Posted on 07/28/2025 10:04:40 AM PDT by John Semmens
Former US Representative, US Senate candidate and 2020 Democratic presidential contender Beto O'Rourke (D-Tex) went on CNN's State of the Union to tell host Jake Tapper that "we have to be absolutely ruthless about getting back in power. So, yes, in California, in Illinois, in New York, wherever we have the trifecta of power, we have to use that to its absolute extent."
"Take the California Assembly, for example," O'Rourke said, "Democrats out number Republicans 60 to 19. In the Senate it's 30 to 10. Democrats have the votes to gerrymander every state Republican out of their seats. We can do the same to the 9 Republicans currently holding seats in Congress."
Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed repealing the state law which vested the power to redraw congressional maps to a nonpartisan independent commission, saying "we have the votes to effectively eliminate every Republican office holder in the state. Getting rid of these fascists will protect our democracy from their evil machinations. If other Democrat-majority states do the same we can achieve the national unity that former President Biden couldn't. We could sit around talking about the way the world should be. Or, we can seize the power to remake the world."
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Beto O’Rourke? LOL. Please. Your 15 minutes were up a long time ago, Beto. Its time for you to find a real job.
No pretense of acting on behalf of the people you represent. Just raw power, by any means necessary.
Keep it up, Beta! This will work out very well for you.
Beatomeato. What a buffoon. Always liked the vid of him face planting into the car door.
No can do. California's internal politics are strongly regional and district boundaries are decided by an "independent" commission.
IOW, Beto is a self-aggrandizing idiot.
Wait, wasn’t that campaign strategy?
Well then, maga-ers need to be even more ruthlesser! It’s more fairer.
Another democrat who’s only interest is getting back into power. No concern for what’s best for the American citizen, only what’s best for him. He needs a severe smackdown.
Ken Kessler: We’ve got to be ruthless. Think ruthless.
Sandy: What if I can’t think ruthless?
Ken Kessler: You’ve got to. It’s good for you. It makes you strong. I mean, what the hell’s the sense of being a decent person when nobody else is?
WTF? agreed. In response to really egregious gerrymandering by the democrats, the voters created the commission by constitutional amendment in 2008. Itโs far from a perfect process, but itโs better than it was. It cannot be repealed by the Legislature; the most they can do is put it on the 2026 general election ballot which, of course, is too late to help them in the midterms voted on at the same time.
https://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/about-us/
That includes assignation of anyone who opposes you, right?
now, where did the “semi” end and the “satire” begin before you get more exploding heads?
I guess to assassination attempts is the Democrat’s definition of too nice.
Beto doesn’t realize that the RATS already are the Party of Death and Destruction. If he doesn’t understand that, he must be doing too many drugs or something. They’ve got “ruthless” already covered. Now all they have to do is continue kissing the illegal alien invaders ying yangs.
MORE ?
THEY JUST SUCKER PUNCHED FROM BEHIND A LADY AT A MOTOWN
CONCERT
THEN MOB(ocraticly) GANGED UP A MOB AND BEAT 2 UNCONSCIOUS .
MORE VICIOUS ?
Can’t get more ruthless ( and cowardly) than that.
Nothing about expanding freedom and making the lives of Americans better. Itโs all about seizing power for the globalists.
Yep. The communist dictator inside them all just can’t wait to get out.
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