It Would Take 700 Hours Of Floor Time To Process All the Military Nominations Being Blocked By Tommy Tuberville, Report Says

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It Would Take 700 Hours Of Floor Time To Process All the Military Nominations Being Blocked By Tommy Tuberville, Report Says
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Great. During next fascist government, republicans will use the exact same executive order to install ultra-MAGA goons on key military leadership positions.

In fact trump already tried something similar: remember how many senior positions in his administration were just “acting” traitors? Many times he replaced one acting person with other acting person. DHS leadership during his admin comes to mind as a great example of that.

republicans will use the exact same executive order to install ultra-MAGA goons

Because the thing holding them back now is norms? They're going to do it already. Why do you think they're creating so many vacancies. It's in preparation for 2024.

Dems will continue to play by the rules and lose. But hey, at least they have the moral high ground while we slip into fascism.

I wouldn’t want fascist rule from the dems either; keeping your morals in the face of all of this should be a positive.

That said, the DNC is a bunch of lawful-evil cowards who could do a lot more while following the rules

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Im sick of this 'if Dems do it Republicans will too.' Because if the Republicans could have already done that they would have already done it. The fact that the Dems have not done something yet is stopping zero Republicans from considering or attempting it. Its strange that you imagine a fascist government that wouldn't try to install maga goons simply because the ladt Dem president didn't install his goons. I just don't see that as plausible. So why not at least try to do something?

You argued against yourself.

You pointed out that the GOP doesn't wait for dems to do a thing before they do it, which is true. There's no reason for Biden to refrain from doing something that trump has done already

No the Republicans would not because the Senate can actually vote them down if they want to.

IMHO, if the president makes an appointment, the Senate is constitutionally required to give their opinion, or they forfeit the right for that appointment.

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