Republican Alabama Lawmaker Takes to the Senate Floor for Bizarre Attack on Trans People
Republican U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and the current GOP nominee for governor of the state targeted trans people in a speech on the Senate floor, spewing transphobia and misinformation. In a tangent, the Republican also seemed to support a conspiracy theory that many flight attendants are furries.
The lawmaker accused trans people of violence and even proposed that they should be put in mental health facilities as he stood beside a poster with a pregnant man emoji with “transgederism is a mental disease” on the top.
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This is a US Senator punching himself in the balls to drum up the base for the midterms. No one is going to be flying without pilots and fuel. Instead of expanding pilot training programs and ending the Iran war, we get this garbage.
Do you know how to fly a fucking commercial airliner “coach” Tuberville? You know what’s actually terrifying? A constituency that thinks coaching football qualifies you to be a US Senator. What a fucking joke of a man.
Not that it matters but he was such a godawful coach, too…
Call me crazy, but I'd actually like some more "regular every-day people" to be representing their constituents in congress. Granted, there are a lot of shitty regular every-day people, Tommy Tuberville as an example.
College football coaches in public universities are nearly always the highest paid public employee in their state.
This was not a "regular, every day" person. It's an act to get votes.
Edit:
Quick Google search found this:
https://www.newsrecord.org/sports/football/tuberville-to-become-highest-paid-football-coach-in-uc-history/article_cfd0aa86-55db-11e2-8e22-0019bb30f31a.html
Shut up grandpa, are you watching furry porn again?
Nah, he was just watching Kash Patel
Well I don't know about this "trans people are mentally ill" business. Not sure he's made a compelling case there.
Have to admit: he's convincing me that transphobes might be mentally ill, though.
My aunt is transphobic and I'm very convinced she's mentally ill. She's completely incoherent and doesn't understand why I think she's transphobic for saying that transgender people are shooting up schools, trying to depopulate the earth, and chopping off six-year-old's penises. She also doesn't understand why saying that medicine is a big government conspiracy is offensive to my sister, who is a doctor.
Gender dysphoria is a mental illness. The cure is transition. We've known this for over a century in modern medicine, and people like him's only comprehension is to kill and hurt and stand on top of it and make a face like he shit his pants.
Depression is also mental illness, but doesn't have a clear easy solution.
Homosexuality is not mental illness, neither is it to be transgender. Both of those are as natural as being alive and as harmful as breathing.
Conservatives need to go touch grass.
Edit: oh, also, furries? Nobody gives a shit. Totally harmless. It's worse for you to go to church or be religious - for an example, see the piece of shit this post is about. I swear, it's always projection with these assholes.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia -> It's Always Projection with Republicans
It's like motherfuckers are complaining about engineers being technical and obsessive. I'm so tired of how stupid these people are and how destructive it always becomes. Everything they touch rots.
Salute to all the hardworking furries keeping our planes safe in the air o7
JFC, "transgenderism". These people act like it's some kind of political system like conservatism.
Also, why do they spend so much time and energy on such a tiny tiny fraction of the population, when they have so many real problems to address? Everything is unaffordable and this jackass wants to talk about furries and trans?
Fuck all the way off.
That's because they think it is a political ideology
Because fascism requires scapegoats. They have zero interest in solving problems. All they care about is power.
Why does he have an m-preg fetish avatar?
It's always the ones you'd most expect
He wants you to make him boy preggers.
I would really enjoy furry flight attendants. The suits would have to be slimline and custom to fit through the aisles and maintain safety, but that's totally doable. It would stop dirty old Saudi fucks from groping them too.
There is no way.
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Football coach from Alabama going into politics..this guy has always been a dumbass
Are we really supposed to listen to a grown, OLD man who still goes by Tommy?
They have to keep doing this to distract from the pedophile and the Epstein files. And the war profiteering. And the death camps. And the child murder. And the genocide. And the school shootings. And the deepening divide between the richest <1% and everyone else. And the food that will kill us. And the accelerating climate change. And the other atrocities these fucks have perpetrated. I'm sure I missed a good thousand.
Dummy Dummerville.
He was all worried about Furries flying planes and being flight attendants.
On the show Pluribus, when aliens take over almost everybody except for a few, like the Protagonist, she gets on a plane that's being flown by a young woman in a TGIF uniform, and it shakes her up a bit. It taught the aliens that they should have their pilots wearing real pilot gear.
So if I get on a plane, and there's a furry in the pilots seat, yeah, I'm going to question it, but if he's a fully qualified, experienced pilot, then I'm taking my seat. I don't care what his religion is.
But that's a problem I'm going to deal with when it comes up, when I step into a plane, and the pilot is dressed like a gorilla or something. I'm definitely not voting over this particular issue.
Tommy the traitor?
Emoji 💀💀
Being able to throw a ball doesn't make to qualified to lead a state.
Bizarre for progressives, but it's Alabama so transphobia is popular.