It's amazing. You've been watching them for years and constantly wrongly predicting their behavior because you fundamentally misunderstand how fascists think and operate and yet you've learned nothing. They're not fucking binary logic machines that operate on "If ---> Then" calculations and all of your "if that's what they wanted to do the only way they could possibly try to go about it is this way that I would do it if I was them and they're not doing what I would do so I must be right" is fucking constantly some of the most wrongheaded thinking about any topic on Surly.
Trump is campaigning where he is right now to raise the most money he can for his legal defenses. He doesn't even think he needs to turn out voters and he's sure as shit not worried about only visiting the most important states an entire year before the election. Yes, he's a stupid, irrational dipshit. ALL FASCISTS ARE. That doesn't mean they're incapable of some basic planning. They're not even hiding their plan, we've got a fucking thread on it. And Tuberville's actions are absolutely part of that plan. Because it doesn't take a brilliant mastermind to understand that when you want to illegally seize and hold power, it helps to not be opposed by the military. Especially when they already tried once and failed because they'd wrongly assumed the military would be on their side.
If Trump wins, he wants to be able to promote officers who pass his loyalty tests so that he doesn't have to step down at the end of his next term. That's what this is about. Is it a guarantee Tuberville will succeed in his goal? Of course not. But even if he doesn't, he's still thrown a huge wrench in the middle of functioning government and harmed Biden's ability to protect our national security, so it's a win win. And we know Tuberville is down for this shit, because he was involved in planning 1/6.
Again, it doesn't take a genius to do this math. This isn't complex or sophisticated. it's exactly as stupid as it looks, because, get this, FASCISTS ARE ALWAYS AS STUPID AS THEY LOOK. And yet they're still often very successful at seizing power and doing shitloads of damage, because they operate in broken systems against people who refuse to understand the threat they pose.