Senate Democrat: Tuberville ‘prepared to burn the military down’ with promotions blockade
thehill.com
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Tuesday accused Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) of being “prepared to burn the military down” with his hold on hundreds of military promotions over the Pen…

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So much to choose from!

  • Democrats overstating the threat to the trooperinos
  • Democrats making this asshole sound cool to leftists
  • Chud-of-chuds pissing off the brass over abortion; contradictions abound
  • No issue for the rank-and-file chuds because the GOP is a Rorschach test for them
  • Lester_Peterson [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    The Republican senator blocking hundreds of military leadership promotions and nominations has told Fox News that Ukraine cannot win in a war against Russia.

    “We’re not getting the point in Washington DC,” Mr Tuberville said. “I haven’t voted for a dime to send Ukraine. I’m for Ukraine. Russia should have never done this.”

    “But at the end of the day, it’s a junior high team playing a college team,” he said. “They can’t win. We can throw all the money we want to, but unless we send NATO and our troops over, which we’re not going to do if I’ve got anything to do with it, then there’s no chance.”

    Hilarious that the person currently doing more than anyone else to disrupt the National Security state is a dipshit good ol' boy Senator who understands the world through College Football metaphors.

    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      He's a former college football coach! Easily could be the least-qualified Senator, which would be impressive

      • Lester_Peterson [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        To be fair Tommy did lead Auburn to a 13-0 season in 2004, meanwhile what have the haters and losers in the Pentagon accomplished in the last two decades, Losing in Afghanistan?

        I can see why a natural-born leader of men like Mr. Tuberville would be absolutely disgusted at the sad state of the Pentagon these days, maybe if they nominated Nick Saban to replace General Milley things would be different and he'd be glad to confirm him.

        • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Putting Alabama's best coach in the Pentagon would turn Tuberville into a Maoist lol

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Tommy "The Tube" Tuberville former SEC head coach of Auburn, so of course reading his wikipedia is insane. this guy is an all time shit wizard.

      at Ole Miss (1995–1998)

      During his tenure, Tuberville was known as the "Riverboat Gambler" for his aggressive play-calling, especially on fourth down. His teams went 1-3 versus the Arkansas Razorbacks, and 2-2 versus in-state arch-rival Mississippi State Bulldogs in the annual Egg Bowl game. After the 1998 regular season ended, Tuberville said, "They'll have to carry me out of here in a pine box", in reference to not leaving to coach at another school. Less than a week later, it was announced that he was departing for Auburn.

      at Auburn (1999–2008)

      After the 2008 season, with a 5–7 record including losses to Vanderbilt, West Virginia, and a final 36–0 loss to Alabama, Tuberville resigned.[26] Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs said, "To say the least, I was a little shocked. But after three times of asking him would he change his mind, he convinced me that the best thing for him and his family and for this football program was for him to possibly take a year off and take a step back." With his departure, Tuberville was paid a prorated buyout of $5.1 million. The payments included $3 million within 30 days of his resignation date and the remainder within a year.

      hollywood LMAO

      After his departure from Auburn, during the 2009 football season, Tuberville worked as an analyst for Buster Sports and ESPN, discussing the SEC and the Top 25 on various television shows and podcasts. He also made a cameo appearance in the Academy Award-winning feature film The Blind Side.

      there's other shit in there that is disgusting, but this has got to take the cake:

      In 2014, Tuberville founded the Tommy Tuberville Foundation. Its website said its purpose was "to recognize and support organizations and causes that connect with the beliefs and values of the Tuberville family: assisting our military and veterans; awareness, education and prevention of health issues, particularly among women and children; and, education and community initiatives."

      Through its first five years, the foundation raised $289,599 but spent just $51,658 on charitable causes, tax records showed. This rate of 18% is less than the 65% that the Better Business Bureau says ethical charities should spend on their causes. In 2020, the Associated Press called the Tuberville Foundation "a questionable charity that raises money but gives very little away". Foundation officials said the tax filings did not reflect volunteer labor and donated materials used to refurbish veterans' homes.

      lmao

      In 2020, The New York Times reported that Tuberville campaign and foundation officials "produced internal records for 2018 that showed nearly $20,000 was raised for a temporary project to provide a retreat for veterans. But the records raised bookkeeping questions, since they showed more than $61,000 of 2018 revenue, roughly twice what the charity reported to the I.R.S. that year".

      In 2021, the Washington Post reported, the foundation "reported it had $74,101 in revenue and spent just 12 percent of that, or $9,000, while $32,000 went to administrative costs (including nearly $12,400 to pay off a truck the charity purchased in 2018 for $27,369)". By the end of 2021, the foundation's website had gone defunct.

      i bet the truck was pretty badass though, right?

      In July 2023, a spokesperson for Tuberville said that the foundation had been under audit and had paused its activities, but that Tuberville was reforming it.

      like, obviously college football coach for a D1 school is going to be a piece of garbage who gets paid millions to overlook sexual assault, exploit minorities, and give poor young people CTE without even getting them a paid wage.... but this guy was a shitty, lying asshole the whole time and took his millions only to start a bogus charity. of course the next step was deranged chud politician looking for any opportunity to do brinksmanship at the highest level.