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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy is Senator Tuberville (R-AL) blocking about 350 military promotions? He's following orders.
Tuberville is owned by Trump. He's blocking those promotions so that "Dear Leader" can make his own appointments when he wins the 2024 presidential election. At least, that's the scenario that Trump and Tuberville have in mind.
The Senate is on the verge of stopping Tuberville's obvious sabotage of our military. But even if he's stopped, the American fascists will just pull off some other piece of fascist shit tomorrow.
And in case you're wondering who these American fascists are, they are everyone in the Republican Party who is not speaking out about the "White Nationalist Nation" that Trump is trying to establish. (On Monday, Rachel Maddow stated that the Republican Party is enabling Trump in his plot to own the presidency and America.)
But if you want to know more about Tuberville, here's a link to an article on him from The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/07/tommy-tuberville-trump-military-holds
3Hotdogs
(12,435 posts)Da fucks wrong with you?
Kid Berwyn
(14,980 posts)...the Army said, "No fucking way."
Tuberville and his Boss want that illegal order obeyed next time.
TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)usonian
(9,909 posts)Trump's just an errand boy.
flashman13
(679 posts)differently to undermine our security that Trump, Tubbyville and multiple others are doing? The obvious answer is nothing. Personally I have reached my limit in thinking this obvious connection is just a coincidence.
usonian
(9,909 posts)May need updating.
Start with "Trump delivers Ukraine to Putin". His trained monkeys try to sabotage Ukraine aid daily.
a successful coup has overtaken the USSC, which is dismantling the Constitution in an effort concerted with right-wing domestic terrorists, the GOP, oligarchs, Christian Nationalists and others, a Mitchavillian (!) scheme that follows the Russian strategy to divide and destroy the United States:
Simply put, Normalize hate and violence. Stochastic terrorism. Bring down elected government and democratic processes. This was also seen in 30s Germany,
We are in a state of emergency, and are today divided into slave and free states.
The suspected instigator and supporter, Russia, has proven itself to be a third-rate power, relying on agents within the U.S. who sabotage the U.S. with acts of terrorism, insurrection and sedition, a second civil war.
Pieces of the puzzle fit perfectly. They involve: The RW shift from issues to outright terrorism and Russian messaging, Russias dependence on oil, their State-Adopted Religion and white dominance, long-term plans to annex Ukraine, divisive bot posts on social media, a major news outlet praising Putin, sponsorship of NRA to encourage mob rule, fear and domestic terrorism over constitutional government. (more detail below. )
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When you start with the premise that Russia has instigated a campaign of disruption in the U.S. to bolster its aims, ALL the pieces fit together perfectly.
1. The conservative movement took a hard swing right from its Limbaugh days of conservative issues and hate to pure hate and destruction. This coincides with the breakup of the Soviet Union. Anti-Soviet messaging ceased.
2. Russias economy is extremely oil-dependent. Oil interests control many legislators, and reap massive subsidies and favors.
3. Russia is an Orthodox Christian in name only, mostly white state. The church blesses nuclear warheads and Putin has declared his intention to expand his White Christian Nationalism.
4. Putin wants Ukraine. Arguably, that is the cause of his interference in the 2015 election to install an asset as president and weaken NATO, effectively delivering him Ukraine.
5. Bots spread lies and divisive messages to get Americans to fight one another.
6. A major news outlet repeatedly praises Putin, when theres nothing apparent to gain by doing so. On the surface, anyway.
7. Russia financed and infiltrated the NRA with the goal of replacing constitutional government with mob rule, and domestic terrorism.
I originally posted this on pastebin.
https://pastebin.com/raw/evbnN5y7
Sneederbunk
(14,308 posts)JoseBalow
(2,497 posts)and his motivations will be clearly exposed
Bev54
(10,074 posts)matter if they speak out, they are liars. Watch their actions not their words, watch how the vote on bills,