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Anonymous wrote: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

+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

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:The front desk staff member she talked with after leaving the bar on the way to his hotel room stated that she was not intoxicated or impaired and was totally coherent as she went to Hegseth’s room with him.

She thought up this scheme a few days later.

It sounds like she was hounding a celebrity for attention and she got it. Then she took money from him three years later after she threatened to go to his employer with these fabrications.

Is this fake news from the left?

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Anonymous wrote:Regret does not equal rape. Say that ten times.

OK, done. Sex without consent equals rape. Say that ten times.

There is no evidence this was sex without consent

or with it

Actually there is. There is witness testimony she did not appear intoxicated and drugged at any point in the evening, video of her willfully walking to his room while smiling and laughing, and her husband testified she did not appear drugged or unusual when she climbed into their bed in her hotel room at 4am.

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Anonymous wrote:The front desk staff member she talked with after leaving the bar on the way to his hotel room stated that she was not intoxicated or impaired and was totally coherent as she went to Hegseth’s room with him.

She thought up this scheme a few days later.

It sounds like she was hounding a celebrity for attention and she got it. Then she took money from him three years later after she threatened to go to his employer with these fabrications.

Anonymous wrote:The front desk staff member she talked with after leaving the bar on the way to his hotel room stated that she was not intoxicated or impaired and was totally coherent as she went to Hegseth’s room with him.

She thought up this scheme a few days later.

It sounds like she was hounding a celebrity for attention and she got it. Then she took money from him three years later after she threatened to go to his employer with these fabrications.

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Anonymous wrote: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

+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

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.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Regret does not equal rape. Say that ten times.

OK, done. Sex without consent equals rape. Say that ten times.

There is no evidence this was sex without consent

or with it

That's not how things work to make someone guilty

Two people testify and you decide which is more credible. Testimony is evidence.

Under oath in front of a jury and applying rules of procedure and evidence.

Then the jury must make a finding based on instructions from the judge applying appropriate the standard of guilt.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Regret does not equal rape. Say that ten times.

OK, done. Sex without consent equals rape. Say that ten times.

There is no evidence this was sex without consent

or with it

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Anonymous wrote:Right wing apparatus is digging in.

That's Matt Walsh -- not exactly someone who reflects the attitudes of the average Republican Senator. And ultimately it doesn't even matter what they think if public sentiment turns on Hegseth. One think no one even talks about yet is what Hegseth would be like in confirmation hearings. This dude is smarmy and not that bright and it shows. He struggles with whatever passes for witty banter on Fox & Friends, he's not going to handle being questioned by dozens of senators over multiple hours on national television well. Even if they can get to hearings without public sentiment going way south, that footage is going to be brutal.

Anonymous wrote:Right wing apparatus is digging in.