The one on the left has makeup and plastic surgery.

There are elections every 6 months or so. All that has to flip are 2 or 3 seats and the entire congress flips.

I think we are still trying peaceful protests and hoping upcoming elections will change things. There is little appetite to escalate to violence yet.

It is inevitable that ice and ice barbie will encounter violent opposition when they raid a wrong address sometime soon. But it will be localized to that location.

Most of the radical groups of self armed wackos are working for ice now and reveling in their racism.

No one will win because while we are messing around worrying about skin color and genitals – climate change; new pandemics; the collapse of pollinators; the acidification of the oceans; the proliferation of nuclear waste; and other similarly critical issues will remain unaddressed and doom us all.

Depending on the state there may be different formal definitions based on population and incorporation status. In Ohio, we have townships, villages, and cities. In Pennsylvania they have “boroughs” instead of villages. In NY a borough is a subdivision of a city. I don’t think they have the township organizational structure in Vermont. In Maine there are unincorporated territories (usually just numbered).

The role of the county government can vary significantly from state to state too.

Most towns are not urban by any standard. I ate dinner over the weekend in a town with a population of 669. It was big enough to have its own restaurant and post office. It was a 30-40 minute drive from any town with a population over 10,000 (and that, just barely).

I was in a computer store a few years ago watching a young guy trying to sell a tablet to an older woman. He said “the good news about this is that it can’t get viruses because it runs apps”.