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MAGA Senator Roasted Over Bizarre ‘Furry’ Pilot Freakout

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MAGA Senator Roasted Over Bizarre ‘Furry’ Pilot Freakout

C-SPAN Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville has been relentlessly roasted after embarking on a truly bizarre rant about “furries”.

As part of his bid to become Alabama governor, the former football coach launched into a wild tirade full of questionable claims about fetishists flying commercial planes.

“This [mentally-unwell] furry community touts the fact that many—listen to this—that many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community.

Lord help us,” he said on the Senate floor Tuesday.

Cue the mockery.

First up was the Democratic candidate for governor, who said it was “the strangest speech on the floor of the United States Senate that I have ever heard.” Doug Jones, who served as Alabama’s U.S.

Senator from 2018-2021, added that the rant was unbecoming of a man in Tuberville’s position.

Jones, despite taking on the former Auburn University football coach in November, was more reserved in his critique than late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel.

Kimmel branded Tuberville one of the “truly unsung dips--ts in the Senate” on his eponymous show Wednesday evening.

He rolled a clip of the jaw-dropping video, then said, “That’s right.

Only the Lord and Donald Trump can stop these six-foot squirrels from flying you to Phoenix on Southwest.

I cannot think of a more serious made-up problem in this country right now than furries flying airplanes.

But the big question is, what is Dummy Dummerville gonna do about it?” He played another clip, this time of Tuberville’s proposed fix: re-opening mental institutions.

“Otherwise, we’re just sitting ducks,” the 72-year-old contested.

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