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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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12 points

Only ten of those. They can get through those

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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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How are the actions of Sen. Tuberville not treasonous?

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He was using the leverage available to him to make a political point. The problem is that we have a system that leaves military readiness open to the whims of a single politician, giving him the ability to do it.

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9 points

Who’s gonna press charges?

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4 points

His team has more moles in DOJ than the other team does

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4 points

What he did wasn’t illegal

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39 points

Wait til you see Republicans take credit for the promotions.

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I hope the FBI, the CIA, the DHS, and the DOJ are so far up Tuberville’s ass they can see his molars.

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From above, nothing less will suffice

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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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You should for the same reason you should care he’s still holding up the more senior ranks, he’s hoping to leave them vacant for Trump to fill with people loyal to him

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Amen ✊😔

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