Wow! Fuck Tennessee!

[In It to Win It]

BREAKING: Tennessee Republicans just voted to expel Rep. Justin Jones simply after he stood with Tennessee gun safety protesters. Pay attention everyone. This is the literal definition of fascism. Never forget. We should all be alarmed and outraged.

Link to tweet

[world wide wally]

1. Like I've been saying for years, "Fuck Tennessee"

We should expel Tennessee from the Union. (With a pardon for Dolly Parton)

[GenXer47]

4. fuck Mammoth Cave and fuck Nashville music scene

Fuck Tennessee whiskey. Fuck Tennessee.

[Sneederbunk]

11. Who moved Mammoth Cave to Tennessee?

[Brenda]

27. Please don't bring up facts during a

Southern state Hate-a-thon.

Of course the assholes in TN legislature who did this are wrong! Lots of protesters showing up and more will come...GOOD TN people, yeah, they exist.

[paleotn]

52. Good people? Absolutely, but....

the good folks aren't in the majority in TN. Certainly not the majority of voters. The majority of TN voters are getting the government they deserve. Some even like it. It's that f'ing bad in my ole home state. I wouldn't set foot back in my old stompin' grounds if my life depended on it.

[dianaredwing]

82. I lived in Tennessee for a number of years

Northern gal born and bred, but I found that there were as many right-wingers up home as in Tennessee. People just have to be more careful who they vote for. I'll bet those protesting won't miss the next vote. It's easy to be critical when you have kept up with politics but most people don't to the detriment of us all. News used to help us...Walter Cronkite and a real 60 Minutes, but we're left with entertainment politics and it is REALLY HARD sometimes to tell the difference between reality and entertainment. Easy to say Fuck when the reason for saying it has already been accomplished. I miss Tennessee. It was a lovely place for me in the early 70s and Dolly can't be completely wrong.

[TygrBright]

71. "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" n/t

[Coventina]

22. Fuck Tennessee whiskey, aside from Uncle Nearest

Most of the Nashville country crap could also disappear and I wouldn't miss it.

[videohead5]

30. Nashville is a blue city

I don't think we have ever had a Republican mayor.

[Coventina]

47. I didn't say fuck Nashville. I know what it's like to live in a blue city

in a red state.

Basically, that's where I still am in Arizona. Arizona is only "blue" due to Maricopa and Pima counties being blue. The rest of the state is as red as you can get.

(Or as Stephen Colbert calls it: Poorly written Florida fan-fiction!)

I just happen to think most Tennessee whiskey is horrible, and I despise 99% of what falls under the label of "country music."

[videohead5]

72. I don't like country music either

And I live here, but now every type of music is recorded here.

[Seinan Sensei]

86. Nashville. You can almost see Tennessee from there.

[Celerity]

92. A Blue city that the TN legislature's now gerrymandered its Blue (nonstop since 1874) US House seat

away. Jim Cooper was the Dem for TN-5 for 20 years until her retired in 2022.

8 of the 9 TN US House seats are now safe Red, only TN-9 (Memphis) is Dem now (Steve Cohen).

[634-5789]

78. And take that fucking Florida and Texas with you!

[applegrove]

2. I felt sick when I just heard about it. And Marjory Two Names disrupted

Biden's SOTU speech and she didn't face censure of any kind.

[forthemiddle]

23. She was stripped of her committee seats.

That was for her role in January 6th, but there also was a motion to expel her, it just never went anywhere.
Not that they are exactly the same, just responding to your post.

[cilla4progress]

37. This was in 2022 and no,

to my knowledge, there were no repercussions.

[applegrove]

56. Thanks. Yes. I was trying to remember why she got stripped of

her committee jobs. But yeah... she yelled out "liar" during sotu.

[RKP5637]

3. K&R!! "This is the literal definition of fascism. Never forget. We should all be alarmed & outraged"

[onetexan]

65. THIS!!☝️

[Marthe48]

5. we knew the fascist r's would do it

they go powermad over the smell of their own farts, and foul the rest of the world with their stink.

[Fullduplexxx]

6. So now his constituents have no representation?

[Scrivener7]

7. The literal definition of fascism. Exactly.

[demigoddess]

111. +1

totally agree

[angrychair]

8. Tennessee has decided

They will silence black folk from speaking in the state legislature.

Screw Tennessee.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

64. exactly!

[Irish_Dem]

9. Putin must be so proud of his US puppets today.

[Hotler]

10. Peel back the layer of Republican and you will find christian dominionist are driving this shit.

When fascism comes.......

[PlutosHeart]

81. %500

[democrank]

12. Truly sickening

[GoCubsGo]

13. Yet another state you couldn't pay me to step foot in.

All started by Ron DeFascist a couple of weeks ago, when he fired a newly-ELECTED district attorney for merely voicing an opinion that he didn't like. It's only going to get worse...

[flying_wahini]

14. Republicans are a fascist party. They don't want ANY other parties in the US.

[race bannon]

15. link to the ongoing session

click on the direct link to watch

[onecaliberal]

16. Fascist fuckers.

[Mr.Bill]

17. I hope they all live to call him

Governor Jones.

[Deuxcents]

20. I hope I live long enough!

[Codifer]

18. This will put Hillsborough on the map!

May this current group of racist and fascist assholes "Inherit the Wind".

[Traildogbob]

19. Supermajorities

Wisconsin and now North Carolina, due to corruption and billionaires. I am sure other states are here as well. The flood gates have been released. Fascism is running full speed ahead. But let’s take the high road. That will work. Just vote em out right. Well North Carolina has got that covered, hold their beer, (just no longer bud light, Kid Rock will shoot you).
Fuck the GQP and anyone in that cult.

[ShazzieB]

70. Hey, Wisconsin voters just voted in a liberal Supreme Court justice!

That state is on the brink of some major changes. The supermajority there exists because of gerrymandering, which was upheld by the previous conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court.

The times, they are a-changin' in America's Dairyland!

[Traildogbob]

74. You did well.

But you also elected a scum bag GQPer that says he will proceed with impeachment of that judge. Hopefully the court and Gov can shoot him down. Our Dem Gov lost veto power with the party switch yesterday. NC court is stacked with right wing. Our Gov basically has zero
Power, and seeing Tennessee right now that supermajority can destroy us. They Already stated they are gonna do more gerrymandering to assure that ass the switched parties in a blue district will Keep her power.

[ShazzieB]

97. I can't take any credit.

I live one state over, in northern Illinois, but I've visited Wisconsin many times. I feel a strong personal connection to the state, and I've hated what's been going on up there.

I don't know enough about the scum bag GQPer you mentioned to assess now much of a threat he may be, but Wisconsinites have shown they are willing to fight, and that gives me hope.

[Cyrano]

21. Don't blame an entire state

There are many decent people who live there and are stuck with the rules of barbarians.

The same is true of the entire country, Many rural areas of all states, as well as ignorant or just plain stupid people who live in urban or suburban areas, make this kind of insanity possible.

The cure is education. -- And that's why book banning and destroying America's entire educational system, is the aim of these cave-dwelling knuckle draggers.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

29. People should note and understand what you state.

[Emile]

39. Republican jerrymandering is to blame.

[Cyrano]

57. Yep. GOP gerrymandering, and their immense propaganda machine, are

turning our country into a distorted, poisoned version of democracy.

The mean-spirited always are a few steps ahead of us when it comes to defining and driving who and what we are. But, at some point, humanity will mature and the times we are living through will be viewed as just one more "dark age."

(This, of course assumes that humanity can survive the undeniable climate change that is quickly descending upon us.)

[AnrothElf]

77. The mean hearted are actually a step behind, but they used to be several...

"Fake News" was originally Macedonian teens until Trump successfully hijacked it.

They're trying (and failing) to hijack "Woke" to turn on us.

They accuse us of that which they are guilty, from voter fraud to pedophilia.

All of this indicates deep insecurity and lack of authentic self identity. No talent, no principles, no moral or ethical center... Just "rugged" armed individuals with greed and hate as the only motives

[Traildogbob]

79. By no means am I blaming a whole state.

I am here in North Carolina. Meadows and Cawthorn. They are not our whole state. We are considered the worst maps in the country. These maps creating supermajorities that can’t be voted out, will end us.
Our state has a case in the SC now to allow legislatures to over rule election results. And that sure as hell is not our whole state, but if that passes, many states will be as bad as this one, and worse.

[dwayneb]

91. Gerrymandering is the root of it all

When we allowed gerrymandering to go unchecked, we effectively set the stage for the destruction of our democracy.

[orangecrush]

24. Don't want to hear what the Nazis did

As much as I want to hear what retaliation is possible.

Fuck playing nice with this klan.

[AverageOldGuy]

25. And did you notice:

The three people expelled were:

The two youngest BLACK legislators, and ONE OF THE TWO WOMEN in the legislature.

This, folks, is today's Republican Party.

"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
Martin Niemoeller(1892-1984)

[cilla4progress]

38. But of course!

Fuck them all!!!

[aocommunalpunch]

42. She has a disability.

A state representative is finally in a new office after spending last year assigned in an office not much bigger than a closet.

Tennessee Rep. Gloria Johnson spent a year a conference room converted into an office, while an empty member office sat across the hall.

Johnson was recently diagnosed with myopathy, a disease affecting muscle movement, making it difficult for her to walk long distances.

[onetexan]

67. THIS!!☝️ truly a powergrab. Shameful & horrendous!

[NJCher]

83. ah, yes

Martin Niemoller, a Lutheran pastor, was at first a nationalist but after he got a taste of Nazi tactics he became an ardent opposition spokesperson.

He is, of course, famous for the poem you quoted.

============

Unfortunately for these republicans, they just made national reputations for two young leaders. Does anyone else find irony in the fact that two of the men are named "Justin."

One has a charismatic appearance and quiet but firm demeanor; the other is an eloquent speaker. What a gift he has.

While not 'expelled," Gloria Johnson is not about the shut up. She is the quintessential teacher. Who hasn't had a teacher like Gloria Johnson? It is important that a teacher be in the forefront of those speaking out against gun violence.

This won't be the last we hear of these three.

[wryter2000]

108. They didn't expel the white woman

Just the black men.

[Danmel]

26. I'm listening tohim speak now

He is awesome. What a gifted communicator.

[Tanuki]

32. In spite of what happened today he has a very bright future

and this travesty has had the effect of raising awareness of him on the national and international stage. I live in Nashville and first became aware of him several years ago when he was a "college kid" but already an extremely impressive and accomplished activist. He gave a presentation at our Amnesty International chapter meeting and he was absolutely electrifying.I asked him afterward when he was going to run for office and when could I vote for him!

[Danmel]

36. If he decides to run again, I'm sending a donation

I'm sorry that Nashville residents have to put up ruth this shit- it's like Jim Crow on steroids and this Supreme Court is on board.

[Danmel]

46. If he decides to run again, I'm sending a donation

I'm sorry that Nashville residents have to put up ruth this shit- it's like Jim Crow on steroids and this Supreme Court is on board.

[Beachnutt]

28. Well maybe Michigan or another Blue state could

kick a few rethugs out.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

40. We barely have a majority in Michigan

So it won't be us.

[TNNurse]

31. Again, people need to be reminded:

Fuck the GOP in the legislature in TN. Please do not take it out on all of us.

We are 73, own 50 beautiful acres in TN we have worked on for the last 40+ years. We just cannot pull up and leave.

Please do not insult all of us.

[we can do it]

41. 💙

[barbtries]

43. don't let it get to you.

I'm in NC which is totally fucked. I know there are good people in TN, we all do. But there is a super majority of racists and fascists and they just kicked out 3 members.

it's not personal, and I only say that because I spent much of yesterday bashing the state where I live, NC. In case you didn't know, a Democrat from Charlotte switched to R giving them a super majority here.

but it's not just the legislature to blame. it's also the people.

this is from the thread i posted yesterday regarding what happened in NC:

it cannot be overstated how much the South is run on racism. people vote against their own best interests and the lowest common denominator pacifies them into voting for these FUCKS over and over. can't just blame it on the politicians, though they are very, very bad. or the media, which has failed this nation for sure. it's also the people.

I hope you're right, but I'm operating on the assumption that by 2024, we'll be a mirror image of the poorest, most ignorant, least educated, most racist, states in the country. NC used to be known as the jewel of the South, but now it's just another red blob on the map of the South.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143055820#post13

[BlackSkimmer]

49. Maybe you are IN NC, but I'm guessing you're not FROM NC.

I take exception to your description of the state in 2024. That is bullshite.

[barbtries]

66. you are correct.

I've been living here since 2007.

and i hope you're right. but they're doing everything they can as far as i can tell.

[Docreed2003]

45. ☝️ all of this!

[icymist]

51. We love and respect you.

Please don't let people's knee-jerk reactions get you down.

[In It to Win It]

55. I make exceptions for the good people of Tennessee

I'm in Florida... so I understand the feeling.

My sentiments are toward the people that happen to control your state government. I'm sorry you have to put up with them.

[TNNurse]

73. I almost left this site over:

All bigotry is in the south.

This is ignorant, hateful and really offensive to those who are kind of stuck living here.

Where in HELL in this country is so damn perfect there are wonderful people in every place???

[JanLip]

75. You spoke for me too..

I am just so upset by what transpired today. I’m 73. My husband is 74. I was born here and lived here with exception of 2 years in Mississippi. I love my state and my home. We need all the support we can get right now not insults. I agree with everything you posted. I just want to cry.

Jan- fellow Tennessean

[cilla4progress]

33. Can he

sue?

Seems to be the only way to get relief any more, since common sense is MIA!

[NJCher]

84. earlier

I heard a commentator say freedom of speech issues could allow this. Non-violent protesting and getting thrown out of one's position for doing so would be a freedom of speech issue.

[keithbvadu2]

34. Repubs will be bragging to each other: We sure showed that uppity ______ who is in charge!

[cilla4progress]

35. What a surprise -

he's Black!!!!!

[SouthernDem4ever]

44. The TN assembly GOP has no shame or conscience

What else is new? I hope TN remembers that on the next voting day.

[paleotn]

48. Surprised? I'm not. They're f'ing nazis.

[Docreed2003]

50. This is home-fried fascism at its finest.

It is no coincidence that the three most most vocal and visible Democrats in our state legislature, not only on the gun issue but abortion rights and a plethora of other issues, have been silenced and marked for expulsion.

I've said for a wile that Tennessee is the testing ground for the far right agenda. If they can pull off this kind of fascist shit here, it will be coming to other states soon enough. This isn't a one off folks, this is a shot across the bough of democracy and we cannot allow this to creep any further than it already has.

[LymphocyteLover]

53. Indeed-- fucking insanity

Things that WILL NOT get you expelled from the TN state legislature:
- child molestation
- domestic violence
- federal investigation
- peeing on your colleague's chair

Things that will:
- fighting to protect kids from gun violence

[Sucha NastyWoman]

54. Somebody please tell me how that there is a legal remedy for this.

This just can’t be.

[OldBaldy1701E]

103. There is not one.

So, to quote Sean Connery's Oscar winning character in 'The Untouchables'...

"Now, what are you prepared to do?"

This is the question that needs to be pondered by all of us, whether we like it or not. Unfortunately, not everything has a Hollywood ending.

[honest.abe]

58. Sorry i have not been following this. What exactly does this mean?

TIA.

[Politicub]

60. Same Jim Crow

Just a different century and by a different name.

Same white supremacists demonstrating that they still have some forms of dominion over Black bodies.

What a shithole.

[Smackdown2019]

61. Representation is required by LAW and Constitution

Taxation without Representation!

That was the Colonial battle cry!

The state has removed a district from having a voice.

[onethatcares]

62. in a land that time forgot

Nikita Khrushcev said the Soviet Union would bury America with the shovel America sold them.

They're getting very close to fulfilling that prediction.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

63. I freaking hate these people!

That is all.

[True Blue American]

68. Vote fails on Gloria Johnson.

[Upthevibe]

69. Kick. n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

76. Republicans hate democracy

[dwayneb]

90. Maybe but more importantly, they love power

[AverageOldGuy]

80. Tennessee

In 1951, my father's business moved us from SW Mississippi to Knoxville TN where my parents lived until they left us in 2005 and 2007. I spent my summers between 1951 and 1962 in rural SW Mississippi; college in Alabama, where I learned to read. My younger brother and I left TN -- and the South -- as soon as we could and have never looked back.

Tennessee has four large cities: Knoxville, Chattanooga, Nashville, and Memphis. These cities have a lot of Democrats and elect the few Democrats in the state legislature. The smaller cities of Kingsport, Bristol, Johnson City, Cleveland, and Jackson are nothing but overgrown county seats. Recent gerrymandering has all but wiped out Democrats in the state legislature.

Outside the four big cities Tennessee is dumbass, shit-for-brains, redneck, goober muthafukahs who marry their cousins and are proud of their ignorance. And that's the smart ones.

Remember -- Pulaski TN is the home of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, founder of the KKK, and, Dayton TN is home of the Scopes Monkey Trial where a public school teacher was put on trial for teach evolution (and don't be surprised if that sorry affair repeats itself given Republican attacks on public schools).

Having grown up in rural MS and East TN I am fully acquainted with dumbass, shit-for-brains, redneck, goober muthafukahs who marry their cousins and are proud of their ignorance. I have an earned PhD in WhiteTrashOlogy.

[Evolve Dammit]

85. What a racist shit hole state. The young and the 3 inspire me that we can Rise Up for Good Trouble.

In the meantime, keeping my meager vacation money out. FL and TX are on the list as well.

[calimary]

87. Now is NOT the time to be silent.

NOT the time to be meek and mild.

[republianmushroom]

88. This what republicans think of your children.

[NightHawk63]

89. Never been more ashamed...

...to be from Tennessee in my 60 years.

[HillbillyDaoist]

93. Hope karma nails these inbred pigfuckers

[jimlup]

94. Mark My Words

This will BACKFIRE!

Never underestimate the power of Republicans to shoot themselves in the foot. They just did it again.

They have clearly become open Fascists. It is frightening for our country that we now have an openly Fascists party in our politics.

[vapor2]

95. Earlier I was angry that Jim Jordan doesn't like that his twice impeached

buddy has now been indicted and is interfering with a NY criminal investigation. Repugs squash anything they don't agree with. Now with the TN repugs and their antics today I am sad and pissed. They just gave the finger to the voters who elected Jones and Pearson. I fear fascism is here.

[Duppers]

96. $125 million to TN - Smith & Wesson HQ's relocating

Gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson Brands is moving its headquarters to Blount County, and bringing $125 million and 750 jobs with it to East Tennessee.

Smith & Wesson will become Blount County's eighth-largest employer.

Recruiting one of the world's largest gun manufacturers is a regional and statewide economic win. Tennessee is home to 20 small arms and ammunition manufacturers and Smith & Wesson's arrival will make Tennessee No. 1 for employment in the industry, according to the Tennessee Department of Economic & Community Development.


https://www.knoxnews.com/story/money/2021/09/30/smith-wesson-relocating-headquarters-maryville-tennessee/5928601001/

[AverageJoe]

98. Yes. Fuck Tennessee Voters Who Put These Assholes in Office

I was born and raised in Kentucky, lived and worked in Mississippi for several years, and currently live in Alabama. And, oh, went to graduate school at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. There are many, many wonderful, progressive people in all of these places. Unfortunately, the absolute worst people keep getting elected to high office. Fuck those voters who put them there.

[pansypoo53219]

99. biblical grafitti in bathrooms. dif planet.

[Blue Owl]

100. Tennessee -- where guns are more important than children

[AllyCat]

101. We were planning a trip to TN this fall. WERE.

Added to my list of states I won’t visit.

[AZLD4Candidate]

102. Lincoln should have let them go. The more I live, the more I see crap like this,

the more I believe Lincoln should have let them go.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

104. Wrong.

Do you think they would have been satisfied with just “their half”?

[AZLD4Candidate]

106. Knowing history like I do, the CSA members hated each other.

Without a common enemy, they either would have fallen apart in five years or become the poorest country in the western hemisphere.

Either way, they would have begged to be re-admitted.

[wryter2000]

109. Interesting

For sure if one of their states managed to secede today, they’d fall apart immediately. Imagine the cries of “Where is my mail?” and “I didn’t get my Social Security.”

[Sucha NastyWoman]

110. And they'd have to raise their taxes right away in order to keep the same level of service

Since most of the red states take more taxes than they pay.

[The Jungle 1]

105. FU TN

[world wide wally]

107. To all of you who take it personally when you think we are attacking your state,

Let me try to explain it this way. When I was a kid I always loved Mickey Mantle, but i still hated the Yankees.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

112. And I love Texas, but most of the people here are idiots.

I’m not leaving

Texas used to be blue and I believe it can be again.

Hopefully in my lifetime.