But in the end, the vote wasn’t even close: 31-19, with 21 Republicans joining all 10 Democrats in opposition. In fact, more GOP Hoosiers voted against the measure than for it.
Jesus the quotes in this article are a real bleak loom into how fucked we are as a country:
“Some will say these maps are political. Let me be clear,” Sen. Chris Garten ®, another backer, said as he slapped the lectern. “You’re God damn right they are!”
and also:
“President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders: if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state,” Heritage Action wrote on X. “Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to blame.”
Jokes on him. Indiana roads already suck ass.
They’re always working on the roads but somehow never improving them.
Because semis put a ton of wear and tear on roads and Indiana is a huge bottleneck between the Northeast and the North/Northwest.
If only there were a better way to move freight from one dedicated location to another dedicated location. If we could basically teleport goods between Chicago, Atlanta, Kansas City, and Dallas, THEN we’d be able to have semis (or even smaller trucks) only handle the more local portions, and we’d save easily billions on road maintenance.
If only someone could invent a system where huge amounts of freight could be moved on something more durable than pavement. We can only dream of such technology of course.
But we need to remove the rail lines for walkways across the state…. Who needs trains?
I love how it papers over the fact the Republicans in Congress have abdicated all duty and made their own leader a king.
Also, I would hazard that heritage action is some bullshit foreign account? Maybe Nigeria?
Sounds like it’s just a media arm of the Heritage Foundation (Koch’s are major backers), which is just homegrown fascism. No need to outsource that one.
Did they remove that feature that told everyone most MAGA mouthpieces were foreign actors?
No matter how you look at it, this is a headline that contain the words “Trump” and “blow” in the same sentence.
Nice little bonus that it happens to be a situation where cheeto mcpedo doesn’t get his way.
“Cheeto McPedo”
Brilliant, I’m definitely copying it
The proposed map would have targeted Indiana’s two Democratic U.S. representatives to hand all 9 seats to the GOP. Around 45% of Indiana’s party-affiliated voters are Democrats.
So 45% of the constituents, 22% of the representatives.
Sounds to me like they approved a GOP-gerrymandered map.
So 45% of the constituents, 22% of the representatives.
That’s not what that sentence is saying. Note the “party-affiliated” qualifier. I checked and according to the first search result I found 25% of Indiana voters are registered Democrat, 31% are registered Republican, and 44% are “unaffiliated”.
That is exactly what the sentence is saying, unless you have reason to believe that the politics of the “unaffiliated” are drastically different from the affiliated. Going by your logic you would need to assume that the 44% unaffiliated are all republicans, which is very unlikely.
Certainly it seems to be close to the presidential election results over the last 20+ years, at 58-40-2 for republican-democrat-other, respectively.
Edit: and indeed, if you add up the 2024 congressional results you get 58-39-3 percent.
Dang, literacy sure comes in handy over jumping to conclusions.
I think they mean keeping the current one is also gerrymandered.
Correct.
It ain’t over until the obese treasonous traitor lying coward rapist convicted felon sings.
This bottle of wine has already aged more than I would prefer
“When will I get credit for having created, with No Inflation, perhaps the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country?” Trump wrote, with characteristic hyperbole, in a post on his Truth Social network.
He’s obviously delusional and probably referring to the situation he inherited, and then immediately started to break when he took office…
Hyperbole. Yeah, that’s what that was. Totally. Just some overexaggeration for dramatic effect.
I don’t think anyone expected this, which is what makes it all the more sweet and delicious.
The Schadenfreude is as tasty as a fine Bordeaux.
I fucking love a good Bordeaux
Hopefully the buck stops here because the SCOTUS have already ruled the opposite in past examples.
Go insult a reporter, Piggy. It always makes you feel better.
