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Anonymous wrote:Marco Rubio, Mike Waltz, John Ratcliff, and Elise Stefanik are all fairly professional, competent, and reasonably good picks.

I wonder why the Trump administration chose to put such a lightweight as SecDef. It's the biggest, most powerful, most bureaucratic, most lethal organization in the history of humanity. And they put the weekend host of an entertainment show as the head of it? There has to be a secondary intent for having such weak leadership, because the undersecretaries and the generals are going to walk all over him. At this moment in time, if Hedgseth were to walk into the Pentagon in his National Guard uniform he'd be saluting roughly three quarters of the people he'd encounter in the hallways.

Because he just wants loyalists. He needs someone at the top who will help him purge the ones with ethics, professionalism, and loyalty to the constitution. This is how democracy dies, and fascism replaces it.

WHO was not a loyalist in the Biden administration?

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Anonymous wrote:Marco Rubio, Mike Waltz, John Ratcliff, and Elise Stefanik are all fairly professional, competent, and reasonably good picks.

I wonder why the Trump administration chose to put such a lightweight as SecDef. It's the biggest, most powerful, most bureaucratic, most lethal organization in the history of humanity. And they put the weekend host of an entertainment show as the head of it? There has to be a secondary intent for having such weak leadership, because the undersecretaries and the generals are going to walk all over him. At this moment in time, if Hedgseth were to walk into the Pentagon in his National Guard uniform he'd be saluting roughly three quarters of the people he'd encounter in the hallways.

Because he just wants loyalists. He needs someone at the top who will help him purge the ones with ethics, professionalism, and loyalty to the constitution. This is how democracy dies, and fascism replaces it.

WHO was not a loyalist in the Biden administration?

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Anonymous wrote:Marco Rubio, Mike Waltz, John Ratcliff, and Elise Stefanik are all fairly professional, competent, and reasonably good picks.

I wonder why the Trump administration chose to put such a lightweight as SecDef. It's the biggest, most powerful, most bureaucratic, most lethal organization in the history of humanity. And they put the weekend host of an entertainment show as the head of it? There has to be a secondary intent for having such weak leadership, because the undersecretaries and the generals are going to walk all over him. At this moment in time, if Hedgseth were to walk into the Pentagon in his National Guard uniform he'd be saluting roughly three quarters of the people he'd encounter in the hallways.

Because he just wants loyalists. He needs someone at the top who will help him purge the ones with ethics, professionalism, and loyalty to the constitution. This is how democracy dies, and fascism replaces it.

Anonymous wrote:Marco Rubio, Mike Waltz, John Ratcliff, and Elise Stefanik are all fairly professional, competent, and reasonably good picks.

I wonder why the Trump administration chose to put such a lightweight as SecDef. It's the biggest, most powerful, most bureaucratic, most lethal organization in the history of humanity. And they put the weekend host of an entertainment show as the head of it? There has to be a secondary intent for having such weak leadership, because the undersecretaries and the generals are going to walk all over him. At this moment in time, if Hedgseth were to walk into the Pentagon in his National Guard uniform he'd be saluting roughly three quarters of the people he'd encounter in the hallways.

Anonymous wrote:Good that he’s not just another general. We have so many of them running around we don’t know what to do with them all. But I’d prefer to have an experienced civilian with private sector experience running large organizations.

Anonymous wrote:Daddy's home. Get used to it.

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Anonymous wrote:Yet another guy who called for the US to bomb Iran. Trump is stacking his cabinet with war mongers.

Where are all the people who wouldn’t vote for Harris because wwIII?

We are definitely going to war with Iran.

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Anonymous wrote:Yet another guy who called for the US to bomb Iran. Trump is stacking his cabinet with war mongers.

Where are all the people who wouldn’t vote for Harris because wwIII?

Hopefully deeply ashamed that they fell for propaganda and were manipulated despite being warned.

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Anonymous wrote:The SecDef’s job is to manage a massive bureaucracy, not to say stupid shit on tv. There are at least a million people in the U.S. who are more qualified and better suited to the job than Hegseth. Nothing about him is qualifying. It is amazing that after all of his dumbassery, Trump can still prove that he is even stupider than we thought.

Trump’s agenda is to dismantle the federal government and burn it all down. He has always made this clear. Hiring loyal clowns is intentional. Competency is not required.

Everyone who voted for Trump, voted to destroy their country.

Or rebuild. Depending on your view

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Anonymous wrote:Yet another guy who called for the US to bomb Iran. Trump is stacking his cabinet with war mongers.

Where are all the people who wouldn’t vote for Harris because wwIII?

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Anonymous wrote:Yet another guy who called for the US to bomb Iran. Trump is stacking his cabinet with war mongers.

Where are all the people who wouldn’t vote for Harris because wwIII?

Anonymous wrote:Yet another guy who called for the US to bomb Iran. Trump is stacking his cabinet with war mongers.

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Anonymous wrote:I get he wants to own the libs but can we not play around with national security? There isn’t a single republican general around to take this job?

Generals are perfumed princes. They are basically politicians. That’s it .

It's the Secretary of defense. If it's always a general or other top rank in that position, maybe it's important to have a skilled politician that also achieved a top rank in that role.

This. You need someone with political skill in that role because it's highly political and he has to hold his own with the President and politicians in Congress.

For the record, Trump appointed Hegseth for two reasons: he will be loyal to Trump and he "looks the part" (according to Trump). This is not some effort to upend tradition by putting a rank and file officer in the role. This is not a principled choice. It's idiotic.

Idiocy is the point, no? Trump wants his lackeys and he will get them. But so it goes. This is what America wants.