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Who drew those maps? Republican legislatures. Tell me. Why should Brian Babin, a native rural east Texan be also representing urban Pasadena and Deer Park? The Republicans gerrymandered that map to make room for more Republican voters in the other districts. You really need to study up on how and why redistricting occurs. Your post is senseless.

Exactly. He doesn’t give a rat’s patootie about you, me, or Texas. It’s all about him.

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I’ve never supported it. Political gerrymandering is a form of voter suppression, regardless what party’s doing it.

I guess you do too. You told her “inferior people lose arguments”. You called yourself out on that one. ‘Splained enough?

I know you trying to dig at Big Girl, but you’re calling your own self out.

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It’s called courage. The cowards are the ones in charge. Scared of Trump. Special session was supposed to be cannabis reform. Then the floods happened. They were gonna look into that as well. Then Trump said jump and our local issues go to the back burner. That,my friend, is the height of cowardice. Putting an individual’s demand above constituent needs. Shameful.

I don’t question your ability. I have no doubts about it. There’s nothing woke about what I’m saying. It’s about fair numbers. It’s kind of like Evadale being in the same district with Beaumont United. They’d be playing football, 11 players on each side of the ball, but would it be a fair game? if all districts were drawn 51-49, 52-48, in favor of either party, it would be a political game changer for the betterment of democracy. I ain’t flaunting crap. I dropped out of UT after 2 1/2 years. Don’t try that “elite” talk with me. It’s your idol what loves the class wars.

We’re talking redistricting, not courts. You are so eat up with partisanship you can’t recognize common sense when you hear it. I’m talking equity, not party. Races should be competitive in every district. Who wins should be up to the candidate, not determined by arbitrary lines drawn to rig the game. Democrats undid it when they had the power. It was wrong then too.

I thought we were talking about redistricting. Back to debate school, Dog. Maybe a civics refresher, too. You’d think the floods would take precedence over gerrymandering, but hey, Trump don’t care about floods down here. He’s more concerned with Congressional seats up there.

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.