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Trump Defense pick Pete Hegseth Grilled on Women in Combat Comments
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Protests erupt at Pete Hegseth hearing[image or embed] -- Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social) January 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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protesters early on sure made their voices heard - and good for them!
#1 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-14 10:36 AM | Reply
Is Hegseth drunk?
#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-14 10:40 AM | Reply
He thinks being defensive about everything in his past means he is qualified to run the Defense Department.
He doesn't even know what a JAG is.
#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-14 11:10 AM | Reply
This has been way more "enlightening" than I thought it'd be. He seems unprepared and incapable of performing the job. I'm kind of stunned. He is, of course, a misogynistic, homophobic, anti-anything that's not white "christian" (as in crusader type) male.
#4 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-14 11:19 AM | Reply
my god he's a fccking idiot.
#5 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-14 11:59 AM | Reply
Cramer and Hegseth ... jeezus effin keeriest
#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-01-14 12:00 PM | Reply
and so are the republicans - so far.
#7 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-14 12:00 PM | Reply
Another Kavanaugh style rapist hearing. Great. He'll probably make it.
#8 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-14 12:01 PM | Reply
He will make it - and Tim Kaine left plenty of unexploded mines on the road for this buffoon to set off as he stumbles down the road.
Hegseth is a war criminal waiting in the wings.
#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-01-14 12:04 PM | Reply
So he just said he'd ignore the Geneva Conventions.
#10 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-14 12:05 PM | Reply
He is such an amoral worm.
#11 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-14 12:06 PM | Reply
#8 | Posted by Alexandrite
While true, this guy actually paid a settlement to his accuser.
#12 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-01-14 12:08 PM | Reply
Posted by YAV at 2025-01-14 12:06 PM | Reply
Well look who picked him.
#13 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-14 12:09 PM | Reply
Warren's ripping him to shreds.
#14 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-14 12:20 PM | Reply
I have failed in things in my life, and thankfully I'm redeemed by my lord and savior Jesus."
" Defense Secretary-designate Pete Hegseth
Baby jeebus is cool with Hegseth being a rapist and a lush.
#15 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-14 12:21 PM | Reply
One of the reasons I detest "christians" is they believe they got a "get out of jail free" card for this life and all they've done and what they will do - all because they believe they've been saved from eternal damnation once they die.
#16 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-14 12:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Tuberville. Oh my god. What an POS.
#17 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-14 12:24 PM | Reply
Two lessons:
Man, these MAGA maroons will NEVER recover from the shock of Obama kicking their political butts. They know next to nothing about history, replacing that knowledge with superstitious mumbo jumbo.
#18 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-01-14 12:28 PM | Reply
Tuberville claims he worked at "a lot" of "woke universities."
He worked at Auburn, Mississippi, Texas Tech and U of Cincinnati.
Beyond buffoon.
#19 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-01-14 12:31 PM | Reply
Tim Kaine made him look like a fool.
#20 | Posted by qcp at 2025-01-14 12:37 PM | Reply
Mullin's off the rails with the ridiculous false equivalences.
#21 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-14 12:40 PM | Reply
Too bad old Markwayne forgot what the hearing is about. MAGA mega moron he-man ... grrrrrrrrrr.
#22 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-01-14 12:41 PM | Reply
Is that a Barry Corbin AI lurking over Markwayne's shoulder?
#23 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-01-14 12:44 PM | Reply
BWAAAAAAAAA
--gillabrand thinks screaming and yelling makes her sound smart....or righteous....
idiot....
and Liz Warren...geesh.....the guy to her left's reaction to response of one of her
questions was funny...and telling.
#24 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-14 02:12 PM | Reply
Yeah - they're women. WTF do they know, right STD? Hegseth makes you hard.
#25 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-14 02:23 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
Just gonna leave this here. i.imgur.com
#26 | Posted by qcp at 2025-01-14 02:36 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
That is a perfect summation! Thanks QCP.
#27 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-14 02:38 PM | Reply
Damn DEI made us White Men use this sign!
#28 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-14 02:39 PM | Reply
Another Kavanaugh style rapist hearing. Great. He'll probably make it. #8 | Posted by Alexandrite While true, this guy actually paid a settlement to his accuser. #12 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-01-14 12:08 PM
He drugged and r--ed that woman - with her young children and a husband waiting.
Having "navigated" that, he seems to fit perfectly in any GOP cabinet.
#29 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-01-14 02:53 PM | Reply
The------------- is blocking senators from seeing the drunk rapist's FBI background check.
www.thedailybeast.com
#30 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-14 03:01 PM | Reply
Being sober is considered woke by MAGA filth.
#31 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-14 05:21 PM | Reply
@#14 ... Warren's ripping him to shreds. ...
Agreed.
I noticed that nominee-Hegseth has backed away from his prior comments (from a month or so ago) about women serving in the military.
His current comments sound more like he has been coached on what to say during the hearing, rather than any real change of his view on the topic.
#32 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-14 06:49 PM | Reply
@#20 ... Tim Kaine made him look like a fool. ...
Based upon the parts I watched, that seemed to be an easy thing to do.
I will say, nominee-Hegseth is a slick speaker, and presents himself well.
But what he presents, I have issues with.
For example, when asked if he would use the military to shoot at civilians, he dodged answering, and he went off on a deflection.
Even when called on that deflection, and asked the question again, he simply refused to answer the question.
#33 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-14 06:54 PM | Reply
All the above aside, the Republicans in the Senate showed few, if any, signs of opposing the nomination. The Senate Republicans seem to be falling in line, backing down, tail between their legs.
So, has Pres-elect Trump has shown his ability to break down the Constitutional Separation of Powers?
If so, that is A Good Thing - how?
#34 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-14 07:39 PM | Reply
Has he ever had a real job? In real life?
Somebody should ask him how much he paid himself from those two charities for veterans that he left swimming in credit card debt and bankrupt.
I think we've seen this kind huckster movie before. He creates charities and pays himself handsomely from the public tete until it goes bust.
Then he decides to be a Republican politician. Not much different.
Hegseth also strikes me as the type of guy who lets a little bit of authority go to his head.
We all know the type.
#35 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-01-14 09:10 PM | Reply
Hegseth was coached?
LOL ~ That's a given.
Can anybody picture this dummkopf running the Defense Department at a time of war?
Oh Good Grief!
#36 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-01-14 09:28 PM | Reply
@#35 ... Somebody should ask him how much he paid himself from those two charities for veterans that he left swimming in credit card debt and bankrupt. ...
Pete Hegseth's Secret History (December 2024) www.newyorker.com
... After the recent revelation that Pete Hegseth had secretly paid a financial settlement to a woman who had accused him of raping her in 2017, President-elect Donald Trump stood by his choice of Hegseth to become the next Secretary of Defense. Trump's communications director, Steven Cheung, issued a statement noting that Hegseth, who has denied wrongdoing, has not been charged with any crime. "President Trump is nominating high-caliber and extremely qualified candidates to serve in his administration," Cheung maintained. But Hegseth's record before becoming a full-time Fox News TV host, in 2017, raises additional questions about his suitability to run the world's largest and most lethal military force. A trail of documents, corroborated by the accounts of former colleagues, indicates that Hegseth was forced to step down by both of the two nonprofit advocacy groups that he ran --Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America -- in the face of serious allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct.
But Hegseth's record before becoming a full-time Fox News TV host, in 2017, raises additional questions about his suitability to run the world's largest and most lethal military force. A trail of documents, corroborated by the accounts of former colleagues, indicates that Hegseth was forced to step down by both of the two nonprofit advocacy groups that he ran --Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America -- in the face of serious allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct.
So, someone MAGA seems to currently adulate?
#37 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-14 09:48 PM | Reply
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