Good morning kids. So, one of the big stories is the Leftists going apeshit over Texas' new redistricting plan. So they are screaming the usual hypocritical bullshit about power grabs and attempts to steal the midterms. Coming from a party that has gerrymandered the living hell out of most of the blue states to permanently make a sizable chunk of their constituents no more than serfs who have essentially no say in how they are governed is very near the heights of chutzpocrisy:
Not merely content with near insurmountable supermajorities, Daniel Greenfield notes they want it all. (NB: I have been having trouble linking to FrontpageMag via Safari this morning but Chrome seems to be working - JJS)
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California announced a plan to end democracy to save democracy. Democracy, as everyone who watches CNN knows, is in a precarious state and urgently needs to be saved by protecting it from those who want to destroy it for the wrong reasons by destroying it for the right reasons. And the right reason is ending electoral democracy. In that noble democratic spirit, California, where Republicans are occasionally allowed out in public, just not in the streets of major cities, announced plans to reduce the number of its 52 congressional seats that Republicans are allowed to hold in the state from 9 to 3.
California has 5.7 million registered Republicans to 10.3 million registered Democrats (and another nearly 7 million people who refuse to choose a political party despite the best efforts of the DMV, the Department of Cannabis Control and Jimmy Kimmel Live!) and Trump won 38% of the vote there which means that statistically Republicans ought to have more seats than that even if all they did was run a random masked guy named Bob in every single election.
Instead, California has state primaries, including Senate races, in which Democrats compete against other Democrats, as if the state were run by Communist China (instead of merely being used as a model and stash house by a succession of Democrat governors.)
How do California Democrats, who make up 45% of registered voters, control 82% of the congressional seats and all of the state government? Fraud, the use of taxpayer-funded community groups for political organizing to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars and also massive gerrymandering of a kind that would have made any machine Democrat from a century ago weep tears of shame and then hide out in a cemetery to consult with his voters.
Now, Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to take the Democrats from controlling a mere 82% of congressional seats to controlling 94% of congressional seats. To put that into context, this is a more extreme domination by an authoritarian ruling party than in Communist China. In the National People’s Congress, only 86% of the delegates belong to the Chinese Communist Party (while the others, like members of the DSA and the WFP in America, belong to organizations controlled by the Communist Party). Even Vladimir Putin settled for 88% of the vote.
Newsom looked at China and Russia, and decided that he could do better and go for 94%.
There are minor technical issues with Newsom’s plan: it’s unconstitutional, illegal and makes California look like Russia with more bleached blondes. In 2008, and a last gasp of actual democracy, a majority of Californians voted in favor of Proposition 11, to add a constitutional amendment creating an independent commission to control redistricting. In 2010, 59.5% of voters voted to have that commission set congressional districts. The commission, which currently includes Isra Ahmad, formerly of the Division of Equity & Social Justice on the ‘independent’ side, and Sara Sadhwani of CHIRLA, the group linked to the recent illegal alien riots, on the Democrat side, is a farce. But at least it’s a constitutional farce.
Of course the Texas Democrats fled to the shade and protection of the vast refuge beneath JB Pritzker's gut. And Good for Texas governor Abbott for this move:
Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott threatened Sunday to remove dozens of House Democrats from office after they fled to the state to block a GOP-led redistricting plan during a special session of the legislature. In a statement, Abbott gave more than 50 Democrats who left the state to deny a quorum – effectively halting the legislative process – until 3:00 p.m. on Monday to return or face removal proceedings. Abbott said that the actions of the Democrats amounted to “an abandonment or forfeiture of an elected state office” and that Texas law empowered him to fill the vacancies.
And, in a not necessarily unrelated item, as Hakeem-rent-a-camel Jeffries wets his diapers about stolen elections, which is ironic given the fact that the Democrat Party has been expert at rigging and stealing elections for decades. We have this item. Not holding my breath but still it is nevertheless good to see:
The Department of Justice (DOJ) opened a grand jury investigation into an alleged conspiracy by Obama administration officials to manufacture intelligence about Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to multiple reports. Attorney General Pam Bondi directed a federal prosecutor, who is expected to present evidence to a grand jury, to begin legal proceedings, according to a letter Fox News first reported.
At the very least expose the hell out of perhaps the greatest crime perpetrated against the American people in our history. Of course, as I had stated in the last few editorials, to expect punishment of the guilty let alone actual prosecution is unfortunately wishing for a miracle.
Why does Obama need not fear charges? The race card. Consider the protests after the death of George Floyd. Floyd, a career violent criminal, was full of drugs, resisted arrest and was subdued by a restraint technique taught in the Minneapolis Police Academy. (For the truth about the death of Floyd, watch the documentary “The Fall of Minneapolis,” available for free on YouTube.) Yet, much of the country went crazy over this supposed example of anti-black police “systemic racism.” The trial was televised. Prosecutor Jerry Blackwell, a black man, took pains in his opening statement to say that the police, in general, were not on trial and that the Minneapolis Police Department, in general, was not on trial. The prosecutor said this individual cop, Derek Chauvin, was on trial for actions taken and not taken in connection with the death of Floyd. This prosecutor never even implied Chauvin was motivated by Floyd’s race, and Chauvin was not charged with a hate crime.
There's also the narrative card, which is why Hillary, Brennan, Comey and all the other pasty white criminals will never have to face the music. They were the defenders of democracy (vomit) and Trump was and remains literally Hitler. Exploding that myth cannot be allowed and the fact that we are even at this point is kind of miraculous, let alone Trump surviving several attempted physical and political assassinations and his agenda garnering all sorts of support from across the political spectrum.
And elsewhere it is encouraging to see Tom Cotton encouraging the IRS to have CAIR put in the crosshairs. Scratch their surface and aside from foreign Islmonazi supporters many of the same domestic insurrectionists and Leftist/Democrats have given them aid and comfort as well lo these many years.
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