This is why no Republicans should ever be allowed into office.
Ever.
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His actual complaint is:
"$114 million on diversity training, you gotta be kidding me," Tuberville said.
"We've got the weakest military that we've had in probably a year in my lifetime," he added. "Now we've got a lot of good military people, but infiltrating our military is all this wokeness and it's coming from the top, coming from Joe Biden, coming from Secretary of Defense Austin."
First, if it works, it's encouraging better decisions and increasing team effectiveness. I have no idea if the US military is doing a good job with this or not, but if they're doing it right they are building a better military way more cost effectively than one more fighter jet or whatever we would be using the money on.
But even if they're not doing the most effective form of training, it's 0.0075% of the defense budget. It's $40 per person employed by the department. That is extremely average for diversity training.
And lastly, this isn't like, new. The military has been doing diversity research and training since 1971. I'm sure Biden has some input if he wants it, he un-did a Trump ban on some training with an executive order, but I don't think the question of budgeting $90MM vs $114MM goes to "the top" at all.
"$114 million on diversity training, you gotta be kidding me," Tuberville said.
What an idiot to choose to say this.
How much has it cost the military in lawsuits and defending racism, harassment, sexual assault, and every other form of behavior that homophobes, racists, and misogynists perpetrate on those around them. How has that affected leadership, personnel readiness, quality of work? Betcha that cost is far higher than some shitty hot take on “OMG the military is soft…”
It is a mistake to assume the right wing cares about facts. They don't use words to find or describe truth. They use them for effect.
DoD budget is $1.52 trillion btw
I think we can handle 1/10,000th of our budget being spent on not being shitty to fellow military members.
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I can't believe more of Tuberville's former football players haven't came out calling out his racist bullshit, there's no way this guy wasn't this bad while he was coaching.
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The purpose of conservatives preventing promotions is so tRump can install/promote his hand-picked leadership within the military when the time comes. This will allow him to use the military against U.S. citizens if/when he becomes president.
When he tried to use the military against U.S. citizens during his previous term, he was stopped by military leadership. They refused. Next time, he will have complete loyalty. Conservatives are setting the stage for him.
This is what they should be voicing in the articles and Democrats should be calling him out for it and forcing Republicans to remove him.
Because your exactly right. Not only did Trump demand the military anytime there was a protest he also wanted to do stupid shit. Like tanks driving down the white house road during one of his speeches. They stop that too.
Trump talks about how much he loath the military because they wouldn't bend to his will.
Between project 2025 and this they are making sure Donald Trump dictatorship goes through and his will or the will of the real GOP of fascism is realized. 50 years conservatives have been planning this take over and if we don't vote for Biden and he wins. Then Trump does and America is fucked.
Then it will be civil war because I will refuse to live in a country under a christofascist dictatorship run by Trump.
Between project 2025 and this
Make no mistake, this is part of Project 2025. All Americans should be terrified of the GOP's long term plans.
If you don't know what Project 2025 is, educate yourself. We're watching our Republic die in front of our eyes.
Like tanks driving down the white house road during one of his speeches. They stop that too.
Mostly because the tanks are way too heavy for any road in DC. Seeing one crush through Pennsylvania Ave and into the metro underneath during his speech would have been even funnier than Putin and his one-tank parade.
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The US Navy has more heavy aircraft carrier groups than the rest of world combined. The US has 11 out of 22. It also has the world's largest and most advanced air force. Old US Army equipment is working wonders for Ukraine against Russia, the supposed next best military.
Not to mention the US has a massive arsenal of working ICBMs and SLBMs.
I'm sorry, but nobody stands a snowballs chance in hell against the US military.
Regarding Iraq and Afghanistan, nation building and occupying are two different things. Kind of like ruling verses obtaining power are different.
ETA: Think about that during presidential elections.
The US has 11 out of 22.
This is only a partial picture.
The US has 11 supercarrier groups that individually rival the power of most nation's entire airforces. These are unrivaled by anything else in the world.
The US additionally has 9 America and Wasp class amphibious assault ships that have an airwing capability that rivals most other nations' carrier groups. The Navy plans for this force to eventually be made up of 11 America class ships.
So the reality is that the US' secondary aircraft carrier capability rivals that of the rest of the world combined. The total power disparity of the combined supercarrier and amphibious assault fleet is mind boggling.
What's also mind boggling is the USAF F-15 has zero combat losses and is the OLD air superiority fighter. The USAF can start operating anywhere in the world with a force larger than most other air forces in < 72 hours.
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You're missing the bigger picture imo. All that military might is going to be under the control of people handpicked by Trump, if he's elected and project 2025 goes to plan. Why do you think Tuberville is creating all these vacancies.
Tuberville isn't doing this for shits and giggles.
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Regarding Iraq and Afghanistan, nation building and occupying are two different things. Kind of like ruling verses obtaining power are different.
Even the Taliban are having issues here.
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This is the best version of the 'Eric Andre shooting someone that he then blames for being shot' meme I think I've ever, ever seen.
He obviously doesn’t work for America like so many other Republicans. Fuck Alabama. Fuck Auburn too
You have to be related to Alabama to fuck it.
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This is the sort of thing that happens when you have people who proclaim that government doesn't work in that government. They say the system is broken, and hope you don't notice that they have been deliberately breaking it for years.
This football coach from the ivy leagues has the audacity to pretend to know what military service is like without having educated himself at the bare minimum nor actually serving to provide a serious opinion on the matter.
The fact this incompetent malcontent continues to receive the support of his constituents is truly representative of how unbelievably fucked humanity is.
This football coach from the ivy leagues has the audacity to pretend to know what military service is like without having educated himself at the bare minimum nor actually serving to provide a serious opinion on the matter.
I remember when McCain was the last living member of the legislative branch to have served or had family (his son) actively serving in the military. I fully agree with you, when this shitstain decided to make a remark like that, it needs brought up that he is wholly ignorant about the US military and is just parroting the party line in some kind of weak ass political jab. He's a fuckstick, and so are his voters.
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Imagine having your military undermined by a washed up football coach. I have to hope that this sentient pile of damp laundry gets what's coming to him eventually.
Translation: Weaker = can't brain wash them into mindless murder machines like we use to be able to.
Yeah, I hate those sociopaths who are all like " if you treat me with respect I'll treat you with respect."
When what they really mean is that if you treat them as an unquestioned god, they won't be as nasty as they could be.
So? It's not like Pro America Republicans will vote him out even though he's causing the United States to have the weakest military he's ever seen!
I've heard it theorized that the strategy is intended to starve the military of officers so that Trump can fill the vacancies with loyalists when he regains the White House. Essentially, it is the military equivalent of Project 2025.
It's not a bug. It's a feature.
I hate that you’re probably right.
They did not with the Scrotus, they’re doing it with the military
Ah, the old chestnut of causing a problem, and then blaming it on someone else. Republican leadership is a Jonestown suicide cult, and they want all of us to drink the kool-aid.
What a sack of shit. Fuck you, Alabama.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville said in a recent interview that he believes the US currently has "the weakest military that we've had in probably a year in my lifetime."
Tuberville made his comments Monday evening after Newsmax's Eric Bolling mentioned the US military's spending on diversity training.
While Tuberville piled on President Joe Biden and his administration for what he considers to be a "self-inflicted" disaster, he didn't mention the outsized role effect he's had in 2023 on the nation's defense forces.
Following the Pentagon's decision to update its policies to allow service members to get reimbursed for out-of-state expenses for abortion care, Tuberville has singlehandedly prevented hundreds of military officers from getting promoted via a vote on the Senate floor.
Senate Republicans in recent weeks have repeatedly attempted to push through more individual votes on the chamber floor, only to be prevented more than 60 times by the former football coach.
Rick Scott, Josh Hawley, Mike Lee, and JD Vance, successfully lobbied Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to oppose the resolution.
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