Posted on 06/30/2025 9:00:02 PM PDT by ransomnote
Sky Event?
BTW, we do have insane asylums. They are called County Jails and State Departments of Corrections.
Really they used to call them Prisons.
I’ll stand by my post. Old enough to remember when we used to call HomeLess folk “bums” and they mostly stayed out of sight.
Drug abuse is a big part of homelessness too.
Where do you get it?
Mostly addicts, drunks, and loonies. Actual "down on their luck" people are a distinct minority.
Bring back the "Town Farms".
Okay, thanks
MarQ
The European Union just WITHHELD $1.7 billion from Ukraine over concerns of “corruption” in Zelensky’s government.
Zelensky’s “glow” among Europe may be “dimming,” per NYT.
FINALLY! Time to cut off the gravy train.
https://x.com/ericldaugh/status/1949216904406544799
He may be even greater if he can push re-districting through:
Here's one of several pieces suggesting it may happen in time for the 2026 elections:
https://flaglerlive.com/desantis-wants-redistricting/
DeSantis Wants Redistricting to Help Save GOP's House Majority
July 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive |
The governor repeated that he believes that the state's population was severely undercounted in the 2020 U.S. Census Count, and that along with the changes in population (which in Florida includes many more registered Republicans than there were in 2020), the time is now to redistrict Congressional seats, instead of waiting until 2032.
“I talked with the Commerce Secretary right when he got sworn in and I told him, we got a raw deal on the Census,” he said. ”We only got one seat when some of these other states were getting seats when we've obviously had more growth – we should have gotten at least two, and so they were going to re-do the count in time for 2026. Now they'd have to do that relatively soon because you need time to draw maps and you need time to get that done. “
Some early projections regarding the 2020 U.S. Census indicated that Florida would gain two congressional seats, but unlike other states which devoted millions of dollars towards ensuring an accurate count, Florida chose not to invest in such an effort, as the Phoenix reported on in 2019.
There are currently eight Democrats in Florida's 28-member congressional delegation. Punchbowl News speculated earlier this week that among the lawmakers that Republicans could target in a new map might include Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Jared Moskowitz and Lois Frankel in South Florida; Darren Soto in Central Florida and Kathy Castor in the Tampa Bay area.
Florida House Democratic Leader Fentrice Driskell blasted DeSantis’ remarks later on Thursday.
“Governor Ron DeSantis’ plan to consider mid-decade redistricting is an outrageous and dangerous abuse of power and an attempt to put Donald Trump's agenda ahead of the people of Florida,” she said in a statement. “Redistricting is intended to occur once every ten years—following the Census—to reflect population changes, not to serve as a political weapon whenever those in power fear losing their grip. There is no legitimate reason to redraw Florida's maps now—unless the goal is to serve partisan interests and protect political allies ahead of a critical election.”
–Mitch Perry, Florida
Other estimates I have seen suggest we could get as many as five new Republican seats in Fla. with a bonus of getting rid of some of the nastiest dems like "washerwoman" (Wasserman) in South Fla. That would be huge.!!
Donald Trump will apply the Magnitsky Act against Supreme Federal Court (STF) justices and impose secondary sanctions on banks that fail to comply with the blocking order, considered a “financial death” in global payment systems.
“Magnitsky includes secondary sanctions against companies and organizations that continue doing business with them. Banks would be penalized if they maintain accounts.”
https://tgstat.com/channel/@tupireport/22497
Adding to the problem is GenZ kids who have been brainwashed by teachers unions since kindergarten. Here's the end result.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/non_racist_new_texas_house_districts_could_flip_3_4_seats_for_the_gop_but_watch_the_rinos_tank_it.html
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American Thinker on MeWe
July 23, 2025
Non-racist new Texas House districts could flip 3–4 seats for the GOP, but watch the RINOs tank it
By Texas Hughes
From the political trenches of Texas:
Texas Republicans Ready to Redistrict Congressional Seats
The DOJ identified four districts—three in the Houston area and one in Dallas-Fort Worth—as majority-minority ‘coalition districts’ that are based on combinations of different racial groups whose main commonality is that they vote for Democrats.
A 2024 federal court ruling in a redistricting case known as Petteway v. Galveston County established that districts based on ‘coalitions’ of minority groups are not protected by the Voting Rights Act.
Governor Abbot's new legislative session will now address redistricting the U.S. House of Representatives for the 2026 midterm elections under the new court rulings.
Given the Republican Party's difficulties with voter turnout in midterm elections, this is an opportunity to save us from a Democrat-controlled House during the last two years of President Trump's term.
One traditionally Democrat seat, TX-18, is vacant and targeted for redistricting. The DOJ also identified TX-09 and TX-29 in the Houston area, and TX-33 in Dallas-Fort Worth, as constitutionally suspect coalition districts.
Since a large majority of Texas legislators are Republicans, the uninformed may hope this is a slam dunk gain for MAGA.
Not so in the real world.
A huge obstacle is Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows. While he may have an “R” after his name, he's a Democrat all the way. The establishment Republicans (that's spelled RINOs) who wanted to keep real conservative Republicans (that's spelled MAGA) out of power, so instead of uniting with the majority and catering to America First members, they went full Benedict Arnold in betraying the Republican Party and Republican voters and worked with the Democrats to elect Burrows earlier this year:
After a months long battle within the Republican party for the seat, Burrows emerged with the gavel in hand thanks in large part to Democrats. A majority of Republicans supported Cook of Mansfield. Burrows’ victory was not celebrated universally among Republicans. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who leads the Texas Senate, said Burrows was handed the speakership by Democrats.
My strong prediction is that the legislature's commie Democrats and RINO Republicans will accomplish one of two things:
Redistricting legislation is killed and does not happen, or, A new redistricting plan is a performance, allowing Democrats to keep all their current seats and perhaps flip one or two current GOP seats.
I live in one of the districts in question. I would love the chance to, finally, be represented by someone other than a hand-picked Democrat sock-puppet, but something tells me it's a pipe dream.
Let's hope Texas can get the job done: 
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Its amazing how slick the dirty dems are in getting just the right people in key districts to screw us over and over. The answer is not that difficult! Get good maga candidates! fund them to the hilt, nationalize any important election and the dirty dems won't have a chance.
The dems have to cheat at everything they do. No one will vote for communism and few for socialism. Why it's so hard for us to win in these districts I have no clue.
I would agree, but the vast majority of Americans would say "Whoa, what?"
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“Drug abuse is a big part of homelessness too.
Mostly addicts, drunks, and loonies. Actual “down on their luck” people are a distinct minority.”
I spoke with a great niece yesterday at our family reunion. She claimed the language in that bill would be open to interpretation so that people with ADHD could be committed. With a crooked administration of either party, I guess anything is possible but that’s not the purpose. I told her that all the homeless living in cities, something needs to be done and it’s intended for those harming others or themselves.
She also claimed to be afraid to get married because of our country possibly taking away women’s rights. On that I chuckled and said that’s not going to happen. I told her I felt my rights more threatened by the past administration’s.
Her grandmother thinks she’s having second thoughts about her love in fiancé.
She’s got info and a group that feeds her fear.
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