George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Sep 26, 2023
If the GOP shuts down the government, that means 1.3 million servicemembers will go without pay. This after a Republican senator, Tommy Tuberville, has single-handedly put a hold on all top-level military promotions and appointments because he disagrees with the Pentagon’s policy of reimbursing travel expenses for members who must seek abortions out of state. Remind me again why the GOP thinks it’s pro-military.
Show threadNicole ParsonsSep 27, 2023

@georgetakei

Tuberville doesn't care about abortion access.

His logjam on Senate confirmations is a grift. He is extorting concessions on behalf of his GOP billionaire donors.

He was unsuccessful at getting the FBI and Space Command relocated to Huntsville Alabama to increase the kind of graft that led to the littoral ship fiasco.

No federal agency should be relocated to a red state. It'll simply become another boondoggle.

All Republicans do is donor maintenance.

https://www.newsweek.com/tommy-tuberville-furious-joe-biden-strips-alabama-space-command-1816555

Tommy Tuberville Furious as Joe Biden Strips Alabama of Space Command

Tuberville has been blocking hundreds of military promotions to protest the Pentagon's abortion policies.

Newsweek
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@Npars01 @georgetakei
Take Federal jobs of of AL.
Sep 27, 2023 at 12:35amWeb
Show threadNicole ParsonsSep 27, 2023

@Hash @georgetakei

Huntsville Alabama is located deep within the former Confederacy.

Red states like Alabama are ruled by anti-democracy oligarchs seeking leverage.

Red states remember the mistakes of the Civil War and are taking steps to control the manufacture of military capability for their next attack on the Union

Note the agencies Tuberville wanted relocated. Not Consumer Protection or Public Health & education.

He wanted Space Command & the FBI.

Show threadWeaselSep 27, 2023
@Npars01 @Hash @georgetakei
Makes sense with red-state secession in their plans.