Tennessee

Tennessee is spiking really badly right now. An anti-mask governor and legislature have given the state 59,546 COVID cases-- including 1,955 new cases on Friday, 1,460 new cases on Saturday-- and a rapidly rising 8,933 cases per million Tennesseans.

Those who don’t believe that mandatory vaccines couldn’t happen in America should really pay attention now.

People seem surprised when they find out that Nashville is a Democratic city and that Tennessee's 5th congressional district is safely blue. Obama won the district both times he ran. In 2016 Trump took just 38.2% of the vote- and in Davidson County (Nashville), he only got 34.3%). In 2018, Davidson County backed Democrats in both the gubernatorial race and the U.S.

Clueless Tennessee Trumpist, Governor Bill Lee, was eager for his state to lead the way... to mass graves. So just as his lax policies on social distancing started a steepening of the curve, he decided to... open up for business! Tennessee had 11,891 confirmed cases on Friday, up 1,156 new cases since Thursday. On Thursday there were 1,614 cases per million. One day later that had changed to 1,788.

As Señor Trumpanzee spent Monday morning frustrated at being shut out of his own pandemic briefings and rage-tweeting instead, people were reading accounts of more Trumpists demanding their rights to

Yesterday afternoon, three gubernatorial fools-- gubers for short-- announced that they're prematurely opening their states up for the pandemic-- although none of their states were very closed down to begin with. The 3 imbeciles are Brian Kemp (R-GA), Bill Lee (R-TN) and Henry McMaster (R-SC). Let's start by looking at some numbers-- total cases and cases per million.

On Sunday, citizens across multiple cities in the state of Tennessee protested the ‘Safer at Home’ orders – Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Jackson and Memphis all held rallies putting pressure on Governor Bill Lee to end the statewide lockdown.

Mark Green (R-TN)Yesterday, little known far right freshman Republican backbencher, Mark Green, was on NPR's Here & Now for some reason, talking about Trump and Syria.



Given the bad weather in Florida I fled to Tennessee and Jamie and I decided to do a bit of V-logging, looking at the sights and symbols of Nashville. If you heard my interview with Conspirinormal a few months back, you know Nashville has quite a few oddities many are unaware of, some of which were new to me. We consider the Parthenon, Athena, the Bi-Centennial Mall, the high IQ of Taylor Swift and much more in this first of many road trip analyses.

Elaine Chao, Trump's Secretary of Transportation-- and Mitch McConnell's beard-- was born in Taiwan and Trump's Secretary of Veteran's Affairs, Robert Wilkie, was born in Germany. Texas Senator Ted Cruz was born in Canada. Currently 28 members of Congress were born in other countries, including close Trump crony, Mark Meadows, who was born in France.