Liberal Hypocrisy on Steroids

Have you seen the map of Illinois’ 13th congressional district? It begins in Champaign and then snakes its way southwest through Springfield, the state capital, and ends around Granite City, just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri. The extremely narrow district is 177 miles long from top to bottom and less than 25 miles at its widest. It truly resembles the devious serpents in the Illinois state legislature who devised it following the 2020 census.

Equally as convoluted is Illinois’ 17th congressional district, which originates in Rockford, winds counterclockwise through Moline and then clockwise before ending in Bloomington. Resembling a giant letter “C”, the 17th district covers a whopping 247 miles and requires 3 hours and 46 minutes to travel its entire length according to the folks at MapQuest.

Why carve out such grotesque geographic boundaries, you ask? So that a state where Donald Trump won 43.47% of the popular vote in 2024 would only have three Republican congressmen, compared to 14 Democratic ones.

That, my friends, is a textbook case of gerrymandering and yet, these are the very same people who are currently lecturing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas state legislature about how unfair their redistricting plan is. I kid you not. And leading the pack of hypocritical hyenas is Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who loves portraying himself as a real “man of the people” despite his $3.7 billion net worth, thanks to his inherited family fortune (think Hyatt hotels).

Give me a break, JB!

I realize you’re trying to position yourself for a White House run in 2028 but at 5’9” and 270 pounds, you don’t stand a chance against Gavin “the glamour queen” Newsom from California. For some reason, Democratic voters seem to prefer style over substance… and you have neither.

And so, my advice is to send those whiny Democratic crybabies in the Texas state legislature back home and bill them for their room and board in your various Hyatt properties where you housed them while they went AWOL. If you’re not going to win the presidency, you might as well make a few bucks.

Of course, Illinois isn’t the only deep blue state crying foul over Texas’ redistricting plans, despite the fact that they have mastered the art of gerrymandering themselves. Here are a few contenders for the title of the most hypocritical Democratic state…

California, where Gov. Newsom is threatening to ask voters to approve mid-decade redistricting this November, 42 of 52 congressional representatives are Democrats despite President Trump receiving 38.3% of the vote in 2024.

Connecticut, where President Trump garnered 41.9% of the popular vote, has no Republicans in Congress. Neither does Massachusetts, where President Trump won 36%, or New Mexico, where he earned 45.8%.

Maryland has just one Republican congressman despite 34.1% of its residents casting a ballot for President Trump in 2024. New Jersey has three GOP representatives and nine Democratic ones, although President Trump only lost the Garden State by less than 6% last year. Nineteen of New York’s 26-member congressional delegation are Democrats and 80% of Washington State’s congressmen are Democrats too, despite President Trump receiving 43.3% and 39% of their vote totals, respectively.

Hypocrisy, thy name is the Democrat Party.

Speaking of the party of “do what I say, but not what I do”, New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani got caught with his designer jeans down around his ankles last week when it was disclosed that – despite having an annual income of $150,000 to $170,000 and two well-to-do parents – he lives in rent-stabilized housing normally reserved for low-income residents.

Mamdani, a self-described Democratic Socialist, currently pays $2,300/month for his one-bedroom apartment in the Astoria section of Queens. “The average rent for a comparable one-bedroom in Astoria is about $3,002," stated a complaint filed with the New York State Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government by American Institute for Economic Research economist Jason Sorens.

That’s a 31% rent reduction for the man who wants to fund all his free giveaways – such as free buses and free daycare – by raising taxes on rich white New Yorkers.

As part of his renewed New York City mayoral campaign, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing "Zohran's law" to prevent high-income individuals occupying rent-stabilized apartments. The proposal is an obvious jab at Mamdani and seems to be gaining some media attention.

"Rent-stabilized apartments when they're vacant should only be rented to people who need affordable housing, not people like Zohran Mamdani," Cuomo told reporters in a video he posted on social media last week.

Time will tell which hypocrite New York voters prefer: Cuomo, who was forced to resign from office amid multiple sexual harassment allegations, or Mamdani, whose filmmaker mother owns a $2 million Manhattan penthouse and whose father is a radical professor at Columbia University.

Regardless of who wins, America is tired of the Democrats pretending to own the moral high ground on issues like gerrymandering and caring for the common man. If you don't believe me, just ask Bernie Sanders, another self-proclaimed Socialist who has a net worth of $3 million that includes a 4-bedroom family home in Burlington VT valued at $741,000 and a 4-bedroom cabin on Lake Champlain valued at $933,000.

Oh, to be that poor…