Ep. 287: EMERGENCY PODCAST SYSTEM — Democracy Suspended in Tennessee
The Michael Moore Podcast
Michael Moore
4.8 • 9.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
When you’re young, you can only take so much b.s.
And when you watch a bunch of older white racist Southern men — i.e., the Republican supermajority of the Tennessee House of Representatives — attack two young black elected House members for “improper decorum” when they spoke out against gun violence just two days after the mass school shooting last week in Nashville, well racist acts are nothing new to the state where the KKK was born.
So last night the Tennessee House Republicans expelled the two young Black Democratic representatives for daring to give voice to those too young to vote — but old enough to be killed at school.
It was a stunning moment in the fight against those who seek to destroy our Democracy. In this Emergency Podcast System episode of Rumble, recorded moments after the final vote, Mike reveals the silver lining: the more young adults who watch the footage of this travesty, the sooner we will witness the eventual demise of the white man’s Republican Party.
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Watch the Tennessee House debate and vote on Resolutions to remove Democratic Representatives Justin Jones, Gloria Johnson, and Justin Pearson online at C-Span.org:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?527219-1/tennessee-general-assembly-votes-expel-democrats&live&vod
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| 0:00.0 | This is an emergency podcast system episode of Rumble with Michael Moore. I'm Michael Moore. |
| 0:24.3 | The state legislature and the state house of representatives in Tennessee has just spent the last four or five hours that just ended. |
| 0:32.9 | And I wanted to put this up here on my podcast and get this out to you right away because if you have a chance to watch this, I'm sure you can go online at C-SPAN. |
| 0:42.9 | What just happened, what I just witnessed, what I think anybody was tuning in across the country just witnessed, |
| 0:49.6 | was the real epitome of where we are at right now in this country, with our democracy, the threat that it faces, and my belief that this behavior on the part of the right wing, the white supremacist, the Republican party, and what they did today in the state house in Tennessee will only guarantee their further demise. |
| 1:18.6 | They have no clue who this country is anymore. And they made a decision today to suspend democracy in the state of Tennessee. |
| 1:31.8 | That's not hyperbole by friends. The state house of representatives in Tennessee this afternoon in this evening, |
| 1:40.7 | voted to remove from office two house members, a young black man from Memphis. His name is Justin Pearson. |
| 1:52.9 | And another young black man from Nashville. His name is Justin Jones. |
| 2:01.2 | Remember those names because what they did and how they stood up today against these right wingers and how they were treated by them by these Republicans in the house of representatives in Tennessee. |
| 2:20.5 | This is going to reverberate across the country and especially amongst young people. |
| 2:26.6 | I'm sure they are there. They're already watching it on YouTube. |
| 2:30.9 | Cspan.org, Tiktok passing it around whatever because there were many levels of what what I just witnessed here today, the racism of it. |
| 2:43.1 | They're actually they tried. There were three members, three Democrats in the Tennessee House that they tried to expel today and they expelled the two black members, the two young black men in their 20s. |
| 2:58.6 | There was a white woman. They also tried to expel a 60 year old former teacher from Knoxville. |
| 3:05.3 | Amazing woman who had the good fortune, I guess, to be white because they she won. I mean by one vote, she was not expelled from the Tennessee House of Representatives. |
| 3:20.3 | But the two young black men, the two Justin's Justin Pearson and Justin Jones out. |
| 3:29.3 | These are people voted into office by the voters of their districts in Memphis and Nashville. |
| 3:37.5 | And now the voters of those two districts have no representation in the Tennessee House gone. |
| 3:46.7 | Now you're by this point, Mike, what are you talking about? What did they do? |
| 3:51.1 | What did they do to have them kicked out of the Tennessee House of Representatives? |
| 3:55.9 | What did these two black guys do? |
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