America’s allies should be deeply concerned about Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing. America’s enemies, meanwhile, are almost certainly laughing in amazement at their unexpected good fortune.
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But Senator Sheehy (Rep) top 2 Qs to him were:
1)how many genders are there?
2)how many push ups can u do?
The world is screwed.
🇺🇸 embracing dumbing down.
1. Division & Polarization
2. Lack of Respect for Diversity
3. Potential for Abusive Leadership
4. Lack of Leadership Experience
5. Understanding of National Security/Global Military Strategy
6. InAbility to Manage Massive Budgets
Of course it was.
stinky and putin love embarrassing The United States.
It makes all the primitive cave people of russia feel better about their backward Asian shithole and their sawed off leader.
So, we’d better get used to being embarrassed.
It’s only just started.
Fine
Think the org needs a shake up?
Ok
Gonna be a bit messy?
K
This isn't that
This is—
We're in a holy war against enemies within
Our goal is to hijack an institution & purge it of 'others'
Plow right thru it
—McConnell
But by randos who still party hard
How soon & how bad?
Is that what you all are seeing??? Seriously folks. Only way to stop the Bully is to stand up to him.
This time I suspect there will be silence because the foreign countries remember who they are dealing with.
The Secretary of Defense is not a culture war position, it is a military position, responsible to keep us safe. Clearly the GOP cares nothing about that one.
His personal Jeebus is like Carrie Underwood's, asleep if not dead at the wheel.
This is damn-near an exact quote of his, shortly after the hearing had ended for the day. CNN's race to the bottom continues unabated.
They've working hard at it for a decade. Now it's time to reap the benefits.
Hegseth will just start the invasion.
Are you talking about America old enemies?
Or
Are you talking about America's new enemies: Canada, Denmark and Greenland?
Because nobody in Canada is finding this funny.
(This is only a partial joke. I really would choose california being part of Canada over being with the US)
AND TAKE OUR MONEY WITH US
Or maybe the moral character?
Or all the pushups he can do?
I mean, he is totally qualified, respectable and trustworthy
Duckworth: "I think he personally is a compromised individual whom our adversaries are watching and digging the dirt on, and this makes him someone who's vulnerable to our adversaries."
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lfqlujuzzk2y
Maybe this is what needs to happen for us *as a country* to get our act together. Disgusting.
Just like their fearless and totally unqualified dictator.
Smiling as I see right through the ruse.
Good for Russia - most of our high level officials work for Putin.
... why on god's-freakin-green-earth did ANYONE want this damn-maniac running-the-country
https://youtu.be/HPxHEVA1wds?si=ROGRW-PWlB5iBnqw
There are no atheists in foxholes, Tom—or, after a year or two of this, in the USA.
Trump has cohorts in his transnational criminal network (as kendzior calls it), but they aren’t America’s allies.
Thanks. /s
Bob Gates
James Mattis
William Cohen
Leon Panetta
Chuck Hagel
???
Or... what?