Did all this woke bullshit come at a cost?

[IHaveRespawned]

While everyone was distracted by whether trannies can use the girl's bathroom or play in women's sports, our public safety infrastructure was crumbling. We are in the midst of a nationwide volunteer firefighter shortage. Most fire departments are volunteer-run.

In Tennessee alone, 42 percent of fire departments are classified as either "at-risk" or "distressed". 500 of the nearly 700 fire departments in Tennessee are ran by volunteers. 97.9 percent of Tennessee counties have ambulance deserts. Volunteer firefighters and rescue squad crews often provide EMS first response, aiding the critically ill or injured until ambulance crews arrive. They are an important part of the EMS system too. Meanwhile, leftist policies have displaced many Northerners and Californians towards Tennessee. We are the 15th most populous state now.

We forget about the basics while shifting focus to stupid shit, like the rainbow people and race-based politics.

I agree

I disagree

[loveslongnails]

Will you kindly stop using "woke" as if you know what it means, because you obviously do not? You can also adjust your opening sentence to be truthful, which would read like this:

" While the GOP's candidates and social media platforms, talk shows, Fox, etc., were busy distracting you with the 0.0001% of incidents involving trans persons in bathrooms, AND the 8 transgender athletes out of 510 THOUSAND athletes in the NCAA, and the handful of incidents in high school sports that got handled locally,, ... they were refusing to fund your public safety infrastructure. Despite that, you continued to re-elect them and vote against your own best interests, just so you could say 'I don't vote for Democrats"

Since you are from the Great State of Tennessee, you were also busy censoring and censuring elected representatives, 2 of them black, because they spoke out against your good 'ole white boy network and tried to represent their constituents real needs. Somehow in your pretzel logic, you've even found a way to gaslight California for your own blatant inability to govern and fund necessary infrastructure for your own communities. But that's typical and recommended by your playbook; gaslighting is your way of life.

The current state of affairs in the USA is the price you pay for being too ignorant to recognize the grift and do something about it.

[WindAtMyBack]

You're a fucking idiot.

[loveslongnails]

@WindAtMyBack Is that all you got, grandpa? Try and tell me what I said isn't true and statistically provable? You're the reason this shit happens, you dumb racist fuck. LOL You are an educator? God help us.

[WindAtMyBack]

Go fuck yourself asshole.

[NaultD]

What's the real bandwidth bottle neck here? Some hanky panky on the off time or funding for volunteer services and cost of living everywhere and more drastically in rural areas.

Why are they volunteer in the first place? Of course for profit services are going to consolidate where there's profit. Your bank account is your value as a person getting a service. The only way to break away from that mind set is nationalized services. Paying more taxes preferably the rich of course thats up to debate and woke.

[Subgurl]

Dude… Firefighters and EMS personal are paid like crap but maybe if those work environments were more excepting of “rainbow people” and “race based politics” as you so eloquently put, there wouldn’t be as much of a shortage.

[IHaveRespawned]

Don't pull that bullshit on me! I have encountered plenty of gays in EMS and emergency services. Shit, even 2 of them married each other and all the EMS crews gathered.

[Subgurl]

Wow two of them? You sound like a supportive and
Inclusive ally!

[IHaveRespawned]

All this CRT garbage you are tossing around. No, homosexuality is a sin. I do not support homosexuality. Although, it doesn't mean I bully them either.

[Subgurl]

Oh so you’re homophobic. Good to know.

[IHaveRespawned]

I have had gay friends. I may not agree with homosexuality or their lifestyles, but I care for them as PEOPLE. I don't promote or endorse homosexuality, nor do I bully people because they are gay. There is a difference.

[Subgurl]

Dude, you’re openly homophobic. You’re not the good guy. If you cared for people you wouldn’t see homosexuality as a “sin”. Your whole post is anti LGBT.

[IHaveRespawned]

"Phobia" implies I have a fear. I do not have a fear of them. You may claim I have "hatred". I don't. The Lord says homosexuality is a sin. So being critical of my stance on homosexuality is being critical of my Christian faith and morals. I do not promote or embrace homosexuality, period. It does not mean I cannot be nice or caring towards people either.

How about this, if someone is so determined of who they are, why do they need my approval? It sounds like a problem to that person and not me. I am often mistaken as a "ma'am" over the phone due to my voice. But I know I am a man.

[exitseven]

I have a vacation house on an island. Over the last 20 or 30 years people from New York and Massachusetts have bought homes there and brought their liberal BS with them. They are allowed to vote and all he things that was unique and enjoyable about the place has been ruined.

[IHaveRespawned]

I went into a Walmart today and we had Hispanics and blacks everywhere. This is extremely unusual being west Knoxville, but has become more common over the years. I mean shit, they were even playing Mexican music over the PA system. It has transformed this area into something unrecognizable.

[loveslongnails]

Yeah, your fellow Americans have just ruined everything for you, haven't they? On the other hand, the NY and Mass folks were the only ones who could afford to buy property there? Does that mean your Repubes couldn't? We have the same influx in Maine, toto, but we don't blame THEM for doing what CAPITALISTS do when they get the opportunity!!

You wouldn't be suggesting that the local government should have stepped in and passed some sort of anti-capitalist laws restricting land or home ownership to a specified group of Americans, are you? That's interesting.

[exitseven]

@loveslongnails It just means that these carpetbaggers bring all the failed policies that drove them there in the first place. It is just sad to see what has happened o the place. It would not be so bad but these idiot try to push their ideas on me. I am not buying but I go up there to enjoy myself, not to fight with people. If I wanted to do that I could just stay home.

[loveslongnails]

Sorry Exit. Adopt your excuses as you may. These folks bought property there because it was cheap and it was a nice vacation spot. They made their money at the place you claim failed them. Then they spent that money like Capitalists do, so shut up and don't complain.

[exitseven]

@loveslongnails As long as they do not tell me what to do I dont care but they just cannot help themselves.

[loveslongnails]

I love it. So you're complaining that a Corporation, which makes BILLIONS in profit every year, and employs how many people in your town, is pandering to special groups in their market area in order to make profit, right? But overall, you're more upset because it's browns and blacks who are there in abundance and not poor white folk, correct?

[exitseven]

@loveslongnails No I happened to work hard and get a degree in a marketable skill that makes me valuable to an employer so to keep me they pay most of my health insurance. I was not rich, I was not special and I was not gifted. I was just intelligent about my future and knew I could not depend on the government to bail me out.

[loveslongnails]

That's an irrelevant response. The point is you have no clue how unaffordable insurance is for the average American worker, and you stupidly think that if they can't afford it, they've failed. My point is you couldn't afford it EITHER if you had to pay the entire premium for your family, wise ass. Does that mean YOU failed too? The government isn't "bailing anyone out", that's what tax money is for.

However, you ignore the fact that insurance companies are ripping you off in the first place, and by "you" I mean "people as a whole". When you read "you", it only means you personally.

[exitseven]

@loveslongnails There was a period of time when I was unemployed and I had to pay for my own insurance through COBRA. I forget how much it was but it was a lot. I know how much this stuff costs/

[loveslongnails]

It was a lot, and now it's more, which is why you are dumb to shoot your mouth off about how "the average family SHOULD BE able to afford paying for it". No one can afford it because of the system we have here. Why can't you comprehend that, if you claim to know what it costs?

[exitseven]

@loveslongnails This is the problem with having a welfare state. The party in power creates an underclass that are dependent on their government and they promise free stuff for them. Look what is going on in New York City? The people who are paying the freight either flee the city or else they try and vote the communist party out. If they succeed they can take their city back. Then the people who depend on a monthly welfare check are screwed.

[loveslongnails]

You have to be the most gullible person in what, Vermont? Is that where you live? LOL No one is fleeing NYC. One millionaire says he's gonna leave and you wet your pants. YOU don't have a fucking CLUE what's happening in NYC because NOTHING is happening yet. It's Jan. 5th. You get your info Fox shitheads and OAN.

[exitseven]

@loveslongnails And yet you cannot find a UHaul truck rent, to

[loveslongnails]

wrf are you mumbling about now? LOL Unbelievable.

[exitseven]

@loveslongnails people are fleeing New York in droves. All the big inancial companies have already left or are currently building facilities in Texas. All thr people that work there will go too. Along with them goes millions in tax revenue.

[loveslongnails]

LMAO you're so gullible. Companies started moving their headquarters and leaving NYC over FIFTEEN years ago because of the cost of doing business. It's been going on since the end of Bloomberg's term and continued through DeBlasio and Adams, and will still go on. It's just expensive to do business there.

People like you have no IDEA yet what's going to happen in NYC. Oh, oh... wait... you think he didn't say stuff to get elected? You think he's "the guy" who's going to someone keep all his campaign promises? LMAO. Like I said, you're gullible AF. Let's see what happens in NYC. Isn't that what we said when the Mango Mussolini got elected the first time? We did, and he fucked up royally. So let's see.

Meanwhile, no other place on Earth except perhaps Tokyo, could absorb the loss of those companies and STILL be a world leader in the financial realm. And again, why do you even give a shit about NYC? It doesn't affect YOU directly, and that's all you EVER care about.

[exitseven]

@loveslongnails yes, it has been going on since Giuliano left office. However it has accelerated in the last few years. With new technology big companies do not need to be in New York anymore and neither do their employees. Ada result they are all leaving.

[loveslongnails]

"all leaving". All of them. Right. That's why it's still the financial capital of the world along with two or three other cities. It must be great to just "say shit" without realizing what's coming out of your mouth. LOL

[exitseven]

@loveslongnails It is still the financial capital of the world but not for long. ,
nypost.com/.../

[loveslongnails]

It's one of several. If you're going to quote the NY Post, don't bother. They're the equivalent of Fox or OAN on paper.

[loveslongnails]

You don't seem to understand exactly what occurs to make companies move headquarters. You don't seem to grasp what happens when cities have to offer tax breaks or incentives to large corporations for X amount of years, and when they run out, these same corporations move to the next city offering them a break. But you know what? THAT'S CAPITALISM !

You seem to think that Mamdani actually has the funding to do the campaign shit he talked about, JUST like you thought Trump would do all the shit he talked about "on day one" in 2025, and during his entire first term. It's just shit people say to get elected, and suckers believe it. The financial situation in NYC is far, far more complex, as evidenced by the movement that started over a decade ago.

[IHaveRespawned]

@exitseven

I wouldn't waste your time with these lefties. They never "lear" a thing.

[Miristheiss]

Sounds like they need more money.

That is what the taxes should go to. Maybe all of the billions defrauded in immigrant scams all over the country and illegal alien subsidies, putting them in hotels, food and healthcare would be best directed at core issues.

Taxes should go to law and order, security, police and fire, roads and upkeep.

Not paying millions of 3rd world immigrants.

America first.

None of this toxic empathy of setting ourselves on fire to keep the world warm.

[boundless]

The's kind of the idea behind barbarian conquest, to loot, rape, and burn shit to the ground... Why did you think Zohran Mamdani's logo looks like a darkened city at night with fire in the sky? He's advertising his plans...

[boundless]

[boundless]

*"That's"

[boundless]

Purple color revolution in the streets, and fire in the sky...

[boundless]

Zohran literally means light, as in he's going to light the city on fire. It's crazy how NYC voted for that...

[boundless]

www.thegatewaypundit.com/.../

[boundless]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ZHa9ROTTY

[boundless]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR-AUp5mRlM

[boundless]

www.foxnews.com/.../mamdani-taps-controversial-lawyer-who-defended-al-qaeda-terrorist-top-role-powerful-advocate

[lightbulb27]

Of course, read the article about ivy league school discrimination and mentality. blech!

how about required service for new immigrants to your state, including CA. sadly, the only requirement to come in is money, but that is the wrong sole determinant.

[Curmudgeon]

Of course it did - but that was deliberate.

First, it allowed those in charge to distract from their failures.

Second, how can you expect people with that ideology, who blatantly *hate* at least half (and typically a majority) of the American people, to serve those American people properly?

And these people claim to be "against hate" while doing nothing but fomenting it. It's really cleverly sinister of them.

[jshm2]

Yes. There are only something like 5 trans "athletes". Hardly a threat to any sport.

But the Murican crowd is baying like Isreal demanded all their firstborn serve in the IDF. The way the USA is crumbling, you would think most intelligent people have left the USA..

[Sabretooth]

it's those that are asleep who pay, in the end.