MizzouBS

Maps off in Missouri. Without gerrymandering Missouri would have 4 solid red, 2 blue, and 2 purple that lean blue.

St Louis has 5 districts in the metropolitan area. With no gerrymandering St Louis would have 1 blue district, 1 red, and one purple district

Without gerrymandering Kansas City would have 2 districts instead of 3. 1 blue and 1 purple.

50% of Missouri’s population live in the Kansas City and St Louis metropolitan areas.

Yes and no. One of the biggest reasons was because people in the south didn’t like people from the north. Kinda of like politics today a lot of people on the left and people on the right don’t like each other. Slavery was the biggest reason.

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There were many, many free blacks who also owned slaves, because that was the needed labor of the day.

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There was a little over 3,700 freed black people that owned slaves. A lot of the black people that owned slaves bought family members out of slavery. There was around 3.5 million slaves and little over 12,000 were owned by black people. There wasn’t “many, many” black people that owned slaves. 99% plus were owned by white people

The motorcade and the White House are both around a half a mile from where the shooter was shot.

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The dude fired his gun!

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After being chased by a plain clothed SS agent and he shot a juvenile

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I think the damage he's had to his reputation and stature is more than enough punishment.

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Governor’s, Senators, Congressmen, or State Representatives that stand on principle and don’t toe the party line is what politics should be. Politicians should represent their constituents and not the party. It shouldn’t be they do it so we’re gonna do it. More things would get done in Washington if people didn’t toe the party line and represent their constituents.

Do the majority of the people in the state want their districts to be gerrymandered? In Missouri the majority of people don’t want gerrymandered districts. It is on the ballot this fall and will pass

Politicians should not decide congressional districts

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He is who we thought he was!! Trump was correct! Again!

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He was a Trump nominee and confirmed by a majority Republican Senate

I think this goes back to last month when Trump and the Prime Minister of India had a phone conversation about the Middle East and keeping the Straight of Hormuz open. They also talked about Elon with some reports saying Elon was on the call, but that has been denied by both.

Forget about Iran, Epstein files, ICE, and the US economy and look over here for a few hours or days. In the process piss off another country

It may not be the case, but he has been posting, saying, and doing things that is trying to get people’s attention off of Iran. He’s fired a cabinet member, fired a Navy Secretary, said Cuba’s next, India’s a hellhole, fight with the pope, fight with former Trump allies, posted about the media, late night talk show host, and the Supreme Court. All this and more in the past 5 days.

We will see what other off the wall stuff he says Saturday night at the correspondents dinner. It won’t be like dinners in the past when president’s get roasted and then the president roast people in the room. There will be no roasting of the president just him doing the roasting.

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There's still a KKK? I've lived in the deep south all of my life and never met or heard rumors of any

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KKK has billboards and a radio station outside of Harrison, AR.

Most got rid of the KKK name and go by something else. In southwest Missouri we have a group called the Joplin Honkies. Don’t let the name fool you the Honkies are hardcore. There was an episode on the ID channel about one of the Honkies that killed a black guy at a gas station with a beer bottle.

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Pretty much EVERY poll had him losing in 2016. Quite a few in 2024 as well.

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The way polls are conducted have changed over the past 10 years.

In 2016 the polls got the popular vote correct. In 2016 in Pennsylvania the polls in Real Clear Politics had Clinton getting 46.2%. She got 47.5% of the vote. It wasn’t that they overestimated the vote for HRC they underestimated the vote for Trump. Some people that were polled were embarrassed to say they were voting for Trump. They also didn’t take into account no matter what some men said they couldn’t vote for a woman

The last poll
HRC 46.2%
Trump 44.3%
Johnson 3.0%
Stein 1.5%

Results
HRC 47.5%
Trump 48.2%
Johnson 2.4%
Stein .8%

In the other battleground states the same mistakes were made by the pollsters. All the undecided broke to Trump

The look on face while pushing out a silent but deadly fart.

Israel and Hezbollah have been bombing each other since 1982 when Hezbollah was founded in Lebanon 3 years after the coup in Iran. We were supplying Iran with weapons until 1987. In the Gulf War in 1990 Iran help the US against Iraq, but Hezbollah was still fighting Israel from Iran. To say we have been fighting with Iran for almost 50 years is wrong. In the 80’s and early 90’s Reagan and Bush had working relationship with Iran.

In the early 2000’s Iran helped overthrow the Taliban. Iran didn’t want the Taliban in their country.

We didn’t really start to have problems with Iran until they started a Nuclear program. Bush, Obama, Biden, and Trump have did a terrible job working with Iran. We should have kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon and Iran instead of invading Iraq.

19,674 registered Republicans
9,788 registered Democrats

Trump might have underperformed at +3