Do you still live in Tennessee? If so, go fuck yourself.

Jenee was a young woman who had always been fascinated by the military. She grew up reading stories about war heroes and dreaming of one day becoming a soldier herself. When she was old enough, she joined the army and quickly rose through the ranks. She was a skilled fighter and a natural leader.

However, Jenee soon began to feel disillusioned with the army. She saw how the soldiers were treated, and she didn't like the way they were used as pawns in the game of war. She also saw how the army treated women, and she didn't like that either.

One day, Jenee decided to quit the army. She knew that it would be a difficult decision, but she felt like she had no other choice. She packed her things and left the army, never to return.

Jenee didn't know what she was going to do next. She had no job, no money, and no place to live. But she knew that she couldn't go back to the army.

Jenee wandered around for a few days, trying to figure out what to do. She eventually ended up in a big city. She didn't know anyone in the city, but she was determined to make a new life for herself.

Jenee started working as a waitress. She worked long hours and made very little money. But she was determined to save up enough money to start her own business.

After a few months, Jenee had saved up enough money to start her own business. She opened a small shop that sold clothes and accessories. The shop was a success, and Jenee was able to make a good living.

Jenee was happy with her new life. She was her own boss, and she was able to make her own hours. She also enjoyed meeting new people and helping them find the perfect outfit.

One day, a man came into Jenee's shop. He was looking for a gift for his wife. Jenee helped him find the perfect outfit, and the man was very grateful. He told Jenee that she was the best saleswoman he had ever met.

Jenee was flattered by the man's compliment. She started to think about what he had said. She realized that she was good at selling things. She also realized that she enjoyed it.

Jenee decided to quit her shop and start a new business. She opened an escort agency. The agency was a success, and Jenee was able to make a lot of money.

Jenee was happy with her new life. She was her own boss, and she was able to make her own hours. She also enjoyed meeting new people and helping them find the perfect companion.

Jenee lived a long and happy life. She was a successful businesswoman, and she was also a good friend and a loving mother. She was never ashamed of her past, and she never regretted her decision to quit the army.

I can’t believe I’m typing this … maybe because I’m high, but … I like it.

Republican Steve Scalise was shot in the balls and has not changed his position on gun control.

I think you'll find that they can get abortion access quite easily, even if it isn't lifesaving.

Herman Cain died from COVID, and then made a posthumous Tweet that COVID isn't that deadly.

Most of them are closeted gays themselves.

Being Republican means they never have to worry about karma. Anything they do is good, and anything anyone else does is bad.

Fair enough.

They are, but this rhetoric of "fuck [insert state here], they voted for it" leaves our a lot of people whose votes are suppressed or flat out disenfranchised. Obviously, there are at least three districts in the state that had sense to elect these people in the first place.

I can't speak for Canada, but finding ways to get the white "right" voters by gaming the system is a full industry here.

The GOP has actively worked to undermine the election process in TN for decades now. I live less than 40 miles from Nashvegas and there's practically no one other than a Republican on the ballot for any office at election time here. And if the candidate is a third-party, watch the fuck out. Because they're not Republicans who smoke weed, like Libertarians, they're folks who are so far off the deep-end of crazy that even hardcore Trumpers think that they're bugfuck. For a lot of elections, your choice is to vote for an unopposed Republican or someone that you write in. And even when you do get a non-Republican/non-Trumper on the ballot, if there's any chance of the Republicans ensuring that the candidate doesn't get the office, they'll take it.

At the most recent school board elections, one of the seats came down to a tie between a queer Black woman, who was a Democrat, and a white male Republican. There were three things that they could do to solve this:
1.) Hold a run-off election
2.) Flip a coin.
3.) Arbitrarily pick someone.

They went with option three. Why? Because in a town with a population that's nearly 33% non-white, the idea that they could have one person of color was "too scary for people" according to the people who were on the board. So, yes, folks should entirely subscribe to the idea that folks who don't like Republicans or Democrats should just stay home on election day because that will change things should just STFU. Because the truth of the matter is, if you don't have someone on the ballot, or if the candidate that you do have on the ballot doesn't get an obvious majority, then nothing will change. In fact, they'll get worse, because the fascists will have free reign to do as they please.

To be clear, in this and in the later posts I was referring specifically to elected officials only.

I'll grant you it's not 100% effective, but it still works often enough that I'm willing to use exactly zero genie wishes on it.

To be fair, I do agree that more Republicans should be shot in the balls.

Yes, good for you for going off of one form of welfare in exchange for another form of welfare which obligates you to kill people. Really great moral choice.

Really great moral choice you’re making by commenting on my choices.

Fuck off.

He did not make the choice that makes you look like the world's stupidest mercenary. It is your fault you kill for money so cheaply.

Except my comments don't support killing innocent people.

It’s not just gerrymandering but due to our winner take all system we tend to see states as all one political party or the other.

Combined with the vastly different populations between states and relative cultural mind share assigned to them our perceptions the demographic makeup of states can be really off.

Some stats that I know are true but still are hard to fully grok is that in 2020 there were more Trump voters in California than Texas. More Biden voters in Texas than in New York. More Trump voters in New York than in Ohio. More Biden voters in Ohio than in Massachusetts. Etc, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election

Re: California specifically, just by sheer number it doesn't surprise me that we have more conservatives, but also CA only became a solid blue state within my lifetime. My mom voted for the first time in 1996 because the election was just that close. Then-Governor Pete Wilson, who was considering a run for President in 2000, killed our dual immersion education on his way out. Conservatives knew the tide was turning and much like in 2021, they pushed the recall efforts against Gray Davis. Thankfully, lessons were learned the 2nd time around, but the lunatics in Jefferson are going to use that tool against every Democratic governor until and unless it's revoked or the threshold for recall raised significantly.

I took a road trip from San Diego to NorCal about a week before the 2016 election and the 5 was littered with support signs for Trump. My own hometownwas always pretty racist in that quiet patronizing way, but the mask came off in force almost the moment Trump got 270 votes. My band teacher unfollowed and blocked most of her students when we started dragging her for anti-vax BS, but given how shocked she was that a kid from the poor school of the district aced the 5th grade music test, that one really isn't that shocking in hindsight.

There's a lotta ugly here, just like there's a lotta good being done in red states. That one woman in Nebraska's been doing the Lord's work holding up their legislation for almost a month over anti-trans bills. The Texas Dems fought as long as they could to keep a vote on voting "reform" from happening. Boebert's opponent lost in what was once a safe red seat by less than 550 votes and will likely win because her district is just fed up with her brand of foolishness.

We shouldn't lose sight of what we can do to improve our own communities.

This could get ... interesting ...

Also, it looks like the speaker may have been claiming mileage for daily travel "home" to his district when he's actually been living in Nashville. If this tracks (and doesn't stem from the Twitter poster misreading regulations, or something similar), it would mean he's been committing fraud against the state in plain sight and only got caught because of all the attention he's called to himself over the past week ...

https://twitter.com/BrianManookian/status/1642946762426949640

Lol they were considering moving to the state before? My dad got out of Tennessee when he was 17 because it was a racist shithole. It's not exactly breaking news that it's still a racist shithole.

TN has had, for decades now, some of the fastest-growing (in terms of population) areas in the country. In the late 90s, the fastest-growing county in the Us was Rutherford County, TN. We're no longer in the top ten in the US, but we're still seeing a population growth. I suspect that this is now going to change.

Lots of Red states are doubling down on their grotesque behavior specifically because they don't want moderates or *gasp* libtards moving to their states.

Only they get to vote. They learned that lesson during Reconstruction and they got SCOTUS to drop enforcing the civil rights act. Since then it's been a race to the bottom.

Well, groups like QAnon, the KKK and ultra-right bigot Christians need someplace to live.

One of them has his job back. Can't wait to see what the bigots do next.

Having been all over NY you were not safe anywhere but in college towns and bars with black skin or speaking spanish a few miles north of the hudson. It does not surprise me the buffalo shooter had to drive so far to find a black area in a city given where he was. Even the white city kids did not drink outside of the college bars because the locals would beat the fuck out of you, and the cops would look the other way. It was more racist and trumpist in upstate NY than it was when I was in the carolinas. I learned to speak white inbred farmer at a young age so I could switch it up and pretend, but those applachian hill people were genetic mutants. I had not seen so much down syndrome in my life outside of upstate NY farm families.

TN is pretty dead for culture, but I have not been involved with Nashville aside from driving through so they might be fun to visit.

I could see moving to the Alanta area of even Charlotte given my experience with it. I wouldn't move to inner TN for a job. It is just too far away from any sort of decent culture. At least with Knoxville you could slip down to Birmingham or Atlanta if you didn't mind driving.

Crying pissbaby fit? Threats of legal action that will fail? Oh wait, that is DeStupid. Hopefully they will have a mass suicide. Purple Trump water for everyone.

Jones: I actually happened to be on the elevator with the representative who filed the resolution to expel me. I greeted him and I also asked him did he learn anything from this experience..

https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1645624235178483712?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

Sounds like the very definition of "good trouble." Somewhere John Lewis is smiling.

I think we will see pro-gun control voting have a huge spike in the future, and sales become very regulated using modern tracking. This is going to hit when the millenials come of age to vote in huge numbers. What I see is a group of new voters who will be used to having a digital record they regularly have checked. All the off the grid people or people who do not like being monitored are going to die off because the new way is a database with your info on it. On top of that it is getting easier to get the dangers of guns to everyone because it is effecting the kids so much. They are growing up with school shooter drills and seeing people their age slaughtered. That is something that started around 2000. There is no bubble when you have shootings in small town schools and small towns.

To @Lanzman , @Bill Carson , and @Uncle Albert the clamp down in america is coming. The kids are tired of having guns everywhere and can see the effects of gun bannings in the lives of their peers in other countries. You guntards are going to be stripped of your toys if you are not stand up people and willing to abide by real safety because the kids are coming for them. You have fucked around long enough, and the kids are not going to take a bunch of doddering old dimwits and their guns. Whine all you want.