"Texas Governor Signs Executive Order Donating City Of Austin To California"

The Babylon Bee reports.

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[John F. Carr]

As a thank you gift Newsom should donate the Central Valley to Texas.

[Armchair Lawyer]

The Central Valley would break out in celebration.

[James Pollock]

Either celebration or wildfire. One of those things will break out.

[TwelveInchPianist]

No such donation occurred. This is right-wing disinformation. And if you call them out, they'll probably claim that it's satire.

[Eugene Volokh]

They probably will!

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Snopes will flag even that as fake news!

[A nerdy Fred]

Reading the whole thing, I think it was intended as satire, especially since the front page labels itself "fake news you can trust".

[AmosArch]

Carve out the bay area, and probably a surprisingly small portion of LA County and Sacramento and California would actually be sensible.

[Sarcastr0]

Ah yes, the old 'people don't vote, land area does.'

Alas for you, the vital principle of [republican government] is the lex majoris partis, the will of the majority.

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Where'd you dig that out from? He said no such thing.

[Sarcastr0]

The surprisingly small part of LA County and Sacramento are actually full of people.

[MatthewSlyfield]

The vast majority of whom are bat shit crazy

[Sarcastr0]

And they think you're crazy right back atcha.

Maybe not the most productive way to think.

[TwelveInchPianist]

The lived experience of people living in, say, the bay area, is likely to be very similar. Voting by land area provides a greater diversity of viewpoints and therefore, more truth.

[Sarcastr0]

Meh, that's not how lived experience works, I think you know that, and yet you still try for the weak troll.

[TwelveInchPianist]

It was a moderate to strong troll, Sarcastro.

[James Pollock]

"It was a moderate to strong troll"

Nah, that was weaksauce.

[sparkstable]

Except that it isn't too far from the truth. That lots of people live in tight geolocation so that they experience the same local events, get the same local biases in news, have the same areas of expertise and ignorance on issues based on geography...

After all, if "land didn't vote" then there wouldn't be geographically identifiable "red" or "blue" parcels of land.

[Sarcastr0]

What? You do realize that 'red' areas contain plenty of 'blue' people and vise versa, yes?

[Brett Bellmore]

Actually, the 'red' areas tend to contain plenty of 'blue' people, but not so much the reverse. It's not a symmetric situation, the Democratic end of the curve has a very "fat" tail. That's why you see so many precincts each election where the Republican Presidential candidate gets zero votes, but basically none where the Democratic candidate gets zero.

Once the percentage of Democrats in an area goes over some critical level, the number of Republicans plummets, and often reaches zero.

That's why a long list of cities haven't had Republican governments in living memory. That's why Democrats keep trying to mandate gerrymandering in the name of prohibiting it.

Do the Republicans get converted? Driven out? Go into hiding? It would be worth finding out.

But, no, 'blue' areas actually don't tend to have a lot of 'red' people in them.

[James Pollock]

Are you suggesting they get rounded up and disposed of? Or that they are somehow intimidated into staying home on election day? these are not interchangeable.

[AmosArch]

I made a simple observation. For actual police I'll agree the majority matters when you guys consistently do as well and not make exceptions for cases where it doesn't benefit you. Ie protected classes and accommodations. DC statehood etc.

[M L]

Ah yes, the old "we have lots of people so let's conquer the neighbors and rule over them."

How old is this one exactly? The answer might surprise you!

[Dr. Ed 2]

This would neither be a bad idea, nor really out of line when compared with some of the executive fiats that other Governors have issued in the past 15 months.

[Armchair Lawyer]

While amusing, I'm more interested in the real attempts for the counties of eastern Oregon to secede and join Idaho. Idaho says they would welcome the new counties into greater Idaho....

[John F. Carr]

Let's give DC back to Maryland, except for the core complex of federal buildings.

[TwelveInchPianist]

Then the President and his family get three electoral votes.

[Milhouse]

Congress can repeal the current legislation directing how those three electors are appointed, and decline to make any new directions. Or it could give itself a say in the presidential election by having those three electors appointed by a joint meeting of congress. (Congressmen themselves are ineligible.)

[Leaf's Chauffeur]

No thank you. We already have baltimore. Dump it on virginia.

[James Pollock]

Virginia is for lovers. Says so on all the road signs at the border.

[James Pollock]

Say, doesn't the governor of Texas live in Austin? Is he trying to defect to a state that has a functional electrical power distribution network?