• dugmeup@lemmy.world
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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/

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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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    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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    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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      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.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate in a single stroke Tuesday approved about 425 military promotions after Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama ended a monthslong blockade of nominations over his opposition to a Pentagon abortion policy.

    Tuberville was blocking the nominations in opposition to Pentagon rules that allow travel reimbursement when a service member has to go out of state to get an abortion or other reproductive care.

    President Joe Biden’s administration instituted the new rules after the Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to an abortion, and some states have limited or banned the procedure.

    The issue came to a head when U.S. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith suffered a heart attack in October, just two days after he’d talked about the stress of the holds at a military conference.

    Tuberville emerged from a closed-door luncheon with his GOP colleagues, saying “all of us are against a rule change in the Senate.” He was adamant that “we did the right thing for the unborn and for our military” by fighting back against executive overreach.

    Sen. Jack Reed, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said after the vote that the first thing he wanted to do was to apologize to the hundreds of officers whose promotions were stalled.


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