Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) hinted on Tuesday that the Republican majority may permanently adopt the controversial House floor rules it passed for its special session, which offered state House Republicans a tool for silencing their minority colleagues and members of the public.
This fucking country.
The Tennessee GOP, afraid of signs and phones, but not what guns can do to their children.
Sometimes hard to disagree with the evidence.
If democrats were the majority in TN I bet the GOP would be throwing a spit fire hissy fit about the very rules they instituted
Welp, the whole democracy thing was a fun experiment.
But of course. IOKIYAR. Case in point:
The previous conservative majority regularly issued opinions in favor of conservatives on major political and policy battles. The new liberal majority immediately set to work making sweeping changes, including voting to vastly reduce the powers of the conservative chief justice.
A simple majority in House and Senate could reduce Tennessee to territorial status until such time as it reconstructs its political culture. It sure looks like its political culture needs reconstruction.
So no signs in the rotunda. But – just a wild guess – guns are probably OK?
It’s already happening, but only on a volunteery basis.
They could double up with making DC a state; that way no need to update the flag. Though it would require waiting until after 2024 with the Dems retaking the US House, since McC ain’t touching this.
The Republican Party is a psychopath.
They “hint.” Hilarious.
The GOP is making Reagan’s statement true that the scariest words are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Meet the Tennessee Government:
The bills tabled during the session will not be heard until January at the earliest, when the new legislative session starts.
I guess the Dems should keep very special notice of how many kids die in the interim.
This is what the Koch machine was built to do: put a tiny minority in power long enough for them to permanently shut the public out of government.
This is exactly what is coming to every single state in the union, at every level of government. It’s not a question of “if,” it’s a question of whether you will detect it early enough to stop it.
And janitors make them look like morons.
https://jezebel.com/parents-credit-the-janitors-at-unc-chapel-hill-for-savi-1850784319
If Republicans want a Civil War this is probably the best way to make it happen.
It would serve them right to receive the old January 6th treatment.
Don’t try that in a small town.
