UT alum

I’ve been there a dozen or so times over the last 25 years and never felt unsafe anytime anywhere. And I go off the beaten track when I travel. To call in the national guard is a stunt to make Trump either feel or look like a strongman. Again, I pity the fool.

Trump is a lying liar. He’ll have his little dictatorship now. I pity the fool who believes anything that man says.

Yeah, my guess is that the import tax monies will go to debt service just like lottery money went to fund public education in Texas. Not.

Infusing cash before having an idea of how tariffs affect demand could be risky. Lowering rates to help finance an import tax is injecting money that will have zero productivity value. Again, don’t see how taxing U S citizens to further international political agendas will end well. India because we want to two them where to buy oil, Brazil because Trump doesn’t like the way they’re treating Bolsonaro. That is not an economic plan.

You are one bloviating dude. Aggies said let the voters decide. I said that would take a constitutional amendment. The Constitution says either the Legislature or a 5 member board do it. You get it, now?

I’m talking emigration, not this blog.

What do you think civil disobedience is?

Maybe it’s the data collection system. Can you think in a non political way about anything pertaining to the federal government and its internal workings?

She released the 818,000 downward revision in August, 2024 in the heat of a presidential election, numb****. That hurt her own party badly. Not a partisan move. If you did your own research you’d know that BLS numbers are revised mainly due to slow or delayed reporting by employers. It is not a matter of politics. It’s the NUMBers.

And I will say Trump had no problem jumping all over the 818,000 downward revision the same person (McEntarfer, appointed by Biden) released in August, 2024 - in the heat of a presidential election battle. It did not help the Democrats position so the Weasel ate it up. His posts on his Truth Social network roasted the dems over that report. Go on defending the indefensible.

Can you cite those “Texas rules”, please?

We can respectfully agree to disagree, I hope. Redistricting is not a bill. It is a separate function of the legislature. We’d have to have a state constitutional amendment to change how it’s done. [Hidden Content]

The Weasel in an interview today with CNBC: ”I got the highest vote total in the history of Texas, as you probably know. And we are entitled to five more seats.” Entitled? Really? Republican- the party of entitlement. Who’s driving our Texas legislature?

I’ll never support Trump. If he gets a third term without a constitutional amendment I’m gone. This won’t be The United States of America any more. “Concessions from an occupying power”. The republicans in the Texas Lege are ruling like occupiers. Quorum rules exist for more than one reason.

Who fires them for not showing up? The voter or the governor? It’s not done regularly because it is an extreme measure. Civil disobedience entails going against the law, but in a nonviolent manner. The sit-ins across the south in the 50’s and 60’s are a prime example.

I agreed with your first sentence. Then you devolved into describing a “have vs.have not” social order. Then you had to stick the “crooked poor people” tag with the comment “…don’t have a high resale value”. Sounds kind of like a segregationist back in the Jim Crow days.

You don’t know what civil disobedience is, either. Talk about exercise in futility!

You obviously don’t know what civil disobedience is. Sweet.

See my reply to Aggies regarding civil disobedience.

You’re conflating me with your Master.

All’s fair in love and war. The Republicans started a war. Civil disobedience has its place in a democratic society. The price to pay is borne by the practitioners. Their respective voters should decide the penalty/reward for that disobedience. Not the governor, legislature, or courts.

You don’t think the decision to do redistricting first was political? Abbott could have taken care of Texans first, then Trump. But no. Abbott knew the quorum bust would happen, so do redistricting first and blame Dems for ignoring Texans when they break the quorum. Texans should have been put first.

How you figure Democrats set the rules? They are constitutionally mandated and have been used since Texas became a state. You need to clear your head of all that partisan crap and learn to think for yourself. I don’t deny my party affiliation, but I still practice critical thinking in my decision processes. Sounds like junior high.

This is what I think: The further we get from Athenian democracy, the closer we get to Macedonian rule (look them up). The more that public participation in the process can be restricted, the less that public’s bearing on political outcomes will be. I’m not just talking about voting either. I mean civics, history, sociology. These are being either minimalized or perverted in our education system. Party don’t matter. Active, informed participation does.

Sorry, not your post, but the post of someone else you reposted. Your originality lacks.