Lady Karma has a killer sense of humor and she just nailed Tommy Tuberville and the GOP. Here’s the coach, who along with his fellow Republicans trash Joe Biden’s age all that they can, descending an airplane. He does a pratfall that makes Jerry Ford’s famous fall from Air Force One look like a ballet maneuver. And I don’t feel sorry one bit. Not with the divisiveness and idiocy that this man has perpetrated upon our country.
Senile old Coach Tommy https://t.co/vI7t6zay13
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 11, 2023
I guess that means that Tuberville has to retire from the Senate now, right? Because when somebody falls that’s proof of inability to lead, amirite?
This has a little more detail. Here he looks like a kid on a slide.
— Darryl Alber (@hkcollectibles) October 11, 2023
There are a lot of mean tweets out there today, Tommy, are you going to report us all? Insider:
GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville has no plans to back down on his ongoing block of military promotions, despite a new war breaking out in Israel.
A Tuberville spokesperson confirmed to Politico on Sunday that the senator’s efforts to halt military promotions remain unchanged: until the Pentagon’s abortion policy is altered, he’ll continue on.
The Pentagon’s decision in 2022 to adjust its policies to allow service members to get reimbursed for traveling out of state for abortion services upset Tuberville, leading him to begin his block on mass military promotions in February 2023.
The process for confirming military promotions is typically straightforward: the Senate majority leader would bring a vote to the floor with a detailed list of proposed promotions. Traditionally, the promotions would be voted on all at once and passed with the unanimous consent needed.
With Tuberville promising to give a “nay” on any vote to mass-promote service members, more than 300 nominees are still awaiting to be confirmed. For now, if the Senate wants to promote a service member, the upper chamber is forced to vote on individual people, severely slowing down the process.
The Senate used this process to promote three generals in late September, though hundreds of nominees remain unpromoted, including several who would lead US troops in the Middle East.
The vacancies of positions relating to US forces in the Middle East have drawn specific concern in recent days after Hamas fighters launched an all-out attack on Israel on Saturday, leaving hundreds dead and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare, “We are at war.”
In a statement on Sunday, Senate Armed Services Chair Jack Reed highlighted Tuberville’s “foolishness.”
“The severity of the crisis in Israel underscores the foolishness of Senator Tuberville’s blockade,” Reed said. “The United States needs seamless military leadership in place to handle dangerous situations like this and Senator Tuberville is denying it.”
Tuberville has mishandled his job in the Senate egregiously. I don’t feel a bit sorry for this blundering misogynist. He’s done nothing but fall on his ass since he’s been in congress and now he just did it literally. That’s the only thing that’s different today, is that now the literal matches the metaphorical.
A prat falls
I have zero fucks to give when it comes to Tuberville. Not with the damage and delay he’s inflicted for theatrical purposes.
Good for YOU Ursula, this idiot is like our Grassley, way beyond any useful and practical value … These are two members that should be flipped for more sanity in Congress … Once stumble fuck is gone, absolutely, the GOP could evaporate without a whimper … They have NO plans that will work, The Trump stain sits at their dinner tables and morning coffee, Our star Dems in the House have neutered some of these that dare support Trump with their stupid meetings …
With the House all screwed up by Rusty Gates, I fear for the military needs to be fully effective and the run-overs by the terrorists planning to kill hostages, one by one on TV, speaks to the violence they may perpetrate on those hostages for visual horror …
I’m fighting with all my might to resist giving karma a reason to come after me right now. (Most of you don’t know but due to my disability I’m prone to falls. Seldom have a bad one but when I do – ouch. One a couple of weeks ago caused a lot more than major bruising due to my blood thinner and wounded pride. Broken toes and a difficult to stitch laceration in my foot which a guy came to remove last week. Not quite ready to come out but all was looking well. But somehow the one up between a couple of toes tore and became infected. For various health reasons it resulted in being admitted to the hospital. Should be okay but won’t be out of the woods for a while. Hence my reluctance to tempt karma but all of you KNOW the kind of thing I’d think and say!)
He’s not mishandling his job, he is following a playbook. It makes me so sad that we have to pick the least corrupt in too many situations in our daily lives.