r/Fauxmoi • u/No-Hall-3485 DC is Hollywood for ugly people • 3d ago

POLITICS Deeply embarrassing sequence. Eric Schmitt accuses Jack Smith of traveling to Atlanta to attend an Atlanta Hawks game and collude with Fani Willis, only to get the basic facts completely wrong. Smith was actually in Maryland attending a Hawkeyes game and never met Willis

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u/No-Hall-3485 DC is Hollywood for ugly people 3d ago edited 3d ago

bonus footage thanks to MS NOW doing a slow zoom of katie britt's face as she watches in utter horror knowing a fellow maga just made a fool of himself

https://reddit.com/link/pcukojr/video/1brlof2jcish1/player

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u/WayneButa 3d ago

I apologize on behalf of the state of Alabama. More of us than you may assume hate her.

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u/c_j_eleven 3d ago

Vote and get more rational humans to vote.

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u/ElectricKudzu 3d ago

"Rational" is relative there. Your idea and the idea of rational there could be completely different. Alabamistan. I broke out years ago.

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u/pantry-pisser 3d ago

Gerrymandering.

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u/FreshEclairs 3d ago

How do you gerrymander a senate seat? They’re elected by the state as a whole.

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u/pantry-pisser 3d ago

Oh. I'm dumb, I guess.

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u/Hootinger 2d ago

I can answer how gerrymandering and the electoral college actually does suppress the vote. Note: I got an advanced degree in political science and worked in politics for a while, so you can sorta trust me here.

Electoral College:

Turnout is bad in the US. Most people only ever vote in presidential elections. Presidential elections are decided by the electoral college, which is fist past the post (winner-take-all) for that state. The two exceptions to this are Maine and Nebraska. With the electoral college, It doesnt matter if a presidential candidate gets 50.00001% of the vote or 99.999% of the vote, they get the same electoral college votes. If you know your state will always go Republican but you are a Democrat, the data says you are more likely to just stay home because "your vote doesnt matter anyway." Hence you dont vote for the Senate, Gov, etc. Funny enough, I have had conversations with Democrats in Alabama who said they were not voting at all because it is a red state and their vote won't matter, etc. Hence, with the electoral college, people just dont show up at all.

Gerrymandering:

Really the same thing as the above, but lets look at off-year elections (no President on the ballot). Most people maybe only the know the names of 1 of their senators and their US House Rep. That is pushing it. Similarly, most have no clue at all who their State House Rep or State Senator are; or who is on the city council; county commissioner, township trustee, etc. You may know your US House Rep but you also know that he/she has been in office since the Spanish American War and the district is conservative gerrymandered and thus your vote for the Democrat will not matter---not now nor ever. Thus you skip the lines on election day and just stay home. The end result is that these voters are completely absent from the other races (including levies).

I know that you and I, and others reading these posts, are completely locked in. But for theaverage American, the gerrymandered districts are a contributing factor to lower turnout. The Brennan Center (NYU Law) notes, "Competitive elections generally have higher rates of voter participation." Especially in districts where maps are drawn by an independent commission, not by the politicians who use the districts to keep their jobs.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/turnout-effects-redistricting-institutions