Governor calls Trump ‘Taco’ online, short for ‘Trump always chickens out’, prompted by president’s flip-flop deadlines
California governor Gavin Newsom says the state will draw new electoral maps after Donald Trump “missed” a deadline on Tuesday night in an ongoing redistricting battle between Democratic and Republican states.
In a letter sent to Trump on Monday, Newsom said he would prefer to leave the matter of congressional map-making to independent commissions, not partisan legislative bodies and emphasized that he would “happily” stand down if other states abandoned their redistricting effort. But, Newsom said: “California cannot stand idly by as this power grab unfolds.”
Several states have waded into the redistricting wars, where Newsom and other Democratic state leaders had threatened to draw retaliatory maps if Texas were to move ahead with its redistricting scheme.
I don’t like this era of troll politics.
The trolls should have stayed online. And y’all were so fucking stupid to continuously discount online discourse like it wasn’t happening in the real world. Is it clear now? The internet is just a communication medium for the real world. It wasn’t just an alternate reality you could dismiss.
This is not directed at the person whose post I’m replying to. Just people who were overly dismissive of online communication spaces and the reality of social media.
I agree that the standard of behavior for politicians has fallen into the gutter, but I don’t think there’s much to gain by taking the high road.
Exactly. The Scots sang it best…'Ye take the high road and I’ll take the low road and I’ll be in Scotland before ye".
Right, what good is the respect of moderate, sane electors.
Obviously, there are not enough moderate sane electors to win elections.
What good is it when your party loses, or just has elections outright stolen, because they’re so busy taking the high road and congratulating each other on it.
Considering where we are, apparently not nearly enough.