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After each census, districts have to be reapportioned based on new census data. In Texas, according to 2020 data, districts need to be around 766,000 in population to equally apportionment 38 seats. Ten years is the traditional length between redrawing maps to coincide with the census. In 1995 or so Tom Delay led the charge that made Texas the first state to restrict between census dates. Now, Abbot is bowing to Trump to redo Texas. It is a horribly political process that doesn’t have to be. Several states use independent commissions to ensure districts are competitive, Arizona among them. I like fairness and equity. It would be nice to have districts drawn in a manner that actually made members compete for seats in the general election rather than be assured of victory after the primary.

Your blathering are not deserving of comment.

All about you, ain’t it?

No, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down. PBS and NPR will continue programming. Much of their funding is corporate. As usual, independents (KUHT) and rural areas will lose the most. [Hidden Content]

What was your past position on Fetterman?

Sick part is, he’ll make all ya’ll like it and not even have to try.

That last sentence is one for the ages.

I won’t have to.

It’s all about supply and demand. Globally. Presidents have nothing to do with it. Remember when COVID locked down? Demand went where? To the floor. Price went where? Same place. Wasn’t Trump. It was Economics 101. Global pandemics tend to shake things up. Politicians use the disruption to try and one up each other. As a society we tend to follow the personalities and ignore the details. History repeats and repeats and repeats. Must take an asteroid to reset.

COVID and the Weasel’s total ineptitude in managing a crisis gave us 9% inflation.

Ticks add up. Now Trump wants to fire the professional in charge of jobs data. That one always works. Don’t like the message, kill the messenger. Maybe he’ll hire Jesse Waters for that one.

Revised Department of Labor numbers for May and June revised down by 250,000. July jobs? 73,000. Inflation ticked up to 2.6. It’s happening. The killer will be if inflation and unemployment rise together. Jobs falling while we tax ourselves on imports. Pop goes the Weasel.

In a racist kind of way.

When you talk in absolutes I get offended. A defect that hinders your ability to effectively argue a point.

You callin’ me a liar?

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Methinks the Weasel doth protest too much. Citizens are not supposed to be enemies in this country. Opponents of opinion, yes, but not enemies. It’s not even about him, really. They aren’t the”Trump - Epstein files”. That clip is just Trump being Trump. It’s meaningless.

Exactly. Someone will arise. The ocean is a good analogy to me. Waves. Tides. Surge. Tsunami. But tides never cease to rise and fall.

Bill Clinton was elected President.

🤘

Or maybe it was 6.

What happened 5 years later?

He needs someone to turn the ladder. If he could walk the other direction he wouldn’t need help.

How would the guy holding the bulb rotate around the receptacle if the whole house was turning? Are you an Aggie?

These folks don’t accept much science, Big Girl.

Yep. My dad told me that joke when I was a kid.