I don’t wonder for a moment why MAD Magazine went out of business a few years back. Who needs it when you read headlines like this in normal media outlets? Tommy Tuberville is not one for criticism, evidently. Maybe he doesn’t belong in politics — which we emphatically already knew — because it is a rough and tumble business. Hillary used to listen to crowds of MAGAs chanting “Lock her up!” on a daily basis. Yet Tuberville thought that a tweet warranted contacting the police.
How about the human race? https://t.co/UCGCfF1lA3
— Gen Michael Hayden (@GenMhayden) October 10, 2023
Hayden is a retired four-star general and former head of the National Security Agency and director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He sees the idiocy in the Senate, where Tuberville has been ridiculously stonewalling military promotions and he’s disgusted. And well he should be. But MAGAdonia did not take well to this.
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden calls for the assassination of Sen. Tuberville because the senator is performing desperately needed oversight of the U.S. Military. Hayden, a renowned civil liberties violator, promoted the Biden laptop coverup and the Russia collusion scam. pic.twitter.com/MpwOSxJkPj
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 10, 2023
OMG. And Tuberville showed how infantile he was.
He tattled to teacher 😝
— Ann Flan Kirwin 🇺🇸 (@annflanVA) October 10, 2023
oh, big scary. telling on him to the capitol police.
I say TuberOus has never actually been part of the human race.— NOT.A.BOT!! 🟧 (@MarthaM00086745) October 10, 2023
I don’t know who Tuberville is working for, but it’s not the people of Alabama. Maybe he’s another one on Putin’s payroll. And right now, with the Israeli conflict exploding, the last thing we need is this idiot who doesn’t understand anything more complicated than a football game to be sandbagging the functions of our military. That’s all that General Hayden is observing.
Once again, when I think that Alabama had Doug Jones for a senator and they traded him in for this unspeakably ignorant lout, I just want to be sick. I seriously don’t know how long this nation can endure if celebrities and performance artists are elected to be lawmakers. It seems to me that we’re on the road to making the movie Idiocracy a prophetic documentary and not the broad farce that it was intended to me.
How we have fallen since 2006 when that movie came out. Who is the GOP going to start putting on the ticket next, chimpanzees banging together trash can lids? Oh, excuse me, that will be the new music in our land in the not too distant future. The GOP is going to put talking parrots, mouthing MAGA platitudes on the ticket. Caligula wanted his horse to become a senator in Rome, you think what I’m proposing is that far fetched, after all that we’ve seen?
” Who is the GOP going to start putting on the ticket next, chimpanzees banging together trash can lids?”
Isn’t that what we’ve got now?
“Once again, when I think that Alabama had Doug Jones for a senator and they traded him in for this unspeakably ignorant lout, I just want to be sick.”
As an Alabamian, I agree with that sentiment.
However.
As an Alabamian, I also want to remind you that, if the Alabama GOP voters hadn’t advanced Roy Moore to being their candidate in that special election (or if Moore’s accusers had come out sooner–like when the @$$hat announced he was running), we would never have had Jones in the seat for even a second. In the 2014 election, Sessions ran UNOPPOSED and pulled in more than 795,000 votes (with 22,000 write-in votes against him). In the 2017 special election, Moore (who lost to Jones) only pulled in a little over 650,000 votes (Jones pulled in over 670,000 votes; that was far fewer votes than the 750,000+ votes Vivien Figures received in 2008 running against Session although that was a presidential election year in which Sessions pulled in 1.3 million votes). GOP voters who couldn’t stomach the accusations against Moore simply stayed home and Democrats were more motivated to get out and vote for Jones. Even in 2010–the last previous competitive off-year election–Richard Shelby managed to draw nearly 970,000 votes to his Democratic opponent’s 515,000.
(Of course, the real blame lies with University of Alabama GOP voters who had the gall to vote for the rival coach. But, they preferred voting for the rival coach simply because “R.” There does appear to be one thing in Alabama that is actually stronger than college football.)
Hayden didn’t really need to say it. Tuberville officially removed himself from the human race months ago! Swine!
And is nobody following up on reports that Tuberville doesn’t actually reside in AL, or did I just miss it?
Seems his wife and son own the hose in auburn AL and Tuberville lives in Florida. https://www.al.com/news/2023/08/can-tommy-tuberville-represent-alabama-in-us-senate-if-he-lives-in-florida.html