My feeling is that it's not unserious to spend time on the question of whether someone about to be hired for one of the most powerful jobs in the world drugged and raped a woman (as she alleges and he denies)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/opinion/pete-hegseth-hearings-defense.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/opinion/pete-hegseth-hearings-defense.html
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Please keep hope alive during these next four years.
And we shall see …..
You should GFY.
https://bsky.app/profile/lilashapiro.bsky.social/post/3lfmpvdm6zc2y
..free link:
https://archive.is/2025.01.13-155600/https://www.vulture.com/article/neil-gaiman-allegations-controversy-amanda-palmer-sandman-madoc.html
We learned about the treatment of women in the Middle East, we drew stark contrasts btw our society and theirs—how subjugating women is a sign of a backwards society.
An inferior society.
The assault allegations deserved the air time they got. But I couldn't help but feel like Hegseth got off too easy for how overtly unqualified he is. There was tons of ammo and penty of time to prepare.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/01/09/surge-of-female-enlistments-helped-drive-army-success-reaching-2024-recruiting-goal.html
Sadly.
If Tr*mp punched a baby in the face, it would be the new manly thing to do.
The only thing that will get them to acquiesce is to prove day in and day out how dangerous their behavior is and how it endangers us all
https://bsky.app/profile/ericlipton.nytimes.com/post/3lfkuyqv5xk2b
For some, we have yet to find the number.
I’m glad estrogen makes women live longer than men, it’s the only justice in the universe. 🏹
The U.S. is in trouble until it fixes its education system and its corporate media landscape.
If the job was to defeat the Thomas nomination, the most valid attack on him as a sexual predator is a losing strategy in a room full of sex predators.
I apologize if my earlier comments were not clear enough, but I must insist that you review them, and ask some follow-ups, before indulging in your sophomoric condemnations.
You’re spreading discord and doubt about the Democratic Party all up and down this thread
You can deny your underhanded words all you’d like, but your implication is as plain as day
Brooks is a cowering mongrel, nipping at the heels of any progressive in-cautious enough to get near his rat’s maw
This pathetic excuse for an essay outlays the premise that if democrats had “asked better questions” then GOP would just not support Trump’s pick.
FUCK OFF
I __________
- can't
☑️ won't
- shouldnt
answer because ________.
☑️ Anonymous sources
☑️ Smear campaign
- Hypotheticals
- I Am Not Yet the SoD
Further, _______
- Trump Mandate
☑️ Completely Cleared
- It's About Standards
- War Fighters
☑️ I Later Found Salvation
If he did, he'd be fired in nothing flat!
R@pe is not a disqualification for MAGA but being unable to defend the United States might be.
The job of Senator Warren etc was to defeat the nomination and they chose a losing strategy.....again.
They have good hearts, but that is meaningless when the mission is to succeed.
The fact that every woman or minority employee instantly get branded as DEI as a slur word often by people with lesser skills but plenty of authority (FoxNews employees / GOP politicians)
This is the same playbook a with CRT.
Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;
And the judges shall make diligent inquisition:
Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
(De. 19:16-19)
This would solve the problem of frivolous sex accusations.
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WTF 😡😡😡
We are fucked and this twit gets paid big bucks for hack b.s.
He filibustered or refused to answer.
"I-I- Im a confirmamed Chhhrisstian. I-l-l'l d-d-rink to thatt
(drunk voice)
Is it any coincidence that trump attracts rapists to him like a magnet? Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, Jeffrey Epstein,
Pete Hegseth, Gaetz, Musk and the beat goes on . . . I voted
for someone who doesn't abuse woman.
https://marlowe1.substack.com/p/bloodbath-at-landsdale-towers-by
Guess what.. u r not safe here either. Lay off the soy chris.
stormy daniels? how about
e. jean carroll??
No. Unqualified.
And then the other thing is that he wouldn't be an acceptable nominee even if he wasn't a rapist.
The legal system concluded that it would be unable to obtain a conviction in the case of the sex act, but that is not the same as being cleared, unless you also think OJ was not The Real Killer.
Anyway he has no qualifications for the job accept loyalty to trump.
The State can't punish him but that doesn't mean he didn't do it ...
... or do you think the State is always right?
The worse you are, the more Trump feels you belong in his world. I mean, he did rape little kids with Jeffrey Epstein
- Lindsey Graham, probably
Oh wait, the felon is also a rapist.
We suck as a country. We really fucked up and now we have to eat shit.
If only people who vote were counted for representation and all who work were counted for taxation, we’d have ended up with a far better country. Particularly with states being reluctant to engage in voter suppression.
Wasn’t a possible result at the time, should have been.
14 Republican Senators are going to vote to approve him.
Name, blame, and shame.
If that doesn't work, we'll figure it out another way.
https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/about/membership
We don’t need money in politics. We just need people to participate.
https://www.nationalfinancialplan.com
- can he be trusted to keep his word?
- is he a criminal?
- is he a drunk?
- can he do the job?
This isn't an incredibly high barr, or so 1 might think.
They are not anonymous. We even have the name of your own mother.
“Anonymous false claims.”
This David Brooks column is the first time this year I have wondered if it was the right thing to do.
I just glanced at it but he blames Democrats for the likelihood that Hegseth will get confirmed because their questions were too sensational.
Odds are that any given Brooks piece is not one to waste a gift link on.
MSNBC is losing the respect of many.
This is classic NYT brain thinking where only Dems have agency and expectations to be decent. That it is the real anti-conservative bias that’s rotting public life.
1. Hegseth
2. Trump who nominated him
3. GOP Majority that confirmed him
4. RW media that promoted him
5. Voters that put GOP in power
In project management they say:
If you think big enough, you might never have to do it.
In finance:
A loan over $1.000 is usually rejected,
a loan of $1,000,000 pleases the bank
and a lie must always be so big that nobody bothers to check it 🫣
Used the mafia and the military to suppress its own working class
Manufactures Wars, coups and dictatorships globally
https://www.csis.org/analysis/united-states-broken-infrastructure-national-security-threat
Dear Amerikkka
Please take your troops home
Fix your domestic 🦆 ups
Stop 🦆ing up our planet
155m ballots counted
90m folks who stayd home. USAToday
That's more than 1/3
Harris 75,018,145
3rd Party 2,897,709
Harris + 3rd Prty 77,915,854
tRump 77,302,749
- source Ballotopedia
tRump is Pres because 2.9m voters couldn't bring themselves to vote for democracy.
To see if you have the right level of integrity.
It would have been nice if they had asked him about whether he was going to support Ukraine or if our military was capable of beating the Chinese if they invaded Taiwan, etc.
Oh, and I'm pretty sure that the person they paid off was not anonymous.
Personally, I hope Trump is the absolute worst possible version of what could be expected.
Maybe then your country will smarten up and the pendulum will swing the other way again.
You absolutely are getting what you deserve.
I don’t even live in your country, so I can’t vote, but I have your country threatening to take over my country.
We certainly don’t deserve it.
Your country is a mess and as far as I can tell it will take hitting rock bottom to fix.
Your military will be 'Lions led by coke-fuelled idiots'
Haven't we given that foreigner enough money to destroy our democracy?
I believe it’s called Kabuki.
But if you’re going to bother to go, at least try to be useful.