Racist Tennessee Republicans Want To Ban Rainbows! (w/ Justin Kanew) Bulwark Podcast

[ihaveaquestion]

Mar 27, 2024 The Bulwark Podcast with Tim Miller
As local news is hollowed out, rightwing news fills in the gaps. In Tennessee—ground zero for the culture war—Justin Kanew's site, The Tennessee Holler, holds leaders to account. Kanew joins Tim Miller on the anniversary of the Nashville school shooting. Plus, an update on the bridge disaster from Baltimore Banner reporter Justin Fenton.

0:00 - Intro
0:59 - Origin of Tennessee Holler and Importance of Local News
6:28 - Tennessee Governor Lee’s Hypocritical Ban on Drag Shows
10:40 - Lt. Gov Randy McNally’s Flirtatious Comments on Young Gay Man’s Instagram
15:03 - Pride Flag Bans in Classrooms While Confederate Flag is Allowed
16:13 - One Year Anniversary of Covenant School Shooting
20:56 - The Expulsion Vote of the Tennessee Three
26:15 - Tennessee Legislators’ Motivations for Extremist Policies
31:26 - Why Not Leave Red States
33:39 - Should There Be Access to Private School Vouchers?
37:24 - Possibility of the TikTok Ban
41:20 - What Biden Should Do to Win Young Voters

[MagickMuffin]

1. Someone Upstairs is gonna be pissed, His promise being vilified

God promised us RAINBOWS as a reminder that he would never flood the earth again.


Oh well, at least it’s one way to rid ourselves of the bible.

[jimfields33]

2. Bigot not racist.

[FreeState]

3. The video is also about race

The Tennessee three etc. one can be racist and homophobic at the same time as well.

[jimfields33]

5. I need to be more careful with only reading.

Thank you.

[Torchlight]

10. lol

[Warpy]

4. The bible as a collection of Bronze Age to Iron Age myths

from the eastern Mediterranean forms the mythic base of US, European, and other cultures. It contains some thumping good stories and some great poetry.

It also contains a lot of pure idiocy, so as the inerrant word of an omniscient deity, it sucks.

I'd never want to get rid of it entirely, any more than I'd want to get rid of The Iliad and for the same reason.

Ancient literature has to be taken with a pound of salt. The problem isn't the bible, it's the morons who haven't read it through and wave it around like some sort of talisman.

And I still think TFG is most likely hawking bibles he harvested from his hotel rooms.

(ETA: Nitpicky note to the guy in the above video: spheres don't have tips. Tennessee might be the asshole of the country right now or it can be the dinner plate sized buckle on the bible belt or it can be the biggest outdoor lunatic asylum, outpacing Florida. It just can't be the tip of a sphere, those don't have tips. Maybe a spike protein on the surface of a deadly virus would do better)

[MagickMuffin]

6. Good reasons

I don’t really want the bible banned. As they are just stories passed down by word of mouth and then the written word. It’s unfortunate that we need someone to interpret all those stories with a political agenda.

Plus a bonus round of science as Rainbows exist whether anyone believes in the bible story of the flood. I can create rainbows every time I water the plants. However, I did know someone who believed wholeheartedly that rainbows only existed because of god.

A rainbow is an optical phenomenon caused by refraction, internal reflection and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a continuous spectrum of light appearing in the sky.

[Warpy]

8. Oh, it's time for a refresher of just how bad some people can be

Enjoy:

I post this periodically to demonstrate just where Republicans come from.

[Grins]

9. I listened to it a couple times.

He said “spear.”

A bit quick and garbled, but if you listen close…

[Fla Dem]

7. Tennessee Republicans get over it, put on you big boy pants and grow up.