After blocking hundreds of promotions, Tuberville said the US has 'the weakest military than we've probably had in my lifetime'

And you helped make it that way, cunt.

I am so exhausted of this fucken asshats.

There has got to be some recourse for us people.

These individuals are like having repairmanman from All That show up and announce something is broken, then expect to be paid and praised to repair it but pocketing the cash and running.
- He is so obviously compromised by external interests he should be removed from office. What logic is there to this? Let him stay up there and fuck our military just because? Is it because he was democratically elected and you can't just remove them? I don't understand how theres such rampant and blatant corruption and nothing is being done.
There is, and at this point it lies beyond the courts.
There is recourse, but no one wants to go to jail for the rest of their life afterward. Things are still too good to go that far.
- Things were pretty good when Kennedy was killed, too.

This is why no Republicans should ever be allowed into office.

Ever.

I love 1 party states when I agree with the party
- Well if the gop folds then I'm sure you'd get a new 2nd party.
- Nobody said anything about wanting a one party state. We just don't want anyone to vote for a certain fascist party.
- You dropped your sarcasm

His actual complaint is:

"$114 million on diversity training, you gotta be kidding me," Tuberville said.

"We've got the weakest military that we've had in probably a year in my lifetime," he added. "Now we've got a lot of good military people, but infiltrating our military is all this wokeness and it's coming from the top, coming from Joe Biden, coming from Secretary of Defense Austin."

First, if it works, it's encouraging better decisions and increasing team effectiveness. I have no idea if the US military is doing a good job with this or not, but if they're doing it right they are building a better military way more cost effectively than one more fighter jet or whatever we would be using the money on.

But even if they're not doing the most effective form of training, it's 0.0075% of the defense budget. It's $40 per person employed by the department. That is extremely average for diversity training.

And lastly, this isn't like, new. The military has been doing diversity research and training since 1971. I'm sure Biden has some input if he wants it, he un-did a Trump ban on some training with an executive order, but I don't think the question of budgeting $90MM vs $114MM goes to "the top" at all.

"$114 million on diversity training, you gotta be kidding me," Tuberville said.
What an idiot to choose to say this.
How much has it cost the military in lawsuits and defending racism, harassment, sexual assault, and every other form of behavior that homophobes, racists, and misogynists perpetrate on those around them. How has that affected leadership, personnel readiness, quality of work? Betcha that cost is far higher than some shitty hot take on “OMG the military is soft…”
- It is a mistake to assume the right wing cares about facts. They don't use words to find or describe truth. They use them for effect.
- DoD budget is $1.52 trillion btw
  I think we can handle 1/10,000th of our budget being spent on not being shitty to fellow military members.
I can't believe more of Tuberville's former football players haven't came out calling out his racist bullshit, there's no way this guy wasn't this bad while he was coaching.

The purpose of conservatives preventing promotions is so tRump can install/promote his hand-picked leadership within the military when the time comes. This will allow him to use the military against U.S. citizens if/when he becomes president.

When he tried to use the military against U.S. citizens during his previous term, he was stopped by military leadership. They refused. Next time, he will have complete loyalty. Conservatives are setting the stage for him.

This is what they should be voicing in the articles and Democrats should be calling him out for it and forcing Republicans to remove him.
Because your exactly right. Not only did Trump demand the military anytime there was a protest he also wanted to do stupid shit. Like tanks driving down the white house road during one of his speeches. They stop that too.
Trump talks about how much he loath the military because they wouldn't bend to his will.
Between project 2025 and this they are making sure Donald Trump dictatorship goes through and his will or the will of the real GOP of fascism is realized. 50 years conservatives have been planning this take over and if we don't vote for Biden and he wins. Then Trump does and America is fucked.
Then it will be civil war because I will refuse to live in a country under a christofascist dictatorship run by Trump.
- Between project 2025 and this
  Make no mistake, this is part of Project 2025. All Americans should be terrified of the GOP's long term plans.
  If you don't know what Project 2025 is, educate yourself. We're watching our Republic die in front of our eyes.
- Like tanks driving down the white house road during one of his speeches. They stop that too.
  Mostly because the tanks are way too heavy for any road in DC. Seeing one crush through Pennsylvania Ave and into the metro underneath during his speech would have been even funnier than Putin and his one-tank parade.

The US Navy has more heavy aircraft carrier groups than the rest of world combined. The US has 11 out of 22. It also has the world's largest and most advanced air force. Old US Army equipment is working wonders for Ukraine against Russia, the supposed next best military.

Not to mention the US has a massive arsenal of working ICBMs and SLBMs.

I'm sorry, but nobody stands a snowballs chance in hell against the US military.

Regarding Iraq and Afghanistan, nation building and occupying are two different things. Kind of like ruling verses obtaining power are different.

ETA: Think about that during presidential elections.

The US has 11 out of 22.
This is only a partial picture.
The US has 11 supercarrier groups that individually rival the power of most nation's entire airforces. These are unrivaled by anything else in the world.
The US additionally has 9 America and Wasp class amphibious assault ships that have an airwing capability that rivals most other nations' carrier groups. The Navy plans for this force to eventually be made up of 11 America class ships.
So the reality is that the US' secondary aircraft carrier capability rivals that of the rest of the world combined. The total power disparity of the combined supercarrier and amphibious assault fleet is mind boggling.
- What's also mind boggling is the USAF F-15 has zero combat losses and is the OLD air superiority fighter. The USAF can start operating anywhere in the world with a force larger than most other air forces in < 72 hours.
You're missing the bigger picture imo. All that military might is going to be under the control of people handpicked by Trump, if he's elected and project 2025 goes to plan. Why do you think Tuberville is creating all these vacancies.
Tuberville isn't doing this for shits and giggles.
Regarding Iraq and Afghanistan, nation building and occupying are two different things. Kind of like ruling verses obtaining power are different.
Even the Taliban are having issues here.
If the number is 11 out of 22, it doesn't have more than the rest combined. It has the same number as the rest combined. The rest is right. Also, remember the best air force in the world is the USAF, the second best air force in the world is the USN.

This is the best version of the 'Eric Andre shooting someone that he then blames for being shot' meme I think I've ever, ever seen.

This is the sort of thing that happens when you have people who proclaim that government doesn't work in that government. They say the system is broken, and hope you don't notice that they have been deliberately breaking it for years.

He obviously doesn’t work for America like so many other Republicans. Fuck Alabama. Fuck Auburn too

You have to be related to Alabama to fuck it.
- Goddamn I could feel the burn from this comment on the west coast.
Always support a fuck Auburn even in serious discussions. But dont let Ole Miss off the hook, if they never employed him he never gets hired by the weagles, I hated him back then because he was a smarmy prick. Didn’t think I could hate him more to be honest
Edit: for clarification I’ve never been an Alabama fan or citizen either

This football coach from the ivy leagues has the audacity to pretend to know what military service is like without having educated himself at the bare minimum nor actually serving to provide a serious opinion on the matter.

The fact this incompetent malcontent continues to receive the support of his constituents is truly representative of how unbelievably fucked humanity is.

This football coach from the ivy leagues has the audacity to pretend to know what military service is like without having educated himself at the bare minimum nor actually serving to provide a serious opinion on the matter.
I remember when McCain was the last living member of the legislative branch to have served or had family (his son) actively serving in the military. I fully agree with you, when this shitstain decided to make a remark like that, it needs brought up that he is wholly ignorant about the US military and is just parroting the party line in some kind of weak ass political jab. He's a fuckstick, and so are his voters.
AL resident here - he doesn't get as much direct support as you might think. Most of the state votes straight red without even reading the names, so he only needs enough support/bullying competition to get through the primaries.
Ivy league? Ivy League doesn't mean prestigious, and even if it did, it would not describe any of Tuberville's institutions.
- More a reference to his inherited wealth and social stature as opposed to just his education and work background.
  I am heavily implying that the man himself is worth less than trash and he only has the job because of nepotism

Imagine having your military undermined by a washed up football coach. I have to hope that this sentient pile of damp laundry gets what's coming to him eventually.

Bone cancer and getting blood eagled?
- That Bloodeagle scene on Vikings was really hard to watch. I still see it in my memories when it's brought up. The fact it was a real thing is what does it. Humans are the worst.
- I'd settle for repeatedly falling up a flight of stairs or getting fucked in the ass with a splintered broom handle.
- Finally, someone who says it like it is. Don't forget conservative "news" entertainment. Fox and New York Post need to go in the dustbin of history too
- Eh there are some cool churches. Eliminate the conservative doomsday cult ones
- thats some bs. if churches are eliminated then all clubs and groups need to be as that is what they are. Take away thier non profit status or stop allowing non profits to be tax free. As for radio again who says its conservative or even talk radio. abolish it all? common man. now regulate media like we did in the 70's. that would be great. so no company can own more than one of each thing for a region (tv, radio, newspaper, etc)

Translation: Weaker = can't brain wash them into mindless murder machines like we use to be able to.

Yeah, I hate those sociopaths who are all like " if you treat me with respect I'll treat you with respect."
When what they really mean is that if you treat them as an unquestioned god, they won't be as nasty as they could be.

So where is the mob of MAGA patriots ready to storm the Capitol and run this guy out of town on a rail? Hello? taps mic Is this thing on?

So? It's not like Pro America Republicans will vote him out even though he's causing the United States to have the weakest military he's ever seen!

I've heard it theorized that the strategy is intended to starve the military of officers so that Trump can fill the vacancies with loyalists when he regains the White House. Essentially, it is the military equivalent of Project 2025.
It's not a bug. It's a feature.
- I hate that you’re probably right.
  They did not with the Scrotus, they’re doing it with the military

Ah, the old chestnut of causing a problem, and then blaming it on someone else. Republican leadership is a Jonestown suicide cult, and they want all of us to drink the kool-aid.

What a sack of shit. Fuck you, Alabama.

Look in the mirror, asshole.

Not sure if this guy is mentally equipped to recognize his own reflection.

Idiocracy timeline

God, I wish it had, but this waste of skin is lying again.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville said in a recent interview that he believes the US currently has "the weakest military that we've had in probably a year in my lifetime."

Tuberville made his comments Monday evening after Newsmax's Eric Bolling mentioned the US military's spending on diversity training.

While Tuberville piled on President Joe Biden and his administration for what he considers to be a "self-inflicted" disaster, he didn't mention the outsized role effect he's had in 2023 on the nation's defense forces.

Following the Pentagon's decision to update its policies to allow service members to get reimbursed for out-of-state expenses for abortion care, Tuberville has singlehandedly prevented hundreds of military officers from getting promoted via a vote on the Senate floor.

Senate Republicans in recent weeks have repeatedly attempted to push through more individual votes on the chamber floor, only to be prevented more than 60 times by the former football coach.

Rick Scott, Josh Hawley, Mike Lee, and JD Vance, successfully lobbied Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to oppose the resolution.

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This is where Clarence the Angel shows him how much better the world would be had he never been born.

Can he find out? Please? He's been fucking around for all this time. Someone let him find out.

"You keep hitting yourself" says older brother who forces younger brother's arm to keep hitting himself.

Yup. Try being human. If you say you're willing to put aside the money once and that you're genuine about anything and you're automatically a narcissistic partisan who is at risk of terrorism or conspiracy.
- Yep. Just that lots of republicans aren't being genuine. A lot of them are being christo-fascist, and they want to bend everyone to their will.

What's he at now? Genuinely curious to see how far he can push it. I'm still surprised nothing like this has ever happened before.

if our defense depends on the pomp and nonsense of these promotions, then our military has bigger problems than being vastly, profoundly over-funded.

I mean, at that level the positions are legally bound to certain ranks, meaning that high-level, strategic positions that determine strategy are unable to be filled except on a temporary basis, which means that decision-making is more tenuous. The military is still a monster, and it'll fulfill its functions as it normally does, and will for some time, but the longer this goes on, the more headless the military becomes.
If you don't know WTF you're talking about, it's better not to opine at all.

Sure... mock the folks with automatic weapons... should work out great for you.