Sen. Tommy Tuberville doubles down after blocking hundreds of military promotions: 'I don't care if they promote anybody'

What a smug ass. A true representation of his constitutes.

The dems need to plaster this smug fucks face leering over a dead soldiers body with the caption "Because of Republican Inaction. I Wasn't Ready."

These ads write themselves.

There is absolute proof Republicans are anti-military.

At least he's consistent with his party's stance on hating both the military and the US

GOP: How could Joe Biden do this to our troops?

He's an ass, but this isn't single-handed. He only has this power because his fellow Republicans (and Manchin, and probably Sinema) are allowing it. If a handful of Republicans wanted to fix this, they absolutely could.

I believe that there is an active conspiracy to destroy the USA from within and this is proof of that. Follow the money and you'll uncover who is behind it. My guess, China, Russia and maybe some Oligarchs around that.

If the dems were smart they would use this to campaign to military people, along with the dozens of things Trump has done to piss them off.

But the dems are physically incapable of advertising themselves to the Republic core audience, while simultaneously harping on about compromise and reaching across the ilse.

Why are other republicans quiet on this one? Why they don’t tell Tubertool to fuck himself and vote on those promotions?

Entire GOP is complicit in destroying the military preparedness. Republicans all are harming the armed forces, Tubertool is just a tool they are using.

He's stalling until Trump is elected, then push through the white supremacists.

Republicans are just domestic terrorists

Maybe we should just draft this fucker and send him on a Middle East deployment as a private.

Wow, he looks as much like a smug cunt as he acts.

I wonder what his constituency thinks. I mean, the ones with more than 2 brain cells to rub together. Surely his phones should be ringing off the hook. I know he doesn't care but I hope there's some noise being made

Tommy Tuberville sounds like some kind if ringmaster to a potato circus

Now that it's impacting military readiness the executive has made it possible for those awaiting promotion to act in the role that they will eventually have. So, effectively, what Tuberville is doing is removing Senate oversight from the process. It's a self-own and he's super proud of it.

If you don't hate this guy enough, go to his wikipedia page and look at the section about his charity

Remove this this stupid fuck from office.

We’re all aware that republicans don’t give a fuck about optics but this is a really bad look for them. Tommy Teletubbie is truly trying to destroy America for the sake of Trump and Russia and Republicans are letting him do it.

Man pledges to continue destroying lives, 300 already claimed.

What a stupid and fucking disgusting hill to die on. This guy was just a fucking football coach and now this rosacea ridden mother fucker is holding our military back. Fuck him and fuck the gop.

I absolutely hate Petey PotatoTown

I was enlisted in the Navy back in the 80's.

I knew from then, if an officer was not promoted on a regular basis they were, I think, asked to resign. This guy is not only slapping officers in the face, he is actually reducing the number of officers in the military.

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This is the best summary I could come up with:

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who's singlehandedly blocked hundreds of military promotions in protest over the Pentagon's abortion policies, said he's not going to change his mind and doesn't care that people aren't being promoted.

After the US Supreme Court reversed decades of precedent in overturning its decision in the Roe v. Wade abortion access case in 2022, the Pentagon announced its plan to reimburse service members who need to travel out-of-state to receive abortion services.

Tuberville, a Republican senator out of Alabama, took exception to the decision and said he'd use his power to stymie any military nominations and promotions he could.

Appearing on the podcast "The Kimberly Guilfoyle Show" on Thursday, Tuberville doubled down on his promise because the White House and Pentagon have refused to change the policy.

Speaking with CNN's Kaitlan Collins in July, Tuberville said "there is nobody more military than me" and noted he wouldn't be blocking promotions if he thought it affected military readiness or recruitment.

As Tuberville downplays the situation, Pentagon officials have said that the hundreds of military vacancies has created "unnecessary and unprecedented" risks for the country.

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This wouldn't be that hard to fix - would only need 16 Republicans to join every Democrat in passing a temporary rules change to eliminate the ability for any one senator to block UC requests for military promotions; could automatically expire at the end of this Congress, so it wouldn't be permanent, and they could still block it them with 2 senators if there was any particular promotion they had a problem with.

So part of me suspects that the Democrats are just as happy to have this in their pockets, because if there's some sort of election-threatening military setback in 2024, now they can blame it on the GOP and Tuberville.