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Florida legislature allows Ron DeSantis to draw congressional districting maps
- Thread starter Uncle at Nintendo
- Start date
The people behind him aren't, and that's where the maps will be from.
He really isn't. He's an asshole and a piece of shit, but he's not an idiot and knows what he's doing. He's far more dangerous than Trump with power as he's evil and knows how to actually get what he wants and has some brains to manipulate people.
Has this *ever* happened before? I feel like a governor straight up drawing the map is completely unprecedented.
Seems super unconstitutional too, but the current SCOTUS thinks it's not a court problem so I bet his map will stand long enough for the midterms at least.
Seems super unconstitutional too, but the current SCOTUS thinks it's not a court problem so I bet his map will stand long enough for the midterms at least.
Yep.
Blacks remain a target. What else is new for the bastion of racism and hatred that is the Republican Party.
No doubt there will be, yeah. Pretty much every redistricting map gets some legal challenge nowadays, and it'd doubtful this will be any different regardless of how it's drawn out.
I'm not sure it's inherently unconstitutional as the Legislature draws maps. If the Legislature defers to DeSantis to draw the maps that's up to them. Now, the maps themselves afterward can be unconstitutional.
Essentially, instead of making maps that DeSantis keeps vetoing, they'll just use whatever map he maps.
Edit: Hell is nonexistent and all the devils are here and must be treated civilly
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People like DeSantis and Trump aren't stupid. They know what they're doing and they also know there's no consequences if they mess up so they can swing for the fences with fuckery and eventually some of it sticks.
going to be awkward for the red states currently pushing the "independent state legislature" theory
These idiots are super unAmerican. Lawless lowlifes that hate poc. And for what reason really? Fucking out of touch traitors. Like, move to Russia you fucks.
Gotcha. Good thing the SCOTUS ruled that partisan gerrymandering isn't a problem for federal courts 🙃
People have banned in the past for calling for death on people, yes. I'm pretty sure saying stuff like 'get the guillotines out' was bannable at one point. Not sure if that's still the case or not, but people are cautious enough so I assume it's still at least partially true
The forum has an obligation to moderate threats of violence or else we risk losing our host.
This is why we all wish expedient natural causes to our enemies.
Unless something truly vile comes out, like him found out to be a pedophile or something, it never will. He may not reach the heights that he wants (aka becoming President one day), but nothing truly deserving will happen to him.
He doesn't need to when he can get the Legislature to do what he wants as it is.
If the Legislature can make maps with strategists, lobbyists, and think tanks, I don't think they would rule that the Governor can't have this input.
If life hasn't made it clear that karma isn't real by now, I don't know what to tell you. No cosmic retribution waits for these folks, they'll reap rewards until they die.
I was going to blanketly ask "Whats the worm-brained reasoning behind this?" and upon reading the article it appears to be that Republicans in the Florida legislature are just spineless fucking wimps afraid of being primaried. Makes sense.
Yeah unfortunately as long as things go as they are karma is a life of 80+ years of clean living, golf, yachts, parties, food, travel, political connections, extramarital affairs, and even if they go earlier, a nice obituary writeup and headlines for a week commemorating what fine and upstanding individuals they were.
But they actually are still finding maps that blatantly dilute Black representation is a problem. Hopefully that trend continues once this racist dipshit's maps get challenged.
I believe those challenges all happening at the sate level now though. If Florida's Supreme Court ends up okaying the map then there's no other recourse AFAIK.
When the super partisan map the Republican Legislature was making isn't good enough you might as well change the title from Governor to Super Fascist.
At this point DeSantis is the despot of Florida. Defining the shape of his own government like this... if there had ever been separation between Florida's executive and its other branches, that's... gone now.
Let me tell you a story Children.. of how R's use U-S Court System.
1. Desantis draws clearly unconstitutional maps right before the Midterm Elections. It's signed into law.
2. The Maps are challenged in Court.
3. Well it's too close to the elections to make any major changes.. so I guess we will have to use the Desantis ones until it moves through the courts!
4. Profit.
1. Desantis draws clearly unconstitutional maps right before the Midterm Elections. It's signed into law.
2. The Maps are challenged in Court.
3. Well it's too close to the elections to make any major changes.. so I guess we will have to use the Desantis ones until it moves through the courts!
4. Profit.
Wasn't there some politician in Alabama that almost got elected despite pretty much being a pedophile? Doubt this would stop a republican in Florida.
If you're drawing a distinction between intelligence and like, political instincts or parlaying charisma into political success I can agree with the latter. But if you're suggesting that Trump is truly a smart person and all we ever see is 'the mask', cmon now, lol. He's demonstrably dumb as shit and always has been. He's skated through life with cheat mode on and has not one intellectual bone in his body. Possessing some degree of cunning or populist appeal is very different than raw intellectual aptitude, and thank fuck he doesn't have it all.
