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I'm sorry but the Dems are ridiculously bad at their Hegspeth questions. IMO, if you want to prove someone is incompetent, you ask them the hardest strategic questions they will have to know to succeed at the job
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Ask him what negotiation and diplomatic experience he has.
Ask him about the nuclear triad.
Ask him about any legal aspects of international warfare.
Etc etc
The conformation process is really a Trump marketing strategy. Not an interview.
It’s exactly how dumb white guys get selected for key roles.
lol
The fix was in when Joni Ernst refused to meet with Hegseth's exes.
What planet . . . .
And, the clowns are not under oath.
(sneaks out to the store)
Frame the questions: what it means to your personal safety if this unqualified person gets confirmed. At the end, they should be so concerned they call their senator.
Not sure what would be considered disqualifying any longer except being trans, female and/ or non-white.
…we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
D. Eisenhower
Jan. 17, 1961
Is there a single question that might have been asked that would have given Republicans pause. This is not a serious group of Republican senators.
For a bunch of journos and rich MFs, yall sure don’t seem to know how Congress works.
When the Senate is made up of a majority of sycophants and cocksuckers, the same facts that haven’t mattered to America for 4/8/12 years absolutely matter less now.
We can dog walk these drunk cunts up and down but the American people want to die. That’s why they’ve chosen these reps and this president. They don’t care about aptitude.
Dems go for the low hanging fruit which has already rotted on the vine instead of the substantive - prove that he is incapable of doing the damn job questions...
It's just Dems shooting themselves in the foot - again - and expecting a different result..
I'm so so pissed ...
Then it’s the finger on the nose… no, stop trying to snort that liquor up your nose… etc
It's dangerous to pretend that reason, logic, or appeals to decency have any effect on these people at all.
The ideal question is one which the imbecile Hegseth couldn't answer, but everyone else in the room could.
The one where we all go: "Wait a minute: even I know that!"
https://bsky.app/profile/demental.bsky.social/post/3lfszj2oozc2h
They are completely responsible for the Trump phenomenon.
We may never get out of fascism because of them.
What could be worse?
Not only is fitness the place to focus but it’s also something Americans grasp more readily than competence.
They just handed him the confirmation.
Maga has arrived. Just report and block.
The majority controls the committee and the final outcome. Like the Robert Bork & Clarence Thomas hearings, Biden was the committee chair and controlled the outcome.
That is how it works.
Complicated questions allow that shit Hegseth to run the clock out.
It wasn’t a real interview, it was theatre. Hegseth wasn’t going to answer ANY question in a serious way, so the difficulty level was irrelevant.
The goal for Dems was to use their questions to highlight his many flaws (in simple terms) and hope some of that broke through.
It’s tempting to think that he would have swung and missed on a slew of highbrow questions (like the one ASEAN question) but I doubt it.
Being drunk on the job on the other hand is something everyone can understand.
There was a great deal discussed about his lack of management experience, his inability to handle a budget, and plenty of other job-related questions.
You seem to have only heard the parts about drinking and womanizing, and not even the sexual assault parts.
Want to stop this:
GENERAL STRIKE
No work
No purchases
No cable TV
ONLY ECONOMIC HARM CHANGES OUTCOMES.
Hammering his lack of knowledge, his lack of experience, his very public writings/statements... those go to his ability to lead.
Personal failings are more relatable, especially without details that truly shock.
Not knowing basic facts about troop numbers, alliances or how programs are funded is much more dangerous.
*Technically Austin violated policy with his medical treatments.
Seriously !
That duouchbag refuses to answer questions about the Geneva Conventions, not shooting protestors, or letting trump invade allied countries.
And Duckworth did.
What specific questions would they ask?
Making them think about the actual strategic thinking involves with job, might give you a chance
You reckon there were as many as three of them that showed up persuadable? Swing voters? It’s not a job interview. It’s a political process—just like impeachment trials in the senate.
Democrats were so close. 1 mother fucking question away from sinking his vote..
Republican; “How many push ups can you do?…I did 5 reps of 47”..,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FTuT8CGxKg
Imagine if George W. Bush had responded to 9/11 like Trump does with everything else!
LOL "I didn't know anything and it isn't my fault. It's Pete's fault."
What a joke.
Republicans know full well he is unqualified. They will vote for him anyway. The task is to show the public.
Fuck off maga trash
Republicans don’t care if he doesn’t know anything.