I agree 100%.

Thank you.

This whole cabinet is a nightmare, I wish I could wake up.

Aside from DU, I'm avoiding the news.

I can't stomach tv news so I haven't heard anything.

nt

He'll survive confirmation.

ETA: The vote is 50-50, so CPL Vance will obey his orders and cast the tie-breaker.

Later edit: Confirmed. Vance earned his pay today.

just now said in about an hour, so maybe about 9PM.

If Senate confirms him, it will be beyond disgusting!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/top-democrat-presses-hegseth-supporting-accused-war-criminals/story%3fid=117669602

..."Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Defense, told Sen. Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the committee, that it would be his priority "that lawyers aren't the ones getting in the way" of military effectiveness.

Reed said Hegseth's advocacy for pardons for convicted war criminals when he was a Fox News host raised questions about his respect for the military judicial process as the members of the committee questioned the nominee.

Reed referenced three acts of clemency Trump took at the end of his first administration and for which Hegseth made a public case, including two convictions by courts martial, saying that in "two of these cases, the military personnel who served in combat with these convicted service members were not supportive of the pardons."

Shortly before Trump's pardons in November 2019, Hegseth said the president could take "imminent action" on the convictions of Army Lt. Clint Lorance and Green Beret Maj. Matt Golsteyn for war crimes and the demotion in rank of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, who was acquitted of killing a wounded Islamic State captive but sentenced to four months confinement and a reduction in rank for posing with a corpse during a 2017 deployment to Iraq"..... (more)

he is immensely unqualified.

And anyone who gives a rat's ass about the country won't be allowed anywhere near the levers of power as long as Trump is Führer.

I live in TN, so, there's not much hope in either one standing up to tRump. But I didn't even waste my time on Blackburn -- I wrote to Hagerty.

By a maniacal sadist. This can't end well.

The only thing Trump considers to be a "qualification."

Time at Bear Sterns, followed by malfeasance at Vets groups.

Which is why he will be confirmed .

They know if they don’t vote for him Trump will primary them and they don’t want to
Lose their seats.

it's always the greedy old pig party over America - always

... keeping our attention on him, instead of watching what the Orange Skidmark is doing behind our backs. And what he's doing right under our noses as he sneers, "Whadda ya gonna do about it?"

…my observation of past Senate behavior regarding any woman who dares speak truth about the administration’s chosen male candidate for, say, SCOTUS, is that drunken rape is not a problem — and that that brave woman is dragged, disgraced, called a liar and called mentally deranged.

Dr. Anita Hill and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford were both left in tatters. My disgust at Senate Republicans is at an all-time high.

He will give illegal orders.

Then we will see if the Republic still stands.

Thought the same thing.

I sent her an email (my Senator)letting her know that we, her constituents, are well aware that she's putting her career above the nation's security.

like the felon.

At least, if he wants to stand out in a GOP crowd. I can't recommend anything violent, of course, but I might suggest he watch something along the lines of Pink Flamingos for ideas.

Not even any high level combat leadership. Obviously the personal details should have ended his chances but he has little relevant experience for maybe the most complex managerial position in the cabinet.

I give him 60 days. And that's a generous guess

most, if not all, of TSF's appointments is hubris. They all overestimate their abilities because they don't know how much they don't know.

Seem the entire GOP has become one big vomit.

Nothing but a bunch of sex offenders, drunks, druggies, spousal abusers, animal abusers, and other assorted criminals.

They are all out to make money on the destruction of our country and other people's pain. Greedy ghouls every one of them.

I don’t think that the National Enquirer is under Trumps thumb anymore. I notice some negative stuff on the cover. I refuse to buy a copy of it though….