democrats. Hated Reagan, hated bush.
Today my dad said “the radical left takes things too far”. My mother said, “I don’t feel safe in new york city! they’re targeting old white people!”
I don’t know what sludge they’re consuming but it’s not factual.
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Ever notice how everything they accuse the Democrats of, they’re either doing themselves already or about to start doing?
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Someone wanted people to believe that Obama was watching a basketball game in the Oval Office on 9/11/2001.
Truth means nothing to them.
When you join an university because your father is rich, but you have no idea what any of the subjects are.
Modern American Universities are absolutely stuffed with these people, though
Also Census is suppose to count EVERY one in the states since when put in law some people weren’t citizens. Also Trump tried to do average citizens question on the Census and it got struck down at the Supreme Court
You would think if the immigration hot bed of California were boosting the numbers, we wouldn’t have lost two seats in the 2020 sentences.
They’re winning and taking us all down with them, but it’s never enough for these assholes (assuming you take what he says at face value and that it’s not just a distraction and/or deflection).
The 2020 census already favored red states. Texas, Florida, Montana(!) and North Carolina gained a combined 5 seats, while West Virginia lost 1. On the other side, Colorado and Oregon gained 1 seat each, while New York, California, and Illinois lost 1 seat each. So red states are +4 net, blue states are -1 net. The others are accounted for in the swing states: Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania lost 1 each for a combined -3 net.
Your title made me think of this picture.
I hear Americans bag out newsom he’s the only force standing against these idiots.
Ahem. That would be an “Ultra Maroon!” https://youtu.be/HuxJqIs2a-Y
More importantly the republicans gained seats
oh look it’s that fucking guy that I hate
