Here's my thought on Hegseth. No one should ever even need to bring up his sex life, drinking, or affairs: HE'S NOT QUALIFIED FOR THE JOB. That...should be more than enough.
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Senator Warren finally got it right. Schumer in his plea did not. Btw, I've petitioned Jeffries. It's pinned to my profile. If you agree with it, you know what to do.
Exactly. Was All a Distraction just like it was with Kavanaugh And All the Illegal 💩 The other judges do. Clearly they want the US to be Ruled and pushed back to the guided age and hopefully WE don’t push back or protest too much.
I suspect #Hegseth has taken Antabuse as alcohol treatment during part of his military career. Since he is confirmed (beyond words), he should be made to take it throughout his term. @ocasio-cortez.house.gov
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Damn right.
“Pete Hegseth, … was forced to step down by both of the two nonprofit advocacy groups that he ran due to mismanagement of funds, sexual impropriety and reports of intoxicated behavior,”
Yes, he only reached the rank of Major & hasn't led an important institution like CENTCOM (Austin & Mattis) did before they were SecDef.
Members of the military establishment will try to drum him of the job within the year. Watch for Hegseth to clash with Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen Charles Brown.
Trump may have already ordered Hegseth to plan out an occupation of Danish & Canadian Arctic territory. He knows that Hegseth would run with that without question.
Trump's primary demand of his appointees is complete loyalty. Things like competence, decency, logic & honesty are secondary.
I do wish the lawmakers opposing his confirmation would ignore the indiscretions, Republicans clearly DO NOT CARE about that. He is just wholly unqualified. Period. IF they ran a background check he absolutely would not qualify for a TSI, he’s a blackmail risk. But it shouldn’t get that far.
Although he's perfectly qualified for what America will become under trump/musk. Stop comparing America to what it was a year ago, & start comparing it to Belarus, then it starts making sense.
You nailed it. Why do we even have to dig that far into a guy with such an ugly past when he doesn't even have a resumé that would pass a phone screen?
Given what we know, he is dangerous to all military women. Mark my words, he will undo all of the reporting policies for sexual assault victims. He will put it back in the hands of the command, and that will create more danger. He aims to push women out if he is unable to do it outright.
That was the first thing stated about him, ever. The rest was the long rabbit hole of disgusting red flags we traveled down the more we looked into this man.
100% Agreed
The problem is that it doesn't matter that he's not qualified.
They. Don't. Care. No one will hold any of them accountable.
Spineless Losers
No, but he will do Trump's bidding, which is what Trump wants in his entire cabinet. He won't get the job because he knows what he's doing, he'll get the job because he'll kiss Trump's ass.
If you can't pass a background check to work for US government, you're not qualified to LEAD any governmental agency. They want to fire people THEY think didn't earn it and replace them with people we KNOW didn't earn it because they kissed his 🍊🫏. WE suffer THEIR consequences.
It should be, but they have to make a plausable excuse to their ravenous mob that cares NOTHING about qualifications whenever they actually do the right thing.
True. But his
“most alcoholic thing he’s said about his alcoholism” is his denial. That will be his undoing. He doesn’t have the strength or the judgment to end the addiction. Picture Ronny Jackson in the hotel, asleep in the hallway: that’s Hegseth.
All of his pathetically incompetent nomination candidates will be confirmed. The NeoNazi Party aka the Republicans, will confirm all missfits....by the end of the year, 1940s Germany won't have sh't on us.
We are so f'cked!
Yes they’re missing an opportunity, going on and on about his sleeze which is not going to bother that many people. In fact Republicans like that stuff, they think it’s manly, and therefore he must be tough.
Yeah well the orange guy sitting in the Oval Office is sorely unqualified for his job. But he’s there. The entire Republican Party is a bunch of cowards enabling all of the damage trump is doing
You know anything that Trump picks is going to be bad everyone who surrounds him in his orbit is bad MAGA is bad it's like a disease so if we can survive these next 4 years maybe we can have a real president.
Because of things like what happened with Clinton and Al Franken… republicans pretended that character mattered. And so here we are… proof that it was all just theatrics. throwing hypocrisy in their faces isn’t going to work.
Absolutely. The “kill all Muslims”, “fire all the generals”, etc., his Swastika tattoos, and ignorance about military history should be enough.
Another ignorant idiot to add to our dilemma.
My dad and husband who served in WWII would be furious.
This! Plus America has proven TWICE that we don’t give a shit about morals. Dudes got a white supremacist tattoo for crying out loud. No one cares. He’s utterly lacking experience and knowledge though and will absolutely get soldiers needlessly killed! Harp on THIS.
Unfortunately, as we have now seen, 50 Senators & J D Vance are so subservient to the autocrat who now sits in the WH that they are prepared to put the DoD & the defence of the 🇺🇸 in the hands of a drunk & wife-beater.
These people have no guts, no backbone & no conscience. They're a disgrace to 🇺🇸.
Exactly. Zero qualifications other than serving in the military. Would be like me being tasked to run the Chamber of Commerce because I owned my own painting company. What??
He's only ever run a couple of small organizations. The Department of Defense has 3 million employees and a budget of 330 billion. It's insane that anyone could think he's qualified.
It concerns me to think of what might happen if we were to be attacked. He (and Trump) wouldn't know what to do, AND Trump either already has, or intends to fire all the existing Generals & replace them with MAGAs. No one will be prepared.
Literally no one is suggesting that politicians must live the life of a chaste medieval monk. I don’t think it’s extreme to not want rapists running our gov’t. Why do I think men would have no problem bringing up the fact that a politician regularly rapes young men? That would really count, right?
I'm not saying he should lead the life of a saint, either. Just Hesgeth's professional background makes him massively unqualified for the job even before his alcoholism and misogyny.
I agree about his lack of qualifications. But his character as a human being also disqualifies him. I guarantee you if he was accused of raping boys, he would have never been considered. Being credibly accused of abusing women means nothing in this country. It should.
Actually, at this level - we kinda are. Drinking, gambling, adultery - these are all SAEDA (subversion & espionage) lay-ups for any foreign intelligence service!
Not any more. This is Trump’s country. Being concerned that a nominee is an abuser of women (accused by his own mother, no less) or rapist of women is called “talking about his sex life,” as though being a rapist is just a personal choice that shouldn’t be brought up. The US is pro-rape.
EXACTLY! But when they put a fake billionaire, con artist, and reality "star" as president--TWICE, it's no surprise that they don't understand that you don't put a company's STOCKBOY as the new CEO. You sort of need some education and experience between the 2 to not royally fuck everything up. 😐 😼
Hegseth as defence secretary is a failure of the Trump administration that will backfire in no time. A heavy drinker and a sexual predator does not prove fit for office!
What is wrong with you people who voted in Hegseth? You are as bad as he is in my eyes. So are those who put a pig and a criminal like Trump in office. Neither are decent enough or qualified enough.
Democrats are working w/ ppl who don’t care about literally anything but lining their pockets so it makes it really hard to figure out a method that will speak to them & convince them differently.
You can’t convince the GOP to be decent human beings, and you can’t convince the American public to give a damn, so I don’t think there’s any point in trying. The Democrats have proven he’s not qualified and he is a vile abuser. The GOP will approve him. 🤷🏻♀️
There are a lot of honorable military that would never turn against Americans. I think he will say something Trump doesn’t like and be fired quickly for some other deplorable.
Yes, point taken, and agree. But the nuance here is: we have an adjudicated rapist offering a job to another abuser. That matters.
I don’t think many men get what it feels like to women (especially the 20% who have survived sexual assault) that we elevated a rapist over a qualified woman.
And I’m old enough to remember when just the rumors of an extramarital affair were enough to make a great candidate drop out of Presidential contention.
American men are obsessed with the concept of power and courage. Hegseth likes using the term "warrior culture" which fits with that obsession. It's like people think all of the heroic movies they've seen are reality.
The clown thinks Australia, S Korea , and Japan are part of the ASEAN and the lawmakers still think he is qualified to oversee world's most lethal military.
You would think, but that doesn’t seem to work with this Maga crowd. Try this, a Senators and congressman and women, Pete Heck that will drink all the booze beer and wine in the Washington DC area. Probably Virginia too. So, what do you think?
He has never managed anything. The vet organizations he led were run into the ground from mismanagement.
Putin must be ecstatic. The GOP is handing our country to him. I'm old enough to remember Putin is our enemy.
It takes more than being unqualified to convince people a white man is unsuitable. And all the sex and drinking concerns still didn't outweigh the importance and value they place on his misogynistic views.
If you think those things don’t matter for the job where ALL those things make him a target for blackmail from our adversaries … you are a fool. Sorry but would not trust you either.
The point with the affairs is that service members are not allowed to have affairs. You can get kicked out of the military for an affair but now the top guy has had multiple? Very ‘do as I say, not as I do’
I think I’ll apply to be 🍊 Stalin s chief brain surgeon rocket scientist cook & bottle washer. I have no qualifications for the first two but who cares I can make 🍊 fatso even fatter & clog arteries so nature takes its course.
I guarantee you this man will take up arms against the citizens of the United States of America. This is what he wants to do. Women you are in great danger if you're in the military. Women in the world while he's on earth you are in danger.
Ernst betrayed herself and her oath and forfeited any respect for her service. She clearly doesn’t give a fuck; it’s all about the Benjamins. I want to runaway! Integrity? Honesty? Out the window!
The character issues are disqualifying. no need to got anywhere near other attributes.
If you had to choose between two equally qualified candidates, who would you choose? In the case of these extreme character issues, there is nothing he could bring to the table that would excuse them.
Most of Washington is a teeming cesspool of rapey drunks. They focused on those things so no one would pay any attention to the books he wrote about starting a second civil war. And the Dems fell for it
1. Unbelievably not qualified is the deal breaker
2. Horrific and terrifying human being to women, second deal breaker
3. Clearly an alcoholic, should not even be a question of a deal breaker. Even not drinking it impacts your brain constantly.
Wrong... the younger troops only know serving in our military UNDER TRUMPISM, WITH LAWLESSNESS being the way of our nation... many of our young troops and older military leaders will betray their oaths, our laws, our Republic and our people for trump. They are maga now.
Not one Republican Senator other than Collins & Murkowski will fall on their swords for the us being more worried about being primaried and destroyed by the MAGAT TRIBE. They are not worried about the country. Only two more of them need to test the boundaries of their careers to save this country.
That's what I keep saying, he was a fucking Major in the National Guard. He did not make the rank to even be considered for this job. He did not do the training, the schooling or the time in service for this job!
I wish we lived in a world where all politicians in every country were selected based on their competences but they aren't... I live in Europe and I see people writing digital policy who cannot even turn on a smart phone.🤷♀️
Even YOU are probably more qualified for the job than Lloyd Austin was. Or Pete Buttigieg was. Or even Garland was. Or the Empty Suit at Interior was.
How about we let Hegseth take his combat experience, his Princeton and Harvard degrees, and his hard work ethic to the post and see how it goes?
Yup, if the gutless, chickenshit GOP Felon Trump butt kissers let Hegshit get away with his gutter-level life and experiences, then it is only fair that the GOP allow all worthless, criminal punks get away with such puke, huh, GOP/fascist/gutless losers.
THANK you! I've been saying that over and over. Of course his drinking & treatment of women is terrible. But he's utterly unqualified. That's all they should have needed to reject him. The GOP are unbelievable.
Totally agree - this should have been the focus. His highest rank was a major - now he is going to be overseeing generals? What a pathetic joke. Utterly unqualified.
That's what I said. The Republican shtick is fiscal responsibility and he's completely financially inept. Democrats should know that Republicans don't give a rat's ass about moral issues.
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He lacks the necessary qualifications for this position.
I suspect #Hegseth has taken Antabuse as alcohol treatment during part of his military career. Since he is confirmed (beyond words), he should be made to take it throughout his term. @ocasio-cortez.house.gov
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https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24351317/elon-musk-x-twitter-bank-debt-stagnant-growth
“Pete Hegseth, … was forced to step down by both of the two nonprofit advocacy groups that he ran due to mismanagement of funds, sexual impropriety and reports of intoxicated behavior,”
Couldn’t even run a non-profit without issues.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5017946-pentagon-pick-hegseth-misconduct/
Members of the military establishment will try to drum him of the job within the year. Watch for Hegseth to clash with Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen Charles Brown.
Trump's primary demand of his appointees is complete loyalty. Things like competence, decency, logic & honesty are secondary.
The problem is that it doesn't matter that he's not qualified.
They. Don't. Care. No one will hold any of them accountable.
Spineless Losers
“most alcoholic thing he’s said about his alcoholism” is his denial. That will be his undoing. He doesn’t have the strength or the judgment to end the addiction. Picture Ronny Jackson in the hotel, asleep in the hallway: that’s Hegseth.
We are so f'cked!
Another ignorant idiot to add to our dilemma.
My dad and husband who served in WWII would be furious.
These people have no guts, no backbone & no conscience. They're a disgrace to 🇺🇸.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-vote-confirm-pete-hegseth-defense-secretary-rcna189058
I don’t think many men get what it feels like to women (especially the 20% who have survived sexual assault) that we elevated a rapist over a qualified woman.
(Gary Hart)
Sexual assault is a crime and so is assault (domestic abuse) - I think criminal behavior is our concern.
See... We can use it that way to MAGA.
Putin must be ecstatic. The GOP is handing our country to him. I'm old enough to remember Putin is our enemy.
Isn’t qualified to be the CEO of Walmart..
Any other government, city or entry level job in the US
The causes may be from service,who knows? but regardless, his psychiatrist might loose his license if he lies, or worse .
Unamerican, I know. Intelligent. So, unamerican.
Also separate rules for America and foreign countries..even allies. See Invasion of Hague act.
America is rogue and needs to be put down like a rabid raccoon.
RAPE is a crime of violence. The woman in question claims to have been drugged.
That people like Senator Ernst can 'gloss over that' is shameful.
If you had to choose between two equally qualified candidates, who would you choose? In the case of these extreme character issues, there is nothing he could bring to the table that would excuse them.
1. Unbelievably not qualified is the deal breaker
2. Horrific and terrifying human being to women, second deal breaker
3. Clearly an alcoholic, should not even be a question of a deal breaker. Even not drinking it impacts your brain constantly.
Period.
Hegseth is a weak and easily manipulated person
How about we let Hegseth take his combat experience, his Princeton and Harvard degrees, and his hard work ethic to the post and see how it goes?
For it is this.
His wife had a safe word.
Let that sink in.
That's all you need to know. FFS