Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), who is currently running for governor of Alabama, went on a 20-minute, lie-filled rant on the Senate floor accusing trans people of being violent and “deranged” and proposing that the United States bring back mental institutions to house them.

Tuberville claimed there is a “rise in violence coming from people who the left refers to as transgender.”

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[–] 86 points 1 month ago

I would feel much safer being flown by a pansexual transgender catgirl than by a MAGAt.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    I know, freedom of speech and whatnot, but it's amazing what these ass-backward morons will spout as fact, and worse, use to justify their horrendous policies. Seems like they should at least have to attend some basic "facts of reality" class before returning to work. At a minimum.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Or, you know, a functioning media apparatus that would do it's job and keep the ruling class in check.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    The thing is, for most of them, they know they're spouting bullshit. The classes on "facts of reality" wouldn't help. It's all just the easy target bullshit they know the base eats up that can get them elected without having to do anything that would help people. It's a lot easier to get elected on the right with policies of "I promise to hurt these people!" As opposed to "I'll do something about your financial problems!"

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    They’re flailing now, they’re trying to instill fear with the most over the top lies they can.

    They know they’re about to be wiped off the map in the midterms and possibly even prosecuted.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 month ago

    We need to start promoting and supporting trans and drag queen baby sitters. Because I know my kids will be safe, unlike leaving them with one of these churchy, sexually repressed, authoritarian assholes.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Where do these idiots get this shit? Is there just a room of guys at the Heritage Foundation sitting around seeing who can make people believe the dumbest thing?

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Nothing they do isn't intentional.

    'Furries' are a bit weird, so its an easy target. There's apparently a disproportionate amount of pilot furries. Pilots affect a lot of people. Since furries are weird, they are an outgroup. The outgroup they are targeting is transgender. Saying the transgender group is both weird and threatening gets people's attention weather or not its true.

    They don't intend to make anyone believe anything, other than the transgender outgroup is bad.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago

    Has he explained how they manage to keep a litter tray in the cockpit despite turbulence?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago

    If the furry trans alien Eldrich entities are going to safely take off and land, I am not sure what the problem is?

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  • [–] 37 points 1 month ago

    "Tuberville claimed, however, that affirming parents are guilty of “child abuse.” "

    Wouldn't be suprised if they find child porn in his computer in the next year or so.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    $10 says his Internet history has lots of e621 on it

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Projector jokes aside, who cares if trans furries fly plains? The whole entire internet would probably implode and disappear without them. Their backs must be broken beyond repair with how much they carry the web.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    Maybe the speed running community is over representative of trans folks, but I would feel quite safe in their hands. Those guys, gals, and nonbinary pals have crazy control of their manual dexterity.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    This guy is a hate filled dumbass.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Meh, Fury airlines couldn't be worse than Spirit.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Fury Airlines sounds like it has exclusively pilots with anger management issues, so it might actually be worse than Spirit.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Hey now it could call back to the root of the word and is in fact piloted by the Furies of ancient Hellenic myth. Honest probably better than Zeus or Pan airlines, you'll get off the plaen pregnant and given the proclivities of Pan possible a woman if you weren't one before.

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  • It's his way of revealing that when he's not being an anti-American piece of shit bigot at work, he spends his time sitting around in a feather-suit (but still being an anti-American piece of shit bigot).

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    I didn't want to know exactly what kind of porn this guy gets off to, but I guess I know now.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Conservatives will always look for ways to oppress as many of the normal people as possible. This is because all conservatives have a deep, instinctive need to harm others.

    When conservatives have power, they will always use that power to oppress the normal people. Always. Throughout all recorded human history, the conservatives of every civilization have been the source of every act of oppression ever commited.

    Tuberville's comments are comical, but the absurdity comes from genuine, pure evil. We rationalize that evil by calling it conservatism. But that's all conservatism is. It's just evil by every definition of the word.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    We do need mental institutions, a lot of them, so we have a place to house the GOP. And they should be run by trans furries, just to drive those conservatives crazy.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Didn’t they start using ai for air traffic control yesterday?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    You can't make this up! ... he added.

    That's just horrible that flights have become non stop furry orgies. I'm shocked. But what airlines are doing this? Which specific one?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    They must have accidentally targeted Hearts of Iron IV gamers with the recruitment ads. They did this to themselves. A mistake in their eyes; but I'll take a Hearts of Iron themperor over a CoD Nazi anyday of the week.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Yeah well it sounds like those ducks are sitting in the pilots seat now you manky bitch

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Hey, check it out! Dummy Dummerville has a boner for Furries! I wonder what his favorite is.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    I expect he spent a lot of time walking around barefoot down there in Blabalama. Enjoy those hookworms, boy.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Pilots? Bullshit, everybody knows furries run the autonomous systems!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Neverending war in a Middle Eastern country with seemingly no end in sight. People up in arms over AI and data centers. People upset about sky-high gas and diesel prices (as we prep for winter months). People angry about not enough housing, unsafe food supplies, and everything costing so much more than just a year ago. People upset about billionaires calling the shots in a democracy. People upset about having people tackled and disappeared. Donnie fixated on putting his tainted name on everything and building ballrooms and arches and painting a reflecting pool American flag blue. RFK jr talking about vaccine denialism and chemtrails in the face of a measles outbreak.

    Tommy: we really need to focus on the....checks notes....FURRIES!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Good to see the federal government's openness to hiring the mentally ill.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    First off, the furries were probubly there first, second wtf are you talking about??

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    airforce pilots are livid right now. These mfers don't yiff, they wouldn't last a day in the skies.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    furries have been around way longer than the grand old peadoparty, and they will be around way longer than you, old fuck.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    That would explain all the meowing on guard.

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    [–] 33 points 1 month ago

    This just in: people you don't totally understand and who live a different lifestyle to you can be good at their jobs and maybe you should shut the fuck up about it

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago

    One thing is true, clowns have been in charge of congress for ages.

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    Iran must be real bad if they wheeled out the extra clowns

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Rawr! Fear me! :3c

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    I think he might be confusing furry pilots with the FBI letting animal fuckers join now. I mean, he has to be, right? There is no way he could be ok with animal fuckers joining the FBI but be upset about furry pilots. That would just be stupid.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Nah you got it right with the last sentence....who would give or let people that think similar such power over the government? Yeah, not a top of the class sort of decision, well maybe where Doctor Nick got his degree.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Now you're a sexy looking sitting duck! Are you flying alone, handsome?

    E621 artists, could you pretty please?

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  • So seriously, is this a mangled retelling of idiots meowing on guard? Because if it is it’s ALMOST funny…

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    He'll get a heart attack the moment he discovers the furry subculture of planesonas.

    SFW Lesbian Concorde x Tupalev Tu-144 art

    by havoc63

    They're roommates by the way. Like for real, the IRL planes with the same registration are in (or rather "on") the same museum.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    paging u/fuckswithducks

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Think we need to check this senators internet history...

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    I feel dumber for just looking at his picture.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Is this one of those fake stories some asshat thought was real, Like the schools with litter boxes nonsense?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Wait until he hears about the air force

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    If they can fly as good as they code i'm in.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Wait, I could fly while a chicken pilots the plane?

    SIGN ME UP!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    So the senator's fursona is a duck?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago*

    Dipshit shits bullshit shittily. Film at 11

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    tuber is a storage organ from the ground, it fits his name.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Meanwhile most airline pilots are actually racist veterans.

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    [–] 20 points 1 month ago

    We really need laws that hold all Congresspersons speaking to the press or to the chamber as under oath and subject to perjury.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    If a pilot enjoys anthropomorphised animals and isn't wearing a fursuit, it's the same as that one anti-racist joke, "What do you call a Black man flying a plane?" I dunno, what? "A pilot, you racist fuck." A guy flying a plane who likes furry culture (and/or is a furry) is still a pilot. Just like a senator who supports a paedophile president is still a paedophile enabler.

    Not sure what that has to do with trans people/trans kids, but if you're from the same political party as the president and you're not disavowing his extracurricular activities, clean up your own house before throwing stones at another.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Make mental institutions for people still registered Republican after 2026

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    So... we thinking Alzheimers or bvFTD?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Citizens say “pedophiles” and “nazis” are taking over congress because of republican voters: “They’re just so fucking stupid and rapey!’”

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    likely socialized secret surgeries while the rest of us go bankrupt if we get a cold.

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