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Hey, they were JOB-CREATORS! Horrible, brutal, unpaid jobs!

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If the Legislature apologized, some of their crazier constituents might get the idea that they'd done something <i>wrong</i>, and the tidal wave of butthurt would drown the state.

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Sail Away...

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More like fore-mothers, ain'a?

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Did they apologize to those poor <strike>slaveholders</strike> capitalists who suffered massive property loss from the Emancipation Proclamation?

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<i>The original draft’s language offering “profound apologies” for slavery was removed by Republicans;</i>

You mean "the party of Lincoln", the party that 'freed the slaves', the 'totally not-racist' party did that?

They exist on so much irony that they think it's a flavor.

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Given the perfidy that the Tennessee Legislature is usually up to, this really is a net plus.

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This should really win over the Germans who want to building a shiny new automobile plant in Knoxville.

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Same... corporations are indentured servants to big gumbmint forcing them to give all their munez to the folks who make them rich.

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Makers got the shaft from soshulist class-warfare elites...

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“profound apologies” is not much different than "whoopsie".

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Not buying it until apology expert Ben Carson, MD (WTF!) weighs in on The POTUS Bamz clear involvement behind this demand for the good (totally non-racist) folks of TN to apologize for slavery.

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And I would like to apologize to the monkeys for any Tennessean ever having claimed kinship to them.

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No RINO walks alone. You gotta look for the invisible hand stuck up the puppet's backside...

(being this far into the looking-glass is tiring.)

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