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Why would you hire a clueless, unprincipled TV host to be your Secretary of Defense?

Because he won't push back when you hand him a set of policies that look suspiciously like they were drafted by the Kremlin.
hachyderm.io/@jrefior/11400369

"In 2004, Hegseth married Meredith Schwarz, a graduate of Forest Lake Area High School, at the Cathedral of Saint Paul in Minnesota; they were voted 'most likely to marry' by their graduating class. Meredith filed for divorce in December 2008 after Hegseth admitted to five affairs; he had been dating Samantha Deering, whom he had met at Vets for Freedom. Deering married Hegseth in 2010, with whom he has three children, though they filed for divorce in 2017. In 2019, Hegseth married Jennifer Rauchet, a producer on Fox & Friends, at Trump National Golf Club Colts Neck in New Jersey, in an event attended by the Trump family...

"'You are an abuser of women — that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego.'
—Penny Hegseth (mother of Pete Hegseth)"

[Also: multiple accusations of sexual assault]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Heg

Hachyderm.ioJohn Refior (@jrefior@hachyderm.io)Everything Trump does is exactly what a Russian asset who had been elected president would do. "In just one speech by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week, the most powerful member of NATO has thrown the world’s biggest military alliance into disarray, raising troubling questions about America’s commitment to European security. "Hegseth told almost 50 of Ukraine ’s Western backers on Wednesday that he had joined their meeting 'to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States of America from being primarily focused on the security of Europe.' “'The United States faces consequential threats to our homeland. We must — and we are — focusing on security of our own borders,' he said... "Hegseth said that Ukraine will not get all its territory back from Russia and will not be allowed to join NATO... "He insisted NATO will not be involved in any future force that might be required to police the peace in Ukraine. European and other nations will, but the Europeans will have to pay for it. No American troops would take part in such an operation... "Hegseth said that NATO will not come to the rescue of any European nation involved in that force if it is attacked by Russia." https://apnews.com/article/nato-us-europeans-ukraine-security-russia-hegseth-d2cd05b5a7bc3d98acbf123179e6b391 The US president works for the Kremlin. #NATO #Ukraine #Europe #Russia

#familyvalues #GOP #Republicans #speakerjohnson #uspolitics

The committee’s findings were horrific. The 42-page document, which Gaetz tried unsuccessfully to suppress, found the former congressman had “violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress.” (Gaetz has denied all of the allegations). Their investigation found that Donald Trump’s first pick for the chief law enforcement officer of the United States had, among other things, purchased drugs including cocaine and ecstasy on multiple occasions; accepted gifts, including transportation and lodging in the Bahamas, in excess of permissible amounts; paid tens of thousands of dollars to women for sex; lied to the State Department about the identity of one of these women so that she could get an American passport; and paid a 17-year-old girl—a high school junior at the time—for sex.

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Despite having declared himself "anti transgender" earlier, Errol says of Musk's trans daughter Vivian Wilson "my advice to [Elon] was 'you should love people for who they are, not who they were.'" He says transgender people have existed throughout history and preaches Christian acceptance.

@jcmacomber 😤 I Agree with You 100%.

It simply Defies Logic 🤯 that Every #MagaCult Follower is perfectly Fine with ANY #Loser that #DonOLDCHUMP HAND selects— For Example: the Notorious #Pedophile #MattGaetz

📣Who Enjoys Paying 💵 for #SEX with #UnderAge Girls. However, ANY time the 🏳️‍⚧️ #TransBathroom 🚽 topic comes up, they want to grab their Bibles & Scream #FamilyValues & How their underage #Daughters are #Victims of #TransRights & the #Woke Leftist.

🧐 #IRONIC how that Works.