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The GOP doesn't offer solutions to problems, they create them like in Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Idaho, etcetera. They have become the narrow-minded party of right-wing extremist. They have made the United States the laughing stock of the world. They have destroyed America with one ignorant man. Trump. The GOP is in deep mud now. Hooray!
What is the reason for having rules if you don't enforce them? They new they were breaking the rules when they were breaking them and if they get away with breaking these rules what's to stop them from breaking other rules .They and the feast of the House needs to step down if you can't stand up for what you have proposed .🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
2023 USA 17 school shootings in 3 months. 1996 UK 1 in 27 years. 1923 New Zealand 1 in 100 years.
Should Americans be banned from international travel to restrict the spread of stupidity and gun violence?
46 Ukrainians are killed each day in Putin's senseless war. 44 Americans are killed each day by other Americans in no war.
Aotearoa, New Zealand and Aotearoa New Zealand are all official names for my country.
Kia Ora (Be well) is our official greeting. Our anthem is sung in Māori and English. NZ currency has Māori and Pākehā shown on the notes.
Even once apartheid South Africa, has now been ruled by dark brown for 39 years and has an anthem containing several local languages.
The US has No official indigenous greeting, The Land of the Brave on Reservations and not shown on currency. Why does America refuse to grow up?
I’m proud of you brother’s, so proud for fighting the good fight ✊🏾gun violence has got to stop ..kids don’t deserve this . We have got to do better.. American!!!
Quit yelling racist!!! Americans are sick of this crap!! They broke the rules!!! That's it, they should be OUT!!! Throw the white lady out to if she broke the rules!! I'm white, if she broke the rules, bye Felicia to her too!!! What the hell, there's rules, abide by them!!! Shut up about racism!! Something butthead biden started and he's fixing to create WW3 and yall are talking about this crap!!! STUPID!!!!
Election interference is the republican motto. If people make it to their elected positions they try to use their majority to bully the weak
No taxation without representation.
Beautiful 👑 🌹
Expel them again. When are they going to release the manifesto of the Trans Supremacist.
Quote : "So these two lawmakers are reelected (and they already have the votes), well according to the state constitution, there's a sort of double jeopardy rule at play here, where they can't be expelled for the same behavior twice."
Quote: “You have lawmakers who actually violate real crimes , commit DUIs, who beat their wives, etc, etc… and they still get a chance to sit.”
Will be arrested if he show up ever again.
Quote continued : “And didn’t Marjorie Taylor Greene violate some decorum during the State of the Union speech for President Biden when she was shouting liar at him? I mean, she's done this to a couple of State of the Union's in a row and she wasn't kicked out.“
Quote continued : “I mean, people want to talk about decorum. You think about Josh Hawley raising his fist of power as he walks by insurrectionist. And Josh Hawley today is still a United States senator from the great state of Missouri. Like people never thought about removing him from office?”
Quote Continued : “The first thing they wanted to do was tell them that boy you can't speak no more. Then you realize where we truly are. We saw the great John Lewis take a seat on the state – on the floor of the United States Congress. We see these acts of civil disobedience happen all the time. It's civil disobedience. They broke no laws. They committed no crimes. They violated decorum in a general assembly, committed acts of civil disobedience.
Quote Continued : “But we had young people gunned down in a school, let's put all of this in the context. We had young people, babies gunned down in a school. And these young people, these young black men decided they were going to speak their truth to power about not having any more young babies gunned down and yet they eject them from their seats.” “So let's actually add context to this and understand what they did in Tennessee was about race, was about power and was about eroding democracy. Shame on Tennessee.”
Nashville Metropolitan Council voted 36-0 in favor of reinstating Rep. Justin Jones. Now him and Pearson are famous for standing up to the most horrific evil things, the lead killer of innocent children…. guns.
LOL. He got reinstated. Way to go for getting him a larger national platform, and more support. He has the GenZ, as well as most parents no matter their age or political party preferences, behind him. This year alone 146 mass shootings and growing. Need more just like them to stand up to protect innocent people.
Drop all charges for J6 political prisoners and we’ll talk
Who's dumbass idea was it to shut their microphones off to start with? Good ole boy house
And of course they play the race card everyone does when they know they are wrong.
You're either a politician or an activist. So why would they be let back. To try to take our guns. I got an idea to put a gun on a table if it gets up and starts shooting on its own with no one you hing it gun laws and ai laws immediately.
So they're not elected by popular vote?
This is disgusting. Black privilege is getting out of hand. They were voted out, GROW UP AND DEAL WITH IT!!!!
A community grieving? Lies. And show his constituents say they wanted hom there. 🛑🛑🛑🛑
Should be in prison.b
Liberals = Gays and Abortion 🛑🛑
And dude has an Afro….. they insult u as blk ppl
The rules were established by both Democrats and Republicans. Both white and black representatives should defend their expulsion.
STAY WOKE YOUNG FOLK! You all have been called for such a time as THIS! Don’t be distracted by those who are sitting idly by, watching the slaughtering of your peers. Stay focused on the matter at hand!
Firearms are now the number one cause of death for children in the United States, but rank no higher than fifth in 11 other large and wealthy countries, a new KFF analysis finds.
Guns – including accidental deaths, suicides, and homicides – killed 4,357 children (ages 1-19 years old) in the United States in 2020, or roughly 5.6 per 100,000 children.
In each of the peer countries, guns kill fewer children than motor vehicles, cancer, congenital diseases, and other injuries, and often behind other conditions such as heart disease.
The U.S. is the only country among its peers that has seen a substantial increase in the rate of child firearm deaths in the last two decades (42%).
All comparably large and wealthy countries have seen child firearm deaths fall since 2000. These peer nations had an average child firearm death rate of 0.5 per 100,000 children in the year 2000, falling 56% to 0.3 per 100,000 children in 2019.
Where’s the mental defect manifesto they were supposed to release?