Real ones know Memphis does dry rub anyway.
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Real ones know Memphis does dry rub anyway.
And factories and industries won’t change the problem, either.
You sure don’t. But neither do Memphians. We do bbq right.
You’re free to have your wrong opinion, lol.
So many of them are convinced the places in the burbs have the best now (Commissary - which is good - is a great example). I get it. I wouldn’t want to be afraid to leave my home either. The difference is I don’t consume media that’s fear-based 24/7. I pity Memphis burbanites. I really do.
And I’ll say this: most of the folks in the burbs don’t want the Guard there because they don’t like Memphis. They want the Guard there because they believe that’s the only option left to control crime in Memphis. They’re afraid to leave their homes and go into the city.
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Yes. My point is they’re inundated with information about crime at the local level. And crime is a problem. But Memphis is also following the Baltimore model, and will probably see similar results. It just takes time to fix.
They turn on WREG, WMC, or Fox13 and the first headline is a murder in Frayser. The second is a robbery at the Avenue in Collierville. The third is how someone on the school board/city council/public utility got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. It’s sad, but unsurprising.
The scary thing about Memphis is this - the people in the burbs want it. They want the Guard to come. Memphis has a crime problem - that’s for certain. The Guard would exacerbate the tensions in the city like fire to gasoline.
Having been a high school thespian (who played Salieri my senior year, coincidentally) - this is a fantastic comparison.
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He’s been dangling it as a carrot. That’s why she’s been on her knees for him more than usual. I live in TN. People here across both parties hate her - but folks here will vote for her because she has an R next to her name.
Yes. But she can’t secure Trump’s support because she certified 2020. And her main opponent is John Rose, who is a legitimate child groomer.
I don’t know that it will happen “soon”, but it’s going to happen. They’ve tested it, but it’s not to scale yet. I think it will largely be a hybrid thing.
Hell, I know drivers that bring home six figures a year easy.
They’ve been trying to do this forever. And it won’t work. They’ve blamed brokers, megas, immigrants, & everyone else. Never themselves. They don’t tell the public about the time they screwed a broker and got $9k to run from CHI to Cheyenne. It’s only when they’re the “victim” that they lose it.
They’ll backtrack. People love Doris. The players love Doris. When the product suffers (and it already is) they’ll change it. It’s Cracker Barrel 2.0, sir. I don’t even watch NBA and I know who Doris Burke is. I have no clue who the other announcers are.
He threatened to send them to Memphis. Which is a blue dot in a deep red state, I grant you. But it IS in a red state.
For all of the fear and doom from the party voters, and the “why aren’t they doing anything” message- Dems *keep* picking up seats. Maybe, just maybe, the party actually does know what they’re doing.
No he isn’t. He cannot command the cult. He has neither the intelligence or charisma.
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Mark’s anti-Trump. We can all agree least agree.
The reason politicians want you to live in fear of everything, is so when they want you to buy something, you will, and then they want you to die for something, you’ll sign up, and when they take power and control from you, you’ll say that it’s just for the best. They aren’t scared. They’re abusers.
Always say good things about the dead, Jess. He’s dead. That’s good.
As long as they don’t fuck with the pancakes, they can rebrand Cracker Barrel to pink and purple stripes with orange and green polka dots for all I care.
The Kroger closest to me is honestly a great experience - except at checkout. But we usually shop at Aldi/Trader Joes. Their prices are cheaper, and bananas are bananas (unless they bring back Gros Michel bananas, those are superior).
If we had a real leader in charge at the White House they would’ve used the meeting in Alaska to put Vlad near a window and let gravity do the work.
If the Braves don’t make the postseason I’m pulling for the Brewers to run the dang table.
As a born and raised resident of the other side of the state…you know how I feel about that college in Knoxville. 😂😂😂
I don’t think they do anymore. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but the mainstream media sanewashed Trump. They went hardcore after Joe about his mental acuity, but leave Trump alone when he’s got the intelligence of a goddamn goldfish (all apologies to goldfish). Trump means ratings to them.
He did it frequently with the tariffs. He did it a ton in his first administration. Less so now, but that’s because he has more yes men at his disposal.
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The media stopped covering a lot of it though. Scripps media (they run the local news here in Nashville) won’t let the stations cover anything negative about Trump.
Exactly.
I’m not against it. I also don’t know that I’m for it, if that makes sense. Probably because I don’t fully understand how it would work w/o repercussions.
Yep. Had a bully when I was young. One day I had enough and shoved him off one of those jungle gym dome things. He broke his arm and collarbone. After that I didn’t have a bully.
I don’t know that they could get away with it, honestly. From a legal AND public relations standpoint.
Not “all but”….all. Every one of them. And tell Republicans that CA reps will put a bill before Congress to not allow gerrymandering *again*. And will redraw their maps if and when all other R states end their gerrymandered maps. NY, IL, and CA, and all other blue states should do it.
I’m not going to bring a water pistol to a gunfight. I prefer we bring a bazooka while they bring a Glock.
It’s also the opportunity to reintroduce nuance to American politics. We can say “I don’t like all of their positions, but I like enough to vote for them”instead of “I don’t like their stance on one issue, so I won’t vote for them”.
Amen. Time to take the @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social approach. Call them childf***ers on tv and *make* them try to refute it. “This is about goddamn votes” as the former president once said.
They think “strongly worded letters” is the 2x4. But guys like Newsom bring the wood, lol.
I think blue states will vote for whoever the nominee is. It’s the independents you want. And frankly, a lot of Ds need to look in the mirror - because what’s happening now lays at their feet as well. They stayed home because they didn’t like Harris’ view on Gaza.
Eh. You can’t bring a knife to a gunfight. And if you’re going to fight, bring the toughest sonofabitch you can. Newsom fills that role.
So she may lose. Tuberville won’t win the govs office in Alabama. I’d be shocked if he did, because people down there hate him and an R will run against him.
Several senators were already going to run for governor. The difference is, govs are term-limited. It’ll be a last gasp for those kinds of politicos. Two examples - TN and AL. Blackburn and Tuberville are both running. Blackburn will *probably* win TN, but she can’t secure Trump’s endorsement.
And I want him to say “while these fuckwits were fighting, I was busy being normal and trying to make my state better”
He’s attacking blue states because they don’t agree with him. I don’t disagree with you. But having guys like Pritzker, Newsom, and a few others that are fighting back is gold. I want Beshear to stay silent and keep focusing on his state. Because I want him in the White House.
In this case it would be the states. Since elections are state-run, you think CA is going to listen to Trump and not hold elections? No. They’re going to tell him to fuck off, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Newsom used those exact words.
He oozes sleazy, but he’s a guy you definitely want on your side, lol.
You’re welcome.
He backs down. I just told you.
Martial law has a *very* narrow definition. He’s tried to declare it before and was stopped. Look, if you’re going to just be a doomer, I’d request you stop replying. I don’t have time for that nonsense.
No. Ever seen “The Godfather”? “Never let anyone outside the family know what you’re thinking.” Right now they have more power behind closed doors than they do if they run their mouths. There *are* republicans who will vote with them. If they make them enemies, they lose what power they have.
He can’t stop them because he has no power over them. They’re state-held. Jesus.
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard, respectfully. We’re not going to have a civil war. Neither side would survive long term. Good god some of yall need to go touch grass.
Trump cannot stop elections. Christ. If he tried, the courts and Congress would stop him. Despite the fact that many of them support him outwardly, inwardly they are institutionalists.
And CA and IL have responded to TX in kind. I think TX abandons the plan.
I think Father Time is gonna win that before 2028.
I wouldn’t be shocked at all if they’re not responding to Donny because they know it enrages him when they don’t. Like, this admin’s whole thing is “triggering the libs”. If I’m a Dem, I’m not gonna give them the satisfaction.
This. Newsom comes across as Christian Bale in “American Psycho”. And if you’re gonna come across as that, go full bore. If people fight Donny, he backs down.
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I did, about two or three posts into our discussion. And your reasoning for moving is completely valid. I’m saying if this all goes the way you think, I’m likely to be considered an enemy of the state and will end up in a gulag. And I just don’t think that’s realistic.
According to you it’s all for naught. Since you live in the Caribbean I don’t think you have to worry. But if what you say is true I’ll be in a gulag by then.
Some of us live in the world of politics - like, it’s my job. And pretty fucking good at it, lol. I wish you well. I’m just here to tell you you’re wrong.
We’re not saying Thiel, Musk, Vance, et al aren’t dangerous. We’re saying they can’t hold the iron grip of power like Trump can. Truly, if any politician did what Trump has done in terms of crime they’d be under the jail. Trump can get away w it because of his mob. He alone can control them.
Trump could convince his base of anything and everything. Vance doesn’t have that power. That’s the important part.
Bingo
I think it’s a few things. Billionaires, tech gurus all latching onto the cult of personality that is Trump. When they don’t have a position of power they can influence so easily (because Trump’s a useful idiot, Vance is just an idiot), it becomes more difficult.
(I also happen to think Vance is a shit politician, which is saying something…)
You might be right! Could totally land that way. I think my perception is colored by seeing supporters already turn on him here in my little corner of the world. I think the movement is dying. But if that dude in PA hadn’t missed, it would’ve died a long time ago, lol.
Newt did more harm to our country than almost anyone in its almost 250 year history.
I think the movement dies with him, frankly. Vance isn’t talented enough to hold the audience captive like Trump can. I hate the man, but credit where it’s due - he can work a room.
I did this post-Red Sox rehiring Cora. When they rehired Cora, I swore them off (I don’t care if you cheat, just don’t get caught. When you do, I don’t know you). All I did that year was just watch baseball. Didn’t matter who. And it was the most fun I’ve had in a while.
This. The whole “have to fight now because there won’t be elections in 26” is stupid. Yes we have to fight now. But to say there won’t be elections is dumb. And frankly, I’m not sure he’s going to live to the midterms.
They’re not going to get mad at their current reps. They’re going to get mad at blue states govs. Christ. I live with these people. I know how they think. You’re going to drive them further away. Now, if you don’t care about them that’s fine - but you don’t get to claim you’re saving them.
I’d say right now is the perfect time to see. What did the Rs just cut and are getting excoriated for it back home? There’s a real, and I mean *very* real chance of not just blue wins in the House and Senate in the midterms. And cutting this kind of aid would buy right into Rs hands.
I think you vastly underestimate the Republican media machine in red states. It’s not just. It’s local radio/TV. It’s billboards. It’s print. It’s everywhere.
Think of it this way. Who did Rs get poor folks to blame when they lost their job to an immigrant or to overseas? I think it’s going to land the same way. I’m open to being wrong. I just don’t know if I will be. Does that make sense?
I don’t have the answer. I don’t entirely disagree with the idea. I’m just being pragmatic. Rs would love to cut benefits. If they can’t afford it they’ll blame Dems. And the narrative will be “Dems took it from you” and whether that’s right or wrong it will be broadcasted on a fucking loop.
Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%... "That's just how it is."
Reminds me of 98, personally.
I think that lends more truth to the idea they caught lightning in a bottle in 21. Which, as a lifelong Braves fan, that tracks. lol.
They have refunded money in cases like this before. I was simply saying if they spelled it out on the front end you might see a decrease in posts like this.
Probably. I don’t gamble on sports so I don’t know either.
I’m aware. I played, lol. But an example would be when Damar Hamlin was injured. IIRC betting sites refunded money because of it. My point was that if betting sites would say this on the front end we would likely see a decrease in posts like that.
Eh. I think it’s different when there are forces outside the normal possibility of win/loss that affect the outcome. I don’t gamble on sports, so I don’t really care. I was just providing a point of conversation.
I’m not exhausted defending it. I’m exhausted discussing it with someone who has no desire to discourse in good faith or understand the conversation. Cope or Cobain, I don’t care. But I’m out.
Plenty of people gamble without being addicts. Christ, people like you are fucking exhausting. Go play in traffic.
And I commented from a non anti-gambling perspective. It’s called discourse, idiot.
A bad bet is thinking the Browns are gonna beat the Chiefs. A bad bet isn’t a player got hurt and a game was called.
People can have the freedom to gamble. If you’re anti-gambling, that’s a *you* problem, dude. I don’t care if people gamble, I just don’t do it. Kinda like drugs. I don’t do drugs, I just don’t care if someone does them.
It also wasn’t a DA take. It was “if betting cos acted in good faith, people wouldn’t have to ask those questions. But betting cos don’t act in good faith, so people do” it’s a commentary on how businesses operate in general.
I don’t care that you don’t believe me? Like, you’re a rando on the internet. You don’t matter to me. The hot take was you trying to attack me for providing a comment about how sports betting should operate - not bc I’m a consumer, but bc I think it’s good practice.
As previously stated, I don’t gamble on sports. But that would require you to do a little research instead of trying to offer a hot take like some ex-Twitter edgelord.
I don’t bet on sports, lol. I agree with you completely.
Under a ton of legalese.