What a stupid and fucking disgusting hill to die on. This guy was just a fucking football coach and now this rosacea ridden mother fucker is holding our military back. Fuck him and fuck the gop.
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Don't make fun of medical conditions. Plenty of people have rosacea and shouldn't be shamed for it. He's got plenty of actually bad qualities that we can focus on.
Fair point.
I absolutely hate Petey PotatoTown
I was enlisted in the Navy back in the 80's.
I knew from then, if an officer was not promoted on a regular basis they were, I think, asked to resign. This guy is not only slapping officers in the face, he is actually reducing the number of officers in the military.
Yes, my dad was career military, and he explained to me that the practice was informally called "up or out".
I saw a documentary about navy pilots and one guy had been flying as a captain for like 40 years.
Sounds like a real Maverick to me
Presumably they'd make an exception for this sort of bullshit?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who's singlehandedly blocked hundreds of military promotions in protest over the Pentagon's abortion policies, said he's not going to change his mind and doesn't care that people aren't being promoted.
After the US Supreme Court reversed decades of precedent in overturning its decision in the Roe v. Wade abortion access case in 2022, the Pentagon announced its plan to reimburse service members who need to travel out-of-state to receive abortion services.
Tuberville, a Republican senator out of Alabama, took exception to the decision and said he'd use his power to stymie any military nominations and promotions he could.
Appearing on the podcast "The Kimberly Guilfoyle Show" on Thursday, Tuberville doubled down on his promise because the White House and Pentagon have refused to change the policy.
Speaking with CNN's Kaitlan Collins in July, Tuberville said "there is nobody more military than me" and noted he wouldn't be blocking promotions if he thought it affected military readiness or recruitment.
As Tuberville downplays the situation, Pentagon officials have said that the hundreds of military vacancies has created "unnecessary and unprecedented" risks for the country.
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