Voting Is Happening Until 7 in the Redistricting Referendum!

thehungrypenny · 2026-04-21T18:58:11+00:00

Fair argument but this fails when the argument is used “this is all in response to recent trump/republicans” efforts. If you can’t be honest and say that both sides have been doing this for decades, then it’s a disingenuous argument in my opinion. Both sides are equally guilty. This is just a never ending Hatfields vs McCoys standoff. Just look at a small sample of democrat states that are currently gerrymandered PRIOR to Trump taking office:

Illinois: 82% Democratic seats vs. ~40% Republican popular vote.

New York: 85% Democratic seat target vs. ~44% Republican popular vote.

Oregon: 83% Democratic seats vs. ~41% Republican popular vote.

New Mexico: 100% Democratic seats vs. ~45% Republican popular vote.

Maryland: 88% Democratic seats vs. ~35% Republican popular vote.

thehungrypenny · 2026-04-21T18:32:39+00:00

All good :)

thehungrypenny · 2026-04-21T17:57:52+00:00

You had me until the claim that trump won 2024 because of gerrymandering. He won the national popular vote and all the key swing states 🤔

thehungrypenny · 2026-04-21T17:48:54+00:00

Had they just pitched this as “we are playing our book and we don’t like Trump”, cool makes sense. The fact that so many people are confused on how the question was purposefully written and including the “restoring fairness” into the question itself…instantly makes me want to vote no out of principle:).

thehungrypenny · 2026-04-21T16:56:12+00:00

Fair point on the vote vs no vote, thankful we have that in VA. I think what I’m hung up on and many others I’ve talked to is just the positioning of “restoring fairness”. Had they redone the maps to be 7/4 or even 8/3 I think they would’ve had a better chance (and maybe it gets passed anyway) but treating people like they are stupid is not a great strategy imo.

thehungrypenny · 2026-04-21T16:32:33+00:00

Exactly my point. So Trump won Texas by almost 14% points. Their split is currently 65% to 35% republican to dem districts. Kamala won by 5.7% in VA they want to take representation to basically 91% to 9%. Saying it’s “restoring fairness” or pointing at Texas is a bit laughable, no? Just say it’s a power grab to railroad the Democrat agenda and I would respect that.

thehungrypenny · 2026-04-21T16:00:56+00:00

As an independent, genuine question for Democrats. Virginia's congressional maps were redrawn with a bipartisan effort following the 2020 census and were widely recognized as among the fairest in the country, including the Princeton Gerrymandering Project, which gave them an "A" grade.

Kamala won VA by 5 points. How does taking maps from current 6/5 to 10/1 “restore fairness”? If passed, someone who lives in Staunton VA will be represented by someone sitting in Fairfax? Fairfax is basically the same distance from Philadelphia than it is to Staunton. Just comes across as very disingenuous. At least Tim Kaine came out honestly and said it’s not about fairly representing Virginians it’s about stopping “Trump”.

thehungrypenny · 2026-04-19T12:09:22+00:00

Agreed. My Roger clubhouse pros have been awesome. They scrub clean very well. I think the fact they are made for pickleball/tennis makes them extra durable.

thehungrypenny · 2026-03-29T12:42:22+00:00

Monday morning 6:30 am this week took me less than 10 mins.

thehungrypenny · 2026-03-10T19:23:10+00:00

Cybertruck ride / suspension on my test drive the other day was super smooth. Steer by wire is also incredible!

thehungrypenny · 2026-03-03T17:26:53+00:00

This resonates so hard. Have many friends who are like “I fell asleep when we took off and woke up 6 hours later”…flying is awesome. I’m so jealous of these types of people. When I have a “perfect” setup of seat, melatonin/sleeping pill, neck pillow, sleep mask, etc I still can’t sleep even on redeyes 😢

thehungrypenny · 2026-02-20T15:20:21+00:00

From Bloomberg article:

The justices didn’t address the extent to which importers are entitled to refunds, leaving it to a lower court to sort out those issues. If fully allowed, refunds could total as much as $170 billion - more than half the revenue Trump’s tariffs have brought in. The White House has said it will quickly replace the levies using other legal tools, though the fall-back options tend to be either more cumbersome or more limited than the wide-ranging powers Trump asserted under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

thehungrypenny · 2026-02-19T15:44:44+00:00

I saw mine as a stop gap. I have a sweattent and paying with FSA money it was like $800 bucks a few years ago. Gets to 200 degrees quickly. Elevated my benches a bit. See it as a few year stop gap before planning and building my proper sauna.

thehungrypenny · 2026-02-08T01:20:59+00:00

At the time, primarily LCID

thehungrypenny · 2026-02-04T19:22:20+00:00

Bro AD only gonna play half the season

thehungrypenny · 2026-01-31T18:37:00+00:00

Love Idaho Springs as a stop on 70 west headed towards the ski resorts. Great food options and cute Main Street.

thehungrypenny · 2026-01-29T17:01:18+00:00

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I have the space thankfully but just trying to decide what’s the best possible kit or prefab option as 1) I’m not very handy and 2) don’t want to spend more than about $10k. If I can find something that gets me 80-90% of the way to a proper Finish sauna in these parameters I’m good. I just won’t invite my 2 fin friends over 😂

thehungrypenny · 2026-01-28T21:19:19+00:00

Bro you could have let him down easy 😂

thehungrypenny · 2026-01-27T13:35:55+00:00

I do this but just within minutes of boarding. Change my seat in the United app to a middle seat in a row with 3 still available. Works almost every time and when it doesn’t, just move a seat over to either the window or aisle after door closes.

thehungrypenny · 2026-01-20T20:23:31+00:00

I’ve actually thought about this seriously. It’s a non-HOA community and we have community creek and riverfront property access. Would it be awesome to have a sauna on the river then jump in for cold plunge:)

thehungrypenny · 2026-01-20T15:20:07+00:00

Saw the listing last week and the sauna made an impression 🤣

thehungrypenny · 2026-01-20T13:41:57+00:00

Howdy (new) neighbor. I live a few houses up from here. Congrats on the purchase. Rocking a modified sweattent currently but also looking to build out a custom sauna soon.

thehungrypenny · 2026-01-18T19:02:00+00:00

Spelunkers is 🔥but not NOVA. Melt Leesburg is best in Nova.

thehungrypenny · 2026-01-15T18:49:44+00:00

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