Bought my first brand new car a month ago after pinching pennies for a year and yesterday managed to do $1,000 of damage to it while still in my OWN DRIVEWAY in case y’all are wondering how things are going
Blessedly 4 of my 6 uncles are mechanics.
My dad was on the horn with them y’day sourcing parts at cost and my brothers roommate is going to fix it in my garage but y’all it’s still ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS because I literally hit the edge of a cinder block planter at just the right angle and it broke my entire wheel.
WHO GAVE ME A DRIVERS LICENSE HONESTLY
It is however very nice to have my own small army of people I can call and be like “I broke my car???” who will fix it for me.
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lmao no i am not apologizing to an asshole on the internet who got famous because he let a squirrel run a go pro up a tree and things Donald Trump is right about voter fraud
And what might I apologize for? Having him say something rude to me and then jokingly responding to one of *my* followers sarcastically asking me to debate him? Debate him on what? Debates necessitate two people who know a lot about the same topic. he is a lawyer in canada.
His followers have been being like "ARE YOU SCARED TO DEBATE HIM?!" for now two days and *who* has that much time on their hands.
I once worked for a 4-star general who made the students at his youth debate camp go to his "leadership museum" that was literally a museum about himself where he displayed a stuff Toby Keith had given him. And also a TV that played the planes crashing into the towers on loop.
He also loved to show a framed version of his high school transcript that showed Cs and Ds to let the students know that college was unnecessary for success, which is probably true but is not necessarily a great message for children attending a camp hosted by a university.
It was across the street from a county museum that had a rock in a case simply labeled "rock" with no context and it was there all five years I worked for this camp. No one knew where it came from or why it was displayed, and it was my favorite thing I've ever seen in a museum.
Let us all recall that Toby wrote that song himself and then 6 years after it was broadcast he also produced a vanity movie of the same name that received this score on Rotten Tomatoes I shit you not. rottentomatoes.com/m/beer_for_my_…
The premise of the movie is that a white woman is taken by a Mexican drug cartel and then a sheriff played by Toby Keith himself ignores his boss's orders to cross the border and save her.
Calling out racism is virtue signaling in the sense that I think it is in fact a moral imperative for white people to loudly denounce racism, even if found in country music but especially if it's found in country music quoted by men in power in Congress.
There are probably not that many white people who know country music as granularly as I do on this website that have large followings. And so, I am useful here. I don't think that's a bad thing.
And I'm sorry a song with this lyric, even if accompanied by pot smoking Willie Nelson, isn't exactly thinly veiled:
it's frankly stunning (not suprising) how much of very popular country music is inherently racist.
It's also disappointing: There are some fkn GREAT country artists, new and old, that are extremely ahead of their time, whose work doesn't get nearly as much play.
This is a lyric from a Toby Keith song from *2003* - not old - who is from Oklahoma, not Texas. But neither here nor there, please instead listen to Tyler Childers, Dolly Parton, the Highwomen or Brandi Carlisle.
And also: Black country artists. Charlie Pride, most notably. Darius Rucker, notably of Hootie and the Blowfish before going solo country. My personal favorite, Yola - who is also British but has, frankly, the best voice in Americana/Country currently on the radio.
I am working from home with my mother today and just heard her yell "Amen, damn it!" on a staff meeting and I am now determined to say this at least four times a day.