People are already voting, but he’s super-excited about being able to take representation away from blacks
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What’s amazing to me is how fast they blocked the elections because the maps were found “illegal”. The state of Ohio’s Supreme Court found their election maps illegal multiple times and the legislator delayed until they said “Oh well too close to the election now ¯_(ツ)_/¯”. But now like 3 days before Louisiana’s elections suddenly they gotta shut it all down to fix such an injustice…
What a racket.
But now like 3 days before Louisiana’s elections suddenly they gotta shut it all down
The GOP is staring down the pipe of a landslide election in 2026, so they gotta sandbag every seat they can.
Liberals would logically respond by gerrymandering in-kind, as they’ve done in Virginia and started doing in California. But the innate “bring a sternly worded letter to a gun fight” reflexes of the American democrat continues to drag out any response until well past the point at which they’ve conceded the next election.
This is going to be 2018 all over again. A bunch of excitement about a landslide that ends with a slew of concessions to Moderate Republicans. Democrats screaming “Vote Blue No Matter Who” at anyone who balks at the Henry Cuellar Re-election Campaign, then politely lining up behind John Fetterman for Senate Majority Leader once the polls close.
“What a Racket” is an awfully cutesy way to short-sell the fury in our hearts and the damage being done to our country.
Akin to “Oh no I’m currently being stabbed to death! Dang it!”
A racket as in racketeering. I’m inclined to agree, it’s just an old-timey way to say, “Fuck these fascist grifters and their pyramid scheme.”
Unfortunately I’m from Ohio, a red state that has been doing this shit for years now. Ohio has been the “most geremandered” state in the union for years now. So color me surprised that another red state is doing the same thing.
I’ve worked the polls for 5 years now and will be working during our primaries next week. I also volunteer with outreach groups to try to change what’s going on and inform people. I’m trying my best to change what I can, just venting on here to be honest.
I keep saying this because it keeps being relevant. Republicans have moved so far beyond simple hypocrisy - they are overtly, shamelessly duplicitous and disingenuous. Textbook bad faith actors. At virtually every opportunity they will take any advantage they can to get what they want regardless of the consequences to others. They are more than willing to risk countless lives and the very fabric of society if they think they can maneuver themselves to be in charge when it gets rebuilt.
It’s frankly damning and pathetic that most Democrats (politicians) are unwilling to point this out and, as policy, assume Republicans are lying.
What’s amazing to me is how fast they blocked the elections because the maps were found “illegal”.
Almost like it was timed pretty perfectly.
Landry has strategically set himself up to have way too much power, and basically destroyed any checks and balances within the state of Louisiana.
On the one hand, it is a blatantly antidemocratic move to do something like this so close to the election, especially with early voting starting . On the other, nobody (with the exception of the federal government, and let’s face it, we know what side they’re on with Trump in the White House) can stop the kingfish from doing what he wants to do in his own pond.
Doing this so close to the election means that the burden of the ticking clock is actually placed on anybody figuring out how to challenge him. And even if they somehow do successfully figure out how to stop him from cancelling the elections the day of (May 16th), undoubtedly he will have already done some significant damage either by interfering with early voting or just spreading misinformation.
This is just the most egregious thing he’s done so far to blatantly interfere with elections and democracy. Louisiana just removed an existing elected position within New Orleans at Landry’s behest, after the candidate was sworn in to office. Before doing that it was a statewide voter purge from the ballots, and willingly agreeing to hand over voter registration data to the DOJ.
It is a bit crazy. Does an election with illegal maps count? Can it be challenged in court?
It sounds like (and I could be wrong) that the map they have been using for at least one cycle has been found illegal. So what happens to the people elected by that map? Can the loser from before sue now? Feels like the court should have given some direction on what to do here.
Alito says racism is over, as republican governors trip over themselves to remove black voters from having an impact
They’re not sure if freeing the slaves was a good idea. They’ll re-visit that ruling.
THAT should distract from the Epstein files.
republicans and election interference, name a more iconic duo
Republicans and pedophilia?
Shit, I stand corrected
Landry has a real knack for making the most unbelievable anti-democratic bullshit happen overnight. People always talk about how incredibly dumb he is in person, but look at the very scary bullshit he has accomplished. I don’t mean that as a compliment. I mean that he either wants to be underestimated (like Stalin), or he has somebody with a lot of strategic capability so far up his ass, you can’t even see them basically wearing him like an Edgar suit.
The strategy that has gone into all of this should be very unnerving. Over and over again, we see Landry test something out in Louisiana only to then watch the Trump administration unleash the exact same strategy at a federal level. A lot of this has been shit Landry started to set up almost a decade ago when he was still AG, and it’s fallen into place like a row of dominos.
I have very little hope of actually stopping Landry from cancelling Louisiana elections. I hope I’m wrong, but regardless, America should be watching this very closely to preempt the strategy Trump will be using to completely cancel the midterms.
If Landry suspends the House primaries but not other contests, primary voters would have to go to the polls twice, just weeks or months apart from each other.
That by itself blatantly favors Republicans, let alone every other aspect of it.
I mean this is the same state government that is currently trying to delete a position from the New Orleans government because they don’t like who was elected: Bill eliminating Orleans Parish clerk of criminal court heads to Governor Landry | wwltv.com https://share.google/mtwH43SZ7li56CQyd
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