Rant Rules:\u00a0 This is an opinion piece and I’m already riled up.\u00a0 Not ready to discuss: blowing off steam.\u00a0 This one has two parts, the first being Sen. Tuberville of Alabama and his blocking of military promotions, thus leaving the USMC without a Commandant for the first time in well over 100 years.\u00a0 Second part a neophyte Democrat changing parties because her colleagues scolded her about one of her votes.<\/p>\n
Below is what I said to the person in Sen. Tuberville’s office who took my call, after I said I had a message for the Senator and could I leave it, and she said yes.\u00a0\u00a0 I had written it down in advance, because I’m even madder at Sen. Tuberville today than I have been previously.<\/p>\n
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Sen Tuberville’s decision to continue obstructing the promotion of senior military officers, thus forcing the miltary to deal with a broken command chain is misguided and dangerous to national security.\u00a0 Sen Tubberville is ignoring the advice of qualified persons\u2014military and veteran\u2014and falsely claims that he is \u201cmore military than anyone.\u201d\u00a0 He is not.\u00a0 He never served.\u00a0 He had NO idea what a broken command chain means to military personnel, and his lack of willingness to listen to those with military experience\u2014his willingness to damage our military\u2014means he is totally not acting as a patriot.\u00a0 Since he has acted against the national interest before, in his behavior before, during, and following the J6 insurrection, the only rational conclusion is that he is a domestic enemy and should resign immediately.\u00a0\u00a0 This is Elizabeth Moon.\u00a0 I am a Marine Corps veteran, Vietnam era.<\/p>\n
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If I had Sen. Tuberville alone in a room (horrid thought, actually; he’s the kind of man that arouses not just annoyance in me but complete and utter contempt; I’d be fighting myself the whole time)\u00a0 I would lay out all the strikes against him, and then tell him he’s acting like a guy who never played football, being a Monday morning quarterback to an NFL coach.\u00a0\u00a0 He’d understand the reference though he wouldn’t agree.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He thinks he knows all about the military, but of course–not having served *and demonstrating clearly why lack of experience leaves holes in someone’s military understanding*–he doesn’t know diddly.\u00a0\u00a0 In addition to his disgusting behavior in obstructing promotions and leaving the USMC without a Commandant and other major positions unfilled, because of laws that require certain positions to retire on specified dates, he was one of the Senators who wanted to ignore the legal electors and vote for the false ones, wanted to overturn the election and have Trump back in office.\u00a0 He voted against investigating the J6 insurrection, tries to pass it off as nothing that important, voted against giving the Capitol police who were injured a Congressional medal, and is in favor of admitting known white nationalists to the military (which doesn’t want them–knows they’re divisive and a security problem as well.)\u00a0 He thinks it’s wrong to call white supremacists racists.\u00a0 So he’s not in my list of good senators.\u00a0 He’s down there in the list of “Don’t show up on my doorstep or I’ll be forced to consider Texas’ castle doctrine” people.\u00a0 People who want to destroy people like me, and who therefore fall into the category of “credible threat” if they show up here.\u00a0\u00a0 Since I really don’t want to get to that point, and he’s in Alabama, I figure it’ll never be an issue, but just if he does, there is a good heavy frying pan on the stove at all times.\u00a0\u00a0 He should resign.\u00a0 Anyone should resign who claims that their personal beliefs have gotten in the way of their duty to fulfill an oath of office.\u00a0 Resignation is honorable.\u00a0 Abusing your power because you are such a red-hot hater of anything related to abortion and think you have the right to decide that women in the military should have no way to get an abortion no matter what…is not.<\/p>\n
Part 2. Mesha Mainor,\u00a0\u00a0 Georgia state lawmaker.\u00a0 Left the Democratic party, she says, because she was scolded, yelled at, for voting for school vouchers and because the Democrats had “become radical leftists.”\u00a0 Standard MAGA phrasing which makes me wonder if she had run for office as a Dem specifically to prepare for leaving the party at a critical moment.\u00a0 She says it was a “moral decision”, that her morality required her to change parties.\u00a0 And I don’t believe her.\u00a0 Once again, as so many times over the past couple of decades, I see Republicans claiming “religion” or “morality” as the reason to refuse to do their duty (e.g. the clerk who would not marry a gay couple, a clerk in a different state who would not register an existing marriage with a name change by one person because the people were gay and *she* didn’t recognize gay marriage) or as an excuse to switch parties after being elected as a Democrat.\u00a0 We had that same thing happen in this county years ago.\u00a0 A D.A. who had served several terms as county D.A. as a Democrat, noticing that the county’s overall balance was changing to GOP,\u00a0 ran again as a Democrat and very shortly after election changed his affiliation to GOP.\u00a0\u00a0 After that he was re-elected as a GOP, but every one of us who’d voted for him as a Dem was, of course, furious.\u00a0 He cheated us.\u00a0 He LIED to us.\u00a0 He could have a) run for D.A. as a Republican (changing his affiliation before filing)–might’ve won, might not.\u00a0 He could have resigned from office when he decided to switch, and run in the next election under his new label.\u00a0 Either of those would have been honorable.\u00a0 Moral.\u00a0 Honest.\u00a0 Instead he bilked his supporters, lied to them.\u00a0 And called it a moral decision.<\/p>\n
Lying to the people you want to have vote for you is not OK.\u00a0\u00a0 Running as one party while intending to change to the other because it’s gaining strength…is not OK.\u00a0 Running as one party and changing to the other after you’ve been voted in is not OK.\u00a0 Deciding after taking a job that it violates you religious identity, or your personal moral code, and then refusing to do the job while taking the salary…is not OK.\u00a0 It’s dishonest. Resign.\u00a0 Resign as soon as you know you’re in conflict about it.\u00a0 (The dishonest D.A., it turned out, was dishonest in more than one thing, which is predictable.\u00a0 He prosecuted a lawyer he had never liked, charging him with killing his wife, when the man was innocent.\u00a0 The D.A. also withheld exculpatory evidence from the defense team and of course the jury, and the jurors convicted the innocent husband.\u00a0 The murderer went free for years, committing more murders; the innocent man was in prison, and his son believed his father had killed his mother.\u00a0 The lying scum of a D.A. had destroyed the man’s career, his family, and years of his life before the actual murderer, after being arrested for another murder, confessed–and even then the D.A. tried to fight it off. \u00a0 He was finally exposed but by that time he’d become a judge–and think what qualify of judge!! and it took still longer to free the innocent man from prison, get the rotten lying scumbag off the bench and disbarred…and I will bet you the damage to the father & son has never fully healed.)<\/p>\n
I find it particularly annoying when people use that moral\/religion thing about something as an excuse to lie…when if they were really religiously motivated they’d know that “lying” is mentioned in the Ten Commandments they invariably bring up, and neither gay marriage nor abortion is mentioned there at all.<\/p>\n
Like I said,\u00a0 this is not the day to pokc the old bear with a stick to see if she’ll bite…she will rip the stick out of your hands and bite hard and hurt your feelings, if you do.<\/p>\n
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