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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. But here’s the problem- Weatherford lost their represention on anything other than national issues so the party could deprive the slight minority in Ft Worth of any chance of representation on national issues, precisely so these “views” you care about could “align” to the dominance of Republicans in the state, and THAT is why these leopards can eat faces with impunity.
  2. Dozens of left-leaning baby boomers across the country nod their heads in agreement and the world keeps turning. 🤷
  3. I don’t understand this post, but Parker County is getting fucked. Weatherford should be the capital of a mostly rural district (the 17th) that contains all of Parker County and stretches includes west through Mineral Wells and South through some of the Big Country. The way it used to be. Instead, about half of Parker county sits in the 12th, including Weatherford. Unfortunately, it the 12th contains western suburbs of Ft Worth, along with most of downtown and the Mid Cities, and thus the bulk of the population of the district. Weatherford was peeled out of the 17th to add Republican ballast to the partisan mix. Consequently and predictably, the representative from the 12th is a lifelong citizen of Ft Worth, with deep roots in Tarrant County, Weatherford and Parker county are a distant afterthought. No, you haven’t. Instead you just keep repeating that they should match, not why. For example: No you don’t have to, that’s not how our system works and the parties do not do that. The goal is not and has never been to design districts to get representation that “aligns” to “views.” You think that’s the goal for some reason but refuse to answer why you think that. The goal is to represent people in places, who have things in common (and these are called communities of interest). If you do that, it captures their views to the extent they are relevant on any given thing. You do that with districts designed around places with geography, economic and spatial interests in common.
  4. So? Different elections, different electorate. How about you answer the question you've been ducking for 20 years?
  5. You do realize that we are talking about redistricting in partisan legislative elections, right? Perhaps you don't realize that in many states partisan consideration is explicitly banned by law. In those states, they attempt to build compact districts of equal size around spacial, social, and economic communities of interest (AKA, "places"). Again, you're begging the question. It appears to yield a pretty horrible correlation, because the "areas" aren't actual places or communities but shapes drawn and curated to reenforce the position of the dominant national political party in that state.
  6. Oh hey you’re back. The bolded section above is all bullshit, but let’s imagine for a moment that it was true. Since local interests usually transcend all that bullshit, maybe you can answer the question I’ve been putting to you for twenty years.
  7. Yep. Hopefully it’s just an artifact of too much ibuprofen too often or a reaction to a vaccine or a recent viral infection or something, but there’s also some relevant family medical history in that direction as well, so … yeah. Preach!
  8. Things going well for the voucher crowd in Palestine https://x.com/amydfennell/status/1895681963815813615?s=46&t=WQWp8jCL9d3WDAPBWICDFQ
  9. A month ago slightly low platelets. now even lower platelets, also slightly low RBC, Hemoglobin, hemocrit. None of these numbers are dramatic, but there’s no easy explanation so we’re doing due diligence, as they say.
  10. Ring a ding ding
  11. I’m not ignoring anyone. But if I was it would be the fat ones.
  12. Welp. Now my blood work is weird. I feel great, I look good, according to various cardiovascular diagnostics I’ve got the heart and lung function of a 34 year old at 51. My resting heart rate is 43 bpm. but you know… the blood work. Maybe something, maybe nothing. Meanwhile I decided to totally change careers at age 50 because I love trouble so I’m doing all the shit you do at 25 except the stakes are much higher and I have two kids in college and I’m underinsured. in short, situation excellent. We attack.
  13. True but they also didn’t focus on anything, so…
  14. God JD Vance is such a pudding
  15. Exactly. That’s why they call it the myth of white supremacy. Everyone who makes it in this country works hard. Unless you are born two or more of really good looking, rich, smart or well connected hard work alone doesn’t get you much. And you need to be lucky also. I guess white boys have it slightly better at a traffic stop. That’s about it. And right about the time MLK started to point that shit out is when they shot him. Anyway that’s why “white trash” is such a potent insult. One time in middle school my friend’s mom called me and my family white trash to my face. Let me tell you- when a grown woman from HP tells a kid from East Dallas that he and his family are “white trash”, it’s a formative moment.
  16. Back in the 90’s my brother in law was talking to some girl at a humanities grad school type party in Hyde Park. Some kind of pony-tailed, New-Sincerity-scene-adjacent American Studies TA kept trying to work his way in and compete for the lady’s attention, but his efforts found no purchase. Making a tactical retreat, he found his way to the bookshelf nearby and began perusing the titles, then grabbed one very thick volume and announced in her general direction, “Gravity’s Rainbow? This is my FAVORITE book.” Suffice it to say he went home alone after he put on a live tape of The Reivers from his car and somebody stopped it and started playing Cypress Hill instead.
  17. "The genius of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity's Rainbow: he had to take all of his first year courses at, what was it, Cornell? One of his teachers was Nabokov. And everything he had in his first year’s physics went in to Gravity’s Rainbow. Whether it fit in or not, it just went in there. That’s one way of doing it." - Gore Vidal, 2006
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