Clay Bennett for April 07, 2023

THEY don’t need no steenkin’ Democracy! Or want it.

TENNESSEE SHAME — three legislators expressed the same noble support for children over battlefield mass casualty weapons in exactly the same manner in exactly the same protest, standing together in the well of the Capitol as they did it, but only those of African descent were successfully expelled in an act of overt, blatant racism.

Tennessee, a state that once committed treason in rebellion against the United States to support their “right” to own other human beings, is where the Ku Klux Klan was founded, where Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated and the state that gave us genocidal Andrew Jackson, the owner of enslaved African Americans and the mass murderer who concocted the Trail of Tears genocide against Indigenous Americans, today lived down to the worst of their reputation as a gerrymandered legislature voted to overthrow democracy. SHAME!

They don’t care.. it’s just the control they want at any cost

Too late, none of the ones left can read anymore

Good one, Clay!

There should be federal oversight on these blatant thefts of power. States rights should preclude stacking one side or the other 20 years in federal prison should be about right.

Republicans in TN don’t want democracy.

Neither do Republicans anywhere.

TN, home of the new glorious Reich.

Tennessee has sunk almost as low as Florida. Talk about low.

It’s painful to watch a self-empowered 2 party system turned — via redistricting/gerrymandering — into an unrepresentative unitary self-serving monstrosity … that no longer conforms to the will of its people.

The TN QOP is evil. If they were caught in a mass shooting (and without any weapons), they’d still defend the NRA.

It’s just coincidence that Black legislators were expelled while the White one wasn’t ….

Seems anything goes any more.

Americans have lost their loyalty, scruples, and sensibilities‼️

Don’t like something, get rid of it.

Don’t like others opinions, get rid of them

Don’t like laws, policies and rules….change em all to your opinions and beliefs….

Rude, inconsiderate, greedy selfish GOP!

Tennessee got rid of the two black dudes, didn’t see that comin’.

I’ll bet the TN GQP approves of Jan 6 though.

The republicons of tennessee(and every other red state) don’t need a guide to Democracy. They have no intention of practicing it.

The usually perspicacious Clay Bennett seriously overestimates the intelligence level of Tennessee Republicans. They have repeatedly shown that they do not rise to the intelligence level of dummies.

The Republicans are reviving the Sanhedrin.

Scr*w Tennessee – the GQP maggots must be so proud.

One doesn’t take a legislative chamber hostage and use a bullhorn to shout out your demands – regardless of how noble your cause is. However, throwing out the black and keeping the white created extremely bad optics that will harm all Republicans everywhere in the next election.

I pray God balances their racial and ignorant actions allowing each of those republicans to experience what the parents of the decease children are experiencing, yes their children and grandchildren are innocent; but God has a terrible way to teach those followers of false gods.

The Democrats control 95% of the media, 100% of the unions and all of the large cities in the country. What is it that they are accusing the Republicans of that they are not doing themselves?

Surely there were steps between they COULD have taken…censure, removal of committee assignment, etc…but they went for the nuclear option. Sad

I guess that guide is needed in the U.S. right now.

The state that gave birth to the KKK. The state where MLK was murdered. The state where two uppity Black lawmakers were expelled. Lots to be proud of Tennessee. Try and rationalize this disgusting act. The world knows better. The entire world knows exactly what you’re doing. The world is watching. Shame on the Tennessee Legislature and the state of Tennessee.

That would still be way to incomprehensible to the hillbillies who run that state.

Can they sue to block t heir expulsion?

We would never have heard of the 3 people targeted if they’d just looked the other way. Stupid is not a strong enough description of those who expelled duly elected officials.

and national state of killing stuff, they use kids when it isn’t deer season.

They wouldn’t want to read it, even if they could.

Let’s see..silence Black, duly-elected legislators and expel them while exalting and canonizing the white lying Fascist and making sure his allies are armed. “Dummies” doesn’t begin to cover it.

Can we say blatant racism!!

this is what happens when a state is ranked 37th in education.

That book may be above their level. Is there a dumbed down version for them?

Will the fom alliances with Texas and Florida or just secede on their own?

Insurection by the libs rules throw them all in jail without due process

If the central thesis of Critical Race Theory needed a poster child, this is it. Do those hillbillies ever look at themselves in a mirror?

Many Tennesseans do not like the minority rule of the fascists.

They’re not dummies. They’re White supremacists taking one last stab at holding onto control they can no longer earn at the ballot box.

Cross burning brightly in the Tennessee House.

Kick out the black guys, Classy, you racist gun-loving pigs!

Republicans love guns more than children. This has proven that emphatically though we all knew that long ago. They hate women and minorities with a fiery passion as this and Idaho have proven. If we don’t vote out every single Fascist across the country soon, we won’t have to worry about whether we’re in a Democracy or a Republic because we’ll be in the Fascist Hellhole that Republicans are desperate to turn us into.

I’d like to send those Gomers a boot in the äss.