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DFW

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23. Today is my last day in Dallas for this year.
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 08:35 AM
Aug 2021

I'm off to Washington shortly.

Dallas is a Democratic stronghold, and I don't feel like I'm in enemy country here. More than five million Texans voted for Joe Biden last year. It wasn't enough for him to carry the state, but it was enough to scare the Texas Republicans into trying to institute voter-suppression laws. Five MILLION of us, and yet some Democrats would call for us to secede from the Union? Unless you are from California or New York, how many people voted for Joe Biden in your state?

Southern Republicans are so terrified of the results of the last election, especially after what happened in Georgia, they see voter suppression as their only hope to hold on to power. That doesn't make us a lost cause in my book, especially if southern Republicans continue to hold their Russian Roulette Rallies like the one in Cullman, Alabama. If they want to jump off the cliff like the proverbial lemmings, we will wish them a nice flight, but we won't be joining them.

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I sense that he does.... FarPoint Aug 2021 #1
"Divided beyond repair" ? Yikes. This is one step too far. You lost me, Kentuck. (Nt) FreepFryer Aug 2021 #2
I believe that was the way it was in 1860. kentuck Aug 2021 #3
I'm glad we had his Gettysburg address to see us through, as anon doomposts do the opposite. FreepFryer Aug 2021 #4
I apologize for the miscommunication. kentuck Aug 2021 #7
I appreciate you saying that. It's a post w very dark implications ... FreepFryer Aug 2021 #16
I agree with you about... kentuck Aug 2021 #18
I don't do predictions, but that's what I heard Lincoln saying. I avoid comparing the two. nt FreepFryer Aug 2021 #20
I think you heard correctly. kentuck Aug 2021 #22
Agreed (Nt) FreepFryer Aug 2021 #24
If we were only so lucky as to have the South secede successfully this time. aeromanKC Aug 2021 #5
"...for what they believed in..." Inslavment?!!?! uponit7771 Aug 2021 #6
Yes. kentuck Aug 2021 #8
Hmmm, like now they thought they we're fighting for something honorable back then uponit7771 Aug 2021 #9
I suspect they probably thought that. kentuck Aug 2021 #10
Interesting comparison PatSeg Aug 2021 #11
I think history has called him, in his latter years... kentuck Aug 2021 #12
I think so too PatSeg Aug 2021 #15
When I think of elder statesman... kentuck Aug 2021 #17
Me too PatSeg Aug 2021 #19
I agree snowybirdie Aug 2021 #13
Yes, and we can certainly draw parallels between those who wished to maintain their abqtommy Aug 2021 #14
There is a simple but important difference though localroger Aug 2021 #21
Today is my last day in Dallas for this year. DFW Aug 2021 #23
+1 (Nt) FreepFryer Aug 2021 #25
Good post! Elessar Zappa Aug 2021 #26
Formidable! Mme. Defarge Aug 2021 #27
Thanks! DFW Aug 2021 #29
Same thing happened after Obama was elected LeftInTX Aug 2021 #28
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