“I promise I’ll stop drinking if you let me lead the most powerful military in the world and give my job literal life or death stakes” is kind of a banger though. Not what we expected but what we deserve.
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Is he also willing to stop supporting white supremacy and trying to exempt women from active military service? That is, is he willing to get a head transplant?
I promise not to snort coke and bilk taxpayers for my own personal benefit or launch ATACMS into Mexico if you let me have this job. I wont sexually assault your wife too!
Those who voted Trumpy, throw away parties or couldn't be bothered to get off the couch, deserve this and all the Hell that's coming. The rest of us, not so much.
Hegseth’s mother laments that no one saw the email that she sent as an apology for the email that she sent asking him to seek help for his abusive behavior. She can always make it public.
I was active duty USAF for 30 years. I’m now in my 20th year as a civilian in the USAF. As much as I hate to say this, alcohol was mandatory when I was active. It destroyed my liver and now I’m 10 years sober. Leading the worlds top military won’t help you stop drinking believe me
It's the "I will stop drinking if you approve my nomination," that gets me. It's like he's horse trading to get approved or asking the Senate to help him get sober. There are not great signs of someone who wants to get sober for sobers' sake.
Oralè Resister
This illegal alien bounty hunter and $1000 reward for any arrest for anyone reporting them in Missouri is BULLSHIT!
#BoycottMossouri
#BoycottMeanMo
#IllegalAlienBountyHunters
#USDemocracy
America and Americans -- or is it just the main stream media - seem so ignorance of basic Psych 101
ex:
1. characteristics of sociopathology and malignant narcissism and likelihood of treatment
2. characteristics of alcoholism and the efforts and support needed for recovery
Hegseth promised to stop drinking if he gets to lead the military, but he didn't promise to stop harassing women, mismanaging money, discriminating against women in the military, or any of the other crap things he does.
I think the point was to have the sort of sober minded reflective thinking that wouldn't have to assure people you wouldn't drink if they please please let you have the job. I mean the guy SCREAMS "I'm a security risk"
This guy Hegseth and all of DJT ‘s nominees are pathetic. Between promising not to drink and having his mommy call everyone for him he is showing how utterly unfit he is for any position of responsibility.
This threat is a thinly veiled attempt to manipulate voters and exploit people's insecurities, rather than a genuine commitment to leadership or the welfare of the nation.
Yes! We're always told in AA you don't stay sober for anyone else, only yourself. If our sobriety is "for" someone else, ie a partner, it ain't lasting. Let alone for a job. And that's assuming the guy is being honest - my instinct is that he knows he's lying. Either way, he's not rock-bottomed yet
Oh he's gonna do that all by himself, it's an inevitability. As a sober alcoholic I hate to see a fellow human brought so low by this disease but every single other aspect of me can't fucking wait because this guy seems *awful*
I don't wish it because he's an alcoholic by any means. My father. Grandfather, mother, sister, half sisters, half brother, great grandfather's, uncles, cousins.... all either went there and died or nearly did. He's a rat. No better than the orange antichrist. Congrats, btw!
Trust me when I say I've been there, done that. I know exactly what that phrase means, and it's not what most people think it means. I'm not just talking about my own life - I've sat in enough rooms and listened to enough other people's stories to know all about it
Oh? Ol’ six pack Pete? Yeah, once you take the alcohol away there is not much there. Kinda of a waste of a male. He and Ronnie Jackson should hang out.
And they want him to take over Lloyd Austin's job? America, we are in a lot of trouble here.
When Biden was elected in 2020, I could finally sleep at night. Now looks like we will all be sleeping with our eyes open for the next four years. Absolutely frightening.
Well, if we're going down, we might as well have a laugh. I remember my drunk days, and I can't wait for this guy to roll DUI down some interstate in an M1 Abrams.
This rhetoric is concerning. Blending personal ambition with military leadership is reckless and potentially catastrophic. A president's decisions shouldn't be tied to personal gain or risk.
A little less than half of us deserve this, the other half of us will suffer unless we raise our voices again and say sexual assualt is a big moral thing to all the sex abusers being "designated" cause they are all abusers - it's a criteria for this clown group.
It’s crazy the way it was flipped 😭 NONE of us have ever even been to the hill but claim we all know he has a drinking problem and now cause of it he said we’ll if that’s a concern then I just won’t at all. Y’all blew it up and now that he’s addressing it you’re mad
I Don't Want an Alcoholic, a Womanizer OR an Abuser!
I Don't Want ANYONE who WAS/IS an Alcoholic, a Womanizer or Abuser and Is NOW delivering FALSE PROMISES to Fix themselves!!
Ever been round an addict "Fixing" themselves??
We Want, From Day One:
A CAPABLE HUMAN NOT a Fixer Upper!!
💙✌🏽🌻
I don’t know but seems like a person heading up the Dept of Defense should be, you know, familiar with military stuff. Might as well put a cook in charge. Not much different than idiot traitor trump with his zero experience.
Naw. WE don't deserve it. The ONE THIRD of the US electorate that voted for the Orange Cheato deserve it; possibly, the ONE THIRD that DIDN'T VOTE (!). The rest of us, not so much. We were paying attention, believed what we learned, and voted accordingly.
We all live in the same country though brother, so who “deserves it” or not is moot, we all live with the consequences. Except the 1% of course, they’re beyond anything as plebeian as consequences.
This reminds me of the old North Korean meme “when I said nuke the Chinese I meant put the take out in the microwave” except now it’s a drunk alcoholic sycophant who will do that.
Do people even care about drinking?? I’m so confused on what bro thought he was doing here, I don’t think many people really care if he drinks a little 😭
Hmm,I'm gonna add some context.
Hmm,let us remember George Bush was a born again Christian asshole.
Hmm,as Pete would be a born again Christian Nationalist asshole.
Hmm,let us remember how Bush worked out and here we are again.
#FascismIsReal
#TrumpVanceProject2025
#NeverForgetJan6
#Resist
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Like my Jewish mother (and her mother) would say, “What did I do to deserve this?” I never voted for him. I never wore a red hat and I never watched “The Apprentice.” I knew he was a phony. The endless lies, the gold and the fake Renoir. My father taught me, you can’t polish sh*t. Words to live by.
I'm pretty horrified by Eddie Gallagher's protector or Ron DeSantis as SecDef, but sometimes I can laugh about 7 million people staying home to achieve this, vs. Lloyd Austin.
And that veterans’ charity I nearly bankrupted?
Small potatoes.
Just give me the highest funded military budget in the world, and I think I can probably make that work for my discretionary party account. 😎
right! addicts don’t stop because they get what they want (like becoming secretary of defense for example). they stop because they truly want to, nothing more nothing less. even if they’re on the fence & try to quit, they will absolutely relapse
I would love for one Dem in the confirmation hearing to repeat that exact sentence back to him and then look at the Rs, the media everyone & say ”and what in the ever loving fuck are we doing here? Seriously! I know and you know he’s so not qualified it’s funny if it weren’t so goddam dangerous.”
Less than 10% of alcoholics can stop drinking on their own. Anyone who thinks an alcoholic can take a job like Secretary of Defense at the same time they are ‘quitting’ drinking has no knowledge or understanding of alcoholism. Putting this guy in charge of the Pentagon is an insane idea or decision.
“I promise I’ll stop drinking if you hire me” and “let me put my mom on the phone to vouch for me” are two lines I don’t recall hiring coaches promoting.
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“I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”
Look it up, it's a republican thingy.
This illegal alien bounty hunter and $1000 reward for any arrest for anyone reporting them in Missouri is BULLSHIT!
#BoycottMossouri
#BoycottMeanMo
#IllegalAlienBountyHunters
#USDemocracy
America and Americans -- or is it just the main stream media - seem so ignorance of basic Psych 101
ex:
1. characteristics of sociopathology and malignant narcissism and likelihood of treatment
2. characteristics of alcoholism and the efforts and support needed for recovery
Signed, an alcoholic
We have to realize that
TRUMP IS SUBORDINATE TO PUTIN
Then all this insanity in the USA and abroad makes sense automatically.
I speak in detail about how the media is missing the deeper underlying problem.
https://youtu.be/Ql6P3cH2AVE?si=HfxIoTTEgIGiS8uw
When Biden was elected in 2020, I could finally sleep at night. Now looks like we will all be sleeping with our eyes open for the next four years. Absolutely frightening.
Lithium's fury, blinding light,
Overcharged the battery,
Charred hulk, ugly symmetry
Melting cathodes that look like rocks
Horizons aglow and humming
My flaming Tesla box
Shoulda been fixed long ago
Maybe try Tech Support, who knows
This suffering ain’t no joke
Woodland creatures come swarmin’
Another incel camino up in smoke
I Don't Want ANYONE who WAS/IS an Alcoholic, a Womanizer or Abuser and Is NOW delivering FALSE PROMISES to Fix themselves!!
Ever been round an addict "Fixing" themselves??
We Want, From Day One:
A CAPABLE HUMAN NOT a Fixer Upper!!
💙✌🏽🌻
💙✌🏽🌻
I hear you.
Time to stand up and fight for our Country and Constitution!
Hegseth: alcohol
Kennedy: heroin
Gaetz: ED pill/Red Bull bombs
Gabbard: Russian vodka?
Hmm,let us remember George Bush was a born again Christian asshole.
Hmm,as Pete would be a born again Christian Nationalist asshole.
Hmm,let us remember how Bush worked out and here we are again.
#FascismIsReal
#TrumpVanceProject2025
#NeverForgetJan6
#Resist
🇺🇸 👀
Small potatoes.
Just give me the highest funded military budget in the world, and I think I can probably make that work for my discretionary party account. 😎
If I’m drafted
alcoholic.