Not to mention, Nashville being what it is, is largely because all of the state funds are being invested in Nashville and Memphis is being ignored year after year.
It’s literally political and financial warfare.
I don’t care if players don’t like playing in Memphis. My problem is them recommending up ending a city’s economy because they’re uncomfortable for the 2 days they’re forced to be there for work. Relocating a franchise for 2 days of extra comfort for a few individuals is crazy
: if you’re a Black billionaire and you see a city full of Black suffering, if your first reaction is to talk shit in front of white folk as opposed to find a way to make things better, you prove why people say Black billionaires are no better.
I lived in Nashville prior to what it is now working at the State Capitol. Nashville is what it is because they withhold funding from West TN. Memphis was the largest city in the state out pacing Nashville, Murfreesboro Chattanooga, Knoxville. That was a problem
My thoughts… I lived in Memphis last season, Working under the Legend Penny Hardaway! It is a city that my family and I love - great food, vibes and people!!! Stay outta certain areas and you will be fine! ( EVERY CITY IN NBA) Build a Ritz Carlton to make all NBA Players happy.
LeBron (and his peers) trashing Memphis to his golf bros is corny. The city deserves better from these brothers. I want yall to hear every word of this.
Hello sir @KingJames can you recommend some 5 star hotels and suitable celebrity dining spots for a Thursday in Cleveland? After your comments about Memphis I assume your hometown must be fit for kings.
When your friend tells you about the rental they bought using their life savings.
That rents for $2,000/mo with a $1,600/mo payment.
That they think will cash flow $400/mo….
Let me help rephrase for you Bernie.
Need a loan for college so you can party for a semester and drop out? Taxpayers will loan you money for it.
Need an SBA loan for your business ? Taxpayers will guarantee it.
For a house ? Taxpayers will guarantee it. And local gov will give you money for your first down payment !
Get sick or are in an accident and you can’t afford your deductible, insurance company denied prescribed care or are uninsured ?
You are on your own 😤
Let me add Bernie, the one debt not a single one of us will ever pay off till the day we die ? Our health insurance premiums
And before you go in and on about single payer, ask @claudeai to take a look at your proposed Single Payer legislation.
You want the Sec of HHS to run it. You can’t have a political appointee run an apolitical position
And you expect every provider and doctor to accept whatever rate is set by Medicare. Big hospitals don’t know their costs. They couldn’t do a BOM for any procedure. They have negligible transparency.
If they don’t know their costs, and you don’t know their costs, how is it possible for taxpayers, caregivers and patients to get a fair deal ?
And the concept of “every other country does it “ ignores the fact that they all converted decades and decades ago, long before you and your peers allowed the extreme vertical integration we face now.
Which leads to the question. @BernieSanders , why have you not advocated for the Break Up Big Medicine Bill ?
I wrote about the musical connection between Clarksdale, MS (the setting of Sinners) and Memphis. And how Memphis is perhaps the most impactful city in the history of black music. And how Coogler discussed on a Breakfast Club interview how the tragic passing of Memphis’s own Young Dolph’s played a part in him creating Sinners