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"Democrats Need to Be Ruthless" [semi-satire]
Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 27 July 2025 | John Semmens

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."


TOPICS: Government; Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: betoorourke; newsom; satire

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1 posted on 07/28/2025 10:04:40 AM PDT by John Semmens
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To: John Semmens

Beto O’Rourke? LOL. Please. Your 15 minutes were up a long time ago, Beto. Its time for you to find a real job.


2 posted on 07/28/2025 10:05:22 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: John Semmens

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.


3 posted on 07/28/2025 10:06:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: John Semmens

Beatomeato. What a buffoon. Always liked the vid of him face planting into the car door.


4 posted on 07/28/2025 10:11:38 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐Ÿ’ฉ? ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘!)
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To: John Semmens
Democrats have the votes to gerrymander every state Republican out of their seats.

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.

5 posted on 07/28/2025 10:12:48 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: John Semmens

Wait, wasn’t that campaign strategy?


6 posted on 07/28/2025 10:13:43 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: John Semmens

Well then, maga-ers need to be even more ruthlesser! It’s more fairer.


7 posted on 07/28/2025 10:13:50 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: John Semmens

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.


8 posted on 07/28/2025 10:15:55 AM PDT by econjack
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To: Qwapisking

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?


9 posted on 07/28/2025 10:18:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Carry_Okie

WTF? agreed. In response to really egregious gerrymandering by the democrats, the voters created the commission by constitutional amendment in 2008. Itโ€™s far from a perfect process, but itโ€™s 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/


10 posted on 07/28/2025 10:29:29 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: John Semmens

That includes assignation of anyone who opposes you, right?


11 posted on 07/28/2025 10:31:41 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: John Semmens

now, where did the “semi” end and the “satire” begin before you get more exploding heads?


12 posted on 07/28/2025 10:35:51 AM PDT by sopo
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I guess to assassination attempts is the Democrat’s definition of too nice.


13 posted on 07/28/2025 10:42:46 AM PDT by PTBAA
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To: John Semmens

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.


14 posted on 07/28/2025 10:53:43 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Kamala Harris would have been the next Abraham Lincoln". - Jeff "Dumber" Daniels.)
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To: John Semmens

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 ?


15 posted on 07/28/2025 11:04:52 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

Can’t get more ruthless ( and cowardly) than that.


16 posted on 07/28/2025 11:05:49 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: John Semmens
we can seize the power to remake the world."

Nothing about expanding freedom and making the lives of Americans better. Itโ€™s all about seizing power for the globalists.

17 posted on 07/28/2025 11:09:20 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.โ€)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yep. The communist dictator inside them all just can’t wait to get out.


18 posted on 07/28/2025 11:11:46 AM PDT by curious7
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Check


19 posted on 07/28/2025 11:55:52 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: John Semmens
Democrats need to sink back into the ooze that spawned them.
20 posted on 07/28/2025 12:35:38 PM PDT by 55Ford
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