This is Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville, widely regarded as the dumbest member of the United States Senate. I don't say that lightly. I'm going to prove it in just a few seconds when we watch his interview with Kate Lee Collins. The man is an imbecile. I don't say that to call names. I use the word because it's precise and accurate.
It describes perfectly what Tommy Tuberville is. That he is in the United States Senate, which was once known as the greatest deliberative body in the world, is a shame, and it's a travesty, and it is an appalling embarrassment for the state of Alabama.
But just to be clear, you agree that white nationalists should not be serving in the US military. Is that what you're saying?
If people think that a white nist is a racist, I agree with that.
I agree that a white nationalist is someone who believes that the white race is superior to other races.
Well, that's some people's opinion, and I don't think I mean a lot.
Pardon what's your opinion?
My opinion of a white nationalist, if somebody wants call them white natal to me, is an American. It's an American. Now if that white nationalist is a racist, I'm totally against anything that they want to do because I am one hundred and ten percent against racism. But I want somebody that's in our military that's strong, that believes in this country, that's an American, that will fight along anybody, whether it's a man or woman, black or white, writ
it doesn't make any difference. And so I'm totally against identity politics. I think it's ruining this country. And I think that Democrats ought to be ashamed for how they're doing this because it's dividing this country and it's making this country sweaker every day.
Deceit of Alabama is a beautiful place. It's often caricatured, though, along with Mississippi, as a backwater, a place where ignorance, racism, and idiocy formed together in a molten stew of malice, particularly racial malice. It's a broad generalization, and like all broad generalizations, it's unfair. Most Americans don't know about the first Alabama Volunteers. They were from the Hill country of Alabama, and they were General Sherman's personal guard during the Civil War.
Sherman said those men the men who stayed loyal to the Union could be trusted beyond all others because they had placed their country above their communities, above their families. They placed the Union higher than anything else to preserve it, to maintain it. It was a stunning active principle. Tommy Tuberville is holding up the military promotions of two hundred and sixty four senior officers that require Senate confirmation for their advancement. These are men and women who have spent
their entire life in the service of their country. At the most they make, maybe if you're the commandant of the Marine Corps, a little over two hundred thousand dollars a year. These people aren't millionaire football coaches, entitled princelings from places like Auburn. They're hard working, their public servants. They are our very best. When they are promoted, their housing allowances increases. When they are promoted, their income goes up.
In the end, military families are a big part of America's working class families, and by denying promotion, Tommy Tuberville is denying an increase in the financial security and livelihoods of the people in this country who deserve it the very most. More importantly than that, he is upsetting the readiness, he is upsetting the command structures of the United States military for politics for the first time, because of Tommy Tuberville. Since nineteen ten, the United States Marine Corps does not
have a commandant in place. The last commandant told the Congress that the Marine Corps was thirty three percent at force in the Pacific and it would be the Marines who would be the first into the against the Chinese in the Western Pacific. Why is a United States Senator who has taken an oath of office to support and defend the Constitution of the United States weakening the American military. He's doing it because he was offended. He was offended by the military trying to cut a cancer out from
its ranks. And what that cancer is is white supremacy. What is white supremacy? It is a doctrine of belief that holds white skin is superior to all others. It is a doctrine of delusion that holds the white man is a superior being and that every other race is subordinated. Where does this come from? All of its stems from an essay that was written in the eighteen fifties by a Frenchman named Arthur de Gobinaal. He coined a phrase in that essay which was called the inequality of the Races.
He was the first person to introduce the term Arrian. And when he introduced the term Arian, he introduced that as the master race. They were members of a political party they called themselves a National Socialists. We know them as Nazis. And here in twenty twenty three America, the Nazi flag is flying. It's flying when the Patriot Front marches,
and it's flying in front of this synagogue. It's flying because imbeciles like Tommy Tuberville have given moral succor to white supremacists, have courted them to be part of their political coalition, have apologized for their sick doctrine what Tommy Tuberville stands for, or the doctrines of Jim Crow, the doctrines of segregation, the doctrines that hold one race is superior to another. And Bob Marley was right when he
quoted in his song from HeLa Selassie. And until that is no longer the case, than everywhere there is war.
The great challenge of this era in America's history is for this generation to deal finally with America's permanent sin, and to advance the proposition for this generation and the next that all men and women are created equal, endowed by Creator, with inalienable rights, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that we embrace the vision of doctor King, who saw a day when men and women would be judged by the content of their character. Tommy Tuberville is
a man of astoundingly low character. He is a divider. He is unprepared for his important duties. He is risking the national security of the United States, and he's doing it for reasons of racial Animis is it possible that this man, who is being interviewed by Caitlin Collins truly doesn't understand what he's saying. Is it possible that his IQ measures under eighty what is wrong with him and what is wrong with his Republican Senate colleagues. The day
would tolerate this. The Republican Party that I was once part of took this nation's national security seriously. This generation of MAGA Republicans treats it like a joke. And the result of that is, one day, I promise you, it will get some of our very best young men and women killed, and then those politicians will be standing there with crocodile tears, headbowd watching the American flags folded up over the caskets, and then they'll make a platitude. It
is appalling, disgraceful, disgusting. What Tommy Turberville is doing isn't just idiocy. It's not just scandalous, though it is. It is an assault on an idea. What Tommy Tarbarville is saying is that racial pride is okay, that to believe that white is better, that it signifies something about your character, your intelligence, a superiority. It's not an opinion. It's a sickness. It's a cancer, and that cancer killed over one hundred
million people by the middle of the last century. Alabama has a long history, and within that history are scores of people who stood up and fought for justice, who would not stand by as black people were terrorized. They fought hard and for a long time to create a more just society. Tommy Tarberville would not have been with those people. He would have been with Bull Connor. He would have been standing on the side of the Edmond
Pettus Bridge with a club in his hands. He would have gleefully detonated the bridge to isolate the quilters of Jee's bed. Tommy Tarberville serving in the United States Senate is a sign of a national rock, a national decay. What it says is that the people of Alabama are apathetic and they're indifferent to intelligence, to rigor, to intellect, heredy in honor. Why why would they want Tommy Turberville, white supremacist, white nationalists, excuse her of, to be their
United States Senator. This country is in trouble because we are led across the media, many of our businesses, and our politics by some of the worst and lowest people in this country. And until we figure out how to
fix that, our security will be threatened. Every American should be our age that Tommy Tarberville, a millionaire football coach who celebrates white nationalism, is holding up the promotions of two hundred sixty nine military officers who are need in the chain of command to lead American forces and prepare them to go into harm's way. It is the most deadly and the most serious business in this country, the
profession of arms. What a disgrace Tommy Tuberville is. Give his office a call and let him know what you think of them, what you think of him denying the Marine Corps their commandant, what you think of him denying two hundred and sixty nine men and women. They're earned promotions, and what you think of him praising the Way Nationalists as just another group celebrating some ethnic pride. Appalling doesn't begin to describe it.