Consider my mind officially boggled with what’s going on in the Tennessee State Legislature. I’m glad VP Harris was the one to give the speech there. Biden doesn’t have enough juice left in his prune self to do it. Readers, be afraid, be very afraid. The action by the legislature in TN cannot go unanswered. A state legislative body that removes its members because of a freedom of speech issue is not only in violation of the US Constitution but of the civil rights of those members who were removed.
Thanks, Jen, for posting VP Kamala Harris’ speech, which I am reposting here. Please, readers, share this with others.
Tao Talk 
This country is going down the tubes and young peeps are too anesthetized by social media distractions to give a shit. It’s really sad. All the stuff “we” fought for is disappearing…
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:( I wish I could disagree.
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Exactly so!!
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You’re welcome Lisa. She’s amazing. She should be President!
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It’s very possible she will be. I don’t know how much longer President Biden will keep going. I say Harris for Pres and Buttigieg (sp?) for VP
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I think Biden would approve.
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I agree with Paula. Too many young people never look beyond the tiny self-involved worlds of their screens. Like sheep being led to the slaughter, when (or even if) they realize what they’ve lost it will be too late. (K)
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:(
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I read on CNN that Pearson said, “we are losing our democracy to White supremacy”. And I’m pretty sure I just watched these days vids of a few black YouTubers who are IN FAVOR of gun ownership. It’s not about race. It’s not just black/ hispanic/ whatever people who suffer because of mass shootings. White people died too. How about drop the race card and focus on EVERYONE’s safety and well-being. What a complete mess, really, gives one a headache. As for Kamala’s speech, the background check is a bit faulty. Say, a person gets a clearance to own a weapon but in two months they have a mental breakdown and decide to shoot up a school. I don’t know… It’s crazy. Sad for the innocent ones paying for the madness of others.
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Well-said. We all lose with maniacs shooting up the school and legislators trying to silence anyone protesting gun control. It’s part of a trend of violent fascism.
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Usually, I stay out of politics since it has become such a polarizing environment. I have to say what happened in Tennessee was a disgrace.
I understand there need to be rules in the legislative body since otherwise you’d have chaos and if the rules are violated, those violations need to be addressed. But it simply isn’t plausible that expulsion was the only remedy here.
What makes the saga even worse is the two representatives who were expelled are African Americans while the vote to expel the third, white representative fell short.
Shame on those who voted to expel!
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Disgrace is the right word for it. The whole world is watching. You don’t think Putin is laughing his ass off right now about it?
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Putin has been laughing his ass off for a long time now, I’m sure.
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Where are the “little pink houses “?
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“Ain’t that America?”
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I knew you’d be there Lisa🎸
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:)
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It’s all so insane…remember a while back we were talking about mental illness? It’s pretty bad out there.
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Yes, world gone nuts. Very few anchors and the compasses are spinning :(
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