Posted on Apr 26, 2023
Some state lawmakers say Tennessee expulsions highlight growing tensions
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A day after the Republican-dominated Tennessee House voted to expel two Black legislators for interrupting a floor session, Democrats next door in Georgia gathered on Zoom.
"This is not a time for us to shrink back," state Rep. Kim Schofield said. "This is a day of awakening. If you don't think it can happen in Georgia, you are sadly mistaken."
While the two Tennessee Democrats are now back in their seats, lawmakers in other parts of the country worry the debacle over decorum may foreshadow what's to come in their own state legislatures.
Wednesday, Montana's House voted to formally punish state Rep. Zooey Zephyr, a transgender Democrat who spoke out against a move to ban gender-affirming care for minors using controversial language. Republicans say she broke the rules of decorum and have barred her from attending or speaking during House session the rest of the legislative term.
A day after the Republican-dominated Tennessee House voted to expel two Black legislators for interrupting a floor session, Democrats next door in Georgia gathered on Zoom.
"This is not a time for us to shrink back," state Rep. Kim Schofield said. "This is a day of awakening. If you don't think it can happen in Georgia, you are sadly mistaken."
While the two Tennessee Democrats are now back in their seats, lawmakers in other parts of the country worry the debacle over decorum may foreshadow what's to come in their own state legislatures.
Wednesday, Montana's House voted to formally punish state Rep. Zooey Zephyr, a transgender Democrat who spoke out against a move to ban gender-affirming care for minors using controversial language. Republicans say she broke the rules of decorum and have barred her from attending or speaking during House session the rest of the legislative term.
Some state lawmakers say Tennessee expulsions highlight growing tensions
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Somewhere in Tennessee people are blowing the dust off the "Whites Only" signs. Have to mention that Tennessee was the first place in my life I ever saw one of those when visiting colleges in 1963.
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SrA Ronald Moore
Ine of my co-workers said The ousted representative had no business making noise just, And its get so heated , that daily a boss comes in and sits with us, to try to break the Tension, the man making such noise is one of the ones who have criticized Afro-Americans daily, but My Structured-Military back ground keeps me ignoring such , instigations, (about 8 city blocks from me ) SGT (Join to see)
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SrA Ronald Moore
Even Folks thst doesn’t like the Pigment of Us, also are teaching the Peopke from Mexico to use Racial Slurs but I work Thru , Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
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SSG John Gillespie
Um.. The Fascists were socialists. Or did you forget that Nazi was short for the German words for "National Socialist Party," that Benito Mussolini coined the term Fascist, was a member of the Italian Parliament and that he was guided by a philosophy of "demographics is destiny" before becoming the Italian Prime Minister through a show of force and intimidation which was similar to what happened in Tennessee?
In this scenario, the legislators who were voted out of the Tennessee house for cause are in the role of those earlier Fascists by virtue of their ideology and their tactics.
If you fail to learn from the mistakes of the past, you will forever be doomed to repeat them. Some smart guy said that once.
In this scenario, the legislators who were voted out of the Tennessee house for cause are in the role of those earlier Fascists by virtue of their ideology and their tactics.
If you fail to learn from the mistakes of the past, you will forever be doomed to repeat them. Some smart guy said that once.
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Yes but guess who the Nazis are going to be. Not the republicans. Let's not forget what happened to the woman who spoke out in San Francisco.
The masculinity sure comes out at those transgender men who assault a female or they go to Turning Point USA table and talk about genocide when we've already had four transgender shootings in the last few years including the one a few weeks ago that killed three adults and three children at the school but I don't think the FBI will release the manifesto because it will destroy The Narrative of the so-called peaceful lgbtq community
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/07/us/former-ncaa-swimmer-riley-gaines-assault-san-francisco-state-university/index.html
The masculinity sure comes out at those transgender men who assault a female or they go to Turning Point USA table and talk about genocide when we've already had four transgender shootings in the last few years including the one a few weeks ago that killed three adults and three children at the school but I don't think the FBI will release the manifesto because it will destroy The Narrative of the so-called peaceful lgbtq community
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/07/us/former-ncaa-swimmer-riley-gaines-assault-san-francisco-state-university/index.html
Former college swimmer says she was assaulted at an event opposing the inclusion of trans women...
Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines said she was assaulted Thursday on the campus of San Francisco State University.
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