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InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months ago

Senate confirms Pete Hegseth as Trump's defense secretary in 51-50 vote

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Senate confirms Pete Hegseth as Trump's defense secretary in 51-50 vote

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InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months ago
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Hegseth's nomination once appeared on shaky ground amid allegations that included sexual misconduct and financial mismanagement.
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    Instead of DEI hire he has a DUI hire

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      order-of-lenin

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      :Kelly:

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    Incredible that the “I promise to stop drinking if you let me manage the military” gamble worked. Sign me up for the Secretary of Defense rehab.

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    He said he’d stop drinking but he never said he wouldn’t start parachuting oxy

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      He could just boof it.

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      Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue

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    Hegseth has several tattoos, among them a Jerusalem cross on his chest and one reading “Deus Vult”, a Latin phrase meaning “God wills it”, on his bicep.

    He’s a fucking crusader larper! lea-tired

    Like him being aremoved is pretty much a job requirement but honestly, where do they keep finding those absolute clowns? Don’t they have some normal, evil people lying around somewhere?

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      Ah, man, this guy will definitely start another fucking war in the Middle East, huh?

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      OHHH that guy. lol lmao even.

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    he’s going to be drunk the whole time

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      Starting right now.

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    If you’ll excuse me, to forestall tears I am going to start laughing and never stop.

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      matt-joker

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    So I know Hegseth is a drunk and maybe a wife beater but why is he being made SoD? Like was he a general or a ranking member on the defense committee or something?

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      why

      Trump wanted him. Not only is Hegseth a repulsive human being - before (In one of his books? In an interview?) he said the military could be deployed against US civilians. More…

      When the Democratic senator Elissa Slotkin asked whether he would refuse unconstitutional orders, and whether he would decline to deploy the military against US civilians, Hegseth evaded a direct answer, saying “I reject the premise” of the questions.

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        Elissa Slotkin

        the only memory I have of this name is of her saying something genocidal and zionist

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          I googled.

          Elissa has dedicated her career to serving the country she loves. A former CIA analyst who served three tours in Iraq alongside the U.S. military…

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            Senator Torture

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              It’s Senator Enhanced Interrogation, akshually. We don’t torture in America, because we don’t call it torture in America.

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                the originator of this term is unknown, but it appears to be a calque of the German “Verschärfte Vernehmung”, meaning “intensified interrogation”, used in 1937 by Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller

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        I mean “I reject the premise” is the correct answer.

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      Nope, just a dude on Fox News with some military experience. Square jaw, talks tough, so of course Trump loved him. From a collection of CBS News articles:

      Hegseth was valedictorian at Forest Lake High School in Minnesota and attended Princeton University, where he played basketball. From there, he joined the Minnesota National Guard and later the Army National Guard. He was sent abroad three times, as part of a security platoon at Guantanamo Bay, an infantryman in Iraq and counterinsurgency instructor in Afghanistan. Hegseth does not have senior military or national security experience.

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      Co-host of Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends Weekend,” Hegseth has been a contributor to the network for a decade. He developed a friendship with Trump through the president-elect’s regular appearances on the show. In a statement, a Fox News spokesperson complimented Hegseth’s military knowledge, saying his “insights and analysis especially about the military resonated deeply with our viewers.”

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      He’s also written a number of books, several for the network’s publishing imprint, including “The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free.” In announcing Hegseth as his pick, Trump complimented that book, noting its “nine weeks on the New York Times best-sellers list, including two weeks at NUMBER ONE.”

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      All I can tell you is that Trump 2017-2020 was the best thing ever to happen to China. Take this information and interpret it in any way you like.

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      He was on Fox News.

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    May he implode the organizational structure cause his generals won’t bring him bourbon fast enough inshallah-script

    (and not, you know, deploy military on protestors with screams of deus vult)

    *or buy doohickey ai weapon system which determines dc is the greatest threat to usa and nukes it

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      deploy military on protestors with screams of deus vult

      After he does that democratic senators will “voice their concerns”. Maybe they will send a sternly worded letter to the Pentagon. Meanwhile Fetterman will be caught on a hot mic saying “The protestors deserved it.”

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        liberalism

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    Betting pool for the first time as secretary of defense that news breaks that he’s clearly visibly drunk in public.

    He’ll be drunk tonight but even if it’s at a restaurant - it’ll be lied about because everybody around him will be a friendly including the staff.

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    My guess is within four months from now.

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      Should have put it on one of the Hexbear 2025 bingo newshead bingo spaces kitty-cri-potato

      Maybe that would have been too easy though

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        It’s the Free Space

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    Aremoved Nazi, cool

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      Tryna figure out what has been removed here…

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    5150 data-laughing

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    and u think ur vote doesn’t matter?

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    NYT live thread

    Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the armed services panel, put a warning in his statement on Hegseth’s confirmation. “I am going to watch him like a hawk,” he said, adding: “I will point out where we disagree. I will demand accountability.”

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    Hegseth may be celebrating but he is not toasting, if he is staying true to his word. He said during his confirmation process that he would not take a drink if he was confirmed.

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    Some Democratic Senators [are being cordial]. “Now that he has been confirmed to this position, I sincerely hope we can work together in good faith to ensure the wellbeing of our service members,” Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New Hampshire, said in a statement. “It’s critical we put the security of Americans and our nation above all else.”

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      “I am going to watch him like a hawk,” he said, adding: “I will point out where we disagree. I will demand accountability.”

      Oh good. that’s a relief.

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      🎶Amerikkka uber alles 🎵

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    When you order Albert Speer off temu

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