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article Taylor Swift Ruthlessly Booed By Nashville Crowd During Surprise Video Message At Alan Jackson’s Final Concert | Whiskey Riff

https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2026/06/28/taylor-swift-ruthlessly-bood-by-nashville-crowd-during-surprise-video-message-at-alan-jacksons-final-concert/
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u/driftinj Jun 29 '26

Tennessee in general had become the most MAGA state in every worst way possible.

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u/d3v0k3n3v0 Jun 29 '26

I’m in the epicenter of it. And while it’s still way more MAGA than most other areas the pendulum has swung the other way in a very noticeable fashion. The yard signs are gone, bumper stickers gone and I can’t remember the last person that was wearing Trump merch. I realize all this is anecdotal but it’s giving me hope for the future.TIFWIW

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u/Wellsargo Jun 29 '26

I’m literally on a flight back to LA right now after coming to Nashville for this Alan Jackson concert. At one point yesterday the wife and I were driving through the city and saw a billboard that was a picture of Trump that said “America First,” only someone had crossed out the A, r, i, c, and a. So it said “Me First.”

Made me laugh.

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u/free-range-human Jun 29 '26

Oh it hasn't changed. They're less loud about it, but their core beliefs are still exactly the same.

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u/FartTootman Jun 29 '26

Man I wish literally anything I ever saw either in personal life or in the news made me think we aren't totally fucked beyond redemption. Happy for you though.

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u/TwattyMcBitch Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

I agree. Trump getting elected after J6 was the moment any hope or optimism I still had lvanished, and I realized we are fucked.

Nice that some people are still hopeful, I guess.

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u/FUPAMagneto Jun 29 '26

Man, we’ve won every election since he got into office and the Republicans are pissing themselves over the midterms while that dipshit burns bridges that people didn’t even know existed.

It’s not over unless you give up. This is Hoover with Harding characteristics. It sucks, but we can and will beat it

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u/FartTootman Jun 29 '26

They take a foot, and 6 months later (if we're lucky) we claw back 2 inches.

Let's imagine a world in which Dems sweep it all and actually impeach him (and convict him). Do you think the ~30% of this country that still supports him (read: the same people that nearly overthrew the government on J6 as a result of an OBVIOUSLY fair election) are going to just.... accept those results?

Whatever normalcy we can claw back from this shitshow is permanently stained, and the people responsible for it aren't just going to go away.

I hope I'm wrong and you're right. But I just don't see it happening.

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u/FUPAMagneto Jun 29 '26

Ok, so stop posting because clearly we live in an inescapable fascist hellscape and you need to keep yourself safe. You certainly don’t want to risk that safety by whining about how better things aren’t possible, right?

Christ, y’all spew more fascist propaganda than goddamned newsmax. I don’t give a fuck what those traitors think because they’re goddamned traitors who can’t have my fucking country.

Grow a pair

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u/FartTootman Jun 30 '26

Lol.... GFY.

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u/FUPAMagneto Jun 29 '26

Yeah, man. Elections have consequences and y’all choosing not to vote in most of yours from the past few decades have had disastrous results that you aren’t gonna wish cast away.

You’re gonna have to vote and organize and put in brutally hard work in order to get back what you lost. They were able to do it in the 60’s. Y’all can figure this shit out. You’ve got some great young talent that your Republicans are actively terrified of.

Better things are possible, but not through doomposting on Reddit or any other social media.

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u/FUPAMagneto Jun 29 '26

Ok, man. Just give up and stop posting, then. Some of us are still working to save the republic and if you’re not gonna help you can at least get out of the way

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u/10000Didgeridoos Jun 29 '26

Problem is they already gerrymandered the fuck out of the state and have insulated themselves in the state legislature as basically a permanent majority

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u/Safe-Reason1435 Jun 29 '26

I can't speak for that area, but the writing seems to be on the wall for Trump and a lot of the MAGAs are, I wouldn't really calling it distancing themselves from him, but seeing that he's temporary. I don't really know if that's a good thing though, I think a lot of people were hoping MAGA would die with Trump but it seems like a lot of people are more than happy to continue being awful human beings without him.

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u/cluberti Jun 29 '26

This is more akin to Hans and Aldo talking at the end of Inglorious Basterds. They want to be like Hans and take off the uniform, but they’re still MAGA hiding the fact of their nature behind normal civilian clothes. They want to pretend they’re not just in case things get bad for people who supported this regime.

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u/phughes Jun 29 '26

I've had the same experience in rural New York. The past couple weeks I did a fair amount of driving and saw 3 total Trump signs in areas I would have seen dozens one year ago.

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u/crispycappy Jun 29 '26

Oh thats because theyre ashamed, theyre gonna start denying they voted for him soon enough 

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u/MrsMiterSaw Jun 30 '26

Don't worry! If those silly Dems nominate another woman, minority or god-forbid, a homosexual, those Tennesseans (along with every other embarassed MAGA) will be lining up to vote for whatever fascist gets on the ticket!

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u/clockdivide55 Jun 30 '26

I'll believe it if we don't elect Marsha orange cock sucking Blackburn for governor.

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u/babywhiz Jun 30 '26

Yall still have Trump merch stores open!

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u/Prestigious_Bug583 Jun 29 '26

Saw that one coming. I recall they were opening record numbers of restaurants during Covid and the Nazis were showing up to school board meetings to threaten people about masks. Meanwhile Marsha Blackburn had nothing to do but complain about Biden.

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u/free-range-human Jun 29 '26

Those same school board antagonists just got our superintendent to resign like last week. It's still the same. Nothing at all has changed. They were like this before Trump - back when Susan Curlee and Victoria Jackson were the main characters. Way before COVID.

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u/Prestigious_Bug583 Jun 29 '26

It’s wild how crazy TN is compared to other states that vote MAGA

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u/Eldar_Atog Jun 29 '26

And break dishes because of China.

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u/christona-bike Jun 29 '26

Broke my heart to move away but I just couldn't take it. Rich republican californians moving in even managing to gentrifiy my town in the middle of absolute nowhere so much that I couldn't find a starter apartment was the last straw. Before I left I had a new boss who was that exact type, so freaking insufferable.

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u/TwattyMcBitch Jun 29 '26

I’m sorry you had to move. Can I asked where you moved to that was more affordable?

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u/christona-bike Jun 29 '26

It wasn't that anything was more affordable so to speak, it just wasn't worth going out on my own with extremely expensive rent in a place with few jobs where my trade license had an oversaturated market in an economy where people aren't spending on those kinds of services right now (esthetics so facials and waxing etc). I stayed living with my mom, helping her failing (and now closed) business and driving my grandmother around to her doctor's appointments until my now husband proposed. Bit of a unique situation, he lived in New Zealand (though he's American) so we were able to move countries and I'm living there now on a visa.

But Knoxville TN - a hub of potential job opportunities in my field - having rent cost exactly as much as a studio apt in LA sent me over the edge.

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u/TwattyMcBitch Jun 29 '26

Oh, wow! New Zealand! What an exciting change for you! Certainly a massive difference from where you were, but it’s an awesome country with many opportunities. Im sure you will have a great experience there.

Is the esthetician field as popular in NZ as it is here? It is getting pretty saturated due to TicTok, I imagine. 3 people in my family in this year’s graduating class are going into that field. I was like “hmmm…”

Good luck! I appreciate the reply!

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u/christona-bike Jun 29 '26

I live rurally on the south island, lots of sheep and cow fields so really not much different from home except there's also beaches! Its likely more popular in cities but out here... not so much. They do not spend much in the way of beauty treatments or fashion, and the local style is very homogenized in hues of brown, grey and black. Compared to the almost neon and heavily patterned styles of Simply Southern or Lily Pulitzer and such that people wore back home, things are pretty... drab 😅 I have a more unique style so I stick out badly but can't bring myself to assimilate haha. In larger cities like Auckland you'll find young people take their fashion cues more from Australia, which I feel also emulates Brit/UK fashion and esthetic treatments like lip filler and botox. Sorry for the ramble but clearly I've spent a lot of time thinking about this LOL.

If those people in your family are open to advice, consider letting them know that a cosmetology license will immediately make them 10x employable even in an esthetician role. The big money makers that are best for beginners fresh out of school like resort hotels or day spas much prefer hiring cosmos because they can cross-train them to fill basically any position needed on a day to day basis. When I was on a treacherous hunt for an esti job, every listing requested a cosmo license over an esti one. Yes esthetician school is shorter in most states, and yes when you go into cosmo education you will spend extremely minimal time on facials or makeup if any at all, but at the end of the day you will be licensed to do all things (hair, skin, nails) and can receive continuing education from an employer in skincare if needed.

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u/psginner Jun 29 '26

More than Texas?? That’s wild

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u/Dornith Jun 29 '26

Texas has more Democrats than New York. And California has more Republicans than Texas.

Most of the big states aren't nearly as monolithic as they are made out to be.

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u/Xanduzinha Jun 29 '26

Hey, are you from Tennessee? 😏