So the Dems are aligned in using the Hegspeth allegations to oppose him. Dumb.
The man is not qualified for the job. That is all that matters. He has never managed more than 100 people. He won't be the actual one running DOD because he has no clue how.
And this is what the Dems focus on ?
The man is not qualified for the job. That is all that matters. He has never managed more than 100 people. He won't be the actual one running DOD because he has no clue how.
And this is what the Dems focus on ?
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Every senator should harp on 5 or more reasons why he isn't qualified
Create videos why each is important.
Use his disqualifications for the job not his,as much as I hate to say it, His infidelity.
They are still fighting the last decades battles.
Trump grab em by the P let’s you know it’s not a thing voters care about
They have plenty of serious and real issues to go on
I despair at times
This one’s for the rejection of Pete Hegseth. 👇
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All garbage, the party needs to get back to paying attention to working ppl than to the wants of the rich. Playing corporate ball is what has gotten us to the oligarchy we're in now.
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Appointees don’t have clue & our elected leader
is woefully corrupt & brain dead.
It’s not looking good for the USA.
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And then, you and @housedemocrats.bsky.social need to continue this!
Mini PSA announcements that we can use to inundate and flood all social media.
Our military deserve good leaders, people who are truly up to complicated work with massive staffs. Handling life & death on top of that. He is not qualified.
which would explain why democrats aren't oppositional as we'd like,
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We already have the best of the worse in there now.....we ain't getting any best of the best people in there.....
J6 was broadcast on live tv, 197 republicans voted not to impeach Trump. While 43 republican senators voted to acquit trump.
There is no argument the Dems could use. Republicans don’t care!
It offers a full script for you and gives you options to mark if you left a vm/not. Make sure you leave your street address so your call is tallied in vms!
https://5calls.org/issue/pete-hegseth-dod-defense/
Hey, how about one of our more visible non-ancient leaders being snarky on the gram? Kids like the gram still, right? Yeah that'll work.
That kind of thing.
Democrats need everything we can get.
He’s absolutely qualified for what the president wants him to do. The assaults & drug abuses are exactly what he’s looking for. He’s perfect.
Get it now.
Republican Senators are just cashing their pay off checks. They are super good at that.
Dem’s don’t matter.
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I have my elected officials and many others on speed dial. Calling daily about the Hegsdeath insanity and everything else. Keeping each call specific to one issue.
If there are things they disagree with, the very same ones who talk like super-badass he men act helpless.
? - didn't fbi have this??
well done! 💯
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stupid to focus on his character flaws when he is wholly unqualified even by the lowest standard.
Abusive behaviour isn't a character flaw. Hatred for women isn't a "character flaw."
Do you really think Republican senators aren't gonna vote for Pappy Trump's pet sex pest?
They don't care if he's incompetent. They don't care if he's a white supremacist or a Christian nationalist or a pig.
He's Pappy Trump's pick and they'll vote for him. 🤷♀️
I suppose the dems are trying to make the point he’s a moral failure as well as a professional one.
I agree we need to rethink our approach. This approach only works when the GOP has shame which it doesn’t anymore
@lincolnproject.us @robertgreenwald.bsky.social etc (& moi) to message clearly & simply.
Oh yeah - Dems just prefer the same folks they’ve been overpaying since 1992.
Focus on qualifications,not personal history of drinking or sexual misconduct!!!Our safety is at risk?
All the 'we'll never win going more left' need to consider if they'll ever win playing it safe and centrist.
That’s prob why the usual suspects weren’t interested. Not getting paid on the buy.
And yet…we won
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I work in an office, speak to clients on the phone all day.
The amount of folks with Fox News & co, blasting in the background is at best concerning.
They are being indoctrinated with hate, we have to be louder 🙏🏼
We have to keep putting out there how wrong he is & come with facts!
Their base indeed doesn’t care about qualifications. because they don’t have any idea why qualifications matter. If the base did care, Hegseth would have been gone by now.
But by the same token, if bad behavior mattered to them, Trump would not be president.
Trump isn’t the problem. They are.
Musk isn’t the problem. They are.
Hegseth isn’t the problem.
Kennedy isn’t they problem.
If you want to flood the zone with anything, flood it with example after example of their hypocrisy.
They will cite examples of our hypocrisy as well.
And that begs the question as to whether we will own up to them.
Why dies that matter?
Because the side that captures the middle wins.
What does the middle care about?
It was like watching a high school drama unfold.
Trump’s fascination with professional wrestling and “reality” television demonstrates a keen appreciation for the tools he needed to establish and now to maintain his grip on power.
He not only captured the viewing audience but also the media’s insatiable thirst for $$$
Putin has won.
Twitter? Instagram? Tik-Tok? Facebook? All of which are actively suppressing anything and everything that isn't far-right nazi propaganda.
They are useful idiots. They are NOT in control. Decisions will be made by others behind the scenes. They are compromised so that they will follow orders... or else..
So, we should be focusing on finding out who is actually calling the shots.
STOP focusing on Trump’s candidates.
START focusing on the people who will be voting for them!
The Republican members of the House have to be prodded & shamed into QUITTING!!
It won’t take many to flip the house. 2/
We need GOOD people to do GOOD TROUBLE : protesting peacefully & picketing (where legally allowed).. enough so that they get fed up with the negative attention.
GOOD TROUBLE!
That’s all I got.
Focus on their "lack of competence."
Because the brass will pair Pete with a few cute Warrant Officers and go on a tour of tank museums. They know how to handle political boneheads.
Guard. My video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr3PFLtlADs&t=11s
You have access to more wealth, platforms, businesses, etc than the Democratic Party
Why not be the change you’re criticizing them for not doing?
I do think there should be user generated content, so I took a shot at it. No money, some time and some resources. Results in next comment.
Not just he is unqualified, but why.
Don't flood the zone with junk that just makes some marketers & tech platform salespeople money, make it useful and cohesive because we know it, believe it, and can back it up.
@thedemocraticparty.bsky.social
Seriously.
The country is crumbling.
We have 2 credibly accused SEXUAL ASSAULTERS on the highest court in America.
One side (D)lives within moral guidelines. The other side (R) doesn’t give a fuck about morals, values and decency.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-senator-bashed-hegseths-qualifications-stands-by-dod-sec-who-oversaw-botched-afghan-withdrawal.amp
Cable, local, network, podcast, print, online. All of it!
There are so many more of us than them who crave credible reporting, not scripted state media.
It would thrive.
Likely because they’re all so damn old and need to our younger generations in power. Time to pass the torch. No better time than now
The only thing that has a chance of working is R's fear they'll be embroiled in scandal
They’re definitely coached and scripted and they’ll stick to the script no matter what.
If they say he's unqualified, the RW media says, 'He's a vet, he knows what the armed forces need from first hand experience!"
Not to mention, there's very little 'zone' to flood since most media is RW aligned.
2. Understanding the 21st century battlefield is cyber, not brute force.
3. Force integration and asset usage are paramount.
4. Orchestrating over-the-horizon measures.
5. Sophisticated intelligence gathering and application
5 that maybe you can get them address.
Mark, I love ya but it’s a ridiculous statement. He would have stock answers for every scenario they brought up and the Repubs would brush them off. It wouldn’t change one vote. Again, it’s blaming the victim. None of this is the Dems fault. They certainly did enough in that hearing to sow doubt
1) served in nat'l guard
2) ran a failing non-profit
3) was a backup person for a weekend FAUX media show.
That's it. No substantial experience running a place with 2,845,386 people. With a budget of $841.4 billion.
Being a cheating, wife beating drunk who steals money from the orgs he's "led" probably won't move the needed either.
Would these people hire a man that managed 100 people (& got fired) to run their own business with millions of employees?
Don’t decide behind closed doors what that one message will be and come out with some softball stuff. There is a huge appetite for anyone with a backbone right now.
Absolutely do this!
Call every US senator and tell them to vote against him because he’s totally unqualified. Pick up the phone man!
Unfortunately, the GOP and general public simply don't care he has no management (or strategic) experience. That is the case with nearly ALL of his picks. Therefore, Dems are forced to focus on things that the general public will find upsetting. The guy has white nationalist tats FGS!
Attacking the qualifications let's you directly counter the MAGA motto.
They only care about positions and money. Make it clear their voting now will impact it. Make it clear that the benefit of not being primaried is overshadowed by the risks.
Tammy Duckworth is certainly demonstrating Hegseth’s ignorance & incompetence, but if Republicans all vote in lockstep, Agent Orange is an Imperial President, as SCOTUS granted.
Is that a good idea?
"Four days after the alleged assault, she went to a hospital and asked for a rape exam."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/pete-hegseths-secret-history
When did I blame Dems?
"Most Americans" don't care if the Secretary of Defense, in charge of the largest military in the world and nuclear weapons, is a massive drunk and a rapist (felony)?
You got any evidence for that claim?
It's entirely ineffective.
They need to cede ground to the passionate and intelligent, younger group like AOC and Crockett.
But they won't.
Instead, they'll focus on moral high ground and the world will burn, literally and metaphorically
👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾
No wonder Trump won.
2. They'd initially gone after the documents and Jan 6, but something early on in the case made them a non-viable path to a conviction. Some mad hoops his lawyers jumped through to have them dismissed.
Georgia case should have gone faster, but for the many MAGA roadblocks thrown up.
J6 & the stolen documents cases were Federal cases.
It’s not that some cases should have been prioritized.
Sadly they won't do it.
Except now it's a specific reason to hire. That's wrong. qualification, expertise, experience, problem solving skills should be the factors to hire should they not?
I would think though that "doesn't know Jack shit about military strategy" would at least scare them but I guess not.
Rudy Giuliani may be problematic, but I'm fairly certain Pete Hegseth could get more people killed with a minor mistake.
Like I said, people like Rudy Giuliani are obviously addicts but it's not quite the same level of power.
They have been running this playbook since Reagan.
Nice complaint, but it’s not a plan. The best the Dems can do in the face of a sure confirmation is dirty him up, hoping the votes against will line up
Still unlikely
Why would any R be repulsed by PH's verbal/emotional abuse when they all fully support the poster boy of misogyny, FOTUS?
Data & Evidence that holds up might sway 4 Rs to vote down PH; he failed as CEO 2x.
It’s delusional to think any R vote would come to defeat the nomination…utterly delusional
Their fix is in. All we can do is reveal the hypocrisy, do time to wake up
His point was a ramble, an unfocused comment that was left to us to discern. He needs to be much SHARPER in his commentaries.
I don’t know him, and I don’t hang with him. I need his language to be defined 💙
*You and I* know these things, but there are many more who aren't paying attention the way we are. I think we still have to try to get to them where they are--unfortunately, video reels might have to be that place (don't even get me started on that part of it...).
Classic naïveté on your part.
Ask him military questions like how many nuclear subs can we send to the Taiwan Strait or something.
Surely Dem Senators could have asked generals for some gotcha questions
I say let them.
Let them do it. Let them screw everything up. Let them take the blame.
Not helpful. But then he's a bILLLLLLIONAIRE
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I’m sure u guys can do better 😄
“The biggest organization he has run could fit all its employees in a little church hall - with room left over!”
https://youtu.be/Bk7RVw3I8eg?si=J7U8RVwPSEWY-jRW
This is not the Dems burden to bear. Repubulicans control the Senate and they own this.
Dems are just putting the information out so that the public is aware and perhaps...Repub Senators (esp those in swing states) will remember they work for the people and not 47
Aiming to demonstrate that government is wasteful & useless, they make it so.
Then they create a crisis for the Dems to rectify.
publicizing the incompetence and drinking after he is confirmed will have to be the
next effort.
They just voted for a fascist administration, led by a criminal and adjudicated rapist.
Playing by the rules is no longer an option.
Personal bad judgment & inappropriate behavior ex are OK,
BUT,
- Define 'fit' military personnel,
- What were his specific duties in the 2 nonprofit groups (Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America) he ran? Describe his management team/ staff and their roles.
...
- How many direct reports did he have? How did he communicate, direct activities, build teams...? How did he develop staff?
- What required most of his time and focus? How much time? Resources used?
- What was his biggest challenge at ea. org.?
...
- Explain why was he forced to leave 2 nonprofit advocacy groups that he ran (e.g. mismanagement of funds, sexual impropriety, reports of intoxicated behavior).
- What does Hegseth consider critical concerns of the military today?
- What threats will keep him awake at night?
...
- Are there specific readiness concerns for the various services? What are key readiness elements? How will he ready the services?
- Is collaboration with coalition forces important? If so, what is his role? How will he approach it?
...
He didn't even know what countries were in Southeast Asia.
6th graders could answer that question.
No one cared.
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You are actively supporting fascism by attacking Dems, lying about Dem opposition.
You are an amplifying useful idiot or an active participant in the op to discourage Dems from acting against Trump now & voting in 2026.
Stop pushing fascism.
Stop distracting/taking the bait.
Pete Hesgeth is unqualified pure and simple. That's the reason he shouldn't lead the DoD.
The fact your post can ratio.. shows you how asleep people are, how fascism proliferates.
They're fascists, they're Nazis, the speed at which people find this out.. is their choice.
The fact your post will ratio.. shows you how asleep people are, how fascism proliferates.
They're fascists, they're Nazis, the speed at which people find this out.. is their choice.
This you? I was misleading?
We’ve all had shitty managers,
thx to the Peter principle-
So yeah focus on character and/or competency…
The entire GOP has neither and doesn’t care
Our armed forces conceal sexual assault allegations on an awful scale.
Hegseth represents a danger for dozens of reasons, but any way to knock him down successfully (if even possible) is good.
https://open.substack.com/pub/demodirge/p/new-deal-to-raw-deal?r=9gmmo&utm_medium=ios
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Yet people are somehow mad at Democrats even though the Senate is controlled by Republicans. Always Democrats' fault. This is why Repubs get away with things, they're NEVER blamed. Media, Repubs, Cuban, even other Dems blame Dems for EVERYTHING
Yes, republicans are abhorrent, but the Dems should be expected to have an effective counter to this "strategy".
In the past decade they've repeatedly proved they've got nothing.
Is abuse "identity politics"? I didn't know abuser was a protected class.
MAGA’s “daddy” is a rapist felon; they do not care about Pete’s character. They think he’s manly.
But I guarantee they care that their kids will die in fucking Greenland under a poorly led military if Hegseth is Sec Def.
When the leader of your party is Trump, you've given up on competence.
i think that matters first and foremost.
Many incompetent nominees have been confirmed. Lots with depraved characters have also been confirmed, but I can think of several who had to withdraw their nominations.
We have at least two current Supreme Court justices to prove that.
Make it blatantly obvious that he is completely unqualified. The "personal demons" smear tactic hasn't worked, and the public sweeps it under the rug.
Everybody knows that nobody Trump appoints is qualified, that’s his intention.
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