Posted on 08/06/2025 8:38:38 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Late-night host Stephen Colbert confronted Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker with gerrymandered maps of Illinois congressional districts on Tuesday amid Texas Republicans' efforts to redraw the state's congressional map.
"If you are considering doing a little more redrawing in Illinois, you already have some crazy districts in Illinois. Take a look at this. Look at [district] 17 here. It does that, then it comes up here, and it sneaks around there and goes all the way up here and then goes right over there like that," Colbert said as he gestured, describing the districts. "Is this common for all states to do?"
Texas House Republicans have introduced a redistricting proposal that could net them five new GOP seats. The draft congressional map, which is likely to change before approval by both state legislative chambers, aims to redraw district lines to include more Republican-leaning areas in Democratic strongholds like Dallas and Houston. The move has prompted Texas Democrats to leave the state in order to halt the vote, and Pritzker put himself at the center of the national discussion by offering refuge in Illinois.
Pritzker joked that a kindergarten class drew the map, and called it his independent commission.
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Somehow, the House and Senate are almost equally split.
That's how important gerrymandering is to demonicRATS.
Harris won 500.A little bit misleading because LA, NYC and Chicago are included in Harris' counties.
What? Colbert actually made Pritzger look like a foolish kindergartener , his argument is based on “timing” - hogwash
Dems have zero argument here, zero, the corrupt media should be honest here.
Congressional districts in Illinois look like they were drawn by drunken monkeys using an Etch a Sketch.
Congressional districts in Illinois look like they were drawn by drunken monkeys using an Etch a Sketch.
Colbert gets revenge on the Democrat media for firing him.
Only 3 of 19 districts are Republican and trump won 44 percent of the state. Why is nobody from Texas pointing this out?
Sounds like Colbert is trying to keep his job! hahahaha!!!
When Duckworth was in Congress, the district they drew to include her house and enough democrats to get her elected looked like a pile of spaghetti.
Congress should fix this. And require same-day voting no mail or early voting for federal elections.
Excerpted from yesterday’s Second City Cop blog:
“Boo Hoo. It’s bit like democrats haven’t done the same thing for years wherever they’re in charge:
2024 Election (Illinois) 55% D, 45% R - but 14 of 17 reps are dems (82%)
2024 Election (New York) 56% D, 43% R - but 19 of 26 reps are dems (73%)
2024 Election (California) 58% D, 38% R - but 43 of 52 reps are dems (83%)
“Not very proportional, and even less so when you include the two dem senators from each state. So spare us the fake outrage.”
If any more Texas Yeller Bellies take off for Chicongo, Prickster is going to need a bigger butt for them to hide behind.
Correction. Colbert’s production staff and writers are trying to remain employed. Colbert himself has not an original thought in his mind to exit thru his mouth. His content just goes from eyes to mouth off the teleprompter.
“”Late-night host Stephen Colbert confronted Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker with gerrymandered maps of Illinois congressional districts on Tuesday amid Texas Republicans’ efforts to redraw the state’s congressional map.””
Let me guess.... since Colbert is losing his cushy gig next year... he has decided to get another cushy (even cushier?) gig and run for political office. He figures it’s the only way he can even hope to be “relevant”, with CNN ratings down, too.
Also, IL-17 was redrawn to put former TV weatherman and faggot Eric Sorensen in the House despite most of his district being comprised of Trump-supporting counties. It has to hook around like Colbert said to include the black parts of Rockford, Peoria and the Quad Cities and the nutjob liberal college towns of Bloomington-Normal.
In part it was done after they eliminated the old District 16 due to population loss, which was held by Adam Kinzinger (RATBASTARD-IL).
I wish the presidential election was based on each county getting an equal portion of the state’s electoral votes, and the winner would be the presidential nominee who wins the most counties. The GOP would win every state.
Works for me.
You know Illinois!
Many. And as long as it took.
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