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The cities vote Dem, but they’re diluted.  See https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffnt&q=map+of+texas+gerrymandering&atb=v35-1&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fetimesherald.news%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F01%2FTexas-gerrymandering-map.png&pn=1 .

It’s a terrible tactic, but I confess to a bit of schadenfreude.

(The new movie, Judas and the Black Messiah, dramatizes the tactic well.)

I don’t think there’s any doubt he did what he was accused of.

Free speech, b.t.w., entitles you to say what you want, but not necessarily to keep the job you want.  It’s totally irrelevant to this impeachment trial.

I’d like to hear from more lawyers about his technical ground for not voting to convict.

through most of the week, with flurries also continuing intermittently.

I’d like to post a recording when available, if anyone happens to see one.

@soryang

Not sure how persuadable, but he did stand up on the previous round.  His website form for emails is at https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/node/5853 ; his phone is (202) 224-2934.

Given the status of the courts’ and Pence’s decisions, to continue to incite the crowd at that point in time and at that particular place could have had only one purpose: to disrupt the Constitutionally-prescribed election procedure – which, had they succeeded, with or without violence, would have thrown the country into unimaginable chaos.  So…[Read more]

thanks, @soryang.

even if you assumed the best – i.e., even if you assume Trump meant “fight” only metaphorically, and couldn’t have foreseen that the mob really would hurt anyone – there was no possible outcome other than chaos.

Thank you for helping me clarify my thinking.

I’m curious, how did the mayor come to take office, if he wasn’t elected?

Thanks.

Adam Curtis’s documenetary series for the BBC called “Century of the Self,” as well as his other docs.  “Century” traces the history of public relations from its invention by Bernays and through the decades before the series was made.

it’s rather dehumanizing – why don’t they say getting vaccines into people?

which gave billions to the 1% and very little to the rest of us.

nt

he said YouTube said, “according to Wikileaks,” Oswald killed JFK???  Did he mean Wikipedia, or did I miss something from Wikileaks?