The Republican senator from Alabama spent 2023 turning himself into one of the most hated men in Washingtonāeven by members of his own party.
Senator Tommy Tubervilleās nearly yearlong protest against the Department of Defenseās abortion policy brings to mind an old Chinese proverb that translates to, āHe who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.ā It means that when you take on something riskyāor in this case, downright stupidāitās easier to keep going than to face the consequences of trying to stop.
For nine months, Tuberville single-handedly blocked more than 450 military promotions, throwing the entire U.S. military into disarray. According to the Alabama Republican, this was the best way to protest the departmentās policy of reimbursing service members who have to travel out of their state of deployment for an abortion.
Tuberville partially relented on December 5, when he agreed to allow most of those promotions to go forward with the exception of four-star generals. He then dropped those remaining holds this week, and the Senate promptly confirmed 11 nominees to that position.
After all those months of protesting, Tuberville accomplished ā¦ nothing. The Defense Departmentās abortion policy is still in place. The only difference is that now, all of the department leadership and pretty much every other senator is angry with him.
With a name like that heād be better suited to be a potato farmer, somewhere remote where he canāt fuck with servicemembers lives and leave America less safe.
Bottom of Mariana Trench seems like a good place for him.
Iām against the dumping of garbage into the Mariana Trench, there are perfectly find landfills here in the US that he could live in.
Iām sure someone in Alabama will donate a lightly used meth trailer for him to live in.
Mr. Potato Town
Donāt insult farmers like that. Farmers are useful. Tuberville has been a parasite his entire adult life.
No insult intended, farmers canāt do the amount of national harm Tuberville has caused as a representative.