GOP silences ‘Tennessee Three’ Democrat on House floor for day on ‘out of order’ rule; crowd erupts

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GOP silences ‘Tennessee Three’ Democrat on House floor for day on ‘out of order’ rule; crowd erupts - Lemmy.world

I see Tennesee’s wannabe dictators are at it again. The GOP does not want to govern it wants to rule.

The Nashville elite are used to running Nashville. It’s a tight knit club that everyone knows not to defy. It’s been that way for a long long time. It’s not even a just republican thing, it’s a certain Nashville republicans thing.

That’s why they act like spoiled children when someone says anything other than “thank you”.

You wanna talk about tight-knit clubs in the South? you should check out this story: theguardian.com/…/black-mayor-alabama-town-locked…

Literal “good ole boys club” ruling a 80% black rural town without any elections in living memory loses power through legal defaults, then decides “fuck it” and keeps ruling based on their personal and social influence.

He became the first Black mayor of a rural Alabama town. Then a white minority locked him out

For years the mayor in Newbern was appointed, not elected. When Patrick Braxton won the election, the outgoing mayor and his cronies refused to accept it

The Guardian