Dumbest Senator of the Year: Tommy Tuberville

by thenewrepublic

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  1. I’m really torn here….. Is he *really* the dumbest? Is it *really* just for this year? Is it *really* worth it to try and rate them?

  2. >The Republican senator from Alabama spent 2023 turning himself into one of the most hated men in Washington—even by members of his own party.

    Way to go, Coach Dipshit.

  3. Competition is fierce though and the year isn’t over yet

  4. He may be stupid, but he is smart enough to live in Florida and get away with it.

  5. He held appointments in the military for MAGA. This wasn’t dumb. This was calculated to allow those positions to be filled by loyalists after 2024. If you want to hate him, hate him for nearly allowing, and demonstrating (so others may never copy it), a way of making a coup happen. There is always a branch of government needed for a successful coup, and that is the military brass.

  6. The Tube! I was rooting for him to win this! I’m so proud of him! Boy has Jim Jordan been giving him a run on the House side. If they were both in the Senate it would be a tough choice but I think the Tube earned this far and square! Woohoo! 😃👍💥☄️

  7. I don’t know, I feel like Boebert’s theatre handjob was even dumber than this.

  8. Yeah he easily wins the dumbest mother fucker of a senator.

    This was all to set shit up for trump to fill all those positions with his locals.

    I’m real glad it failed.

  9. He’s given cover to a lot of second place candidates in this competition to be stupid outside the spotlight. They are grateful.

  10. Expand this to Dumbest Congressperson of the Year and you’d have yourself one hell of a competition

    *… seriously, somebody needs to put together a bracket of all the serious contenders for this title with testimonials for why they are deserving and let folks choose among the parings until we have an incontestable, and clearly contemptible, winner. Would be a great way to spread the word on their collective contemptibility*

  11. Tommy Tuberville was already in the running with his military blockades, but then when Trump gave a Hitler speech he came out and said that the Hitler speech didn’t go far enough. That clinched it.

  12. Tuberville, the Alabama senator lives in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida

  13. So dumb that a Russian oligarch bought him for pennies!

  14. Who would a guessed electing a failed football coach to the most august deliberative body in the nation would backfire?!?

  15. Good job bro. You did all that for nothing except to look like a giant asshole and weaken the US military.

  16. Well, he is a coach with the mentality that he works just as hard as any military service member when he sits down to watch football reels.

    That man wouldn’t last a day in combat boots.

  17. And, boy, was there some serious competition for that prize

  18. It’s maddening to me that the elected goobers who tell their goon followers America has become a laughingstock to the world are the very ones who have caused America to become a laughingstock to the world.

  19. I don’t know about that. There are a lot of dumb senators and congressmen. He’s definitely an a hole.

  20. Keep in mind, he was elected by United States citizens. He was their best choice to represent their State.

    Be proud Alabama, be proud.

    FYI, I am from Minnesota. And I would still take Jesse the Body Ventura over this clown.

  21. His political stunt amounted to absolutely nothing other than wasting time and putting our military defenses at risk, and for what? To take a woman’s right away?!?! Jfc come on!

    I hope he is shamed within the walls of congress for however long he can cling to being a senator which I can only hope is not for long.

    For crying out loud I wish us as citizens would take who we vote into our public offices and who shape are laws and the direction of this country far more seriously than treating it as a popularity contest. Or just by looking at the letter next to their name.

    Half these fools aren’t worthy of having their names on the ballot.

  22. It seemed so clear that he was a dumbass about this when he gave himself no way to back down. I suspect that he would have been happy to have done so if everyone fawned all over him and allowed him to say, “In the national interest, based on the bipartisan support I’ve gotten for a commission to examine…..”

    But he was never a sophisticated enough politician, or person, to think ahead. He climbed the tree and kicked the ladder down. A smarter person would have hidden the ladder on the other side of the tree and then pointed to something shiny in the weeds while climbing down the ladder.

  23. Tubby Taterton ain’t much dumber than Ted Cruise…

  24. You mean a former dumbass coach shouldn’t be a top requirement for being in charge of sensitive national security issues?

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