Texas, Ohio and Florida Republicans – and perhaps some other Red States – are planning on mid-decade redistricting. This has caused our Democrats to shriek about how we’re destroying Democracy. Yeah, whatever. This is actually just retaliation: the Democrats have mercilessly gerrymandered their deep Blue States so that the GOP is only getting a fraction of the seats their total House vote merits…now that is being turned about, and that is fair play. The real reason the Democrats are shrieking is because if this goes forward it will make it nearly impossible for the Democrats to win the House in 2026.
In 2024, the GOP won the House vote 50 to 47 percent but ended up losing 2 seats. That is how powerful the Democrat gerrymander has been. Back in 2016 we got 48 percent to the Democrats 47 and won 241 seats…a 23 seat majority. Had the Democrats not done their gerrymanders we probably would be sitting on 250+ seats right now. If all goes well, the net gain for the GOP in 2026 will be in the neighborhood of 12 to 15 seats, thus putting us in line with our actual vote share. And that means that the last two years of Trump will be even more productive than the first two years (it is almost certain the GOP will retain the Senate in 2026 – absent a political meltdown, it stays GOP. Bottom line, the only Senate seat that is a possible flip to the Dems is North Carolina while the GOP has prospects in New Hampshire, Minnesota, Michigan and Georgia).
Democrats have decided that their next target in the Culture War is Sidney Sweeny. Honestly, I don’t know much about her – can’t say that I’ve ever even seen a show she’s been in. But she’s young, blonde and very pretty and she’s doing blue jeans ads…you know, a pretty girl rather than some overweight, blue haired weirdo. It has driven the Democrats nuts – they are saying it is a Nazi dog whistle to be a pretty blonde. I don’t know where they hope to go with this but if their goal is to win back young men (latest polling shows them swinging by more than 40 points to the GOP in the past couple years), then I don’t think attacking the hot blonde is the way to do it.
Some of the documents we’re seeing in the Trump-Russia case indicate the conspiracy continued right on through the Biden years…which means the statute of limitations is ongoing. That’s the thing about a conspiracy – the statute of limitations only kicks in when it ends. If the players were still doing it until 2024 (and it looks like they were) then everyone involved in the conspiracy from Day One (even if that day is more than seven years ago) is still on the hook…and the raid on Mar a Lago means it can be tried in Florida (Trump +13).
Sam Brown ran for Senate out here in Nevada last year and ended up losing by merely 24,000 votes out of 1.3+ million cast…which was a disappointment especially given how tardy the GOP was in giving him financial support (the Democrat incumbent had months to nuke Brown from orbit via TV ads…and she still barely pulled it off). But, he’s now been Senate confirmed to a VA position and among those congratulating him is the Cherokee Nation…which Brown is a member of. Didn’t know that. He didn’t play it up in his campaign ads like a Democrat would…but that’s because Brown wasn’t trying to get elected to check a box but to serve Nevada. Now he gets to serve America – again, as he was quite horrifically wounded in combat serving us before.
UPDATE: I know, poor taste – but LOL!
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Historically the GOP has been highly skilled at shooting itself in the foot, but Trump has clearly brought a new mentality to the Republican Party, a mentality that says you can’t keep promising things for decades and not deliver and expect people to vote for you. I know, the Dems have been doing that successfully for most of my life – different mentality completely. Free stuff distracts people from broken promises, and free stuff has never been a GOP thing. Still, I hope the Repubs don’t get over confident. They have a chance to turn the tide of history a year from November. I really don’t want to see them blow it.
White backlash would be a more accurate description. Jeff Childers’ description is spot on:
We’ve all seen it – the fact that pop culture presents America as majority POC. We’re still nearly 70% white…but to find a white couple in a movie, TV show or even a commercial is astonishing. And they seem to want to make everyone ugly no matter what color they are. I’ve just finished watching the first two seasons of Silo (excellent Sci-Fi, not filled with woke garbage, hope the producers don’t blow the concluding two seasons currently in production) and they did all they could to make the lead actress – Rebecca Ferguson – look unattractive. Sure, its supposed to be a gritty atmosphere for the story…but old Hollywood would still have brought out the beauty. Main thing is that via advertisements and pop culture the Ruling Class has created in the American mind a picture of what America looks like…and it doesn’t reflect reality (I’ve seen some polling where youngsters believe America isn’t majority white). That is what might be the catalyst for the Sweeney meltdown: we start getting back to pretty blondes being held up as an ideal and all of a sudden the whole Woke pop culture thing is in the trash.
Where did you see “Silo”? I read the books (or listened to them) and if the movie presentation is good I’d like to check it out.
When you see a glamorous actress photographed without makeup it is a reminder that the beauty we see onscreen is to a great extent created with makeup and lighting. (One example: https://cdn2.fabbon.com/uploads/image/file/18172/medium_sofia-vergara.webp) These women are certainly attractive, but not Hollywood-attractive, till they get the makeup on. So I have no problem with seeing a normally attractive woman onscreen because it is more realistic. And when I look around me I don’t see glamorous people so I’m fine with shows that show average-looking pepple
I do have a problem with the unequal representation of races in advertising and entertainment. Years ago when I went into a Nordstrom’s I noticed that all the big sales posters were either black people or mixed-race couples, and as I never thought of blacks as the target market for Nordstrom I took this to mean that Nordstrom management was not afraid of alienating a wealthy white clientele, which to me shot down the “institutional racism” thing pretty effectively.
I can’t say if its better than the books as I hadn’t even heard of it until I was bored and just clicking for something to watch – in this case, Apple TV.
Ferguson is not a totally drop dead gorgeous lady – make up or not! – but she’s pretty enough…and, yes, in this instance they might have been going for very grungy given her character’s parameters. She carries the role very well and reminds me a lot of one of my nieces who’s just that sort of very smart but willing to get hands dirty lady. It stars Tim Robbins as the heavy and he plays it very well. Alexandra Riley is another stand out performer who even at the end of season 2 you’re not sure if she’s a good guy or a bad guy.
It’s interesting to see that so many books and movies about a dystopian future have themes that are much more in line with current conservativism than Leftism. When there is something similar to today’s Left, like the government system in the Hunger Games series, it is stupid and ridiculed or vicious and ridiculed but in general a warning about the consequences of government by a massively powerful Central Authority.
Yep – even The Man in the High Castle, when thought about, is an indictment of the liberal establishment. And my next book, Of the 15, delves into this. Not sure if it’ll be a stand-alone book or a series – leaning towards stand-alone with the prospect of a prequel and sequel. But the crux of the story is an indictment of the liberal desire for total control of society and the extremes to which they’ll go in pursuit of this goal.
Side note: Never read the High Castle book but the series, IMO, sorta failed especially in the concluding season. If you’ve never seen it, the premise is of multiple universes with the action largely taking place in a universe where the Germans and Japanese won WWII…and its 1962 in Nazi/Japanese occupied USA. The ending they gave it in the series was just weak – didn’t really resolve everything and wasn’t as interesting as it could have been. I would have forced the heroes to a life or death choice about trust – go through the trans-universe portal or not? They can’t know what will result if they do…but if they do, it all works out. And the way I’d work it out is that in the other universe (actually ours, of course) it was people the Germans and Japanese killed in the alternate universe who provided the way to defeat the enemy…but someone has to have the guts to go and get it, sight unseen.
Texas, Ohio and Florida Republicans – and perhaps some other Red States – are planning on mid-decade redistricting. This has caused our Democrats to shriek about how we’re destroying Democracy. Yeah, whatever. This is actually just retaliation: the Democrats have mercilessly gerrymandered their deep Blue States so that the GOP is only getting a fraction of the seats their total House vote merits.
In 2024 the GOP garnered 49.8% of the House, which equates to 216.63 House seats. In reality they won 220 seats. So it’s not true that “the GOP is only getting a fraction of the seats their total House vote merits.” Unlike you and Amazona, I’m not going to accuse you of lying like you do to others, but what you said it factually incorrect.
If all goes well, the net gain for the GOP in 2026 will be in the neighborhood of 12 to 15 seats, thus putting us in line with our actual vote share.
No it wouldn’t. A gain of 12 seats due to gerrymandering would give the GOP 232 seats, or 53.3% of seats, on a total vote of 49.8%. So it would put the GOP well above its actual vote share, not in line with it.
You really want to challenge me on this? Assert that I am factually wrong about something?
California House Election, 2024
52 House seats at stake.
GOP secured 39.23% of the vote which would give the GOP 20 seats. They got 9. That’s 17% of the seats. 45% of what they should have achieved. Where’s the GOP’s 11 seats they should have won?
That should have got the GOP to 231 House seats.
Illinois House Election, 2024
17 House seats at stake.
GOP secured 46.97% of the vote which would give the GOP 8 seats. They got 3. That’s 17% of the seats. 37% of what they should have achieved. Where’s the GOP’s 5 seats they should have won?
That should have got the GOP to 236 House seats.
Maryland the GOP got 1 and should have at least got 2 and likely 3.
Oregon the GOP got 1 and should have got 2 and possibly 3.
Washington the GOP got 2 and should have got 4.
New Mexico the GOP got none and should have got 1.
New Jersey the GOP got 3 and should have got 5.
Connecticut the GOP got none and should have got 2.
New York the GOP got 7 and should have got 11.
At the low end, the GOP House should be 252. We didn’t get it because Democrats have been ruthlessly gerrymandering for a while now. Of course both parties have always gerrymandered but the Democrats turned it up to 11 and are now whining like little babies that it is going to happen to them.
Screw you and your fake outrage about it.
Pretty much!
ROTFLOL!!!! A little long for a bumper sticker, but still…… Maybe a billboard.
I wish the GOP would get its act together and buy billboards every now and then, for messages like this—and the first one, too, about Communism.