and attorney general, the outgoing lame duck republican governor and the legislature vastly decreased the power of the governor and attorney general. we ve seen this kind of behavior happening and places like north carolina. when you have a governor of one party and a super legislative majority of another. it means that the normal checks and balances can be overridden. what we re seeing now. some talk of the like, i can t believe it. that the newly elected justice in wisconsin, the liberal maybe threatened with impeachment by the republican state senate now has a supermajority if she votes in a way that they feels the wrong jerry on abortion. so more than what happened in tennessee, which is interesting enough. this this, um, political event the growth of partisan super majorities. as i think one of the most significant events of the last decade or so. there s a
ku klux klan, eugenics, the second amendment, the great replacement theory, right? it s all of that balled into this thing so guns are the number one killer of children, also disproportionately black and brown people are killed by guns in comparison. domestic violence and gun violence is something that we have to talk about as well, women being killed by their partners by guns republicans historically have been against women s rights and women s civil liberties. roe v. wade is one example of that so this is who they are. another thing i want to mention is this. they can no longer win on the merits of their arguments. yeah. they have no ideas. they have no vision for the present or future of our country, so they want to take us back to a time of continued oppression, and now that they re in super majorities and wherever they have power, they are going to be heavy-handed with that
to become the new norm you re against us, you re out. yeah, i think this is something that as americans we really need to pay attention to. what we saw take place in tennessee yesterday was an absolute outrage, and it was an affront to the democratic process and our democracy in this country you know, the idea of super majorities concerns me, and it s not just in states like tennessee. we see this proliferating across the country in other places where republican strongholds are taking over from florida to wisconsin, north carolina, there are 18 states in this country right now that have republican super majorities, and there s really no checks or balances on that and a lot of this happens because they are able to gerrymander districts and create these safe seats so there is no consequence from the voters in for these state legislators because they pretty much rig the system in their favor. we need to do something about
rtc signaled that they intend to move on big ticket items like abortion rights, gun rights in the states voting laws, so certainly big implications going forward, poppy. well, what are democrats saying? well there are angry about this move, and it were surprised even though it had been talking about for some time that democrats saying that she misrepresented herself and her policies to her constituents that voted her into office by a big majority, and it was also notable that the white house came out with a statement after this announcement, really acknowledging the big legislative ticket items that are up for grabs that north carolina s will have to vote on now, and with these new super majorities, it makes it much harder for them. kratz has stopped some of them. the white house, saying bedrock american freedoms are at stake in votes in north carolina. and they re calling on those who are in the state house to vote. they say their consciences rather than the politics of the moment. fa
fraction. um and this is the kind of abuse we re likely to see going forward from these republican super majorities. if you say something they don t like they ll just get kick you out. alice we ve already heard from president biden sort of saying that that this is a shame that this is where the attention is going from the republicans. instead of focusing on any sort of common sense gun reform legislation. they re expelling members of the state senate there for violating rules that perhaps they should have just been censured for. we don t yet here. from gop leadership. what do you expect them to say? again gop leadership will look at this from the lens of there are there s decorum. there are rules . there are ways that you legisd these people clearly didn t didn t abide by the laws or the rules of decorum for tennessee legislature and again, i think the fact that we have one that