Perhaps I'm narrow-minded, but these three words tell me all that I need to know about Alabama:

[11 Bravo]

Senator Tommy Fucking Tuberville. (OK, four words)

Dumber than a bag of hair.
Never held elective office.
Claimed that WWII was fought to "free Europe from socialism".
Described the three branches of government as the "House, Senate, and Executive".
Said that he was really looking forward to raising money from his Senate office (a clear violation of federal law).
Trump's go-to guy in his attempt to overturn the results of an election.
And yet elected to the Senate with over 60% of the vote.

Someone tell me what I'm missing.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. The only way for a Democrat to win in Alabama

is for his GOP opponent to be a known pedophile. And even then it will be close.

[sop]

11. You mean someone like Judge Roy Moore?

[Geechie]

12. Razor thin margin

Only because Roy liked girls. Now if it had been boys...

[Moostache]

2. My Guess is they thought it was Saban instead of Tuberville?

Can't imagine in Alabama that there are THAT many Auburn fans...
(He is a colossal joke on every level and it mocks the good people stuck in Alabama every second...I empathize with them greatly, being stuck in East Kansas with Hawley and Blunt makes me feel their pain acutely.

[rampartc]

14. war eagle!

i live in louisiana but there are a few auburn fans throughout the south.

[Moostache]

31. My wife is a Yankee, through and through....but she is a HUGE Auburn fan!

*One of the reasons I know too much about just how dumb Tuberville is! LOL...its "War Eagle!" here...never anything about that other team in that state down there...

[MLAA]

3. You are missing nothing.

As long as he is racist most Alabamans are good.

[lastlib]

4. (you mis-spelled his name......)

"T-u-b-e-r-H-E-A-D." TuberHead.



There. Fixed it for ya.

[Sneederbunk]

18. Turdville

[Walleye]

5. Alabama trying to live up to their disgraceful history.

[pwb]

6. All those Red states need a voting audit.

All that redness is stolen maybe. People there are nice and it doesn't mix. The voting machines need a independent look at.

[blm]

10. ✔️

[11 Bravo]

13. If Johnny "Applecheeks" Roberts hadn't decided that racism was no longer an actual thing ...

and used that as a rationale to eviscerate the Voting Rights Act, there might be a way forward.
Otherwise, we need to get rid of a lot of trash at the SCOTUS.

[Bettie]

7. Got to give him a little credit

he needs to work to be the dumbest Republican in national office. There is stiff competition in his party for that.

But, I think he is winning, he is the dimmest of the bunch.

[Archae]

33. (To my regret,) my Senator RoJo is close to Tuberville in the dumb department...

Ron Johnson.

He is nearly as dumb as Tuberville.

[Bettie]

37. Yeah, he had that dubious "honor"

until Tuberville came up. Now, he looks almost of normal intelligence beside the staggering lack of intellect that is Tuberville!

[Irish_Dem]

8. Aren't you missing one word?

Racism

[NCjack]

9. Missing the suppressed African-American vote.

[Withywindle]

23. +1

VOTER FUCKING SUPPRESSION, that's the three words.

Almost 30% of Alabama's population is Black, and voter suppression is rife in all sorts of forms. Alabama needs a strong Fair Fight movement like Georgia had, not sneering condemnation of the whole state, as if there aren't big numbers of potential Dem voters there who need help to have their rights respected.

[JI7]

34. The problem is the White Voters in the State which vote Republican like more than 80 percent

Obama only got like 10-15 percent of the White Votes in most of these southern states .

[cwydro]

15. You know these idiots are in every state?

Surely you do.

[11 Bravo]

16. I sure do. I also know that some states have a WAY higher percentage of them than others.

[cwydro]

17. Uh huh.

Mmkay.

Might wanna check out the arrests of the Capitol traitors. And their states.

[11 Bravo]

20. A couple hundred traitors have been arrested for the assault on the Capitol.

There are almost 5,000,000 people in Alabama.

Not all of them, perhaps not even a majority of them, are ignorant, racist assholes. But WAY too many of them are. And Tommy Tuberville is the junior Senator from the great state of Alabama.

Mmkay?

[cwydro]

21. You might want to check out the home states of those arrested.

Mmkay?

What state do you live in, hmm?

[11 Bravo]

39. Do you have a list of the residences for all of the Capitol terrorists?

If so, please share it. I'm unaware of the distribution. A thoughtful person might not be surprised to see that many of said miscreants reside near the scene of the crime.
But since you asked, I live in Virginia. (I kind of thought my avatar image made that clear.) Nonetheless, it's a state with a Democratic governor, a Democratically controlled State Senate, a Democratically controlled General Assembly, 7 out of 11 congressional districts represented by Democrats, and two elected Democrats to the United States Senate.

How's Alabama looking? Hmmmmm?

[Withywindle]

26. Your state is my home state

Blood red for all my lifetime until the late 00s. One cherished piece of video I have saved on my hard drive is the Chicago crowd just EXPLODING on Election Night 2008 when VA was called for Obama. That was the moment I knew he had already won. Hadn't happened since LBJ. And now it's pretty reliably blue. What a turnaround in a relatively short time!

What happened in VA could happen in AL, or MS. If it happened in GA, why not there? We have to work for it though. Part of working for it is respecting the good people in those states, acknowledging they exist and are important, and making sure they are able to vote and have their votes counted.

[Behind the Aegis]

35. regionalism

It is an acceptable form of bigotry.

I mean...All I need to know about Alaska...Sarah Palin.

All I need to know about New York...Rudy Giuliani.

All I need to know about California...Daryl Issa.

All I need to know about Utah...Mike Lee.

Of course, this isn't to say that Tuberville isn't a fucking doofus; he is. But, it is important to avoid generalizations about states, especially when so many factors play into why those states have the representatives they do, including racism, but not limited to it. Voter suppression plays a huge part, among other things, like education.

[Sneederbunk]

19. If you think Turdville is bad, just wait to see who runs for Shelby's seat.

[Celerity]

38. Paedo Roy 'Teens FTW' Moore?

[liberaltrucker]

22. I grew up in Alabama

You hit the proverbial nail on the head.
From "Big Jim" Folsom to George Wallace
to the present, nothing has changed, and won't.
Couldn't wait to leave.

[panader0]

24. There are a lot of good Democrats in Alabama, they're just in the minority.

By quite a bit.

[Elwood P Dowd]

28. Yea, it's about 60-40 usually. Tommy Trumperville hardly ever mentioned

any policies or legislation, just that he would lick Trump's ass at all times.

[czarjak]

25. Check out Vernius Retwav on Facebook if you want to see the craziest of the crazies. Believe me.

[Progressive Jones]

27. Dumb Jocks are deities in the bottom feeding regions. nt

[Hortensis]

29. :) Oh, I don't think narrow-minded would begin to describe it.

I'm imagining one of those two-dimensional beings who at best can only see others as a line.

(That's for our friend, Wil. And his TN wife, Kathy, who doesn't take insults quietly.)

[Whiskeytide]

30. At least we elect stupid republicans. Somewhat less ...

... dangerous than the smart ones.

[Laurelin]

32. Lived there for six years

I like Juanita Jean's name: Aladamnbama.

My husband kept a comic in his office. I don't know who did it so I can't give it credit, but it said, Welcome to Alabama. Turn your clock back an hour and your calender back 50 years. Truth.

I was one of those naive white people who thought racism was a thing of old people and the past. Alabama opened my eyes. Sexism is incredibly rampant there too.
And politics was soooo corrupt. I was so happy when we moved.

But while I was there, Texas followed in their footsteps and went all psycho republican.

[Willto]

36. I Am From Alabama

And I am as critical as anyone at times over the people who get elected here and the shit they say and do. But you need to be careful painting with too broad a brush. There are a lot of good people in Alabama. They are just outnumbered. Yeah democrats routinely get out voted by 60 to 40 margins and in the world of politics that's a landslide. But there are 5 million people in Alabama. And 40% of 5 million is about 2 million people. That's a lot of good folks to lump onto the same pile with the assholes.

And the same thing happens in reverse in some states as well. Many states get a squeaky clean score card when parts of them are actually quite awful. For example, because the city of Chicago is so huge it's population overwhelms the rest of the state and turns the whole state of Illinois blue. But I have spend a good bit of time in the southern half of Illinois and I can say without hesitation that it was the most racist area I have ever been in my life. Yeah you heard that right. I've lived in Alabama for 55 years and have never encountered as many open and overtly racist people in all my life as I did in "ILLINOIS".

I had a friend who spent some time in upstate New York. Said he saw more rebel flags there than he did back here in Alabama.


I have people say to me on message boards sometimes, "Why don't you just move away from that awful place?" Well for starters because I have deep roots here. Family and friends who are as decent as any humans that ever lived. I don't associate myself with the racist assholes. And if all the good people just consistently leave a place then how will it ever change. And it is changing. Tuberville may have won his senate race 60-40 but 25 years ago he would have won 70-30. It's slow but the dial is moving. Just look at Georgia.