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Repugnantcans don't govern, they collect paychecks from our tax money, grift, and hold hearings, most dems too unfortunately

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Here's a criterium for gubmint work. You can't have exhibited any behavior that would get you terminated from any hourly-wage job in this country.

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Susan Collins said she finds the allegations…can you guess?…”troubling.” It’s her job to vote with the GOP on everything, but to fret about it to prove she’s not a monster.

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I would have thought she'd say "concerning."

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These Trump nominees have more "x-es" than a best of three tic-tac-toe score sheet.

Hegseth’s lawyer, however, retorts that “These claims are clearly and obviously false to any objective observer."

Yeah, take it from the creep's lawyer, who is notoriously "objective".

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If these claims are obviously false, does he have witnesses available to counter those allegations that occurred in public?

Where's the affidavit stating that Hegseth never drunkenly danced with drinks and dropped them?

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What was the code word? Inquiring minds want to know!

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The fact that she needed a code word suggests that Hegseth regularly had control of her phone.

That's not a red flag.

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Something subtle, like "callthefuckingcops!!"

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"...obviously false to any objective observer."

Code for: Guys! Gotta stick together when the little b-word forgets to keep her mouth shut.

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I just heard Kara Swisher refer to Petey as a "DUI hire". LOL

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Yeah, but Petey can say 'Jesus' a lot, so all is forgiven.

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Some insecure men are doubling down on their toxic medieval views. No surprise there but men so obviously incompetent, to even manage their own behaviour along with ignorance and control issues just makes the US an even bigger laughing stock in the world. They haven’t even got laws that protect women and children being enforced yet. So the rest is just blah. So rude, irrelevant and backward it’s pathetic and nearly equally as bad as Dems role playing and erasing women as a class to keep women enslaved and as birthing slaves with no rights for free labour. Sickening that these incompetents are cosplaying at manly heroes.

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What a strange process. Dems cannot really stop any dangerously unqualified people from being confirmed, but they still go thru the motions of asking embarrassing questions while smug candidates brush off accusations and fail to answer basic questions about the job. Then they are confirmed. It feels hopeless, futile, even meaningless. Why create a record about Hegseth being an unqualified, abusive drunk? So that when he undermines national security to such a shocking degree that 1/2 of the military threaten to resign, Dems can say, “I told you so?”

And there is no relief in sight. I’m reading that Don Jr. is the leading GOP candidate for 2028 in many polls. If that’s not proof that the rapture is near, I don’t know what is. The bizarre, toxic obsession with the cult of personality that is Trump probably won’t die with him. And with Baron just 18, it probably never will.

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I can both smell him and feel how greasy he is from the picture. I think I have synesthesia.

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Unfortunately, pushing through unqualified people with personal problems is the point. They are terrible people hoping to change reality so that being an alcoholic liar who abuses women isn’t anything to be ashamed of, apologize for, or result in lost opportunities.

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In normal times, this allegation alone with end his nomination. But nothing matters anymore, and this won't do a thing to stop his coronation.

America needs an escape plan.

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Ta, Evan. Neither Hegseth nor Gabbard can be confirmed, ever.

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Neither *should* be but both *can* be

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I had my years with drunks but I didn’t have to spend time developing an “escape plan” Pete is not qualified for a job where he interacts with people. Shudder!

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He's getting confirmed. I would be shocked if he didn't. Let the shitshow(s) begin.

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