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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. Since February, he’s blocked more than 300 promotions.

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

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Indeed. He’s just as disingenuous, illogical, and pants-shittingly stupid as his voters. All they care about is the tantrum, and it’s about fucking time the military learned that the GOP doesn’t give a damn about anything except using them as props.

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And worse, it’s a tantrum about white supremacy, he’s punishing the military for trying to push these terrorists out of their ranks.

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I think you misspelled piece of shit.

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Going from beloved coach to detested political trash. Way to destroy your legacy.

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I cant help but to have noticed a lot of places on Lemmy where autocorrect has clearly gone wrong. We need a phone keyboard that produces options and a squiggly when it wants to correct something, maybe. I turned off my autocorrect for that reason, which raises its own set of problems lol.

no offense intended, of course <3

s/constitutes/constituents, likely.

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121 points

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.

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Eh, the only reason Doug Jones won in Alabama was because he ran against an admitted pedophile, and that contest was close.

Tuberville knows he can get away with a lot of shit as long as he stays Republican.

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22 points

It would still suit their national campaign

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Eh, how does it connected with abortion policy or blocking military promotions?

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103 points

There is absolute proof Republicans are anti-military.

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God, my memory of them from when I was a kid is such that this would be a scandal in 2004. Do you think they were always like this? I don’t.

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Conservatives are known to be pro war, but no promilitary and have never been strong supporters of military veterans since Vietnam. In fact most Veterans end up in Govt service because Republican businessmen refuse to hire veterans.

Liberals view the military as a public service, to be used when all else fails. They would view military use for the protection of U.S. interests as necessary but are unlikely to commit a large force to accomplish the mission.

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They have always been this way, they pander to the military because too many of us in the military and veterans eat that shit up with a smile, but when it comes time for raises, better housing, lawsuits, the massive rape and harassment problem, the gang problems, pollution, and so many other problems they turn a blind eye to, instead they want to kick out people for being gay.

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Remember when Biden was speaking before Congress and mentioned cleaning up the toxic ‘burn pits’ that have harmed veterans, and MTG and Boebert stood up and started booing him?

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Republicans aren’t anti-military, just anti-proletarian. Soldiers aren’t wealthy people, so fuck’em

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

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But Republicans praise the army, don’t they?

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They praise bills they voted against during ribbon cutting ceremonies

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Praise is different than support.

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We’re talking about hate / do not hate

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

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You mean “why would Hunter’s laptop do this?”

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