The mood on the ground in Tennessee today:

[demmiblue]

The mood on the ground in Tennessee today.

— Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) 2026-05-07T18:02:04.613Z

[SheltieLover]

1. TN is always an international disgrace.

[BeneteauBum]

2. We the good troublemakers are now deemed terrorists

Peace ☮️

[orangecrush]

6. Going to be a LONG HOT SUMMER

[Solly Mack]

3. Time to crush the confederacy once and for all.

[Scalded Nun]

4. Tennessee...Forever shamed

Al Gore, From Tennessee, Tennessee Senator, Presidential candidate in 2000.

Had Tennessee supported him to win, the state Florida would have never mattered, Gore wold have been president, and my personal feeling is that we would not have had to endure most of the shit we have had to deal with for the last 25 years.

I am sooooooooooooo glad I can let go of things!!!

[DemocracyForever]

7. All Florida 2000 votes NOT counted

thanks to the Rehnquist %'s shredding of the U.S. constitution and Florida election law. 160,000 legally cast votes located in the largest and most heavily democratic voting counties in Florida sit uncounted in the Florida archives as I type this post. There's no electoral college issue if all of the Florida votes are counted because Al Gore did get the most votes in Florida. This is what created Trump. This ugly truth must never be forgotten.
Let's also not forget that Florida was one of the crucial battleground states that Nader ran his GOP funded tv ad campaign in spreading his big lie that there were no differences between Al Gore and the now SCOTUS appointed Bush which siphoned off enough crucial Gore votes which made it possible for Bush to get close enough in Florida to have his little brother Jeb, campaign co-chair Harris and the GOP controlled Rehnquist 5 stop the legal Florida vote count and steal the 2000 election. This is another ugly truth that must never be forgotten.

[Scalded Nun]

8. They stopped the count...I get that. That was not my point.

My point was that if Tennessee had backed Gore for the presidency like they backed him for the Senate, Florida would have not even mattered.

[DemocracyForever]

9. Stopping the Florida vote count is the point

It was unconstitutional and it disenfranchised the entire country. Had all of the uncounted Florida votes been counted, Al Gore got the most votes. This makes Tennessee irrelevant. The 5 unelected GOP SCOTUS judges who violated the constitution in order to thwart the will of the people and install their candidate is why our country suffers so terribly today. The founders of our country never intended for 5 unelected SCOTUS judges to decide who occupies the White House.

[orangecrush]

5. I'm old enough to cry

Seeing this happen again in this country.

I hope we learn from history and never let this take root again.