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Gerrymandering is ovewhelmingly a Republican practice. In states like Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas. As you clearly don't know, the Florida legislature had a plan to gerrymander congressional districts. But it wasn't extreme enough for Desantis who altered it to be even more extreme. In Ohio, the legislature has actually violated the state constitution to commit gerrymandering and continues to do so despite court orders. In Arizona Republicans actually fought to overturn a referendum passed by voters that authorized non-partisan creation of Congressional districts. Whereas in New Jersey, progressive Democratic legislators allied with Republicans to stop an attempt to gerrymander by the Democratic leadership. As for packing the courts by Democrats? What planet do you live on? What was Trump engaged in during his term. The 5th Circuit Court apppointees are so extreme that even the extreme right wing Supreme Court has repeatedly overturned their decisions. I have no idea what you're on about climate change. We do know that under Trump references to human caused climate change was eliminated from EPA documents and that findings by scientists were censored. Not surprising given that he appointed a coal industry lobbyist to be head of the EPA>.

In special elections after 2022 midterms, Democrats consistently outperformed the polls. Their outsized turnout was credited to the Dobbs decision. We'll have to wait and see what effect it has on the 2024 elections.

Given your recourse to another insult questioning my mastery of the subject, i guess it's time to remind you once again of your utter cluelessness and shamelessness. How can you not be embarrassed by your previous display of ignorance? Here, once again is the quote from you: "You don't even know the issues surrounding NY Times vs Sullivan well enough to differentiate them from First Amendment Litigation. Study up, Ill wait for you at the big boy table." So, let me remind you once again. The 1st Amendment lies at the heart of NY Times vs. Sullivan. That you think it's not a first amendment issue, says a lot about you. Desanitis wants to gut the NY Times vs Sullivan. In other words, he wants to empower politicians to quell dissent via defamation lawsuits. And, of course, you have no answer for the fact that, unlike in California, in Florida Desantis is threatening to criminalize free speech. His regime is actually threatening to prosecute people.

Her courageous resignation in protest against the Bush administration's dishonesty in pushing for the Iraq war will always be an inspiration to all of us who are fans of the former national security advisor and Secretary of State.

Whether or not I'm an American is irreleant. It's the facts that are relevant. That said, given your lack of basic understanding of the First Amendment, if anyone's American citizenship should be questioned, it's yours. And just to make clear how ignorant you are here's what you wrote. "You don't even know the issues surrounding NY Times vs Sullivan well enough to differentiate them from First Amendment Litigation. Study up, Ill wait for you at the big boy table." What follows is taken from the text of the Supreme Court decision: Held: A State cannot, under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, award damages to a public official for defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct unless he proves "actual malice" -- that the statement was made with knowledge of its falsity or with reckless disregard of whether it was true or false. Pp. 376 U. S. 265-292. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/376/254/

Vox got it's facts straight. And it takes a major league ignoramus to not know that Sullivan is a core free speech first amendment case. New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that First Amendment freedom of speech protections limit the ability of public officials to sue for defamation. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/new_york_times_v_sullivan_(1964)#:~:text=Sullivan (1964) is a landmark,officials to sue for defamation.

More nonsense from you. The California law only allows for civil lawsuits against defenders. Desantis is threatening people with actual criminal prosecution and prison. What's more this isn't Desantis' first attempt at free speech suppression. Previousl he also wants to make it easier to sue people who criticize public officials. Ron DeSantis’s plan to strip First Amendment rights from the press, explained Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to eliminate the First Amendment safeguards that prevent lawsuits seeking to strong-arm the press into silence. He’s been very clear about this goal: In February, DeSantis led a roundtable discussion brainstorming ideas to weaken the press’s First Amendment protections. Flanked by a panel dominated by defamation plaintiffs and lawyers, the Orbánesque governor attacked the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) for, in his words, empowering a media that will “find a way to smear you.” https://www.vox.com/politics/23622299/ron-desantis-first-amendment-press-new-york-times-v-sullivan

Whereas Trump is? Really?

Is Florida’s middle class shrinking? According to the Pew Research Center, their analysis of government data revealed that the number of adults in middle-class households has dropped from 61% in 1970 to 50% in 2021. Claar said a shrinking middle class is a concern. The U.S. Census says the average median income for households in Florida from 2017-2021 was $61,777. With rising inflation, cost of housing and daycare people find themselves paying more out of pocket now than ever before. https://winknews.com/2023/10/30/florida-middle-class/

Stop deflecting. Your claim that this area was the only part of Florida that was not booming was false. In fact it is the most economically dynamic area. And as for claims that people are moving elsewhere for cheaper housing...in most if not all of Florida home prices have escalated sharply. "Home values have increased in every American state since 2013, according to a study from Architecture Lab. However, Florida is one of the states where values have increased the most dramatically. Using data from the Zillow Home Value Index, Architecture Lab ranked every U.S. state based on the difference between average home values in 2013 and 2023. Florida ranked No. 2: A decade ago, the average home was valued at $144,464. Last year, however, that value had jumped 164% to $381,922." https://www.floridatrend.com/article/39766/florida-home-values-have-more-than-doubled-in-the-past-decade#:~:text=Using data from the Zillow,had jumped 164% to %24381%2C922.

Florida’s Department of Health is threatening local television stations with criminal prosecution if they continue airing an ad in support of an abortion-rights ballot initiative. The agency earlier this month sent cease-and-desist letters to every television station in the state that aired the ad, warning them that the ads contain false information and violate the state’s “sanitary nuisance laws.” The chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said Tuesday that the threats from Florida government officials undermine the First Amendment. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4922941-florida-health-officials-threaten-television-stations-abortion-ad/

Well, what do you expect from a country that has a constitution with not one mention of God in the body of the text? Not one. Clearly, the USA is a nation founded by pagans and satanists. It was only a matter of time before the Whore of Babylon openly ruled the nation whose strings she has secretly pulled since its founding.

Which is why Trump proudly acknowledged what he had done..oh wait a minute...

More distortions from you. I named 3 specific industries, meat processing, dairy, and hosing construction. And then you offer a misleading selection of quotes. Did you think I wasn't going to look the article that link led to. Let's take a look at it. Or maybe you just forget to include this from Francesc Ortega: "Ortega said that history doesn’t support the view that undocumented workers can easily be replaced by those in the country legally. There is little historical evidence of how a deportation program like the one contemplated by the Trump campaign would impact an economy, he said, because nothing on that scale has been attempted in a modern developed country." Ortega goes on to describe that the only somewhat similar deportation program took place in the 1960's. And the result wasn't more hiring of Americans. Instead the did more automation and/or switched crops. So it didn't look like lots of Americans were waiting to take those jobs. But what makes your use of quotes really low, is the second quote. " these workers could be replaced by the more than seven million working-age men who are legally in the country but not in the labor force." Since you don't identify who said it, it looks like it's coming from Ortega. Actually it's from Steven Camarota, the director of research at the vociferously anti-immigrant organization Center for Immigration Studies. "Reports published by CIS have been disputed by scholars on immigration, fact-checkers and news outlets, and immigration-research organizations. The organization had significant influence within the Trump administration,[3] which cited the group's work to defend its immigration policies.[4] The Southern Poverty Law Center designated CIS as a hate group with ties to the American nativist movement.[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Immigration_Studies One of its two cofounders was John Tanton, a white nationalist. The same noxious party who founded FAIR.

You really need to brush up on Biden's tariffs vs Trumps. Biden did keep tariffs on China. In fact, he has been a lot harder on China economically than Trump ever was. But Trump proposes tariffs on imports from everywhere. And his claim that foreign countries will pay for the tariffs but not American consumers is just nuts. A child should be able to understand why. But not a certain childish adult.

Right wing economists have been predicting hyperinflation for the last 16 years.

The doublethink on the part of Trump supporters is astonishing. On the one hand, Trump promises not to engage America in foreign conflicts but on the other his presence in the White House somehow deters those participants in foreign conflicts from launching conflicts. How does that work exactly?

We'll never really know how much debt would have been taken during the Trump administration were it not for the covid epidemic. Right before it, there was an acceleration. What we do know is that the covid pandemic had worldwide economic consequences. In the minds of Trump supporters, those consequences excuse the economy's performance under Trump, but not under Biden.

Actually, I think what I'm dealing with is someone whose ideological predisposition make him a sucker for the kind of misleading and irrelevant statistics peddled by denialist websites.

Too much nonsense here to address all of it. But just to address a couple of them. No FEMA did not, as Republicans allege, spend $650 million oh it's fun on immigrants. FEMA did distribute 650 million of the immigration departments funding. As for that $750 nonsense... That's what's called immediate needs money. It's available for families that are currently in distress because of some natural disaster. As the name clearly indicates, it's from eating such needs as food and clothing. It's not a ceiling.

These Florida counties have the highest GDP growth in the state Three South Florida counties topped the list of the places in the state with the highest GDP growth — and one of them ranks among the top 10 in the United States. According to a study by SmartAsset, Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties have the highest GDP growth in the state of Florida in 2024. https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/these-florida-counties-have-the-highest-gdp-growth-in-the-state/3330895/ These areas tend to vote democratic.

Whether or not they are a particular concern to me is besides the point. Agriculture including dairy and meat processing depend heavily on undocumented workers. As does housing construction and repair. Construction workers will be particularly in demand following the destruction wrought by Helene and most likely Milton.

He will be painted by history as an instigator of an economic disaster should he actually do it. Several industries in the United States depend heavily on undocumented workers.

I found a list of category 4 Atlantic hurricanes that occurred during the 20th and 21st centuries. During the 1940s there was a total of eight category 4 hurricanes. So far, during this decade there have already been 12. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Category_4_Atlantic_hurricanes And there are still five more years to go.