Gavin Newsom Gives "Rally" Speech to Nearly Empty Room to Push for an Amendment Allowing Him to Gerrymander the State Even Harder

California is already heavily gerrymandered, as Scott Jennings in a clip below points out. 40% of voters are Republican, but Republicans only have 17% of the state's congressional seats.

Liberals like to pretend that they are far better people than they are, so state law mandates that congressional lines be drawn by an "independent commission," this commission being Democrat-dominated and producing the congressional split of 40 Democrats to 12 Republicans.

But this fake "independent commission" presents impediments to Newsom's presidential primary stunt of redrawing the maps now, and only on his own authority, so he staged a "rally" filled with Democrat office-holders and almost no one else to propagandize for a constitutional amendment that will give him all of the power.

Voters are skeptical of Newsom's power-grab.

A new poll shows strong opposition to Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to shift redistricting power from California's independent commission to the Democrat-led Legislature.
Key Details:
Newsom's proposal would transfer congressional map-drawing authority from the constitutionally mandated independent commission to the state Legislature, requiring voter approval in a November referendum.
A Politico--Citrin Center--Possibility Lab survey found Californians prefer the independent panel over legislative control by a wide margin, undercutting Democrats' justification for the overhaul.
Newsom has threatened to redraw California's maps to net Democrats new seats, claiming it would "offset" GOP gains in Texas. Proposed maps are expected to be unveiled Tuesday.

A "leaked" plan shows that Newsom would steal five more seats from Republicans, reducing the Republican delegation from 12 to 7.

I don't believe this, though. I think this leak is intended for one audience: Governor Abbott of Texas. I think Newsom's pretending he can cut this many seats to get Abbott to back off.

Because I don't believe you can gerrymander 40% of the population so hard they only have five districts where they form the majority.

And also: Abbott has already threatened to re-district and take eight seats from Democrats, so bring it on, Hair-Gel.

The New York Times asks "Is Texas really less gerrymandered than California, or is that just another Republican lie?"

Check out this typical "fact-check" treatment:

In a recent defense of Republican efforts to redraw Texas' congressional maps with a greater Republican advantage, Vice President JD Vance criticized the current maps in California as an extreme gerrymander. There, he suggested, Democrats had already given themselves an egregious number of safe blue seats in Congress.
While Mr. Vance ignored that California's maps are drawn by an independent commission, not Democrats, he cited a seemingly simple statistic as proof: the partisan breakdown of the state's congressional delegation as compared with the statewide partisan vote share.

The "independent" commission is dominated by Democrats. The Democrats like to pretend they're for "reform" and "good, clean government," so they set up "independent commissions," supposedly, to take the politics out of politics.

But then they pack those "independent commissions" full of partisan Democrats. Democrats want the appearance of non-partisan politics, but not the reality of it.

Democrats control about 80 percent of California's seats in the U.S. House but earned roughly 60 percent of the statewide vote in the 2024 presidential election, a more than 20 percent point disparity. Texas Republicans won 58 percent of the vote, yet hold 66 percent of the seats -- an 8-point gap.

This is why I say this is a "typical fact-check:" They concede that a "simple statistic" proves that the Republican is telling the truth, but they then say: But what are statistics anyway? Just lies told by the White Man with numbers.

But this statistic, taken by itself, ignores several critical factors, like how voters are geographically sorted in a state; how close the elections were in some of those congressional districts; the importance of protecting the rights of voters of color; and the ability of a popular congressional incumbent to run against statewide trends.

All of this is just commie gobbedlygook to distract from the main point: Yes, California much more heavily gerrymandered than Texas was.

40 million people live in California, and Gavin Newsom could barely get 50 people to show up for his big "liberation day" rally today. 😂

This is the biggest failure since CNN+ pic.twitter.com/RsOaypRreu
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) August 15, 2025

And most of them were party hacks:

Crowd in place for @GavinNewsom rally announcing what he calls the “Election Rigging Response Act.”

It’s the Democratic gerrymander plan to counter potential gerrymandering from Texas Republicans.

Much of California’s Democratic leadership is at the Tateuchi Democracy Forum. pic.twitter.com/EzcgawAhRs
— Elex Michaelson (@Elex_Michaelson) August 14, 2025

106 people turned out, most of them employees of Newsom.

pic.twitter.com/gaJaWxltMp
— God & Country (@GodandCountryy) August 14, 2025

Border Patrol is now arresting illegal aliens outside of Gavin Newsom’s press conference about gerrymandering California

This is exactly what I voted for pic.twitter.com/R4Z3K6WOLo
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) August 14, 2025

Newsom chummed the waters with more assassin-bait. They'll keep trying until they get their dead president.

NEWSOM: "Trump will be running for a third term. Mark my word."

"I received, in the mail, a 'Trump 2028' hat."

"These guys are not screwing around." 😂 pic.twitter.com/pkiCeadEz4
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 14, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 02:00 PM

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1 Ola!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 15, 2025 02:00 PM (/HDaX)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 15, 2025 02:01 PM (GYt5+)

3 Border Patrol is now arresting illegal aliens outside of Gavin Newsom�s press conference about gerrymandering California

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lol

Posted by: runner at August 15, 2025 02:02 PM (g47mK)

4 Because I don't believe you can gerrymander 40% of the population so hard they only have five districts where they form the majority.

And also: Abbott has already threatened to re-district and take eight seats from Democrats, so bring it on, Hair-Gel.

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And also also:

OH has to redistrict again this year. They could add 2 seats. Other states could redistrict as well, including IN and FL and MO.

The only way to counter all of that would be to create what's colloquially called a dummymander: a gerrymander so absurd it blows up in the planners' faces by making too many thin districts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:03 PM (GBKbO)

5 Does this independent commission have a blue ribbon too?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 15, 2025 02:03 PM (PzXaK)

6 All of this is just commie gobbedlygook to distract from the main point: Yes, California much more heavily gerrymandered than Texas was.

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"That's not true! CA's was done by an independent commission! That means it's not at all political! It's just fair! TX is being done by their legislature, which makes it political!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

7 Gerry Mander is the most active political consultant in Dem circles.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:04 PM (ynpvh)

8 @carldemaio Aug 10
California’s analysis confirms it—Gavin Newsom’s scheme to ram through a gerrymandered congressional map would cost taxpayers over $200 million. I was right all along. This is nothing more than a partisan power grab that drains our budget and undermines fair representation.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 15, 2025 02:04 PM (mlg/3)

9 As the Beaver.

Posted by: Jerry Mander at August 15, 2025 02:04 PM (2sMLA)

10 This state is fucked. Plain and simple.

Most of my friends and neighbors do hate Newsom -- but because he isn't left-wing enough. He's too mainstream for the typical California "liberal."

Posted by: zombie at August 15, 2025 02:05 PM (pMi6S)

11 6 "That's not true! CA's was done by an independent commission! That means it's not at all political! It's just fair! TX is being done by their legislature, which makes it political!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

"Nothing Democrats do is Political, it's just The Truth!"

Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2025 02:05 PM (UnA8+)

12 I do not get the appeal of hairgel.

We need a better name for him.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2025 02:05 PM (bss/y)

13 I think any attempt to actually redistrict CA will backfire and add some GOP seats. I don't think it's possible to make the district any more Democrap-friendly than it already is.

CA is already maxed out. Thinking it can be pushed still more Dum is like murdering a trantifa junkie pervert by shooting him in the face with a 50 cal, burning the body, pissing on the ashes, and then thinking "is there more I can do to kill this motherfucker?"

CA is the archetype of the state with huge red areas and lots of GOP voters. But its politics is dominated by yuge deep-blue cities and insanely gerrymandered districts at both the state and federal level.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 02:06 PM (iFTx/)

14 Because I don't believe you can gerrymander 40% of the population so hard they only have five districts where they form the majority.

Take a look at Massachusetts.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 15, 2025 02:06 PM (0U5gm)

15 He should have worn his Trump 2028 hat.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 02:07 PM (krQz2)

16 This whole California thing is as gay as a DOJ employee with a Subway sandwich.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 15, 2025 02:07 PM (PzXaK)

17 106 people turned out, most of them employees of Newsom.

And the remainder were paid agitators.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 15, 2025 02:07 PM (wtvvX)

18 Texas democrats still stonewalling the Texas legislature.

Abbott's wheels are made of clay.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 15, 2025 02:07 PM (/U5Yz)

19 13 I think any attempt to actually redistrict CA will backfire and add some GOP seats. I don't think it's possible to make the district any more Democrap-friendly than it already is.

CA is already maxed out. Thinking it can be pushed still more Dum is like murdering a trantifa junkie pervert by shooting him in the face with a 50 cal, burning the body, pissing on the ashes, and then thinking "is there more I can do to kill this motherfucker?"

CA is the archetype of the state with huge red areas and lots of GOP voters. But its politics is dominated by yuge deep-blue cities and insanely gerrymandered districts at both the state and federal level.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 02:06 PM (iFTx/)

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They had to steal several of the seats they already have before any proposed gerrymandering.

With a DOJ ready to work against them, the effort headed by someone like Harmeet Dhillon, making that even thinner just seems...stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:07 PM (GBKbO)

20 Totally love ICE hanging out and arresting illegals.

I wish they'd have arrested the protesting "girl?" in her flannel pj's, too. Mostly because she was wearing pj's in the street in the middle of the day.

Gavin is hollerin' and trying to get noticed. If he really wants to fight fire with fire, why didn't he last year with the real fires? Maybe use water vs having homeless start more fires?

I want to know what drugs he's taking to be so clueless of himself.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 15, 2025 02:07 PM (6PCLE)

21 16 This whole California thing is as gay as a DOJ employee with a Subway sandwich.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 15, 2025 02:07 PM (PzXaK)

Does it taste like a hotdog at a gay picnic?

Posted by: Zombie Gilbert Gottfried at August 15, 2025 02:07 PM (ynpvh)

22 I can't believe he isn't confiscating all the assault weapons while he steam rolling the Constitution and California law.

Weak

Posted by: torabora at August 15, 2025 02:08 PM (iOlSu)

23 14 Because I don't believe you can gerrymander 40% of the population so hard they only have five districts where they form the majority.

Take a look at Massachusetts.
Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 15, 2025 02:06 PM (0U5gm)

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9 seats total is very different from 51 seats total.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:08 PM (GBKbO)

24 I do not get the appeal of hairgel.

We need a better name for him.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Governor Brylcreem was in vogue a few years ago.

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 15, 2025 02:08 PM (2sMLA)

25 I’m really getting into the geography of congressional districts now because of this crap.

That IL district up top is wild.

Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:08 PM (77rzZ)

26 18 Texas democrats still stonewalling the Texas legislature.

Abbott's wheels are made of clay.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 15, 2025 02:07 PM (/U5Yz)

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The clock on their forced removal after 20 days of skipping legislative sessions is still running while they're talking about coming back beforehand.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:08 PM (GBKbO)

27 Just curious, are there constitutional limits on gerrymandering? Like does the distict have to even be contiguous? Or is it a free for all ?

Posted by: Maroon at August 15, 2025 02:09 PM (NO0JG)

28 25 I’m really getting into the geography of congressional districts now because of this crap.

That IL district up top is wild.
Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:08 PM (77rzZ)

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It's fair and non-partisan, peon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:09 PM (GBKbO)

29 27 Just curious, are there constitutional limits on gerrymandering? Like does the distict have to even be contiguous? Or is it a free for all ?
Posted by: Maroon at August 15, 2025 02:09 PM (NO0JG)

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Contiguous is a requirement, hence the weird shapes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:09 PM (GBKbO)

30 22 I can't believe he isn't confiscating all the assault weapons while he steam rolling the Constitution and California law.

Weak

Posted by: torabora at August 15, 2025 02:08 PM (iOlSu)

Not for lack of trying.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:09 PM (ynpvh)

31 June, don't be so hard on the Beaver.

Posted by: Ward Cleaver at August 15, 2025 02:09 PM (iOlSu)

32
The "independent" members of Michigan's district realignment created the 3rd district in the heart of the west side that snakes through a conservative area to create an safe democrat seat.

Turns out after the dirty work that they were anything but non-aligned.

Posted by: Auspex at August 15, 2025 02:10 PM (Y8DZL)

33 I do not get the appeal of hairgel.

We need a better name for him.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

He looks like a gay vampire.
Count Hairgel.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 15, 2025 02:10 PM (/U5Yz)

34 29 27 Just curious, are there constitutional limits on gerrymandering? Like does the distict have to even be contiguous? Or is it a free for all ?
Posted by: Maroon at August 15, 2025 02:09 PM (NO0JG)

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Contiguous is a requirement, hence the weird shapes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:09 PM (GBKbO)

How thin can the lines connecting regions be? Can a single street be considered enough of a connection?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:10 PM (ynpvh)

35 Apparently, one member of the “independent commission” to choose Congressional districts in California showed up at Governor Newsom rally.

I wonder what their definition of “independent” is ?

Posted by: SMOD at August 15, 2025 02:10 PM (gosXu)

36 34 How thin can the lines connecting regions be? Can a single street be considered enough of a connection?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:10 PM (ynpvh)

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Probably.

I bet there are districts in NY like that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:10 PM (GBKbO)

37 This whole California thing is as gay as a DOJ employee with a Subway sandwich.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 15, 2025 02:07 PM (PzXaK)

Does it taste like a hotdog at a gay picnic?
Posted by: Zombie Gilbert Gottfried

"These hot dogs taste like Sh!t." Tastes like sh!t for a reason.

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 15, 2025 02:10 PM (2sMLA)

38 NV is even more lopsided I think. GOP garners close to 60% of House votes (counting some "independents" who I think in NV vote largely GOP), yet has only 1 of 4 House seats.

And ace, you might have missed it, last week, as part of his ridiculous gerrymander PR blitzkrieg, Newsom posted a "you do it too!" map of allegedly unfairly drawn districts in red states. He included the Dakotas and Wyoming. Hilarious. And a perfect example of the intellects we're up against (the pols, and their voters).

Posted by: rhomboid at August 15, 2025 02:11 PM (U/Byj)

39 27 Just curious, are there constitutional limits on gerrymandering? Like does the distict have to even be contiguous? Or is it a free for all ?
Posted by: Maroon
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Voting Rights Act and its related Scotus cases. One, though, is before Scotus dealing with whether majority minority districts as called for in Scotus and DoJ statutory interpretations in the past, is no longer constitutional based on the Equal Protection clause trumping the VRA. Louisiana case.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2025 02:11 PM (ctrM5)

40 34 Jim, I think so.

How are you?

Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:12 PM (77rzZ)

41 Governor Brylcreem was in vogue a few years ago.
Posted by: Joe Mama at August 15, 2025 02:08 PM (2sMLA)

Like it. Gives the oily idea.

'Vaseline Dream'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2025 02:12 PM (bss/y)

42
He looks like a gay vampire.
Count Hairgel.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 15, 2025 02:10 PM (/U5Yz)

Pity he does not have the widow's peak hairline like that simpering Paul Ryan. Then it would be perfection!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 15, 2025 02:12 PM (6PCLE)

43 Most Gerrymandered districts...

https://tinyurl.com/2h3dwdv8

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:12 PM (ynpvh)

44 38 And ace, you might have missed it, last week, as part of his ridiculous gerrymander PR blitzkrieg, Newsom posted a "you do it too!" map of allegedly unfairly drawn districts in red states. He included the Dakotas and Wyoming. Hilarious. And a perfect example of the intellects we're up against (the pols, and their voters).
Posted by: rhomboid at August 15, 2025 02:11 PM (U/Byj)

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I think any fair read on districting has to just ignore states with fewer than 5 districts.

A 60-40 state giving all four seats to the party that won 60? I don't think that's stretching it too much.

A single district state, though, is just...retarded.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO)

45 Because I don't believe you can gerrymander 40% of the population so hard they only have five districts where they form the majority.

Take a look at Massachusetts.
Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 15, 2025 02:06 PM (0U5gm)

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9 seats total is very different from 51 seats total.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:08 PM (GBKbO)

but not a SINGLE republican seat. how is that fair? they had like 30% for PDJT in 24, iirc...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 15, 2025 02:12 PM (v6XNT)

46 So there was a Ukrainian sniper in Alaska, that was taken out before the meeting.

https://tinyurl.com/5x5xpe6s

(Goes to Substack)

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 15, 2025 02:12 PM (kUxzU)

47
Bass flipped out and her head started bouncing all over.

Hilarious.

Posted by: E Buzz at August 15, 2025 02:12 PM (6gona)

48 The "independent" commission was, as I recall, voted in by the voters, in a proposition. Under the idiot Ahnuld.

Like the ridiculous bullet train and decriminalizing retail theft, some of CA's most idiotic and damaging crap is actually a result of the electorate's choices. Amazing.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 15, 2025 02:13 PM (U/Byj)

49 I've been enjoying Spencer Pratt telling the truth about Gavin and Karen Bass. Never piss off a reality show villain, he's almost politician like in his ability to never feel shame.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 15, 2025 02:13 PM (QsMb/)

50 45 but not a SINGLE republican seat. how is that fair? they had like 30% for PDJT in 24, iirc...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 15, 2025 02:12 PM (v6XNT)

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It's not fair at all, but them's the breaks.

Gerrymandering is the winnings of political warfare. Democrats figured that out decades ago. They were right to do it.

If the Republicans in MA want more representation in Congress, then they need to work harder to get reps in their state legislature who will make that happen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:14 PM (GBKbO)

51 I honestly hope he goes through with this and it "passes."

Why?

1) Most in CA are against it (because they are very, very stupid people who think slapping a "nonpartisan" sticker on a pile of shit really tranmorgifies it to nonpartisan)

2) their calculations on gaining 5 more seats are almost certainly based on 2020 and 2024 numbers.
So, not just assuming fraud, but also assuming all the illegals will be there AND none of the Trump federal-level reforms will be in place.
(Yes, a clown judge has an injunction against it now. And it will fall on appeal.)

3) and most of all, because they have already gerrymandered so much, they will almost certainly dilute several safe seats to create these new districts.
Which they will lose.

I'll bet this, instead of netting them 5 new Dem seats, will net the Republicans 5 new seats.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2025 02:14 PM (I4g9n)

52 10 This state is fucked. Plain and simple.

Most of my friends and neighbors do hate Newsom -- but because he isn't left-wing enough. He's too mainstream for the typical California "liberal."

Zombie, yes I've heard that side of it, too, here on CA's Central Coast. On the flip side, my next door neighbor is a middle aged woman, registered D, and hates him because she thinks he's a greasy scum ball. And she also voted for Trump, so hopefully more D's here will think like her. Then again, she grew up a farm girl and the city libs are much different.

Posted by: beckster at August 15, 2025 02:14 PM (NLtte)

53 Because I don't believe you can gerrymander 40% of the population so hard they only have five districts where they form the majority.

Take a look at Massachusetts.
Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 15, 2025 02:06 PM (0U5gm)

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9 seats total is very different from 51 seats total.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

True, but Mass has 35-40 something percent republican voters, and zero congressional seats.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 15, 2025 02:14 PM (0U5gm)

54 My point of course was that Newsom cited one-district states as examples of "gerrymandered" states.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 15, 2025 02:14 PM (U/Byj)

55 With a DOJ ready to work against them, the effort headed by someone like Harmeet Dhillon, making that even thinner just seems...stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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The double whammy of cleansing voter rolls and deporting illegals means an existential crisis for Dems. They cannot permit either as it will destroy their ability to compete in most places.

Posted by: whig at August 15, 2025 02:14 PM (ctrM5)

56 I think any attempt to actually redistrict CA will backfire and add some GOP seats. I don't think it's possible to make the district any more Democrap-friendly than it already is.

CA is already maxed out. Thinking it can be pushed still more Dum is like murdering a trantifa junkie pervert by shooting him in the face with a 50 cal, burning the body, pissing on the ashes, and then thinking "is there more I can do to kill this motherfucker?"

CA is the archetype of the state with huge red areas and lots of GOP voters. But its politics is dominated by yuge deep-blue cities and insanely gerrymandered districts at both the state and federal level.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 02:06 PM (iFTx/)

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They had to steal several of the seats they already have before any proposed gerrymandering.

With a DOJ ready to work against them, the effort headed by someone like Harmeet Dhillon, making that even thinner just seems...stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:07 PM (GBKbO)
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Exactly

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 02:14 PM (iFTx/)

57 Apparently, one member of the “independent commission” to choose Congressional districts in California showed up at Governor Newsom rally.

I wonder what their definition of “independent” is ?
Posted by: SMOD at August 15, 2025 02:10 PM (gosXu)

not directly paid from newsom's pocket?

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 15, 2025 02:14 PM (v6XNT)

58 Governor Brylcreem was in vogue a few years ago.
Posted by: Joe Mama at August 15, 2025 02:08 PM (2sMLA)

Like it. Gives the oily idea.

'Vaseline Dream'
Posted by: Aetius451AD

"I'm a Dapper Dan man myself."

Posted by: Newscum aka The Soggy Bottom Boy at August 15, 2025 02:15 PM (2sMLA)

59 53 True, but Mass has 35-40 something percent republican voters, and zero congressional seats.
Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 15, 2025 02:14 PM (0U5gm)

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Oh, it's definitely unfair.

MA Republicans should probably elect more Republicans to the state legislature interested in fixing that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

60 Kind of a surprised gay vampire.

Hmmm.

Vlad no Vag?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2025 02:15 PM (bss/y)

61 40 34 Jim, I think so.

How are you?

Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:12 PM (77rzZ)

Okay. I'll continue brown-bagging for a while...
And yourself?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:15 PM (ynpvh)

62
The goal is to create White Democrat districts and black Democrat district only. See? Totally fair.

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 15, 2025 02:15 PM (WF28X)

63 Per Tom Luongo:

Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch)
@TFL1728
4h
Just so's you know... I can get 106 people for a rib-eating gab fest at the Sonny's in Clermont.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2025 02:15 PM (rbvCR)

64 Because I don't believe you can gerrymander 40% of the population so hard they only have five districts where they form the majority.

*Massachusetts has entered the chat*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 15, 2025 02:16 PM (kgE5c)

65 I have been living in California's Central Valley for thirty years. We've been gerrymander-ed good and HARD. Used to be a solid red area, then purple, now a horrible shade of blue. It would be a stretch to screw us over any more... maybe he wants to go after Orange County?

Posted by: Michael Pangburn at August 15, 2025 02:16 PM (tlY76)

66 So Newsome needs an amendment to gerrymander it all himself...but Trump is the dictator.
Right.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 15, 2025 02:16 PM (2WIwB)

67 This November’s election is targeting retention of Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices, many of whom threw out the legislature’s “flawed”. Congressional district map for their own “flawed” Congressional district map that favored Democrats.

Posted by: SMOD at August 15, 2025 02:16 PM (gosXu)

68 There was a congressional district in Florida that looked like that Illinois one somewhat, only it was more north-south oriented. It's the one that kept electing Corrine Brown (D - wire fraud) until it got redrawn.

Posted by: Gerry gets around at August 15, 2025 02:17 PM (TbWk/)

69 Well, FDR got three terms so it must be okay.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 15, 2025 02:17 PM (W3T6M)

70 How many Housr seats have been stolen thanks to “found” and late arriving ballots in California. They are experts at counting h for weeks and months after Election Day to ensure the D candidate wins.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 15, 2025 02:18 PM (Hkcdp)

71 And ace you probably saw that outside Newsom's Sportpalast rally Border Patrol collared one suspected illegal, and more importantly they showed up to flip off Bass and Newsom. The LA BP guy is like Homan, but not so reserved and tentative. Hilarious.

I'm somewhat intrigued by the continued Home Depot parking lot raids. Encouraged gratified and entertained, but still. Hope it's part of a strategy of spreading the love, to communicate that all illegals, not just those convicted of multiple murders and child molestings, are on the target list (well, except for ag and hospitality illegals, a yuuuuge mistake that hopefully politix will force Trump to back off of).

Posted by: rhomboid at August 15, 2025 02:18 PM (U/Byj)

72 Like the ridiculous bullet train and decriminalizing retail theft, some of CA's most idiotic and damaging crap is actually a result of the electorate's choices. Amazing.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 15, 2025 02:13 PM (U/Byj)
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The Coastal Commission.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 15, 2025 02:18 PM (WvZaB)

73 46 So there was a Ukrainian sniper in Alaska, that was taken out before the meeting.

https://tinyurl.com/5x5xpe6s

(Goes to Substack)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 15, 2025 02:12 PM (kUxzU)

Huh. Reads like a thriller novel.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2025 02:18 PM (bss/y)

74 Texas democrats still stonewalling the Texas legislature.

Abbott's wheels are made of clay.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 15, 2025 02:07 PM (/U5Yz)

I'm gonna go ahead and guess that you know almost nothing about how the Texas government works.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 15, 2025 02:18 PM (ExV1e)

75 District map above makes me think GPS would be squawking, "Make a U-Turn, Make a U-Turn."

Posted by: scampydog at August 15, 2025 02:18 PM (2bFN5)

76 69 Well, FDR got three terms so it must be okay.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 15, 2025 02:17 PM (W3T6M) \

And part of a fourth...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:18 PM (ynpvh)

77 CA Democrats have rigged the state level elections for years.
- Ballot Harvesting
- Motor voter registrations
- Ballot drop boxes
- Mailed out ballots to the dead, voters old addresses, nursing homes, etc
- made Voter ID requirements illegal
- allow illegal aliens to vote in "local" elections, like school boards

If they wanna get 51%+ of any issue put before the CA electorate, they have ways of getting that done.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at August 15, 2025 02:19 PM (Ovc06)

78 74 Texas democrats still stonewalling the Texas legislature.

Abbott's wheels are made of clay.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 15, 2025 02:07 PM (/U5Yz)

I'm gonna go ahead and guess that you know almost nothing about how the Texas government works.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 15, 2025 02:18 PM (ExV1e)

Government work seems like an oxymoron...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:19 PM (ynpvh)

79 Which brings up the question: why do we have 435 congressional seats such that we have to constantly re-divide into districts per state, instead of just adding more seats?

My high school history teacher said it was because they didn't have enough room to add more desks, with a smile and wink.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 15, 2025 02:19 PM (0U5gm)

80 Kind of a surprised gay vampire.

Hmmm.

Vlad no Vag?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2025 02:15 PM (bss/y)

Have you seen those things? They bleed for seven days and still don't die!

*shudders*

Posted by: Vlad at August 15, 2025 02:19 PM (i24o9)

81
Ace is probably a big Red Sonja fan. I mean, he loves The Beatles, so...

Anyhoo, the new fake Red Sonja fake reboot is a total woke DEI disaster, complete with a gay man transvestite fake "director" who is a mess.

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 15, 2025 02:19 PM (WF28X)

82 The clock on their forced removal after 20 days of skipping legislative sessions is still running while they're talking about coming back beforehand.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:08 PM (GBKbO)

Everyone fails Healy. Always, and always.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2025 02:20 PM (rbvCR)

83 66 So Newsome needs an amendment to gerrymander it all himself...but Trump is the dictator.
Right.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 15, 2025 02:16 PM (2WIwB)

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He needs the legislature to propose an amendment which the voters need to pass to undo a previous amendment passed by the voters to create the independent commission...all within a few months to get it to the state legislature to redraw the maps in time for the 2026 election while making districts even thinner in order to win after having to steal several seats last year (weeks worth of ballot counting isn't about accuracy).

It could happen.

But...Press X for doubt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:20 PM (GBKbO)

84 Conversation with Grok asking it for party affiliation of the commission and biographies of those with no party affiliation.

6 GOP
5 Dem
4 No Party

3 of the NP ones sure seem likely to lean left based on their biographies.

https://x.com/i/grok/share/HNgCnOuc0maUkcFKWUjjRvzzJ

Posted by: zonedar at August 15, 2025 02:20 PM (Slp/3)

85 Trump 2028 hat

You know he’s baiting you, Gavin.
Stop making it so fun for him!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 15, 2025 02:20 PM (Hkcdp)

86 Kind of a surprised gay vampire.

Hmmm.

Vlad no Vag?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2025 02:15 PM (bss/y)

Speaking of surprised gay vampires, I got around to watching "Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat" with David Carradine.

That was... different.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 15, 2025 02:20 PM (/HDaX)

87 Ello Luv I would like to take this time to introduce myself to the nation. I am most certain you never heard of me. I am hoping to appeal to not only stinky hippy democrats but
Hip Quick and slick MAGA men and especially WOMEN . I am a huge fan of the BBB for me the BBB is not the big beautiful bill but the Blue Eyed Blonde Babes.

- Jerry Mander
thank you for your attention to this matter

Um if you don't like the attention then I'll just fuck you up.

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 15, 2025 02:20 PM (VPPG8)

88 25 That IL district up top is wild.
Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:08 PM (77rzZ)

Looks like a sonograph of Hillary's big old dried up vagina.

Posted by: jsg at August 15, 2025 02:21 PM (lmwvN)

89
All they do is Co-Opt IP's and use them to shoehorn in the DEI leftist-fascist-fake-gay agrnda.

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 15, 2025 02:21 PM (WF28X)

90 I once wrote a huge essay bout gerrymandering that was very popular, but I foolishly posted it only at PJMedia, and not at zombietime -- and now the link is broken. Sigh.

Anyway, the essay clearing explained how gerrymandering works -- a combination of "cracking" and "packing." If you have too many ofn your party's vote jammed inton one district, you "crack" it by carving out wasted votes and moving them over the neighboring districts that need them. Meanwhile, you "pack" as many opposing voters all into ne district, so they get wasted.

The goal of gerrymandering is to win every district by 51%. If done perfectly, you can disenfranchise 49.9% of voters.

But there's a hitch.

Voters are not always stable and consistent. Gerrymandering can backfire, spectacularly. If you cut the margin too small, and the voter preference shifts just a little bit, then you end up gifting a distirct to the opposing side. With that in mind, they usually try to build in a margin for error -- maybe 55%.

But with Trump-level voter shifts, even 55% isn't safe. I'd be willing to bet the Newsom's "clever" gerrymandering plan will backfire--the GOP will take some seats presumed to be Dem.

Posted by: zombie at August 15, 2025 02:21 PM (pMi6S)

91 Governor Hand-dancer.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 02:21 PM (krQz2)

92 Some gerrymandered districts have had skinny branches that basically followed the path of a highway connecting two towns.

Also if you don't mind clicking to the NYT, here's a little online game they created to help government students practice their gerrymandering skills.

https://tinyurl.com/yp4c4w4s

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at August 15, 2025 02:21 PM (GD2xa)

93 Id be willing to bet that sometime in the near future Newsom has a psychotic break. Everything he does makes Cali worse and all his efforts to get at Trump look spastic. He's an idiot but it will dawn on him what an idiot he really is and then "boink"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 15, 2025 02:21 PM (xffwU)

94 There are comments that the Ukrainian story is from unreliable sources. But, it would be a great time to try and get a Ukrainian asset in place for an assassination.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 15, 2025 02:21 PM (kUxzU)

95 And yourself?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

OK, kinda Medical Mel (Dilbert character) at the moment. Just had a bump removed from my nostril because my GP thought it might be skin cancer (found out this morning that it wasn't). And next Wednesday, I get to go in for a colonoscopy and an endoscopy on the same day. Yay!

Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:22 PM (77rzZ)

96 So there was a Ukrainian sniper in Alaska, that was taken out before the meeting.

Posted by: Notsothoreau

According to the report, PDJT gave the Special Forces the lead as door kickers instead of the Secret Service.

I hope Trump mentioned the SS's stellar protection in Butler as the reason.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 15, 2025 02:22 PM (cYBz/)

97 Trump is remarkably blessed by the enemies he attracts.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 15, 2025 02:22 PM (W3T6M)

98 If the person who went out of their way to have a Trump 2028 hat made and actually sent it to Gavin Newsom is reading this (and exists), I applaud you and your efforts.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2025 02:22 PM (EctuH)

99 Speaking of surprised gay vampires, I got around to watching "Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat" with David Carradine.

That was... different.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 15, 2025 02:20 PM

It's no Twilight.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 15, 2025 02:22 PM (kgE5c)

100 "We won't have a country left if Trump wins."
"Trump is an authoritarian."

Lord almighty!

How come no one told us this?! You could have told us this in 2015 when he first ran!
How are you just now telling us this?!!

LOL
Fucking tards.
They've beat this drum so hard for so long.

But this time, this time for sure, the dreadlocked, thrift store clothed, stinking hippies pounding on Home Depot buckets and old pots are going to strike a slick beat that's gonna get everyone's attention.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2025 02:22 PM (I4g9n)

101 the importance of protecting the rights of voters of color

Exactly what "rights" of voters of color are not protected in this context ?

And how do "rights" of people of not-color different than "rights" of people of color?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 15, 2025 02:22 PM (kHd4y)

102 Lets eliminate gerrymanders entirely -

Amendment 30 (or whatever) All house districts are to be drawn with four straight lines only, except where a naturally occurring body of water substitutes for one or more of the sides. Districts are to be created for geographical parity - all districts sized within +/- 5% of their number square miles/their apportioned seats.

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at August 15, 2025 02:23 PM (F/35S)

103 Independent Commissions.
LO fucking L.
Like the CPUC? Who approves utility rate hikes?
Staffed by ex-Execs from PG&E, SDG&E, and SoCal Edison. The ex-Execs that have huge stock holdings in these utilities? The ones who invariably benefit from rate hikes?
I sure am, as a resident of CA, happy that these independent commissions are so non-biased and work in my very best interest!

Posted by: Gunslinger at August 15, 2025 02:23 PM (MpOUf)

104 I get to go in for a colonoscopy and an endoscopy on the same day. Yay!
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Sweet Dreams are made of these....

Posted by: pudinhead at August 15, 2025 02:23 PM (W3T6M)

105 He included the Dakotas and Wyoming. Hilarious. And a perfect example of the intellects we're up against (the pols, and their voters).
Posted by: rhomboid

The programmers of the left don't care if it looks or sounds stupid. Their goal overrides any concern about consistency or reason. Getting the masses to accept incongruent things is one of the steps in programming orthodoxy.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 15, 2025 02:23 PM (mlg/3)

106 I get to go in for a colonoscopy and an endoscopy on the same day. Yay!
Posted by: Bulg

Don't miss the opportunity to save $$ on the visit - have the Dr. use the same endoscope for both.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 15, 2025 02:24 PM (cYBz/)

107 98 If the person who went out of their way to have a Trump 2028 hat made and actually sent it to Gavin Newsom is reading this (and exists), I applaud you and your efforts.

now do 2032!

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 15, 2025 02:24 PM (Pv3Rg)

108 100 But this time, this time for sure, the dreadlocked, thrift store clothed, stinking hippies pounding on Home Depot buckets and old pots are going to strike a slick beat that's gonna get everyone's attention.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2025 02:22 PM (I4g9n)

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I'm just waiting for Trump to be the sane, sober elder statesman that Republicans should yearn for in the hated, insane years of Presidential candidate JD Vance.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:24 PM (GBKbO)

109 65 I have been living in California's Central Valley for thirty years. We've been gerrymander-ed good and HARD. Used to be a solid red area, then purple, now a horrible shade of blue. It would be a stretch to screw us over any more... maybe he wants to go after Orange County?

Yes, I know, sure used to be solid red out there. In 2021 here in CA's 30th district, they added Santa Cruz and Monterey to our area in the re-districting. We trended red until then.....

Posted by: beckster at August 15, 2025 02:24 PM (NLtte)

110 It's no Twilight.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 15, 2025 02:22 PM (kgE5c)

Heh. I did get a nice reminder why I thought Deborah Foreman was a smokeshow.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 15, 2025 02:24 PM (/HDaX)

111 Everything he does makes Cali worse and all his efforts to get at Trump look spastic. He's an idiot but it will dawn on him what an idiot he really is and then "boink"
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Aviator Sun Glasses and Ice Cream Cones forever...

Posted by: pudinhead at August 15, 2025 02:24 PM (W3T6M)

112 60 Kind of a surprised gay vampire.

Hmmm.

Vlad no Vag?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2025 02:15 PM (bss/y)

Vlad the Impaled.

Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2025 02:25 PM (UnA8+)

113 "We won't have a country left if Trump wins."

The lies keep on coming. The Left absolutely hates the notion of country, they want the former United States to be a colony.

Loaded up with various colonies, tribes, warring factions, multiple cultures, languages, values... but highly dependent on the WASP culture to support them all.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 15, 2025 02:25 PM (kHd4y)

114 "We won't have a country left if Trump wins."
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They left out "Because we're going to burn it down!"

Mr. Neutron continues to wrack up destroyed planets.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 02:25 PM (krQz2)

115
I do not get the appeal of hairgel.
We need a better name for him.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I offer Slack Jawed Mincing Ponce Lefty Cocksucker (SJMPLC)

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 15, 2025 02:25 PM (QcUc+)

116 Governor Shimmy

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 02:25 PM (krQz2)

117 I get to go in for a colonoscopy and an endoscopy on the same day. Yay!
Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:22 PM (77rzZ)

They can meet in the middle.

Posted by: A real end run at August 15, 2025 02:26 PM (TbWk/)

118 This isn't going to work out like Newsome thinks it will. He's attempting 3rd and 4th Turning tactics in a 1st Turning cycle.

Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2025 02:26 PM (dCxaZ)

119 107 98 If the person who went out of their way to have a Trump 2028 hat made and actually sent it to Gavin Newsom is reading this (and exists), I applaud you and your efforts.
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Its our people's way of throwing Lime Green Dildos.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 15, 2025 02:26 PM (W3T6M)

120 I get to go in for a colonoscopy and an endoscopy on the same day. Yay!
Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:22 PM (77rzZ)

Make sure they don't use the same hose

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 15, 2025 02:26 PM (NtVYv)

121 Government work seems like an oxymoron...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:19 PM (ynpvh)

Sure, but anyone who bitches about the Governor of Texas not throwing his weight around knows nothing about the Texas government... despite the best efforts of many in the comments over the years.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 15, 2025 02:26 PM (ExV1e)

122 And next Wednesday, I get to go in for a colonoscopy and an endoscopy on the same day. Yay!
Posted by: Bulg

Taking it at both ends? Tight!

Posted by: Mayor Pete at August 15, 2025 02:26 PM (ftFVW)

123 Vlad the Impaled.
Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2025 02:25 PM (UnA8+)
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"I vant to sock your [deleted]"

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 02:27 PM (krQz2)

124 Speaking of surprised gay vampires, I got around to watching "Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat" with David Carradine.

That was... different.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 15, 2025 02:20 PM (/HDaX)

Heh. I rewatched it myself for the first time in 35 years when you said it was on prime.

I remember it being better.

Deborah Foreman was really cute. (Also in Real Genius.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2025 02:27 PM (bss/y)

125 why do we have 435 congressional seats such that we have to constantly re-divide into districts per state, instead of just adding more seats?

That's the number that Congress picked and it's up to them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 15, 2025 02:27 PM (ExV1e)

126 Vlad the Impaled.
Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2025 02:25 PM (UnA8+)

Vag the impaled

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at August 15, 2025 02:27 PM (NtVYv)

127 125 why do we have 435 congressional seats such that we have to constantly re-divide into districts per state, instead of just adding more seats?

That's the number that Congress picked and it's up to them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 15, 2025 02:27 PM (ExV1e)

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A Congress of 10,000 representatives would be interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:28 PM (GBKbO)

128
Newsome doesn't strike me as being very intelligent.

He's like a Brylcremed pink Obama.

I'll even bet his jeans creased.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 15, 2025 02:28 PM (iJfKG)

129 I get to go in for a colonoscopy and an endoscopy on the same day. Yay!
Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:22 PM

I had to do that last time, too. Yay.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 15, 2025 02:28 PM (kgE5c)

130 >>> 121
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Sure, but anyone who bitches about the Governor of Texas not throwing his weight around knows nothing about the Texas government... despite the best efforts of many in the comments over the years.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 15, 2025 02:26 PM (ExV1e)

He rolls his weight around.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 15, 2025 02:28 PM (ULPxl)

131 OK, kinda Medical Mel (Dilbert character) at the moment. Just had a bump removed from my nostril because my GP thought it might be skin cancer (found out this morning that it wasn't). And next Wednesday, I get to go in for a colonoscopy and an endoscopy on the same day. Yay!
Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:22 PM (77rzZ)

I did a double about 15 years ago. Would not recommend, one star. My recent colonoscopy got me the recommendation t get another one in five years and that I eat more fiber.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2025 02:28 PM (rbvCR)

132 I think any attempt to actually redistrict CA will backfire and add some GOP seats. I don't think it's possible to make the district any more Democrap-friendly than it already is.
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Even the NYT "fact check" indirectly admits this:
"how close the elections were in some of those congressional districts;"

Remember: They stole 3-5 seats--that the R was leading the day after Election Day via "ballot harvesting," counting for weeks after.
Trump's EO takes direct aim at that.
And there is no Constitutional support for the current injunction against the EO.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2025 02:28 PM (I4g9n)

133 A Congress of 10,000 representatives would be interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:28 PM (GBKbO)
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But exactly what the amenders wanted to avoid.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 02:29 PM (krQz2)

134 104 I get to go in for a colonoscopy and an endoscopy on the same day. Yay!
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Sweet Dreams are made of these....
Posted by: pudinhead at August 15, 2025 02:23 PM (W3T6M)

Ah. Also known as 'The Sandra Fluke.'

Posted by: Pete Buttigege at August 15, 2025 02:29 PM (bss/y)

135 If Newsome gets his way, I'm thinking it will backfire in a way he won't like. Politics as usual is one thing, and people will tolerate that to a point. But forcibly gerrymandering the state even more than it is, just to make him look presidential, and not do anything for Californians, will bite him in the ass. If he can bully the Republicans in his state like this, he (and the rest of the dems there) can bully them in other ways. And they will.
Won't end well.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 15, 2025 02:29 PM (2WIwB)

136 BREAKING: Jazz Hands are making a comeback.

Unfortunate.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 15, 2025 02:29 PM (/U5Yz)

137 40-12? I'm pretty sure the CA congressional split is 43-9, though that 3 seat difference might be from Dem ballot harvesting rather than Dem gerrymandering.

Posted by: Vanishingly Rare Foreign Youkai at August 15, 2025 02:29 PM (eeua8)

138 Creased = are creased

Posted by: naturalfake at August 15, 2025 02:29 PM (iJfKG)

139 Border Patrol chief crashes Newsom's rollout of California redistricting campaign. Attempted intimidation. Accomplished impotence.

If Cali redistricting is successful and Dems retake the House, there will be some checks and balances on these hooligans. Lawsuits and jail time would be great, but can't get too greedy.

all it did was piss people off. The Gestapo looked stupid standing around trying to be all macho, but you can see how nervous they were. And almost all masked like the little chumps they are. People outside hated them for their little charade.

“Wake up, America,” Newsom said. “Wake up to what's happening not just here in Los Angeles, where we saw our streets militarized, where we saw due process rights thrown out the window.”

many times has Donnie Dumb Ass threatened to have Newsom arrested? Had the opportunity to do just that but they decided to pick on some poor immigrant instead. Chicken shits. Just fucking do it, ya fucking cowards!!!! We all know they want to go there. Then just fucking go there and catch the fucking wrath!!

Donnie can't even get evil dictator right. He's a failure at everything.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 15, 2025 02:30 PM (ycI94)

140
Mr. Neutron continues to wrack up destroyed planets.
Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 02:25 PM (krQz2)

[sniffs armpits]

Posted by: SAC General at August 15, 2025 02:30 PM (/HDaX)

141 I had to do that last time, too. Yay.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

The endoscopy is because of the bouts of puking that I've been having lately.

Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:30 PM (77rzZ)

142 133 A Congress of 10,000 representatives would be interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:28 PM (GBKbO)
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But exactly what the amenders wanted to avoid.
Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 02:29 PM (krQz2)

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I also think they wanted to avoid a 1:700,000 ratio of Reps to citizens.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)

143 out this morning that it wasn't). And next Wednesday, I get to go in for a colonoscopy and an endoscopy on the same day. Yay!
Posted by: Bulg

Save money. Have them do it with just one camera with a longer cord.

Posted by: Hints From Heloise at August 15, 2025 02:30 PM (G5+As)

144 139 If Cali redistricting is successful and Dems retake the House, there will be some checks and balances on these hooligans. Lawsuits and jail time would be great, but can't get too greedy.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 15, 2025 02:30 PM (ycI94)

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Ahem...

How? How exactly would this retribution happen with one chamber of Congress?

Hearings?

They sound like Republicans circa 2013.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:31 PM (GBKbO)

145 I get to go in for a colonoscopy and an endoscopy on the same day. Yay!

I had that done once. From my POV, it was literally no different from just the colonoscopy. Same prep, same nap, same copay.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 15, 2025 02:32 PM (3nLb4)

146 IIRC that was Arnold's thing -- the "independent commission."

Part of Arnold's political naiveté was believing in things like independent commissions. And I'm sure plenty might say he wanted the state to stay dominated by Democrats, but he really, really hates gerrymandering so i think he honestly believed in the idea of the "independent commission"

Problem is no one is really independent. Especially government employees.

Posted by: brak at August 15, 2025 02:32 PM (jGJov)

147 Given the Census admitted errors in last count, how many House seats will California lose?

Redistricting won’t help that

Posted by: Lizzy at August 15, 2025 02:32 PM (Hkcdp)

148 Heh. I rewatched it myself for the first time in 35 years when you said it was on prime.

I remember it being better.

Deborah Foreman was really cute. (Also in Real Genius.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2025 02:27 PM (bss/y)

It wasn't a waste of time, but it did righteously earn its 6.0/10 rating on the IMDB.

I'll admit I did get a chuckle out of the three assholes sitting on the gas station bench (Mort, Merle and Milt).

Posted by: SAC General at August 15, 2025 02:33 PM (/HDaX)

149 If he is running he better poney up for a audience

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2025 02:34 PM (+qU29)

150 /sock off

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 15, 2025 02:34 PM (/HDaX)

151 147 Given the Census admitted errors in last count, how many House seats will California lose?

Redistricting won’t help that
Posted by: Lizzy at August 15, 2025 02:32 PM (Hkcdp)

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A reapportionment now based on the corrected 2020 numbers would mean 2 seats, probably, lost for CA.

After deporting millions and maybe even successfully not counting illegals at all and having a Census more interested in correct counts than "underrepresented voices" like the last guy outright said...

Could be a couple more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:34 PM (GBKbO)

152 Trump 2525

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 15, 2025 02:35 PM (63Dwl)

153
And next Wednesday, I get to go in for a colonoscopy and an endoscopy on the same day. Yay!
Posted by: Bulg
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I did a double about 15 years ago. Would not recommend, one star. My recent colonoscopy got me the recommendation t get another one in five years and that I eat more fiber.
Posted by: Kindltot

Thank goodness I'm on ten year service interval

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 15, 2025 02:35 PM (QcUc+)

154 coming in hot and hard ladies. hot and hard!

Posted by: flyin' green dildo at August 15, 2025 02:35 PM (EFZgU)

155 The Palisades will be a suppurating and gangrenous Stage IV wound on whatever Gavin manages to pull together as a presidential campaign.

He is as hated in California as Kamala.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 15, 2025 02:36 PM (RIvkX)

156 And next Wednesday, I get to go in for a colonoscopy and an endoscopy on the same day. Yay!
Posted by: Bulg
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You are being literally skewered.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 15, 2025 02:36 PM (XvL8K)

157 Good luck, Bulg

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 15, 2025 02:36 PM (a7N4U)

158 5 Does this independent commission have a blue ribbon too?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 15, 2025 02:03 PM (PzXaK)

Rainbow, H8ter.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:37 PM (ynpvh)

159 You know else did rallies?

Posted by: ... at August 15, 2025 02:37 PM (yh2Fr)

160 Trump 2028. Huge. Luxurious.

Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2025 02:37 PM (jgmnb)

161 I had that done once. From my POV, it was literally no different from just the colonoscopy. Same prep, same nap, same copay.
Posted by: Oddbob

I have to do a lot more prep for this one than for my first colonoscopy. I lot more stuff I have to take ahead of time.

Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:38 PM (77rzZ)

162 The endoscopy is because of the bouts of puking that I've been having lately.
Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:30 PM (77rzZ)
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I know you like words. If you want to impress the nurses, say "emesis"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 15, 2025 02:38 PM (RIvkX)

163 Yeah, good luck, Bulg!
Will be good to have it behind you 😉

Posted by: Lizzy at August 15, 2025 02:38 PM (Hkcdp)

164 131 OK, kinda Medical Mel (Dilbert character) at the moment. Just had a bump removed from my nostril because my GP thought it might be skin cancer (found out this morning that it wasn't). And next Wednesday, I get to go in for a colonoscopy and an endoscopy on the same day. Yay!
Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:22 PM (77rzZ)

I did a double about 15 years ago. Would not recommend, one star. My recent colonoscopy got me the recommendation t get another one in five years and that I eat more fiber.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2025 02:28 PM (rbvCR)

Cystoscopies are fun too...
"You're sticking a camera up where again?"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:39 PM (ynpvh)

165 I would be hesitant to state Cali voted 40% R but got 17% seats.

Not right. But justifying redrawing the map using that is a trap.

Ds have wanted pure democracy. i.e., popular vote.

By using the above analogy, if I'm a D I say sure. For everything.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 15, 2025 02:39 PM (JkCto)

166 Good luck, Bulg
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

Thanks. Maybe I'll wear a festive little hat to cheer myself up.

Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:39 PM (77rzZ)

167 NYT hot take

WNBA sex toy incidents may be linked to cryptocurrency group’s money scheme

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 15, 2025 02:39 PM (NtVYv)

168 148 Heh. I rewatched it myself for the first time in 35 years when you said it was on prime.

I remember it being better.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2025 02:27 PM (bss/y)

but it did righteously earn its 6.0/10 rating on the IMDB...I'll admit I did get a chuckle out of the three assholes sitting on the gas station bench (Mort, Merle and Milt).
Posted by: SAC General

I didn't see what was ACTUALLY being discussed, but assholes sitting together 35 years ago with one named Mort made me instantly think of watching The McLaughlin group with my dad when I was a kid. Mort Kondracke, Fred the Beetle Bailey Barnes, Eleanor "I'm not a retard" Clift, etc. I wonder how disgusted I'd be watching an old episode, and how Romney/Bush establishment the "conservatives" would sound.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 15, 2025 02:40 PM (ycI94)

169 Yeah, good luck, Bulg!
Will be good to have it behind you 😉
Posted by: Lizzy

Yes, it will, Lizzy. Thanks.

Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:40 PM (77rzZ)

170 Voters are not always stable and consistent. Gerrymandering can backfire, spectacularly. If you cut the margin too small, and the voter preference shifts just a little bit, then you end up gifting a district to the opposing side.
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Especially for a party that had a solid hold on the working and non-college class for 150 years as a solid core of their base.

But, I'm sure Trump picking them up, at a pace that is accelerating, won't affect them ...

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2025 02:40 PM (I4g9n)

171 You are being literally skewered.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 15, 2025 02:36 PM (XvL8K)

Do not use the term "spitroast"

The best outcome is that the staff never heard the term.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2025 02:41 PM (rbvCR)

172 Voters are not always stable
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Yup, just look at how many voted for the hyena.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 02:42 PM (krQz2)

173 @168 Eleanor Clift had the single most annoying voice on TV. Nails on a blackboard bad

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 15, 2025 02:42 PM (xffwU)

174 WNBA sex toy incidents may be linked to cryptocurrency group’s money scheme
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 15, 2025 02:39 PM (NtVYv)

I thought we knew that last week?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2025 02:42 PM (bss/y)

175 173 @168 Eleanor Clift had the single most annoying voice on TV. Nails on a blackboard bad
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 15, 2025 02:42 PM (xffwU)

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That lady from Independence Day?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

176 156 And next Wednesday, I get to go in for a colonoscopy and an endoscopy on the same day. Yay!
Posted by: Bulg
________
You are being literally skewered.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

What's wrong with this Wednesday? (Pulls out various scopes and speculum).

Posted by: Wednesday Addams at August 15, 2025 02:43 PM (ycI94)

177 I know you like words. If you want to impress the nurses, say "emesis"
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Ha!

In suburban Maryland, there is a major artery named "Father Hurley Boulevard" that gets frequent mention in the DC traffic reports.

I refer to vomiting -- especially when it results from a hangover -- as "confessing to Father Hurley."

Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:43 PM (77rzZ)

178 173 @168 Eleanor Clift had the single most annoying voice on TV. Nails on a blackboard bad
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 15, 2025 02:42 PM (xffwU)

Nah.

Michael Medved
Sean Hannity
Ben Shapiro

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2025 02:43 PM (bss/y)

179 I hate California but love California too. I'm so confused.

Posted by: Not quite as big balls at August 15, 2025 02:43 PM (2YC93)

180 Well, the "fact-check" is right about comparing those statistics. It isn't as strong a statement as people take it to be.

But when they pretend the "independent" commission isn't heavily partisan, they're just lying.

I suggest that if anyone wants to do an independent commission on something like gerrymandering, they be required to use neighborhood lines to start, and that the members be selected randomly from voter rolls (distributed evenly across the state).

Posted by: GWB at August 15, 2025 02:43 PM (rSsQh)

181 Newsome doesn't strike me as being very intelligent.

He's like a Brylcremed pink Obama.

I'll even bet his jeans creased.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 15, 2025 02:28 PM (iJfKG)
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He's dumb, but if you listen carefully for a few minutes, he tells you.

Adam Carolla just re-posted his 2013 interview. The first half is very friendly. But then when asked simple questions is increasingly defensive and evasive. He demonstrates a remarkably consistent ability to repeat meaningless mantras and string them together like sentences. He is impervious to reason and is unwilling to show his own reasoning. By the end of it, Adam is screaming.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 15, 2025 02:44 PM (RIvkX)

182 WNBA sex toy incidents may be linked to cryptocurrency group’s money scheme
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 15, 2025 02:39 PM (NtVYv)

I heard this and my only thought was, "Hayahuasca? Adderol? Ketamine?"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2025 02:44 PM (rbvCR)

183 172 Voters are not always stable
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Yup, just look at how many voted for the hyena.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 02:42 PM (krQz2)

The dead ones are the most stable and reliable...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:44 PM (ynpvh)

184 WNBA sex toy incidents may be linked to cryptocurrency group’s money scheme
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 15, 2025 02:39 PM (NtVYv)

I thought we knew that last week?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 15, 2025 02:42 PM (bss/y)

Jake Tapper will release a book on the matter in about ten years.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 15, 2025 02:44 PM (ExV1e)

185 Eleanor Clift had the single most annoying voice on TV. Nails on a blackboard bad
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Montgomery Clift's sister-in-law.

Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:44 PM (77rzZ)

186 129 I get to go in for a colonoscopy and an endoscopy on the same day. Yay!
Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:22 PM

I had to do that last time, too. Yay.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 15, 2025 02:28 PM (kgE5c)

Make sure to tip the surgical techs. They are the ones responsible for the cleanliness of the scopes going into your orifices. Sure don't want any repeat usage, IYKWIM.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 15, 2025 02:44 PM (N39Ws)

187 I've been watching words. Boring liar

Your crimes have the maturity of a spastic teen.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at August 15, 2025 02:45 PM (WDRj6)

188 173 @168 Eleanor Clift had the single most annoying voice on TV. Nails on a blackboard bad
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Hahahahhahahhahaha! We must, overcome, what has been, for what must be. Hahahhahahhahaahhahhahaaa

Posted by: Drunken (is there any other kind?) Kamala Harris at August 15, 2025 02:45 PM (ycI94)

189 One other thing to add to CA's ridiculous gerrymander (and another shitbomb from Arnold) was the jungle primary.

So, how many of these district don't even see a R make it past the post, so there are only 2 Dems on the November ballot?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2025 02:45 PM (I4g9n)

190 There is/was a burger joint in Needles I like. Drive up,not drive through.Good burgers, good fries. Picnic tables. Might have to go there in the near future. Needles is not part of CA even if it says so on the map.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 15, 2025 02:45 PM (gm9Sb)

191 The most annoying voice in media is Mark Levin.

Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:45 PM (77rzZ)

192 Do not use the term "spitroast"

The best outcome is that the staff never heard the term.
Posted by: Kindltot

I hear they like to spin the patient, like a car body on one of those rotisserie things.

Posted by: Laughs All Around at August 15, 2025 02:45 PM (G5+As)

193 180 Well, the "fact-check" is right about comparing those statistics. It isn't as strong a statement as people take it to be.

But when they pretend the "independent" commission isn't heavily partisan, they're just lying.

I suggest that if anyone wants to do an independent commission on something like gerrymandering, they be required to use neighborhood lines to start, and that the members be selected randomly from voter rolls (distributed evenly across the state).
Posted by: GWB at August 15, 2025 02:43 PM (rSsQh)

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"Fair" for districting would mean getting a Congressional delegation roughly in line with the makeup of the voters, playing few games with district lines in order for the voters of the state to have proportional representation through the two main political parties that hold seats in Congress.

It's a perfectly salient point that Texas getting closer to CA's makeup, or IL's, in that manner just brings Texas in line with long-standing, uncontroversial tactics used by Democrats and should be treated the same way by the press as they treated something like NY redistricting last year to eliminate a few Republicans from their delegation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO)

194 189 One other thing to add to CA's ridiculous gerrymander (and another shitbomb from Arnold) was the jungle primary.

So, how many of these district don't even see a R make it past the post, so there are only 2 Dems on the November ballot?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2025 02:45 PM (I4g9n)

I know that first-hand...I find myself voting for the less offensive dem or not voting for certain offices at all...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:46 PM (ynpvh)

195 179 I hate California but love California too. I'm so confused.
Posted by: Not quite as big balls

Maybe better to say you like California, but not Californians (or perhaps, the leaders they elect).

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 15, 2025 02:46 PM (ycI94)

196 Using party affiliation or any other demographical statistic to draw districts is insane, because none are stable - people move, preferences change. The only legal method should rely on geography.

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at August 15, 2025 02:47 PM (F/35S)

197 191 The most annoying voice in media is Mark Levin.

Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:45 PM (77rzZ)

Heard him on the radio, but when I first saw him on TV, the voice didn't match the face I'd imagined...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:47 PM (ynpvh)

198 I suggest that if anyone wants to do an independent commission on something like gerrymandering, they be required to use neighborhood lines to start, and that the members be selected randomly from voter rolls (distributed evenly across the state).
Posted by: GWB at August 15, 2025 02:43 PM (rSsQh)

1. Randomly select board members.
2. Board produces map.
3. Map goes to voters for ratification.
4. If the voters of even one district say no, execute all board members and return to step 1.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 15, 2025 02:47 PM (ExV1e)

199 192 Do not use the term "spitroast"

The best outcome is that the staff never heard the term.
Posted by: Kindltot

I hear they like to spin the patient, like a car body on one of those rotisserie things.

Posted by: Laughs All Around at August 15, 2025 02:45 PM (G5+As)

I'm also scheduled for a colonoscopy...they'll be entering in TWO holes...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:48 PM (ynpvh)

200 California is the number-one state on the hot/crazy matrix.

Beautiful landscape.

Batshit crazy population.

Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:48 PM (77rzZ)

201 Look on the bright side. Being spitted is better than being spatchcocked.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 15, 2025 02:48 PM (W3T6M)

202 33 I do not get the appeal of hairgel.

We need a better name for him.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

He looks like a gay vampire.
Count Hairgel.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 15, 2025 02:10 PM (/U5Yz)

Governor Grease

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 15, 2025 02:48 PM (wtvvX)

203 Michael Savage got one colonoscopy and then never again. Got a look at the stained equipment. Which really counts for something in San Francisco.

Posted by: No Soap-Radio at August 15, 2025 02:48 PM (G5+As)

204 Needles, CA?

Heat stroke ville

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 15, 2025 02:48 PM (a7N4U)

205
Singing Polly-wolly-waddle all the day.

Posted by: Jerome Nadler at August 15, 2025 02:48 PM (krQz2)

206 We be Hope's that Trump takes Presdent Obanana to Alaska because he be cans handel Puten.

Posted by: Mary Clogerstein from Brattleboro, Vt at August 15, 2025 02:48 PM (cAexM)

207 many times has Donnie Dumb Ass threatened to have Newsom arrested?
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Zero times.
The answer is zero.

Now, if the question is, about threats to arrest those who break the law?
Well, Newscum has nothing to worry about if he breaks no law.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2025 02:49 PM (I4g9n)

208 195 179 I hate California but love California too. I'm so confused.
Posted by: Not quite as big balls

Maybe better to say you like California, but not Californians (or perhaps, the leaders they elect).

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 15, 2025 02:46 PM (ycI94)

Politicians can f**k up anything. Well, some politicians will f**k anything as well...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:49 PM (ynpvh)

209 190 There is/was a burger joint in Needles I like. Drive up,not drive through.Good burgers, good fries. Picnic tables. Might have to go there in the near future. Needles is not part of CA even if it says so on the map.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

The last time I was in Needles, the temperature shown on the electronic sign in front of the bank said 115 degrees. Felt like 125. I left a plastic box on the car dashboard in the sun -- came back three hours later to find a puddle of molten plastic where the box had been.

Posted by: zombie at August 15, 2025 02:49 PM (pMi6S)

210 Heard him on the radio, but when I first saw him on TV, the voice didn't match the face I'd imagined...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I had the same experience, but then I usually do when I see somebody's face for the first time having previously only heard their voice.

Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:49 PM (77rzZ)

211 Michael Savage got one colonoscopy and then never again. Got a look at the stained equipment. Which really counts for something in San Francisco.

Posted by: No Soap-Radio at August 15, 2025 02:48 PM (G5+As)
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It's probably a popular service in the bay area.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 02:49 PM (krQz2)

212 191 The most annoying voice in media is Mark Levin.
Posted by: Bulg

"That's right, I said it!"

Ironic that you'd joke he has a voice for print, and yet has one of the most successful and longest lasting radio shows out there. I don't know if I'd agree that it's annoying, but it's not the deep, rich, buttery-smooth audible chocolate you'd expect.

Posted by: Mark Levin at August 15, 2025 02:50 PM (ycI94)

213 Newsom should be giving a rally speech to a nearly empty asteroid.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 15, 2025 02:50 PM (snZF9)

214 Snoopy's brother Spike lived in Needles.

Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:50 PM (77rzZ)

215 Politicians can f**k up anything. Well, some politicians will f**k anything as well...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:49 PM (ynpvh)
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* Bill Clinton has entered the chat *

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 02:50 PM (krQz2)

216 I thought changing the Subway BMT to Attack Submarine Sandwich would be a no brainer until I looked at its Acronym.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 15, 2025 02:51 PM (W3T6M)

217 215 Politicians can f**k up anything. Well, some politicians will f**k anything as well...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:49 PM (ynpvh)
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* Bill Clinton has entered the chat *
Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 02:50 PM (krQz2)

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"I'm right here, you know."
-Hillary

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)

218 204 Got lost and wound up there while visiting Bullhead City. Seemed cool at the time. Got worried about the guns in the car, ate my burner and left.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 15, 2025 02:51 PM (gm9Sb)

219 217 215 Politicians can f**k up anything. Well, some politicians will f**k anything as well...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:49 PM (ynpvh)
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* Bill Clinton has entered the chat *
Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 02:50 PM (krQz2)

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"I'm right here, you know."
-Hillary

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)

So even Bill had his limits?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:52 PM (ynpvh)

220 BREAKING: Jazz Hands are making a comeback.

Unfortunate.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 15, 2025 02:29 PM (/U5Yz)

Ok, how about The Wiggles finger shake, then?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 15, 2025 02:52 PM (0eaVi)

221 0 Heard him on the radio, but when I first saw him on TV, the voice didn't match the face I'd imagined...

the BF's face definitely does not match his voice

he has the perfect voice for radio, and the face for it too, lol

he hasn't really aged well. He's younger than me but ppl think he's the older one

Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2025 02:52 PM (dCxaZ)

222 ate my burner and left.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

I bet that really gave you heartburn!

Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:52 PM (77rzZ)

223 218 204 Got lost and wound up there while visiting Bullhead City. Seemed cool at the time. Got worried about the guns in the car, ate my burner and left.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 15, 2025 02:51 PM (gm9Sb)

In PRK (Peoples' Republik of Kalifornia), your gun must be locked in a box in the trunk, separate from it's magazine, for transport...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:53 PM (ynpvh)

224 Do not use the term "spitroast"

The best outcome is that the staff never heard the term.
Posted by: Kindltot

I hear they like to spin the patient, like a car body on one of those rotisserie things.
Posted by: Laughs All Around

https://tinyurl.com/ytwjt7ay

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 15, 2025 02:53 PM (ycI94)

225 How to become a U.S. Representative: The U.S. Census aims to count every person residing in the United States, regardless of age, race, gender, or citizenship status, and includes all adults, children, citizens, and non-citizens because its purpose is to ensure everyone is represented and receives the resources they need.

Move kids around. After a time, some time out of the foster care system, some become homeless, others are rewarded to move, etc.

Capitol Weekly - The invisible children of California, Oct 11, 2018

EdSource Org, California's missing kids: Much of the loss explained, Dec. 18, 2023

In small part, "Missing Kids: ... These students are located all across the country, but are concentrated in three states: California, New York and Louisiana." **

LA Times, About 152,000 California school-age children unaccounted for, research shows, Feb. 9, 2023

Management Alert - ICE Cannot Monitor All Unaccompanied Migrant Children Released, Aug 19, 2024

** In all likelihood, now Texas too.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 15, 2025 02:53 PM (NFX2v)

226 220 BREAKING: Jazz Hands are making a comeback.

Unfortunate.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 15, 2025 02:29 PM (/U5Yz)

Ok, how about The Wiggles finger shake, then?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 15, 2025 02:52 PM (0eaVi)

I think I've seen commercials for meds with the side effects of jazz hands and wiggle fingers...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:54 PM (ynpvh)

227 Newsom should be giving a rally speech to a nearly empty asteroid.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 15, 2025 02:50 PM (snZF9)

There you go: The Little Prince, Baobob Destroyer.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2025 02:54 PM (rbvCR)

228 "independent" and "blue-ribbon" and "expert" commissions are all just bullshit fronts for "how can we fuck over the voters and defy their will without our grubby, greasy fingerprints showing?"

PS:
This also applies to all the "independent" agency heads that Trump has been firing.
It's hilarious watching these clown judges put on their red nose and thunder on mightily about how sacred and pure these (POLITICAL) appointments are because some assholes in Congress decades ago slapped a new and improved "independent" sticker on some Executive agency.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2025 02:55 PM (I4g9n)

229 successful and longest lasting radio shows out there. I don't know if I'd agree that it's annoying, but it's not the deep, rich, buttery-smooth audible chocolate you'd expect.
Posted by: Mark Levin

There's only one me!

Posted by: Zombie Gilbert Gottfried at August 15, 2025 02:55 PM (G5+As)

230 228 PS:
This also applies to all the "independent" agency heads that Trump has been firing.
It's hilarious watching these clown judges put on their red nose and thunder on mightily about how sacred and pure these (POLITICAL) appointments are because some assholes in Congress decades ago slapped a new and improved "independent" sticker on some Executive agency.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2025 02:55 PM (I4g9n)

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Independent means independent from the will of the sovereign people.

In America, the people are supposed to rule through their representatives, not a Mandarin class that can never be challenged.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:56 PM (GBKbO)

231 These guys are not screwing around = screwing around

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 15, 2025 02:56 PM (D1vbu)

232 I bet that really gave you heartburn!
Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:52 PM (77rzZ)

He clearly meant "Heartbulg"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2025 02:56 PM (rbvCR)

233 Snoopy's brother Spike lived in Needles.
Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 02:50 PM (77rzZ)
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I lived not so far, in Bullhead AZ.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 02:57 PM (krQz2)

234
Like the ridiculous bullet train and decriminalizing retail theft, some of CA's most idiotic and damaging crap is actually a result of the electorate's choices. Amazing.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 15, 2025 02:13 PM

He who writes the ballot description rules the world.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 15, 2025 02:57 PM (QsMb/)

235 230 228 PS:
This also applies to all the "independent" agency heads that Trump has been firing.
It's hilarious watching these clown judges put on their red nose and thunder on mightily about how sacred and pure these (POLITICAL) appointments are because some assholes in Congress decades ago slapped a new and improved "independent" sticker on some Executive agency.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2025 02:55 PM (I4g9n)

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Independent means independent from the will of the sovereign people.

In America, the people are supposed to rule through their representatives, not a Mandarin class that can never be challenged.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:56 PM (GBKbO)

The only Mandarins I like are oranges.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:57 PM (ynpvh)

236 223 Yep. Second bite into the burger (not burner) I realized I had an LCP in my hip pocket and a G17 in the car. Slowly I drove, after finishing good fries, East to AZ.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 15, 2025 02:57 PM (gm9Sb)

237 The fog has come in, meaning there was less than 4 hours of sunlight here today but I'm thankful b"h because it has been days!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 15, 2025 02:57 PM (RIvkX)

238 234
Like the ridiculous bullet train and decriminalizing retail theft, some of CA's most idiotic and damaging crap is actually a result of the electorate's choices. Amazing.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 15, 2025 02:13 PM

He who writes the ballot description rules the world.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 15, 2025 02:57 PM (QsMb/)

He who counts the votes...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:58 PM (ynpvh)

239 211 Michael Savage got one colonoscopy and then never again. Got a look at the stained equipment. Which really counts for something in San Francisco.

Posted by: No Soap-Radio
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It's probably a popular service in the bay area.
Posted by: Axeman

True story:

My former I(now-retired) doctor told me that he wuld get creepy guys signing up as his patients, coming in for their first checkups, and DEMANDING that he give them "digital rectal exams," the standard way to look for evidence of prostate cancer.He'd try to tell them, "You're far too young to worry about that now. The exam is not necessary." But they'd insist and insist. If he absolutely refused, they give him 1-star reviews on Yelp and ZocDoc, or even worse, sue him for malpractice. So after a whle he started to cave in and would give them exams if they insisted. However, these guys (here's the gross part) would already have erections as they disrobed for the exam, and were obviously getting off on it, and part of the kink was not simple that they wanted to be penetrated, but more importantly they enjoyed the sadistic victory of having FORCED someone to do it, like a passive reverse-rape.

Posted by: zombie at August 15, 2025 02:58 PM (pMi6S)

240 The way they ask the question makes it sound like it's some big mystery nobody knows the answer to. They count on their readers to not actually read.

NYT Headline: Is the Earth ACTUALLY Covered By Mostly Water?

Posted by: ... at August 15, 2025 02:58 PM (yh2Fr)

241 Politicians can f**k up anything. Well, some politicians will f**k anything as well...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:49 PM (ynpvh)
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Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 02:50 PM (krQz2)

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"I'm right here, you know."
-Hillary
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)
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Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 02:59 PM (krQz2)

242 I think it's hilarious that Newscum got trolled by someone sending him the Trump 2028 hat.
Admits that he got trolled.
And that he fell for the trolling as being real.

He's so stupid, he'd drown in a rainstorm if you told him to look up.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2025 02:59 PM (I4g9n)

243 237 The fog has come in, meaning there was less than 4 hours of sunlight here today but I'm thankful b"h because it has been days!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 15, 2025 02:57 PM (RIvkX)

I took a flight that landed in SF at 6 a.m... there was (amazingly) NO fog, and I could see the runway and the area for miles and miles...The only time I had a morning flight where there was no fog.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:59 PM (ynpvh)

244
He who counts the votes...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:58 PM (ynpvh)

This too.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 15, 2025 03:00 PM (QsMb/)

245 It was for that very reason that he retired. He said, "That's it -- I'm done." And yes-- the SF Bay Area,

Posted by: zombie at August 15, 2025 03:00 PM (pMi6S)

246 and...NOOD NEWSOME

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 03:01 PM (ynpvh)

247 Um, er NOOD TRUMP

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 03:01 PM (ynpvh)

248 However, these guys (here's the gross part) would already have erections as they disrobed for the exam, and were obviously getting off on it, and part of the kink was not simple that they wanted to be penetrated, but more importantly they enjoyed the sadistic victory of having FORCED someone to do it, like a passive reverse-rape.

Posted by: zombie at August 15, 2025 02:58 PM (pMi6S)
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Wow. I've had that procedure. The *last* thing I would think of is getting excited about it.

* shudders *

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 03:01 PM (krQz2)

249 Nood. Smithsonian.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 15, 2025 03:02 PM (Y7jiM)

250 4. If the voters of even one district say no, execute all board members and return to step 1.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 15, 2025 02:47 PM (ExV1e)

LOL. I get your point, but that makes the "random selection" a little... scary?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO)

That's why I said "If someone suggests." As to anyone making moral districts, I think they have to start at the neighborhood level, or even block level, and group like-minded people together. And your chances of doing that in a non-partisan manner is almost nil. Hence, making it a political act.

Posted by: GWB at August 15, 2025 03:02 PM (rSsQh)

251 Mass Daily News@MassDailyNews

Woke’ South End food boss — whose donut shop’s Instagram once called immigration law supporters “racist pieces of s***” — now a crime victim after her posh restaurant was hit in Boston’s drug-addled heartland.

(One of those Hipster Donut places which charges $40 for a box of donut...)

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 15, 2025 03:03 PM (TGPs7)

252 All this talk about colonoscopies. I was at the hospital this morning with Mrs B who had one scheduled this morning. We left at 7am, because she had to be in the building and signed in for 8:15, and was supposed to start at 9:00. They didn't get her in until 11:00. I was in the waiting room, and at that point with no fucks to give, and some dude comes out and says "they didn't start yet, the doc is running a little behind". I looked at him and said, yeah thats a strange choice of words. Got some good chuckles from other poor souls sitting in the waiting room though.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 15, 2025 03:03 PM (snZF9)

253 Nero Newscum looking in the mirror when he speaks about Trump?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 15, 2025 03:04 PM (17s+e)

254 Bulg,
Good luck.

Posted by: Wenda at August 15, 2025 03:06 PM (4k3J4)

255 live meet up Putin big time swagger deplaning nice

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 15, 2025 03:10 PM (VPPG8)

256 I think I've seen commercials for meds with the side effects of jazz hands and wiggle fingers...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 02:54 PM (ynpvh)

Tardive dyskinesia? I'll have some of that!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 15, 2025 03:10 PM (/HDaX)

257 A few years ago, the Chair of the Legislative Redistricting Commission for PA talked about the concept of proportionality as a justification for the the proposed House maps.

One brave person responded to Delaware County Redistricting & "Proportionality" Redistricting -
state pa us/comment/submission/5811, 18 Jan. 22

See how it's done? Splitting school districts.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 15, 2025 03:11 PM (NFX2v)

258 CA Democrats have rigged the state level elections for years.
- Ballot Harvesting
- Motor voter registrations
- Ballot drop boxes
- Mailed out ballots to the dead, voters old addresses, nursing homes, etc
- made Voter ID requirements illegal
- allow illegal aliens to vote in "local" elections, like school boards

If they wanna get 51%+ of any issue put before the CA electorate, they have ways of getting that done.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy

And if the voters actually regain some sanity and pass something that they don't like...wellllll, they own the judges to declare it unconstitutional.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 15, 2025 03:17 PM (M0V4/)

259
46 So there was a Ukrainian sniper in Alaska, that was taken out before the meeting.

https://tinyurl.com/5x5xpe6s

(Goes to Substack)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 15, 2025 02:12 PM

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Looks fake.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 15, 2025 03:22 PM (iDnLi)

260 There are more Republicans in CA than anyplace in the Union, only Texas is close. Still, Republicans want to allow the 5,000,000 Republicans to be represented by only 3 congressmen in the House and none in the Senate. When will Republicans grow a spine? Don't talk about freedom when you sell your brother into slavery.

Posted by: wferrin at August 15, 2025 03:41 PM (+eMmJ)

261 Gavin Newsom could barely get 50 people to show up
......

He has 50 relatives?

Posted by: wth at August 15, 2025 03:51 PM (v0R5T)

262 Republicans need to stop repairing Gavin Newsom and regarding him as a legitimate presidential candidate. Gavin is a pariah, the guy who burned down the Jewish neighborhood so he could build low income housing for elite powerful Democrats. There will be a beach view and the Newsom kids will have some of the best views.

Posted by: wferrin at August 15, 2025 04:25 PM (dev0E)

263 Dems: screw the Constitution.
Also Dems: Trump can't run again, our sacred Constitution!

Posted by: PTSD giver at August 15, 2025 04:33 PM (8RDQ+)

264 Sounds like Gavin is trying to impair people’s voting rights. Can I get a prosecution? Amen!

Posted by: Rev Prosecute at August 15, 2025 06:12 PM (hD90I)

265 What we be hilarious is if this became the next Harry Reid ending the filibuster.
Newsom gets the law passed to allow him to draw congressional districts, and somehow a Republican wins the next CA Gov election because of everyone hates Newsom, and proceeds to gerrymander the fuck out of CA so that they get only 5 seats.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 15, 2025 06:33 PM (zGBhN)

266 Governor Nuisance should have meeting with Mr. Mander he is a very odd creature Mr. Gerry Mander don't want to see Governor Nuisance

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 15, 2025 11:02 PM (FLiOE)

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