For the love of money is the root of all evil. This is a phrase that's commonly known to most Americans, yet so many of us have lost our way. For some of us, we've decided that money supplants goodness, that money supplants community, and that power power associated with having money is so worthy and so valuable that it supersedes all of our other desires.

Something’s rotten in Tennessee.

Is it the ultra-conservative deeply-entrenched highly-gerrymandered state legislators? Well, yeah, actually. As it turns out, just after a Nashville shooting (yes, another mass shooting), three legislators protested along with many constituents. Then, the Republican supermajority has kicked two of them out of Congress, which means they’ll have to re-run for their seats.

So what’s going on? Well, the shooting happened in Nashville, which has always been a democratic island in the state. The supermajority have been targeting Nashville’s liberal leadership by redistricting, and Nashville has been sending people to the legislature for quite a long time who have been…inconvenient…for a culture of guns, guns, guns. What happens next? Probably the representatives will be reinstated (at this time, one of them has been), but they’re still up for special election. And they’ve been removed from committee.

If this looks like a power play, it is. The protest may have been loud (there were megaphones), but it was peaceful, and yet Republicans are comparing it to the January 6th Insurrection.

Equivocation.

Again.

Is anyone surprised this is from the Republicans?

Up 22 points in the polls against DeSantis, Trump is still a problem. he might be going to prison, but is that going to stop him? Is there anything in the law that might impact that?

But it doesn’t matter. Trump is sending his acolytes to New York to, I’m sure, “peacefully protest.” And, by the way, he didn’t have sex with Stormy Daniels anyway, even though he already said he did. But you know what? Some folks are ready to believe anything that will vindicate their fearless leader, however much of a lie it is. If he actully is going to be arrested on Tuesday, we at Right and Freedom are all for it. Listen to our previous episodes, and you’ll see that we former Marines tend to have a problem with people who have no respect for our Constitution.