If Hegseth is confirmed to run the entire DOD I expect a LOT of retirements coming down the pipe. Morale is going to be in the gutter with such an unqualified hack running the largest military in the world.
But beyond that, they also go into detail about how Hegseth financially mismanaged a non-profit he was running. Republicans will try to minimize the sexual misconduct (pretending its irrelevant to a leadership role) when he'd also be horrific at handling DoD's budget.
I know it’s faux pas to judge someone by looks but is there a single woman on this earth who wouldn’t have guessed this by how this meathead looks and slithers?
Disregarding that he’s a rapist and christofascist, maybe corporate media can tell the public how his most responsible position in the military was telling a 20-man rifle platoon what to do.
He has ZERO qualifications in either training or experience to lead the most powerful military in history.
one thing meyer does in this piece is use the voluminous evidence of hegseth's heavy drinking and alcohol abuse to give important context to the allegation of sexual assault, in which the victim says that hegseth was heavily intoxicated
Given that Trump's "Access Hollywood" tape & rape conviction didn't stop him from being elected to the highest office in the land--twice!--it seems quite rational for Hegseth to assume that a majority of Americans either wouldn't care or would actively approve of his own history of sexual predation.
John Tower nom for DOD was rejected in 1989 according to Wikipedia …..
The largest factors were concern about possible conflicts of interest and Tower's personal life, in particular allegations of alcohol abuse and womanizing
They get drunk so they have an excuse. I had a work colleague do similar things at a conference and plead "too much to drink", which is peak male privilege anyway. A woman who's rated is routinely cross examined about drinking.
The uncontrolled drinking may be the thing that does Hegseth in rather than the sexual assault. Feeling a little better about his chances of having his nomination withdrawn. Supremacist misogyny is one of the most powerful binders of the right.
This makes Trump love him more.
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Eh, maaaybe. Hegseth is a TV personality and Trump loves that. Trump tends not to love sloppy drunks (as a teetotaler himself) or inconvenient surprises (like this sexual assault allegation he hid from the transition team)
Hopefully, it will give the cowards willing to overlook sexual assault something they are willing to hang an objection on, as fall down drunk is also an obvious no.
He and Trump have sexual predator in common, but Trump doesn't drink so...hammer that wedge btwn these birds of a feather.
When Jane Mayer interviewed Hegseth's lawyer, Tim Parlatore (who also represented Trump early in Jack Smith's investigations), he advanced a lie that Hegseth's accuser had brought a false rape claim against someone else in the past. Regarding Mayer's story,
I don’t like it any more than you, but we have to respect the results and the shit-show that ensues whether we like it or not.
Or we can (individually) pull the ripcord and find someplace that doesn’t become a banana republic every few years.
I really wish Joe had waited to pardon Hunter until right before the handoff in January. Democrats are so awful with lighting their own scandals while the GOP is in the middle of self-immolation. 🤦🏻♂️
Considering the rampant sexual assault issue in the military he is about the worst possible pick for secdef. That and his praise of trump for pardoning the seal who murdered a teen then threatened to murder his teammates if they snitched cuz trump and hegseth clearly understand unit cohesion.
I think Hegseth's history of running 501c3's into the ground and getting fired (which this article details) is important also. Executive skills entirely lacking. A drunken incompetent sexually aggressive hothead to run the entire U.S. military. What could go wrong??
Lol.
Except that sometimes I think the whole point of the not-for-profit sector is to run directly into the dirt. The money-laundering in the name of do-gooding makes me want to scream and claw my face.
The biz manager & CEO made big $$ at the prep school where I worked (and went as a child) & the "in kind" exchanges smelled to high heaven. Teachers were at the extreme bottom of that feeding chain, tho'. Labor laws were jokes to the admins. A 50-hr per wk barn worker was paid from 2 books. 😡
Lets not forget he was stationed at guantanamo. Usually toxic behavior goes all around. meaning the he also most likely loved torturing detainees over there
Wow. That's something new. We're going to call a rapist a "sex pest". Gals, make sure you carry bug spray when you're around this guy. Hegseth's mother wrote and now published an email she wrote to her son that describes him as a sex offender, a cheat and an abusive alcoholic.
Is this just one edition of a series @newyorker.com will be running on each Cabinet pick? Seems like every nominee probably has a similar dossier. Would be a shame if they could all be found in one series for easy reference....
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He has ZERO qualifications in either training or experience to lead the most powerful military in history.
The largest factors were concern about possible conflicts of interest and Tower's personal life, in particular allegations of alcohol abuse and womanizing
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
He and Trump have sexual predator in common, but Trump doesn't drink so...hammer that wedge btwn these birds of a feather.
♦️UNREPENTANT
♦️ABUSIVE BEHAVIOR
▪️Sexual
▪️Emotional
▪️Physical
▪️Rape
♦️HOMOPHOBIC
♦️SEXIST
♦️MISOGYNISTIC
♦️NAZI ASS
Not so sure giving Pete the benefit of the doubt is a good idea anymore.
Trump does not pardon innocent people, he only pardons criminals so they will commit more crimes for him!
Your Maga logic at work!
America signed up for this. This is exactly what we wanted, so why get all bent out of shape (my father loved that saying)?
I don’t like it any more than you, but we have to respect the results and the shit-show that ensues whether we like it or not.
Or we can (individually) pull the ripcord and find someplace that doesn’t become a banana republic every few years.
This is *not*, as you put it, "exactly what we wanted".
This is what enough voters wanted that we all get it, even those of us who *didn't* want it.
I accept that the asshole will be president, if he lives that long, but I don't accept any part of some weird collective blame for that.
He’s so gross. Not to mention a chronic alcoholic and wholly unfit to manage a CVS, much less the United States military.
Except that sometimes I think the whole point of the not-for-profit sector is to run directly into the dirt. The money-laundering in the name of do-gooding makes me want to scream and claw my face.
So a perfect fit for donald trump then