Pete Hegseth’s collapse is complete

So sad. I'm crying as I type.

Somebody's about to get sloppy drunk on Jack Daniels tonight.

R2, isn’t that every night, though?

Back to Fox News?

Nothing but the biggest. And BEST!

I knew he wouldn’t last. Haha

The second I read that Trump was claiming he was behind him 100% I knew it wouldn't be long before he'd be gone.

Now, on to that little savage Kashflow Patel.

Golly. Who'd have ever thought that putting an alcoholic Fox News talking head with zero leadership experience into arguably the most important and critical cabinet post in the United States would turn out to be a mistake?

Kashflow's been rather quiet over at the FBI and hasn't done anything too controversial, yet. He seems ok - for now.

I'd love to see Barbie Bondi replaced, by someone competent.

Heh. Heh. Heh.

R9 Someone competent being nominated by Trump?

Dream on.

And everything seemed to be going so well of late!

What really bothers me about all this is not Hegseth but our US Senators.

Despite being Republican, not all 51 who voted for him were idiots. This is more a failure on their part than his. Same for RFK.

I just read that fox is spinning this as a plot against Hegswhatshisface.

R12: The kids’ faces say it all.

That hangover is gonna be epic.

[QUOTE]Kashflow's been rather quiet over at the FBI and hasn't done anything too controversial, yet.

He's been using FBI jets to attend hockey games and visit his "girlfriend."

Will FOX take him back?

[quote]Despite being Republican, not all 51 who voted for him were idiots.

The facts belie your words.

I'm absolutely delighted to see the complete failure and humiliation of Hegseth. Musk also is on the run and failing. Looking forward to the collapse of so many more of these cruel dummies.

Any wagers on whose ouster will come after his?

We wanna go live with our aunt and uncle.

GURL BYE!

The former Pentagon spokesman (and former friend/associate of Hegseth's) who wrote the Politico article published last night said to expect more bombs this week.

Is anybody going to put heat on the senators who voted to approve him? Will he be accused of committing perjury? This was all very preventable. The press needs to put their feet to the fire.

He’s definitely still a drunk btw. I know it when I see it.

Be prepared for a slew of "liberal witch hunt" headlines from Fox and Newsmax and Marjorie Trailer Cunt and BoBo the Clown after Hegseth is ousted.

I bet the biggest bombshell is going to involve the wife making his decisions for him

That would definitely make Trump ditch him

It's probably gonna come out that he was drunk off his ass at cabinet meetings.

At least every single Democratic and Independent senator voted "no" on his appointment.

Now they can tell the Republicans to fuck off when it comes to future nominees.

"At least I can start drinking again!"

Republicans Collins, Murkowski, and McConnell voted against Hegseth.

R31 I was very concerned about nominating Hegseth. I think he's learned his lesson.

He had a hot drunk ass, but he couldn't stay employed forever

I'll believe it when it happens. However, if it does, I won't mind.

Please take Ron DeSantis out of Florida! Maybe this SecDef could be his demise, as well! Just sayin'.

We hate you Pete. Stay down!

That meltdown in front of his kids was Shakespearian.

When he's gone, it's time to get rid of RFK jr

R38 Maybe RFK JR will have a cerebral hemorrhage like Francis.

I hope this is true. I had him in the pool.

R40 Was he wet and wild?

fucking drunk whore

How many Scaramuccis has he lasted?

Re-tweeted by Scaramucci

[quote]NPR disclosure: Katherine Maher, the CEO of NPR, chairs the board of the Signal Foundation.

"I want her to know it was me"

Hegseth's own mother essentially called him a piece of shit.

🥃 🚬

"Hey, I didn't kill the Pope....at least give me that!"

Around the 50 sec mark you can see some of his kids getting embarrassed. The skinny boy in the black blazer and the girl in white sweater look like they want to find a hole to crawl into. Those two kids have probably wised up about their dad

R49 Something tells me they’ve seen dad act like that before.

KEGSETH!

This photo is priceless and sad. The children are old enough to notice and fully understand the difference between drunk/lit dad and dad deprived of alcohol.

Wow his kids look haunted

In 2025, the entire Republican party is a Russian asset, and their tendency to harm, betray and embarrass their own people is no mistake.

How many damn kids does he have?

Why is this surprising? The Department of Defense is in chaos, and anyone sane or competent has resigned or been fired. His work is done - Putin must be thrilled.

I feel bad for his kids.

I hope Pete doesn't make fun of the chubby one, because I can totally see him doing that.

“We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within”.

- Nikita Khrushchev,1956

[quote] The second I read that Trump was claiming he was behind him 100% I knew it wouldn't be long before he'd be gone.

A statement that Trump is "standing strongly behind" someone is a death knell.

This sucks. He provided endless embarrassment for Dump. Hopefully he picks another Fox News charlatan. God forbid he gets a real SecDef that makes him look good.

Sorry, you're having a bad day, Pete.

Just come to me and everything will be better. I'll take care of it all.

Come back to me, where you belong.

Jeanine Pirro IN as SecDef.

The fact Pete doesn't know when to shut up ...

No doubt the chubby kid dying of second hand embarrassment in the picture is often bullied by drunk dad who still thinks he's a stud and his children should be too. No fatties in the Hegseth home.

He's an obnoxious asshole when he's sober, can you even imagine what he must be like when he's drinking? Good lord.

[quote] He's an obnoxious asshole when he's sober...

He didn't really seem sober.

I hope the administration doesn't act too hastily. There may not be another alcoholic white male qualified to fill the position.

R49 See R22

[quote] The second I read that Trump was claiming he was behind him 100% I knew it wouldn't be long before he'd be gone.

You have to be 100% behind someone if you're going to stab them in the back.

Has he ever been fully sober? He sounds like a maintenance drinker. They guy had empty beer cans in his Fox office waste paper basket. I very much doubt he's been professionally detoxed. Probably trying to white knuckle it at home with the help of benzos. That doesn't usually work out at all, especially with the levels of stress he's under.

and I didn't steal Kristi Noem's handbag goddammit!

Hegseth? I think he was the Cofefve boy right?

There is something really creepy about the way all those kids formed a line behind him. And they all looked uneasy.

Imagine being paraded around by a drunk wannabe macho man and his robo-wife. I hope the family has enough cash for all the therapy they will need .

The boy on the left reminds me of what “Drew Bree’s’ ugly son” looks like now.

More about “Drew Brees’ ugly kid”:

I meant to write “Drew Brees’ ugly son” at R75.

Unless there is indeed more crap coming down the pike, I can't see Trump shit-canning him just yet. He's too stubborn to show he made a mistake with this fuck-up.

Maybe one more fuck up before they fire him.

Impressive stamina.

I think these 4 fired DoD staffers are going to finish him off.

Divorce #3 incoming.

And supposedly there’s more coming this week lol.

Tim Miller says even bigger scandals are about to drop.

R78: "I gave him a chance, but he couldn't handle the job."

If he swims across the Hudson river in his underwear and then plants a US flag at/around monument X might it make a difference?

Womp fucking womp, fucking Nazi cunt!

[QUOTE] Unless there is indeed more crap coming down the pike, I can't see Trump shit-canning him just yet. He's too stubborn to show he made a mistake with this fuck-up.

Hopefully Trump stays with him. I want scandal after scandal, all to be investigated by congress when the Dems take over after the midterms.

Will Fox weekend take Hegseth back?

There was no rotten egg meter at the ridiculous Egg Roll today (a la Willy Wonka/Veruca Salt)?

Where are all of the "Pete Hegseth is hawt" trolls? Presenting hole for Petey-boi down at Duffy's Tabern?

He can go be hot back on his old job on a crazy TV show. He needs to be out of there asap. Complete embarrassment.

Crisis of confidence

It looks like Jesse Watters's moment has finally come.

I didn’t visit the Oval Office this week for nothing…

[quote] Be prepared for a slew of "liberal witch hunt" headlines from Fox and Newsmax and Marjorie Trailer Cunt and BoBo the Clown after Hegseth is ousted.

But that would imply that Trump is the kind of weak fool that would fall for a liberal witch hunt.

Actually, you know what, run with it.

Holy moly that clip is massively embarrassing - like a whole new level of embarrassing

Get me Kid Rock on the phone!

I worked as a bartender after college and had many day shifts.

That clip at r49 is definitely "maintenance drinking." I saw plenty of guys who wouldn't get day drunk but would need a couple of screwdrivers or something to function before they would drink that night.

All of this administration is incompetent, and at worst some are both incompetent and incontinent. Horrible combo.

His kids are Guiduce level ugly

So ... like ... does this mean the Senate will grow a spine after confirming him?

Has he no awareness that he’s excoriating the media when is was a member of said media?

I could totally see Pete Hegseth as a Patrick Bateman-type psycho killer.

That Easter Day interview will rank as one of the greatest deployments of family members to salvage a political career, along side this one

My life experience has given me excellent radar for drunkenness and boy was Hegseth drunk in that clip. No doubt about it.

I think he's learned his lesson.

R107 is not R32.

I missed that R108. Womp womp.

I can only imagine the shit those poor kids have seen/heard through the years, and hope they have good support structures in place, cuz Pete is now possibly fundie and crazy and drunk and now not looking good at job security.

Id still like to see him naked . I bet hes one of those mean fucks . I bet hes hung too .

^Gross.

He'll have no problem finding work with Saudis or Kazakhs or whomever. Who knows how much information he's already stolen or stored on his personal devices.

“Why did you call that lady a bitch, you only call mom that!”

He's not even hot for the dumbasses that think the gays would lust after this asshole. He's greasy and dirty and gross. DL gays prefer a strapping Adam K, an actual fighter pilot, who served and is naturally hot. Not forced butch hot.

Kinzinger is miles sexier than this phony.

Fox should team him with Jesse Watters and they can compare manliness and dick size.

Yeah Kinzinger is the man but I’d rather he stayed in office. He admitted he was fearful for family but we’re all targets these days.

If President Trump fires Secretary Hegseth, it's part of a master strategy. Our wonderful President always plays 4D chess!

Kinzinger and Liz Cheney would have both had cabinet positions in a Harris presidency. That would have done so much good.

I think he’s hot but I’m physically attracted to slimy psychopaths. It’s part of my daddy issues.

R121 is one of those that wants Nick Bosa and Kid Rock to fuck him senseless and call him dirty faggot the whole time.

He's not unattractive, but there is no way he has a big dick. There are way too many small dick red flags attached to Mr. Hegseth.

Nobody wants kid rock to fuck them.

R121-same here. I wanna see the dick of this sleazy trump sucking piece of shit.

I feel sorry for his kids to have such a pathetic father. The one older boy tugging at his hair in helpless shame of his embarrassing parent. Kids of alcoholics live in constant uncertainty and fear-written all over the faces of his children.

Was going to make a joke about video of Hegseth’s ‘’No Neck Monsters’’ but now I really feel for his poor children living with an active-allegedly abusive alcoholic. They seem so scared and confused.

R84 you say Tim knows something? Please tells us?

He’s an STI Petrie dish

I believe Hegseth is in fact quite hung. That’s all he has to give him this ‘’cocky confidence’’ when he is really a total incompetent-fuck on loser.

...but what about her emails...

R127, save your sympathy. They’ll be DUI/date rapist/Do you know who my father is?! teenagers in the next 10 years.

There is nothing attractive about the greasy hair

Says the guy who worked for a network that had to pay a gazillion dollars for lying. He DEF hate fuck eligible.

Those kids, tho.

His kids and Tori Spelling's kids should start a support group.

I was under the impression he grew up in a wealthy family, but apparently a middle class one. That explains the cosplaying of what he thinks a richie should dress like. His stupid suits and pocket hankies. Just underscores what a deeply insecure asshole he is. Watching his public humiliation is delicious and looking forward to more of the same for all MAGA hires.

When we win Congress next year in a landslide, which is going to happen, all hell will break loose. Investigation after investigation of these scum bags, many of which will result in criminal charges. Trump and his minions will get increasingly departed in the lead up to 2026 and watch the circular firing squad, which is just beginning. Sun Tzu was correct: if you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of our enemies will float by

Believe it when I see it.

Hegseth wears a lot on make up. Great video-Petey and the kids!

Looks like Pete is safe. Great news for the opposition. Let the Pentagon fuckery proceed. What will he do next?

Tue morning NYTIMES:

Under Hegseth, Chaos Prevails at the Pentagon

The defense secretary’s inner circle is in disarray, and distrust is growing among civil servants and senior military officials.

No way Trump will cave until he absolutely has to.

R110 & R126, I suspect they go to a religious school where they're taught to "Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother." Imagine what [italic]that[/italic] must be like!

He looks so cute in the Times photo

A dab of more Brylcreem & some Ladybugs G poosie, will help Hegseth rebound.

You fuckersh ain't sheen the lasht of me!

He's day drinking

Seven. He has seven children. By three different wives, at least two of whom he allegedly punched. Family values, or maybe it's just Teutonic Knight family values.

[quote]Seven. He has seven children. By three different wives, at least two of whom he allegedly punched.

Amateur. You're not a real man until you don't even know how many spawn you've produced.

Only four of the seven kids are Hegseth's bio kids. Hegseth didn't have kids with his first wife. He has three sons with his second wife. Hegseth and the third wife Jennifer only have a daughter together. The other two boys and the other girl are the third wife's kids from a previous marriage.

[quote]Only four of the seven kids are Hegseth's bio kids. Hegseth didn't have kids with his first wife. He has three sons with his second wife. Hegseth and the third wife Jennifer only have a daughter together. The other two boys and the other girl are the third wife's kids from a previous marriage.

The habits of breeders are both appalling and uninteresting.

I'm ready for DL's wrath, but I do want to see that dick.

[quote]Hegseth and the third wife Jennifer only have a daughter together.

Who was conceived (and born) while Whiskey Pete was still married to wife #2.

That one poor kid looks scared and about to cry.

r121, you and every Trump voter.

I don't think he has a tiny dick. His issue is "just" that he's a horny sadist and psychopath.

Elon, otoh, definitely has a tiny one.

Mute the audio at R146 and you really notice it.

Are those two boys his bio kids because….

Actually, r147, he has "only" four bio kids. Three with his second wife with whom he had an adulterous affair while still married to the first wife (his high schoolsweetheart).

He impregnated his current wife while still married to the second wife who was simultaneously pregnant by her husband. He had two women pregnant at the same time. His current wife, while pregnant by Pete, was married and had three children of her own. That's where the 7 kids came from.

This is his current wife, the former Fox producer, who sat in on staff meetings and was privy to classified information. She looks like blonde on shit, seriously. Marjorie Taylor Greene looks like a fresh, femme daisy compared to this thing. FFS - these people get the faces they deserve.

But I thought he was really buddy-buddy with JEEBUS! HA. HA. HA.

[quote]Marjorie Taylor Greene looks like a fresh, femme daisy compared to this thing.

Only because she's always (when photographed) caked in thick makeup. Mrs. Hegseth (or whatever she calls herself) is bare-faced in the pic you linked. Plain-looking and haggard, yes, and the light-blonde hair does nothing for her, but MTG is rebarbative and a complete clown.

Beyond nebulous ideas like honor, integrity, and decency, all Americans should be concerned about how extraordinarily vulnerable the dysfunction in the Pentagon is making the country.

R160 - I guess the ultimate showdown is when both appear bare-faced to see who wins the ugly-inside-out contest.

I'm kind of shocked that Hegseth's wife showed up looking like that at the Easter Egg event knowing full well she'd be scrutinized. Does she want to look like shit for sympathy, a cry for help? Her sloppy appearance alone would give Trump a reason to shit can him. Trump’s that shallow. Maybe strategic on her part.?

"The habits of breeders are both appalling and uninteresting."

I am stealing this line.

That was for R150.

He claims he didn't wash his hands for 10 years because germs don't exist or some such shit. Imagine what poor anal hygiene lurks in his BVDs. Although maybe that's a bonus for Erna and the other scat lovers.

He looks like he doesn't wash anywhere. Greasy, snake lipped mofo

It's common for alcoholics to have poor personal hygiene.

R129 The only things he’s giving the ladies involves itching.

The frilly pink girly dress looks ridiculous with the just crawled out of bed face and hair.

Hegseth's wife looks like she is a drug user.

[quote]and I didn't steal Kristi Noem's handbag goddammit!

And I most certainly didn’t either!

[quote]Hegseth's wife looks like she is a drug user.

She looks like she's been beaten.

He gives me potential family annihilator vibes.

Hope Hicks, though hard-faced, was the only MAGA cow who looked and dressed reasonably well. Too much makeup, of course, but not as vulgar as the Loomers and Taylor Greenes in that circle of hell. Her time on the national stage (such as it was) was happily short lived, but she was a teenage model and at least picked up some fashion sense.

He hasn't been fired yet. Trump likes his Fox friends.

[quote] He gives me potential family annihilator vibes.

Yes, he's creepy as fuck. He reminds me of Robert William Fisher. Fisher was the Arizona guy who killed his wife and two kids and set the their house on fire. Fisher fled in his wife's car which was later found abandoned near a national forest. Fisher has never been found and some people think he offed himself somewhere in the wilderness.

His current wife reminds me of an uglier Kellyanne Conway.

And you thought then it couldn't get any worse!

Hegseth first two wives.

The woman in the pic on the left is wife # 1 Meredith Schwarz. She has cutesy feminine face. The second wife Samantha Deering is average looking, but she still looks a better than wife #3 Jennifer Rauchet. Jennifer's facial features are mannish, she has an ugly nose, and looks haggard.

The only woman who deserves sympathy is wife #1 Meredith. Pete cheated on her wife wife #2 Samantha and then Samantha got a taste of her own medicine. I hope Meredith is off somewhere living her best life and laughing at Pete and his messes he's gotten himself into.

He has ordered a makeup studio to be installed at the Pentagon. Such a butch manly man!

Gurleen!!!

Why hasn't Congress brought him in for questioning? Watch him fall apart in front of the cameras would be must-see TV.

They are in on the sham

Agreed, it's on them for pushing him through

R182 Congress brought in Pizza Face Gabbard and asshole Mike Waltz to testify regarding the Signal chat scandal. Why not Hegseth?

Whiskey Pete needs a few hours before he can just show up for a hearing

Just serve drinks at those hearings. That'll bring Petey-boi to the House.

What a wise use taxpayer dollars

He was fired from TWO high profile jobs because of his raging alcoholism and obnoxious, totally inappropriate behavior at public events. Anyone with that history wouldn't stand a chance of being hired to work in the Pentagon under normal circumstances, much less Secretary of Defense. He could not have been a more inappropriate choice.

What he really needs is a better blended toner

I remain convinced that the only reason Trump appointed him is because he has a man-crush on Hegseth. Trump projects his delusions of being a virile military man (in Trump's view) onto Hegseth and is living out a fantasy in his subconscious.

I can picture Trump whispering quietly "no homo" upon awakening from confusing dreams wherein he caresses and undresses Hegseth. Trump's ancient, shriveled loins are aflame with forbidden desire, but he shoves those feelings deep into the shadow of his subconscious.

r190 that's actually a pretty solid theory.

R184, I believe that they had been previously scheduled to discuss intelligence with the Senate, and, unluckily for them, it coincided in the wake of the Signal fiasco. Perhaps a DC Datalounger can confirm, but my guess is that Hegseth hasn't been hauled before the Senate because the Republicans are currently the majority.

R186 Open bar. Everyday, like a wedding. We all know he’d kill for that shit.

"Makep studio" being a euphemism for craft cocktail bar.

He wears the makeup in his relationships

R196 Maybe he likes that pegging thing.

Good makeup makes the man

At least he doesn’t apply heavy eyeliner like a whore like JD

I'm absolutely stunned that he was admitted to and graduated from Princeton. He demonstrates a third rate intellect.

Can 25 years of alcoholic drinking, the latter stages which almost certainly involved daily maintenance drinking, erode intellectual ability so that someone who once met Ivy League standards sounds so intellectually deficient?

There's clearly already a makeup studio in the West Wing. The Donald and The JD use it multiple times a day.

So, adding a makeup studio at the Pentagon will just give Petey and Donny more things to bond over.

"Petey, Have you tried the Lancome bronzer? It's superb."

"I'm rather fond of the Estee Lauder rouge, if I do say so, Don."

Somehow this Nazi-sympathizing clown is still in office.

He used Signal on his office desktop.

It’s the makeup

R202 - that surprises you?

Is Hegseth’s career dead yet?

At least Hegseth will be able to start drinking again…

[quote]At least Hegseth will be able to start drinking again…

Start? Don't you mean drink openly in public again.

When is this guy going to be officially declared toast? Is this loose lipped prick going to skate on his colossal misstep?

[quote] Is this loose lipped prick going to skate on his colossal misstep?

This also describes Trump.

Stick to your guns, Pete.

Trump doesn't have many standards, but he is a lifelong teetotaler and if it can be proven to him that Pete's a day drinker, he's not going to put up with that.

Haha.

It is his only virtue—he doesn’t tolerate drunks.

So will the Pentagon makeup studio still go ahead?

Maybe mac glam can get clearance

He ain't going nowhere. This is Trump 2.0 and he don't care what these clowns do as long as its anti-democratic.

It’s almost as if having unqualified people in top jobs causes major problems

His wife is trying to get a security clearance now. Why exactly does Mr. Butch Macho Man, who hates DEI so much, need wifey there to hold his hand and be privy to everything he does at work? Can you even fucking imagine the backlash if a Democrat was half as incompetent as he is?

Pete responded to the makeup room story in a (whiskey-fueled?) rant on X last night:

1. Totally fake story. No ‘orders’ and no ‘makeup’ — but whatever.

2) We should have installed tampon machines in every men’s bathroom at DoD instead – the leftist "news" media would have loved that.

"But whatever."

What a shit.

Tampons would have stopped leakage.

His incompetence is a feature, not a bug in this kakistrococy that is his ode to Putin

These people are kaka.

[quote] His wife is trying to get a security clearance now. Why exactly does Mr. Butch Macho Man, who hates DEI so much, need wifey there to hold his hand and be privy to everything he does at work? Can you even fucking imagine the backlash if a Democrat was half as incompetent as he is?

Someone upthread said that's unlikely that Hegseth has been professionally detoxed and it's also unlikely he's done any decent rehab for alcoholism. My theory is that the haggard looking wife is basically acting as a "cleaner/minder" that way she can find ways to cover up for him if he has been day drinking. She wants access to things he's privy to in case she has to remind him about shit he forgets/does remember due to the drinking. But, they have already fucked up with the Signal chat stuff and the wife doesn't seem all that bright either and will just continue fucking up alongside Pete.

^^ I meant to type "doesn't remember".

What a weak, pathetic cuck

I'll drink to that!

He’s a sloppy, sweaty drunk. Ew

Republican Studios is grooming him for superstardom, so it's not likely he's being discarded.

Are they still grooming him for superstardom? It seems more like he's flopping.

good riddance

I know I'm gonna get my ass kicked for saying this, but I would definitely do what I see @ R230.

"Grooming For Superstardom" is the name of my new beauty salon in the Pentagon,

Yeah bitches, WHATEVER!!

He's a drunkie, they are never good in bed. Probably can't get it up and if he smokes, no stamina

I'm not dead yet...

It is breathtaking how completely, totally unqualified this drunken stupid asshole was for being Secretary of Defense.

Now that he's pardoned the Jan 6 terrorists, Trump should have a long list of potential replacements.

There’s more! Unsecured internet servive!

BUT HER EMAILS

I think his firing is imminent. Trump ain’t liking all of this distractions one bit.

Oh, and his CoS was outright fired today in lieu of “moving elsewhere in the Dept.”

His response to all of this, particularly his jivenile denial about the makeup studio at r220, really underscores his lack of maturity. He functions like an adolescent. It lends credence to the idea that alcoholics development is stunted around the age they started drinking problematically.

He can't deal, that's why he drinks!

r243 I can attest to that. I've known quite a few people who began drinking in their teens/early 20s, and they were still stunted at that age many years later. I once dated a guy for a short while who was 35 but I quickly discovered that mentally he was still a college frat boy.

I'm guessing Pete, like Elmo and everybody else Donald's administration paid a sizeable bribe to be there. So they just get to hang on until they feel they've gotten their money's worth. Donald's brain is too full of holes to notice how fucked up things are getting.

His paranoia is on par with his maturity level. He threatened to hook up an Admiral and a Lt. Gen to a polygraph. What a way to build agency morale and loyalty!

Hegseth guaranteed his downfall by fucking with the brass. And going behind Trump's back to schedule intelligence briefings about China through Hegseth. The latter, I believe, is what really sealed both his and Musk's fates in the administration. Trump was livid about the disloyalty.

How on earth did he get into and meet Princeton's standards for graduation.

[QUOTE]1/ Ah yes, the classic good management technique of threatening subordinates with polygraphs because of your fuck-ups: www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

The Republican controlled congress is just as culpable if not more in all of this since most of them knew what a profoundly inappropriate choice he was but voted to confirm him anyway.

Totally, they have sat on their hands for the past three months

[quote] but voted to confirm him anyway

Not me! I was a bit *too* concerned.

He's still Secretary.

Why the hell does he like Signal so much?

The picture posted by R17 is a rare shot of Patel: the very first I’ve seen where he *doesn't* look like he wants to kill somebody.

[quote]Back to Fox News?

Yes, I can definitely see this and he'll be their defense expert anytime something happens and he'll comment, "back when I was secretary of defense", as if he had the job for 8 years, when he really only had it 2 months. His name probably isn't even on the stationary yet

At lunch today, the restaurant had on the mid-day local news, including a piece on him that was FAR from flattering stressing the chaos and doubts around him.

He yells a lot in the office. He’s a walking, talking subject for the At Work advice column

r252, he doesn't, the Kremlin does.

R253 that's because he looks like he wants that big white boy jock to bend him over right there and give him a stiff dick in his hateful ass.

Who is this "26-year-old country musician girlfriend" of his? Lez?

The point of Signal is that all texts and communications are wiped clean within two weeks. There is no paper or electronic trail, therefore no accountability when things go inevitably south. Only finger-pointing and blame left.

And no paper trail for all of the illegal shit they're doing R260.

The problem is that the U.S. Signal communications are not wiped clean by foreign powers who are laughing their asses off at the United States.

And it's just not our enemies It's every foreign power that has Trump & Co. have fucked over. Or any foreign power with a decent intelligence system which means all of or allies. They must be aghast and looking elsewhere amongst themselves to counter U..S. tyranny.

Every foreign power on earth knows the Pentagon is 1) a leaky sieve; and 2) up for sale to the highest foreign bidder.

Terrible

I'm not dead yet...

That's OK Pete, r264! If you are left unattended without alcohol, the withdrawals, DTs, and convulsions will do the job quick enough!

Proceed, Secretary Pete!

Can we all agree to stop calling them Conservatives? Let’s call these people out for what they really are — Russians. He’s working for Putin, as is the entire cabinet Dump picked.

America has fallen. There is no going back to the old America now. We might have a teeny tiny shot of building something again, but the battle will take multiple decades and won’t happen in my lifetime — and I’m only 52 btw.

R260 - nothing is ever "wiped clean" in today's world. Texts might appear "wiped clean" from your particular device and the devices of others, but they are most certainly not gone. People using Signal just can't access those texts once they're removed and stored elsewhere.

Which I said at r262, r267. It only attests to their lack of means ends, or any other thinking.

The most frustrating thing to me r266 is that absolutely none of this was a secret before the 2024 election. They told us exactly what destruction they were planning and these people’s ties to Russia have been apparent to anyone with a brain for years. And yet America said this is what they want instead of intelligent, serious, decent human beings running our country.

That's right, r269, and 99 out of 100 of the people who voted for Republicans or withheld their vote "to send a message" woukd still claim they made the right decision. Because pretending you know what you're doing is what passes for actually knowing in the US.

Send him to me, he can eat my ass out and spunk in my face.

Whatever r243!

Pete always hits back!! He’s amazing !!

Are they hoping for this story to go away because he’s still in his position

They are probably hoping that the media will get bored reporting on this story and it will die down. There's probably more that's going to be revealed over time because generals and other DOD employees are going to get fed up with Hegseth's bullshit and recklessness.

All the leaks are coming from Pete’s own people and supporters. As Jeffrey Goldberg noted tonight….thats not the way to lead.

Petey does make my poosie hot.

Not fired yet.

If even one more thing about Hegseth is revealed—and it will be—he’s got to be out.

It’s crazy that this talk show host is the head of all the uniformed services

What’s the hold up? He should be on life support by now.

🎵 A new religion that’ll bring to your knees! 🎵

He's put his adulterous wife's big tits up as portraits in Pentagon meeting rooms! Not shitting you!

R219 WE know DEI is an umbrella term, but THEY believe it ONLY refers to gays, people of color, and trans.

[quote]He's put his adulterous wife's big tits up as portraits in Pentagon meeting rooms!

Presumably to guilt him into not hitting on every woman he comes across in the Pentagon.

WTF. Why is his wife’s pictures on the Pentagon wall??

You just know, the entire Pentagon hates him

‘’Just one more drink’’

Roselyn Carter went to Carter’s first cabinet meeting and the press went wild.

Don't get me started on the outrage when Hillary took charge at healthcare cabinet meetings during Bill's first term.

It's five o'clock somewhere!

I figured that he would be thrown out with Friday’s trash.

I'm assuming he's not out yet because 1) either the story leaked or 2) someone at the Pentagon leaked it to get the rumor mill churning or 3) they're giving Trump enough time to be able to say I didn't really know this guy, I'm not sure who hired him.

Trump doesn’t care. He doesn’t have to anymore.

Sadly, I think the only way Hegseth will get shitcanned is someone ends up being killed due to his negligent handling of classified/sensitive info.

R295 Even then, the Republicans will blame it on the Democrats and DEI.

It seems like the transition team really didn't do any research into other potential candidates because Trump had his heart set on him from watching Fox. I assume they're doing now what should have been done then -- carefully vetting a few [italic]qualified[/italic] candidates -- because two back to back DoD disasters is intolerable and Trump’s staff know it if he doesn't.

This all makes me look forward to the disaster the military parade in honor of Trump’s birthday will be, if it happens.

[quote]This all makes me look forward to the disaster the military parade in honor of Trump’s birthday will be, if it happens.

Here's hoping the ratings are in the shitter so he has to lie ridiculously about them, inviting even more mockery. By that time, of course, his own poll numbers may be heading towards the 20s if he doesn't do something drastic.

Of course, he probably has a gambling problem, too.

[QUOTE]Hesgeth used his personal phone to log into a 4th-tier sports betting site -- and to relay real-time information about U.S. airstrikes.

He is the epitome of man child.

[quote] He is the epitome of man child.

Penultimate man child.

Eileen might be slightly higher.

What a fucking catastrophic shitshow the Pentagon is right now, less than100 days into that orange fuckface's term.

Maybe he switched from alcohol to uppers to get in orange’s good graces?

R303 is about Kasper.

I wonder if Pete's ever let a guy blow him when he's been drunk enough.

I see nothing wrong with cocaine use.

As somebody who has known many a cokehead the guy acts and talks like one. And many of them drink too much as well.

A lot of cocaine and alcohol abusers prefer drinking and admit they use coke to be able to stay awake and drink longer.

I'm confused: wouldn't fundamentalist Xians dislike that?

R310, "fundamentalist Xians" are anything but consistent. Double standards are their daily bread.

Tweet thread. This is mind-blowing.

This post got it wrong.

All pretty boy cokeheads have put out for blow at some point in their addiction.

❄️ 🍺 🥃 🍸

[QUOTE]This post got it wrong.

Which post got what wrong, r313?

Whatever I do what I want!

It's what you get with a DEI hire, Drunken Ex-military Incompetent

[quote] It seems like the transition team really didn't do any research into other potential candidates because Trump had his heart set on him from watching Fox.

Yes, he did. Hegseth is a white Christian nationalist whose limited military experience doesn't intimidate T-Rump. And he was the only person dumb enough to suggest on TV that he would mobilize the military to do Trump's bidding on U.S. soil.

[quote]Even then, the Republicans will blame it on the Democrats and DEI.

...and the Democrats will blame it on Chuck Schumer!

He's not going anywhere. Trump knows what Pete is up against. When you are dealing with the Pentagon you are going to be rip into shreds. I hope he takes a knife to that organization!

I'm all for the shit show continuing. We need a demoralized Pentagon and military.

R321 Oh, look an incompetent MAGAt defending incompetent MAGAts.

How precious.

[quote]Under Hegseth, Chaos Prevails at the Pentagon

CHAOS was Jim Mattis' USMC call sign. We should be so lucky as to have Mattis back at the Pentagon.

I think we’re stuck with this idiot until his incompetence gets American servicemen and women killed.

R325 Don't count on even something like that getting him kicked to the curb.

If people get killed due to Hegseth's incompetence, it won't matter to Trump or MAGA Republicans. They will just blame DEI and Democrats.

DUI HIRE!

He's not gone. He'll be there for months. I'm sick of reading how some flunkie's 'collapse is complete'. All of them - every one of Trump's cabinet - will be there for months.

I think he's going to last a year.

At least a year.

I'm still not dead yet...

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He slept his way to the top. So he and Duffy are probably competing for Ivanka's sugar.

Eew, R334, they're welcome to it!

Daily Beast: Pete Hegseth spends at least half of his time investigating leaks—and then working out with active-duty troops to appear competent despite the leaks, according to a former Pentagon aide. Trump’s defense secretary has reportedly become increasingly isolated and paranoid as news of Pentagon plans leaked, including details of military plans for the Panama Canal, the decision to pause intelligence gathering related to Ukraine, and Elon Musk’s visit to discuss China.

“I think it’s kind of consumed the team a little bit… If you look at a pie chart of the secretary’s day, at this point, 50 percent of it is probably leak investigation. Press. It’s that,” one of the fired aides, Colin Carroll, said during the latest episode of The Megyn Kelly Show.

R336 HEGSETH IS THE FUCKING LEAKER! HE'S the one putting attack plans on Signal!

For fuck's sake, he's the one who should be investigated.

Bret Stephens NYTimes 4/28

But I doubt the president will fire Hegseth, at least not anytime soon. First, because it would mean Trump admitting that he was wrong and that people like Mitch McConnell, who voted against Hegseth’s confirmation, were right. Second, because Hegseth’s manifest incompetence guarantees his loyalty to the president. Third, because Trump probably enjoys seeing Hegseth like this, hanging by a thread. Fourth, because for Trump no institution of government is sacred and having a clown like Hegseth atop the Pentagon drives home the message that there’s nothing in America he isn’t willing to trash.

: I forgot a fifth reason: Hegseth’s job is safe as long as he wears those well-tailored suits that Trump finds so handsome

I laughed reading this article. The Pentagon employees clearly hate the wife.

R339 Stinky linky.

Let it go. No matter what he does or doesn’t do dump won’t cut him loose.

R340 try this link

Every day that Hegseth is in charge, America is less safe.

We need to be calling our representatives and demanding that they do something. We need to be marching in the streets. We need to be demonstrating at the Pentagon.

The military voted for this shit, t343. Let them choke on it.

Collapse! Counting down in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ...

Pete's having another terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day:

An F/-18E Super Hornet assigned to the carrier air wing embarked aboard aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) was lost at sea during a towing incident in the hangar bay Monday, according to a Navy announcement.

The aircraft cost taxpayers somewhere between $66-$70 million.

The Secretary of Defense has learned a lesson.

R344 But their bad choices put we the people in danger.

I'd rather not die in a terrorist attack because of some drunk's fuck-ups.

A majority of American voters voted Republican last November, and no amount of Democrats marching in the streets is going to change the fact that this putrid gang is going to control all three branches of the federal government for at least the next two years. So they are going to have to suffer just like the rest of us.

R349 We'll wish we marched when a major urban location gets blown to smithereens.

r349 A majority of American voters did NOT vote Republican. The majority voted against Trump, but because that majority was split, Trump was declared the winner.

Probably given to Russia to reverse engineer R346. Treason is just a tool to these people.

On Hegseth’s watch 60 million dollar jet tumbled of USS Truman into the sea-Good!

He knows he has daily fuckups and is totally beholden to Trump. He's over a whisky barrel and Trump just released that nonsense about the military helping the police.