Well…just wanted to do a short one on the great news out of Tennessee where just yesterday the 4,000 workers at the VW assembly plant there voted to join the UAW after years of struggle with the government of Tennessee along with management of VW…and the governor of not only Tennessee but of all the other southern red states tried to put pressure on the workers with the lies they always use telling them that things will get worse if they voted for the union and that they now could lose their jobs…the same playbook that has been used against unions since the start…okay UAW, do tesla next…it does make a difference who is president…and Joe Biden has been a vocal supporter of unions since he was elected…keep up the good work…
Tag Archives: Tennessee
Racism is alive and well in Tennesee..
Well…if you truly don’t believe the repubs are racist fascists, just look what happened in Tennessee yesterday…when three dem house members stood up with students to protest the repubs inaction on gun violence, the repubs in control there went full fascist and voted to expel the three…but only two of them were actually expelled…can you guess what color the two were? Yeah, you guessed it…both of expelled members were black and the one who was not expelled but did exactly what the others did but her skin is white so she gets a pass…and she even drew attention to that fact when asked about it…essentially saying that her colleagues are just a bunch of racists. this is how fascism starts in this country and you can see this everywhere the repubs are in charge…attacking voting rights and even throwing elected dems out of office as desantis has done in Florida to go along with the attacks on democracy in Tennessee…we need to vote these assholes out everywhere across this country…we did it here in Michigan and it feels damn good to have dems running the show here…it feels like normalcy and every dem should have it…geez…
Back to the middle ages…
Well…the repubs truly are trying to take the country back to the middle ages…just yesterday, Tennessee repubs fired the head of vaccinations for telling the truth to a question about whether kids could get vaccinated without their parents consent (the SC there said they could)….so the repubs fired her and then went even farther to end any vaccine outreach at all for children…that’s all o fthe effective vaccines…whooping cough, diptheria, measles, mumps, rubella and even polio will no longer even give information out when they are asked that has any state seal on it…the seal has to be removed first and the health department will no longer be allowed to coordinate any vaccine events at schools or anywhere else…and they specifically said it was because the repubs pressured them into it…so now, Tennessee has gone back to before vaccines were developed and are going to willingly kill children just because of some right wing conspiracy theory that was created whole cloth out of lies…but the repubs and right wing media don’t care if they kill a few more children…after all they were responsible for over 400K Americans dying during the pandemic that is still raging in red states so what’s a few more dead to add to the total? I hate those guys….geez…
Has Tennessee gone completely nuts?
Well…with the latest lunacy from there, the answer has to be a resounding yes! The latest one is just jaw droppingly stupid, and, of course, comes from two repub legislators there….a new rule for the capitol bans hand carried signs or signs on sticks since they are a “serious safety hazard”…but guess what isn’t banned? Yep, everyone is allowed to bring their guns…handguns, rifles, shotguns and any other gun into the capital any time they want….now, maybe I’m a little ignorant but I can’t remember the last time someone was killed by a hand held sign on a stick…but I think I can remember a few people being killed by guns…and yeah, that is snark…..this just shows how stupid the modern repubs are….and how dainty the little snowflakes are when they are scared of people showing them a sign….geez, the stupid, it burns….
Nothing stupid so far this weekend…
Well…as you know, I depend on people doing and saying stupid things for many of my topics here but there hasn’t been anything to write about today…the candidates seem to have gone into hiding or they’re out talking to people in their bubble without coverage…so, where does that leave me? Nowhere, it seems…..oh, there is that idiot county clerk in Tennessee who is still refusing to grant marriage licenses to gay couples…even though 3 court cases have gone against her…she now is appealing to the supreme court to allow her to use here religion to discriminate against gays under the guise of “religious freedom”…when will these asses understand that you can’t just shout “religion” and then have a license to treat people badly…saw a show the other day that really showed how this didn’t work back when integration of the schools was happening and it won’t work now…just quit the job you idiot…one good thing is that they have started to work on filing misconduct charges against her and then will remove here from office…I hope the couples she refused will sue her broke for damages…geez…
The Kochtopus strikes again…
Well…if you didn’t really know how much the Kochs hate progress and anyone but the rich, you just have to take a look at the mischief they and their minions are doing in Tennessee. Just today the bought and paid for senators that they own put forth a new bill that would prevent any new mass transit projects from being built…yep, you heard it right…they have just introduced a bill that would not allow any county or municipality to look at their mass transit needs and do something about it…and guess what? Who are the people that use mass transit out in middle of the country? Yep, you guessed it…the middle class and poor….and now the Kochs are buying laws that don’t allow the people to say how their tax dollars are spent…of course, only the Kochs should be able to say how they are spent since they are rich and know better than anyone what the country needs…and, to them, any money spent on anything but tax cuts that benefit them just can’t be allowed to happen…what a bunch of asses…geez…
Isn’t this illegal?
Well…int he runup to the union vote at a VW plant in Tenessee, the righties are out in force basically threatening the workers and even VW if they approve UAW representation. My question is: isn’t this illegal? Almost every repub in Tennessee has weighed in…threatening VW that they will never get another tax break if they go along with the unionization…even though VW has seen how well the “works council” relationship has worked in Europe and really do want the same kiind of relationship with their workers here in the states…but, have also threatened workers with retaliation if they vote for the union…now, I am pretty sure this is against the law and I can’t wait until a complaint gets filed with the NLRB and the lawsuits start to fly. These idiots in Tennessee have said that they will not approve any more tax breaks for the expansion that VW is planning…so, let me get this straight…if their workers vote to improve their work lives, the repubs will attack workers just to spite them and drive any new VW plant to Mexico? This just shows you again that the repubs don’t give a damn about the workers in their states…just about the ideology that cuts workers wages and say in the workplace…but, this time, they don’t even have the support of the company in question…why don’t they just leave them alone and let the company do what it thinks is right? Geez…
Tennessee repubs are pricks…
Well…just had to comment on what happened over the weekend at a town hall meeting that was held by one of the repub reps from Tennessee…when a 12 year old girl whose father is an undocumented alien asked what the rep was going to do to help her father avoid deportation along with the other millions that are here, and this prick answered “nothing” and then went on the typical repub rant about they are here breaking the law so they should all deport themselves…yadda, yadda….but, the worst part is the crowd turned on this young girl and started to cheer this prick as she stood there crying….where the hell are these pricks from? Who taught them that it is okay to attack even children for political reasons? That is where the repub party is right now…just a bunch of hating pricks who don’t deserve to breathe the same air as those of us who have empathy for the plight of others…I’ll bet they went home feeling so smug and good about themselves that it makes me sick….I just can’t wait until they all die off…geez…
Tennessee Republicans are bastards…
Well….I have been reading about this story for the better part of the week and I still can’t believe what I’ve seen…always looking for more ways to punish the less fortunate, the repubs in Tennessee have sunk to to the lowest low I have ever seen…this week, these assholes pushed two bills in the legislature that would punish kids of poor families who are on assistance by taking money away from the family if the child is struggling in school and doesn’t meet some arbitrary standard….yep, these pricks want to put whether the family eats or not on the performance of a 6,7, or 8 year old who is probably already doing poorly because of going to school hungry every day. What kind of a person would torture children this way? It is nothing less that child abuse being pushed by these son of a bitches and they should be ashamed of themselves and their continuing attacks on the disadvantaged…how can they live with themselves? Geez…
More hypocritcal nonsense from the right…..
Well…with all of the uproar on the right about the supposed violation of first amendment rights by the Obama administration in the contraception controversy, we have another bit of hypocritical nonsense coming from the right in Tennessee where the repub controlled legislature is trying to make it illegal for any teacher to ever discuss anything about gays or lesbians…they would not even be allowed to mention that gays or lesbians exist. How would this type of law help the two gay teenagers that killed themselves after being the subject of bullying for their sexual orientation? How can the party that wraps itself in the constitution every day basically eliminate the first amendment rights of every teacher in the state while legislating discrimination against gays and lesbians in that state? If you need to see what the country will look like if the repubs win in November…just take a look at the nonsense in Tennessee…this one bill does more to eliminate the guaranteed rights of the people than anything the dems have done…ever…