Originally published at: Trump’s Pick For Defense Sec Spent His College Years Crusading Against ‘Glorification of Diversity’ And ‘The Homosexual Lifestyle’ - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran, and former Fox News weekend host and President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, experienced a political awakening at Princeton University. Hegseth detailed his journey to self-discovery in one of the many pieces he wrote as publisher of The Princeton Tory, a conservative magazine at…
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The loudest anti-gay voices come, invariably, from the deepest recesses of the closet.
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Everyone relax. He will never be confirmed. This all performative and meaningless. WWE bullshit.
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This is going to work out well.
“All the best people,” amirite?
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Gaetz & Gabbard are decoys… so he will get through.
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He spent his ENTIRE college career being that homophobic asshole in the dorm?
Methinks someone is struggling with some serious urges toward men that he turned into self-loathing and a need to prove to himself how incredibly not gay he is.
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“The movement to legitimize the homosexual lifestyle and homosexual marriages is strong and must be vigorously opposed,” the rant said. “Homosexuals themselves should not be demonized; however, their lifestyle deserves absolutely no special legal status.” --emphasis added
Here is the “blindness” of the conservative position. By affirming people the same rights as everyone else is not “special legal status.” It says their status is exactly the same for everyone. Why is this so hard to see?
Denying people rights creates “special legal status” for those in power. Of course that’s what “conservatives” try to protect–but only for themselves.
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Oh look. He’s also sporting all the cool-kid RW tats. “Deus Vult:” totally, 100% not used by white nationalists. /s
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Being a closet case is the least of the problems with this guy.
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I’ll drop this here if anyone else would care to answer this question:
“Has there ever been another time in U.S. history that governors and attorneys general (CA, WA, Il, MA, NY so far) have taken steps to gird against potential threats an incoming President may or may not pose to their states?”
I emailed Josh Marshall, who replied, “There’s no situation that I can think of that is comparable. A few cases during reconstruction might seem superficially comparable. But I don’t think they are.”
Sadly, I too suspect this is just another first in a long list of unprecedented “firsts.” This is where we are.
Again: Sad.
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Without closeted men trying to outrun their own sexual panic, there’d be no Fascism.
And let’s face it, the leather boots, flowing flags, dress-up uniforms, and choreographed goose-stepping ARE fabulous!
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Exactly. Thou dost protest too much.
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Tory means “robber” in Irish, which is a tad ironic?
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I have long said that people like Musk and Bezos are Bond villains.
With enough money to buy their own volcanoes and attempt to control the world.
But now Trump is a Batman villain.
Old-school, Adam West, Batman villain with a lair staffed by comic henchmen.
The media should cover his White House briefings with cameras tilted 15 degrees to the right.
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In the old Batman television series, the villains’ headquarters were always filmed with a tilted set, the implication being of course that they were crooked. Is it too much to ask that speeches and press conferences from the new administration be filmed in the same way?
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So, when I heard, yesterday I think, that Trump had demanded the GOP Senate majority basically waive their constitutional right/duty to “advise and consent” on major presidential appointments, I thought, “Of course. Trump being Trump.”
Not until I read about Trump’s appointment of Pete Hegseth as Sec of Defense, and Matt Gaetz as A.G., did I realize, “Oh, he wants the GOP Senate majority to waive advise and consent because he wants to appoint people whom even the Senate GOP majority won’t approve.”
I am a bit slow these days.
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One thing we’re forgetting here is that Trump casting Hegseth to play the roll of head of the DoD. And on PH’s side he too is play acting as a “true hyper testosterone male”.
But see how the worm turns:
He now wants to go to work for an American self confessed dictator.
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The louder the voice, the more urgent the “bad thoughts” are. Good. Fuck him. I hope he spends every single day tortured by who he is and dies young. He deserves nothing less.
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Ok, his undergrad writings are a big closeted Ivy League Republican mess. Who is shocked? But what about the crap he’s spewed on Fox? There must be a few news cycles worth of more recent crap there, and with video.
Trump and the maggots will really not like his pro-Bush/greet-us-with-flowers/spreading democracy in the Middle East stuff. It’s almost… what’s the word I’m looking for… Rumsfeldian.
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Possible. My next question would be does he have a wide stance?
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