Tuberville failed to mention that he’s personally prevented hundreds of officers from being promoted because he disagrees with a 2022 Pentagon policy.
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.
AL resident here - he doesn’t get as much direct support as you might think. Most of the state votes straight red without even reading the names, so he only needs enough support/bullying competition to get through the primaries.
Ivy league? Ivy League doesn’t mean prestigious, and even if it did, it would not describe any of Tuberville’s institutions.
More a reference to his inherited wealth and social stature as opposed to just his education and work background.
I am heavily implying that the man himself is worth less than trash and he only has the job because of nepotism
Dude, fuck you. That’s two things that I learn about Tuberville because you don’t know what words mean.
Tuberville did not benefit from neopotism nor is he Ivy League.
He’s a piece of shit apart from these buzzwords you’re misusing.
My brother in Krishna, why are you so angry?
You should probably work on your literacy friend.
I don’t know the word for phenomenon that anyone who achieves fame somehow has a shot in republican politics (Tuberville, Kari Lake, Mehmet Oz, the Obvious, etc.), but nepotism isn’t it.
Maybe you’re not pissed that Kushner was on the federal payroll, but if you are, calling everything “nepotism” is playing into the hands of people who are trying to keep your mind spongy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bone cancer and getting blood eagled?
That Bloodeagle scene on Vikings was really hard to watch. I still see it in my memories when it’s brought up. The fact it was a real thing is what does it. Humans are the worst.
If it makes ya feel any better it was probably done on only rare occasions, I dont even know if there are first hand accounts of it. Ritualistic sacrifices to Odin sure tons of those, blood eagles rare if it did happen. The act is only really mentionex in two sagas so it is possible it was purely a literary invention.
I can’t imagine anyone going through that could refrain from screaming in, or passing out from, pain. I appreciate the comment. The fact that people thought up such a thing is as equally disturbing. Yikes!
Honestly id take getting blood eagled over getting eaten alive by rats, getting shoves into the brazen bull, or the Mughal elephant crushing method. Brazen bull doesnt really deserve to be on here though since the tyrant of Syracuse only ever used it once on the dude who made it. But yeah blood eagle is solidly in C tier for historical killing methods.
“You keep hitting yourself” says older brother who forces younger brother’s arm to keep hitting himself.
Yup. Try being human. If you say you’re willing to put aside the money once and that you’re genuine about anything and you’re automatically a narcissistic partisan who is at risk of terrorism or conspiracy.
Yep. Just that lots of republicans aren’t being genuine. A lot of them are being christo-fascist, and they want to bend everyone to their will.
This is why I pray to Satan and God so that you get blessings going both ways hahaha
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!
Look in the mirror, asshole.
if our defense depends on the pomp and nonsense of these promotions, then our military has bigger problems than being vastly, profoundly over-funded.
I mean, at that level the positions are legally bound to certain ranks, meaning that high-level, strategic positions that determine strategy are unable to be filled except on a temporary basis, which means that decision-making is more tenuous. The military is still a monster, and it’ll fulfill its functions as it normally does, and will for some time, but the longer this goes on, the more headless the military becomes.
