Thomas Hawley Tuberville clearly had no idea what IVF was in an interview. Assumed it was some kind of birth control (IUD) or abortion. He just doesn't care about these issues enough to follow them. He doesn't have a womb, and his wife did all that woman stuff so he could have two sons. Why should he know?
Some of you might want to try to tell me he couldn't possibly be in the SENATE & be this uninformed & uninterested.
I want to think that too. But let's be honest about what we are seeing.
I know more about football than Tuberville knows about reproductive medicine and rights.
And it's not like I'm the head of the NFL.
But maybe if we found someone who knows say 1/10 of what I know about football, and put them in charge of the whole sport. That might help him to understand the nature of his failure.
Not that these things are of objectively equal importance but it is the only thing that might reach the guy.
@futurebird@lisamelton All thanks to a majority of the people who voted in the great state of Alabama who thought “football coach” was a fine resume builder for a lawmaker that represents 1% of one of our 3 branches of government. To be fair, “football coach” is better than some of the other fascist (Republican) senators that have “misogynist nazi sympathizer” on their resume … but not by much.
@futurebird One thing we have learned is that it doesn't matter how stupid and misinformed you are, you can still be a U.S. Senator and even a President.
“My opinion of a white nationalist, if someone wants to call them white nationalist, to me is an American.”
“I am totally against any form of racism. I always have been. I was a football coach. I’ve dealt with more minorities than everybody in this building. And so, I treated everybody with respect and made sure everybody had full opportunity.”
He thinks the three branches of the United States government are “the House, the Senate and executive”
@futurebird He’s also made a suspiciously enormous amount of money in the stock market, often in industries highly influenced by committees he sits on. 🤔
@futurebird This reminds me of when someone in the GOP claimed to be an expert psychologist because he was a dentist. Being a coach taught that man nothing but how to help cover up immoralities and crimes.
@futurebird Tuberville clearly didn't know a thing in his first responses (Problem 1), and thought he didn't have to (Problem 2).
You can see his face change! He thought he got away with something, dodging the first question. Then he was "deer in the headlights" on the second question from another reporter.