The Dems are so arrogant and sloppy that they believe their own bullshit. Pete Hegseth is a brilliant fellow, has written several intellectual books on military politics and history as well. A military thinker. A Princeton and Harvard graduate back when that meant something. I got to meet him several times at alumni events.
But no, people around town in LA, oh Haha Trump picked a "weekend Fox tv host" and "He's a Ken Doll." Refusing to see or respect the outstanding military competence and awards, his intellectual a bility, and his gift in articulating his knowledge and viewpoint that is reflected in this media career.
He's the real deal. He's an imperfect man, and the perfect candidate for the job. He will do our country proud and defend and strengthen our nation.
I loved it when Kane (I think) tried to call him out on his out of wedlock daughter, and Hegseth replied with, “you mean (her name and her age)?” with a look of fatherly pride on his face.
Yes, A, the odd combination of sexual license/Victorian morality pushed by feminism/the Left has puzzled me for years. Somebody(?) should explore contradiction in greater depth.
The embarrassingly histrionic display by those female Democratic senators certainly wasn’t a ringing endorsement for women maintaining their composure in the heat of battle was it?
Kirstin Gillibrand’s SCREECHING questioning of Hegseth was migraine inducing. She was overly emotional and shrill, “ohhh, you’re so mean and cruel with your hurtful words about women and moms in the military! You HURT their feelings!” Wah!
Obviously paraphrasing here but that was the basic gist of it. I’m guessing every single woman serving in the military cringed inwardly by Gillibrand’s emotional outburst and most were offended.
When she said it shouldn’t matter if you’re a liberal or a leftist when in battle, I was like oh hell yes it matters! Leftists tore down our cities during the summer of love and killed people. They are an enemy of this country IMO.
I was amused as I watched her neck turn red while screeching loudly. She definitely couldn’t handle herself in a pillow fight, much less the heat of battle, without crying.
Ms Hirono is on an exalted(?) shortlist of persons the continued re-election of whom (Maxine Waters, anyone?) make one seriously consider the possibility of an alternate universe with various flaws in the boundary. Or something.
Saw a clip of Maxine Waters on Chris Cuomo’s show last night screaming that the fires happened because the rich people don’t pay their fair share. Even Cuomo looked dumbfounded at her rant.
There are so many States that do. This is only 1 example. I am sure that more than half of the Senate and House are posers. The skill set to get elected has little to do with the skill set to govern. It goes all the way to the top. It is long past time we get rid of hereditary positions and take all this seriously. The lack of serious candidates is what Trump tapped into. The people of CA have just witnessed the wages of not being serious with tens of thousands of homes and businesses burned to the ground. Meanwhile they all laugh and joke as all their tax dollars go to homeless boondoggles, solar and wind farms, and high speed trains to nowhere. Someone needs to hone in on that and ride that horse. My other joke was that Trump could be the Governor of CA after he gets done with the Presidency...
There's an awful lot of reaction to Members of the female persuasion. And lo! Women outnumber men 7-6 on the D-side; R-side is 13-2 the other way if I counted correctly. This certainly suggests a few possibly interesting things. I'll just throw it out there.
Oh, and Pete's a decorate veteran of THREE different combat theaters. Facing a hostile panel of Senators for a few hours is child's play to him. Calm and cool under pressure and performing at the highest level.
OMG the migraine chorus X meme is all you’d need to see of this advise and consent process. Same shit, different male target. Forgot about Tim Kaine’s sanctimonious questions. Anybody else think Tim Kaine and Tim Walz are puppets from same family. Dems better skip VP candidates named Tim running with embittered female presidential candidates.
A friend of my daughter's attended undergrad at Georgetown and the summer after sophomore year she got an internship in the Senate. A sitting Senator (she described as in his 60s and married, of course) seduced her and gave her (a virgin) an STD. He told her he was putting meds in his wife's breakfast so she wouldn't get it. This meant that he was sleeping with at least three women. He was also described as his home state being in close proximity to DC. For Tim Kaine to bring up the affair Hegseth had when (as Mullins points out) so many of them have risky behavior at best and are egomaniacs at worst. Thank goodness for newer senators who are calling it like it really is!
The female Democrat Senators did not represent the female soldiers well. They lost control of their emotions and their behavior. In a combat situation this would be detrimental to their fellow soldiers.
I respectfully disagree. You are painting all women with one broad brush. The democrats senators are emotional and loud and screeching. Yes, they are all of those things but there are many women who are not like this. Please look again and perhaps broaden your assessment.
Agree, but unfortunately those ladies fit the stereotype. It was like watching propaganda against big roles for women in the military. Very uncomfortable for a viewer. They need to go back to school and learn poise and “elocution” the way coeds did in the 1940s! A big disservice to women everywhere.
Also a woman but would never apologize because the difference between conservatives and liberals was just beautifully displayed. We conserve, think, digest, respond. They are egomaniacs who are looking to grab headline and head nods from within. So I won't apologize because most women find that behavior abhorrent.
I don't think they were actually suggesting that all women are ineligible for combat. Instead pointing out that having these specific women, behaving as they were, was not helping the cause of trying to stand up for women in combat.
Whenever I watch rants like this, my brain screams "political theater!" That's all it is. And the (BAD) acting of these women was SO blatant. It's just sad.
Another great observation, Sasha. This is why Trump is raiding Fox News for his staff. He knows how good they are on screen. And Fox News loves Ivy League credentials. It is common for the FNS team to graduate from Harvard, Princeton and Yale, many with advanced degrees.
Mixed feelings. Spot on for the first half; no idea what the Ivy Leagueism and/or "advanced" degrees have to add. Those commodities have significantly depreciated.
Excellent point. Hopefully will have carryover effect to other Trump nominees as well. Kind of like the corrupt prosecutions of Trump and J6ers rallies support to them.
Hegseth is a Christian Zionist which means he believes God gave that land to the Jews 2500 years ago so the Palestinians don’t belong there and Israel can do whatever it wants to get rid of them which means it’s acceptable to use genocide/ethnic cleansing to do so. This is insane and evil. I agree with Glenn Greenwald and Norman Finkelstein that Israel is not a Jewish state. It’s a Zionist state. Big difference. Like the difference between night and day.
“Revealed: Trump’s Secret ‘Gift’ to Netanyahu For Finalizing Gaza Ceasefire.” (4 min)
I agree with Glenn on this point as well. There is a lot I disagree with the Republicans on, however, the Dems have gone full bat shit crazy and are just as corrupt. Biden has done nothing to help the suffering in Gaza and is arguably the worst president in my lifetime. At least the Republicans love our country and understand the difference between a man and a woman.
That’s rapidly changing though. It’s flat out insane for Israel and our government to think Israel can turn Gaza into rubble with 2,000 lb bombs and call it self defense while it’s all online for all the world to see that it’s genocide/ethnic cleansing. This is absolutely unsustainable.
Hi Seva, I hear you. I still hope and pray that Hegseth is the best option and that his first hand experience will minimize the risk of unnecessary human losses for us.
The military is badly in need of serious reform. Top heavy with to many Generals and Admirals complete with staffs to kiss their...over 1000 flag rank billets, might be a bit to much for the good old boy club.
DOD failed last 7 audits, maybe time to put someone in charge who's more focused on fighting ability than DEI.
Probably rankles the flag ranks that a major is going to be their boss.
Beta male Tim Kaine with his pink tie and talking about Hegseth’s personal life and whining about mistakes Hegseth made with women just shows that even the Democrat males are controlled by estrogen.
Democrats, particularly the women, came across as strident because they knew that Hegseth was going to get confirmed and there was nothing they could do to stop it.
As far as overall cabinet secretaries, all you have to do is look at some that were confirmed for Biden's government. It's difficult to even pick one who has an exemplary record, in the hindsight their history provides us. I can think of at least two that have been absolute disasters. Such as Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas and Transportation Secretary Buttigieg. So in one sense, the bar set by the Biden folks is quite low. Also, Congress needs to seriously examine and perhaps have to approve not just a Cabinet Secretary, but also the several people directly under them in the structure of that particular agency. These government institutions have become physically HUGE, with hundreds of thousands of employees. Our US military is over three million soldiers. All of this is to say that just as DOGE is poised for the next administration. The Trump government should take a hard look at the construction and the administration of these agencies, and of how these agencies are run. I mention DOGE because it's easy to see there are improvements to be made that most likely could save our Country many dollars.
It is just the beginning of the $hit shows to come. It's not a hearing for the Democrats. It is a stage. Instead of deference, their questions were shrill, biased and offensive. They were as disgusting as the people who helped to burn down LA and the looters too. We won't let their kind do it to our beautiful USA.
The Dems are so arrogant and sloppy that they believe their own bullshit. Pete Hegseth is a brilliant fellow, has written several intellectual books on military politics and history as well. A military thinker. A Princeton and Harvard graduate back when that meant something. I got to meet him several times at alumni events.
But no, people around town in LA, oh Haha Trump picked a "weekend Fox tv host" and "He's a Ken Doll." Refusing to see or respect the outstanding military competence and awards, his intellectual a bility, and his gift in articulating his knowledge and viewpoint that is reflected in this media career.
He's the real deal. He's an imperfect man, and the perfect candidate for the job. He will do our country proud and defend and strengthen our nation.
This is a Morning Joe kind of morning.
I'm sure Joe will explain why this version of a committee meeting is the best fucking version of all Democrat committee hearings.
BTW, it’s Morning Mika now. Joe is just her appendage eunuch.
"And if you don't like it, eff you!"
I loved it when Kane (I think) tried to call him out on his out of wedlock daughter, and Hegseth replied with, “you mean (her name and her age)?” with a look of fatherly pride on his face.
I wish someone had brought up Congress's slush fund for paying off sexual assault and illegitimate baby claims. That would have shut them up.
Yes, A, the odd combination of sexual license/Victorian morality pushed by feminism/the Left has puzzled me for years. Somebody(?) should explore contradiction in greater depth.
The democrat party is an unserious, nonsensical party full of ignorant hypocrites.
or transing sexuality, alphabet diversity in schools and every sexual perversion known to scrotum carrier/birthing person
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Well said Rebecca. He has an excellent record of academic and military experience to which we can all respect.
The embarrassingly histrionic display by those female Democratic senators certainly wasn’t a ringing endorsement for women maintaining their composure in the heat of battle was it?
Kirstin Gillibrand’s SCREECHING questioning of Hegseth was migraine inducing. She was overly emotional and shrill, “ohhh, you’re so mean and cruel with your hurtful words about women and moms in the military! You HURT their feelings!” Wah!
Obviously paraphrasing here but that was the basic gist of it. I’m guessing every single woman serving in the military cringed inwardly by Gillibrand’s emotional outburst and most were offended.
When she said it shouldn’t matter if you’re a liberal or a leftist when in battle, I was like oh hell yes it matters! Leftists tore down our cities during the summer of love and killed people. They are an enemy of this country IMO.
If they can get their feelings hurt with words being slung at them, how will they deal with bullets flying at them?
I was amused as I watched her neck turn red while screeching loudly. She definitely couldn’t handle herself in a pillow fight, much less the heat of battle, without crying.
Rooster for the win. 🇺🇸
They actually accomplished a lot, they made him look brilliant,
Nope
They did disgrace themselves, esp that Hawaiian senator. She takes the cake
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Hirono is always embarrassing herself
God bless Tulsi. Await her confirmation and being asked a question by this drongo.
Amr
And Mullins hit the grand slam with his evisceration of little Timmy Kain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE3QhO7Ii-U
Dumbest Congresscritter and that's a high bar.
Ms Hirono is on an exalted(?) shortlist of persons the continued re-election of whom (Maxine Waters, anyone?) make one seriously consider the possibility of an alternate universe with various flaws in the boundary. Or something.
Saw a clip of Maxine Waters on Chris Cuomo’s show last night screaming that the fires happened because the rich people don’t pay their fair share. Even Cuomo looked dumbfounded at her rant.
Yes, “Democrats came off once again as too unhinged to lead.”
The very best Hawaii can produce.
Hawaii is a lovely state. It's too bad it has such an awful senator.
There are so many States that do. This is only 1 example. I am sure that more than half of the Senate and House are posers. The skill set to get elected has little to do with the skill set to govern. It goes all the way to the top. It is long past time we get rid of hereditary positions and take all this seriously. The lack of serious candidates is what Trump tapped into. The people of CA have just witnessed the wages of not being serious with tens of thousands of homes and businesses burned to the ground. Meanwhile they all laugh and joke as all their tax dollars go to homeless boondoggles, solar and wind farms, and high speed trains to nowhere. Someone needs to hone in on that and ride that horse. My other joke was that Trump could be the Governor of CA after he gets done with the Presidency...
Tammy Duckworth makes Dick Durbin look like Pericles.
Really, folks, if you jettisoned Illinois out of the union, I couldn't blame you one bit.
Hey, don't forget, Hawaii also gave us Tulsi... so there's that...
There's an awful lot of reaction to Members of the female persuasion. And lo! Women outnumber men 7-6 on the D-side; R-side is 13-2 the other way if I counted correctly. This certainly suggests a few possibly interesting things. I'll just throw it out there.
It's always those those crazy, hazy Mazie days of summer in Hawaii...
Oh, and Pete's a decorate veteran of THREE different combat theaters. Facing a hostile panel of Senators for a few hours is child's play to him. Calm and cool under pressure and performing at the highest level.
OMG the migraine chorus X meme is all you’d need to see of this advise and consent process. Same shit, different male target. Forgot about Tim Kaine’s sanctimonious questions. Anybody else think Tim Kaine and Tim Walz are puppets from same family. Dems better skip VP candidates named Tim running with embittered female presidential candidates.
The name Tim is going to go down beside the name Karen in meme world
I wouldn’t love that for obvious reasons. I’d rather be associated with that enchanter fellow from Monty Python.
A friend of my daughter's attended undergrad at Georgetown and the summer after sophomore year she got an internship in the Senate. A sitting Senator (she described as in his 60s and married, of course) seduced her and gave her (a virgin) an STD. He told her he was putting meds in his wife's breakfast so she wouldn't get it. This meant that he was sleeping with at least three women. He was also described as his home state being in close proximity to DC. For Tim Kaine to bring up the affair Hegseth had when (as Mullins points out) so many of them have risky behavior at best and are egomaniacs at worst. Thank goodness for newer senators who are calling it like it really is!
Wouldn't puppets be from the same shelf?
The female Democrat Senators did not represent the female soldiers well. They lost control of their emotions and their behavior. In a combat situation this would be detrimental to their fellow soldiers.
Frankly, the female democrat senators showed why women are completely unsuited to combat roles.
Exactly my point.
I respectfully disagree. You are painting all women with one broad brush. The democrats senators are emotional and loud and screeching. Yes, they are all of those things but there are many women who are not like this. Please look again and perhaps broaden your assessment.
Perhaps you are right. I would have been more comfortable with the assessment had he used ‘some’ women.
Agree, but unfortunately those ladies fit the stereotype. It was like watching propaganda against big roles for women in the military. Very uncomfortable for a viewer. They need to go back to school and learn poise and “elocution” the way coeds did in the 1940s! A big disservice to women everywhere.
Also a woman but would never apologize because the difference between conservatives and liberals was just beautifully displayed. We conserve, think, digest, respond. They are egomaniacs who are looking to grab headline and head nods from within. So I won't apologize because most women find that behavior abhorrent.
I don't think they were actually suggesting that all women are ineligible for combat. Instead pointing out that having these specific women, behaving as they were, was not helping the cause of trying to stand up for women in combat.
I agree. Call me whatever you want but I don’t believe women should be in combat roles. I want my mom to fight for my country in other ways sorry…
It would be deadly.
Whenever I watch rants like this, my brain screams "political theater!" That's all it is. And the (BAD) acting of these women was SO blatant. It's just sad.
Another great observation, Sasha. This is why Trump is raiding Fox News for his staff. He knows how good they are on screen. And Fox News loves Ivy League credentials. It is common for the FNS team to graduate from Harvard, Princeton and Yale, many with advanced degrees.
Mixed feelings. Spot on for the first half; no idea what the Ivy Leagueism and/or "advanced" degrees have to add. Those commodities have significantly depreciated.
What those fools did was guarantee that no republican could vote against Mr. Hegseth.
Excellent point. Hopefully will have carryover effect to other Trump nominees as well. Kind of like the corrupt prosecutions of Trump and J6ers rallies support to them.
Four of my brothers and I served active duty US military and we support Hegseth.
Hegseth is a Christian Zionist which means he believes God gave that land to the Jews 2500 years ago so the Palestinians don’t belong there and Israel can do whatever it wants to get rid of them which means it’s acceptable to use genocide/ethnic cleansing to do so. This is insane and evil. I agree with Glenn Greenwald and Norman Finkelstein that Israel is not a Jewish state. It’s a Zionist state. Big difference. Like the difference between night and day.
“Revealed: Trump’s Secret ‘Gift’ to Netanyahu For Finalizing Gaza Ceasefire.” (4 min)
Hindustan Times. Jan 15, 2025
https://youtu.be/Lc-JKP9DHoY?si=vsqshNZT-3cisEtM
Norman Finkelstein: “Israel Is A Crazy State.” (14 min)
Glenn Greenwald. Sept 24, 2024
https://youtu.be/fCwFE7sxMIg?si=Lxc01QKJbWmHQsSe
I agree with Glenn on this point as well. There is a lot I disagree with the Republicans on, however, the Dems have gone full bat shit crazy and are just as corrupt. Biden has done nothing to help the suffering in Gaza and is arguably the worst president in my lifetime. At least the Republicans love our country and understand the difference between a man and a woman.
The sad truth is no one will be allowed a position in the MIC/Security State unless they pledge allegiance to Israel. Been that way for decades.
That’s rapidly changing though. It’s flat out insane for Israel and our government to think Israel can turn Gaza into rubble with 2,000 lb bombs and call it self defense while it’s all online for all the world to see that it’s genocide/ethnic cleansing. This is absolutely unsustainable.
I agree
Hi Seva, I hear you. I still hope and pray that Hegseth is the best option and that his first hand experience will minimize the risk of unnecessary human losses for us.
Wow 😮
The military is badly in need of serious reform. Top heavy with to many Generals and Admirals complete with staffs to kiss their...over 1000 flag rank billets, might be a bit to much for the good old boy club.
DOD failed last 7 audits, maybe time to put someone in charge who's more focused on fighting ability than DEI.
Probably rankles the flag ranks that a major is going to be their boss.
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Beta male Tim Kaine with his pink tie and talking about Hegseth’s personal life and whining about mistakes Hegseth made with women just shows that even the Democrat males are controlled by estrogen.
A Tim Walz kind of guy who represents the “new masculinity “ perfectly. It’s gross.
As a resident of VA, I'm ashamed he is my senator. Really disappointed my fellow Virginians didn't unseat him last November.
What a spectacle! The DemonRATS as usual were unhinged and Hegseth was cool as a cucumber! His performance was spectacular! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Democrats, particularly the women, came across as strident because they knew that Hegseth was going to get confirmed and there was nothing they could do to stop it.
Some women just do strident. It's a self-defeating characteristic.
BREAKING: Headline courtesy of the Babylon Bee:
Pete Hegseth Awarded Silver Star For Enduring Roomful Of Hysterical Women
https://babylonbee.com/news/pete-hegseth-awarded-silver-star-for-enduring-roomful-of-hysterical-women
Whee!
As far as overall cabinet secretaries, all you have to do is look at some that were confirmed for Biden's government. It's difficult to even pick one who has an exemplary record, in the hindsight their history provides us. I can think of at least two that have been absolute disasters. Such as Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas and Transportation Secretary Buttigieg. So in one sense, the bar set by the Biden folks is quite low. Also, Congress needs to seriously examine and perhaps have to approve not just a Cabinet Secretary, but also the several people directly under them in the structure of that particular agency. These government institutions have become physically HUGE, with hundreds of thousands of employees. Our US military is over three million soldiers. All of this is to say that just as DOGE is poised for the next administration. The Trump government should take a hard look at the construction and the administration of these agencies, and of how these agencies are run. I mention DOGE because it's easy to see there are improvements to be made that most likely could save our Country many dollars.
Just. Stop. The congressional sausage factory can do enough damage at the cabinet secretary level, thank you very much.
It is just the beginning of the $hit shows to come. It's not a hearing for the Democrats. It is a stage. Instead of deference, their questions were shrill, biased and offensive. They were as disgusting as the people who helped to burn down LA and the looters too. We won't let their kind do it to our beautiful USA.
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