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Savage.

 

Quite a Rose of a post ...

 

Hmm, wondering why an angry violent mob can't attack Mar a Lago...

 

I've seen it mentioned a couple of places, but this has the best detail.

Opinion: Republicans’ best move with Marjorie Taylor Greene is to gerrymander her out of her seat
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/01/gerrymander-marjorie-taylor-greene-lose-seat/


"Every state must redraw the lines for its congressional districts every 10 years after the decennial census. That means the Georgia legislature will have to meet later this year to craft new maps. Since the GOP holds solid control of both legislative chambers and the governor’s office, it could use the old-fashioned techniques of gerrymandering to make it harder for Greene to win reelection.

The approach would be simple: Divide Greene’s 11-county seat so there is no district in which she holds the upper hand in a Republican primary. Primary voters tend to vote for candidates they are familiar with. If Greene’s seat is chopped up, with parts placed in new seats where another GOP incumbent has represented more of the voters, any of the other incumbents she could run against would have the upper hand.

Using a free online tool, Dave’s Redistricting App, I was able to create a map in a couple of hours that would damage Greene’s chances to win while preserving the GOP’s current 8-to-6 seat majority among Georgia’s congressional delegation (the number of Georgia’s House seats is expected to remain the same). The trick is to cut her current seat, which hugs the state’s northwest corner and extends along the borders with Tennessee and Alabama, into three pieces and extend each piece east. Whichever seat she runs in would include more territory currently represented by another conservative Republican member of Congress. While no one can predict an election’s outcome with certainty, she would be the clear underdog in any race she took on.

Moreover, each of the Republicans she could face is strongly conservative, so the race would focus solely on her antics and beliefs. Any of them could run on a simple slogan: “conservative, not crazy.”

This approach contains a fair bit of risk, but it’s likely to be less risky than any other option. A primary challenge to Greene in a new seat that contains most of her old territory is likely to fail, as a Democratic attempt to defeat controversial Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) in 2020 demonstrated. Even though Omar’s opponent, Antone Melton-Meaux, raised more than $4 million, Omar easily turned back his challenge by nearly 20 points. Any Republican challenger to Greene would face the same uphill climb as Melton-Meaux."

 

Found y'all a shot at a job in finance.

 

That would be the ideal punishment. Give him a 100-page PDB every damn day with 99 fake pages and one real page, say, 39. He'd never get to the real one.

 

Oh, good grief. I haven't looked at the Twitterverse, but I wonder if Dolly Parton's people are throwing up their hands right now, or just throwing up. I can't link because I am still using a pen and graphics pad, but the story is Dolly Parton turned down the Medal of Honor or Freedom or whatever that thing is Trump kept putting around people's necks. She did it twice because 1.) Her husband was very sick and 2.) She didn't want to fly during the pandemic. Now she's saying she won't take it from Biden because that would be playing politics. Has he even offered it to her?

Is there a right thing to say? Well, maybe nothing. A chunk of her business interests are in the heart of Trump country. Let's face it, those cultists are freaks.

Why is this even news?

 

According to this Business Insider story, Dolly Parton told "Today" that the Biden Administration has reached out to her regarding a Presidential Medal of Freedom:

Dolly Parton says she turned down Trump's offer of the Presidential Medal of Freedom - twice

One simple solution, IMO, is to keep the offer a standing one until the pandemic subsides and flying is a little less of a superspreader issue.

And it's news because not only did Parton turn down the Tangerine Tantrum's offer on two different occasions given that he was issuing them out to seemingly everyone else, but also because she recently celebrated her 75th birthday. Merging celebrities and politics turns a lot of crap into "news."

 

It was also news because Colbert brought it up during an interview with Obama for his book about how he didn't give it to her and Obama said he'd right that wrong by bringing it up with Biden.

 

Also, Parton has become a massive hero to many millennials in the past few years because of her charity work and seemingly gracious humility. Want clicks on a story? Put Dolly’s name in the headline.