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This whole thing is based on one guy's speculation. Hegseth isn't going anywhere. Trump only wants one thing from Hegseth: to give the order to fire on American citizens, if and when the time arrives, and Trump knows Hegseth will do it. He doesn't care about any of the rest of it.
Did Pete leak this in a Signal chat?
Whiskey Leaks strikes again.
No, he's clean on opsec
The warning shot came from The Daily Beast’s Washington bureau chief David Gardner, who says the Pentagon boss’s tenure is on life support after months of missteps, messy leaks, and a media meltdown that has the press corps bolting from the building.
No one could have foreseen this kind of behavior from a raging alcoholic!
I know many raging alcoholics and only a few of them are as stupid as Leaky Pete.
How many of them are placed in positions of such power that they can even exercise the same amount of stupidity? If I say that someone should die, that's dumb, but nowhere as dumb as some influential person saying it, let alone a high-ranking official, let alone the official in charge of the designated people-killers.
To be fair, his vast experience as a Fox News host surely impacted his competence.
I will believe it when I see him gone.
Dude has survived so many colossal fuck ups that I’m convinced he’s staying forever
Now do RFK, Jr. before he kills the whole country.
Dr. Oz, you're up!
And Miller
And vought
And Brendan Carr.
~~Use~~ And my axe!
Why not Zoieberg?
He'll find more incompetent bootlickers for this kind of jobs.
This. He's already dug through the bottom of the barrel. And started scraping the bottom of hell.
Wait til you see what's under the barrel.
"We're totally against DEI hires, we demand that MERIT determine who gets chosen for a position. That's why it is my great pleasure to announce Barron Trump will be Hesgeths replacement at the Department of War."
Eric Trump starting to salivate
PS, for all those curious. These are stills taken from an actual video, and not AI generated
I don't know if I want to know, but... 🤦🏼♂️ Why is he wet? 🤢
Pete Hegseth, nominated by President Donald Trump for Secretary of Defense, is undergoing increased examination concerning his previous actions following the reappearance of a video from Fox News' All American New Year Live in 2023. In the footage, Hegseth, 44, is shown sipping champagne straight from the bottle and submerging himself in a tank allegedlyfilled with alcohol during the live transmission from Nashville.
FFS. 😶🌫️
You can see it in the article. He got sent down in a dunk tank, filled with champagne of all things.
"This is the quietest room I've ever seen."
That's the real reason Hegseth is being dumped.
"Damn it Hegseth, I thought you said we could convince the military to shoot the American citizens I don't like...I mean...antifa."
"I was sure calling them fat would work sir..."
"You're fired Hegseth! Now...who can I get that will be able to convince the military to shoot their own friends and families...can't be that hard."
I doubt that he's being fired for incompetence. For one, he was clearly never hired for competence. He was hired for being a familiar face and a sycophant like all the others. For another, he's far from the only incompetent and embarassing cabinet member in the regime. I think Pete got a bit too big for his britches for Trump. He's the only one in the administration that I think could actually get a fair amount of the MAGA cult to follow him personally after Trump's demise and would have been in a prime position to attempt a coup on Vance if and when that happens. Trump likely doesnt give a shit what happens after he's bounced from this plane of existence, but he might see Hegseth as a threat sooner rather than later.
A bit of both I'd say - the way the article characterizes it, and you.
I'm wondering if Trump is now at that stage (of senility) where straighter heads have it easier to steer him, or make better decisions in his name. Where people don't obey him whenever he shouts "You're fired!", or he doesn't do it so much anymore.
In any case, watching the MAGA monster baby grow up into a fully grown tyranny is pretty terrifying.
We are at the point where trying to look at things through the lens of competence vs. incompetence is just the wrong paradigm
Trump vowed to avoid the revolving door chaos of his first term, promising cabinet secretaries a full year to prove they could deliver. That grace period, Gardner suggested, is about to expire.
A FOX anchor is ill suited to run the DoD. Color me shocked. To avoid chaos you need to employ competent people I guess.
Who else will turn out to be useless.
But more importantly: who will they replace them with? It's not like MAGA is completely unable to learn from its mistakes.
Anyhow, I hope for more happy infighting!
Don't tickle my (metaphorical) balls here FFS get rid of the man
Frying pan > fire
'first to go'? Who wrote this lol there's been a few already.
The article actually specifies it’s regarding the major cabinet positions and that supposedly they were supposed to actually get a full year in position before he would start firing them, as opposed to his first term.
I would have thought the first to go were the three he nominated... but regardless you would think that when your hire someone, especially for such a position, that they stick around for more than a year huh
Newest purge just dropped.
Hopefully straight to the wood chipper.
Straight to the guillotine
Just have him and RFK switch places. Imagine Hegseth selling protein powder and RFK rambling about the sperm of soldiers.
I’m not sure how but you made me chuckle at this shit show. Good on you!!
At least the fat shaming makes more sense at HHS.
But, but, but - he was right out of central casting.
The problem here is they’re likely going to appoint someone more competent and psychopathic.
Competence is at odds with Trump's loyalty demands.