Let me relate one story about living in the south. A long time neighbor, who attends the largest baptist church near me, called me to recruit my help. It was a normal neighborly call and I thought it was about a chicken-que. But it turned out to be a rallying call to get everyone she could to go to a meeting and root out what she called "the gay liberals" who wanted to volunteer at the local fire department.
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I gasped something like "we can't do that!" She laughed and said why not? This is what she and other members of this church believe. Book bans, anti critical race theory. etc. etc. Their pastor gives political endorsements from pulpit. They hold three services every sunday and its a huge congregation. Its typical here. I hope it isn't other places
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There is rainbow flag on a church in Asheville. We are a blue island floating in a sea of red.
@LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE Yep, hell flames in the woods on the approach a year ago I was there.
@LnzyHou @MidnightRider @CinnamonGirlE
I don't live in Austin, TX, but I think they feel the same way!
20 yrs ago when I move to WV it was solid blue.That included 2 US Sens. 2 of 3 US Congresspersons, State Governor & Legislature. JFK & Eleanor Roosevelt were there heroes!
Now I feel like the Island. I make sure to put each and every Progressive & Dem yard sign up all along my large curing lot that ppl have to pass by on their way to drop & pick up kids from Elem. & Mid. School!
@Gladari @LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE I salute your bravado, you move around, the property does not. Be careful, protect yourself from cuckoo clocks.
@MidnightRider @LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE
My neighbor tried to put his TFG sign on my boulevard! I pulled it out & was walking over to put it in his yard! (it is illegal to put them on right-of-way anyhow).
He snarly & demanded t put it back. I said "No! I realize I do not own the boulevard, I'm responsible for mowing it. This belongs in your yard." All he could say was "well mow it then"! ME: Tim, you know that my son mows this for me." He sulked away. (BTW, he got himself elected our mayor)!
@Gladari @LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE See that's what I mean, you don't need the mayor pissed at you! A former GF started dating a felon. My dad's judge showed me his rap sheet. He said, midnight, don't walk away, run! You are all over the state but your house stays here.
@Gladari @MidnightRider @CinnamonGirlE
I have not seen a single trump sign in Asheville. But lots of Kennedy the nutjob signs.
Keep putting up your signs!
@LnzyHou @Gladari @MidnightRider @CinnamonGirlE Let us hope. Fingers crossed.
@LnzyHou @Gladari @CinnamonGirlE Legalize cannabis, Asheville only. You'll see more rest of the state pearl clutching than lucky Oyster shuckers.
@LnzyHou @Gladari @CinnamonGirlE Well the commercial with the campfire and kumbaya singing is false advertising! Who goes to the wood at a bonfire without a doobie! 😂
@MidnightRider @LnzyHou @Gladari @CinnamonGirlE
Hence the Bigfoot sightings
@YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari @CinnamonGirlE We have a pinball museum partner! OK Microbrewery, cool walkable town, pinball museum, cannabis desert. One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong....
@MidnightRider @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari
Untrue! What would be better than walking around Asheville after a cannabis dessert, visiting the microbrewery and pinball museum?
@CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari What would be better? A legal dispensary for adults who worked their entire lives, won't drive after and want to have fun before the rest home, is that too much to ask?
@MidnightRider @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari
You know I don't think so. Does anyone know of a place like this?
@CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari New Yorkers do, Vegas, Cali, Washington (both of them) and more.
@MidnightRider @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari
I meant to live.
@CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari OK Sit down for this: People live in those places.
@MidnightRider @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari
Okay. Smart ass. I meant that I could afford. or stand. 😂
@CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari I've seen your politics, you could run in NY and win.
@MidnightRider @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari
That settles it. I am packing. NY bound. Where I always belonged. 😂
@CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari You better not let church lady read that, you'd be dead girl walking.
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@CinnamonGirlE @Gladari @LnzyHou @YouInMyEye @MidnightRider Its legal in Illinois and we have 3 dispensaries close to me. If you have a medical reason you can also grow your own here and purchase at dispensaries with no taxes, recreational purchases can be as high as a 30% tax on things like vape cartridges.
@Lucky188 @Gladari @LnzyHou @YouInMyEye @MidnightRider
It's for sure I landed in the wrong place.
@CinnamonGirlE @MidnightRider @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari If we manage a Seante and House Majority when Biden wins in Nov, he mentioned making some changes to its schedule at #SOTU. It has also come up on from Democrats in DC that it should be legal on the federal level.
@Lucky188 @MidnightRider @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari
Of course it should be. Both medically and recreationally. 🤞
@CinnamonGirlE @Lucky188 @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari Prohibition 2.0, cannabis is everywhere, the only thing the Feds are accomplishing is making some states smoke "moonshine" quality smoke while the more enlightened states are getting Angel's Envy.
@MidnightRider @Lucky188 @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari
Due to lunacy.
Moonshine is okay. But the choice. We all should have the choice.
@CinnamonGirlE @Lucky188 @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari Where I live it has enough tar to fix road cracks and the taste? What taste? I've had California's stuff, it's awesome. You don't need much either, easier on the lungs.
@MidnightRider @Gladari @LnzyHou @YouInMyEye @CinnamonGirlE The reason for the prohibition gets back to money. Pharma doesn't want people to self medicate - effective or not there is no profit in that. The other reason is more insidious, if its legal we wont keep the for profit prisons full. When Sessions was AG he had it rescheduled to the same level as Cocaine and Heroin. This increases sentences greatly. Sessions personal fortune is invested in Prisons for profit.
@Lucky188 @Gladari @LnzyHou @YouInMyEye @CinnamonGirl
Why can't we "stuff" the prisons with the violent felons? How bout that idea? My city is a shooting gallery. As for keeping it illegal, the free states are selling it like crazy.
@CinnamonGirlE @MidnightRider @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari Could try basically anywhere in Canada...
@IrelandTorin @MidnightRider @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari
Yes. Money might make that impossible. But a definite desire.
@CinnamonGirlE @MidnightRider @YouInMyEye @Gladari
Pinball Museum is on the ground floor of my apt bldg.
@LnzyHou @MidnightRider @YouInMyEye @Gladari
Really? I knew you lived downtown, but didn't realize this. ☺️
@LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @Gladari She stands like a statue becomes part of the machine, feeling all the bumpers always playing clean". Yeah because there's no DOOBIES ! 😂 😂
@LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE @MidnightRider @YouInMyEye @Gladari Do they play “Pinball Wizard” by The Who inside that museum? 😂😂😂
@Punisher1976 @LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @Gladari IDK, I think it was closed, I was on the search for protein. Some breakfast place with "green" in the name maybe? It was actually very tasty.
@MidnightRider @CinnamonGirlE the churches don’t seem to care that tfg beliefs more closely align with Satan
@SupplySgt @CinnamonGirlE You missed that fracas, it was intense!
@SupplySgt They're trying to bring about Armageddon.
I’m in western NC. Same thinking here. Absolutely sickening. MAGA christians are despicable. Their message of hate is unspeakable.
@CinnamonGirlE I'm sorry to say it is. Most of my family are alt right catholics. Their priest has told the congregation, multiple times; if you support Biden; you're not to receive holy communion. I nearly fell off my chair; when I heard this. We need to be taxing churches.
So glad I left Catholicism when I was 21
@LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE I left at 18. Was telling my parents since 2nd grade that the catholic church was a cult. The nuns never liked me much.
@DCliffo @LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE
I left when I was 4. Did not buy any of the sky god business.
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There must be places that are not as consumed as my area. But again, ignorance, which drives all this, is every where.
This is truly a plague on us.
@DCliffo @CinnamonGirlE As God's lawyer he's Annointed to make such calls, what a pious jackass.
@CinnamonGirlE This is my experience in the south too. The huge church near me had a giant Trump cardboard man they proudly displayed whereas my last trip to NY I saw a rainbow flag on a church.