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negativenull to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 年前

Senate approves hundreds of military promotions after Republican senator ends blockade of nominees

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Senate approves hundreds of military promotions after Republican senator ends blockade of nominees

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negativenull to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 年前
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The Senate has approved military promotions after Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama ended blockade of nominations over a Pentagon abortion policy.
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  • dugmeup@lemmy.worldBanned
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    It’s not for any 4 star generals. The Republicans still want to hold the senior leadership under their boot for a potential military involvement in the elections.

    Before you decide to downvote me, this is openly called for by the orange dictator in training who has put pressure on the military. Gen Milley called him out for this

    https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/09/top-us-military-officer-steps-down-calls-trump-wannabe-dictator/amp/

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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      Only ten of those. They can get through those

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      They’re going to sell this to the promoted troops as “that promotion that senator noob tube got you” to divide the military so they can kick off a real civil war, and guess who the military industrial complex is going to support in that war?

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    How are the actions of Sen. Tuberville not treasonous?

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      He was using the leverage available to him to make a political point. The problem is that we have a system that leaves military readiness open to the whims of a single politician, giving him the ability to do it.

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    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldBannedBanned from community
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      Who’s gonna press charges?

    • ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world
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      His team has more moles in DOJ than the other team does

    • rbesfe@lemmy.ca
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      What he did wasn’t illegal

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    Wait til you see Republicans take credit for the promotions.

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    I hope the FBI, the CIA, the DHS, and the DOJ are so far up Tuberville’s ass they can see his molars.

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      From above, nothing less will suffice

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    I don’t care about military promotions but I do like to see regressives lose, so I guess this is good.

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      You should for the same reason you should care he’s still holding up the more senior ranks, he’s hoping to leave them vacant for Trump to fill with people loyal to him

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    • Machindo@lemmy.ml
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      Amen ✊😔

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    Congrats on accomplishing absolutely nothing but pissing off pretty much everyone but our rivals with your childish grand standing.

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      He did accomplish a thing. He single-handedly managed to compromise national security. With all the open positions, work wasn’t able to get done and some people legit burnt out trying to do the work of many people.

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    Their backpay should come out of the fucker’s pockets.

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      You cannot back pay a rank that was never promoted unfortunately. We can simply garnish that senator’s wages but he’d still make more money than his entire district from insider trading anyways

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    They told him that campaign season was coming up and his actions would hurt other GOPs.

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      his actions would hurt other GOPs.

      Did I just read someone use Grand Old Party (GOP) as a pronoun?

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        I take it you’re new to politics. GOP as a ‘pronoun’ has been a thing for decades. Possibly since the phrase ‘Grand Old Party’ was originated.

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          Please link me one reputable news agency that uses the acronym GOP as a pronoun.

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            It’s been used that way in common parlance for as long as I can remember.

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            https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/11/09/gop-meaning-republicans/

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              Nowhere in that article does it use GOP as a pronoun nor had it claimed it is used as one. I’m just thinking that the GOP are hypocritical enough to adopt it as one.

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                Definition of a Pronoun : The word that is used in place of a noun or a noun phrase is known as pronoun. A pronoun is used in place of a noun to avoid the repetition of the noun.

                GOP isn’t a ‘pronoun,’ it’s a nickname and has been for decades.

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                  You literally used it as a pronoun 13 hours ago. However I’m also dumb and likely misunderstood what you wrote.

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    He’s a hero /s

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    Your browser does not support playing HTML5 video. You can download the file instead.

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    One fucking guy was allowed to deadlock our military.

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