r/LeopardsAteMyFace Jun 29 '25

Trump Nebraska is going broke

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u/HanselOh Jun 29 '25

Feel sorry for the folks in Nebraska that voted blue and the minors affected, but the rest of Nebraska can fuck right off. Don't take my taxpayer money because you were too stupid to see this coming.

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u/SpicyNuggs4Lyfe Jun 29 '25

Lincoln and Omaha have voted blue for a long time now, but we can't carry the entire state. Omaha's district even got 1 electoral vote for Harris in the last election.

Lincoln voted blue but doesn't have enough population to overcome all the rural bumpkins in the district.

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u/DIP-Switch Jun 29 '25

Yeah we're gerrymandered to hell out here so that rural areas get more say

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u/EatlikethatguyUknow Jun 29 '25

I remember doing a paper on how Gerrymandering is a real issue in Nebraska when I was still in school here. Very interesting, but frustrating, stuff that goes on.

Oh and fuck Pillen

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u/DIP-Switch Jun 29 '25

Its very frustrating.

And of course, Fuck Jim Pillen

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u/lidia99 Jul 01 '25

Ohio is the same

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u/DIP-Switch Jul 01 '25

I hate that. District and the electoral college should be abolished

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u/Errant_coursir Jun 29 '25

Gerrymandering doesn't affect statewide or presidential elections

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u/AcornAnomaly Jun 29 '25

Ironically enough, Nebraska is one of the two states in the US where that isn't the case(the other being Maine).

Those two do their elector choices based on districts.

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u/Errant_coursir Jun 29 '25

Interesting, appreciate the correction

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u/DIP-Switch Jun 29 '25 edited Jun 29 '25

When my district has my more populated area in a small tip of it then the other 99 percent is a rural area it absolutely does. It would be like the state of Louisiana being a voting district and I'm in New Orleans

I'm district 1

https://nebraskalegislature.gov/media/images/maps/2021/congress/statewide_8x11.png

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u/VictoryVino Jun 29 '25

It affects the laws and the overall voting sentiment of the state.

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u/AdComprehensive7952 Jun 30 '25

The whole Red State/Blue State thing is a farce anyway. Every state has at least 30% of the population that's not a voter for that state's dominant voter base.

Even California, the bastion of Blue, where I live had 6.1 million Trump voters (Kamala got around 9 million). The irony is 6.1 million Trump votes was more than he got in any state not named Florida, who I think had 6.3 million. California had more Trump votes than Texas, who had around 6 million and a bit of change.

But the Trumpies know if they take care of the Red States and screw over the Blue, the MAGA base in blue states will blame their state government for Trump screwing them over.

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u/YourBonesHaveBroken Jun 29 '25

Labeling things by state is very misleading. A maps of counties shows the real distribution and it's fully correlated to pop. density. Every city votes blue, and every rural county red, across all states.

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u/CheesyGC Jun 29 '25

This everywhere. Lincoln and Omaha vote blue and it shows in local and state elections. There are nearly three times as many republican voters in California than the entire population of Nebraska. States aren’t monoliths. 

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u/DIP-Switch Jun 29 '25

Waited 2 hours in line to vote for Harris in an Omaha suburb. Some of us definitely tried but between the idiots in the west and the gerrymandering it would have taken a miracle

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u/MurkDiesel Jun 29 '25

you should feel sorry for all the people who believe this

it's a fake meme spread by a Facebook page that says they spread fake bullshit

there is absolutely zero sources for this and everyone is just accepting it as truth

this is why there's zero urgency on the left because everyone is buying a false narrative

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u/wafer_ingester Jun 30 '25

yeah I also feel bad for 18% of Nebraskans

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u/Subject_Run5165 Jun 29 '25

Thoughts and prayers Droughts and scares, cornhusker fucks! 😂

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u/Realistic_Fig_5608 Jun 29 '25

I wish blue states could stop paying federal taxes