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1 hour ago, Number9 said:

Something tells this will end up here.

 

from what i heard on this..

 

some guy wanted to kill himself and his wife after a fight. she left. he bought a bunch of propane tanks and turned them on and called her to come home. she thought something was up and called the cops. firetruck was there. reddit says they got the guy out before the explosion.

 

no clue who it was or if there was more to it.,

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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) announced on Tuesday that he is ending his months-long blockade on hundreds of military promotions. Tuberville said that he is jumping on board with an idea presented by Sens. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) that would release all of his holds on military officers at the 3-star level and below.

 

A hold will remain in place for the roughly ten nominations for 4-star generals and officers. “I am not going to hold the promotions of these people any longer. We just released them,” Tuberville told reporters after informing Senate Republicans of his decision. 

 

At issue was a Pentagon policy, enacted last year, that was put into place last year allowing service members to be reimbursed for travel to receive abortion care. In total, the holds lasted nearly 10 months and became a thorn in the side of the Senate GOP conference, with many hesitant to choose between the military and pro-life issues. 

 

The pressure on Tuberville to alter his tactics only increased as Senate Democrats planned to hold a vote in the coming weeks that would temporarily change the rules of the upper chamber in order to advance the more than 400 nominees that were being affected. 

 

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4343067-tuberville-release-hold-military-promotions/

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8 minutes ago, begooode said:

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) announced on Tuesday that he is ending his months-long blockade on hundreds of military promotions. Tuberville said that he is jumping on board with an idea presented by Sens. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) that would release all of his holds on military officers at the 3-star level and below.

 

A hold will remain in place for the roughly ten nominations for 4-star generals and officers. “I am not going to hold the promotions of these people any longer. We just released them,” Tuberville told reporters after informing Senate Republicans of his decision. 

 

At issue was a Pentagon policy, enacted last year, that was put into place last year allowing service members to be reimbursed for travel to receive abortion care. In total, the holds lasted nearly 10 months and became a thorn in the side of the Senate GOP conference, with many hesitant to choose between the military and pro-life issues. 

 

The pressure on Tuberville to alter his tactics only increased as Senate Democrats planned to hold a vote in the coming weeks that would temporarily change the rules of the upper chamber in order to advance the more than 400 nominees that were being affected. 

 

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4343067-tuberville-release-hold-military-promotions/

 

This isn't about abortion. What he's doing is trying hold positions open in case Trump gets back in office so he can fill the military w/ loyalists. 

 

He's only caving on 3stars to try and stop them from going around him for 4 stars.

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6 minutes ago, reo said:

 

This isn't about abortion. What he's doing is trying hold positions open in case Trump gets back in office so he can fill the military w/ loyalists. 

 

He's only caving on 3stars to try and stop them from going around him for 4 stars.

 

So they are just going to shelve all these promotion candidates to bring in another group of loyalists or blatantly filter through the current group and capriciously deny deserving promotions until they pinky swear an oath to maga?  I'm skeptical.

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2 minutes ago, begooode said:

 

So they are just going to shelve all these promotion candidates to bring in another group of loyalists or blatantly filter through the current group and capriciously deny deserving promotions until they pinky swear an oath to maga? 

 

yes

 

What do you think Project 2024 does w/ the military?

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Lol. It doesn't work like that. The military generates the list, based on competency and achievements. The Senate approves and appoints them with input from the Chief of Staff and Defense Secretary. Democrats can hold up nominations the same way Tuberville has. The President can simply fire the Defense Secretary - and believe me, he would - and replace that person with his own, and he can appoint the Chiefs of Staff with approval from Congress.  

 

At the end of the day, he would be the commander-in-chief, but this idea that you can replace all the current generals with MAGA loyalists is pure fiction sprouted by people who have no clue how the military operates. Senior military officers are apolitical, and it is a virtue that most of them take VERY seriously. This is why you saw so much pushback when both Trump and Pelosi and others tried to politicize the military before. 

 

Guys like General Flynn are an incredible minority. 

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1 hour ago, ctm said:

McCarthy quitting at the end of the year

 


I think Kinzinger and a few others called it over the last few weeks, commenting on how miserable it must be for McCarthy to go from post “shutdown averted” highs to now having to fetch water for a completely overwhelmed underling like maga Mark Johnson.

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