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Ag with kids

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  1. I do have 9 kids. Which is probably a larger number than the times than you've seen live titties outside of a strip club.
  2. Oh bullshit. They still have the state offices. And the local offices. And Weatherford/Parker county has been represented by Kay Granger for at least 20 years... The federal voting in Parker County is around 60-40.  Still heavily Republican.  So, they're still getting a good amount of the policies that they want. I lived there for 20 years. Other than my liberal friends there, they were happy with the representation for the most part. You're never going to get 100% of what you want.
  3. I'm just replying to people. Tell them to stop.
  4. No but I've launched my cat a number of times when it was pissing me off. Dog's too heavy. Plus, dog actually has remorse-ish
  5. I have REPEATEDLY stated that the way they do those stupid districts sucks. I'm not arguing for fucked up salamander districts. But, "communities of interests" are not these homogenous entities that you seem to be making them out to be. Parker County/Weatherford DOES have those rural interests. But, it's also VERY conservative and votes about 80% Republican. They have many interests in common with NON-rural conservatives. "Communities of interest" aren't ONE THING. They should have Republican representation because that's the policies the people there support. I'm all for drawing the districts in a much less retarded manner, BUT ensuring that the majority of the people in each district gets the representation that matches their views. Now, if you want to expand the number of people in Congress, you could probably get a better representation of the smaller "communities of interest". But, with only 38 people representing 31.2 million people, you can't subdivide the districts up to make everyone happy. Couple that with the requirement that there has to be a certain number of majority minority districts and that complicates the equation.
  6. It's actually Aerospace Engineering. But, carry on...
  7. Here's a Venn diagram that is representative of the various "communities of interest" in generic state/county/city/rural area X. Tell me your plan to apportion each state/county/city/rural area to ensure that the majority of each state/county/city/rural area of generic state X gets representation that most closely aligns with their views.
  8. I've answered your fucking question numerous times over the past 20 years. I'm sorry you haven't likedmy answer. Can't help you there. When you're not doing DIRECT DEMOCRACY (which is a HORRIBAD idea), you have to try to find the highest correlation between citizen political views and representative political policies. Sucks that parties tend to fill that criteria, but here we are.
  9. I posted earlier that CA has gerrymandered their political districts to be 83% Democratic for Congress even though the state as a whole voted only 59% Democratic for POTUS. Would you find it fair if Texas did the same for the GOP? I lived in Parker County for 20 years. It was about 85% Republican. That was the county "community of interest". So, why not make the entire state of Texas mirror that? Bozo would call that a great way to represent the "communities of interest".
  10. I've pointed out that CA votes much less Democratic than their districts are drawn. Apparently, they have lots more "communities of interest" that the citizens of the state don't realize they need.
  11. Do you even understand federalism and how representatives work? Because it appears you don't. You're trying to get the representation to be as close as possible to the views of the constituents. Parties as proxies tend to yield a good correlation. Can you name a better proxy to get the representation of the area closer to the makeup of the electorate?
  12. Yeah. And amazingly, that methodology will closely align by party. Since you can't do the apportionment based on individual candidates for every single election in every single district/precinct/etc.
  13. You do realize that the apportionment for federal offices, state offices, and local offices can be different, right? Then, please explain exactly how you would apportion representation at the federal, state, and local levels without any reference to political parties/policies/platforms as a proxy for the representation.
  14. Sure. I agree 100%. But... The odds are generally that the candidate that you support is a member of a specific party that you also tend to support (or that the other candidates that you support belong to). Most Democratic candidates espouse policies consistent with the Democratic Party political platform. Most Republican candidates espouse policies consistent with the Republican Party political platform. Most people lean one way or the other...very few people are truly in the center (the true center, not the "mainstream" center). You have to apportion the seats in Congress, state legislatures, and local areas SOMEHOW. Please explain how you would do it so that the largest amount of people get representation from representatives that share their policy beliefs that does not use any kind of political party as a proxy.
  15. Yes. I've said that multiple times on this thread. But, don't try to pretend that it's Republicans that are only doing it. Both parties have. Of course, some gerrymandering is actually being required by law. Some states have to have majority minority (Yes, that sounds stupid when you read it) districts. The only way to accomplish that is to gerrymander. I disagree with this.
  16. I'm not begging a question no matter how many times you repeat it. The federal house delegation should match the state electorate. The state house delegation should match the state electorate. The local political delegation should match the local electorate. I've said multiple times that the gerrymandered districts are stupid. I don't like them. But people living in majority Democratic areas should have political representation that is majority Democratic. And people living in majority Republican areas should have political representation that is majority Republican. This should not be this difficult to understand. So for YOU, WHY would the Maine congressional delegation be significantly different than how the state citizens voted?
  17. I didn't say anything about electoral votes fwiw. You were correct in your assessment. Thank you.
  18. That's not my position in any way. If Maine votes 75-25 Democrat, then the people of Maine should get somewhere near 75-25 Democratic representation in Congress (and even their state legislation). That election meant that most people in most states wanted Reagan to be POTUS. Not that 94% of people in the US wanted him to be POTUS. OR that 94% of the representation in Congress should be Republican. As I've posted, the gerrymandering in New York and California is much worse than in any red state....
  19. I think how they're drawn is stupid. Go look at what my actual position is on this...
  20. I'm on a keto diet right now. Because I got fat. But, I've lost a good chunk of the fat so far. Bread is one of the things that generally sucks having to give up while doing keto... And then I found this bread. Tastes just like bread. But, when I first got it I tried it as TOAST (there's the connection to the thread) because all the other keto stuff tasted like shit. I was beyond surprised. Tasted like regular toast with the same texture. I highly recommend it. Even tastes like bread if you don't toast it.
  21. Is that a yeast infection joke?
  22. It's not like they hide the numbers...
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