A lot of people I know have abandoned Nashville and moved to Brentwood, Franklin, etc.
Tired of fighting outsiders.
I'm not leaving. This is MY town, not THEIRS.
Who's with me?!
(cool pic from https://t.co/irUXIDDySL)
@BestNashTransit It's def worth the drive! As far as your price target, I have to admit that I don't even look to see what I'm being charged. All I know is that Jerry makes it worth it.
Cheers!
Dolly Parton on her Imagination Library program that Republicans defunded:
"[My daddy] was the smartest man I have ever known, but I knew [...] his inability to read probably kept him from seeing all of his dreams come true. Inspiring kids to love to read became my mission."
@MichaelLotfi Have known Jerry for 30+ years went in there about 6 months...hadn't seen Jerry in 20 years, gave him a hug...then damn because I no longer live in the Village promptly forgot all about them again.
Confession: I suck!
@BestNashTransit Been going to village cleaners in Hillsboro village for 15+ years. Jerry is the GOAT. I once went to the cleaners down the road from my house and I felt like I was cheating on them. I drive out of my way every week just to go see Jerry.
I have a theory about why public support for gay marriage and gay rights has dropped from its highs and “moral acceptance of gay and lesbian relationships” is at the lowest level in a decade: the addition of the “T” to LGB.
A growing majority of Americans now see the documented harms to children from the pediatric gender industry, radical trans activism targeting women’s sports and single-sex spaces, and the intimidation of feminists.
It’s time for the gay rights movement to formally divorce itself from the T.
Read the latest about the poll results 👇
https://t.co/huLte7GBL5
Pride Month is upon us again and it’s passed time that we gay men have a reckoning about what it has become: a circus of kink that promotes a radical ideology rather than the defiant cry for equality that it started as. With that in mind, I make a humble plea to my fellow gay men to read these three books and watch/listen to a podcast episode.
Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution (2004) by David Carter. You’re going to hear a ton of myths repeated throughout Pride Month, most notably that gay men owe our rights to “trans women of color”; so how about finding out what really happened? Read the late David Carter’s excellent history of the Stonewall Riots and you’ll discover: the political atmosphere in which they occurred, that while there were gender non-conforming individuals involved, including a handful of drag queens and transvestite prostitutes, the vast majority of the crowd were white gay men, that it was not an originating event for the gay rights movement, but rather a transformative event that galvanized the already decades old gay rights movement and prompted young gay men (and lesbians) to push more visibly for decriminalization and equality, and that it was gay men and lesbians who organized the first Pride march in 1970.
Gay Shame: The Rise of Gender Ideology and the New Homophobia (2024) by Gareth Roberts @OldRoberts953 And where are we 50+ years after Stonewall? In a massively entertaining and enlightening book, Roberts surveys the current state of the “gay community” and is appropriately unimpressed: we have achieved the rights we fought for but then walked away from the organizations and media that represented us, where we were replaced by individuals indoctrinated into the radical Queer Theory and Genderism cults, pushing an ideology on the public that is, at heart, deeply anti-gay, and which has been embraced by nearly every major institution, from government to media to corporations and beyond; we ignored the negative impact that this was having on the gay population, particularly gay youth, and we need to wake up and start re-asserting ourselves politically. Roberts’ wit is decidedly Britain-centric, with cultural references that may escape foreign readers, but the gist is still very impactful; I suspect this book will become an important document in gay history.
The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids (2024) by Logan Lancing @LoganLancing with James Lindsay @ConceptualJames What is Queer Theory? What is it promoting? Where does it come from? How is it not as gay friendly as you have been led to believe? Although this brief analysis of Queer Theory is primarily focused on its impact in the educational sphere, I think gay men should read it to get answers to those questions. Essentially, what you need to know is that Queer Theory rejects any form of normalcy and thus rejects the integrationist/assimilationist model that, let’s be honest, is what won gay men our equal standing in law; and so queer has an anti-gay quality underlining its thesis, which is extended to "gender," and this undermines homosexuality at its definitional essence. Lancing and Lindsay, imho, correctly identify Queer Theory less as an academic study and more as a sex-oriented political activist cult.
Lindsay recently had an episode on his podcast New Discourses that explores Queer Theory with more depth, quoting extensively from Queer Theorists themselves. Too many gay men call themselves “queer” without really knowing what it’s all about, and it’s not the positive thing you may think it is. In Roberts’ book, he offers suggestions on how to push back against this; I will offer here one of my fervent wishes, that the media stop using “queer” as a synonym for “gay,” because they are not – queer, aside from still being used as an anti-gay slur by some people, now has a specific political, neo-religious, and sexual meaning to it that is quite distinct from gay or homosexual.
https://t.co/4bP0vwWc04
The city of Saint Paul has officially determined the January 18 invasion of our church and the desecration of our worship to be a “peaceful protest.”
Here’s my question for Mayor Her:
@BestNashTransit If I knew I wouldn’t lose my foster baby, I’d be happy too, but you know we wouldn’t treated the same as the actual violent terrorists!