U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville has frozen hundreds of promotions in the military over a Pentagon policy that guarantees access to abortion and reproduction care to members of the military.
Young officers, denied promotions, are leaving the military. This, military leaders say, will affect the military for years
“We’re on the fringe of losing a generation of champions,” Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly, the head Air Combat Command, told reporters in Maryland. Kelly said he’s talking to his junior officers, many with families, and they are “people who will take a bullet for the nation, the Constitution.” But when it comes to dragging their family through this, “there’s a red line.”
https://apnews.com/article/tuberville-holds-military-nominations-664c15d00d330b2b06b75ebeda8e3f01
Tuberville is “aiding and abetting” autocratic and communist regimes with his continuing hold on military promotions, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy said.
Del Toro said Tuberville is harming morale in the military but empowers America’s enemies in “communist and other autocratic regimes,” Fox News reported.
Donald Trump had one criterium before endorsing a political candidate.
They have to agree to put Trump over anything else.
The con man must come before the Constitution.
In 2017, Trump endorsed Roy Moore, a disgraced prominent Alabama politician and judge who had been widely accused of pursuing teen girls for sex.
Moore lost the U.S. Senate election in Alabama.
In 2020, Trump endorsed Tommy Tuberville, a former college football coach over Jeff Sessions, who had been Trump’s U.S. attorney general because Trump wanted Sessions to disregard the Constitution and he refused.
If Sessions had been a pedophile, Trump might have endorsed him – but Sessions put the Constitution before Trump. To Trump, the con man always goes before the Constitution.
Tuberville won the U.S. Senate election in Alabama.
Tuberville has followed lock step – to the point of goose stepping – with the president.
In a radio interview in March 2023, Tuberville was asked if white nationalists should be allowed to serve in the U.S. military. The Biden administration calls them white nationalists,” Tuberville said. “I call them Americans.”
Tuberville’s brother Charles, a musician, rebuked his brother:
“I do not agree with any of the vile rhetoric coming out of his mouth,” he added. “Please don’t confuse my brother with me.”
Tuberville then tried to clarify his comment to say that white nationalists were racists and that he was against racism.
Tuberville can take off his klan robe but he’s still a racist.
Tuberville rejected that Barack Obama, the country’s first African-American president, was born in this country – even after Obama released his birth certificate.
Mother Jones describes Tuberville as a “birther” before “birtherism” went mainstream.
In addition, Tuberville opposes reparations to the descendants of enslaved peoples.
The argument of whether the descendants of enslaved people should receive reparations is a complex issue with thoughtful people expressing conflicting views.
Tuberville is not a thoughtful person. He is barely a person.
When asked why he opposes reparations, he compared those wanting reparations to criminals.
“They want crime because they want to take over what you got. They want to control what you have. They want reparations because they think the people that do the crime are owed that,” Tuberville added. “Bull****! They are not owed that.”
NAACP President Derrick Johnson called Tuberville’s comments “flat out racist, ignorant and utterly sickening.”
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/10/1127872936/senator-tuberville-racist-reparations-stereotype
Tuberville loves the military. He expressed his love for the military by creating the Tommy Tuberville charitable organization to help veterans.
“I’m going to donate every dime I make when I’m in Washington, D.C., to the veterans of the state of Alabama,” he said.
Tuberville has not donated his salary to the charity, as he promised, the Washington Post reported in its fact-checker column.
In fact, his charity has donated little to veterans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/tommy-tuberville-veterans-fact-checker/
In 2021, just 12 percent of the more than $74,000 in revenue the foundation received, or $9,000, was spent, The Post reported.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/tommy-tuberville-veterans-fact-checker/
So Tuberville is not a racist … but he is.
He loves the military veterans so much he was going to donate his salary to them. But he hasn’t.
But he clearly loves the military, and he would anything to support it – short of actually doing anything to support it.
Tuberville has held up hundreds of military promotions to protest a Pentagon policy that guarantees that members of the military have access to abortion and reproduce care.
The military opposes Tuberville on this. His own party opposes this. The American people oppose this.
