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News & Current Events Apr 30, 2026 at 11:31 AM

Louisiana governor plans to suspend May primary to redraw US House map, Washington Post reports

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MannequinWithoutSock Apr 30, 2026 +16509
Nothing says democracy more than suspending elections to redraw maps
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freedfg Apr 30, 2026 +5794
And I'm sure any democratic state will be barred from doing the same. Hey, remember when Obama was denied a supreme Court pick....because an election was upcoming? Damn, he should have just suspended the election.
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Sniperoso Apr 30, 2026 +2241
It’s ok, that was a very specific circumstance that forced them to not seat a judge for almost a year onto the nation’s highest court. It’s not like they shoved in a new one the first chance they could get later during an ACTIVE election and before the previous judge’s body was cold. Wait, they did? Huh…
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Evadson Apr 30, 2026 +868
Hypocrisy is the point. The message is "The rules are whatever we say they are and they only apply to you." It's to make you feel like your only option is to fall in line and obey. To which the only appropriate response is "F*** you, make me."
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No-Cat-6830 Apr 30, 2026 +376
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” - Frank Wilhoit
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Ok_Cheetah_6251 Apr 30, 2026 +97
Strangely that definition also applies to fascist. /S
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Lordofd511 Apr 30, 2026 +55
Were you under the impression that fascists aren't conservative?
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Calm-Armadillo-5614 May 1, 2026 +8
Well, there's a whole group of red hat cultists that think the Nazis were radical socialists instead of far-right extremists.
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PanzerSloth Apr 30, 2026 +306
God it's so beyond fucked just how much these people get away with simply because the ones in charge of stopping them are corrupt too. Kind of undermines any shred of respect/faith in a system where its enforcers can just randomly decide when and how the rules apply.
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blankarage Apr 30, 2026 +37
At the same time voters in those states didn’t hold their congressional representatives accountable
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KidGorgeous19 Apr 30, 2026 +23
Elections have consequences But I'm glad MAGA "owned the libs." They'll enjoy that feeling while standing in their bread line.
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czs5056 Apr 30, 2026 +13
Sorry, as of June 14th "Lib owning" is going to be a $45.47 per month subscription payable to the trump presidential library.
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[deleted] Apr 30, 2026 +31
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nigl_ Apr 30, 2026 +28
It's because the voters willingly ignore anything the Republicans lie about. If you have your own fans running interference for you it's easy to behave like this. Democrat voters are the opposite.
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dancingliondl Apr 30, 2026 +194
The election was a year away and they denied the pick. That's the joke. They smile and laugh when you bring up Trump's pick, because they know they are cheating, but no one will step up to stop them.
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deepasleep Apr 30, 2026 +19
He should have just done a recess appointment and let the shitstorm ensue.
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Outlulz Apr 30, 2026 +5
Which is the problem with Democrats, they refuse to use every tool at their disposal to get what they want. They just constantly lay down and let Republicans walk all over them.
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sonic_couth Apr 30, 2026 +77
Once the supremely corrupt court decided that presidents have absolute immunity, there’s so much Biden could have done to keep Trump away from office. It was pretty obvious to me that trumps chances of getting back into the White House were better than 50% at that point.
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BookusWorkus Apr 30, 2026 +32
The Trump lawyers literally said that the President was free from prosecution for assassinating political enemies and the Court was like, "Well, ok, then. Sure. Why not."
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Whitejesus0420 Apr 30, 2026 +10
I remember most of the Republicans on FB saying that's exactly what he was going to do and continue on for a 3rd term.
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TheHykos Apr 30, 2026 +13
Every republican accusation is a confession. Every. One.
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wahoozerman Apr 30, 2026 +346
As someone from NC, this is blowing my mind. *Our* Republicans assured us that every time their maps got struck down for being too gerrymandered it was too close to the election to redraw them so we would just have to use the old ones. I didn't know just suspending the election was an option!
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CTQ99 Apr 30, 2026 +78
This also happened last cycle in several states. Too close to the election to change the map that they purposely kept submitting all screwed up.
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InTooManyWays Apr 30, 2026 +16
Anything is possible when nobody decides to follow or enforce laws 
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cupidstrick Apr 30, 2026 +664
“We are not a democracy. We’re a republic.”
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Erebthoron Apr 30, 2026 +423
Banana Republic
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SojournerRL Apr 30, 2026 +221
Man, we're not even the sale rack at Old Navy at this point
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ProsaicPugilist Apr 30, 2026 +136
We are all but forgotten kiosks in god’s dead mall. Praise be.
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theranger799 Apr 30, 2026 +23
I am hidden from god's sight and therefore his love.
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LeeKinanus Apr 30, 2026 +8
Yeah the gum ball one. Ffs.
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necovex Apr 30, 2026 +80
Man after learning what a banana republic ACTUALLY is this semester in college, and that we’re the country behind the term, I think it’s super fucked that we have a high priced clothing store named after it
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DerPanzerknacker Apr 30, 2026 +57
lol look up what banana republic stores originally looked like. ‘Colonialist kitsch’ is probably the nicest way to put it
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sonic_couth Apr 30, 2026 +14
There was an old U.S. military jeep in one of the big stores in Minneapolis if I remember correctly.
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[deleted] Apr 30, 2026 +15
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JesusHandjobPalms Apr 30, 2026 +25
In a dead mall
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ZachMN Apr 30, 2026 +10
Banana Republicans.
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Ghastly_Someknew Apr 30, 2026 +294
One of my favorite points is that a Republic IS a type of Democracy, but I think these cheese brains think Democracy = Democrats and Republic = Republicans
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Rabid-Ginger Apr 30, 2026 +134
They absolutely think that. I’m related to several of them.
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UnrealAce Apr 30, 2026 +121
They absolutely think that. Brought to you by the same people who think socialism and communism are the same thing.
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Starbuckshakur Apr 30, 2026 +63
Or that National Socialism is just another type of Socialism so therefore it's a left wing ideology. Or that Democrats are the real racists because Lincoln was a Republican.
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espressocycle Apr 30, 2026 +13
Greatest hits of the willfully ignorant.
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deltree711 Apr 30, 2026 +17
But a republic is a system where a body of elected representatives hold votes to decide what to do, and they want a dictator. They are literally Republican In Name Only.
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squirrelbait_64 Apr 30, 2026 +27
Yeah I mean the US is literally a Democratic Republic. It's where they got the names for the two parties.
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robodrew Apr 30, 2026 +14
Hell the Democrats were originally called the Democratic-Republicans.
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thewritingchair Apr 30, 2026 +18
That line always gets a laugh. It's like you point to a dog and say "look at that dog" and someone says "that's not a dog, it's a *Dalmatian*".
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Snowwolf247 Apr 30, 2026 +16
People who say this are morons and dont deserve to live in anything but a dictatorship. "Oh please step on me harder dear leader"
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ReflectionEterna Apr 30, 2026 +26
I love that line. It immediately identifies people you no longer need to waste time with.
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KDR_11k Apr 30, 2026 +13
And yet they try to establish a king or theocracy.
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gaudiest-ivy Apr 30, 2026 +13
Until Virginia votes to redistrict, then it's "they're destroying our democracy."
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DoodleDew Apr 30, 2026 +90
We haven’t been a democracy for a long time. It’s been a oligarchy 
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TheWhiteManticore Apr 30, 2026 +103
People still dreaming mid term will be fair?
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SkiMonkey98 Apr 30, 2026 +112
No, I'm dreaming it will be too much of a landslide to rig
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Kroz83 Apr 30, 2026 +53
This is kind of where I’m at as well. Gerrymandering only works if registered voters show up in expected numbers and vote as expected. It can backfire massively if there’s a dip in turnout for your side and a surge in turnout for the side you’re trying to gerrymander against.
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inquisitorthreefive Apr 30, 2026 +19
Assuming votes are still being counted, those votes have to come from somewhere. In a two party system, if you want to make district a vote more Krasnovian you have to make another distract less safe for Krasnovian candidates. Recent special election swings have been kind of insane. If the trend carries over to the election in November we're looking at an historic blowout.
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ATLSox87 Apr 30, 2026 +43
Just hoping for a Hungary situation where the public sentiment is so overwhelmingly against them that even attempting to rig the elections is completely fruitless. Unfortunately the opposition party here is made up of neocon limpdicks
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Subject-Garlic-9742 Apr 30, 2026 +11
That’s exactly what will happen and it’s already started. They can ratfuck all they want but it’s not going to work and the blowback will be felt for generations.
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GrumpySoth09 Apr 30, 2026 +36
As an outsider looking in - Not a f****** chance guys, but you have time to get organized
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Lonely_Noyaaa Apr 30, 2026 +5128
> Black people make up a third of Louisiana's population, which has six House seats. But after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act and Republicans saw their chance. Landry is suspending a primary to draw a map with likely just one majority black district. That's just racial gerrymandering with the courts giving a green light.
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KathyJaneway Apr 30, 2026 +1595
>Landry is suspending a primary to draw a map with likely just one majority black district Or none. They'll probably go for 0 D seats. Dems had 1 for decade, and now with gutted VRA section 2, they are going from 2 to 0 most likely.
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jj1917 Apr 30, 2026 +618
Correct, the only way I see 1 majority-black (and therefore heavily heavily likely to be D) seat will be just the mathematics of it. It may not be possible for them to draw 6 sorta safe R districts, so they may go for 5 super safe R districts and 1 "packed" district of Democrats around New Orleans most likely. In the famous words of North Carolina's gerrymanderers, when asked in court about the partisan intent of their maps, the creator of the maps said something like "Why are there 3 Democratic favoring districts? Because I can't draw a map with 0, it's just not mathematically or geographically possible. I wish it was."
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stay_curious_- Apr 30, 2026 +129
We'll see how safe they play it. I'm guessing the pressure from the Trump administration will be to aim for 6 GOP House Reps, they'll blame the politicians running if they fail, and then redistrict for 2028.
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voluptuousshmutz Apr 30, 2026 +113
If they go for 5-1, they'll just go back to their 2010s map that connects New Orleans to Baton Rouge, making a house seat that's like +50 D
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jj1917 Apr 30, 2026 +68
The most likely play. Like mentioned, even with AI and advanced statistical modeling, the New Orleans area just has "too many" democrats. You have to give up 1 district and pack everyone in there, to make the other 5 super safe in even "blue wave" sort of scenarios. At this rate we might be in for Blue Tsunami, but LA is so h******* GOP outside of New Orleans that it might not matter. But more reason for them to do 5-1 instead of 6-0, as efficient gerrymandering might leave a couple of those 5 vulnerable in a massive wave.
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BourgeoisRaccoon Apr 30, 2026 +48
I wouldn't say LA is "h******* GOP," it's more of a voter apathy issue. The previous governor was a Dem; it's just voter turnout in Louisiana is the lowest in the country. Not trying to deny the fact that there's a lot of MAGA chuds who control state politics and a lot of losers who love them, but 90% of the state just does not care who is in state office one way or the other.
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blaaaaaarghhh Apr 30, 2026 +18
This is the truth. Shit, we couldn't even get 50% in the New Orleans mayoral race after having one of the most objectively awful mayors in recent history.
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LostWoodsInTheField Apr 30, 2026 +12
This is the major issue with gerrymandering is that almost always you have to draw your districts in a 'these are just barely safe seats, but enough so that 99% of the time we will win' but... if it's looking like a large number of people are going to vote the other side, and a large number of your side won't be voting at all. Those just barely safe seats become tossups that you have to fight for. Texas is mapped a lot like this.
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eldelshell Apr 30, 2026 +37
Whites don't vote for D in LA? Even after this clusterfuck of administrationm
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Icy-Platform3560 Apr 30, 2026 +67
Plenty of us do but not nearly enough.
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chickenMcSlugdicks Apr 30, 2026 +27
He still gets a lot of support down there. Gov Landry is basically a DeSantis type. Idk man, I'm from Louisiana. During COVID I visited for other reasons and was able to get my shot the day I got down there because there was next to no demand for the shots. It's different down there. There's good people, but also a special brand of stupid that ain't going away.
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nocoolN4M3sleft Apr 30, 2026 +100
Well, take a look at the education and overall rankings of Louisiana, you’ll understand. Also, if you look at a civil war map from 1864, and see where they stood, it’ll make a bit more sense too.
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Maximum_Research286 Apr 30, 2026 +11
Take a look at how many people actually voted for Landry in the “jungle primary” that got him into office. Numbers and percentage wise you’ll pull your hair out and scream.
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WestCoastBestCoast01 Apr 30, 2026 +33
This is deep south Louisiana... the white people there still think they're living in Jim Crow.
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humjaba Apr 30, 2026 +31
Jim Crow? Shit, people in the Deep South are still pissed about losing the civil war
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zephyrtr Apr 30, 2026 +389
I love how "it's too late to change the maps" was a fine argument when we were talking about Republican biased maps.
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zzyul Apr 30, 2026 +49
I mean voters were stupid enough to give Repubs control of the Senate. Dems went from having 60 senators after the 08 election to only having 46 when McConnell decided to rat f*** things. Too many lazy and entitled Americans on the left that sit out elections when things aren’t on fire. Same shit we saw in 24.
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MrF_lawblog Apr 30, 2026 +46
How does the governor have the ability to suspend an election?!?
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Baeolophus_bicolor Apr 30, 2026 +41
they don’t. they just aren’t even pretending anymore. the only way we will still even have elections will be if the republicans are able to stack things so that they feel like there’s no possible way for them to lose. if they can’t do that, then they will do away with elections altogether. People are not paying attention. They’re so caught up in either day to day existence that they’re exhausted, or they’re complacent because they wouldn’t personally build concentration camps, suspend habeas corpus, gut every single government agency, kidnap the duly elected president of another country because Chevron told them to, etc. so they feel like it’s a safe bet that “the other side” wouldn’t do those things either. If they don’t get off their asses and actually do something, then they are going to leave things until the only way out for people who don’t want to live under the 4th reich will be either dissolution of the country, with secession and ugliness, or an actual armed uprising, which will cause needless loss and destruction. It’s crazy. Somehow 25% of the country is holding the rest of us hostage.
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tierciel Apr 30, 2026 +15
No need to worry! It's all very legal and very cool!
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EightGlow Apr 30, 2026 +3227
Remember like 3 days ago when R’s were bitching that the Dems had the gall to redraw a map in response to R’s initiating this fight?
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DarthBrooks69420 Apr 30, 2026 +1129
Republicans are the adult stage of the crybully.
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Opposite-Tiger-1121 Apr 30, 2026 +230
They act like middle school students. They don't see an issue with their behavior, they see an issue with pointing out their behavior.
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michaellicious Apr 30, 2026 +38
Most importantly they feel that they are entitled to their behavior but no one else can do the same thing to them.
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DarthBrooks69420 Apr 30, 2026 +55
Bruh. Alex Jones, *that* Alex Jones, was complaining that 'not everything is a conspiracy' because people are saying the latest attempt on trump is a false flag so he can get his ballroom built. I know that conservative media personalities are as a whole two faced deeply disingenuous creatures, but this is so absurd it makes you wonder how much object permanence their brains are capable of perceiving sometimes.
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Jay__Riemenschneider Apr 30, 2026 +25
And Democrats at the adult stage of burnt out recess monitor. There is never a consequence. Not even a crash out. It's like democrats have just given up and the rich are emigrating when they can.
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Fair_Local_588 Apr 30, 2026 +192
They’re all performing. They know it’s hypocritical. They don’t care. 
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BoJackMoleman Apr 30, 2026 +46
They are not acting in good faith and every time we act like it's normal. This is the roommate who crapped your bed, made you clean it, borrowed your car and returned it on E and with scratches on the rim. Now he's asking to borrow $300 and we are seriously considering it? No. They are the kid who wants to play with a toy but as soon as they have their hands on it they go home or break the toy
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SlightFresnel Apr 30, 2026 +68
But Virginians *voted* in favor of redistricting *temporarily* with a reset in 2030. They got the people's mandate, so of course Republican activist judges shut it down.
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AdhesivenessUnfair13 Apr 30, 2026 +19
Republicans never say anything in good faith.
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blankarage Apr 30, 2026 +9
that’s why if we’re guilty already, we f****** triple down and gerrymander every blue state
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Indaflow Apr 30, 2026 +2153
Fml  How did my country fall to such a pathetic embarrassing state and why is it so hard to get on track.  Fascism sucks and I’m so tired of it. 
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sniper91 Apr 30, 2026 +894
It all traces back to not punishing the Confederate states enough
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Wyevez Apr 30, 2026 +436
See also: Jan 6... that traitor-in-chief should be behind bars.
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EconomyOk2490 Apr 30, 2026 +172
Not punishing traitors hard enough then
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l0st1nP4r4d1ce Apr 30, 2026 +15
Don't forget the Bundy family of trash and the squatting of federal land.
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JaxenX Apr 30, 2026 +10
For real, all those confederate heritage groups should count themselves lucky their ancestors weren’t castrated.
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GSV_CARGO_CULT Apr 30, 2026 +12
I'm not saying America should do this, but if such groups existed in China they would be mercilessly crushed
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Nice_Firm_Handsnake Apr 30, 2026 +12
I'll say it. These assholes are traitors to the principles of democracy and should have no place in a democratic society.
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Spectre197 Apr 30, 2026 +645
Because people that vote decided that a rapist, pedo conman was a better fit than a woman.
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vwstig Apr 30, 2026 +206
Trump is a symptom, not the cause.
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SwedishLovePump Apr 30, 2026 +221
Yes he’s a symptom of a voting populace that would rather have a rapist, pedo conman president than a woman
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almondbutter Apr 30, 2026 +28
Did you know at least 3.5 million legal registered voters were purged leading up to this election? https://youtu.be/P_XdtAQXnGE?si=mVCZstuaxYUFt1Dq&t=373 Here's a documentary about how they did it.
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SuspiciouslySuspect2 Apr 30, 2026 +64
And people who normally vote did not because "Kamala isn't a good enough". There were 77 million shit bags in the US that voted to support that shit bag. Basically all of them did in 2016 and 2024 too. But the big difference was that while Trump got only 3 million more votes than last year (~1% of the population), *2%* of the population **stayed home** in 2024. So it's twice as much the fault of those who *did not vote*, because they were the change that mattered most. If the same 81 million that voted for Biden held their nose and voted for Kamala again, Trump still would have lost, even accounting for those who switched from Dem to Republican. Apathy was what gave the world Trump 2.0.
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apk5005 Apr 30, 2026 +20
Well, you see, all republicans are at least “ok” with racists. It all spirals out from there.
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SirTiffAlot Apr 30, 2026 +62
We elected a black man and people are still upset about it
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e4evie Apr 30, 2026 +92
And all for Donald Dump…
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pegothejerk Apr 30, 2026 +80
Billionaires convinced weak minded people that all their grievances came from people with less opportunity, less power than themselves, not the guys literally in control of reality, living in opulence, writing all their dwindling paychecks.
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QbertsRube Apr 30, 2026 +7
"We're fighting the elites!" scream the nitwits who vote for the party who is led by a born-rich Manhattan real estate heir and very actively supported by Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, etc., etc., etc.
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SphincterPolyps Apr 30, 2026 +17
Evangelical Christianity
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Pockydo Apr 30, 2026 +17
Racists have been wanting this for years and people thought the racist shits would lower gas prices
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BigGayGinger4 Apr 30, 2026 +44
idk about you, but citizens united happened before I even turned 18. I have *never* had a voice with my election in this country.
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flippingisfun Apr 30, 2026 +27
The majority of the people that live here are mean stupid and racist is how.
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Maxpowr9 Apr 30, 2026 +13
So much of the "flyover states" [that includes Louisiana], are having massive braindrains already. Just let them continue to circle the economic drain at this point.
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time_drifter Apr 30, 2026 +24
Look to your left, then to your right. One of the those people is a pedophile lover and the other will say ”they don’t do politics.”
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i-like-carbs- Apr 30, 2026 +55
That’s what happens when people are apathetic and complacent.
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-r-a-f-f-y- Apr 30, 2026 +26
don't worry, a bunch of "libertarians" will explain that both sides are exactly the same and nothing matters.
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Ilikehashbrowns89 Apr 30, 2026 +731
Not even kidding you- if LSU or the Saints boycott playing, the state would stop this.
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BubblyFlow6143 Apr 30, 2026 +704
Good luck with expecting any sports team to do the right thing.
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zoeypayne Apr 30, 2026 +102
Remind me what race the majority of players are? Teams don't need to do the right thing, just the players.
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Theharlotnextdoor Apr 30, 2026 +228
They made sure to make am example of Colin Kapernick to keep them in line. And honestly most players don't care. They are wealthy. A whole lot of morals disappear when there is wealth involved.
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TheDrAlbrhect Apr 30, 2026 +14
And then not only that, the Dallas Cowboys held an official moment of silence for Charlie Kirk. Let that sink in. Someone that always preached about the sanctity of free speech (what he meant was the right to be openly racist and anti-LGBTQ and have it be illegal to be fired for it) being honored by a team in a league that made an example of Kaepernick for expressing his right to free speech by kneeling during the national anthem. A man who was not military, not a government figure, not a foreign dignitary, not a former NFL player or in any way some way involved with the team - and even ALL THAT aside, he's not even from f****** Texas.
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El_Jefe_Castor Apr 30, 2026 +82
Remind me how many zeroes are in most of their bank accounts?
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DaadJowk Apr 30, 2026 +125
They only like black folk when they need to build a football team
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InstructionPurple911 Apr 30, 2026 +16
Lmao you have a better chance of baron Trump calling the SEC on himself
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bobandgeorge Apr 30, 2026 +36
As a Tampa fan, you can count on the Saints to do the absolute worst f****** thing, so don't expect that.
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WhoDat-2-8-3 Apr 30, 2026 +9
What if its just the new orleans pelicans boycotting?
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Affectionate_Neat868 Apr 30, 2026 +454
The average American won’t even see this news or hardly register the SC ruling from yesterday. Feels like a small fraction of Americans are actually politically engaged just watching what’s left of democracy crumble away
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jj1917 Apr 30, 2026 +103
Exactly. On top of that, if they do hear of it or understand what you're talking about if its mentioned, might go something along the lines of "well Democrats did this in other states so its fair" or "its a bad thing to do so Democrats shouldn't stoop to their level, they're all the same im not voting" or something along those lines.
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powercow Apr 30, 2026 +11
the majority of americans dont pay attention to anything but the big things. 60% cant name a single supreme court justice
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SanDiegoDude Apr 30, 2026 +7
Something like 80% of Americans get their news from social media now. You'll see what the algo wants you to see and you'll like it, dammit.
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escapefromelba Apr 30, 2026 +134
All blue states should follow suit if that’s the case.   House is still apportioned to population and blue states hold more of those seats on paper. 
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Character_Bug_1862 Apr 30, 2026 +69
Not just should, they MUST.
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ProbablyRickSantorum Apr 30, 2026 +58
The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 needs to be revoked. Using the 2020 census the top 10 states' apportionment would look like the following (rough estimates): * California - 188 (current 52) * Texas - 139 (current 38) * Florida - 103 (current 28) * New York - 96 (current 26) * Pennsylvania - 62 (current 17) * Illinois - 61 (current 17) * Ohio - 56 (current 15) * Georgia - 51 (current 14) * North Carolina - 50 (current 14) * Michigan - 48 (current 13) Currently Wyoming has 28.6% more representation per person than California. In the 1910 style expanded House model, it would be around 6.7%. The current cap gives Wyoming roughly 4.3x the per-capita advantage than it would with the 1910 model. If we used the "Wyoming Rule" where every congressional district would be the same size as the population of the smallest state, the house would grow to 573 (instead of the current cap of 435 or ~1570 in the 1910 model) and California to Wyoming would be 69:1 (California would have ~3.2% more representation per person). So it'd be near parity but not exactly perfect, but a whole lot better than the garbage ass system we have now. But boohoo, we'd have to add more physical seats to the House so we should just do nothing.
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lordjeebus Apr 30, 2026 +8
Hundreds of new chairs? In this economy?
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BusyHands_ Apr 30, 2026 +569
This mid terms getting spicy as hell. All of this cuz half of America would rather vote in a pedophile..
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CharmingScholarette Apr 30, 2026 +91
are we just ignoring his absolutely nekked ass pfp ?
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onebraincell_69 Apr 30, 2026 +31
The profile itself is… even worse.
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kyno1 Apr 30, 2026 +6
Less than half voted for him but more than half don't care he's a pedo. They are checked out.
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Glum-Contribution-46 Apr 30, 2026 +191
There are no good republicans left in this country
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mrdominoe Apr 30, 2026 +87
There haven't been for a long time.
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hypercosm_dot_net Apr 30, 2026 +5
Yep. This is who they've always been, they just didn't have the cover of Trump and FOX to get away with the worst of it so blatantly.
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lvloises330 Apr 30, 2026 +40
Our Republican neighbors are absolute traitors. Sold out their families and friends to make a fat rapist happy.
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Prohydration Apr 30, 2026 +10
The party shift finished as recently as Obama's inauguration. The republican party fully adopted the dixiecrats since then.
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Sarcasm_Llama Apr 30, 2026 +9
That's what I've been saying. At this point, if you self identify as Republican you are either MAGA or a MAGA tolerating coward
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ndurtschi Apr 30, 2026 +58
I don’t understand why all the gerrymandering, are republican policies unpopular or something?
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Kikikididi Apr 30, 2026 +32
yeah so super weird they are the "silent majority" but need to constantly cheat...
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BrothelWaffles Apr 30, 2026 +334
Hey so uh, where are all those people that keep saying elections can't be suspended at midterms? 'Cause they should probably see this...
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PolicyCommercial6392 Apr 30, 2026 +93
the president can’t suspend or cancel midterms which are run by the states
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BudwinTheCat Apr 30, 2026 +66
Well we have a pretty good idea of which states are going to be more than willing to do exactly that
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beenoc Apr 30, 2026 +24
The trick is that if all the red states suspend elections, and none of the blue states do, that means that the Congress getting sworn in will be dominated by Democrats. So long as there's a simple majority of Congresspeople (218 reps, 51 senators) they can conduct business as usual (including things like removal from office, where 2/3 goes from being 67 to 34 senators.) And if so many states suspend elections that there's not even half of Congress, I don't think anyone really knows what will happen, but it won't be pretty.
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SuspiciouslySuspect2 Apr 30, 2026 +33
The rational response would be to immediately drop everything and bang on the literal door of the legislature to demand they do their job. But, if the people allow this to slide...
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bros402 Apr 30, 2026 +7
and a founding father who said that there's a tree
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Slypenslyde Apr 30, 2026 +15
They're choosing the next line in the sand. They weren't being honest, they were just either: * Attempting to placate people they were worried might organize and fight back * Desperate for an excuse to do nothing because it's scary to think about protesting After this round the next line is already, "It's OK, after Midterms the blue wave will stop it" and after that it'll be, "Chill out, it's only 2 more years, he can't have a third term."
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Adderkleet Apr 30, 2026 +15
The primary isn't the election. It's the party (a private company-like thing) deciding who will run. That's what the courts will say, and they'll hopefully say the gov can't delay the actual election/mid-term.
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Ishmael_1851 Apr 30, 2026 +46
What a great democracy we live in where 6 people can make decisions that totally screw over hundred of millions
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dogwoodcat Apr 30, 2026 +238
"The Democrats gerrymandered California and Virginia? That's our bit!" This guy, probably.
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UnevenPhteven Apr 30, 2026 +33
Its funny they pretend to be mad when both states allowed it up to the voters to decide.
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ElMonstro26 Apr 30, 2026 +140
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again the union did not punish the south enough during Reconstruction
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FreeAd7932 Apr 30, 2026 +25
history phd here.....this is the thing to keep on saying
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What_a_fat_one Apr 30, 2026 +23
"Louisiana Governor plans to take right to vote away from black Americans in Louisiana"
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DaBigJMoney Apr 30, 2026 +35
Yet somehow the “white” districts created to dilute black voting power are never up to be redrawn. Democracy may already be dead, folks. It was nice while it (briefly) lasted.
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CooledDownKane Apr 30, 2026 +72
If the Democrats in New York and Illinois don't redraw every bumfuck Republican district to be part of Chicago and NYC why are they even the "opposition" party?
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ZachMN Apr 30, 2026 +31
Republicanism is fascism. Republicanism is authoritarianism.
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PBPunch Apr 30, 2026 +27
No longer acting like voters can choose their representatives. Now the wealthy choose their voters.
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exonomix Apr 30, 2026 +11
Look, it's beyond time to start burning shit down. Stop letting these fucks just take what they want without our input.
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Moneyshot_ITF Apr 30, 2026 +10
If there's anytime for revolution. Taxation without representation
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newleafkratom Apr 30, 2026 +9
Florida screwed Democrats yesterday. Louisiana is next.
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thelivinlegend Apr 30, 2026 +11
I hope one day we actually start punishing traitors. I guess that would be a first for this country.
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Daimakku1 Apr 30, 2026 +11
It's come to a point where Dems need to do the same and if the courts don't let them, simply ignore them. It has gotten *that* bad.
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Smokeyoutburst Apr 30, 2026 +47
This is illegal. If not should be wtf is this. Every person should be pissed. 
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BubblyFlow6143 Apr 30, 2026 +38
The supreme court just made it legal.
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troveofcatastrophe Apr 30, 2026 +9
The Corrupt Supreme Court This is on you Mitch McConnell
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Fanfics Apr 30, 2026 +6
Laws aren't magic. 'Legal' is whatever is enforced. 'Legal' is whatever they can get away with.
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DontTickleTheDriver1 Apr 30, 2026 +177
The US is cooked. It was a good run until about the last 26 years or so.
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Jiktten Apr 30, 2026 +184
Not really. The US has been side-stepping major systemic issues literally since its founding and the chickens are finally coming home to roost. This isn't meant as a dig btw, there is *so much* positive potential in America and I genuinely hope that you can finally sort out these issues once and for all, for your own sakes and for all of ours in the rest of the world.
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roba121 Apr 30, 2026 +24
You know people just have a failure of both imagination and of appreciating timescales. The Roman Empire was of the greatest ever known they projected power all over the world (sound familar) every one of those places they ruled still exists, rome is still there, the political and societal systems are differnt but the people found a way of life. It would be more surprising that the American exceptionalism and projection of power lasted longer than it did not shorter.
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eightdx Apr 30, 2026 +27
"America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future." --Frederick Douglass, in 1852
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djmd2 Apr 30, 2026 +10
"The war will be bloodless if the left allows it"
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robexib Apr 30, 2026 +9
This is why 2A exists.
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Fluid_Comb8851 Apr 30, 2026 +8
I said before it passed that the CA bill didn’t go far enough, and this proves me right. The “great compromise” of our founding left us a deeply anti-democratic structure. Blue states should gerrymander to full-blue representation in the house, and hold the country hostage until our demands for democratic remedies are met (uncap the house, expand/reform SCOTUS, statehood for DC/PR).
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frommethodtomadness May 1, 2026 +9
It's not just Trump, it's the ENTIRE Republican Party that has fully shifted from a Conservative Party to a fascist one. They must be stopped.
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nirrinirra Apr 30, 2026 +8
Remember when America used to be a democracy?
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elykl12 Apr 30, 2026 +7
In less than 24 hours Louisiana really just went: “Holy shit Bubba! Segregation is legal again! Let’s redraw those maps!!!”
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lost-American-81 Apr 30, 2026 +5
- them maps
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InaKatadaVida Apr 30, 2026 +7
Making way for Taxation without representation.
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lions_reed_lions Apr 30, 2026 +8
Louisiana likes high gas prices and ballrooms.
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goalsforscholes Apr 30, 2026 +8
And f****** children
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notdrewcarrey Apr 30, 2026 +7
I'm confused to why democrats don't just play dirty ball and do whatever they want also. F*** it. We're in the endgame now. Nothing matters and the points are all made up.
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Greg_1966 Apr 30, 2026 +44
Hillbillies doing hillbilly things.
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Alternative-Sock-444 Apr 30, 2026 +25
Hey now, we're Louisianans, we prefer the term coonass! It's basically a Cajun hillbilly.
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Frisnism Apr 30, 2026 +14
Can’t be hillbilly’s where there are no hills.
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DSCholly Apr 30, 2026 +7
"...to rig the election." The press needs to start calling it like it is. TO RIG THE ELECTION.
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cleanuponaisle4 May 1, 2026 +6
“Hey no fair. You guys didn’t give us enough time to cheat.” -Louisiana Republicans
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Ok_Pollution7093 Apr 30, 2026 +21
That's a bold play. Redrawing the map mid-game is like reshuffling the deck when you don't like your hand.
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