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Military leaders claim Tommy Tuberville's actions are a national security risk, but the senator is defiant.

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[–] drdabbles@lemmy.world 81 points 2 years ago

He will NOT be appointing officials for an organization that kills people until the government stops allowing abortions. Just let the logic sink in for a while. The guy's a POS, and nobody should be surprised that a single issue candidate is only interested in a single issue.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Tuberville is a complete imbecile. That’s not a baseless ad-hominem attack - he’s established a solid, bipartisan reputation in the Senate as the densest, dumbest motherfucker who’s been elected to that legislative body in a long, long time.

[–] Acronymesis@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Notice that the comment you're responding to specifically qualifies him as the dumbest person in the Senate. There's a lot more competition for "dumbest member of Congress" in the house. Boebert is still a representative (for now at least), after all.

Not to mention, Greene. And Gaetz.

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Don't forget meat puppet Senator Ted "Cancun" Cruz!

While Bobert probably has a singular brain cell randomly impacting her skull forcing a vomit of nonsense from her mouth. Cruzy boy barely classifies as sapient even after he's been loaded up with whatever bullshit he's meant to unload into people ear cannals.

[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

The difference is that Raphael Cruz is a Princeton and Harvard educated attorney who understands that he's unloading bullshit as part of a political grift. Boebert barely got her G.E.D. and truly believes every idiotic word that comes out of her mouth.

Well, in point of fact, Cruz actually appears to be somewhat intelligent, based on transcripts of private conversations he’s had. It’s just that he’s an asshole who had pretty much zero integrity. And everyone knows it.

[–] Acronymesis@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Good point!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People keep naming others, but after hearing him say things like we don't want poets in the military and whit supremacy isn't racist, I think he's so fucking stupid he can barely breathe. He also insists people call him Coach instead of Senator, which is also unbelievably stupid.

He should be made to apologize to trees for wasting the oxygen they’re so kind to provide us with.

[–] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We should be so lucky to have someone on the left in Congress with a political project they believed in so much that they would do something like this.

[–] whodatdair@lemm.ee 31 points 2 years ago

Can you imagine the screeching if dems were doing this over literally anything?

[–] Pseu@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago

The issue is that by Senate policy, one person can throw a massive wrench in the process and grind things to a halt. Progressives typically want to do things, which cannot be done by one person throwing a hissy fit.

[–] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

From the news it appears that the USA has a political system where fairly important things can be shut down by just a single person. It also appears that every time this happens that the single person is a monumental asshole. Is there any reasonable explanation for this? I am guessing no but it is still happening and fairly often....

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Have you noticed that those assholes are also mostly appointed instead of elected?

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

It only seems like a monumental asshole each time. You are forgetting how many "trans people don't exist" stuff gets blocked by the courts.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

I wonder how quickly Tommy Tuberville would have driven one of his sons' girlfriends to an abortion clinic if they got her pregnant in high school...

[–] theodewere@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Weaponized stupidity.

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago

How does this guy remember how to breathe every day?

[–] Nerrad@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Time to make Alabama hurt.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 years ago

We need legislation to prevent this type of government meddling. Just like with the filibuster. Asshole.

[–] Rusticus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

This is where we are: military leaders claim it's a security risk. The senator (who has no military experience) doesn't care. Ironic that I am typing this on 9/11.