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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In 2020 our Secretary of Defense nominee said there would be civil war if Democrats won the Presidency, and that the military would have to chose sides

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/22/trump-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-book
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+1 Jonathan Chait with The Atlantic has read all of his books (three in the last few years) and there’s tons of disqualifying stuff in there. That public education is a communist plot, that vaccines are poison, and that socialists were responsible for the Holocaust, among others.

"The main question I was looking to answer when I started reading Hegseth’s collected works was whether he would follow a Trump command to shoot peaceful protesters. After having read them, I don’t think he would even wait for the order."

Hegseth “considers himself to be at war with basically everybody to Trump’s left, and it is by no means clear that he means war metaphorically.”

He calls for the “categorical defeat of the Left” and says that without its “utter annihilation,” “America cannot, and will not, survive.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/pete-hegseth-books-trump/680744/?gift=cAi0XjdW-W3cRUws9AyEUl0t-yYFv3CC0oliageSwyk&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

[b]And again, these views and his disgusting behavior in his personal life are second and third to the fact that he’s never run an organization with more than a couple dozen people and to put him in charge of the largest bureaucracy in the world is insane.[/b][/quote]

This. This is the material point. Even if he was the squeakiest clean choir boy in terms of his personal life, he's still not qualified to be the Secretary of Defense.

I realize the media enjoys the circus and the right wingers desperately want to distract from the fact that Hedgesth isn't qualified but I hope Senate Democrats don't take the bait and go after him on substance.[/quote]

We can only hope the GOP will leak some stuff about him. Or, Thune gets a backbone and demands to vote on the appointees and strikes him and Gabbard down. [/quote]

I'm the PP - I think at least one of the three wackjob nominees will make it through. Gaetz already withdrew, so either Hegseth or Gabbard is getting through. Maybe both. I don't see Republican Senators standing up to Trump publicly and refusing to confirm, but only three have to vote no. Who has nothing to lose? If they do I think it would be against Hegseth. I don't think Gabbard is astute enough to figure out how to exercise any levers of power as DNI and we've had bozos in that role before so it wouldn't be a new thing.  [/quote]
You’re not including RFKJr on your list of wackjobs?[/quote]

The shorter list is, which of his nominees[i] isn't[/i] a wackjob[/quote]

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