Tim Miller: Tennessee’s Idiocracy

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The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The Tennessee GOP lives in such a bubble, they thought it was a good idea to expel two Black legislators, who've now become superstars. Plus, the GOP can't pivot from punitive abortion laws, DeSantis is fighting about the fight, and Trump's election criminality. Tim Miller joins Charlie Sykes for the weekend pod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Bullwork Podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes. It is good Friday, so a blessed Easter
0:14.0	for all of you. And because it is Friday, I am joined by my colleague Tim Miller from
0:19.2	the West Coast. Good morning, Tim. Could I have to be back in the Friday slot, Charlie?
0:23.5	Happy Easter weekend, everybody. Don't have much to talk about. You know, not a lot happening
0:27.6	in the news. Maybe we can just, I don't know, discuss Easter. I can't strategies or something.
0:32.4	We've had these conversations before about the weirdness of Friday is when you sit down on a
0:36.5	Friday morning and you look back on the week and you go, wow, that was this week. So here we are
0:41.5	Friday, three days after the former president of the United States was arrested, read his Miranda
0:49.6	rights. That was this week. That was this week. For all the people like, what does this mean for 2024?
0:56.5	Do you know that that's already not at the top of the news cycle anymore, which tells you
1:01.7	something about the times that we live in? Look, I want to talk about that. I want to talk about
1:05.6	what happened, get your view on the indictment and where you think we're going on all of this,
1:10.1	because I think that we have an interesting disagreement within our family about all of this.
1:15.7	But can we just start with what happened in Tennessee last night? Let's just play a little sound
1:23.7	from former Tennessee representative Justin Jones, one of the two African Americans who is expelled
1:31.2	from that body for engaging in a peaceful protest over a gun violence. This is what he said
1:38.2	yesterday before the expulsion vote. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
1:44.1	The world is watching Tennessee. The world is watching Tennessee. Because what is happening here today
1:52.6	is a force of democracy. What is happening here today is a situation in which the jury has already
2:01.2	publicly announced the verdict. Just yesterday, the House Speaker took to national news
2:08.2	to condemn us and call for expulsion before any evidence was presented before any trial happened.
2:13.4	And so what we see today is just a spectacle. What we see today is a lynch mob assembled to not
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