Jerry 🦙💝🦙I’m not much one for sharing TikTok videos here, but this one seems like one that will be taught in history classes some day
Thestaroftheworlds@jerry lovely speech, delivered beautifully. May I be lazy and ask for a brief backstory to this please?
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛@Chaft @jerry His speech outside the house provides more context.
They were expelled because they spoke out of turn on the floor, because they protested against gun violence.
He is mesmerizing to listen to, he speaks like a preacher. Like a certain Reverend Doctor who died in Tennessee.
> The national hubbub began on March 30, when Tennessee lawmakers Rep. Justin J. Jones, of Nashville, and Rep. Justin Pearson, of Memphis, disrupted statehouse proceedings with megaphones and led protests calling for stricter gun control in the wake of a mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. The demonstration was a powerful break from political inertia around the long-debated issue, and made headlines. “We occupied the House floor today after repeatedly being silenced from talking about the crisis of mass shootings,” Jones wrote on Twitter, shortly after the demonstrations. “We could not go about business as usual as thousands were protesting outside demanding action.”