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Like Trump, Tuberville isn’t a politician so he brings a different approach. In politics, you go along to get along. He was a coach known for fearless play calling that often worked and earned him the nickname “Riverboat Gambler”. He bucks the Senate status quo. Colleagues and the media don’t like that. The Senator forced Schumer to concede over en masse military promotions due to abortion policies.
Tuberville gets the job done
Hopefully he can stay there. He said, “I’m not a politician. OK? And I’ve told people, listen, I’m gonna make the decisions that’s best for the people of Alabama and the citizens across this country that love our constitution. I’m gonna fight, and if people don’t want to send me back up here on the next election, fine, vote against me. But while I’m here, I’m gonna speak for the people.”
Pentagon officials, the mainstream media, many colleagues and even the President weren’t happy with him. They called him a “national security threat”. He had asked for months to move the nominations individually. There’s no threat there.
Why did you change your headline @CNN???
Looks like someone got the Schumer talkers!! pic.twitter.com/WnawLt3kdC
— Mallory Blount Jaspers (@MalloryJaspers) September 20, 2023
Tuberville is a patriot
Because he blocked the promotions he’s been painted as anti-military.
“I am pro-military and we have got some good people in the military. We’ve got some good leaders, we’ve got some good soldiers. We got people from top to bottom that really believe in this country. But the problem is a lot of our leadership that’s coming out of the White House and from the old Obama administration, they want to change our military to something that it’s never been. They want to involve politics in it. They want to indoctrinate people in socialism and something that we’re not familiar with at all. And so, that’s what we’re fighting with all these 300 nominees.”
He’s protesting the Pentagon abortion policy as well as thinking each nomination should have individual scrutiny. He opposes many of them because of the politics and the DEI policies or diversity, equity, and inclusion that are being prioritized over military function.
Tuberville made Schumer blink
The mainstream media isn’t covering it as such. In fact, CNN went as far as to change the title of the article to downplay his win. Tuberville didn’t care though.
“The national media is their marketing arm. I call them activists, they’re not journalists, and anything that this White House comes out with, most of the mainstream media just jumps right on and supports it. The national media is their marketing arm. I call them activists, they’re not journalists, and anything that this White House comes out with, most of the mainstream media just jumps right on and supports it.”
The coach spoke of the administration’s hypocrisy.
“They want to talk about readiness. They did away with 8,000 of our best military people for a stupid vaccine mandate, which was unconstitutional. So, that they can make all these innuendos about what I’m doing, not doing. I’m doing the right thing for the American people, because when you have a controversial subject like this, Bradley, people in every state need to have a say, and to have that say, they go through their senator and congressman. We’ve had an opportunity with these last 220 days to vet a lot of these people. We’re teaching things in the military that are being taught in a lot of our schools now, which is indoctrination in the social justice agendas, things that shouldn’t be taught. You know, our military is not an equal opportunity employer. Our military is here to protect the citizens and the allies around the world. And if we don’t have the strongest military, we are in trouble, and I’m afraid with the leadership we have from the Biden administration and this Pentagon, a lot of these generals and admirals, they’re pushing things that the American people don’t believe in and that, that is wrong. We cannot be teaching all this DEI, social justice, identity politics. If we do that and continue to add politics to something that should be very strong, coherent, and should be like a football team pulling together and fighting, because–there is no second place in war. We have not won a war since World War Two in this country. People don’t realize that we get into these conflicts but we don’t go in to win. We go in to police and patrol.”
