TN GOP House members want special session to strip local health depts & school boards of power

[Nevilledog]

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Phil Williams
@NC5PhilWilliams
BREAKING: TN House Speaker @CSexton25, every GOP House member asks @GovBillLee to call special session to strip local health depts & school boards of power to enforce #COVID19 mandates, incl. masks. Also to debate "discrimination" against unvaccinated blocked from certain venues.
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2:30 PM · Aug 11, 2021

[C_U_L8R]

1. Signing their names to attempted murder.

Sick bastards.

[bluestarone]

2. Makes me so fucking MAD!

[Freddie]

3. Was considering a vacation to see Graceland

Not anymore, not spending any $$ in any state completely run by ignorant RWNJs. And Covid concerns.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. Idiocracy is clearly upon us way sooner than Mike Judge anticipated (nt)

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Jaysus! Did the Republican voters want this kind of government interference?

[SledDriver]

6. The more I see shit like this

The more I believe there must be something else going on here. This is absurd.

Maybe Covid has an unknown effect on some people. Some people get it and it affects their lungs and they end up in the hospital on a vent. Maybe some people get it and it instead affects their brains? Like, it literally takes over their brains. And it wants to live, it wants to spread. So it takes over their brains and manifests as violently anti-mask, violently anti-vax, hell bent on opening the schools and exposing children, now trying to outlaw any measures to prevent its further spread.

This goes beyond money or freedumbs or owning the libs or spite into downright frighteningly evil on purpose. And none of them seem even the least opposed or demonstrate any empathy.

I commented this a few days ago on another thread where another DUer described it as bizarre, like a bad Star Trek episode.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

7. Utter madness!

[stillcool]

8. the good old boys have lost their effing minds

they cannot possibly live in the same world I do.

[Docreed2003]

9. Our state is playing dangerous games with peoples lives

We have hospitals at critical levels, staffing is a par work quilt daily, beds are short, and people are dying. In spite of that, the elected state government is going out of its way to thumb its nose at science and reason.

[joetheman]

10. It the same thing they want to do voting...haven't you noticed?

These people are INSANE!!

Stop trying to make them human; they are not. They are an evil mutant.

[Tanuki]

11. Ironically, one of the signers was Rep. David Byrd. He apparently didn't learn

a damn thing from his own ordeal, despite this recent article.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.tennessean.com/amp/5428143001

"After 8-month COVID-19 battle, GOP Rep. David Byrd urges vaccines, says they 'should not divide us'

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He has no memory of the next 55 days, when Byrd's family knew they might begin planning a funeral as he remained on a ventilator and continued to become sicker.
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For all but two weeks in April, Byrd spent eight months in hospitals and at a rehab center, a recovery period he describes as brutal and lonely, when his frame withered to bones and he couldn't walk, use his arms or do much for himself.
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He missed the entire legislative session, which lasted from January to May and included numerous efforts by Tennessee Republicans to restrict the ability of government, and in some cases businesses, to enact public health precautions.
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Months before, Byrd had joined Republican colleagues in voting for a resolution saying news media had "sensationalized the reporting on COVID-19 in the service of political agendas."

During his recovery this year, Byrd's liver began to fail, resulting in jaundice and a diagnosis of covid cholangiopathy, and ultimately the need for a liver transplant June 12.

After nearly dying, Byrd is back home, and he has a message: It's foolish to think COVID-19 will only wreak havoc on people believed to be high risk, a category in which Byrd did not previously place himself."...(more)

[dweller]

13. Another liver transplant

in a quick time … I thought there were people on waiting list waiting long periods
already


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[crickets]

12. Power is the operative word here.

The agita over COVID is giving some Repubs cover for doing what they've always wanted to do: take control, as completely as they can.

[dweller]

14. Maybe it's time

For HCWs and educators to threaten to strike if these goober spreadnecks don’t get the fuck back into their own lanes …


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