Tidings Of RINO Festivities In TN Legislature: RINOs Want Democrats Voting In GOP Primaries & Tennessee Workers To Be Declared “Non-Essential”

Welcome back to yet be alive. This is Tom Brady, one at 2.3. Yes, I am Tennessee's voice of reason.

Chattanooga's conservative conscience. God, you're joining me as always.

And in fact, it's Thursday, and that means that this time right now, Brandon Lewis, he's joining me.

He's the founder of the Tennessee Conservative, read his stuff at TennesseeConservativeNews.com,

Brandon, how are you today? So, man, I'm here to bring good tidings of

rano festivities in the Tennessee legislature. I was about to say, look at the lineup today.

I did not see many good tidings, but now I understand where you were going with that.

I had mentioned this in my Tennessee bullet point, and I knew you would have a reaction to it.

We have the fact that some House Republicans helped kill a bill requiring party registration

to help close Tennessee primaries. This has been a big issue for you. We were a little bit hopeful

that maybe someone could get past this assembly, but it looks like it's dead right now.

Well, we have Senate bills, 0777 carried in the House by Chris Todd, which is believed to be a

stronger bill. Hopefully, they're killing this one because they're going to pass the other one,

but still, we had representatives Michelle Caringer, Rick Eldridge, Mary Littleton,

Iris Rudder and Dave Wright essentially vote to say that, yeah, we definitely want Democrats

voting in Republican primaries. We need it. We're ranos. We have a week voting record if a

conservative runs against us in primary. We know that we can always count on a slew of Democrats.

Sometimes a couple of hundreds, sometimes a couple of thousand to cross over and vote for us,

because we have week voting records. Littleton, Rudder and Dave Wright in particular have very

week voting records and would be very exposed during a primary. Tim Rudd spoke up for it. The vote

was 11, 11, which means if one of these ranos would have just abstained from the vote or voted

what 90% of Republican primary voters want that the bill would have passed, but instead it failed.

This bill and similar bills have failed for, I don't know, two decades now in Tennessee,

because as they look at the votes coming in, they want that edge from the Democrats,

signing with them to keep the more liberal Republican in office.

Yeah, and this is really the problem, right? This is why it's so hard to get a bill passed,

because you mentioned it's one of those things 90% of the people's support. So you would say,

all that should be easy to pass, but you know Democrats in the legislature are not going to support it.

So all you need is a few Republicans that like those Democrat voters, like you said,

to kind of vote with them to not support it, and you have just enough to kill it,

and that's what makes this kind of difficult.

Would say I'm surprised, but I will give it to the ranos in the house,

at least they are consistent. While speaking of that, there's another bill that failed in the

Senate committee. It's a revived bill seeking to prevent Tennessee government overreach

and future emergencies. A lot of this has to do with COVID and what happened during COVID.

I'm guessing, but that is fair in the Senate committee. Talk about that.

Fail terribly. Essentially it just says that if we get in a quote-unquote emergency,

which was manufactured by Bill Lee and ranos who would not

stand up for the taxpayers, that Walmart can stay open while small shops were shuttered.

I think it was somewhere around 30-some odd percent, ultimately if Tennessee small businesses

went out of business during COVID because a small business can't afford to shut down for

three, six, nine months and have all these regulations on them. But Republicans taught

Garden Hire, Tom Hatcher, Ed Jackson, Adam Lowe, Paige Wally, and Richard Griggs, I'll say,

sure, shut them down. There are some people that we're going to deem essential in a quote-unquote

emergency. We were told by Republicans during COVID that the masks work, the vaccines,

stop transmission, that six feet was definitely a real thing and kids need to be at home and

churches need to be shut down and Thanksgiving needed to be canceled by executive order.

And these are the same people that allowed that to happen. And it just baffles me. I think if our

founding fathers were here, they would have strung them up on the liberty tree. But we have,

in our country and in our state, we have lost our grit and our awareness of what our government

is doing. And I can think of no better example of thumbing the nose at hardworking small business owners

and even people that just work in businesses that they think, oh, that's not essential. But it

always amazes me that when these emergencies happen, the government always gets a paycheck.

They're never deemed essential. But it's the taxpayers that continually suffer. So this is another

another canary in the coal mine that Tennessee Republicans need to wake up and make sure that we

start sending conservatives that share their values to the legislature instead of people like this.

Yeah, and I say on a report here that one of the people voting against it, she and stated that

the legislation could unintentionally jeopardize that legality of emergency protective orders,

including shelter in place curfew and evacuation orders that are essential in protecting

lives and property during emergencies. So what do you think about her response?

And it's funny. These rhinos will listen to government employees that come in from agencies to

kill conservative bills with baited breath, but they ignore the pleas of the constituency back in

the district. And it's primarily because leadership is funded in our state, almost 90 some

percent by special interest that are outside of the district. And so these folks that are in

leadership that sit on these committees don't have to get a dollar from their constituents back in

their district in order to fund their campaigns. And so there's this circular disconnect between

voters and between between the people they send to elect and how they vote. And it primarily

goes back to the money. And so it is amazing that the government will serve itself. It will serve

special interests, but when it comes to serving the constituents, they're typically the last in line

if they're thought of at all. I'll try to get some of those lawmakers on and see what they say when

I'm guessing. You should talk garden hire in particular. You should ask him why he thinks

Democrats should be voting in Republican primaries and why he thinks certain people should be

singled out of him and he's in your listening audience. Many of you out there listening have him

as your representative in the Senate. And he has long since needed to go. Yeah, I'm guessing the

response I'll hear when it comes to the emergency powers is that it was too broad is usually what

they'll say. So but we'll see we'll see what happens there. Got another story here about a bill

to lower the standard in Tennessee for the use of deadly force. This is in protecting property

and the bill is advancing the House and the Senate. Talk about this. What do you stand on this bill?

I think it's pretty good. I think anytime you know a state and we've seen study after study

that shows there's when criminals know that the populace is armed when the criminals know that

the criminal justice system sides with law-abiding citizens more so than protecting criminals,

they tend to take their criminal activity elsewhere. I had lots of friends that worked in the

Georgia Judiciary over the years that were attorneys both as prosecutors and public defenders.

And they say that every criminal in North Georgia knows that the best place to go commit a

property crime or any other type of crime is across the line in Hamilton County because it is very

much catch and release in this county where they will not do it because they'll end up in state

prison in Georgia. And Joey Hensley and Kit Kaffley brought this bill and it's to prevent or

terminate the others actual or attempted trespass. My bag, that's pretty good. Arson damaged

property, damaged livestock, burglary theft, robbery, aggravated cruelty to animals. And it

essentially just says that if you don't think you can stop them any other way and if you think that

you're going to incur bodily harm, you can use deadly force. And so I think going back to the

old days of if you don't own it, probably best not to wander on it. And if you've got mischief on

your mind, you may come home with, you know, and instead of a bag full of goodies, you may come home,

you know, with the wind whistling through you if you make it home at all. And so I'm all four

bills that give property owners the right to defend their house and home.

Yeah, and I think it's going to get more and more support for the reasons you cited that we

can't just allow criminals to just take over property like that. I mean, you just, you know,

it just can be a lot than there needs to be a deterrent. So I tend to agree with you. By the way,

hey, you know, it's funny. I live in northern Georgia right now. You know, I come over and work

in Tennessee and max my producers always trying to talk me into moving to Tennessee. You weren't

doing a great job there talking me into moving. Well, that you've got to, the issue is you've

got to move into the right zip code. Same thing with schools, right? Look, if you want the schools

that suck the least, we have a zip code school choice, which means you just have to

by hook or crook find yourself somewhere where the school's performed decently well. And it's

the same thing for crime rates. We ran a story recently in the Tennessee conservative that

signal mountain was the second safest municipality. I can't behind which one I can't recall.

And that's one of the reasons that that after years of living off-brainered road where crime is

rampant and quality of life is not police that we, you know, moved and not because we wanted to,

not because we didn't love our community, but because the leaders in our area just decided that,

you know, the panhandlers and the drug dealers and everyone else like they they have more of a

free reign than taxpayers off the mountain. And so that's one reason we relocated.

Yeah, okay. I don't blame you there. I'm speaking with Brandon Lewis. He is the founder of the

Tennessee conservative. Some we've been talking about the last few weeks, but a big issue in the

legislature immigration. And there are still a slate of immigration bills that continue to

march through the Tennessee legislature. You don't have to necessarily go over all of these.

There's a lot, but what do you think about this? So a few good ones. There's a build that

stipulates that the sheriffs must participate in the 287G programs with ice for handling and

detaining people. And that is great. If they have an immigration detainer or can't prove their

citizenship, it criminalizes another one that criminalizes illegal immigrants found in Tennessee

that has a deportation order. One that prohibits illegal aliens from operating commercial vehicles.

We've talked about in the past. If you're a political agent acting on behalf of foreign adversaries,

you have to register with the state and foreign adversaries can't purchase land in Tennessee.

And finally, it requires us judges cooperation with federal authorities when enforcing illegal

immigration laws to stop rogue judges in Tennessee and places like Memphis where they're cracking

down on crime. And the justice system tries to impede that good work. So we've got some promising

things that are moving through the legislature. Most of them are in response to bad things that

have already happened and not very preventative. But with these guys up in the legislature on

illegal immigration, if they take a baby step, you got to throw a party. And so we're glad to see them

doing it. So this next story I want to talk about, I love this actually. The Tennessee Senate

is allowing lawsuits over transgender coercion. So the Tennessee Senate passed legislation

Monday along patients to sue their doctor for coercing them in the seeking gender reassignment

some 30 years after treatment. So it's kind of another way to prevent these radical doctors,

I guess, to want to say, well, you have to change genders as a treatment.

Yeah, and then the data has shown that that does not work well. When you infuse somebody's

body that's a male with hormones that are female, when you put them on pile of psychedelic drugs

to try to cope with whatever mental illness or depression or anxiety that they're suffering with

and you give them this false recommendation, I think this will stop a lot of doctors from doing

this in Tennessee. So I'm glad to see that it's going through. And of course, you know, some of the

most lauded institutions, I think their founders will be rolling in the grave, Vanderbilt Medical.

And of course, their leadership there was found on the record saying, hey, the reason we push

this so much is because good lord, it's a pile of money, not only is it a pile of money at the

surgery with these kids, but we're going to break them so badly they're going to have to use

treatments in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Let's get them in here. Now they eventually

shut that down because of their national shame, but there's an evil lurking in Tennessee,

we're relative to this and I'm glad to see all this passing to try to snuff it out.

Yeah, I have heard that basically what's really going to be the tipping point with a lot of this

and we've already seen it are the lawsuits that we're going to see a lot more people who went

through the so-called treatments and were just more damaged and they were recommended all this

by doctors. So you're going to see a lot of lawsuits of people who were coercing the decision,

especially if they were coerced into it when there were kids. And that's been one of the problems.

So I think that's bad. It's bad enough when somebody gets to an age of consent and they make

these terrible decisions of their own volition, but it should be, in my opinion, against the

recommendation of doctors that understand how the human anatomy works. And so yeah, you may decide

to go do this and maybe we provide the treatment with you, but here's 55 pages of, hey, this is

probably going to screw you up five ways from Sunday and proceed to your own risk and payroll

versus this is going to be what fixes you, which we all know is not the case. So we shall see,

as often we discover on this show, time and again, it's not the moral argument, it's not the

logical argument, it's the money argument that tends to win every fight in Tennessee politics.

And so if we can get the money on our side in this situation, I think we'll be better suited.