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‘A literal gut punch’: Missouri workers devastated by Republican repeal of paid sick leave
(www.theguardian.com)
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So, not leopards eating faces in any sense?
Voters approved sickleave, but then they elected Republicans. Some real ”stop punching yourself in the face” energy. 🤷♂️
TBF, I would not have expected the GOP to overthrow a popular ballot decision. Block it in the first place? Sure. This sort of thing is relatively new in American politics.
If all one knows about it current politics, this seems normal. For example, DeSantis has tried pulling similar shit in Florida, but he's only been in office since 2019.
So how badly is Missouri gerrymandering? Already to shit or is there more loaf to pinch? Like, if this had been an actually fair election, what would the legislature look like?
Depends on how many of them voted for fascists. Based on the fascist governor, and the MO Gen'l Assembly being roughly 2/3 fascist, definitely leopards eating faces.
Missouri like Texas is badly gerrymandered. If our districts were fairly drawn we'd be a solidly purple state. However unfortunately, in this insane asylum. Kansas city and St Louis are locked in with slightly more banjo playing, lead pipe sucking, inbred chuds.
We can peel off just enough voters for rational non partisan ballot measures. In 2018 we voted to change the redistricting from the 2020 census to be more fair. Which our gerrymandered representation overturned last moment. Now the sick leave. And next year they're planning to roll back the abortion rights the state voted for after they took them away before.
Democrats don't really try to win this state. The indoctrination here doesn't help them. But not trying most places doesn't help more. If a 3rd party group made a concerted effort to run local candidates a lot of places would surprise you. Like I said here in the two blue islands we pretty solidly vote for Democrats. But this and select statewide offices are all they run for. I can understand to an extent not wanting to vote for a party at the state level that has no interest in you at the local level. Yes Republicans are fascist snakes, but they show up in all the rural Podunk towns. It's not a good reason to vote for them. But I can understand why the average ignorant voter would.
It’s incredible to me how everyone has gerrymandering at the forefront of their mind when it’s Gavin Newsom getting one back at Trump and it all dribbles out everyone’s ears as soon as they’re thinking about electoral results in red states.
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2022/politics/us-redistricting/missouri-redistricting-map/
Couple of things.
You're talking about redistricting for US House districts. I was referring to state-level positions. Since this article is about a state-level bill, federal districts are not relevant.
Old map, drawn by bipartisan government:
New map, drawn by Republicans:
The only difference above is the toss-up is gone and the light Rep is in. This is by far the weakest gerrymandering I've ever seen, if you could even call it that.
‘It’s not really gerrymandering because it only added one Republican district’ is both asinine and blind to history. Maybe if this was the first time Missouri had ever been gerrymandered that would matter.
But whatever, don’t let me get in the way of the “fuck off and die” attitude so many here have towards anyone living in a red state. Location is now guilt.
Since you appear to have conveniently missed the more important part of my previous comment, I will repeat it here.
40% voted Harris. Most red states aren't as red as they appear. Even Mississippi was 38% Harris.
Voted for Republicans to hurt minorities and voted for sick leave. The Republicans got in and are trying to hurt minorities and them.
There was no other reason to vote for Republicans other than to hurt minorities. 58% was the number of voters for Trump.
So the economic policy was to increase tarrifs to increase costs on their purchases, and make it to be harder to sell their products.
Missouri's main exports are machines going to East Asia and Soybeans.
The soybean industry got fucked by tariffs last time and tarrifs on Eastern Asia were what Trump ran on so it all but guaranteed issues selling machines there.
So they weren't voting him in for economic reasons. They voted him in to hurt minorities.
Majority there did vote for republicans, so that could be it.
Vote Republican and fuck up your life. Not hard to understand unless you're stupid.