Army Veteran Senator Details The Many Ways In Which Hegseth Is 'Unqualified' For Defense Gig

Originally published at: Army Veteran Senator Details The Many Ways In Which Hegseth Is ‘Unqualified’ For Defense Gig

For many reasons, including a previously undisclosed allegation of sexual assault against him, Democrats have been sounding the alarm on veteran and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth’s extreme lack of fitness to be the secretary of the Department of Defense. The man has long held and espoused extreme and in-another-era disqualifying views on a…

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We know Hegseth loves the Crusades but does he think of Joan of Arc?

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Wouldn’t he think that Joan of Arc was hot?

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That she is well done?

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The incoming administration defines “qualified” as follows:

The willingness to tell Trump whatever he wants to hear, agree with whatever he says and carry out his orders without question no matter how batshit crazy they might be.

In that respect, I’m sure Hegseth is eminently qualified.

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His favourite being of course The Children’s Crusade.

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Oh, the tales of tail he and Matt Gaetz could tell!

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You’re gonna get flamed for that comment. :fire:

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Just don’t make an ash of yourself.

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Don’t stake your life on it…

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Jeanne D’Arc, after dark!

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Woodcha try again?

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his general sleazeball reputation

Over-sexed sleazeballs are not okay with Republicans.
Underqualified sleazeballs are welcome.

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Anyone who thinks women aren’t qualified for combat roles doesn’t know shit about women. I rode Harleys all my life and hung out with club members and their wives/girlfriends. And I would rather take on any 2 patch holders than 1 of their women, those gals were genuinely terrifying !

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“She was a sister who really cooked.”

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She just lit up the room.

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I believe the first soldier killed in W’s Iraq debacle was a woman: Lori Piestewa. Her family and squad members, I suspect, would find nothing humorous about sisters in arms dying for the mission.

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And I’d have thought it was the Fourth Crusade, where the army turned on and attacked their co-religionists in Zara, Byzantium and the Byzantine Empire.
There’s something about betraying allies that’s just so MAGA, or at least Trumpist.

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In our context of professional militaries there is forgetfulness about former times, when combatants fought for spoils of war. That, indeed, is MAGA-ish and Trumpish.

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On land:

In the air:

Either one of these – or any of their bad ass sisters in uniform today – would relieve Hegseth of his scrawny kiwis in two seconds flat.

(And, having determined they weren’t even enough for a chihuahua’s snack, toss them in a PX trashcan without a second thought.)

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