US Senator, retired college football coach and conservative brainwave from Alabama Thomas Tuberville (R-AL) has dropped his blockade of US military promotions. He held up this ordinary staffing operation in order to protest the use of military funds for reimbursement of travel expenses to obtain abortions by military personnel.

This was a 4^th down Hail Mary pass effort by a Bible Belt Republican Senator to move the needle on his conservative bona fides for conservative single-issue voters. Other similes may apply here, like the value of surprise plays.

It’s much like if y = mx +b, then Q must = 7k. Could be true depending on undisclosed information about the variables, but sometimes things are just as they appear- f**king stupid. This was a wrench-in-the-gears tactic designed to rattle his colleagues into submission. Nobody really wants to inhibit military readiness.

The idiot Tuberville was playing games with US military top-level staff and readiness but lost the game. This was a major league display of US political disfunction put on by a former college football coach who, as a group, are otherwise deified. More attention must be paid to resumes and credentials. Like other countries, in America, idiots elect idiots to office. After all, it was widely believed that a rich real estate developer with a long history of bankruptcies, fraud, law-suit harassment and sexual aggression was deemed inherently qualified to be US President based on his business experience. This particular idiocy has not fully played out yet.