‘Dumb Liberals’: Kid Rock Slams Lefties Moving To Red States And Bringing Their ‘Effing Politics’ With Them

Kid Rock slammed “dumb liberals” who he said have moved to red states and brought their “effing politics” with them as he mounts an effort to prevent the former home of late-legendary country music star Hank Williams from being destroyed.

During the 51-year-old singer’s appearance on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Tuesday, he discussed his effort to save the former Nashville home of country music legend Hank Williams from being demolished, Fox News reported.

The home, known as Beechwood Hall, was built in the 1850s and is one of the few to survive the Civil War. The property was also once home to country music stars Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.

In 2021, a fund manager from California reportedly bought the property. Photos have shown the home in disrepair with neighbors reportedly claiming it is slowly being dismantled and not being properly maintained.

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“We are sick of seeing history torn to the ground,” the singer, born Robert Ritchie, said. “Whether it be in the form of monuments, statues, and now something so important here in Nashville, like the former home of Hank Williams, Beechwood Hall…Where does this end?”

“We kind of knew that from the beginning, once this fiasco started that it was never going to end,” he added. “And now we kind of feel like we’re under an invasion from the state of California, which we understand in a lot of ways. I have a lot of friends here that come from these spots — California and New York City.”

“A lot of people say it, and they say it under their breath, but they’re scared to say it out loud,” Ritchie continued. “So, once again, I’ll be the guy: They come here leaving these woke policies from those cities for better schools, lower taxes, lower crime. You have talked about it a million times. We kind of tell them to leave your effing politics at the state line from where you’re coming. And this is just one more example.”

He claimed the fund manager who purchased the property gave a handshake to the people in the community to preserve the home and said now it “seems like another avenue to tear it down.”

“And I don’t think there is anything more important in country music, if not American music, than Hank Williams — the greatest songwriter of all time,” the singer said.

He went on to predict that other high-profile people would join his drive, adding that there are “a lot more country music stars, musicians, just great people in the community that want to preserve this for the next generation to come.”

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Combinations Of Fentanyl And Other Drugs Add New Dimension To Devastating Overdose Epidemic

While methamphetamine has been a problem in the United States for a long time, there is a rising concern about fentanyl use and fatal overdoses. However, the two drugs combined are adding another layer to the crisis.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “[o]ver 150 people die every day from overdoses related to synthetic opioids like fentanyl.” Now, there is an increasing number of overdoses that are being caused by a combination of multiple drugs.

Last year, 20% of the total fatal overdoses included an opioid like fentanyl and a psychostimulant, such as meth, according to preliminary federal information, per The Wall Street Journal. Ten years before that, those combinations only made up around 2% of fatal overdoses.

While using any of these drugs on their own poses serious health risks and even death, meth can lead to deadly heart damage, hallucinations, and erratic actions.

Last year, around two-thirds of people who died while using psychostimulants also had opioids in their systems, but that isn’t always intentional. Sometimes the drug they intended to consume is laced with something else, or there’s cross-contamination where the drugs are produced.

There is also an increase in overdose deaths across the board. Federal data revealed that last year, around 33,400 deaths involved psychostimulants, which was an increase of more than 340% from five years before. In the same amount of time, fatalities involving synthetic opioids increased 270% and total drug fatalities also rose 71%.

As psychostimulant deaths have become more common, so have deaths that also involved opioids. Last year, around 75% of meth-related fatalities in the state of North Carolina also involved fentanyl.

Meth and fentanyl usage has both surged across the country and are spreading into new regions. For example, drug traffickers are pushing meth into the northeast and fentanyl availability is increasing in western states where meth once dominated.

There is also more fentanyl and meth being smuggled across the border. For example, a Mexican national was recently sentenced to prison for his involvement in an attempted smuggling of meth and fentanyl. The seizure was the country’s biggest for each drug for the calendar years 2021 and 2022 as of last month. The trafficking attempt included more than 17,000 pounds of meth and about 389 pounds of fentanyl.

This month, border officers found 26 pounds of meth and 10 pounds of fentanyl in El Paso in the same smuggling effort. Port Director Ray Provencio said that it’s not normal to find huge quantities of two different hard drugs, but dual smuggling is becoming more common.

As of October, Border Patrol agents from the San Francisco sector had seized more than 1,000 pounds of fentanyl since the start of this fiscal year, which is a 200% increase from the last year. While fentanyl seizures are more of a recent trend, the inflow of meth has been a problem for much longer.