I'm pretty sure that was the plan well before Headboard Harris even filed paperwork to enter the primary, which she quickly bombed out of. Barry was behind her from the first minute. It ended up that he just needed a vehicle for her to get to the WH. Fortunately, she's well-accustomed to riding older men into office.
I've been an Ohioan for 48 years and the minute Texas kicks loose we're still selling the house and heading down. I would like to hope Ohio would join up, but with most of our population being crammed into the three C's I'm none too optimistic.
I worked in the Honda supply chain for a few years right alongside the Japanese. I have no problem with them at all. I bought a new Crimson Trace rifle scope last month and I was delighted to see it was manufactured in Japan whereas two of my older Nikon Black series were farmed out to the Philippines.
I just finished Thomas Sowell's "Black Rednecks and White Liberals". He makes the case in the first third of the book that modern ghetto culture was appropriated from poor southern whites, who brought it over from a specific region near the England-Scotland border. Very fascinating.
I know they didn't ask me!