"but I'm sure he's learned his lesson and won't do it again. Let me see how close the vote is. If it's close, I'll vote with the GOP. If it's a sure win or a sure loss, I'll get permission to cosplay as a maverick"
His abuse of women, lying, just too dumb for the job as he lacks experience and a brain that can think critically are all the selling points for Traitor. His kind of scum! 🤮💩
Watch Joni Ernst do the job the GOP dudes expect her to do. The only reason they allow her any crumb of power which is limited to giving them cover to enact their white Christian patriarchy.
At this point, surely people have realised that Trump can only hire crooks and a$$holes that are all too happy to have a president that is as crooked as they are.
Gives them legitimacy and more power normalise criminal behaviour.
Mirroring russian vertical of power.
I may have put a few more articles and things to show that Pete is a Pig! Morally bankrupt! Could not own a McDonalds! Check out and share a few! #HegsethHellNo
Remember the abuse won't change the votes. They think it's good for a "warfighter" to be aggressive - just like they were okay with Trump's lack of morals because they thought he could get things done. The key is to frame it as proving he is irrational, compromised as well as unqualified.
Part of my third email to Joni Ernst:
I've written you twice before about this nomination yet you still voted for an abuser,I think you knew in your heart he was not telling the truth,Now with the new testimony coming forward from his former sister in law is she lying?No. Are you still voting yes?
Abusers get away with it because they instil fear. Took me 25 years and being unsupported during my cancer treatments to get out. Courts didn’t believe me during the custody hearing until the school called children aid on their father.
Oh I won’t, but I’m a realist. They know exactly who and what he is. It does not matter they do not care. The only way we have any power is the courts and midterms. We have been sold out to billionaires. I believe we did all this during the gilded age. Citizens United fucked us as a whole.
I think I've seen this movie before... during Kavanaugh's confirmation... and I know how it ends, so I have no hopes. Hegseth hates women, but so do a majority of GOPers in Congress & millions of Americans. Otherwise, we would have already had a female president.
If @senategop.bsky.social confirm a known alcoholic and rapist, this will just reenforce the general perception that they are a bunch of old, sexist perverts.
And with that, his confirmation becomes even MORE likely. Corruption and ethical and moral bankruptcy are the trifecta of desirable qualities in the subhuman wasteland that is MAGA.
When you understand that sexual predators/abusers are a PREREQUISITE to these jobs for Republicans, everything begins to make sense. Dems waste their time with exposing this because Republicans just don’t give a fuck. If more women used “stand your ground” laws, less of these scumbags will exist.
Seems so reasonable that he would be a natural for the bigoted Republican agenda. The worst moral compass the better in their House. Just another “guy” doing “guy things”.
This man is practice sex abuse all his life. He hates women he's gotten away with it all his fucking life. He's a criminal spread the algorithm around with anger and hate that this guy is a creep.
Doesn't matter. The GOP will march in lockstep and few Democrat Senators will be "bi-partisan".
If not all. FFS already Rubio should not have been 99 votes.
She said she was afraid & I'm guessing the ex-wife has an NDA & maybe at first there was worry about saying it & ex-wife being afraid of relaliation. There should be no ? as why accusations take so long to come out. People are afraid. She was told that she would be protected if she came forward.
2/2 said he drinks more than he doesn't. They had some kind of divorce agreement saying neither parent was a victim of abuse. So, "if" (I believe there was) she was to break the divorce decree it would result in losing her children & revenge.
Maybe she urged her sister to go public.
I don't remember who. The original FBI interview was never given to the Congressional Comittee. Not sure how they found out it was there, but I think that's when she was asked if she'd go public & her concern was being safe. She was told she would be🤷♀️now the ex-wife has came forward cautiously...1/2
GOP's version of protecting women - hire & elect men convicted of sexual assault, men who privately settled sexual assault allegations, and whose family members collaborate accusations of domestic violence. And, pardons to a man running a drug & human trafficking & murder for hire website. 1)
No. Peter Thiel (Musk's good mate from PayPal days) didn't pay $15 million to get Vance to where he is now just to see him get replaced.
Thiel, Musk, Vance, Leo Leonard, John Roberts, etc, have been looking forward to installing the useful idiot in the WH for a long time https://bsky.app/profile/maxchch.bsky.social/post/3lbsh3v2ntk2d
He only hires the best.. since 2016, I’m surprised that congress hasn’t place any requirement of being a nominee.. it’s ridiculous that they get up there defiant like it’s a guarantee..
Won’t click anything NYT. Won’t change a thing either, he’ll be confirmed along with the rest of them. Anyone who thinks differently is kidding themselves.
Like Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, the Senators don't care that the candidate has good moral character, it's more about what they think the candidate will do for them.
Like I said before, Matt Gaetz was the bell weather. Unless there's a video of Hegseth beating up his ex-wife, he's the next Def Sec. This is the party of Trump and those Senators only care about their reelection. Not their constituents.
Uhm, you do know that the republicans just ran and elected in an actual rapist and felon…right?
To be president….right?
Just so we are on the same page.
The rest of the world is a little confused. 🌎
No! I refuse to believe that an upstanding, white nationalist, fascochristian, alcoholic, misogynist who drinks G&Ts for breakfast could ever be abusive to any woman in his life!
Wish any of this mattered. Do we think any of his nominees will be rejected now? I have never seen such capitulation en masse as we are seeing in this new, dark era. It feels like everyone has taken the red pill & the few of us left are trying to regain our bearings following blow after blow.
When are you going to realize that the GOP does not care about this stuff. They let a convicted felon in to the White House!!! The only way to get these people is to focus on policy questions. The gotcha days are over. You can’t embarrass them. They have no shame.
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social thus should be the nail in the coffin. But his ex wife does not want to engage and says there was “no physical violence.” Interesting choice of words. But it will all be brushed under the rug.
I don’t doubt he’ll be confirmed. As was pointed out by someone else, by pardoning all the J6’s, he now owns all the militias. Taking a local firearms safety class may be a good choice. You may hate them, but still may want the option and knowledge to defend yourself at some future point.
I find these guys wear abusiveness as a badge of honor and like good old bros, they stick together. One would think this is enough to disqualify anyone but I don’t have much hope someone who is ill-equipped to lead the pentagon will be disqualified over a “little” abuse. We are in for a wild ride
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Gives them legitimacy and more power normalise criminal behaviour.
Mirroring russian vertical of power.
I've written you twice before about this nomination yet you still voted for an abuser,I think you knew in your heart he was not telling the truth,Now with the new testimony coming forward from his former sister in law is she lying?No. Are you still voting yes?
Will it make a difference?
Not at all.
They'll still confirm him though.
Because Nazis gonna Nazi.
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-senators-oppose-trumps-selection-of-pete-hegseth-for-secretary-of-defense/?source=watchdog
Heavens to betsy, now I've seen everything.
@cnn.com
@donlemonofficial.bsky.social
If not all. FFS already Rubio should not have been 99 votes.
But I already am❤️
Anything 'anti-women' is a plus for the GOP.
And all the other BS that goes along with avoiding the icky truth.
Abusive men are that way because of WHO THEY ARE. Not circumstances. Not their partner. Not a disagreement. Not a lapse of judgment. Monsters.
Maybe she urged her sister to go public.
STUNNED 🤣😅😂
More people need to study the brain
I'm Gen X. I was raised to believe we were the motherfucking United States of America. We're not. We're a bunch of assholes 🥺
Thiel, Musk, Vance, Leo Leonard, John Roberts, etc, have been looking forward to installing the useful idiot in the WH for a long time
https://bsky.app/profile/maxchch.bsky.social/post/3lbsh3v2ntk2d
To be president….right?
Just so we are on the same page.
The rest of the world is a little confused. 🌎
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/us/politics/hegseth-senators-affidavit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.q04.l2I_.qV9SZpkehEu3&smid=url-share
Expect worse than what you've witnessed thus far.
It certainly wasn’t because he is actually qualified to do the job!
> Abusive attitude toward women
> Excessive drinking, even on the job
> Monumental financial mismanagement
>>> You wouldn't trust him to babysit your kids AND his vetting has been "Kavanaughed"!
SENATORS: Your duty is to our COUNTRY, not Trump. Look in the mirror, then vote NO!!
Uphill battle fighting morals with the Devil.
He's right for the job, then.
we want to have as a yes-man commanding the worlds most lethal arsenal