Sneering Pete Hegseth Immediately Torn Apart in Confirmation Showdown

https://www.thedailybeast.com/sneering-pete-hegseth-immediately-torn-apart-in-confirmation-showdown/

49 comments

  1. I bet that guy could use a drink right about now.

    And maybe the comforting arms of someone other than his wife.

  2. Doesn’t matter. He will be confirmed. We are no longer a serious country.

  3. About the only way I **know** he won’t be confirmed is if he takes out a smoke, lights it up and then says into the microphone, “I was told there would be hookers and blow at this thing. Is there *not* going to be hookers and blow?”

    That might give a couple of Republicans pause.

  4. The right seems to be choosing people based solely on how hateful they are to the left. Just had a trumper tell me he wants pete because he will deepen the political divide..?

    Even without his clear political bias, that hes even being considered has taken this country down to depths we never thought possible.

  5. He could be drunk and assaulting a woman during the confirmation, while openly saying that he intends to purge the entire military and replace generals with trump loyalists in an effort to overthrow the constitution. republicans will *still* confirm him and conservatives will *still* insist that he’s the perfect candidate. And Susan Collins will still say “he’s leaned his lesson”.

    America as we knew it, is completely over.

  6. Republicans love sex offenders. The Republican Party of “family values”’ moral high ground is on a race to the bottom.

    In 1991, Professor Anita Hill took and passed a polygraph test for the Justice Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. She told the truth. Yet, Congress still voted in Thomas and we are paying for that to this day.

    Fast forward to the confirmation hearing of Brett Kavanaugh. Professor Christine Blakey Ford came forward with details of an assault by Kavanaugh 30 years ago. Her testimony was clear and believable. Congress still voted in Kavanaugh and we will pay for that decision for decades to come.

    Today we have the confirmation hearing of Pete Hegseth. Aside from the allegations of sexual assault, alcoholism and mismanagement, it is clear that Hegseth does not have the qualifications or character for the top Pentagon position. This was summarized well by one of the Ranking Members of the Armed Services Committee, Senator Jack Reed, saying why he will vote No to his confirmation.

    Republicans are in lockstep with Trump. He has demanded that his nominees be confirmed or else. And this includes nominees who will toe the line, loyalists, who will insert politics into every facet of operations, undermine the rule of law, and help consolidate power under the Executive branch. It is very dangerous for our country and it is very dangerous for national defense.

  8. This county has gone to shit, a legit banana republican at this point with blatant corruption.

  9. Doesn’t this guy have Nazi tattoos? Iron crosses. Is it illegal for a Senator to ask this guy to take off his shirt in the hearing? I want see happen.

  10. Sneering alcoholic rapist? If he cries he’ll get confirmed

  11. The man who was removed after yelling that Pete Hegseth is a misogynist was elderly and had what looked like a veteran hat (“I served in “insert armed conflict.”) I really appreciate him speaking up. True patriot.

  12. He is sneering because he knows that this process is already rigged in his favor. Every republicans will bend the knee to Trump and confirm this guy. And I bet a couple Dems join them

  13. In other words he’ll be confirmed before the end of the day.

  14. His shady ass is going to sneer his way right into confirmation. Why the hell should they care about the character of a puppet?

  15. Too bad it won’t amount to a hill of beans. There is no depth to the depravity that is the modern day conservative

  16. Hearing him say he wants the Department of Defense to be a “warrior culture” confirms he’s never read a book. Because historically “warrior cultures” were really, *really* into gay sex.

    Or maybe he had read a book and the DoD is about to get kinky.

  17. While Reed is right that Hesgeth has innumerable personal and conduct issues, it leaves out the fact that he is wholly *professionally* unqualified to run the Department of Defense. He spent time in the National Guard. Never attended a service academy. Never attended officer candidate school. Never earned a star. Never served in a role where he would advise or dictate policy

  18. Seriously why the heck is he even being considered ? That position is so very important. I just don’t understand why he is there at all.

  19. I lover that prior to the hearing, he thought it was a good idea to say that he’d promise to give up drinking if he got confirmed.

  21. It’s the face of a guy who knows he’s getting confirmed one way or another.

  22. If I’ve learned anything over the last 10 years, it’s that this is exactly what it takes for a republican to be confirmed to a crucial role in the US government.

  23. The one Republican senator from the beginning of the hearing wanted so badly to be seen by daddy orange fuckface that he was basically deep throating Hegseth on live TV. I kept smelling shit when he was talking from all the ass he was kissing.

  24. He could not balance a budget with 50 people….why the F is he considered for this job?

    and btw his own lawyer said he entered into a NDA for raping a woman.

  26. His answers are meaningless. They are all serial liars.

  27. He should be embarrassed but he’s too stupid to understand how ridiculous they’re making him look. He’s the definition of unqualified.

  28. But they’ll confirm him anyway. Loyalty to Trump is the only requirement.

  29. my lord and saviour Jesus Christ said it’s ok to cheat on my wives

  30. He said the military will return to being merit based….lol well except for the position he wants

  31. Why does a professed Christian want to lead an organization that specializes in killing? Isn’t one of the Commandments from the Hebrew God to Not Kill? If he is really a Christian wouldn’t he want to be helping less fortunate among us?

  32. This shit is infuriating. I’m watching it now. Too much Christianity. It’s like a revival.

  33. “he stands there and open book” just don’t ask him about the multiple NDAs signed on account of his employment and suits. Great guy to command our armed forces.

  34. They should have had an interlock device on his microphone as requirement to start the hearings

  35. Dude is BEGGING to be a war criminal. Ive never seen anything like this before

  36. America lost the cold war after holding parades to congratulate itself for winning

  37. If he’s confirmed this country is somehow even more of a joke

  38. It’s stunning to believe that this POS is even being considered for this position.

    True this country has always been full of it…but this guy?

  39. I’m watching this live. It’s disgusting how he answers the republicans and refuses to answer a single democrat.

    and now laughing at warren. i used to think republicans were separate from maga and trump to some degree. In reality they’re worse. This nation is on life support

  40. Torn apart, but will still be confirmed. We are so truly fucked.

  41. This is the guy that will deploy American troops on American soil against Americans.

    Great work MAGA.

  42. If the dems were trying to pass Pete Hegseth as defense secretary, how would the Republicans react? Do that.

  43. The amount of praising god and Jesus during this is terrifying. Be religious all you want, but stop bringing it into governance!

  44. In other news Trump is shit and every single person around him as well as his supporters are shit. Also Trump is a convicted rapist and felon.

  45. My favorite quote from his opening statement is that he “pledges to be a faithful partner to this committee.”

    Someone should ask his ex-wives about his pledges to be a faithful partner.

  46. I’m 63. I have never seen all of our government officials afraid of just one person. One nasty person. I wasn’t alive during the McCarthy era. Reading history reminds me of how one person (who lies so effortless) can bring government to their knees. Will we have another Senator Margaret Chase Smith?

  48. Just wait two days: “controversial secretary of defense pick confirmed along party lines”

  49. He will get confirmed and America will get what it deserves with an alcoholic, womanizing, unqualified white supremacist that will undoubtedly embarrass this country country repeatedly over the next 4 years.

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