Losing This Race Would Have Been Disastrous For The Left

[@Advent3546]

The one-two-punch victory of Wisconsin and Chicago was incredible for the left

[@LiableFilm]

Someone One two punched Daniel Kelly

[@Robbay363]

I was incredibly nervous about chicago. Definitely a big relief.

[@Dsworddance22]

Brandon sends his regards

[@soccerruben1]

And St Louis, Missouri :)

[@Advent3546]

@@squidward5110 what's going on there?

[@williampickering356]

Best feeling I've ever had following an election. I go to school in Wisconsin so I feel lucky to be able to have participated in this vote.

[@kyle-ld2gh]

@@bulkierwriter2772 good luck with that

[@williampickering356]

@@bulkierwriter2772 I was seeing a lot of that on r/conservative earlier. The cope is real

[@bulkierwriter2772]

@@williampickering356 The cope will taste better when we have mass waves of political violence, and another club Q

[@bulkierwriter2772]

@@kyle-ld2gh Good luck safeguarding your family when the military starts picking sides.

[@godhimself1128]

​@@bulkierwriter2772you mean the woke military?????

[@ASolidSnack]

It's insane how much uncheckable power the courts have in this country

[@David-bh1rn]

It's good when supreme court nominees are elected by a popular vote tho. Idk why supreme court nominees aren't just elected after being nominated by the president. Would solve so many issues.

[@David-bh1rn]

Federal supreme court nominees I mean

[@reaverfang377]

It's supposed to be a civilian tool to affect the government but cos of money, it's a tool against people used to suppress and strip rights

[@zaczane]

Checks & Balances MY ASS!!!!

[@wohdinhel]

@@zaczanecheck and balance THIS 👆

[@narutoblivion]

It was a beautiful day in Chicago if you’re a leftist. Simultaneously laughing at Ja’Mal Green and celebrating Brandon Johnson. Mount Greenwood conservatives gotta do something with those Let’s Go Brandon signs now 🤣🤣.

[@hydratanksamari]

I love how their phrase now supports anyone named Brandon who's running, especially leftists😅

[@chesterpoindexter7594]

Vaush, thank you for giving North Carolina at least some attention - hardly ever hear anyone talk about the b.s. in this state. P.S. - a Democratic rep who won her district as a Democrat just t'day became a Republican giving the Reds veto power over our Democratic governor.

[@ricardobarahona3939]

The crazy thing is this rep's mom is a commissioner for Mecklenburg county who is progressive and voted for Bernie at the DNC convention back in 2016. I've noticed a trend of progressive academics and politicians having kids much more conservative than them. Examples include what's happening in NC with the Cothams (hopefully it's just rumours and not true), Pete Buttigieg and his Marxist professor father, Lisa Nandy and her Marxist father, David Milliband and his Marxist father, Clement Attlee's grandson being a big Tory, and many more. I know most were UK examples but I bet someone with more polisci knowledge could find more American examples.

[@nomodz4real]

As a fellow NC resident I have a hard time squaring the circle of such nice places to live and so much republican fuckery. Also they need to legalize recreational weed and shrooms in NC like yesterday

[@Skarry]

Isn't that illegal?

[@sifibruh7055]

You can do that?! Or does that just mean she’s a democrat who will vote for the right.

[@BelimaiSykes]

@@sifibruh7055 I usually don't miss a chance to point out that the democratic party is right wing and the republican party is far right. The lot of em are good bedfellows with each other. One side is just more honest about their intentions than the other.

[@boycedavis6639]

As a life long Wisconsin resident and someone who phone banked for her with progressive victory, I'm beyond thrilled! Thanks to all the Vaushites who phone banked, and canvased to help make this happen!

[@sarahsanders1729]

Proud of my homies for voting, love y'all

[@DMLoosey]

We didn't win the vote of the bail initiative, though. People didn't care about anything but the top of the ticket.

[@narikobeilschmidt]

shoulder goblin ❤❤❤

[@crimson8299]

I bothered my coworkers and friends so so much to go out and vote. I'm so glad they listened to me lol

[@FruitBasketyay]

Good job!

[@kingkiwi4]

I turned 18 on the 4th of April and got to same day vote! It was a wonderful birthday present from Uncle Sam.

[@tylerhackner9731]

Trump indictment, Wisconsin, Chicago. Three for three

[@eeyjug9849]

What a great day. On the Same day, my local city (normally a conservative city that voted for Lauren boebert and Tina peters), ended up voting all progressive candidates for city council by wide margins. Despite the conservatives spending more during the race, they performed abysmally. It gives me great hope for 2024 to see my conservative city having such a strong leftwing shift

[@c.m.9369]

I do have to say, I‘m starting to get a little bit of hope… Between the midterms and these elections now, it really, really looks like the American people are fighting with all their might against giving up their democracy. The message that democracy itself is currently on the line seems to get through to enough people. At least for the moment. Let‘s hope we can keep this up for a while, at least until the Republicans step away from their transparent, unambiguous anti-democracy trip.

[@khalidpatterson1422]

you and me both

[@Juniversal]

Agreed. It's really heart warming to see Americans push back against MAGAism. I love it.

[@SomeCallMeAku]

Who's this guy talking on the Daniil stream? Edit: Oh wow, didn't realize it was a ventriloquist dummy for Daniil. Such a talented baby!

[@Cirex2118]

I love shoulder goblin 💙💙💜💜

[@Golems_victory]

Grublins are better than goblins and represent conservatives better....lol why do I keep making dawn of the dragon references lol. 😝😂🤓😉😜

[@gingergamergirl98]

As a Wisconsinite, I’m so fucking glad Janet won (even if I didn’t vote for her in the primary, I did in the election)

[@Mitchthemysteryman]

Thank you for that

[@onomatopoeia162003]

Thanks neighbor. (MN here)

[@Factorum...]

Janet vs Voldemort

[@gamedierepeat3351]

I live in wisconsin, and am currently under a month away from voting age so I couldn't vote. Rip. Soooo glad we won.

[@js23-]

The sheer levels of salt from Kelly's "non" concession speech was the perfect topping on a very nice, sweet, well-earned victory.

[@a_pirate1434]

Everyone’s Midwestern great aunt vs man who looks like he shouldn’t be allowed within 500ft of a school

[@emilymarriott5927]

Seeing this get called in less than an hour after polls closing was incredible. Unfortunately, we lost the SD-8 election by a hair, which means state republicans hold impeachment power, but they can't really do anything unless they try to impeach multiple people at once, which would definitely bring about repercussions, not the least of which would likely be recall attempts on a lot of them.

[@jessicawilson1751]

I did see a few articles saying one of your wackadoodle Republican senators that won had said he wanted to impeach Protasiewicz. Hopefully they don't, but gods know how petty Rethuglicans are...

[@amberharmsen2497]

Ill be helping yall out with district 8 in SD -Ex state lead for minnesota in PV

[@Eibarwoman]

Most of these GOP seats are safer than safe.

[@Jamandabop]

The Republican Senate Majority Leader has thankfully said that impeaching Janet is off the table.

[@spacenomad7359]

I’m from NC, the gerrymandering here is one of the absolute worst in the country. Those breaks in the blue leaning area around Greensboro is A&T university which is a huge HBCU, the district line goes straight through the campus and splits the community’s voting power in half

[@buncha3arrows195]

Wisconsin stopped functioning as a representative democracy after 2010. Republicans used gerrymandering to entrench themselves in the state legislature, making it impossible for Democrats to flip the WI House or Senate. Hopefully this new court can draw fairer maps that represent the interests of Wisconsinites.

[@transcatdad]

I helped phone bank for this! Really glad I gave it a shot despite my anxiety.

[@TheVinor14]

I'm sorry but I cant........your cat I so adorable just being like a parrot on your shoulder lol

[@nootnoot9842]

Big W Wisconsin

[@MouseTheGoblin]

Why’s the history of the USA as ungodly weird specific and hilarious as an MMORPG that’s been going on for much longer than it should have been

[@L.Bomrek]

Pretty sure during early westward expansion times two people had a micro-war on the fringe over land with some mercury (quicksilver)

[@TweenkPL]

Poland used to elect its king, a form of government now surviving only in the Vatican, and it stopped existing for 123 years in part because any nobleman could unilaterally veto any reform. There are weird things in the history of many nations

[@slackershrub8923]

We did some big winning today boys

[@Zarastro54]

Bigly

[@Montewtf]

i know vaush can't look at all states but PA just had our redistricting too and as a swing state we had to resort to an independent commission. it ended up being a pretty fair map

[@IAmNumber4000]

vaush's shoulder has a gremlin infestation 😂

[@jloiben12]

Phat W for Wisconsin. Once every decade or so Wisconsin decides to be one of the biggest god damn issues in the country

[@cbergh4576]

Thank you Daniil and random guy!

[@fnord3125]

I'm not sure if it's still true, but what I've heard about gerrymandering for the two parties is that Republicans are willing to gerrymander in "risky" ways, to try to grab more districts, even if it makes their hold over specific districts shakier, whereas Democrats will gerrymander to solidify their control over specific districts so that they can keep their seats, even if it means their party is likely to have less districts.

[@NotBatman101]

Wisconsin suddenly just became a little less terrible.

[@alrecks619]

vaush needs to make a cam frame specifically for Daniil.

[@Spyno41]

Live Daniil reaction:

[@Mattchupichue]

I love how you got your cat on your shoulder my boy gets there and purs for England then my girl if she in the mood and you stoke her first she loves a snuggle

[@luxstar5622]

Are you ok?

[@seansteele6532]

In Louisiana both New Orleans and Baton Rouge (The two most populous cities and the strongest Democratic Areas) are weirdly packed into the same voting district despite behind far away from each other with this one long stretch of wilderness and some very tiny towns that goes up the Mississippi River.

[@Special_Agent_NSB]

Voting districts have to be contiguous by federal law, so you see some very creative spaghetti strand districts gerrymandered by the republicans. More victories like yesterday should help stop these tactics.

[@seansteele6532]

@@Special_Agent_NSB Well yes I know, the thing is it's a good example of packing because any other districts that would have New Orleans or Baton Rouge would both be blue districts or very blue purple districts but they pack them together because then you only get one blue district despite again, NOLA and BR being far apart.

[@Lambda_Ovine]

There's an alternate universe where this race was lost, and I don't want to think about it. It's so so good that this turned out the way it did

[@GayestWinston]

Voting let's goooo!

[@digaddog6099]

Some states have their redistricting commissions selected by sortition. I dont like the idea that gerrymandering is just a matter of whether you and they are playing in good or bad faith while ignoring any long term solutions to the problem that democratic reform can bring.

[@OriginalBernieBro]

Gerrymander in the opposite direction for the next 100 years! Play by their rules.

[@Paloris]

This is the best news

[@jmn327]

Was feeling down about awful news in state legislatures in Tennessee, Florida, and North Carolina, but outcomes like Wisconsin, Chicago, and others in the last few years show that a *lot* of people are getting fed up with this current iteration of the Republican party. Polling always shows how hated the GOP's platform is (so much so that many people *refuse to believe you* when you tell them what's in their regular agenda, and this goes back to circa 2010!), but now they're seeing it play out, particularly with the loss of abortion rights. About time voters began reacting appropriately at the ballot box.

[@industrialalliance9905]

I need to phone bank. More.

[@LiamRichie825]

I was actually in Judge P’s courtroom for jury duty, she’s pretty based

[@BimmieJames]

I helped in Wisconsin as a Madison vote ^_^

[@nootnoot9842]

As a rural Wisconsin lefty, please never stop voting. Let's make Wisconsin Socialist again 💪

[@AzusaTheLost]

As someone who lives in Central Illinois, I must say those are interesting ways to pronounce the cities.

[@tdk2133]

I just love seeing my state as the example used for really bad gerrymandering. Makes me feel good about the future :)

[@elliott614]

My boss whined about how our voting rights are gonna be taken away by... them... not being taken away. Complaining about "she says she's gonna follow the law yet... [nonsensical bs]" but also in favor of the guy whose job was partisan criminal defense. Excited about the legislator just elected who wanted to decertify the 2020 election who says he wants to immediately impeach Janet. Just sooo many arguments that hurt my brain way too much to even respond to

[@elliott614]

"It's a disgrace she was running on being pro choice" meanwhile Daniel Kelley was ACTUALLY far more explicitly running on abortion by his own statements

[@echiko4932]

Y'all on a win streak. Congrats from terf island!

[@Gragoroth]

3:54 I thought he looked like an americanized Jeremy Clarkson.

[@Azillia]

You know what we should do As democrats, we should move towards the gerrymandered places Think about it, redrawing takes time right? But they wont expect us to level the plane field by litterally going to those heavily favored places and turning the odds by voting in those districts Unless thats illegal idk OR GET RID OF DISTRICTS, AND ACTUALLY LET THE VOTES COUNT FOR POPULAR VOTES

[@midgelionhart]

Aww the cat looks cozy

[@varun009]

It's almost like having no districts at all is more fair than anything else.

[@erichansen2860]

Salt lake County in Utah is chopped to pieces. Oddly enough, it's also the most populous and reliably blue county in Utah. Just over 1/3 of the population lives there but 4/4 of Utah's Representatives are GOP. In unrelated news, the county is split among three of its four congressional districts. 🤔

[@zanethethiccboi1020]

All my Midwest homies taking Ws

[@melonside4216]

all of that "nothing land" is a bunch of forest and farmlands, which Wisconsin raises cattle to make CHEESE as well as the forests supporting species like maples, birches, aspen, spruces, and pines. However, I do get the notion of the areas that would "need" to be settled to an extent, if such people can bring in talent as well as dealing with severely cold and long winters, then it could be up to 10-25 people per square mile or even up to the light green category, albeit being symbiotic about land use and whatnot.

[@MarkSoupial]

The AI gerrymandering maps are hella scary

[@reyalsregnava]

It would be easy enough to just mandate that each county/parish/whatever was a district for voting. That way when someone wanted to change anything it would have a real impact on direct local elections and people would flip their sh!t when they changed school districts and property tax codes so someone team could score one political win. Should create a negative feedback loop to prevent such shenanigans.

[@acetrainer5564]

Gerrymandering is exactly why I don't register with a party when I register to vote. I always register independent. If they don't know where the blue voters are, they can't draw these lines as effectively.

[@xBINARYGODx]

From the thumbnail I totally thought that was something way more exotic on his shoulder - neat cat, almost not disappointed given the cats odd but neat feature set.

[@coasterblocks3420]

Now you need to fight for a more democratic voting system. Proportional representation in the state upper house and either mixed member proportional or single member preferential voting for electorates in the lower house. This will loosen the grip of the two party system and and force both the Dems and the GOP to split into smaller parties, enable other small parties such as the Greens and Labor Parties to win seats, ushering in a truely representative multi-party democracy, at least at the state level.

[@EmperorPylades]

OK, so as an Australian, I hate to rain on the parade, but what's to stop the GQP from using their new Supermajority to just impeach all of the Liberal justices on the Supreme Court and keep them open until they win them?

[@gothboschincarnate3931]

look at dat cat doh

[@glumdrop4672]

Danil approves this message

[@QT5656]

20:16 the Gerry font. 😮

[@geehp2692]

Brandon sends his regards

[@holdommi7505]

let’s go wisconsin!!! :D

[@Xenomnipotent]

Rightoids can't stop taking L's lately

[@rizzardthewizard]

I knew the portmanteau origin of Gerrymander and that he's saying the name Gerry wrong, I'm feeling like big brain Sheen over here lol

[@zaczane]

The Power of D!! 😂😂😂 lucky.

[@Jamandabop]

It wasn't "basically a coin flip" btw. Hagedorn is consistently moderate and will frequently side with the liberal wing. The lawsuit in 2020 never had a chance.

[@crocve]

RIP Daniil.

[@TylerMcWilliam]

You may have missed it but the Illinois map is a pretty good example of gerrymandering towards a blue bias. More like what you had suggested previously. The differences are subtle.

[@amitsunoko7270]

Gerrymandering gets me pissed 😡 so YES we should by all means gerrymander as well. Until we mutually agree to be fair.

[@kristinsshenanigans]

hoping for some good news from Indiana soon :(

[@sapiensursus3034]

IM SO PROUD OF CHICAGO

[@PancakemonsterFO4]

Professor Layton Jerrymandering puzzle when?

[@dylanb265]

Straight proportionality alone isn’t really the best way to measure gerrymandering. For example, you also want districts to be responsive in the sense that a shift in the state wide vote should correspond to a roughly similar shift in the number of seats held by each party. You also want districts to comply with racial requirements under the voting rights act and to be somewhat compact, following existing jurisdictional boundaries like county lines and city lines, and grouping together similar communities of interest where applicable. Those goals can trade off with straight proportionality sometimes

[@cobaltcorsair592]

Racial requirements? I'm not American, so I don't know what that is, but it sounds like a bad thing.

[@dylanb265]

@@cobaltcorsair592 Ok I totally understand where this sentiment comes from, but America has a unique history with this sort of thing. Basically voting is EXTREMELY polarized by race in a lot of America (especially black and white voters in the American southeast) to the point where a lot of states before the passage of the Voting Rights Act (and some after it) basically drew districts designed to minimize the impact of minority voters. The VRA therefore creates certain requirements for not splitting up minority voters in states where they exist in large enough numbers and in geographically connected enough communities to draw districts that could allow those minority voters to form a practical majority of the voter base. It's why you get districts represented by members of Congress like Sanford Bishop, Terri Sewell, Jim Clyburn, Bennie Thompson, etc. However, this does lead to some oddly-shaped districts. For example, Chicago has some districts populated mostly by Latino voters who live in somewhat separated parts of the city, but who are connected into the same district to give them a chance to elect a representative chosen predominantly by Latinos in the area, rather than having those voters diluted by white and black voters in more nearby neighborhoods.

[@gudmundursteinar]

Both sides Gerrymander, but, since the political divide is often rural vs urban the Republicans have an advantage in Gerrymandering since you can easily make contiguous districts with a 20+ Democratic lean. Ultimately the solution has to be, either, making the districts much smaller and created by a non-partisan comission like in the UK (where districts have 70k people compared to 700k in the US) or you need to simply resort to proportional representation with multi member districts that might cover multiple states or increase the size of congress to about 1000 or 1500 and have many more representatives (this requires removing the electoral college as well).

[@selimemeli]

Almost perfect night. I wish senate seat 8 was won though. GOP senate in Wisconsin can now impeach whoever they want and might go after Janet. Though it might just be noise.

[@zipzap8791]

Gov Evers can just appoint a replacement, no matter what the WISGOP does they can’t impeach Evers without a lower chamber supermajority too. To be fair I fully expect them to kick and scream all they can, but if the Supreme Court strikes down the current state legislature maps, it won’t matter, because by 2025 they may not even have a majority in either chamber, much less a supermajority.

[@Pretermit_Sound]

15:10 they really like to use techniques known as packing and cracking. This is an example of cracking

[@wvu05]

I'm with you, Vaush. Unless it is unilaterally banned on the national level, we need to do it, too, in order to counteract their gerrymandering. Unilateral surrender makes _no_ sense on this one.

[@Eibarwoman]

The thing is, Michigan was produced by merely undoing Republican gerrymandering. Most gerrymandering is done to protect incumbents and/or strengthen rural representation even in blue states beyond what should be proportional as for economic reasons involving regionalism. As in the districts are to create in state legislatures a larger but permanent number of "safe" seats.

[@connortobin3775]

So as a heads up the 4th district of IL is actually famously NOT gerrymandered, and is a viable district that perfectly represents its population. IL has a law that districts must be single, contiguous masses, and that suspicious gap right there is a massive highway system from the old redlining days. The 4th district is a historically Latino/hispanic majority district surrounded by a LOT of white-majority districts that would otherwise gobble them up and reduce their voice. This way they actually have representation at the county & state levels.

[@cctomcat321]

I'm just glad the constant texts are over. People trying to get Dan Kelly votes were pulling all the stops mentioning Soros with 2-3 other buzzwords thrown in.

[@infinitywulf]

I will say that this news gave me a lot more hope for the 2024 elections.

[@gwabafett]

Did Vaush get a new cat?

[@johnned2114]

:(

[@FastAndEasy2010]

When vaush get a ferret

[@DOGbackwardz]

Gerrymander does not proportionately even things out for both sides. Blue states are restricted by the 435 rule. Blue states like NY are restricted by putting fair rules on the books while Desantis and Ohio can ignore their SC's.

[@scythe0704]

Something growing out of vaush's beard...

[@robertborland5083]

How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

[@LauraTeAhoWhite]

Chad Janet vs Virgin Daniel

[@cleanremarks]

Vaush doing Brando-face right now

[@koholohan3478]

The only state that I'm aware that Dems have gerrymandered was Maryland, and idk if that's still true, or the severity. All others are basically fair or heavily favoring Republicans.

[@ismeal231]

Id like to change the Jerrymander etymological lore to more accurately reflect the situation its put us in. "Jerrymandering comes from a portmanto of the name Jerry and Salamander. The name is derived from popular Milenial/Zoomer animated comedy Rick and Morty, in which the father of Morty, Jerry, is the incompetent patriarch of the Smith family, and quite impotent in achieving any kind of self actualization."

[@chrundlethegreat2251]

If someone doesn't understand gerrymandering, just show them an episode of survivor where they do a tribe switch from 2 to three. You can easily break up a majority and change the entire endgame.

[@subroy7123]

I hope Janet does take initiative in striking down the current districting map as unconstitutional quickly.

[@jasonnewman3355]

You know what, we need more people that recognize that playing by the rules when one side completely disregards them in a quest to get power so they can then *change the rules* isn't a good plan. Yeah, it's hypocritical but it is the only option being left.

[@CaIebGG]

Poor little Eau Claire in the 3rd district fighting for its life to try to turn the whole southeast of the state blue I love them

[@garretts799]

Another most important election of my life

[@Shopler]

Dude literally looks like Gothmog from LotR

[@comrade3720]

First (this won't make my father come back)

[@Feefa99]

He's proud of you

[@mogscugg2639]

Vaush brought my father back from the dead with his Irish magicks only to elope with him to Tacoma Hence the weeping