And one thing everybody should probably back off on…
- Enough reporting about possible results of the next federal election. More reporting on how there probably won’t be a next federal election. If Trump’s people are polling poorly, he’s almost certainly going to declare some kind of emergency requiring the delay or cancellation of federal elections. Why wouldn’t he? He’s done it for everything else, and the Supreme Court (so far) says he can. So let’s start reporting that as the inevititability, and maybe that’ll inspire people to do something about it, not placating them with the business-as-nornal “who’s going to control the House” reporting I see every day. That’s meaningless.
- What Texas and California are doing about gerrymandering are very different: Texas is doing a straight-up gerrymander. California is trying to do a temporary measure to counter the Texas move, and has already said that after, it’ll switch back. So why is this important? It gives the Supreme Court the flexibility to allow Texas’ gerrymander while denying California’s as an illegal tit-for-tat. They probably will.
- This is the one I’d like to see some backing away from. Yeah, Trump gets peooles’ names wrong and stuff like that but every time that happens everyone jumps on him questioning his cognative ability. And yes, he’s batshit crazy and mostly just spouts wild theories the most recent person he talked to told him. Still, even with the errors and high levels of crazy, he’s a better communicator and better at getting his point across than President Biden ever was. There’s no effective false or real equivalency to be made here, really. So what I’m suggesting is by posting a clip of Trump making some kind of gaffe, but then he kind of explains an inane position in a pretty much coherent way, you’re actually disproving what you’re trying to prove.
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