oh yvonne
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Post by oh yvonne on Apr 5, 2023 16:38:14 GMT
I think it wasn't that they put a rainbow on the Bud Light (they didn't), it's that the hired the transwoman influencer (pictured in the Tweet in lower corner) to promote the beer in general.
They are mad they hired her, Kate I think her name is. She's super cute but honestly, I thought it was a weird choice. I mean, who is Bud's target demographic? I thought it was cheap beer swilling MAGA types? At any rate, there are dozens of posts of people pouring their Bud down the drain because of it.
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Post by onelasttime on Apr 5, 2023 21:50:42 GMT
The latest from Tennessee….
From the article…
”NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton said Tuesday he supports the expulsion of three Democrats who engaged in a protest against gun violence on the House floor.
But pressed on claims that the trio were intending to "incite violence," the Republican leader admitted he had no such evidence.”
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 5, 2023 21:58:03 GMT
Some really great points here www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/opinion/tenn-gun-protest-democrats-ejection.htmlAs Young People March for Their Lives, Tennessee Crushes Dissent and Overrides Democracy
NASHVILLE — Yesterday the eyes of the country were on the indictment of a former president, along with the all too real possibility that political or public chaos would erupt as a result. Here in Tennessee, we were watching a different kind of chaos unfold as our state government doubled down on its love affair with guns, even in the immediate aftermath of a horrific school shooting. I wish I could tell you that guns were the worst of it.
Last Thursday, in the wake of the shooting, peaceful protesters at the Tennessee State Capitol rallied for gun reform. Activists waved signs in the statehouse gallery, and Representatives Justin Jones, Gloria Johnson and Justin J. Pearson, all Democrats, led them in chants from the House floor during breaks. Between bills, the lawmakers also approached the podium to speak. They did not wait to be formally recognized.
On Monday, statehouse Republicans stripped all three of their committee memberships and deactivated their ID badges. The Democrats “did knowingly and intentionally bring disorder and dishonor to the House of Representatives,” the formal resolutions against them read. Tomorrow, the House will vote on whether to expel the three lawmakers for talking out of turn.
Expulsion is extremely rare in Tennessee history. As the Politico reporter Natalie Allison pointed out on Twitter, the Tennessee House didn’t even vote to expel a Republican legislator who had been accused of sexually assaulting three teenage girls.
The resolutions against Mr. Jones, Ms. Johnson and Mr. Pearson were filed against a backdrop that highlights the absurdity of the actions Republicans have taken against them.
On Monday at 10:13 a.m., one week to the minute after a shooter armed with military-style weapons entered the church-affiliated Covenant School and murdered three children and three adults, more than 7,000 Nashville students staged a walkout to demand gun reform. It was a sight to behold: Vanderbilt University students marching down one street, Belmont University students marching down another, all of them joining a large crowd of high school and college students from around town. They were determined to speak as one voice directly to their government — to the only people with any power to reduce the risks they take just by going to class.
No place in this firearm-besotted country is safe from gun violence, but Tennessee students are at particular risk, and not just in school. They live in a state with some of the nation’s most permissive gun laws, as well as the highest rate of gun theft — and perhaps unsurprisingly, one of the highest rates of gun deaths.
The guns that killed the children and staff members at Covenant last week were all purchased legally, despite the fact that the shooter was being treated for an emotional disorder. If Tennessee had enacted a red-flag law before now, it’s fair to believe that six deeply mourned members of the Covenant community would still be alive. Countless others would be, too.
Until yesterday, when the judiciary committee of the State Senate voted to postpone all gun-related legislation — including a red-flag law jointly proposed by Senator Jeff Yarbro and House member Caleb Hemmer, both Democrats — the Tennessee General Assembly showed every sign of turning Nashville’s school shooting into an opportunity to weaken gun safety in the state even further.
The shamelessness on display was breathtaking. “If there is a firearm out there that you’re comfortable being shot with, please show me which one it is,” a Republican state representative said to student protesters. Presumably he meant that banning assault-style guns wouldn’t prevent students from being shot with other kinds of guns, but that’s not much of an argument coming from a pro-gun legislator who opposes red-flag laws.
These repeated demonstrations for gun safety legislation were the context in which the Republican supermajority of the Tennessee House moved to expel Mr. Jones, Ms. Johnson and Mr. Pearson from the statehouse. But the three Democrats had more than public sentiment on their side. They had more, even, than moral authority on their side. They also had a practical reason for flouting chamber rules: “Our mics were cut off throughout the week whenever we tried to bring up the issue of gun violence,” Mr. Jones told WKRN.
Ms. Johnson is a retired teacher and veteran legislator who represents parts of Knox County in East Tennessee, but the two men are new to the General Assembly. In a special election this year to replace a House member who died in October, Memphis voters elected Mr. Pearson in a landslide. Mr. Jones represents a district in Nashville. After winning the Democratic primary, he ran unopposed in the November election.
Both men are skilled community organizers. Mr. Pearson led the successful effort to stop the Byhalia Connection Pipeline from running through a historic Black neighborhood in Memphis. Mr. Jones led the successful effort to have a bust of the Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest removed from the State Capitol.
Disenfranchisement of liberal voters is nothing new in the state of Tennessee, but what the G.O.P is trying to do to these Democrats goes well beyond disenfranchisement. To remove legitimately elected officials from the chamber to which voters sent them — and to do so precisely because those officials were representing the wishes of voters — is nothing short of authoritarianism. And the Republican supermajority in the Tennessee General Assembly has the votes to do it.
Still, I can’t help but hope that Tennesseans will protest the precedent their leaders are about to establish. I still have hope that voters, even Republican voters, will contact their legislators today, in time to make at least some of them stop and reconsider what they are poised to do.
What Tennessee Republicans may think of Mr. Jones, Ms. Johnson and Mr. Pearson is far less important than what Tennessee Republicans may think about American democracy. Because democracy does not exist in a state where officials can be sent home for nothing more than voicing the opinions of voters who are pounding on the statehouse door, demanding to be heard.
In fundamental ways, none of this is surprising. Twenty-first-century Republicans are always demonstrating a truth that the Roman historian Tacitus understood back in the first century: It is part of human nature to hate someone you have hurt. In refusing to expand Medicaid, in attempting to replace public schools with private charters, in disenfranchising Democratic voters, in persecuting L.G.B.T.Q. citizens and demonizing school librarians, in stripping bodily autonomy from Tennessee women and in failing to protect us all from gunfire, they are telling us exactly how they feel about the people they represent.
My real hope lies in people like Justin J. Pearson, Gloria Johnson and Justin Jones. Whatever happens to them at the hands of their fellow legislators tomorrow, we have not heard the last from them. Of that I have absolute confidence. The shining example of the great John Lewis, who cut his own teeth opposing injustice in Nashville, taught them how to cause “good trouble.” Clearly, they have learned from the master.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 5, 2023 22:08:51 GMT
A Tennessee poll... over 60% (thinking it is higher) support background checks
Majority support red flag laws
Majority support raising age to purchase to 21..
The legislature is not listening to their constituients'!!
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scrappinmama
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Post by scrappinmama on Apr 6, 2023 0:10:39 GMT
This younger generation is going to change the world and I am here for it! What will it take for people to wake up and stop voting for such extremists candidates? If kids getting killed in schools doesn't change peoples minds, I don't know what will. And honestly I don't hold out much hope right now. I hate to generalize a generation. However, I do think once older voters die off and this younger generation turns 18, we will finally see some change. They will be pissed off voters and won't forget the politicians that sat back and did nothing.
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Post by gracieplusthree on Apr 6, 2023 11:28:35 GMT
I live in TN... it's beyond crazy, I bet things get bad after the decision this morning, I just have a feeling it's gonna go badly. And then the response will be strong.
This isn't legal but people vote for idiots around here.
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Post by gracieplusthree on Apr 6, 2023 11:31:42 GMT
This younger generation is going to change the world and I am here for it! What will it take for people to wake up and stop voting for such extremists candidates? If kids getting killed in schools doesn't change peoples minds, I don't know what will. And honestly I don't hold out much hope right now. I hate to generalize a generation. However, I do think once older voters die off and this younger generation turns 18, we will finally see some change. They will be pissed off voters and won't forget the politicians that sat back and did nothing. I keep saying the unrest is from older generation dying off and the ones left aren't liking the power(and change) increasing in the hands of the younger generation. I can't wait until more of these kids can vote! Because they will.
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Post by casii on Apr 6, 2023 15:05:22 GMT
I saw a video on TikTok early this morning of loads of State troopers coming in to handle the expected protests. The protests of kids, children, who don't want to be afraid to be killed at school.
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Post by onelasttime on Apr 6, 2023 15:07:20 GMT
The vote is today.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 6, 2023 16:50:21 GMT
Unfortunately 'they' won't listen... That is the old white men play deaf..
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Apr 6, 2023 17:39:22 GMT
What time is the vote expected? For those who live in Tennessee, what is the general feeling towards the possible expulsion? Hopefully they will realize that this could backfire against them and they vote not to expel. And then voters will expel the Republicans next election
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Post by scrappinmama on Apr 6, 2023 17:53:50 GMT
Bless every one of those people bravely protesting! I hope the kids take the hurt and anger that they are feeling and use it to force change. If not today, then when they are old enough to vote those bastards out of office.
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Post by onelasttime on Apr 6, 2023 18:26:33 GMT
They are inside the state house. They are getting ready to vote pretty soon. I think.
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Post by naby64 on Apr 6, 2023 18:42:52 GMT
I am watching the live proceedings at the moment. The D representative was asking where the tape was coming from and if in session. The tape came from the other side, which they, the R side, said in session. So the D is arguing that sides are not playing fair. Huh, what a concept.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Apr 6, 2023 18:45:12 GMT
My daughter has a friend at Vanderbilt - they're organizing and protesting - she sent me a video - I'll share if she gives the ok.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Apr 6, 2023 18:46:08 GMT
I am watching the live proceedings at the moment. The D representative was asking where the tape was coming from and if in session. The tape came from the other side, which they, the R side, said in session. So the D is arguing that sides are not playing fair. Huh, what a concept. What tape?
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Post by naby64 on Apr 6, 2023 18:48:58 GMT
I am watching the live proceedings at the moment. The D representative was asking where the tape was coming from and if in session. The tape came from the other side, which they, the R side, said in session. So the D is arguing that sides are not playing fair. Huh, what a concept. What tape? I believe he was speaking of some tape of the Dems protesting in the chambers. Or supporting the protesting, peacefully mind you, in the chambers. And the argument was if they were not in session, it was ok. I believe it was then stated they were in session. The argument was then that NO member of the House tape anything while in session. So the other side that taped was in the wrong and there was no action being taken against them. That is a very blurred interaction as I was taking phone calls and running back and forth to a printer. But that is the gist.
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Post by onelasttime on Apr 6, 2023 19:05:45 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 6, 2023 19:18:11 GMT
They sure are teaching the kids about what democracy isn't!
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Post by Darcy Collins on Apr 6, 2023 19:18:55 GMT
I think it wasn't that they put a rainbow on the Bud Light (they didn't), it's that the hired the transwoman influencer (pictured in the Tweet in lower corner) to promote the beer in general. They are mad they hired her, Kate I think her name is. She's super cute but honestly, I thought it was a weird choice. I mean, who is Bud's target demographic? I thought it was cheap beer swilling MAGA types? At any rate, there are dozens of posts of people pouring their Bud down the drain because of it. Damn I so wanted a rainbow beer can - perhaps Bud Light will be inspired! I haven't drank a Bud Light in a few decades, but would have bought a rainbow can.
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Post by epeanymous on Apr 6, 2023 19:22:09 GMT
I think it wasn't that they put a rainbow on the Bud Light (they didn't), it's that the hired the transwoman influencer (pictured in the Tweet in lower corner) to promote the beer in general. They are mad they hired her, Kate I think her name is. She's super cute but honestly, I thought it was a weird choice. I mean, who is Bud's target demographic? I thought it was cheap beer swilling MAGA types? At any rate, there are dozens of posts of people pouring their Bud down the drain because of it. I didn't know this, but, evidently, there was an LGBTQ+ boycott of Coors in the 1970s, and so gay bars were serving Bud (I read this in a tweet from an activist so don't quote me). I mean, lots of demographics drink beer! I have a hard time believing the company would have done this unless they had marketing research showing that there was, well, a market.
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Post by Just T on Apr 6, 2023 19:26:02 GMT
This is all just so unbelievable and hypocritical, once again. The same party that has spent the past two years saying January 6, 2021 was no big deal, while a-holes like Josh Hawley fist pumped the crowd, while Trump supporters erected a fucking gallows to hang Pence, now are trying to expel Democrats who were literally peacefully protesting with children. Disgusting.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Apr 6, 2023 19:46:54 GMT
I think it wasn't that they put a rainbow on the Bud Light (they didn't), it's that the hired the transwoman influencer (pictured in the Tweet in lower corner) to promote the beer in general. They are mad they hired her, Kate I think her name is. She's super cute but honestly, I thought it was a weird choice. I mean, who is Bud's target demographic? I thought it was cheap beer swilling MAGA types? At any rate, there are dozens of posts of people pouring their Bud down the drain because of it. I didn't know this, but, evidently, there was an LGBTQ+ boycott of Coors in the 1970s, and so gay bars were serving Bud (I read this in a tweet from an activist so don't quote me). I mean, lots of demographics drink beer! I have a hard time believing the company would have done this unless they had marketing research showing that there was, well, a market. The can does have a rainbow on it, along with pronouns. I just googled and it looks like it isn't the first time, and that Bud Light has had rainbow cans several years for pride month.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Apr 6, 2023 19:53:01 GMT
I think it wasn't that they put a rainbow on the Bud Light (they didn't), it's that the hired the transwoman influencer (pictured in the Tweet in lower corner) to promote the beer in general. They are mad they hired her, Kate I think her name is. She's super cute but honestly, I thought it was a weird choice. I mean, who is Bud's target demographic? I thought it was cheap beer swilling MAGA types? At any rate, there are dozens of posts of people pouring their Bud down the drain because of it. I didn't know this, but, evidently, there was an LGBTQ+ boycott of Coors in the 1970s, and so gay bars were serving Bud (I read this in a tweet from an activist so don't quote me). I mean, lots of demographics drink beer! I have a hard time believing the company would have done this unless they had marketing research showing that there was, well, a market. There was a huge boycott of Coors through the 80s by unions for their anti-union practices. I think pretty much everyone boycotted them at some point.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Apr 6, 2023 19:54:43 GMT
I didn't know this, but, evidently, there was an LGBTQ+ boycott of Coors in the 1970s, and so gay bars were serving Bud (I read this in a tweet from an activist so don't quote me). I mean, lots of demographics drink beer! I have a hard time believing the company would have done this unless they had marketing research showing that there was, well, a market. The can does have a rainbow on it, along with pronouns. I just googled and it looks like it isn't the first time, and that Bud Light has had rainbow cans several years for pride month. Oh wow thanks for letting me know - I see a rainbow colored aluminum can from last year, I'll have to keep an eye out if they're actually sold locally.
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Post by onelasttime on Apr 6, 2023 20:37:02 GMT
First vote is in….
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Post by onelasttime on Apr 6, 2023 20:42:04 GMT
This is what the Governor of Tennessee has pinned on his twitter page.
Based on current events in Tennessee he may want to take it down.
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Post by onelasttime on Apr 6, 2023 20:43:10 GMT
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oh yvonne
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Post by oh yvonne on Apr 6, 2023 20:43:23 GMT
OMG. Wow.
Another sad shameful day for TN.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 6, 2023 20:44:42 GMT
His guiding light has dimmed and will be out before the night is over. There is no longer freedom and less security in Tennessee!
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