Tennessee GOP Expels 2 BLACK Democratic Lawmakers

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  1. Joe knows

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    If…. If something like that happened, they should.
     
  2. DEFinning

    DEFinning Well-Known Member Donor

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    Umm-- because that was the title of my linked article...Do you not follow that practice, for your own titles? Or do you just never cite a source, for one of your own OPs?
     
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    But the majority is always right. Ain't it?...lol
     
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    It is possible, at least, that they are not done with the show: the legislature, with such a disproportionately large Republican contingent, could refuse to seat these members, even after their being re-appointed/elected.
     
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  5. DEFinning

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    Says someone from the Party, known for its RACIAL GERRYMANDERING!
    :roflol::roflol:



    BTW, when did these posters switch sides?

    yabberefugee said:
    You are a good Progressive. You pull the race card out of the hat first thing! Got an idea how many blacks voted for their dismissal?


     
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  6. DEFinning

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    Did you explain this earlier? I missed seeing it. Would you either explain this interesting wrinkle, or give me the link to your post, if you already have? Thanks.

    But that would be one more reason for them not to seat these two, even if they are re-elected (and even if that would be unconstitutional-- if one is Republican and have 3/4 of a legislative body, one obviously stops caring about things like that, and let's the inner dictator run wild).
     
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    Have any of the posters boohooing about those two miscreants being given the boot, watched the videos? the two that were removed were clearly violating the rules-using a bullhorn to drown out other members as these two clowns tried to demand more restrictions on constitutional rights. Screw em. They got removed for violating the rules of the body. Race had nothing to do with it. The white woman wasn't nearly as disruptive.
     
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    Dems don’t actually believe it’s racism. They just know calling everyone racist divides the country. So yea lol. They deserved the expelling.
     
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    Authoritarianism is a leftist thing as of lately. These 2 deserved their expelling.
     
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    Yes because interrupting an official during a speech is so heinous that you should bypass a simple censure and go straight to expulsion
     
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    Actually, there might be some reason to think that the ages of the Reps, might have been an influencing factor: the white Johnson is 61 years old, but the other two are under 30 (Jones, only 27, and Pearson 28, I think). I heard Jones, I believe, saying that some of the Rs in the House, found him too outspoken, for his age. There seems to have been an attitude among the older majority, that they were entitled to treat these upstart, Democratic youngins, like children, despite that they had been elected for the same job as themselves.
     
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    sort of like holding all those 1/6 demonstrators in jail for months. Now you have explained why you spend so much time complaining about our gun laws based on your hatred of the NRA-what exactly is the Australian interest in something that has absolutely no relevance thousands of miles away
     
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    what the wokeflakes who have been defending these clowns in various TV reports etc fail to note-those two thugs were trying to roll back our constitutional rights.
     
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    It sucks when you don’t have the majority, doesn’t it? And it probably sucks more when a foreigner will never be in it.
     
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    Right so it could be a reverse ageism rather than racism? ;)

    Bottom line is that the “punishment” was inappropriate to the action, because they are disenfranchising the districts these congresspeople came from

    Now if this sets a precedent then imagine what the Dems could do with some of the more, controversial representatives
     
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    I love how the second amendment apparently always takes precedent over the first. Seemingly in America you are not allowed to voice any opposition to any form of gun control
     
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    Don’t ever forget

    This is playing out on an international stage and it does NOT look good
     
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    what exactly do you have in terms of the rules or facts that support what appears to be merely an uninformed opinion that the punishment was inappropriate? is there something in the rules of the Tennessee legislature that backs your opinion?
     
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    that isn't the issue-those two twits violated the rules of the legislative body and attempted to override the voices of other members impermissibly. It is the speech rights of other members that those two jerks were trying to limit
     
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    to who-foreigners who matter not? other leftwing statists?
     
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    Who cares? The world is going to end in 12 years and this is what’s important to you?
     
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    How is this at all related, or relevant? Oh, wait, is this the old double-reverse play? (earlier reference).

    You realize that most J6 defendants were not held without bail, right? Only the ones who were seen as either flight risks, or dangers to the community; the way it always works, with all defendants.

     
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    I know a bit about criminal law and charges. I know the treatment of equally or more violent protestors in the BLM anarchy.
     
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    After all the times I have stressed this bottom line, without yet seeing a conservative poster who hasn't gotten utterly mired down in the racial issue-- thank goodness for a sensible progressive reader, every now and then, to allow me to see someone acknowledging the elephant in the thread.
     
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    Please enlighten us, with the specifics, if this post of yours was not just blown out of your rear end.
     
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