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I'd vote for, "most stubborn traitor". He's not just a moron saying stupid things. He's someone actively choosing to harm the country. He should not be given a pass for also being fucking stupid.
I think Menendez represents some serious competition for that title:
Should be treated like Trump. If there actually is a lot to manage due to complexity, it should be given an honest evaluation and possibly postponement. If it's just a shitty play to keep a guilty verdict from coming out until after the election (in this case a primary), fuck him.
As Brynn Tannehill wrote for The New Republic in September, “This is a naked power play, whose end goal, I suspect, is to fill every senior military position simultaneously with Trump loyalists and sycophants if [Donald] Trump wins reelection in 2024.”
Jesus...that's a brilliant take and one I never considered. It worked for the Judicial branch, now they're going to try it on the Military.
It's all part of Project 2025. People should be terrified of the Republican party.
And the people footing their bills. Because they don't go away even if Republicans do.
The Mercers, Kochs, Larry Ellison, Peter Thiel and others should be terrified to go out in public.
They should, but they have bodyguards, private islands, and floating yacht-cities. I don't think they have to worry about ever even seeing a poor person.
It worked for the courts.
I didn't consider it either. Is this guy actually deeply religious? That would probably help determine if it was a power play or if he felt compelled by God to force everyone to follow his morals. Or maybe he's just an idiot who was pandering to the evangelical base.
The abortion thing was always a red herring. He’s been holding out so he could pack the military’s top brass with Trump loyalists. It’s part of Project 2025, since it will require cooperation from the military to actually be successful.
Just like how republicans stalled on a major SCOTUS appointment during Obama’s term, choosing to wait until Trump was in office. But then refused to wait for Biden to take office, and rammed another appointment through at the end of Trump’s term.
So he failed at that too? Or am I missing something
That part appears to have failed.
He did it too early, perhaps, thinking that he could hold out for the entire presidential term. He'd have gotten away with it had he waited until Biden's second or third year.
Can someone honestly explain how he isn't facing Espionage charges? I mean it seems like he's pretty blatantly sabotaging the function of the entire military. Would these exact same actions be allowed if it were discovered China had been encouraging him to continue instead of out of protest?
I assume (in theory) because his actions are not his own, but are the actions that his constituency wants him to take, so the responsibility lies with the mouth breathers that elected him. And you can't charge a group of citizens for voting a certain way.
Everything he is doing, he is doing within the legal framework of our system, as fucked as it is. It's just that the framework has never been tested and pushed like this. People used to be mature and reasonable, and that USED to be enough to keep things flowing. Now they're examining every loophole in the book to try to get their way any way they can.
Representatives are immune from legal consequences for actions of this type that they take on the congress floor, speech and debate clause.
He's not doing anything that he isn't constitutionally permitted to do. The constitution requires the president to get the Senate's advice and consent on these appointments. He can't be charged for refusing to grant his consent.
What he is doing is just a form of filibuster. The rest of the Senate can stop him if they want. They just don't want to, because the minority would have to support a majority request to invoke cloture.
The minority party always plays these stupid games in the Senate, no matter which party that is.
The rest of the Senate can stop him if they want. They just don’t want to
The moment they do this, the filibuster goes away. Conservatives would rather burn the country than lose the only bargaining chip they own.
Nah, the other way. Keep the filibuster, and invoke cloture. If 60 senators want those promotions to go through, they will go through. It's party unity that would suffer.
Espionage will have a very specific definition that he most certainly doesn't fit. Maybe giving aid to an enemy could be an easier argument.
Congratulations, Tommy! Man, he was up against some stiff competition!
I sincerely hope that the FBI is taking a very, very, very close look at this traitor's effort to render aid and comfort to America's enemies.
Blocking military promotions just because his pink panties are in a twist about the military's stance on abortions is basically a kind of blackmail. And just another example of the hate-filled kind of idiotic excrementalism that makes up the bulk of the GOP today.
the military’s stance on abortions
That's a deflecting issue, he was trying to set it up so trump can put his own people in the military.
With a name like that he'd be better suited to be a potato farmer, somewhere remote where he can't fuck with servicemembers lives and leave America less safe.
Bottom of Mariana Trench seems like a good place for him.
I'm against the dumping of garbage into the Mariana Trench, there are perfectly find landfills here in the US that he could live in.
I'm sure someone in Alabama will donate a lightly used meth trailer for him to live in.
Don't insult farmers like that. Farmers are useful. Tuberville has been a parasite his entire adult life.
Mr. Potato Town
Auburn sucks!
Can we do something useful with this sack of shit? Turn him into Elmer's glue or render his lard into soap to help wash up around DC.. something??
What a miserable SOB