This is all well & good, but the Dems really have to go for the jugular here. They have to be raucous while they clutch their pearls. The guy is a drunk & is in No way qualified - that’s the line they have to tout. Every time we’re Kind to the gop they fuck us over - NO More!
Threaten all Senators, confirming a national security threat is a violation of the oaths of office.
States can prosecute Senators for violating their oaths of office.
Please vote NO on Pete Hegseth. The position is too vital to our national security to confirm a man of so little experience. He would be a security risk of the highest order.
When the Commander-in-Chief is a serial abuser of women, Christian Republicans will see this as an asset. The guy isn’t qualified to command a garbage skiff let alone the DOD.
He is just not qualified. No high command experience. He has no connections among the general staff, which they themselves have. Anyone he went to West Point with isn't going to respect him either because they're above him in rank and experience too.
I'm having trouble figuring out how 45% of women voted for this. This is beyond bad messaging or communication. Until we can understand how this happened there is no hope for the future.
Kaine briefly mentioned Hegseth's mother as his time was expiring and it was barely audible over the chairman. He should have made it a major part of his questioning.
Of all the horrendous cabinet appointments Der OrangenFuehrer made, this is really the one where we have to draw a line in the sand. It is by itself and act of war against the USA!
Why does this dog and pony show continue? It’s nothing more than theatrical vetting formality for social media plugs. Of course he’s unqualified. How is this shocking to anyone?
Unfortunately he has the votes & will be confirmed.
I will not be surprised if some Dems vote to confirm him as well.
Distraction and smokescreen. The GOP does not care about his abuse of women! But they MIGHT care that he's totally unqualified to speak about Ukraine, Taiwan, new planes or weapons, how many nukes we have, how he'd secure Panama Canal, etc.
Doesn’t really matter, we shouldn’t want anyone in government to have these problems, be shit at the job or compromised. Whataboutism as a defense just lowers the standards more and more. None of them should be in office.
It's a challenge at a confirmation hearing. Do you focus on the candidate being unfit to hold any office or do you focus on the candidate being barely fit for this office? Drunken sexual assaulter who can't manage a charity, or bozo who hasn't heard of ASEAN?
We tried that approach with Brett Kavanaugh- and apparently being a drunk, sexual assaulter is a bonus for GOP. The Dems need to change their approach on everything.
GOP reps won't be swayed by his drinking, abusive behavior, etc. But they MIGHT be persuaded by evidence that he's unqualified for one of the most critical jobs in the country, and would be a huge threat to our nation's safety and security.
Trump and his minions do not care about character or how he treats women. Trump is conducted sexual assaulter and convicted felon for paying a porn star to not disclose sex. Stop beating this dead horse about Hegseth. Hammer his lack of job qualifications.
Except in the eyes of the republicans it’s actually a brownie point - they are all like him, & will not vote against him. His lack of qualifications is indisputable, & we must hammer it home!
Great the Nazi Republicans want to put a drunk to run the Pentagon. The Nazi Republicans are totally irresponsible. This nomination needs to be blocked. If not a complete embarrassment to our country.
Creating fear in a relationship *is* abuse. Creating and maintaining an environment where there is the threat or possibility of the person breaking into a fit of rage, or the possibility of smashing things, etc if they get mad/drunk/whatever, establishes power and control in the relationship. ABUSE.
And destroying objects, punching walls, etc are *all* considered types of physical abuse. There's no way that man has not added some holes to some drywall.
Those on the right have only one attribute: The ability to shield their foible laden members from responsibility. Senator David Vitter had an entry in the D.C. Madam’s playtime book. He liked to be spanked while wearing a diaper. He humiliated his wife and family. The GOP in the Senate? Standing O.
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Why doesn’t Hegseth try that shit on a grown-ass man?
I’m available.
He is not qualified to run the DoD!
States can prosecute Senators for violating their oaths of office.
I don't know her."
Unfortunately he has the votes & will be confirmed.
I will not be surprised if some Dems vote to confirm him as well.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5100384-daniel-ball-arrest-gun-charges-jan-6-pardon/
Nor that he has no-respect for Women in the military.
The GOP might just vote against him because:
"Pete ain't man-enough to make the women-folk in his life to shut up".
https://youtu.be/bnNRHXkvdjs?si=BBCW9dqHz-EZi1KT