Let's see how much worse they can do.
What do you think? Defense Secretary Kevin Sorbo?
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TBH even Alex Jones is a step up. Hegseth is a guy who can't even pretend to be against the idea of racial cleansing. Some of his takes on Israel-Palestine are outlandish to even the Israelis.
Defense Secretary Ritchie. As in SecDef Kid Rock
Kanye's phone is probably ringing right now
Aldrich Ames
Kid Rock. He's cowboy, baby.
If only there had been signs that he was dangerously under qualified.
And he got confirmed. Fucking twats.
On the upside .... any of us are qualified for the job and have a higher chance now of achieving that position than at any time in the past .... and I'm not even American!
The fact that you aren't American is probably a plus. Are you Russian by chance? That would probably put you at the top of the list.
Was just gonna say if yer Russian, yer a shoe-in!
3 months in. That's like 9 mooches.
We're really starting to develop a system to measure time here. 9 Mooches to a Hegseth
anything but metric
/s
It's too rational
Oh god, you've inspired me to do some unit conversions.
1 Light-Mooch is 1904.591 AU. Not as much fun as I was hoping.
Maybe there are some fun coincidences with other things
I still got a chuckle out of it. Thanks, mate 🍻
NPR exclusive. Chef's kiss
There is a wonderful schadenfreude to NPR breaking this! We should all go donate money in Pete’s name!
My only concern is will they find somebody worse?
I hear Zapp Brannagin is available
How much lower can you go than an unqualified drunken Fox News host? What baffles me is this man was approved by Congress. Anyone who OK'ed this turd is also unqualified!
Never assume Trump can’t go lower.
“Hold my beer.”
It's all been drank by Hegseth and Kavanaugh though
He may go for DeSantia, who would be a more effective person to purge the Defense Department.
So will this guy just end up back on Fox News?
Yep. He'll also constantly bring up the fact that he was sec def
For almost 5 whole months!
How many Scaramuccis does that come out to?
You mean like Lawrence O'Donnell and his time with Daniel Patrick Moynihan? Did you know Lawrence O'Donnell served as an aid to Daniel Patrick Moynihan? Did he mention today that he worked for Daniel Patrick Moynihan?
That and the lucrative after dinner speeches for rooms full of wealthy white men.
During his first term, Trump dismissed both of his Secretaries of Defense:
- Trump's first Secretary of Defense, Jim Mattis
who was generally regarded as a strong pick for the office
was dismissed after he announced that he would resign over a decision Trump was making.
> On December 19, 2018, Trump announced immediate US withdrawal from Syria, over his national security advisers' objections.[133] Mattis had recently said that the US would remain in Syria after ISIL's defeat to ensure it did not regroup. The next day, he submitted his resignation after failing to persuade Trump to reconsider.[134][135] His resignation letter contained language that appeared to criticize Trump's worldview—praising NATO, which Trump has often derided, and the 79-nation anti-ISIS coalition that Trump had decided to leave. Mattis also affirmed the need for "treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors" and remaining "resolute and unambiguous" against authoritarian states such as China and Russia. He wrote that Trump has "the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with [his] on these and other subjects."[136][137] His resignation triggered alarm among historical allies.[138] In his 2018 resignation letter, Mattis called both Russia and China "authoritarian models" rivaling US interests.[139] Mattis's letter said his resignation would be effective February 28, 2019.[140] Three days later Trump moved Mattis's departure date up to January 1, after becoming angered by the implicit criticism of Trump's worldview in Mattis's letter.[141] On January 2, 2019, Trump criticized Mattis's performance as secretary of defense and said he had "essentially fired him."[142]
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Trump's replacement, Mark Esper, was fired via Trump tweeting:
After Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, Trump launched a months-long effort to challenge the election outcome and remain in power, claiming that the election had been "stolen" from him.[284] In his subsequent memoir, published in 2022, Esper wrote that Trump's effort "was a national embarrassment that undermined our democracy, our credibility, and our leadership on the world stage."[284]
On November 9, 2020, days after his election loss, Trump tweeted that Esper was "terminated," and that he had been replaced by Christopher C. Miller, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center who would serve as Acting Secretary of Defense.[285] Esper had written his resignation letter four days earlier, when a winner had not yet been determined.[286]
On January 2, 2021, days before the end of Trump's term and the inauguration of Biden, Esper, along with all other living former secretaries of defense, published a Washington Post op-ed piece in January 2021 that rebuked Trump's effort to alter the election results, and said there was no role for the military to change them. The group's piece appeared days after Trump ally Michael Flynn, an ex-Army general, and reportedly Trump himself, discussed the possibility of declaring martial law and attempting to stay in power. The group wrote: "Our elections have occurred. Recounts and audits have been conducted. Appropriate challenges have been addressed by the courts. Governors have certified the results. And the electoral college has voted. The time for questioning the results has passed; the time for the formal counting of the electoral college votes, as prescribed in the Constitution and statute, has arrived."[287] Esper later wrote that Trump's behavior on January 6, when a mob of his supporters, incited by the president, attacked the Capitol and disrupted the counting of the electoral votes, "threatens our democracy."[288]
That being said, in both cases, it sounds like it was due to them disagreeing with him. As far as I know, Hegseth has not gotten into a major disagreement with Trump.
you nailed the difference.
Sorry Pete, you've become a political liability. Take your $10B severance and hit the ~~bricks~~ beach.
I don't know about that. It's possible, but Trump's scapegoats generally don't get golden parachutes. They get crushed underfoot while he moves onto the next one. Every contractor stiffed on the bill, every lawyer thrown under the bus, every single high-level advisor who he either completely "forgot" or just straight up attacked on live TV.
If they're still useful - like literal violent traitors - they might recieve a get-out-of-jail-free card every now and then. But if they're not useful anymore? A publically intoxicated news anchor turned disgraced Defense Secretary, who is stupid enough to add his wife, brother, and a newspaper editor to illegal self-deleting group chats involving the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
He's getting burned, if only as a distraction from the fact that there were a whole bunch of other high-level executive and defense staff in those chats that A) never should have agreed to use self-deleting Signal messages, and B) should have noticed an unauthorized recipient in the chat and shut the whole thing down immediately.
The fuckup in chief doesn't have allies, he has handlers, stooges, and scapegoats, and they're all too fucking stupid to realize that the only thing separating the stooge and handler from the scapegoat is a matter of time. There's nothing fascists love more than ruling from a position of fear.
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A couple weeks before the inauguration, I listened to the President/CEO of the company I work at go on an absolute rant about how Trump was going to get rid of all Biden's DEI hires, about how the Navy Chief was a woman and she would be fired, about how the fastest running time for a woman was slower than the slowest running time for a man(???), and some other, racist stuff.
I lost my train of thought...what happened?
I'm kinda surprised we haven't had more people ejected from this administration yet. 2016 had lots. Never knew who was 'getting voted out of the Whitehouse this week'.
He started with ultra loyalists this time. More yes men, less to kick out.
Even though it feels like its been an eternity already, trump has only been in office 87 days.
Because before he was kicking out people who, while he might have 'picked them', weren't really 'his people' and they stood up to him. Now he has sycophants who suck his orange hole and his only reason to get of them would be when there's too much pressure and he's forced to admit he was wrong for picking them.
Two VERY different sets of circumstances.
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"Powerful start"
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