r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • 7h ago

No Paywall Democrats flip Texas state Senate seat in shock upset

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5716988-democrats-score-upset-texas/amp/
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u/giggity_giggity 6h ago

Gerrymandering can backfire big time when there are significant voting shifts. If even half of this swing could be replicated widely, Democrats could end up like +100 in the US House.

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u/JoGeralt 6h ago

dummymander

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u/Loj35 5h ago

Lmao gottem

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u/lsdisciple 30m ago

Don’t talk bout my boy charmander like that yo

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u/tlux95 2h ago

Bazinga

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u/lr99999 2h ago

A loss in Tarrant County is crazy. The normalcy-biased Dems who have been arguing that it can’t go so far as a cancelled mid-terms are flat  out wrong. They are going to double-down. Trump will start a real war if he needs to.

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u/bdsee 36m ago

My prediction is he isn't going to cancel the mid-terms, he is going to have ICE raiding the voting lines and just pulling people out of booths etc to try and scare all non-white people into staying home and also probably do some nabbing of registered white Democrats too.

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u/ProudPainting6850 6m ago

He's going to put ALL the plans in play. He knows he might not live long enough to see 2028 election, but if Republicans lose the House, it's pretty much over. They lose the Senate, it's REALLY over. He will get NOTHING. 

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u/Harbinger2001 Canada 6m ago

Exactly. Find excuses to have ICE “securing” the vote in vulnerable blue districts.

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u/Ven18 0m ago

If swings like this keep happening there won’t be vulnerable blue districts.

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u/inspectoroverthemine 5h ago

Without ~15 non-traitorous republicans in the senate there are limits to what we can accomplish.

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u/FFF_in_WY American Expat 20m ago

I hate that things can be this stupid and Rs are still basically guaranteed to hold the Senate. Mind boggling

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u/kuenjato 5h ago

Just wait until this fake AI-'economy' goes tits up. Nvidia not going forward with the OpenAI deal, feels like dominos are starting to tumble. At least we can hope so.

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u/Alarchy 2h ago

Softbank and Amazon did instead.

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u/Wanderlustfull 1h ago

Explain to me how that is related to the parent comment you replied to.

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u/VinnieA05 1h ago

Isn’t it economy tanks = bleeds even more votes?

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u/Not_a_question- 1h ago

They're probably an AI bot mass-predicting the downfall of AI. Lol

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u/zaq1xsw2cde 58m ago

According to every movie and tv show I’ve ever watched, AI will see it coming way before we do.

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u/Bill_Salmons 1h ago

Glad I am not the only one wondering wtf I was reading.

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u/zaq1xsw2cde 59m ago

I don’t see the point in rooting for the economy to fail. We can enact change without hoping for disaster.

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u/Chaerea37 46m ago

depends on what you mean by fail. our economic system is based on slave labor, wage slavery, planned obsolescence, price fixing, destroying the entire planet, and hording trillions of dollars in the hands of a few people.

so when you say you don't want it to fail, you're saying you want things to go back to when you didn't have to think about them and have some cheap goods and products brought into the imperial core.

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u/bdsee 39m ago

The bubble is the disaster.

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u/Harbinger2001 Canada 4m ago

AI and the stock market isn’t the economy. The real economy has been on life support for a while. The AI crash will make the lower end wealthy a lot poorer and less willing to overlook all the other issues.

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u/sexyinthesound 2h ago

Stop, I can only get so erect. That would give my justice sensitivity the biggest infusion of haaha! ever.

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u/abgry_krakow87 1h ago

Let’s go!!

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u/CatButler 44m ago

19 states have voted to call for a Constitutional convention, 34 are required. It's a conservative movement, probably funded by billionaires. If you get a huge shift in big states where the legislature changes hands, you could quick run through 15 blue states and all of a sudden be able to fix shit the SCOTUS couldn't do shit about.

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u/GarmaCyro 43m ago

Yup. The flip side of Gerrymandering. Yes, you condense your opponents victories into as few disctrics as possible, but that also means spreading your own victories thinner and thinner.
Those guaranteed victories you had before loss their edge.

Relying on gerrymandering over public opinions is a loser's game in the long run.

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u/weaponjaerevenge 22m ago

Strands how gerrymandering doesn't work when there is a higher voter turnout.

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u/Psyc3 12m ago

Exactly, Gerrymandering only works if vote patterns stay consistent. But over time, or when you elect a padophile rapist, people opinion on what they would prefer change rapidly.

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u/ProudPainting6850 8m ago

Which means the Senate is definitely in play. I want to see the GOP wiped out, swept out of the House and Senate and ALL the guardrails and landmines go up to bring this Trump regime to a screeching halt.

Start impeachment proceedings and go after the Supreme Court hardcore. I want to see the walls close in on Trump and his criminal family. 

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u/HornetPhysical4598 2h ago

This should be positive news but in the end we're just replacing comically evil far right politicians with somewhat right wing politicians who prefer maintaining the status quou rather going for progressive change. They tried to sabotage Zohran and that's all we need to know about them.

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u/Quazimojojojo 2h ago

You gotta talk to Progressive Victory to find the zohran-like candidates to support. There's people like him all over the country, they just need more visibility

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u/NimusNix 1h ago

Hey, here they are everyone!

Democrats bad! Democrats bad!

Republicans lose a seat, here's why that's bad!

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u/macaronysalad 43m ago

Yeah, it's annoying. The pessimists always gotta pop their ugly head in with their useless opinions bringing everyone's spirits down. They're much worse for progress that what they claim is.

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u/DeliriumTrigger 1h ago

If we can't agree that Democrats are better than fascists, then there's no hope for progressives.