I still find it hilarious that Tuberville has effectively become one of the best anti-military politicians, even if his reasons for doing so are completely unexpected.
And it has hurt his constituents. I’m sure it played a role in deciding to put the USSF HQ in Colorado vs Alabama where it was tentatively announced it would be.
It’s not about military spending. It’s about having leadership in place if we ever go to war. This ass-hat is destabilizing our military when we really need to be ready.
He’ll just hold all the spots open in case Trump is reelected. That means this time the insurrection will have military backing. Kind of like the Supreme Court seat.
Its the department of defense, its in the executive branch, the president can, and trump did many times, make spots open when they want. So this has no bearing on any future presidencies. Its just military spending now for the already most expensive military in the world with a tendency to bomb other countries. What a shame that they cant do that as efficiently right now.
He’s only holding up military leadership. Whatever he’s saving is a tiny drop in the ocean of military spending. What he’s really doing is killing readiness. He’s also making sure that these spots can’t be filled by anyone who would owe allegiance to the Democrat party (despite the fact that none of them should owe allegiance to either party).
This is laying the groundwork for a coup and hurting our ability to prepare for and participate in conflicts.
We don’t always get to choose when a conflict is thrust upon us. If an ally or ourselves got attacked and we were unable to respond effectively, that would go very badly for us. It wouldn’t keep us out of the conflict, but a lot of people would die without effective leadership.
How about “our” ability to put down any protests against the Trump administration? Because that’s what this is going to lead to. You don’t want us to be able to kill people in other countries? Fine. But this is going to get people in this country killed if they have their way.
Everyone keeps saying this, but I really don’t see how that would work.
I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure this isn’t like the supreme Court where Congress decides who to nominate. Aren’t these internal military promotions? I feel like regardless of whether they’re confirmed now or later, it’s still the same people because those are the people the military chose to promote. Congress just has to approve them.
The President is the Commander in Chief - he could override all those decisions on who to promote, theoretically. At least that’s how I understand it.
If they have a smart group that is actually planning this, that group could then vet a bunch of other people that their data suggests would be more amenable to their agenda and present a list of alternate promotions to the Republican president, which he could then order the military to make happen.
Ok but by that logic, the president can already replace anyone he wants. So again, there’s not really any difference between confirming them now and confirming them later.
This is a terrifying scenario, but unlikely and I don’t think his scheme.
He isn’t holding out for alternate candidates. He just wants the Pentagon to reverse its abortion policy. If he were doing this to get alternative candidates approved, it would require alternate recommendations coming from elsewhere in the military, which isn’t occurring, and the Senate democrats wouldn’t approve them anyway.
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