What are they afraid he’ll do?
Oh, wait that’s MAGA-GOP project 25 shit
Those old american politicians. Their last recourse for anything is "They're not white and they don't think like me!".
in my country if a politician posted something like that, would be sued for defamation and will 100% lose in court.
TBF, Tommy Tuberville is Olympic-level caliber at saying things that make him look stupid.
Tommy Tuberville is such a made up sounding name.
Are Senators exempt from laws in the US? Given how easily this can be disproved why hasn't he been sued to the point of bankruptcy?
to be fair, this had been working for several decades, they're not gonna learn new tricks now
There hasn't been a time in my life, and I'm not young anymore, that American conservatism hasn't been a racist movement.
The most racist element of that movement are at the end of their lives and the racist GOP know that. Unless they can cheat their way into total control, this is their last big push. That's why they aren't hiding it anymore.
You jest, but within 5 days after he gets into senate, our government will be using public schools to teach children arabic numerals! /s
They call him a radical Islamist because of his ethnicity alone?
Or did he do something incriminating?
Oh thats funny I heard Tuberville was in the Klan.
... we can just play exactly the same game here.
We in fact should be.
Fuck decorum, antagonize these idiots untill they fuck up even harder.
They aren't constrained by facts. We can leave facts to policy, tell everybody Tumortown fucked his sister, why not?
Just do it via a PAC that implies those things without literally directly saying them.
Or, 'just asking questions'.
The rhetorical trick of the paranoid delusional, why not, they love it.
They've spent decades conditioning the dumbest among us to respond like dogs to Arabic sounding names.
Sadly, it's worked.
Comparing Tuberville to almost anyone with a pulse makes Tuberville look stupid. Even John Kennedy seems smart compared to him.
I can see America being destroyed under republican rule
The fact that you need to research that information about him to prove it, but don't need to research the allegations against him says a lot
Football coach turned politician, what do you expect?
honey our president is a terrorist. .... most our government is ran by terrorists.
stupid ignorant assholes representing his state of stupid ignorant assholes......
these politicians don't appear out of nowhere, this is the best alabama can do!
and also, what kind of stupid fucking name is tommy tuberville? that is a fucking cartoon character name not someone a fucking adult would vote for!
As opposed to the radical christians in the senate and office right now?
Hey, Tommy has been accused of a lot of things. "Smart" was never one of those.
If Tuberville sounds stupid. It’s because there’s a potatoe shoved up his ass. It’s been there long enough it’s sprouted and is now doing all his thinking for him.
Extreme Racist: "People from ethnicities I don't like are all 'terrorists'"
Can you sue this motherfucker for defamation?
If all they got is racism they don't got much.
When Trump started his political career, it invited everyone to express their racism openly. Prior to that, they were adhering to the Reagan rules, which was instead to use racist dog whistles. (welfare state, street gangs, urban crime, and so on).
As the MAGA movement formed, open racism became a means of costly signaling. It tells your fellow MAGAs that you are one of them. It also tells the rest of us that you are racist.
Other signaling includes talking about liberals in the same manner one uses a racial slur, not only regarding them as a monolithic bloc¹ but also accusing them of outrageous wrongs, specifically acts of treason or betrayal of the country. This is much like blood libel, in which the accusations are not meant to be plausible, rather that fellow MAGAs are to pretend they are true. See also They're eating the dogs.
Anyway, Tuberville had shown time and again in his career that he doesn't care if he looks stupid, especially to anyone outside of MAGA, but that he is a staunch MAGA loyalist who will lick any boot and even sacrifice himself to stay adjacent to power.
Of course, when Trump or some higher up actually requires that he sacrifice himself his opinion may change. But he's signaling that he's a good, obedient dog to the end.
I also anticipate that when Trump dies or otherwise MAGA falls out of fashion (it's certainly losing popularity already), Tuberville will try to pretend he was never really into all that MAGA nonsense, and none of his statements and behavior ever happened. And it will be up to the public to make sure neither he, nor any other opportunists like him, ever live it down.
¹ Liberals are not a monolithic bloc even if most of them share some common values. The same is true for conservatives, feminists, Methodists or any other significantly large demographic. -- This is why the face-eating leopards always eventually come for your face no matter how true and loyal you are; in Fascism, the set of acceptable identity markers closes like a Fortnite perimeter and shuts you out.
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