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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@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.
There is rainbow flag on a church in Asheville. We are a blue island floating in a sea of red.
@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 @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 @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.
@MidnightRider @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari
You would think she would be glad to get rid of a "gay supportng liberal" like myself.
@MidnightRider @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari
May be. They can forget the money though. I am gonna need it in NY.
@CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari You'll spend it all at Wegmans. 😂
@MidnightRider @CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @Gladari
Love Wegman’s but two Aldi’s in Phillipsburg.
@LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @Gladari Those 2 stores don't belong in the same sentence. Worlds apart, although Tucker might see them as the same. 😎
@MidnightRider @CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @Gladari
Wegman’s is amazing. But my needs are simple.
@LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @Gladari May i suggest that's because you've not spent enough time in a Weglands? I can't toss you an Italian meal from Aldi's, we'd be netter of with Stoffers.
@LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @Gladari I don't know when, maybe this summer but I keep my word. I'm always looking for the ingredients here. Every time a store has Locatelli they stop selling it because southerners aren't going to throw the bank. Publix used to have it, then Walmart, now nobody here does.
@LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @Gladari No locatelli? Why are you bothering trying to make meatballs? That's like eating other provolone than Auricchio, why bother?
@LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @Gladari Do you want me to make it right or not? I'm not driving through wooden flames to make a plate of crap. My mom will beat me with what's left of her wooden spoons if she finds out,
@MidnightRider @CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @Gladari
I’ve got Whole Foods close by.
@LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @Gladari you mean Whole Paycheck? Talk about food snobs. I'll start looking again here passively. I'm not kidding meatballs are "eh" with lousy cheese.
@LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @Gladari We'll make it work one of these days before you head to that gorgeous NJ building. How old do you have to be? Any parking?
@MidnightRider @CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @Gladari
The building is 100 yrs old & in Asheville. Yes there’s parking but very limited. 62+ age
Lived here almost 4 yrs
@LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @Gladari No I meant NJ, if I move it's out of the south.
@CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari Take the fireman with you Cinny, and burn in hell! Love, the Baptists. PS Don't forget to send Yankee money.