So they are removing all the parts of the name no one outside of Rhode Island knew were in the name?
Ok I think we can calm down here.
It's still going to be Rhode Island everyone. Put your pitchforks down.
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I'm not trying to piss off any RI pedes, most people are completely unaware that Rhode Island has a longer name (The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations). So the name change to "Rhode Island" is not exactly a seismic shift.
That doesn't mean it's good to let people cave to the mob
The governor is CAVING IN to the mob. It’s virtue signaling. This is the problem most of us have here. Wanna change the name? Fine. Go through the system and do it properly. Prepare your arguments and practice your debating. That’s how it’s done. Instead this feckless cunt of a governor is willingly caving in to the mob. And in case you haven’t noticed, THEY DONT STOP THERE. next this “minor” name change won’t be enough and they’ll demand more. Guaran-damn-tee it.
Debating is a white supremacist tactic to keep minorities under their thumb because you can't expect minorities to speak rationally or logically or debate effectively....
Btw there’s an argument for the confederate statues to stay: the characters all received a full presidential pardon after the war and some directly helped the reconciliation. Removing them is like being against that reconciliation between north and south and being against the presidential pardons that Abraham Lincoln gave. Removing them is cancelling all that unity built by Lincoln and the confederates after the war. Also it’s an insult to Lincoln and the next president after him to say that confederates are traitors since that ignores their pardons.
RI has been arguing for decades about the name. The governor is a cunt for sure, in so many ways I don't have the time or the care to write it all down. However, this isn't officially changing the name. To be official it has to go to a vote. Which it probably will, again. This time it will probably pass.
Is DDG still the promoted thing? I have their search engine as the default everywhere. I'm even using the browser, but... after they implemented it using Chromium I'm a bit unsure if their privacy claims are what they used to be.
As a citizen of Rhode Island and a descendant of its original settlers I am used to people from other states not knowing much about the smallest state in the union, its history and its importance in the founding of our county and the framing of the bill of rights. But the fact that people do not know our states full name does not change the fact of what it is historically called and does not mean we Rhode Islanders are not proud of our history. Other's ignorance over our name does not change it or its importance to us.
"They can easily dump the Providence Plantations bit."
I'll remember how much you like Cultural Marxism and the Politically Correct renaming of things when they come after something important to you in your state.
Destroying American History over a lie and to placate a mob is ALWAYS wrong.
As a MAGA Rhode Islander who cares about the history of my state and is descended from some of its earliest settlers, I implore you to reconsider caring about what Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations is officially called.
Every State's history is American History. I have stood up to defend the rights of other states to preserve their history when it mattered. Please do not write off the History that matters to Rhode Islanders just because it does not matter to you personally. They will come after the things that DO matter to you soon enough and we all need each other's help to MAGA.
I just thought the headline for this article is deceptively worded. Most people don't know Rhode Island's full name. It's basically never taught, and no one uses it.
Thanks! As a Rhode Islander I'm used to people not taking my little state seriously, It is sort of a joke to everyone else, esp. in big states like Texas or California... so no harm done :-)
It is a beautiful state with some of the country's best beaches IMHO. Hope you make it up here some day. Take care Pede!
The Marxist just vandalized Providence College's cemetery, painting swastikas on markers. Cicciline was already trying to say it was a right winger, but they caught the guy and it was a marxist who has been part of BLM rallies
No one outside of trivia buffs and the Historical Society in Rhode Island were even aware that it's name was "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."
Save your anger for playing Call Of Duty before bedtime little kid
Karl Marx literally wrote the entire communist manifesto instead of getting a job, having a decent family and providing for them. He'd rather complain and have everything handed to him than playing the same game as everyone else.
true.. Everyone must understand that they do not care about any of the issues that they scream about. All the issues are just dog whistles. This is why it is important to stand up to them in every instance. I know it can be hard because these communists mix lies with truths to divide good people.
The bill was introduced by Rhode Island’s sole black senator, Harold Metts.
“Whatever the meaning of the term ‘plantations’ in the context of Rhode Island’s history, it carries a horrific connotation when considering the tragic and racist history of our nation,” Metts said in a statement to the Providence Journal.
An elected official just told the world that reality doesn't matter, only how he feels about reality. How is anyone ever supposed to argue with that?
"You said <X> but meant <Y>."
"No, I said <X> and meant what I said."
"Doesn't matter, I think you meant <Y>, so I'm going to proceed as if you said <Y>."
There's no winning over people like that. There's no common ground with people who flat-out try to create their own realities.
Focus on the base, deport illegals. If blacks don't come around for that alone then we don't need to virtue signal or make even more special cut outs for them in society.
Lock up criminals left and right and if they don't learn keep going until they stop.
Plantation was the name for a land holding back then. Look at deeds in early PA etc. It did not mean the owner held slaves.
However: Rhode Island was involved in the slave trade more than the other colonies.
Although the Colonial American part of the slave trade was minor, it was dominated by Rhode Island, a small colony without sufficient productive agricultural lands to provide significant sources of trade goods more typical of the other colonies, such as Pennsylvania and its port Philadelphia. Newport was a prominent port in the colonial slave trade.
By 1774, the slave population of Rhode Island was 6.3%, nearly twice as high as any other New England colony.
They also grow people, like the Ulster Plantation.
Lots of white people who came from Great Britain came after spending time in the Ulster Plantation.
Wikipedia:
The Plantation of Ulster (Irish: Plandáil Uladh; Ulster-Scots: Plantin o Ulstèr)[1] was the organised colonisation (plantation) of Ulster – a province of Ireland – by people from Great Britain during the reign of King James VI & I. Most of the colonists came from southern Scotland and northern England, the majority having a different culture to the natives.
What are you talking about "be wise"? I know full well that NY was a slave state as well as a slave colony.
It's you that needs to be wise, because unlike you I also know that Rhode Island, in addition to being a slave colony (with 11% slave population in mid-1700's), was also a slave state - they didn't finish phasing out the very last slaves in Rhode Island until the 1840's.
Mexico is named after what the Aztecs called themselves....the same Aztecs who were so hated that the indigineous people joined alien adventurers to overthrow them. It's weird how things get so twisted throughout the years.
Anyway, we have entered the age of mob rule--it's not a bad thing, because any society that succumbs to that doesn't deserve to exist anyway. Maybe something better will be born out of all this after the Reign of Error
Let’s just keep waiting until all the “normies” learn their lesson. News flash, that’s not happening. This isn’t a “redpill” this is the erasing of history while we stand back and do nothing!
I keep seeing people say this retarded shit. Like, motherfucker, what the hell do you suggest we do?!?! You seem to have the answers so spill it. What do YOU suggest?! I'll wait.
They want us to go to the street while they sit here and shit post about it. We suppose to march to blue Rhode Island and hold the governor hostage to make sure they don’t remove plantation? That’ll show em!
The best thing to do right now is survive. And you do that by waiting until the Terror subsides. A Thermidorian Reaction will occur once the sickness is sated on its victims. The Restoration can come later and can't be achieved by corpses
Chip chip chip
Chipping away at our rights and constitution
While our elected leaders tweet and do nothing except continue to round up patriots whilst simultaneously releasing dangerous criminals in to the streets.
But change is brewing in the union’s smallest state, as Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo signed an executive order on Monday taking the ‘first steps’ to change the state’s full name: ‘The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.’
The ‘plantations’ portion has come under increased scrutiny following widespread protests after the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
The order, Executive Order 20-48, will change the name to just ‘Rhode Island’
So its going to be change to Rhode Island. I didn't even know it was called The State of Rhode Island and Provident Plantations.
Plantation (noun) - mid-15th centery, "action of planting," from Middle French plantation, from Latin plantationem (nominative plantatio) "a planting," noun of action from past participle stem of plantare "to plant" (see plant (n.)). Historically used for "colony, settlement in a new land" (1610s); meaning "large farm on which tobacco or cotton is grown" is first recorded 1706.
By this same logic, we should ban the use of the word "welfare".
I don’t disagree with it, actually. But they have to put it on the ballot - if people vote to do it, fine. But if they explicitly vote to reject it, you don’t get to go ahead and do it anyway.
Someone I know in Lee County FL (Fort Myers) told me there was a push to rename the COUNTY. Because General Lee.
The insanity is endless.
And of course, this is all a coordinated push, all from the same financing. Its the globalists who want to DESTROY America and the US Constitution as we know it.
Notice the deception. First he implicitly admits no racism was involved in the original use of the word 'plantation':
“Whatever the meaning of the term ‘plantations’ in the context of Rhode Island’s history, it carries a horrific connotation when considering the tragic and racist history of our nation,” Metts said in a statement to the Providence Journal.
But in his public statement he implies that racism was at the front and center of the original naming of the state:
“Some Rhode Islanders pride themselves on living in the ‘smallest state with the longest name.’ But, the history of how we got this name is often forgotten,” the petition reads.
Next Planters Warts packing needs name changed too. It reminds of the old road island plantation name back in 2020 when I was oppressed. Planters is a micro aggression Everytime I go to the drug store.
They need to rename their capitol as well, since it's named after the Providence Plantations.
Since they say they enjoy being the smallest state with the longest name, may I suggest Pocasset Emasculated Neighborhood of Idiotic Sycophants to the Liberal Erroneous Sentimentalization of Slavery, Completely Uninformed and Certainly Knowledgeless Shithole?
I don't give a fuck about this. It's an odd bit of history almost no one knew about.
Adds nothing. I agree we shouldn't destroy our history - but this isn't a monument or a statue. It's just a useless name appendage no one even knew was there. It doesn't even make sense anymore as there are no plantations.
Is New York going to change it's name? Duke of York started a company that went on to trade 90k to 100k slaves. Even branded them "DY" for Duke of York.
So they are removing all the parts of the name no one outside of Rhode Island knew were in the name?
Ok I think we can calm down here.
It's still going to be Rhode Island everyone. Put your pitchforks down.
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I'm not trying to piss off any RI pedes, most people are completely unaware that Rhode Island has a longer name (The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations). So the name change to "Rhode Island" is not exactly a seismic shift.
That doesn't mean it's good to let people cave to the mob
This is where you are wrong....
The governor is CAVING IN to the mob. It’s virtue signaling. This is the problem most of us have here. Wanna change the name? Fine. Go through the system and do it properly. Prepare your arguments and practice your debating. That’s how it’s done. Instead this feckless cunt of a governor is willingly caving in to the mob. And in case you haven’t noticed, THEY DONT STOP THERE. next this “minor” name change won’t be enough and they’ll demand more. Guaran-damn-tee it.
Its a joke. RI does not have any monuments to topple, so the States name is the only target they have. No one is being kept down by the states name.
manufactured issue, manufactured solution, manufactured victory, ignore real issues in the state.
It's not capitulation, they are part of the movement to do this crap.
These clowns created these leftist idiots.
Anyone who can't see this for what it is, needs a checkup from the neck up.
Debating is a white supremacist tactic to keep minorities under their thumb because you can't expect minorities to speak rationally or logically or debate effectively....
/s off.
I THINK I captured their argument.
THIS!
muh minorites dont have a good vocabulary BS. Havent heard something more racist in a while, Oh wait, i have.
point is. the Dems are the most racist MFers out there will their bigotry of low expectations. treating minorities like handicapped children.
"you cant expect blacks to have an ID, you cant expect them to speak proper english...."
most underhanded racist shit ever. ffs
Btw there’s an argument for the confederate statues to stay: the characters all received a full presidential pardon after the war and some directly helped the reconciliation. Removing them is like being against that reconciliation between north and south and being against the presidential pardons that Abraham Lincoln gave. Removing them is cancelling all that unity built by Lincoln and the confederates after the war. Also it’s an insult to Lincoln and the next president after him to say that confederates are traitors since that ignores their pardons.
RI has been arguing for decades about the name. The governor is a cunt for sure, in so many ways I don't have the time or the care to write it all down. However, this isn't officially changing the name. To be official it has to go to a vote. Which it probably will, again. This time it will probably pass.
Read the article. They are going to do it by the correct process.
In response to a bunch of degenerates looting and rioting. Yeah, that doesn’t send a bad message at all.
I didn't even know the full name was “The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.”
They can easily dump the Providence Plantations bit.
I did. Totally win team trivia with this one. "What are the longest 5 state names in order." Every. Time.
What are the other 4?
I know I can Google it but this seemed easier at the time
The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Virginia
I believe, but not 100% sure.
I could check this on Google, but I'm going to just assume this is the answer instead.
Thanks Pede!
Is DDG still the promoted thing? I have their search engine as the default everywhere. I'm even using the browser, but... after they implemented it using Chromium I'm a bit unsure if their privacy claims are what they used to be.
DDG*
As a citizen of Rhode Island and a descendant of its original settlers I am used to people from other states not knowing much about the smallest state in the union, its history and its importance in the founding of our county and the framing of the bill of rights. But the fact that people do not know our states full name does not change the fact of what it is historically called and does not mean we Rhode Islanders are not proud of our history. Other's ignorance over our name does not change it or its importance to us.
"They can easily dump the Providence Plantations bit."
I'll remember how much you like Cultural Marxism and the Politically Correct renaming of things when they come after something important to you in your state.
Destroying American History over a lie and to placate a mob is ALWAYS wrong.
Thank you, I was wrong, my apologies.
Thanks Pede! I really appreciate it... sorry if I was a bit harsh...
Though I hate our wicked liberal politics here in the Ocean State, I love my state and its deep patriotic history. It hurts to see what it has become.
there was never 1 slave on those plantations
fuck their feelings
Plantations here means the colony itself was planted there by the crown. It doesn't even refer to the land being farmed.
Retard half the states are named after slave owners, stop giving into bullshit.
As a MAGA Rhode Islander who cares about the history of my state and is descended from some of its earliest settlers, I implore you to reconsider caring about what Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations is officially called.
Every State's history is American History. I have stood up to defend the rights of other states to preserve their history when it mattered. Please do not write off the History that matters to Rhode Islanders just because it does not matter to you personally. They will come after the things that DO matter to you soon enough and we all need each other's help to MAGA.
Ok. That's fair. You are right.
I just thought the headline for this article is deceptively worded. Most people don't know Rhode Island's full name. It's basically never taught, and no one uses it.
I'm not trying to piss off anyone from RI
Thanks! As a Rhode Islander I'm used to people not taking my little state seriously, It is sort of a joke to everyone else, esp. in big states like Texas or California... so no harm done :-)
It is a beautiful state with some of the country's best beaches IMHO. Hope you make it up here some day. Take care Pede!
The Marxist just vandalized Providence College's cemetery, painting swastikas on markers. Cicciline was already trying to say it was a right winger, but they caught the guy and it was a marxist who has been part of BLM rallies
Appeasing a dumbass mob is never okay.
"It's okay everyone, we're just letting Hitler annex Austria without a vote. I'm sure it will stop there."
Wow yes shill faggot lets just change the name of an entire state because some retard died. Ban this fucking faggot.
The name of the state is unchanged Einstein.
No one outside of trivia buffs and the Historical Society in Rhode Island were even aware that it's name was "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."
Save your anger for playing Call Of Duty before bedtime little kid
Ban this faggot shill, I've lived in RI for 40 years this person is a disgrace to america
I was wrong. RI should fight back.
I just thought the article headline is deceptively worded
It must suck to go through life looking for reasons to be butthurt. Liberalism is a cancer on society.
10 months.
Karl Marx literally wrote the entire communist manifesto instead of getting a job, having a decent family and providing for them. He'd rather complain and have everything handed to him than playing the same game as everyone else.
true.. Everyone must understand that they do not care about any of the issues that they scream about. All the issues are just dog whistles. This is why it is important to stand up to them in every instance. I know it can be hard because these communists mix lies with truths to divide good people.
The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea! You don't like gulags? You must be some fascist who hates Democracy and the People.
Leftism. I'm not giving these fucking idiots the term Liberal.
An elected official just told the world that reality doesn't matter, only how he feels about reality. How is anyone ever supposed to argue with that?
"You said <X> but meant <Y>."
"No, I said <X> and meant what I said."
"Doesn't matter, I think you meant <Y>, so I'm going to proceed as if you said <Y>."
There's no winning over people like that. There's no common ground with people who flat-out try to create their own realities.
This was brought to the state legislature by the only black rep...The people will have the final say...
Black people need to stop this bullshit.
It's not helping their cause.
They are making themselves look stupid, angry, and are coming across as a liability to the nation.
I do have enormous empathy (but no sympathy -- big difference).
I hope they find out soon that they are being used...once again...by the people who "disadvantaged" them in the first place.
That could be awesome...when they abandon the dems en masse.
They won't abandon Dems and we don't need them.
Focus on the base, deport illegals. If blacks don't come around for that alone then we don't need to virtue signal or make even more special cut outs for them in society.
Lock up criminals left and right and if they don't learn keep going until they stop.
i think people have known this privately all along...that's the problem...the problem that must not be spoken outloud
Good
I GUESS ALL THOSE LEFTIST MARXIST RHODES SCHOLARS WILL BE RETURNING THEIR SCHOLARSHIPS (CERTIFICATIONS AND FINANCING) THEN .........
Plantation was the name for a land holding back then. Look at deeds in early PA etc. It did not mean the owner held slaves.
However: Rhode Island was involved in the slave trade more than the other colonies.
Although the Colonial American part of the slave trade was minor, it was dominated by Rhode Island, a small colony without sufficient productive agricultural lands to provide significant sources of trade goods more typical of the other colonies, such as Pennsylvania and its port Philadelphia. Newport was a prominent port in the colonial slave trade.
By 1774, the slave population of Rhode Island was 6.3%, nearly twice as high as any other New England colony.
They also grow people, like the Ulster Plantation.
Lots of white people who came from Great Britain came after spending time in the Ulster Plantation.
Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantation_of_Ulster
They are still doing it.
See the Somalis colonizing the US. And others.
They should use dictionaries before banning words. But banning words is a way they constantly harass and try to control us.
Yeah, but anti-fascist is in Antifa's name. That isn't persuasive.
It's not a part of New England, but interesting to note that in early to mid-1700's, nearby NYC had a 15-20% slave population.
be wise NY was initially a slave state. RI never was.
What are you talking about "be wise"? I know full well that NY was a slave state as well as a slave colony.
It's you that needs to be wise, because unlike you I also know that Rhode Island, in addition to being a slave colony (with 11% slave population in mid-1700's), was also a slave state - they didn't finish phasing out the very last slaves in Rhode Island until the 1840's.
be wise was an auto-correct that i didn’t notice. it should’ve said because.
Grandpa how old are you? Well little MAGApede I've been around before "Little Bitchistan" changed their name from Rhode Island.
Mexico needs to be renamed.
Obviously that name is offensive to Mexicans
Mexico is named after what the Aztecs called themselves....the same Aztecs who were so hated that the indigineous people joined alien adventurers to overthrow them. It's weird how things get so twisted throughout the years.
Anyway, we have entered the age of mob rule--it's not a bad thing, because any society that succumbs to that doesn't deserve to exist anyway. Maybe something better will be born out of all this after the Reign of Error
Let’s just keep waiting until all the “normies” learn their lesson. News flash, that’s not happening. This isn’t a “redpill” this is the erasing of history while we stand back and do nothing!
I keep seeing people say this retarded shit. Like, motherfucker, what the hell do you suggest we do?!?! You seem to have the answers so spill it. What do YOU suggest?! I'll wait.
They want us to go to the street while they sit here and shit post about it. We suppose to march to blue Rhode Island and hold the governor hostage to make sure they don’t remove plantation? That’ll show em!
Exactly!!!
When I say “we” I mean conservatives. You know the ones we surprisingly voted into power?
The best thing to do right now is survive. And you do that by waiting until the Terror subsides. A Thermidorian Reaction will occur once the sickness is sated on its victims. The Restoration can come later and can't be achieved by corpses
78% voted No on changing the name in 2010. Hopefully most of them haven't cucked out by now but they probably have
Today i learned Rhode Island had some extra bullshit in its name like a latina chick.
KEK
Chip chip chip Chipping away at our rights and constitution While our elected leaders tweet and do nothing except continue to round up patriots whilst simultaneously releasing dangerous criminals in to the streets.
You called?
I mean in all honesty I thought its whole name was just Rhode Island already.
But change is brewing in the union’s smallest state, as Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo signed an executive order on Monday taking the ‘first steps’ to change the state’s full name: ‘The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.’
The ‘plantations’ portion has come under increased scrutiny following widespread protests after the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
The order, Executive Order 20-48, will change the name to just ‘Rhode Island’
So its going to be change to Rhode Island. I didn't even know it was called The State of Rhode Island and Provident Plantations.
I don't see a problem with that.
It’s just ridiculous scalp taking bullshit. If they can report changing the name of a state then they will try to make us do other bullshit.
Hah "and Breonna Taylor." They're trotting him out again to try and keep the bullshit flowing.
You know, it never occured to me until now:
What is to keep a state from being renamed like a stadium?
Google presents California
Tostitos Rhode Island
Gillette Massachusetts
I know I'm not the first to think of it.
Maybe that's coming once states go bankrupt. Want your pension check, watch these sponsored ads before you can access it!
Plantation (noun) - mid-15th centery, "action of planting," from Middle French plantation, from Latin plantationem (nominative plantatio) "a planting," noun of action from past participle stem of plantare "to plant" (see plant (n.)). Historically used for "colony, settlement in a new land" (1610s); meaning "large farm on which tobacco or cotton is grown" is first recorded 1706.
By this same logic, we should ban the use of the word "welfare".
It is not an island. Just call it Rhode.
Well the last time we changed states names was during the civil war so...
Is there a state named Rode island ? Like Woke Island ? WTF ?
I don’t disagree with it, actually. But they have to put it on the ballot - if people vote to do it, fine. But if they explicitly vote to reject it, you don’t get to go ahead and do it anyway.
Someone I know in Lee County FL (Fort Myers) told me there was a push to rename the COUNTY. Because General Lee.
The insanity is endless.
And of course, this is all a coordinated push, all from the same financing. Its the globalists who want to DESTROY America and the US Constitution as we know it.
What the Fuck?
I always think of Cecil Rhodes and that communist scholarship they give out to brainwashed elites. The name Rhode needs to be burned and forgotten.
I had no idea that was the formal name.
it’s an EO. I’m guessing the gov is a dem, so it will be law based on the recent DACA ruling
given the size of RI, It shouldn’t be surprised it capitulated to the mob
Notice the deception. First he implicitly admits no racism was involved in the original use of the word 'plantation':
But in his public statement he implies that racism was at the front and center of the original naming of the state:
Having once run a print shop that did booklets, letterheads, business cards and envelopes, I approve this motion.,
Should change Michigan, Illinois, and many other state names if you want to be consistent.
As a fellow Pede From Indianapolis Indiana. I think this is a slippery slope.
Next Planters Warts packing needs name changed too. It reminds of the old road island plantation name back in 2020 when I was oppressed. Planters is a micro aggression Everytime I go to the drug store.
Change it to "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Farms"
Or "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Whiners"
They need to rename their capitol as well, since it's named after the Providence Plantations.
Since they say they enjoy being the smallest state with the longest name, may I suggest Pocasset Emasculated Neighborhood of Idiotic Sycophants to the Liberal Erroneous Sentimentalization of Slavery, Completely Uninformed and Certainly Knowledgeless Shithole?
I don't give a fuck about this. It's an odd bit of history almost no one knew about.
Adds nothing. I agree we shouldn't destroy our history - but this isn't a monument or a statue. It's just a useless name appendage no one even knew was there. It doesn't even make sense anymore as there are no plantations.
Let it go.
Is New York going to change it's name? Duke of York started a company that went on to trade 90k to 100k slaves. Even branded them "DY" for Duke of York.
You know.... you can have a plantation without slaves.
Dole Food Company entered the discussion
We have spotted the racist!
/s
Cuck Island
This should solve all the racial issues now!
We voted 4 years ago to keep the name!!!!!! THis is bullshit Va-Gina!
I hear Cuck Island is available as an alternate name.
Are all plantations worked by slaves? Or is it basically just a kind of a farm?
These female dems are a plague.
They literally want to call Rhode Island a "plantation" now? LOLOLOL omfg