Five Quick Things: The Supreme Court Is a Rake. ‘Temu Obama’ Just Stepped On It. | The American Spectator

They tell you all the time that six months is an eternity in politics. They’re wrong.

A week is an eternity in politics.

If you don’t agree, you might go and see Hakeem “Temu Obama” Jeffries, the Democrats’ leader in the House of Representatives, who last week strutted around like a peacock after voters in Virginia (allegedly) delivered a close victory for a mid-decade redistricted congressional map moving that state’s House Delegation from 6-5 Democrat to 10-1.

Things have not gone the way Temu Obama hoped since then.

First came the Democrats’ rank-and-file crazies’ interpretation of “Maximum Warfare,” which manifested itself in a 31-year-old black teacher from California showing up and attempting to kill the president at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which even Temu Obama had to grudgingly admit, after a couple of failed attempts, wasn’t a good look. (RELATED: Now We Know What ‘Maximum Warfare, Everywhere, All the Time’ Means)

But then it got worse. On Wednesday, it got especially worse.

**1. The Callais Fallout Falls — And Heavily.**

Yesterday’s column talked about the Louisiana v. Callais case and what that does to the kind of congressional redistricting the Democrats pushed in Virginia — at least on the flip side. I said this… (READ MORE: The Left Is Melting Down Over Callais)

Democrats have been gerrymandering blue-state congressional maps without shame for decades. The protection from Republicans following suit was the old interpretation of Section 2, regardless of how intellectually indefensible it was in a country where it isn’t even remotely remarkable for black politicians to win over white electorates (Byron Donalds, Tim Scott, Wes Moore, Deval Patrick, Ilhan Omar, Daniel Cameron, Mark Robinson, Burgess Owens, Mia Love, countless others). That’s now gone.

We’ve had a very rigged game whereby northern states that Democrats have taken control of were free to draw the most obnoxiously gerrymandered districts possible, while Southern states were not. (RELATED: Gerrymandering and the Tyranny of Big Cities)

Why? Because of racial recompense for the sins of Democrats who used to run those states.

What the Callais case has done is to sweep this fraudulent and illegitimate stricture away from the political process. And now the red states will be unfettered to act every bit as aggressively as those states run by Temu Obama’s friends have done.

Maximum Warfare gets you Maximum Recoil, Hakeem. Don’t hold that rifle so close to your eye if you know what’s good for you.

So, Louisiana’s governor Jeff Landry dropped the hammer Thursday afternoon: Landry canceled Louisiana’s May 16 congressional primaries (and the June runoff) in advance of the state legislature drawing a map eliminating at least one, if not both, of the DEI congressional districts the Supreme Court micturated all over in the Callais case. Early voting was supposed to kick off Saturday.

Landry, backed by AG Liz Murrill and Secretary of State Nancy Landry, invoked state law to protect “the integrity of our system and the rights of our voters.” It turns out that when the Supreme Court says your map is illegal, you don’t have to — can’t, actually — use it anymore.

So Louisiana won’t.

Delicious political chaos is ensuing in Louisiana, and I’ll have to drop another column next week to set that scene. Suffice it to say that two of the state’s House members next year will have some hellaciously fun stories to tell.

But what started at the Supreme Court is going to reverberate all over the South, because in pretty much every state, they’re clamoring to redraw their maps.

Yes, to flip as many as 12 seats to the GOP. Maybe more.

But not just to do that.

If you’re in Mississippi and you have an opportunity to get rid of Bennie Thompson, who you’ve had to apologize for since just after Larry Bird retired, wouldn’t you make that move? Of course you would. Just like you’d get rid of Hank Johnson, Al Green, Jasmine Crockett, and Frederick Wilson and the rest of the dunces and slimeballs you’ve been forced to make districts for since the 1960s.

Cue the predictable howling from the usual suspects: “voter suppression,” “mass confusion,” “gutting the VRA.”

Shaddap.

Especially shaddap to Temu Obama. You wanted Maximum Warfare, you got it, bro. So now Republicans at the state level in the South, who aren’t constrained by the kinds of things the Washington pols are, will show you what that looks like.

And if that means fewer people who look, sound, and believe like Hakeem Jeffries in Congress, and it also means he can’t find the votes to stick around as the Chief Cretin in Charge of the Democrats’ House Caucus, well…

My fiddle is not small enough to play for you, Temu Obama.

2. Senators Sheepishly Step Away From the Rigged Prediction Market Table

You almost certainly know nothing about this story, and they don’t want you to. If you did, you’d begin asking questions that would make them itchy.

Bernie Moreno, who is new enough in the U.S. Senate not to be utterly corrupted by the place, just managed to pass a Senate rule that Chuck Schumer called a “no-brainer,” but never bothered to push on his own in the 400 years he’s been in public office — Moreno got the Senators to agree not to bet the prediction markets.

I know, I know. You’re saying, “Wait — these guys could bet the prediction markets?”

Yes, Virginia, they could. Until now, these guys could open the laptop and play around on Polymarket or Kalshi and bet on things like whether a bill would pass.

Up until now, nobody bothered to put a stop to that.

These people get elected with barely the pot or the window, and three years later, they’ve got F You money. Wonder if this isn’t a magnificent reason why.

That old line has it that you’ve got to change politicians and diapers often and for the same reason. Along those lines, of course, it’s the rookie who just got there who shames the veterans into giving up another hosepipe into the markets’ filthy lucre.

3. Belgian Feminists Celebrate Going to Prison for “Equal Pay.”

Your tax dollars defend this: in Belgium, where both the EU and NATO are based, the left has officially lost the plot so badly they’re turning petty crime into a feminist flex.

Belgium’s progressive women’s group ZIJkant just launched its Equal Pay Day campaign with a comedic short film.

The punchline?

Women committing minor offenses — shoplifting, vandalism, whatever — so they can get arrested and thrown in prison. Because, in Belgian jails, inmates get fixed, gender-equal pay regardless of the job. Outside prison? Women still earn about 20 percent less on average — which is 10 percent better than they complain about here, and that’s a reflection of Euro deindustrialization. Anyway, the solution, apparently, is “Go to jail, get paid the same as the dudes!”

Here’s the video.