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Would need vote for Hall in the general, but hopes she keeps nattering at TFG. It enrages him. Maybe apoplexy will claim him. I just hope one of his demented followers doesn't assassinate her. She isn't my cup of tea, but doesn't deserve that.

As to the other two topics, Texas first. My father was born and raised in Brownsville, right across the border from Matamoros, Mexico, which he liked better. He left as soon as he could, as he could not abide the racism. Spent his career in the Navy, got a Purple Heart at the Battle of Leyte Gulf when a Japanese shell hit his destroyer knocking him from an upper deck to the main deck, shattering both of his heels. Lost what would have been his last promotion because he had the gall to invite the only two black officers in the Pacific Fleet to our home in Honolulu with their families for picnics and barbecues. Got marked down on his fitness reports for that by his racist superior officers. One of my best friends, Texas born, a grad of UT and its law school, utterly loathes the place. Left after law school for Los Angeles, has never returned.

I want to high school in the extreme SE corner of Kern County, so sometimes went to Porterville High for debate tournaments. Most of Kern County is deep red. They gave us Kevin McCarthy, after all. Miserable place. I have a MAGAt brother-in-law who lives there, in the "big city", Bakersfield. We do not see him much. No loss at all.

Texas needs to be reminded that it is no longer part of the Confederacy, though Abbott cited language from, I believe, South Carolina's articles of secession to "justify" his conduct. Just shows we should have hanged all the Confederate leaders like Davis, Lee, others who violated their oaths to the Union they took as U.S. Army officers and rebelled, because they were traitors. If Abbott keeps it up, he is, or should be, looking at a similar fate.

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