if you "instinctively like" pete hegseth, either your ability to judge character is catastrophically bad or your personal character is catastrophically bad, or both - ThreadSky

golikehellmachine.com • 6 days ago

if you "instinctively like" pete hegseth, either your ability to judge character is catastrophically bad or your personal character is catastrophically bad, or both

Reposted from Mark Sawchuk

Anyone who “instinctively likes” Hegseth needs a fucking lobotomy.

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davidcolborne.bsky.social•6 days ago

Much like Murray Rothbard, we don't talk about Late Noah Smith.

adhoffma.bsky.social•6 days ago

The incompetence is like the #1 thing about him, even more than the drinking and the assault allegations. How do you “instinctively” like a guy who obviously would have no idea what he’s doing at the most important cabinet job?

hivizbearhug.bsky.social•6 days ago

I guess since Trump has given license to the KKK and Nazi’s to be open and vocal, it’s inadvertently bringing out into the open the absolute worst version of human beings. They’ve chose their poison. Call it a WIN!

iwantyoustudio.bsky.social•6 days ago

debholleync.bsky.social•6 days ago

Relieved to know that I’ve never heard of that Noah dude

warrenterra.bsky.social•6 days ago

Unqualified belligerent alcoholic serial adulterer alleged rapist festooned with Nazi tattoos who bankrupted and maybe stole from two veterans' charities and spent his whole time in office committing security offenses, persecuting Trans people, and erasing Black people and women.

Noah: I lurve him.

balupuppy.bsky.social•6 days ago

Um.

jkfecke.bsky.social•5 days ago

He's right, I don't want to have that conversation.

ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social•6 days ago

I mean the only "justifiable" reason for liking him is that he seems like a fun guy to party with if you're looking to embrace alcoholism past 40. Everything else about him sucks.

bananapantz.bsky.social•6 days ago

And rape

jennvg.bsky.social•6 days ago

Exactly.

lenoxus.bsky.social•5 days ago

Anpther justifiable reason is if you hope he can be the guy to crash the entire thing

connorlynch.bsky.social•6 days ago

if you put them in a room together, I absolutely believe that noahopinion guy would suck up to someone like Hegseth and try to be "friends," and Hegseth would think of him as a complete non-entity.

viscousboredom.bsky.social•6 days ago

A couple years ago I was saying "damn, Noah Smith has fallen off a lot, his brain is cooked" and every time he's come up since he's found new depths of Twitter poisoning and mind rot

ewigeliberal.bsky.social•5 days ago

Is it just me or do others recall those halcyon days when Noah Smith @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev was considered a rational thinker?

What the FAK happened to this guy?

👀

ambiguouswoman.bsky.social•6 days ago

Pete Hegseth’s own mother called him an abuser??? Is that not the largest red flag known to man???

Twitter OP would absolutely get tricked by a serial killer. Not even one of the clever ones.

vanessachaland.bsky.social•6 days ago

It's easy to "instinctively like" people, even Pete, while hammered in the bar at midnight. 😁

bganderson.bsky.social•6 days ago

Imagine thinking he's the *less* awful option.

avernalaw.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'll posit this: What if the next one is worse?

bganderson.bsky.social•6 days ago

The thought had already occurred to me. "This dude got his job by being on TV. Now they're looking for a true believer."

soobeeinny.bsky.social•5 days ago

What makes him so likable? How very weird!

mannahattamamma.bsky.social•5 days ago

drunks, notoriously, can be wildly charming. Until the wheels come off. Which is inevitable. We are in the wheels off stage of the Hegsethian pentagon

wabbisabbi.bsky.social•6 days ago

Labotomize #NoahSmith. He's lost his brains anyway

jkfecke.bsky.social•5 days ago

lazear.bsky.social•6 days ago

"Hes significantly less awful than the rest of trumps orbit" is a hell of a superlative to give to a guy whose trying to gut the military of any non white males and is most likely perpetually six drinks to the wind by 3 o'clock on any given day.

Like, I hate marco rubio, but at least he's not that

peark.es•6 days ago

*taps the sign*
https://bsky.app/profile/peark.es/post/3kjerhxajpw2i

roland00.bsky.social•6 days ago

now I want to know if the person who shared this trivia I recall from the past

was you*, or was there more than 1 person who had a similar experience, and then dished on social media 🤔

*you before I know who you were

aremay.bsky.social•6 days ago

Wow! What an asshole! Definitely does not deserve to be a friend to buns.

golikehellmachine.com•6 days ago

jesus christ

notkissinger.bsky.social•5 days ago

Other than being a cringe white guy/potentially racist, he also broke the 1st rule of Twitter: never talk about Twitter IRL.

rincewind.run•6 days ago

if I ever introduce myself like that I hope that someone punches me for my own good

jcsalterego.bsky.social•6 days ago

hold on let me find the shirt

etxgov.bsky.social•6 days ago

The follow up is wild too.
https://bsky.app/profile/arjunedhanekula.bsky.social/post/3lndvjqatls2h

cameroncorduroy.bsky.social•6 days ago

my worst nightmare is anybody recognizing me from twitter in real life

i cannot imagine the headspace required to actually volunteer that information

orayn.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is what I'm talking about when I say that Noah has deeply evil vibes about him.

revan.social•6 days ago

Maybe he just likes horrible drunks

newcartographer.bsky.social•6 days ago

Did that guy hit his head or do a body switch or something. He didn't always seem so insane.

technicalsquirrel.bsky.social•6 days ago

Smith's ability to sling the worst possible takes and then just soldier through like nothing happened... honestly, it's a bit inspiring.

norcalgardenofeden.bsky.social•6 days ago

So while the take tastes fine if I squint, once I see that this is just a sock puppet X account I will say do better. Run one more of these stupid takes and I’ll mute you. Why give oxygen to this stuff?

green496.bsky.social•6 days ago

I liked Noah pre-Covid. Then it became clear over the pandemic that his brain was getting more and more broken.

imteachinheah.bsky.social•5 days ago

Or you’ve never been a woman who had to share an elevator with him

mrblifil.bsky.social•6 days ago

Rape schmape…

groverhaustenbosch.bsky.social•6 days ago

given what we all know about who noah likes (and also what folks like theophite have said about him letting himself be groomed by the likes of wes yang) he has got to be one of the worst judges of character on the internet

golikehellmachine.com•6 days ago

like, it's a genuinely difficult call, but hegseth is in the top three of the most personally loathsome people in the entire administration

briankspears.bsky.social•6 days ago

For me it’s Stephen Miller and RFK Jr at the top and I don’t know which one is worse most days, but I can see Hegseth giving Vance and Noem a run for third.

warrenterra.bsky.social•6 days ago

It's a strong field. RFK is unbeatable, Kash Patel is a contender, Vance is up there ...

bencates.bsky.social•6 days ago

RFK by a longshot unless you want to count Musk as being in the administration. Vance is a thoroughly unpleasant human being but I don't think he's on track to personally kill very many people yet.

warrenterra.bsky.social•6 days ago

Quality not quantity eh?

bencates.bsky.social•6 days ago

Vance's rating is gonna swing wildly based on which new Pope we get, I suppose.

golikehellmachine.com•6 days ago

i think RFK is probably the worst, but noem and hegseth are rivals for second

bencates.bsky.social•6 days ago

Miller? Navarro?

warrenterra.bsky.social•6 days ago

If you start expanding "in the administration" beyond people with fancy titles and so include Musk, Miller, Gorka, etectera then the competition really heats up.

bencates.bsky.social•6 days ago

We shouldn't sleep on Lutnick either for the catastrophically incompetent ribbon.

cmdroverbite.bsky.social•6 days ago

Whether you think Musk and Vance are as awful as RFK and Miller depends on whether you think that people motivated by naked careerism (Vance) or a howling void in their soul they can only fill by being respected by the worst people on the Internet (Musk) are worse than...

cmdroverbite.bsky.social•6 days ago

...people like RFK-- or Miller who are straight-up monsters who want to hurt people purely for the love of the game.

dorolfe.bsky.social•6 days ago

Word the battle for spots 2 and 3 is INtense!

judet.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'd put him at thirteen, but that's because the entire top ten is Stephen Miller.

ak0.bsky.social•5 days ago

His least objectionable quality Is that he's literally the least competent Neo-Nazi to ever get absolutely reckt on bottom shelf gin, and then every other aspect of him just gets worse and worse and worse.

tznkai.bsky.social•6 days ago

It turns out there's several incomparable subcategories of "personally loathesome"

lazear.bsky.social•6 days ago

Top 4, but only because elon and Vance are so loathsome they tie for 1st and RFK is actually trying to murder people right now so he's a close second.

lizamazel.bsky.social•6 days ago

Miller

sundodger97.bsky.social•6 days ago

Bondi? Gabbard? Somebody get some A1 sauce and figure out these rankings.

green496.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trump, Hegseth, RFK Jr?

gpetersen.bsky.social•6 days ago

I've got RFK as 1 but man Petey comes real close

astrobailin.bsky.social•6 days ago

The fact that this thread is people trying to figure out exactly how many people are even more loathsome than Hegseth, and coming up with many different defensible lists, says.... a lot.

(Mine: Miller, Trump, Patel, Hegseth, so number 4)

bikefit.bsky.social•6 days ago

Oof. That’s a tough call. There are so many terrible choices

50megatonfbomb.bsky.social•6 days ago

I was trying to think of who would be the most tolerable person to share a room with in that administration and it's probably honestly Trump himself.

andyokok.bsky.social•6 days ago

No

Vance

Musk

Rfk jr

famousmortimer.bsky.social•6 days ago

*so* difficult. it also depends: do you separate affect/vibe from action? what about personal from political? purely re: affect, I don't find hegseth nearly as offputting as miller, musk, or gorka. personal behavior? top 3 for sure. but if politics counts, then miller, musk, & rfk are tough to beat

famousmortimer.bsky.social•6 days ago

though, let's be honest, trump smokes them all no matter what the criteria

there's a bracket in here just waiting to be built

horseknuckler.bsky.social•6 days ago

Hegseth, Miller, and..... Navarro?

charlesxavier.bsky.social•6 days ago

Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, Ric Grenell, RFK Jr - good Lord does this administration suck.

But Pete is the most incompetent person in an administration where almost no one has any competency.

jordansmed.bsky.social•6 days ago

Fourth begins Trump himself, Elon, and RFK, no?

speakercode.bsky.social•6 days ago

or you're also a drunk

caligreg.bsky.social•6 days ago

Our Enemies Should Fall For His Good Looks

What do you mean a TV host can’t lead?
Hegseth’s nice hair means he should succeed.
Yes he does shots and spills secrets in chat,
But Trump values looks over skills for combat.

avernalaw.bsky.social•6 days ago

Smith will seem rational and I'll nod for about 3 months, and then it's a month of crazy nonsense like this.

notkissinger.bsky.social•5 days ago

What happened to this guy? He truly went from a semi-progressive to right-leaning in what, 18 months? Not sure if it’s a grift for his Substack, brain worms, or what

sciencelizard.bsky.social•5 days ago

That dude? definitely both

ok-sure.bsky.social•6 days ago

I instinctively like anyone whose hair gel to hair ratio is greater than 2:1, but that does NOT make me a bad person 😡

carthaged.bsky.social•6 days ago

The nicest reading is that this is just pure nerd muscle memory/trauma for Noah. Of course you would like the quarterback if he’d hang out with you, your certain you and he could be friends.

kevinrsours.bsky.social•5 days ago

The more I see of him the more I thinks it’s: character defects not yet categorized by medical science.

kensheetz.bsky.social•6 days ago

Or you're a boozer.

goaskalis.bsky.social•6 days ago

He looks like he smells of, no reeks of, no FUGS of Drakkar Noir

the-wrong-way-kid.bsky.social•6 days ago

The followup is even wilder.

the-wrong-way-kid.bsky.social•6 days ago

alphabetzel.bsky.social•6 days ago

Uhhhhhhhhhhh

the-wrong-way-kid.bsky.social•6 days ago

Spoken like a person who doesn't want to have that conversation.

alphabetzel.bsky.social•6 days ago

I mean I would like to hear his side of the conversation because I just can’t imagine what his justification is. He picked a guy who, incredibly, is less qualified than Hegseth and even more dangerous.

the-wrong-way-kid.bsky.social•6 days ago

My guess is vibes that hes an unparalleled genius visionary who probably has secret lazors in his spacex lab.

omnesomnibus.bsky.social•6 days ago

WTAF, over.

telson.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm voting for *both*.

maximumeffort433.bsky.social•6 days ago

Oh Noah, no. :(

uaau.bsky.social•6 days ago

He's got my sympathy in as much as it's the president's job to pick a qualified secretary and the Senate's job to consent. Pete's lack of qualification was known on day one.

All fault lays at the feet of the President and his rubber stamps in the Senate for this fiasco.

uaau.bsky.social•6 days ago

He would have been minimally qualified to be press sec but Trump said "sorry Pete press secretary is too important.. how about sec def?"

That's the crime.

smullins3000.bsky.social•6 days ago

Noah instinctively likes (allegedly) beating your wife and (allegedly) sexually assaulting other women.

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