10th Gen Tennessean | Wife, Rural Advocate, Cultural & Political Noticer | SaaS/Sass Operator | Deo Vindice | Psalm 27:1 ✝
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The Democrats made Tennessee a battleground state in their Culture War. It's destroying the place I calll home. No one is talking about it or doing anything about it, so I will.
The Tennessee @GOP doesn't even have a real media presence. I've been emailing them for years offering assistance with social media, digital properties, and more. I've never received a response at the state or county level. @TNGOP Our county level party doesn't even have any social profiles or a website. How are we going to reach young voters without those tools?
One look at @MarshaBlackburn's feed, and you'll be transported back to 2021.... Marsha is still embroiled in the Russia hoax, COVID, and other issues that Tennesseans have long moved past.
I don't know what the solution is, but I do know that we have a problem. Something is rotten on Demonbreun. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
CeCe F. Baby retweeted
Neocons really did it to us this time. Some of this damage will not be recoverable, i.e. abolishing the filibuster, new trifectas grant the votes to abolish the Electoral College, heavy hands on redistricting for Congress, etc.
They sold out their own country.
I don't know if I will ever go back to tech/corporate, because of my horror story. I spent 8 years at the same company. The product I helped build was acquired twice. I survived 3 M&As there.
After the final acquisition by a so-called "AI company," I was demoted so the new owner’s favorite could step in. My department went through 5 "replacements" for me. When that didn't work out, I was handed the mess back (without my title restored) and told to fix it.
I saw the writing on the wall.
So, outside that company and in my spare time, I was running 2 of my own businesses, marketing for multiple local orgs, and serving as a director and board member. I graduated from an accredited leadership training program, and I was recognized for my work locally.
Same person. Same skills.
Completely different treatment.
The discrepancy between my skills, what I was doing with my own business, and the way I was being treated at my day job was so imbalanced that it caused me to begin developing physical symptoms from the stress.
I'm a Type A, INTJ, pixel-perfect type of gal. A striver. My brain doesn't like it when people don't seem happy with my work. But my work wasn't the problem.
I'm honestly glad that it's over, and I don't think I can put myself through that again.
The saddest part? Before we were acquired, I worked for the best company in the world with the most amazing team. We had a great product. I loved every moment of working there. But the owners made their money, and they wanted out. So they sold us out to private equity, and it all unraveled from there.
I miss those times so much! I miss that hungry startup environment. I thrive in the chaos, and the messy.
I'm just not sure that environment can exist in 2026.
An average work commute in the former rural backcountry of East Tennessee.
No one asked for this.
📸 Mike Cates – at Cookeville, TN
"Cordell Hull recalled in his memoir that growing up in the rural Upper Cumberland, Tennessee that, "Each person stood solidly by his politics and religion. Father and all of his people were Democrats of the strictest sect from the Civil War on."
Like almost all white Southerners of his generation, Hull was a committed Democrat as white Southerners of his era could not bring themselves to vote for the Republicans, the party of Abraham Lincoln."
I've heard a lot of Tennesseans & Southerners say that it's fine for people to move here, "as long as they're Republican."
This is misplaced optimism based on a misunderstanding of how culture works.
A "Republican" from California does NOT have the same political, social, cultural, or moral beliefs as a conservative person from Tennessee. It is a mistake to assume this.
Political affiliation is not a substitute for cultural compatibility.
The problem is that newcomers seem to believe that identifying as conservative automatically establishes common ground with the people who already live here. "I'm conservative. I'm Republican. Why won't you accept me?"
But being a Republican and belonging to a conservative Southern culture are two different things.
And frankly, some Southerners have become so accustomed to viewing everything through the lens of national party politics that they've lost the ability to recognize those distinctions themselves.
One example is Harmeet Dhillon. Harmeet was appointed as a "conservative" Californian.
But the moment she faced opposition or pushback, she immediately defaulted to the Liberal playbook: "I'm suing you!" "This is censorship!"
That is not our way.
You cannot preserve a culture you no longer know how to recognize. And you cannot establish cultural belonging simply by declaring political allegiance.
Southerners are FED UP with the way politicians have sold off their communities to the highest bidder. – at Cookeville, TN
CeCe F. Baby retweeted
The right has a serious problem with understanding who actually votes for them
First Joel Barry told the people who swung in our direction last time to go screw themselves for noticing the cost of living is high, then Matt Walsh told our most reliable voting block (married mothers) to go screw themselves because of Lindsay Clancy
Conservative commentators reported on a couple outlier polls showing young men have increased church attendance by one singular point over the past five years and decided this must mean we now have a new army of based evangelical voters who would lead Republicans to victory in the future
It is a complete, fundamental misunderstanding of who actually votes for conservatives
Gen Z men are secular swing voters, not a new generation of Charlie Kirks. They didn't swing toward Trump because they suddenly became Bible-thumping culture warriors praying for a return to 1950s social norms. They moved right for overwhelmingly secular reasons: inflation, housing costs, job market stagnation, institutional overreach, and exhaustion with identity politics. They listen to finance podcasts, gym bros, and anti-establishment streamers like Joe Rogan. They're about as Christian conservative as Bill Maher or Bernie Sanders. Mistaking a 22yo who occasionally steps into a church or likes an edgy meme for a theological conservative is total delusion. They are low-propensity, highly secular swing voters who will abandon the party the second you replace economic solutions with dogmatic purity tests - as Joel Barry learned firsthand on that fateful burrito post
Meanwhile, if you actually look at who makes up the evangelical base and drives reliable turnout for conservatives, it's not young men - it’s married mothers
Statistically and practically, married women with children fill the pews, run the community networks, and show up to the polls every single election cycle without fail. They aren't low-propensity voters you have to drag to the voting booth with viral ragebait; they are the high-turnout bedrock of the party
But thanks to mouth breathers like Matt Walsh who thinks TikTok represents the average female voter, many of our most reliable voters decided to stay home this midterm season
In other words, conservative commentators need to touch grass or shut the hell up because this abysmal PR is catastrophic for Republicans
Alienating your most dependable, high-propensity voting block to court a speculative, secular demographic while projecting a dogmatic fantasy onto them isn't just moronic, it's political suicide
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Like I said in an earlier post Mark, I’m currently in the hole $10,000+ because I’m getting CRUSHED in this economy.
How come people like me who bust their ass get mowed over by traitors and grifters who are trying to destroy the country?
Where’s MY opportunity?
This is an unpopular opinion but I don't like the black jerseys or the concept of a "black out." Our colors are Tennessee Orange and Smoky Mountain Gray—not black.
The University's own brand guidance says: "Black is not a color in our palette and should only be used in cases where black and white printing is the only option." – at Cookeville, TN
Really interesting stuff here —
"IQ does not appear to be an evolutionary advantage in the modern age and as such, it isn't being selected for.
This suggests that we're in a race against decline. We need to solve the IQ problem through technology before we simply run out of smart people living in functioning societies." – at Cookeville, TN
People genuinely don't understand this:
1. The global average IQ is 84. It's not the only factor but it's a major one.
2. Most successful ethnic groups have an average IQ of 100-105. The highest (Ashkenazi Jews) sit at about 107-112.
3. In order for a society to thrive, it needs to have an average IQ over 100. 103-105 or so seems to be the threshold.
At 103-105, you get peak England, the Scandinavian countries or peak Germany. At 100 you get France, and at 98 Spain.
The difference between global domination and also-ran is surprisingly small; just 2-3 IQ points. Another 4-5 and you're a basket case country like the Philippines or Bulgaria or modern Greece.
4. IQ can, within a population, shift solely through genetics, by 0.5-1.0 points per generation.
Social factors can magnify that effect by 5-7 points.
Consequently, the functional IQ of a population can change enough in one generation for a society to go from "world domination" to " basket case."
A more realistic outcome is that this can take 2 or 3 generations to happen. Well, that is what happened.
People often misinterpret the Flynn effect and think that IQs are rising but they're not. They're declining.
5. America is now too low IQ to maintain its position as world hegemon. More so, current birthrate trends have us rapidly entering not just "also ran" territory but "basket case."
The only reason we will stay on top is because we're absurdly rich compared to the rest of the world so we have a long way to fall before anyone catches us.
6. Successful countries become successful usually through a long process of breeding themselves into a higher IQ and then matching that with a social organization that maximizes it.
All it takes is one bad generation to destroy what took centuries to gain.
This is why today's Greeks aren't like the Greeks of golden age antiquity, and today's Romans aren't like the Romans of old.
7. The highest IQ populations today are both not reproducing but also replacing themselves with low IQ populations.
Even Israel is only 1/3 Ashkenazi with lower IQ groups making up the majority of the country. It is worth noting that the Haredi (the cohort with the highest total fertility rate) is about 80% Ashkenazi, but I have no available data on their average IQ.
My point is that IQ does not appear to be an evolutionary advantage in the modern age and as such, it isn't being selected for.
This suggests that we're in a race against decline. We need to solve the IQ problem through technology before we simply run out of smart people living in functioning societies.
It's almost like we predicted this 🤔🤣 – at Sparta, TN
One thing is certain, this week we learned which member of Trump's cabinet is forcing support for Israel. Susie Wiles.
I have suspected that she's a Trojan Horse, for quite some time. How are you an effective campaign manager without a social media presence? Something doesn't pass the smell test for me.
