Remember, the only reason Tuberville is able to do this is because 49 other Republican senators are complicit in enabling it.
I really try to avoid bigotry, but with Republicans, I think it’s warranted.
They all support garbage like Tumorville. I can tell this by the way they literally support garbage like Tumerville, Santos, barfly Barbie, EmptyGreen, etc.
In fact, if they weren’t shiteating asshats, they wouldn’t be Republicans.
Months after he started, they are getting around to doing the smallest possible action they can take. What bravery!
We’ll see. As an Alabamian, Tuberville is an embarrassment to me. Imagine holding workers who had nothing to do with a policy hostage and thinking you are doing a good thing. Tuberville is a selfish monster and too dumb to see how he is hurting the military and people’s military careers. Shame.
He would be in a close race for dumbest congressman if Louis Gohmert were still in office. That guy asked the Forest Service if they could change the moon’s orbit to prevent forest fires or something
Is he the one that was worried Midway Island would flip over if they expanded the military base?
Abortion in the military is an excuse. He wants to hold those positions open so they can be filled with rightwing sycophants in 2025.
Tuberville is a selfish monster and too dumb to see how he is hurting the military and people’s military careers.
He doesn’t care about that. The point is to hold these spots open until Trump can fill them. He is quite literally working for #Putin at this point.
There is no way they will be able to hold them for a year.
FOOTBALL! BOOM!
I mean, that’s how protests work in general. On top of that, Machaela Cavanaugh did almost the same thing and she was hailed for it because of what she was protesting.
My personal opinion is that single person protests should have not affect the function of the Senate.
Otherwise, you can have one senator who protests something that literally nobody else agrees with. Like, if instead of military paying for travel expenses for abortions, he was protesting that military people are allowed to wear pants, we’d still have the same problem.
So you say that some people are praised for doing this but it depends on the issue? It’s ridiculous. If it’s such an important issue, then there should be more support. Make it so that the same limits apply as for filibuster, for example. That’s the way everything else works. It shouldn’t be just one or two people.
This unanimous consent procedure is the wrong way of doing military promotions. We need to take away this ridiculous power for any Senator to unilaterally hold up promotions.
I thought she was the one that filibustered to try and prevent anti trans legislation from going through? I don’t see how they are “almost the same thing”. The only similarity i see is the stalling.
Nebraska passing laws is different from the US Army running itself. Compare and contrast. Yes they are both protests, and roughly similar. The effects are very, very different.
Factor in the Moscow-Mitch-refusing-to-hear-Merrick-Garland-to-steal-a-SCOTUS-seat that Tuberville’s apparently doing and it’s WAY different. Treasonous, even. Is a protest to demand bodily autonomy for all women different from what Tuberville is doing? Fuck yes. That’s why she’s hailed for it and he’s an asshole.
I wish i could filter out headlines describing actions politicians are taking that arent actual legal actions. There is no legislative process called rolling. Its news when its an indictment, or subpoena, or censure. Im tired of hearing how blasted a wealthy politician is for committing crimes, but isnt actually facing a single tangible consequence.
To be fair, it’s “The Hill” which no one ever heard of before Trump showed up and started shitting everywhere he went. They aren’t afraid to set up a little clickbait every single day.
I’ll believe it when I see it
Agreed, this feels like more theater. These holds make so much sense when you put it in the larger context of what the moron movement is setting itself up for.
The Heritage Foundation, authors of Project 2025, love this, because it’s causing power vacuums in the military that they’re more than happy to…ahem…“recommend” certain people to fill.
Bingo. And surprise surprise, headline today is that this play failed…
