Military leaders claim Tommy Tuberville’s actions are a national security risk, but the senator is defiant.

  • Dr. Dabbles@lemmy.world
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    He will NOT be appointing officials for an organization that kills people until the government stops allowing abortions. Just let the logic sink in for a while. The guy’s a POS, and nobody should be surprised that a single issue candidate is only interested in a single issue.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    …in an effort to force the Biden administration’s defense department to rescind a policy of leave and expense reimbursement for service members and their dependents traveling for abortions.

    I can only assume this is for bases that don’t have the means to just do it themselves. I was a surgical tech in the Air Force, and every hospital I was stationed at provided abortion services.

    The VA does, too.

    Cuz abortion services ARE FUCKING HEALTHCARE. You want to destroy a service member’s mission readiness? Give them a kid they can’t support.

    You don’t want to pay service members to travel for abortions? Fine. Fine. Equip and staff every single military base with an OBGYN clinic w/ surgical capabilities. Don’t want to give them med leave to recover from an abortion? Fucking FINE. Schedule a uteroscopy and biopsy along with it so we can throw in a cancer screen, nab any polyps, ablate any endometriosis, etc; and give them extra leave for those, cuz damn was that one a bleeder! She’ll need extra time to recover for sure!!

    Do the same at VAs, cuz on federal facilities, state law can eat a bag of dicks.

    Then declare a state of emergency in the Y’all Qaeda infested regions of the US on the basis of denied healthcare leading to the current and worsening humanitarian crisis; and in doing so, enabling the VA to provide abortion services to non-veterans under section §1784 of title 38, United States Code.

    This dystopian GOP shit is maddening. We need to stop trying to argue with it, and start finding ways to just work around it. Fuck em.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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      Working around the GOP’s bullshit is a short-term solution. They need to be permanently removed from power.

      • Zamotic@lemmy.zip
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        Then we need to do the short term solution while we work on the long term solution. I’m kind of sick of one side trying to keep it a fair fight. GOP politicians have all shown they don’t care about that and will employ any means necessary to get their policies enacted while doing everything they can to disrupt the policies on the other side

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      Do the same at VAs

      The problem with that is that it may have been legal at the place it was done, but states would absolutely place police next door to wait for those women to come out. They already have laws that criminalize women who go out of state

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    Tuberville is a complete imbecile. That’s not a baseless ad-hominem attack - he’s established a solid, bipartisan reputation in the Senate as the densest, dumbest motherfucker who’s been elected to that legislative body in a long, long time.

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        Notice that the comment you’re responding to specifically qualifies him as the dumbest person in the Senate. There’s a lot more competition for “dumbest member of Congress” in the house. Boebert is still a representative (for now at least), after all.

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          Don’t forget meat puppet Senator Ted “Cancun” Cruz!

          While Bobert probably has a singular brain cell randomly impacting her skull forcing a vomit of nonsense from her mouth. Cruzy boy barely classifies as sapient even after he’s been loaded up with whatever bullshit he’s meant to unload into people ear cannals.

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            The difference is that Raphael Cruz is a Princeton and Harvard educated attorney who understands that he’s unloading bullshit as part of a political grift. Boebert barely got her G.E.D. and truly believes every idiotic word that comes out of her mouth.

          • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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            Well, in point of fact, Cruz actually appears to be somewhat intelligent, based on transcripts of private conversations he’s had. It’s just that he’s an asshole who had pretty much zero integrity. And everyone knows it.

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      People keep naming others, but after hearing him say things like we don’t want poets in the military and whit supremacy isn’t racist, I think he’s so fucking stupid he can barely breathe. He also insists people call him Coach instead of Senator, which is also unbelievably stupid.

  • ChrisLicht@lemm.ee
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    We should be so lucky to have someone on the left in Congress with a political project they believed in so much that they would do something like this.

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      Can you imagine the screeching if dems were doing this over literally anything?

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      The issue is that by Senate policy, one person can throw a massive wrench in the process and grind things to a halt. Progressives typically want to do things, which cannot be done by one person throwing a hissy fit.

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    From the news it appears that the USA has a political system where fairly important things can be shut down by just a single person. It also appears that every time this happens that the single person is a monumental asshole. Is there any reasonable explanation for this? I am guessing no but it is still happening and fairly often…

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      It only seems like a monumental asshole each time. You are forgetting how many “trans people don’t exist” stuff gets blocked by the courts.

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    I wonder how quickly Tommy Tuberville would have driven one of his sons’ girlfriends to an abortion clinic if they got her pregnant in high school…

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    We need legislation to prevent this type of government meddling. Just like with the filibuster. Asshole.

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    This is where we are: military leaders claim it’s a security risk. The senator (who has no military experience) doesn’t care. Ironic that I am typing this on 9/11.

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      Congratulations, comrade. You passed the test of patriotism. Here’s your gun and manifesto, we’ll be sending you to confront the US army at dawn.

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    yes the whole nation is in jeopardy because some warmongers arent getting their promotions… if this is really the case, then the military is being mismanaged way worse than anyone knows.

    we could cut those positions outright, and 10,000 others, and still be the biggest assholes on the planet.

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      yes the whole nation is in jeopardy because some warmongers arent getting their promotions

      The whole nation is in jeopardy because these leadership positions are being held open until Trump is reelected in a rework of the Merrick Garland SC nomination. Which should be terrifying. Jan 6 failed in part because some of the military top brass (Miley) put oath before Trump.

      Read up on Project 2025 if you haven’t. These “unconnected events” are anything but. It’s a strategy.

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      Remember when they held up the judicial nominations under Obama, only to force through a massive number of federal judges (and three Supreme Court picks) once they had control again? You can see how they’re doing the exact same thing with the military right now.

      Now imagine if, on January 6th, the military was being run by MAGAts.

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      [Republicans intentionally mismanage something.]

      You: Look how terrible the organization is!

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      yes the whole nation is in jeopardy because some warmongers arent getting their promotions… if this is really the case, then the military is being mismanaged way worse than anyone knows.

      When you refuse to fill management positions, yes, it will become even more mismanaged. Moreover, this is still messing with people’s pay and families as well. You can’t really cut management positions in the military and expect it to function. Our readiness will absolutely be hindered.

      You can hate the army, but they’re also one of the biggest suppliers of aid to other countries. Their logistics and planning help save more lives than you ever will, plus they save more lives than they actually ever take in combat.

      You’re no better than a Republican who just wants to shut down and obstruct without offering any actual assistance or plans to move forward. You’re a child not getting their way. Are you related to the Senator as you throw a similar hissy fit?