• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    A single Republican, Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, joined Democrats in voting against the measure, calling it a “dangerous precedent” to charge local officials for casting a vote.

    Todd is going to get death threats. I’m calling it now.

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    The GOP supermajority in the General Assembly this week gave swift passage to the immigration enforcement law despite warnings from staff attorneys that the bill is “constitutionally suspect” in its unprecedented effort to curtail elected officials’ voting decisions.

    The constitution? Are we still pretending that old thing matters anymore? lol good joke.

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    That’s fucked. That whole thing is fucked. Tennessee should be on fire over this shit.

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      Feel free to go set it on fire. Can’t do it from your armchair.

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    Pretty sure the 5 million is probably better spent on all sorts of things Tennesseans actually need.

    Inbred fuckwits.

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      It’s gerrymandered to all hell. A federal court literally ruled it’s gerrymandered along political, rather than racial lines, which makes it legal somehow.

      TN-4, which includes the college town of Murfreesboro, used to lean blue, but they lumped it together with a bunch of rural areas going all the way out to East Tennessee and now it’s one of the safest red seats in the country, held by a dirtbag domestic abuser.

      Gov. Haslem may have been a corporate tool but at least he pushed back on some of the culture war bullshit. Ever since he retired, the far-right kicked into overdrive. They’re all trying to outdo each other and the state government has no understanding of how the law even works. If an issue is mentioned on Fox News, a new law will be proposed about it within the week.