Reinstate Pearson and Jones

Posted on April 8, 2023 by grim

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50 Responses to Reinstate Pearson and Jones

  1. grim says:
    April 8, 2023 at 6:57 am

    Moving speech, powerful orator, surprised this guy is 28 years old. I think we’re going to be seeing a lot more of Pearson in national politics after this.

  2. grim says:
    April 8, 2023 at 7:42 am

    4×10 schedules are hot hot hot right now:

    https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/07/monstercom-1-in-3-people-would-quit-for-a-4-day-workweek-job.html

    And for in-person, brick-and-mortar jobs, I’m starting to hear even more talk about seriously exploring 3×12 (36hr full time) shifts.

  3. Fast Eddie says:
    April 8, 2023 at 7:56 am

    “That is not a democracy,” (Carmela) Harris said of the expulsions. In a democracy, she said, “you don’t silence the people, you do not stifle the people, you do not turn off their microphones when they are speaking about the importance of life and liberty.”

    Except if you’re Republican, then we’ll use every device available to silence, threaten and slander you.

  4. Fast Eddie says:
    April 8, 2023 at 8:47 am

    leftwing,

    Nice observation on housing decisions yesterday. Thank you for that.

  5. Bystander says:
    April 8, 2023 at 9:46 am

    Grim,

    Nice mention of Reagan creating crack epidemic against Blacks to fund wars in South America. Have not heard that one in awhile.

  6. Bystander says:
    April 8, 2023 at 9:48 am

    Hard to argue when you hear that racist bum Reagan’s despicable rant against Africans only a few years before his presidential ambitions started. The Rs will never own that one, buried under his sainthood. Disgusting.

  7. Bystander says:
    April 8, 2023 at 9:52 am

    Ahh, the great Nixon and Reagan..fine R presidents. Racism is just important feature. Trump knows it as well.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7GLJsclRi8

  8. joyce says:
    April 8, 2023 at 10:02 am

    And the prices for consumers, whether through premiums, deductibles, co-insurance, or any of the other sadistic methods dreamed up by health care actuaries, are higher and more confusing.
    …
    The heart of the problem is that there is a conflict of interest between being a payer and being a provider. If I’m choosing to spend money on behalf of a customer, and I’m also on the other side of the transaction, I have an incentive to steer that purchase to where I benefit, and not solely for the benefit of the customer.
    https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-obamacare-created-big-medicine

  9. SmallGovConservative says:
    April 8, 2023 at 10:09 am

    Bystander says:
    April 8, 2023 at 9:48 am
    “Hard to argue when you hear that racist bum…”

    You mean this guy? SlowJoe Biden? The guy that said this…
    “…new evidence uncovered from that period [1970’s] from The Times revealed Biden to be one of the Senate’s most vocal advocates opposing court-ordered busing as well.” He then said: “Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point.”

    And who can forget this hugely offensive little ditty from 2007…
    “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

  10. 1987 Condo says:
    April 8, 2023 at 10:13 am

    Is it “ironic” that CNN had Rep Jones name showing for first half before correcting it to Pearson?

  11. Juice Box says:
    April 8, 2023 at 10:21 am

    Storming the Tennessee State Capitol is OK but not the Capitol in DC right?

    He seems like his only career has been politics, was not even in office for two months. BTW he won his special election unopposed. A total of 443 people voted in his district of 70,000 during the special election.

    Nothing against the young man, but before he channeled a combination of MLK and Macolm X, he complained at first he did not understand the rules of the House in Tennessee which he violated etc by protesting and holding up a sign in the well. The members all voted 69–26 to expel him, so democracy does work.

    I am sure he will be the darling of the prime time talk shows. We shall see.

  12. Grim says:
    April 8, 2023 at 10:22 am

    Pearson is an incredibly strong debater – watched a few other clips and that guy is clearly very smart, very well spoken, very well reasoned. He tap dances around these veteran Tennessee guys, and even when they try to paint him in a negative light, he easily spins it back in a very convincing way.

    I can understand if you don’t care for the Christian references in his speech, maybe you don’t care for the fact that he is channeling the civil rights movement in way that we haven’t seen in decades

    Painting the guy as a hooligan troublemaker? Come on now.

    Reeks of retaliation.

  13. Fabius Maximus says:
    April 8, 2023 at 10:27 am

    Grim,
    Stop triggering the snowflakes.

    As for “full on taliban.” Which party is regulating your wifes lady bits?

    At least the kids in TN are giving us hope. Here is one for the Hockey Fans.
    https://twitter.com/trublu24/status/1644014455146020865

  14. Juice Box says:
    April 8, 2023 at 10:50 am

    I don’t know all these legislatures all have their own crazy rules about order etc. Keep the house in order etc. Sgt at Arms and all to enforce when needed and Troopers called in to kick people out and make arrests.

    Here in the very true blue state of NJ our legislature created rules to not allow you into the building if you did not show proof of vaccination and a negative test etc, this included the elected folks too and the State Troopers were there enforce those RULES.

    Look they voted him out, it was not an arrest or an act of a despotic regime so it was Democracy in action. The Rules are the Rules. Don’t like it? Then change the rules.

  15. Juice Box says:
    April 8, 2023 at 10:55 am

    I was not kidding either. As reported by NPR Pearson first claimed ignorance of the rules of the house.

    “First, he argued that as a freshman representative, he has not been made aware of all of the House rules and to what and when they apply.

    “I was told that we were crowding around the clerk’s desk,” he said, referring to the language in the motion against him and his colleagues. “And I gotta be honest with you, I just realized they were talking about this desk and not the one up there,” he said pointing to the speaker’s desk.

    He added: “There’s a lot of things that are in these resolutions that seem to assume a lot of knowledge about what I am supposed to know. What we are supposed to know, without real facts about what we have been provided information about.”

    So should they have given him a pass? Perhaps they are as they say just trying to prevent a repeat of Jan 6th, as social media and the regular media has whipped up a storm. No worries all he needs is another 443 votes to win in a special election again for his district, and he will be unopposed again.

  16. Bystander says:
    April 8, 2023 at 11:02 am

    As usual, SGC totes as the usual BS equivalency. Saying the term racial jungle about busing is same as explicitly calling them monkeys who don’t wear shoes. So full Of sh&t.

  17. Fast Eddie says:
    April 8, 2023 at 11:14 am

    Nice mention of Reagan creating crack epidemic against Blacks to fund wars in South America.

    What’s worse is democrats using minorities and the poor as weapons for 60 plus years to obtain power and control.

  18. Juice Box says:
    April 8, 2023 at 11:18 am

    Actions speak louder than words. Biden as an elected representative actively fought for racial segregation. The current VP used that extensively in her campaign when she was running for the democratic nomination.

    There is no denying there is allot of racial stuff said behind closed doors, the Nixon tapes serve to prove that the president or anyone else in office will never again allow themselves to be recorded when speaking privately. You can bet it will go badly for anyone who uses bigoted remarks in the future, if they are caught on an open mic.

  19. Fast Eddie says:
    April 8, 2023 at 11:24 am

    “I found solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race. Any distinction between good and bad whites held negligible meaning.”

    ~ Barry Soetoro

  20. Fast Eddie says:
    April 8, 2023 at 11:28 am

    “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”

    To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”

    ~ Barry Soetoro

  21. Juice Box says:
    April 8, 2023 at 11:31 am

    Crack cocaine was invented by the drug dealing gangs in California during the Carter administration in the 1970s. The was a massive glut an oversupply of powder cocaine at the time, so much so the price plunged 80% as the street level dealers all fought for control over their customers and territories. Smokeable rock or crack was the drug dealers dream, it had a faster high and was extremely addictive. Regan did not invent crack, yes the CIA was supporting the contras and perhaps the wholesale import of cocaine via friendly states like Arkansas under the watchful eye of them Governor Bill Clinton, but the truth is the crack epidemic began before Regan it only spread east during his time as president that they created Just Say No, and funded zero tolerance laws etc. Take a look at Sleepy Joe and his Federal crime bill, The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, he personally sponsored that one which caused many inner city residents to be incarcerated as it was now a five-year minimum federal sentence for five grams of crack cocaine, but it took 500 grams of powder cocaine to trigger the same federal sentence. Yes Joe Biden sent all those young people to jail.

  22. Fast Eddie says:
    April 8, 2023 at 11:32 am

    The Chicanos should be excluded from that group above. To think Obammy thought they were flying with him is laughable. The Chicanos have more heart, more soul, a greater love for individual freedom, fight and liberty than puppets like Obalammy can ever imagine.

  23. Phoenix says:
    April 8, 2023 at 11:35 am

    They are all the same. Both Repubs and Democrap politicians care about one thing, one thing only, and that is MONEY.
    Same reason the USA did not sign the the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
    We claim we care about our fellow Americans, but we don’t. It shows, and this country will implode from the inside.

    The second shoe is about to drop, first we had the “Patriot Act,” and Americans bent over, pulled down their panties, and gracefully accepted a rectal exam and have been paying a price for that ever since. Read up on the new “TikTok” legislation, aka the Restrict Act. Now that you are bent over, in comes the ice auger. Think I am kidding?

    Americans too busy being drunk, high, or chill on THC while their country is rapidly turning into a place very much like China.

    Looks like someone warmed up some Mobil 1 and sprayed it on your “slippery slope.”

    Fast Eddie says:
    April 8, 2023 at 11:14 am
    Nice mention of Reagan creating crack epidemic against Blacks to fund wars in South America.

    What’s worse is democrats using minorities and the poor as weapons for 60 plus years to obtain power and control.

  24. Grim says:
    April 8, 2023 at 11:46 am

    Going to be fun when expulsions like this become commonplace.

    Was looking for some historical data on stage legislature expulsions, but wouldn’t find something comprehensive.

    Federal expulsions – this appears to be very rare, and only ever used in some very egregious scenarios.

    Did what happened warrant expulsion?

  25. Juice Box says:
    April 8, 2023 at 11:52 am

    I would say no, first strike should be censure.

    But then again, there was a protest on the house floor as they also stacked the visitors gallery with protestors as well who were yelling and screaming and the state troopers had to be called in. It was all planned protest to disrupt the official proceedings. They have their rules and they did disrupt the legislature.

    Political retribution? You Betcha…

  26. Juice Box says:
    April 8, 2023 at 12:08 pm

    Elon tinkering around again at Twitter.

    “Matt Taibbi, one of Elon Musk’s handpicked disseminators of the so-called “Twitter Files,” informed his readers on Friday that he was ditching Twitter after the Chief Twit restricted links to Substack this week.

    On Friday, Twitter began preventing users from engaging with tweets that contained links to Substack articles, blocking any likes, retweets and comments from these posts. Additionally, users were unable to pin any tweets to the top of their profile if they included a Substack link.

    It had been widely speculated that Twitter disabled Substack from the site because the online publishing platform had recently launched a new feature called Substack Notes, which provides a Twitter-like feed to authors and subscribers of the newsletter site.

    “Writers deserve the freedom to share links to Substack or anywhere else. This abrupt change is a reminder of why writers deserve a model that puts them in charge, that rewards great work with money, and that protects the free press and free speech,” Substack founders Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, and Jairaj Sethi said in a statement on Friday. “Their livelihoods should not be tied to platforms where they don’t own their relationship with their audience, and where the rules can change on a whim.”

    Since Twitter has been a major platform for Substack writers to share their newsletters and articles, and Musk largely relied on Substack journalists to publish his Twitter Files, the move was met with widespread backlash across the social media site. Even from some of his fiercest defenders.

    Taibbi, fresh off a brutal and contentious interview with MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan about some of his Twitter Files errors, was not too happy that he could not share his most recent Substack posts criticizing MSNBC and Hasan.

    After posting in a Substack Chat that disabling Substack links on Twitter “will likely make the platform unusable for me,” Taibbi sent an email to his subscribers announcing he was saying goodbye to Twitter.”

  27. SmallGovConservative says:
    April 8, 2023 at 12:11 pm

    Grim says:
    April 8, 2023 at 10:22 am
    “Reeks of retaliation.”

    You mean like what Al Bragg and his lackey judge Juan, the Dem-donor, are attempting right now? Gee, who’da thunk that retaliation against thee could lead to retaliation against me?

  28. SmallGovConservative says:
    April 8, 2023 at 12:19 pm

    Bystander says:
    April 8, 2023 at 11:02 am
    “…the usual BS equivalency.”

    You’d sound more intelligent if you formed your world view by following the Kardashians on Instagram instead of parroting MSNBC talking points and Showtime docudramas. Reagan was not racist; I’d tell you to go ask Ray Charles if you don’t believe me, but since you can’t do that you’ll need to settle for watching him kill it at Reagan’s second inauguration…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NiGq6q3Z34

  29. Bystander says:
    April 8, 2023 at 12:59 pm

    Ed,

    I guess better to be a pawn and playing than wiped off the board like the Rs promote to garner bigot votes .

  30. Bystander says:
    April 8, 2023 at 1:00 pm

    Small,

    You are too dumb to even click on a link and listen apparently..not a racist, right..

  31. Phoenix says:
    April 8, 2023 at 1:00 pm

    I’m fine with prosecuting Trump—- as long as after he sets precedent you go after Biden, Obama, Pelosi, McConnell, and all of the rest, one by one.

    Because we all know they have all committed crimes. It’s time to clean house.

  32. Phoenix says:
    April 8, 2023 at 1:05 pm

    Reagan was not racist.

    Well, I don’t know about that. But I do know he hated people in America who actually work for a living.

    That guy used to get morning wood from his dreams of eliminating American jobs.

  34. leftwing says:
    April 8, 2023 at 1:42 pm

    BRT, congrats on the admissions. Well done by all you guys and the students.

    Lib, how goes FL?

    On the declines/waitlists I learned a lot from my kids’ counselor. Got to know him personally early on, he came from an outlying town, we coincidentally hit the same coffee shop in the morning, and we would talk if he arrived super early.

    He’s the one that told my most academic kid nearly verbatim “you are a white suburban male with excellent academic and extracurricular credentials. There are tens of thousands of you. Whichever schools you are reaching for, manage down.” LOL. He wasn’t wrong. Kid was waitlisted everywhere top shelf, and did get in one of his preferred choices further down the list but still top 25 USNWR…

    My least academic kid, but with likely stronger extracurriculars, went nine for 10 on his schools including ironically getting in a couple the other was denied…was told by counseling (and a top ten school’s academic – not admissions – dean in a 1:1 on campus meeting) that the one variable schools control for rankings where they can move the needle is yield, so schools are much more likely to accept you if they believe you are going to accept them…ironically, by being academically weaker (and more likely to go to a given school) my ‘lesser’ student on paper was getting accepted at institutions the ‘better’ student on paper was getting declined. May explain Miami declines for kids that are ultimately getting into Ivies or equivalents.

    Also, and this came from the friendly counselor, my better student faced a unique but not uncommon issue in that for the prior two years one university he was very interested in (again top 25 but not top 10) was ‘sideways’ with our HS…the very top students of our school apparently used this university as a ‘safety’ for their top ten university applications and it just so happened how everything worked out a disproportionate number of those students were accepted up the food chain, leaving this other university hanging for a couple years with six or eight offers out to each graduating class and zero or one acceptance. As the counselor told me, we might be in the ‘penalty box’ there and to plan accordingly.

    As with any situation where demand far exceeds supply final allocation of those ‘resources’ won’t necessarily be on pure ‘economic’ terms. Any kid around here thinking an unweighted 4.4GPA, 1500 SAT, and a bunch of ‘check the box’ extracurriculars is going to walk you into a top ten may be advised to plan contingently.

  35. The Great Pumpkin says:
    April 8, 2023 at 2:23 pm

    I first visited Google’s offices in San Francisco way back in 2016.

    It was strange that tens of thousands of engineers were just hanging out doing nothing for a large chunk of their day.

    Software engineers were biking and going to the gym. They had swimming pools. They had multiple kitchens to eat from and cuisines from all over the world. There were even kitchens that specialized in desserts.

    One of the top people at Double Click had to stop our meeting to point something out to us.

    He said, “Look outside; you will see the most Google thing you will ever see in your life. These people are out here running every day for a few hours.”

    I thought it was strange that everything was designed to waste time, not for work.

    But then it hit me.

    Google hired and handcuffed all these brilliant people just so no one else could have them.

    It didn’t matter that they didn’t have enough work for them. All that mattered is no one else could have them. It was their way of not being disrupted.

    And it worked for a little while. But that’s over. And now everyone is worse off for it.

    Even the people that got the free lunches and the midday runs are worse off for it. It can’t feel good to have accomplished very little for years. And it certainly does not feel good to be less competitive now in a very competitive job market.

    And it wasn’t good for Google’s shareholders. And it wasn’t any good for Google because now they are in a tough spot competitively.

    But this wasn’t limited to just Google. This is the unspoken secret of all of Big Tech for the last decade.

    And to be clear, I know it might seem like i’m singling Google out, but think this was a Big Tech phenomenon.

    And I am very sure Google had pockets and groups that were over worked. And yet they hand cuffed and under worker many.

    Back then we worked closely with FB too and they all exhibited this “handcuffing brilliant people behavior.”And the article above from the WSJ is about Meta.
    Link: wsj.com/articles/these…

  36. The Great Pumpkin says:
    April 8, 2023 at 2:29 pm

    Now you know why WFH was such a hit. That trend is dying now because everyone knows in a competitive environment…you need to be in-person to be at your most efficient aka to get chit done.

    Companies that master in-person management are faster and more efficient than a remote team. When you are doing remote meetings regularly with your team…you are getting too big. It’s too slow compared to in-person.

  37. Very Stable Genius says:
    April 8, 2023 at 3:04 pm

    How is it that I know lavish gifts must be reported by politicians and Supreme Court justices… but Clarence Thomas does not?

    Between his lapse of ethics regarding Mega MAGA yachts and private jets and his wife Ginni’s attempt to overthrow the government… perhaps it’s time for an investigation?

    @BillyBaldwin

  38. Fabius Maximus says:
    April 8, 2023 at 4:28 pm

    Juice,

    You are carrying a lot of water for the TN GOP. Explain the rationale of expelling the black guys, letting the white lady slide and letting a Child M0lester sit for years.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/justin-jones-tennessee-house-expelled-b2316079.html?amp

    Hypocrisy, thy name is GOP!

  39. Fabius Maximus says:
    April 8, 2023 at 4:36 pm

    Grab popcorn.

    Brian Manookian @BrianManookian
    If these TN Republican Thugs even think about interfering in the lawful reappointment process, I’m going to start posting the names of their Nashville Mistresses.
    Beginning with @CSexton25 . (He prefers blondes).
    https://twitter.com/BrianManookian/status/1644691819538571265

  40. BRT says:
    April 8, 2023 at 4:37 pm

    do you follow all the Baldwins on twitter?

  41. Libturd says:
    April 8, 2023 at 4:51 pm

    “Any kid around here thinking an unweighted 4.4GPA, 1500 SAT, and a bunch of ‘check the box’ extracurriculars is going to walk you into a top ten may be advised to plan contingently.”

    Glen Ridge may be in the penalty box as well. My son got into a lot of schools that much higher performing peers did not. Though my son’s college resume was really strong in the extra-curricular department as it was loaded with unique community helping gigs that were unusual, real, but most importantly, fit his whole high-school to professional aspiration story.

    UF was super impressive and has now vaulted to number one among both his value and prestige choices. And even though it’s in solidly red Florida, people still share their pronouns, though, none on the panel of ambassadors listed any surprises. To be honest, it’s all mostly politics unless it impacts you directly. Still, there’s some concern over future funding for the university which is now ranked in the top 5 of public universities in most lists with DePopulist running the state. Though again, its mostly political posturing so I doubt he ruins their reputation for personal gain. Outside of the heat and some really old dorms, UF wins in most of the categories my son is interested in. He’ll need to find off-campus housing ASAP. Best of all, it’s dirt cheap. I mean $800 a month cheap if you find 3 roommates.

  42. Juice Box says:
    April 8, 2023 at 6:15 pm

    re: Clarence Thomas and his vacations.

    Nothing burger the politicians all use the excuse that they are friends, and are vacationing with friends etc, on their dime. Heck the FBI and DOJ tried to nail our very own Senator Menendez to the wall over it and the jury voted not to convict.

    BTW Our very own POTUS has been doing it for decades. Lavish all expensed paid for to the Virgin Islands, Martha’s Vineyard etc. The rule is they are supposed to be vacationing together with their friends but the dirty secret is the other family “friends” never shows up at the house.

    Pass a law and make it illegal already.

  44. Juice Box says:
    April 8, 2023 at 6:23 pm

    Lib -reputation? If anything more kids want to go to that school not less, news says FU has gotten way more completive.

    BTW it was Jeb Bush 24 years ago who ended the Florida state public universities ability to use race as a factor when making admissions decisions.

    Imagine that anywhere else?

  45. Juice Box says:
    April 8, 2023 at 6:24 pm

    Hummmm — Oleanto is an oat milk latte, ice shaken espresso with oat milk and a golden foam cold brew, made with a spoonful of oil.

    I would shit myself just for ordering it.

  46. Juice Box says:
    April 8, 2023 at 6:43 pm

    Fab – carry water? You carry plutonium for the DNC.

    You still think to this day Donald Trump sat down in Trump tower with the Russians and told them step by step how to hack into the DNC servers and Hillary’s home brew installed in her bathroom unsecured Microsoft Exchange Server, and somehow that Orange Clown got elected in 2016 because of Russian influence.

  47. BRT says:
    April 8, 2023 at 7:04 pm

    Wasn’t olean the day substitute that caused ana1 leakage as a side effect?

  48. BRT says:
    April 8, 2023 at 7:05 pm

    Fat substitute

  49. Grim says:
    April 8, 2023 at 8:37 pm

    Oh yeah, I remember those chips with the olestra.

    How the hell did the FDA ok that.

  50. grim says:
    April 8, 2023 at 8:46 pm

    Thank god they found a use for all that research:

    “It is currently used as a base for deck stains and a lubricant for small power tools, and there are plans to use it on larger machinery.”

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