Republican senators are laying the groundwork to vote before Christmas on a Democratic-drafted resolution to circumvent the blockade that Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R) has placed in front of mo…
We’ll see. As an Alabamian, Tuberville is an embarrassment to me. Imagine holding workers who had nothing to do with a policy hostage and thinking you are doing a good thing. Tuberville is a selfish monster and too dumb to see how he is hurting the military and people’s military careers. Shame.
He would be in a close race for dumbest congressman if Louis Gohmert were still in office. That guy asked the Forest Service if they could change the moon’s orbit to prevent forest fires or something
Yea and there was no way Trump would win. No way Mitch would hold up supreme court appointments. No way that’d Trump have lasting damage…
Yea, no, fuck that attitude and anyone who holds it. You over-optimistic fucks have been proven wrong EVERY time throughout history. There’s a reason MLK Jr talked so much about how evil complacency is.
I mean, that’s how protests work in general. On top of that, Machaela Cavanaugh did almost the same thing and she was hailed for it because of what she was protesting.
I thought she was the one that filibustered to try and prevent anti trans legislation from going through? I don’t see how they are “almost the same thing”. The only similarity i see is the stalling.
That’s my point. A single person was holding up a government function, and was widely supported for it. Personally, I thought it was awesome that she did that. And I think what tuberville is protesting is disgusting.
I just wanted to comment about how protesting often effects unrelated things or people. That’s why they are effective. In this case, don’t hate the game, hate the player.
My personal opinion is that single person protests should not affect the function of the Senate.
Otherwise, you can have one senator who protests something that literally nobody else agrees with. Like, if instead of military paying for travel expenses for abortions, he was protesting that military people are allowed to wear pants, we’d still have the same problem.
So you say that some people are praised for doing this but it depends on the issue? It’s ridiculous. If it’s such an important issue, then there should be more support. Make it so that the same limits apply as for filibuster, for example. That’s the way everything else works. It shouldn’t be just one or two people.
This unanimous consent procedure is the wrong way of doing military promotions. We need to take away this ridiculous power for any Senator to unilaterally hold up promotions.
Nebraska passing laws is different from the US Army running itself. Compare and contrast. Yes they are both protests, and roughly similar. The effects are very, very different.
Factor in the Moscow-Mitch-refusing-to-hear-Merrick-Garland-to-steal-a-SCOTUS-seat that Tuberville’s apparently doing and it’s WAY different. Treasonous, even. Is a protest to demand bodily autonomy for all women different from what Tuberville is doing? Fuck yes. That’s why she’s hailed for it and he’s an asshole.
I was simply pointing out that sometimes, depending on what a single person is holding the government up for, it’s a good thing. The right to protest effectively isn’t the problem, the problem is the asshole who is protesting an objectively bad thing.
We’ll see. As an Alabamian, Tuberville is an embarrassment to me. Imagine holding workers who had nothing to do with a policy hostage and thinking you are doing a good thing. Tuberville is a selfish monster and too dumb to see how he is hurting the military and people’s military careers. Shame.
He would be in a close race for dumbest congressman if Louis Gohmert were still in office. That guy asked the Forest Service if they could change the moon’s orbit to prevent forest fires or something
Is he the one that was worried Midway Island would flip over if they expanded the military base?
Abortion in the military is an excuse. He wants to hold those positions open so they can be filled with rightwing sycophants in 2025.
He doesn’t care about that. The point is to hold these spots open until Trump can fill them. He is quite literally working for #Putin at this point.
There is no way they will be able to hold them for a year.
Yea and there was no way Trump would win. No way Mitch would hold up supreme court appointments. No way that’d Trump have lasting damage…
Yea, no, fuck that attitude and anyone who holds it. You over-optimistic fucks have been proven wrong EVERY time throughout history. There’s a reason MLK Jr talked so much about how evil complacency is.
FOOTBALL! BOOM!
I mean, that’s how protests work in general. On top of that, Machaela Cavanaugh did almost the same thing and she was hailed for it because of what she was protesting.
I thought she was the one that filibustered to try and prevent anti trans legislation from going through? I don’t see how they are “almost the same thing”. The only similarity i see is the stalling.
That’s my point. A single person was holding up a government function, and was widely supported for it. Personally, I thought it was awesome that she did that. And I think what tuberville is protesting is disgusting.
I just wanted to comment about how protesting often effects unrelated things or people. That’s why they are effective. In this case, don’t hate the game, hate the player.
My personal opinion is that single person protests should not affect the function of the Senate.
Otherwise, you can have one senator who protests something that literally nobody else agrees with. Like, if instead of military paying for travel expenses for abortions, he was protesting that military people are allowed to wear pants, we’d still have the same problem.
So you say that some people are praised for doing this but it depends on the issue? It’s ridiculous. If it’s such an important issue, then there should be more support. Make it so that the same limits apply as for filibuster, for example. That’s the way everything else works. It shouldn’t be just one or two people.
This unanimous consent procedure is the wrong way of doing military promotions. We need to take away this ridiculous power for any Senator to unilaterally hold up promotions.
Nebraska passing laws is different from the US Army running itself. Compare and contrast. Yes they are both protests, and roughly similar. The effects are very, very different.
Factor in the Moscow-Mitch-refusing-to-hear-Merrick-Garland-to-steal-a-SCOTUS-seat that Tuberville’s apparently doing and it’s WAY different. Treasonous, even. Is a protest to demand bodily autonomy for all women different from what Tuberville is doing? Fuck yes. That’s why she’s hailed for it and he’s an asshole.
I was simply pointing out that sometimes, depending on what a single person is holding the government up for, it’s a good thing. The right to protest effectively isn’t the problem, the problem is the asshole who is protesting an objectively bad thing.