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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOh, Alabama, this idiot is going to be your senior US Senator
https://www.al.com/politics/2022/10/alabama-leader-reacts-to-tommy-tuberville-the-bull-is-that-this-guy-is-a-us-senator.htmlLeaders in Alabama and beyond are reacting to Sen. Tommy Tubervilles comments on how Democrats are in favor of reparations because they are pro-crime.
Alabama Democratic Party Chair Rep. Chris England said on Twitter that the comments were bullshit-- the same word Tuberville used to describe Democrats support of reparation.
There is some bullshit here but it isnt what (Tuberville) thinks it is. The bullshit is that this guy is a United States Senator in the first place, England posted.
The Third Doctor
(361 posts)maxsolomon
(34,929 posts)But if you do, sorry. He represents you.
The GQP doesn't care if they nominate qualified humans, they just want a quorum of imbeciles to clog the Senate with rhetorical bullshit. Power is more important than governing.
See: Tuberville, Johnson, Scott, and now Hershel Walker.
Carlitos Brigante
(26,746 posts)trying to say something here. I just can't seem to hood.... I mean put my finger on it......
paleotn
(18,994 posts)You'd think in the age of Trump they'd be emboldened enough to just say it plainly. Clearly. But oh no. Even today there's enough scruples left in their tiny little heads to realize such thinking is evil. And they're evil bastards for even thinking it.
rubbersole
(8,286 posts)..probably donors that don't want to answer klan questions telling him to leave the robes in the trunk until the midterms are over.
spanone
(137,463 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)because Republicans are experts at being pro-crime.
yankee87
(2,310 posts)Lets face it, all hes doing is saying, the minorities are coming after your families . Not only is he an absolute idiot, but he full embraces racism
orleans
(34,782 posts)but the republicons ARE coming after your social security & medicare & the uteruses of your wife and daughter
alterfurz
(2,553 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,775 posts)COL Mustard
(6,806 posts)I was down in Mobile earlier in the summer...nice place to visit, but glad I don't live there anymore!
belpejic
(728 posts)As the dumbest Senator. Super difficult to do, but I believe that Tooberville takes the crown.
Now, if Herschel Walker somehow wins we may have a real competition on our hands.
sprinkleeninow
(20,533 posts)belpejic
(728 posts)And there are so many more to decide from. 435 potential idiots as opposed to 100. Marjorie "Missing Link" Taylor (now that she's getting divorced for being a serial adultress--my god, google her tantric sex guru), Lauren "Chipmunk" Boebert, Louie "Gomer" Gohmert, Paul "SS" Gosar, Matt "Groomer" Gaetz, Jim "Gym" Jordan, the list goes on and on. Plus some of those House members seem to be more directly implicated in J6, Senator Josh "Hotfoot" Hawley notwithstanding. Good thing that Senator Tom "Big Bird" Cotton managed to keep a low profile, so far.
But I'm being juvenile...
sprinkleeninow
(20,533 posts)hadEnuf
(2,612 posts)They may be technically, but they are not in any other way and they do not want to be.
Do away with the Electoral College and ignore these fucknuts like Tuberville until the people of these states regain some sanity and clean out the fascist GOP..
COL Mustard
(6,806 posts)And are loyal Americans. I wish we could just wave a wand and do away with the EC, but that takes an Amendment...not likely to pass in this climate!
hadEnuf
(2,612 posts)But that shouldn't stop us from de-fanging the fascist scum leading them. We'd be doing them a favor.
paleotn
(18,994 posts)we've been waiting for sanity regain since 1861. I'm not terribly confident they ever will. I think a kind of corporate spinoff is in order. Let them go off and be the English speaking version of a failed central american state. The Feds should stop throwing good money after bad. Yes. I'm serious.
paleotn
(18,994 posts)Connection with football and you could be Alabama monarch for life (King. Queens need not apply.) If not for Huntsville, the state would have the collective IQ of a cue ball.
Tommymac
(7,306 posts)BamaRefugee
(3,694 posts)ON EVERY LEVEL.
I love Alabama in so many ways, but check out my screen name, I just can't go back. I want to, I'm old. But I just can't.
rubbersole
(8,286 posts)And a shittier senator. Treasonous bastard.
BamaRefugee
(3,694 posts)I also grew up in South Carolina with STROM FUCKING THURMOND as my Senator.
Shittiness abounds Down South.
But there are lots of cool, good people, they all just stay on the down low and look out for each other when approached by marauding bands of rednecks, or, as they were called back in the day in South Carolina, "woolies". Because when they got out of the textile mills every day they were covered with lint, head to foot.
rubbersole
(8,286 posts)..I guess the state pissed off god somewhere along the line. I can't talk - I live in Central Florida (moved here in 1957 when I was 6) but never was alarmed about the rw politics until Jeb. It's been downhill since.
BamaRefugee
(3,694 posts)Polybius
(17,279 posts)I haven't seen any, but I know Britt is nuts.
COL Mustard
(6,806 posts)I will owe you $1,000,000,000,000 dollars. I don't expect to have to pay.
PS If I do have to pay, expect it in Zimbabwean dollars!
Polybius
(17,279 posts)Heck, you can even have a full 12-pack!
COL Mustard
(6,806 posts)I like Guinness!!!
Polybius
(17,279 posts)I love stouts. Murphy's Irish Stout is another good one.
Warpy
(113,065 posts)The south has been elexting absolutely the worst of the worst ever since Nixon played down to them in his southern stategy.
Think such luminaries as Jesse Helms, nothing to recommend him but a big mouth and an outlook that was 1000 years out of date.
bringthePaine
(1,806 posts)BumRushDaShow
(140,663 posts)obviously on their speed dial.
Analysis by Philip Bump
National columnist
Updated March 30, 2022 at 1:50 p.m. EDT | Published March 29, 2022 at 11:52 a.m. EDT
(snip)
Tommy Tuberville, senator from Alabama. (Reported; not in log)
Tuberville, newly elected to his position, committed to objecting to the submitted electoral votes before Jan. 6 and subsequently did so. He was also the target of multiple calls on Jan. 6 itself, including one from Trump early that afternoon. (Tuberville reportedly told Trump during the call that Pence was being evacuated from the Senate chamber.)
Later, Giuliani would try to reach Tuberville to encourage the senator to drag out the vote-counting process until the end of tomorrow so that other legislators could be persuaded to join the effort. Unfortunately, Giuliani accidentally left that message on the voice mail of Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).
(snip)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/29/who-trump-talked-day-capitol-riot/
No paywall
Septua
(2,491 posts)..to perpetuate McConnell's agenda.