Originally published at: The Once Critically Endangered Pete Hegseth Goes Before Committee
Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee for Defense Secretary, goes before the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday. Hegseth, the former Fox News host whose nomination was immediately threatened by allegations of sexual assault and uncontrolled alcohol use, survived those early days when the right closed ranks around him. Now, Republican senators’ MAGA loyalty will be tested,…
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This ought to be both illuminating and utterly depressing.
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Hegseth, Patel and Gabbard all need to go.
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Big, fat, bald, bad suit, cheap shoes Trump likes them straight from central casting.
Hegseth is an 80-percent-haircut hire.
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" utterly depressing " will be the daily description for at least the next 2 years. Only to be replaced by " utterly destroyed ". But hey, the electorate has spoken ! 
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Of the nominees:
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Which one will be the first knifed in the back by Donald Trump?
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Which one will be the first to be indicted for a criminal offense while in their government position?
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Which one will be corruptly pardoned by Donald Trump from their criminal activities while holding their position?
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Which one will mysteriously fall out of a window?
Numbers 1-3 are virtually certain to happen, while number 4 is extra credit.
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Regarding his comment about the name changes at bases being an “erasure of legacy and tradition…” He is not wrong. What is odd is that we ever named bases after people who tried overthrow the government.
The drinking and sexism is MAGA. They will not see this as disqualifying. He is unqualified based on his lack of experience.
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Secretary of Defense
A Fox tv talking head is the best Republicans have got?
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This is where the rubber is going to meet the road for this new administration. If the Senate confirms everyone without prejudice, regardless of the information presented, the coup will be complete and the next two to four years will be a travesty.
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To paraphrase that famous philosopher of the XXth C, one Michael Phillip Jagger,
You can’t always get what you want, and even if you try, sometimes you can’t get what you need.
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It’s just going to be one loyalty test after another isn’t it: Kakistocracy melded with Idiocracy with dictatorship, and something really icky.
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Grotesque, bad personal behavior aside, the guy is UNQUALIFIED!!
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Here’s hoping Hegseth makes a fool of himself
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His violations of US Flag code are disqualifying by themselves: his pocket square, jacket lining and ties are emblematic of the disrespect MAGA has for this Nation and its laws and protocols.
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One thing is for sure, the GOP are deep in every dollar coming out of the Pentagon. Even the guy that painted the name on Fort Benning was a profit center.
The churches that told confederate soldiers that God wanted them to kill their countrymen have now taken over the country.
Back to business for the failed states and their sponsored shites.
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Hegseth will only succeed at, first, making fools of the Senate and, second, making fools of us.
Our standing internationally will hit the skids upon his confirmation. And you know it’s coming.
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Hegseth doesn’t think women should serve, but enlisted his Mommy to fight for his reputation. If a Non-MAGA person did that he would call them a p*ssy.
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Putin has had a hell of a decade.
The easiest part must have been gathering kompromat from GOP religious zealots. On meth in truck stop bathrooms.
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“Megyn Kelly In The Hegseth Supporters Pen”
I mean…everyone knows he’s the real father of her children…
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He probably flies the flag on his diesel truck as he ‘rolls coal’. (That’s also a violation of the Flag Code.)
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