California Democrats ask voters to let them gerrymander harder (11-04-2025--Hour3)

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So they want to suspend the constitution, merely temporarily, so they can then have the lawmakers, who are all Democrats, draw even more favorable congressional district maps ahead of the twenty twenty six midterm. The AP the Associated Press. I love the way they report on this, the words they use. They say, this is a Democratic proposal that could erase as many as five Republican districts and blunt President Donald Trump's moves to safeguard his party's lock on Washington power. So, right now, there are fifty two congressional districts in California. They lost some because of the population decline as people move out of that hell hole. Oh I'm sorry, did I say that? Yeah? Oh I did, so fifty two congressional districts. Of the fifty two districts, Democrats hold forty three seats forty three of the fifty two, so that means Republicans have nine, and Democrats want to take more than half. Of those nine. They hope to boost, as the AP calls it, hope to boost that number two forty eight. So they want forty eight of fifty two congressional seats to go to Democrats in California, So that would leave Republicans with carry the twelve. That's four four seats. Republican voters make up like forty percent of the electorate in California, and they get four seats for almost the entire left coast of America. You've got four Republicans in Congress under this plan, the AP continues, The outcome will reverberate into next year's midterm elections and beyond, with Democrats hoping that a victory will set the stage for the party to regain control of the US House in twenty twenty six. A shift in the majority would imperil Trump's Trump's agenda for the remainder of his term at a time of deep partisan divisions over immigration, health care, and the future direction of the nation. Now, the AP does not mention the other likely event, which is another impeachment of Donald Trump. The Democrats will do another impeachment, I have no doubt about it. It's what they're radical base wants. That's why they're shut down right now. It's why the government's not reopening. They did another vote, by the way, another vote in the Senate today. This is now fourteen times that Democrats refuse to reopen the government, all the while clamoring for all of the spending that an open government would be funding, particularly for food stamps. And they also want to extend the sunsetting subsidies for Obamacare policies. Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, the legislation that Democrats rammed through without a single Republican vote, Rammed through with bribes to various Democrat senators to get them on board with it, rammed through with these subsidies that were to sunset that were to expire in order to pull a budgeting gimmick, a trick so they could make it look quote affordable, like it's not going to cost us what it's costing us. So they said, oh, these subsidies will go away, and then they extended them, but they put another sunset on it. That's why their sun setting. So Democrats demanding that Republicans open the government by doing what Democrats refused to do themselves on at least three occasions. They want the party that opposed them and oppose this bill and oppose the subsidies and oppose all of it. They are now the ones that have to They have to bend the knee. They have to vote for this thing that we ourselves wouldn't vote for. Democrats right now are down three seats votes in the US House. They would have to pick up these three seats in order to flip the House. Okay for gop led states so far have adopted new district maps. And here's how the AP describes the Republican efforts the new district maps to pack more Republican voters into key districts. See. But when Democrats are looking to do it, it's different. They're not packing. No, no, no, they're not cracking. No, they're not doing any of the jerrymandering that the Republicans do. Because Democrats they are incapable. They are just morally and ethically incapable of gerrymandering. They just don't engage in this behavior. Pay no attention to the fact that the entire Northeast of America is controlled by Democrats and there's not a single Republican representative from all of the Northeast not jerrymandering Maryland, right, I think Maryland they've got four seats or something something like that. I don't remember the exact number. I went over all this data several months ago in the California Democrats and Governor Gavin Newsom when they first pitched this idea. See, because they're constitutionally constrained, because the voters put into the Constitution the creation and use of this independent quote unquote Redistricting Commission process, which still manages to give Democrats forty three of the fifty two seats, even though Republicans make up like forty percent of the electorate. Yet this is the argument that we hear from Democrats all the time whenever Republicans don't draw a map that gives them a proportionate number of seats, Like in North Carolina, they're like, we're a fifty to fifty state, so we should have, you know, half of the fourteen seats. But when it comes to California, no, no, no, no, you don't get a proportionate number of seats. In California. We have an independent redistricting body and they just happened to draw it, so you only get nine seats out of fifty two. And now we're going to suspend the constitution if voters approve, suspend the constitution so we can draw them even more gerrymandered, which even then won't be a jerrymander according to the Democrats. California's Proposition fifty. Asks voters to suspend house maps drawn by an independent commission and replace them with rejiggered districts. I don't believe I've ever seen that word ever used in a news article before rejiggered districts. Jerrymandered. That's the word you would use. If it was a Republican state doing it right, those districts would be in place for twenty twenty six, twenty twenty eight, and twenty thirty. The recast districts aim to dilute Republican voter's power. Okay, they don't have any power. You guys have already seen to that. But there's another word for this dilution. You guys use it all the time, disenfranchise. You are seeking to disenfranchise Republican voters. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal, or get family and friends together for a big old reunion. Cabins of Asheville has the ideal spot for you where you can reconnect with your loved ones and the things that truly matter. 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Is you know, how does California go on this referendum to temporarily suspend their constitutionally required independent Redistricting Commission in order to allow the Democrats to disenfranchise and gerrymander their maps to get more five more seats for themselves in order to try to counteract what the Republican states have done. Republicans picked up a seat in Missouri, one here in North Carolina, maybe two more in Ohio. Republicans also hoping to pick up five in Texas. Now there are five other Republican led states that are considering new maps. Those are Kansas, Indiana, Louisiana, and Nebraska. Well, they have Kansas listed twice here, so maybe not five states. On the Democrat side. You've got Illinois, Maryland, New York, but New York already got smacked down when they tried to jerrymander too much. Virginia as well. They've got proposals to redraw their maps, but major hurtles remain. A court has ordered new boundaries to be drawn in Utah. All four house districts there are represented by Republicans, but it remains to be seen if the state will approve a map that makes any of them winnable for the Democrats. Okay, so that's that's what I'll be watching tonight to see how that turns out. Let me jump over to the text line. This is. From a anonymous I went to vote today in Belmont, small town, very small voting location. The parking lot was packed. I felt lucky to find a spot. I thought I would be there for half an hour, but when I got inside, there were only like three or four voters total. I was in and out in five minutes. All those parking spots were filled by the people who insist on waving their pamphlets in your face, like Hari Krishna is at the airport. I know, do they even do that anymore? I've not seen one of those, I don't think ever. I know there are rules as to how close they can get to the door before they accost you, But aren't there any rules on how many total can be there based on parking availability. No, there are no rules about that. You can have as many people as you want, as long as you are out side of the I think it's one hundred feet, maybe one hundred yards, I forget. I think it's one hundred feet. And you see the signs there, you know, no campaigning beyond this point. I'm sure there are some people who wanted to vote but turned back when they saw how full the parking lot was. That's a good point. It's a very good point. If I'm driving to go vote and I don't really care to vote, and I'm like, well, maybe I'll pull in, and then I see the parking lot as packed. Maybe I don't vote. So yeah, campaigns, you might be uh, you might be harming your candidates there. Did you you said forty two of fifty eight? Did you mean forty eight of fifty two? Oh, this is for the California deal. No, California has fifty two congressional districts and Democrats have forty three of the fifty two A nine, so Republicans have not and under the maps that Democrats want to put in place, the Republicans would be then reduced to four. They would get four of the fifty two districts, and the Democrats would pick up five seats five districts, going from forty three to forty eight. Can Congress not attempt to repeal Obamacare again? Or do they only get one shot at an appeal? No, they can repeal it. They don't have the votes to do it. I doubt they've got the votes in the House, even among Republicans, and I know that they won't have enough to clear a filibuster in the Senate. So yeah, no, Obamacare is that we had the opportunity. We had the chance to repeal it, and John McCain screwed us because he hated Donald Trump, right like that. That's how that went down. So you got to get enough seats, you got to get enough votes. Okay, that's a very lengthy text I'll have to read during the break. And people still. Talking about how my cat does not know that their daylight savings time has ended and has been waking us up an hour early. I chose to leave the bedroom door shut one night, and my cat sat by the door and sung the song of his people all night long. Yeah. Yeah, so we have this, We have this ritual now where it's like, you know, he tries to wake us up to be fed. We have put the automatic feeder in and set that up, and I adjusted the clock on it, not thinking that the cat doesn't know how to read the clock. Although I saw somebody suggest that I take the cat, pick him up and walk him around show them all the clocks to try to teach him about daylight saving time. So I might try that today after work after I vote. But but no, he's unaware of it, and so now he wants to be fed at like three p thirty in the morning instead of four thirty. In the morning. So yeah, so yeah, so now yesterday or day before, I went and reset the clock to the old time. But he's still kind of discombobulated on all of that. And so we have this whole ritual where like he he meows and he you know, tries to get fed, and so we now got the feeder and then hopefully like he's supposed to go out and go out into the dining room, he's supposed to eat out there, and then that'll like tide him over for a little while. And then about two hours later, then he starts getting restless again, so I have another feeder set up for that. But Christy then if he starts scratching on the floor knocking stuff up the night stands, then like she'll throw him out of the bedroom and close the door. And he does usually stay out in the dining room in the main floor for a good bit, but then he'll start scratching at the door, so then we gotta then we gotta open it again and let them back in. And then yeah, it's just it's a whole thing. You know. Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. 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They are your life told through the eyes of everyone around you and all who came before you, and they will tell others to come who you are. Visit creative video dot Com from Danny Pete. Be comforted your feeline wakes you up. They are the only domesticated animal that would eat you if it could. Middle of the night awakenings are a pretty good consolation prize. That's fair, Buddy says. I think the word you're looking for is crepuscular, which is twilight times. Diurnal is during the. Day, So cats are crepuscular. Of course, my cat is usually nocturnal, and I feel takes joy in keeping me awake. Yeah, so cats are skiller. They hunt at dusk and dawn. That's the idea. I did get a message and excuse me, that they are repaving the parking lot in the Belmont voting location, and that's why half of the parking lot was blocked off. It's due to repaving. So that's perfectly timed, all right. So there are other races around the country, and I will tell you. You know me, I do not make predictions on elections. I learned my lesson in twenty sixteen, so I'm not going to make any kind of prediction as to who's going to win. But I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The assumption is that Democrats are going to win in all of these races all across the country. I don't know if that's true. I cannot tell the future. So you have the issue out in California to let Democrats Jerry Mander. You also have the new Jersey governor's race. I still don't know, is it Mikey or Mickey Sheryl, Democrat running against Jack Chitarell Chattarelli Chattarelli. The Republican polling I've seen there is close, but who knows. In Virginia, Abigail Spanberger, Democrat versus Winsome Earl Sears, Republican. Notably, not a lot of coverage of the historic nature of Winsome Earl Sears if she were to win, you know, like especially after what we saw yesterday and Friday and Charlotte where the new police chief a black female, and everyone's touting the historic nature of this. It's in all the headlines, it's in all the coverage. But we don't get any of that. I guess because win Some Sears is a black female Republican, so you don't want to make her historic first that angers the left. And then, of course you have the Attorney General's race in Virginia. Jay Jones, the Democrat, he of the text messages wishing to murder his Republican opponents and their children, versus Jason Maaris Mears Mayaris Republican he's the incumbent, and then you've got mine. Sorry, Maine Camp, Main Camp. What's a guy's name, Platner? Uh, the guy with the Nazi tattoo up in Maine. So we'll see what happens there, but it is expected that Democrats will win most, if not all, of these races. Jeff Blair, writing a National Review headline, Can anything stop a Democratic romp tonight? He says, New Jersey Congresswoman Mickey Cheryl aims to perpetuate the miseries of Phil Murphy's gubernatorial administration and speed the plow straight into a shelf of desolate rock. In Virginia, pod person Abigail Spanberger and obvious psychopath Jay Jones seek the governors and the Attorney General's office, respectively. Democrats are almost certainly going to romp in almost every single major local and statewide race on the ballot, and it's easy to see why, he says, for starters, most of the states that feature important races tonight are distinctly blue right. In addition, midterm backlash against the party currently in the White House is the most predictable tradition in American electoral politics, and Trump has only supercharged its effects on Republicans as their national coalition shifts from educated and reliably voting suburbanites to working class types. Primary really attracted to the phenomenon of Trump, and only during presidential election years. Right. This has always been a weak spot that's been identified in MAGA. And I'm not attacking Donald Trump. I'm not attacking MAGA. I'm not attacking any MAGA voters, Okay, I'm just simply pointing out that they're not very sticky when it comes to anybody not named Donald Trump. So I think that does open the door for Donald Trump Junior. Right. He may he may be able to get them to keep turning out, but only in presidential races. But this is a problem. This is always a problem when you have a populist movement led by a single charismatic figure. When that figure exits, then the movement is over because he's not there anymore. So this has been We have seen this over the last decade. Trump coalition voters tend not to show up to vote if Trump is not on the ticket. Next year's midterms will prove the ultimate test. But tonight we get a premonition of the outcome, and then. There's New York City. And the kami Jihati adjacent Democrats socialist zoron mom Dana expected to win. And I did see somebody sent me an email about that. Is it buddy here? No, it's not buddy, No, that's not it here here It is a two eight number. So will we wake up tomorrow with a communist in charge of the financial capital of America? That's what the polling indicates. Why aren't the powers that be in Charlotte, nation's number two financial capital not seeing opportunity to be number one? If the commie wins and the fleeing begins. I have When Zorammdani won in the primary, which was thanks to ranked choice voting, where radicals end up winning the ranked choice voting despite all of it being sold as away for more moderate people to actually win, they don't. They don't actually win. So the primary results prompted me that next day to say, if every financial enterprise in Charlotte is not doing outreach and recruiting and headhunting in New York City, you guys. Are doing it wrong. This is a massive opportunity to poach a ton of talent out of New York. The downside is they may keep voting for commies. That is the downside, all right. If you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why Well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app, and it's a website, and it combines news from around the world in one place, so you can compare coverage and verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground, dot news, slash pete. I put the link in the podcast description too. I started using ground News a few months ago and more recently chose to work with them as an affiliate because it lets me see clearly how stories get covered and by whom. The blind spot feature shows you which stories get ignored by the left and the right. See for yourself. Check dot ground, dot news, slash pete. Subscribe through that link and you'll get fifteen percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature. Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. I love this term for the Zoran Mamdani supporting commie lovers up in New York City. From Jeff Blair at National Review. Zorin Astrians like Zoroastrians. Zorin Astrians. In fact, let me play this clip real quick. This is an actual self identified communist. He's got a T shirt and everything. He's handing out copies of the communist newspaper in New York City, and he's asked about the government run grocery stores that Zoron wants to do in New York City. The grocery store capitalists, which have quite quite a powerful lobby. Right. One of the grocery store bosses, he's I think of Gristidi's right. He said that he was going to pull out of New York City. If Zoron one right, we would say, sure, pull out, and we will take over your grocery stores, right, and we will use them for cheaper groceries, and we will take over the entire food industry. Because that's that's something that can be done if the working class is organized. Hmm. So that's how that's going to unfold. See, I had I had my doubts, but after he laid it out, now it all makes sense. Right now it makes sense. I thought this is just a really stupid idea. They haven't put any thought into it. But now that this Kami handing out the Kami newspaper on the street, Now that he explained it, Okay, So the the grocery capitalist, which is that's a new term. I was not aware of. The grocery capitalist, which, by the way, grocery stores margin of profit is like two to three percent. It's not very large. It is very competitive. So anyway, the grocery capitalist big grocer as it were, they are going to leave. They're like, screw this, We're not gonna make any money. We're leaving. And so he welcomes this because then we could then take control of that grocery store space and sees control of the food production system. There's no explanation given and no plan there, just somehow or another, something happens, like a couple question marks if you're like charting out the plan here, like number one, open government, grocery stores, number two, question mark number three communism wins, right, something like that. Yeah, I'm not really sure what he means. Now the American left is younger than ever. They are mad, and they are ready to vote for the left most plausible candidate presented to them. Right, this is why that guy Graham Platner in Maine with the Nazi tattoo, they don't care he's authentic. I've seen his TikTok videos. Yeah. New York voters are in no mood for sensible elder politicians. They are in the mood for fantasies, smiles, promises, and maybe a little bit of revenge, maybe actually a lot of revenge. Mamdani is essentially the burn it all down candidate for large numbers of those who will cast a vote for him. Today, New York isn't working. It'll never work for the younger generation. None of the old pieties apply anymore. So now here's something completely different. There's a term for this, black pill. That's what this is. Black pill. They want a scapegoat. Mamdani is pointing to the Jews and to the oligarchs and the capitalists, right, the rich, this is who you blame. And Jeff Blair says, the barbarians are not at the gate or even inside the citadel. They are our children. Now, real quick, feel the need to point out Dick Cheney passed away. He died at the age of eighty four, and just wanted to quickly play what Charlie Spearing calls one of the funniest debate zingers of all time vice presidential debate against Joe Lieberman in the two thousand election. I think if you asked most people in America today that famous question that Ronald Reagan asked, are you better off today than you were eight years ago? Most people would say yes. And I'm pleased to say, seed Dick from the newspapers that you're better off than you were eight years ago to. Most of it. And I can tell you, Joe that the government had absolutely nothing to do with wait for it, guest questions to you. But I can see my wife and I think she's thinking, Joe, I wish you would go out into the private sector. Well, I'm going to try to help you do that job. Then there, it was one of the funniest zingers in deep debate history. I thought it was pretty good all off the cuff. It's so weird, though, to watch this from two thousand. They're sitting there, they're amicable, they're at the same table together, like, Wow, what a bygone era. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 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