The United States Senate just voted to approve the nomination of Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. Pete has many flaws. Abuse of women. Abuse of alcohol. And a religious orientation that harks back to times of old - like hundreds of years old. A religion that essentially makes women slaves.
He wants to bring a “warrior culture” to the DOD. OK, I guess the Pentagon is just full of clerks searching online for the best barbecue sauce.
But let’s set all of that aside for a moment, despite the fact that it will likely be news suitable for tabloids across the world. Let’s ask the most basic and fundamental question: Why would 50 Senators vote for a nominee who has almost no suitable experience or qualifications? Why would they even consider this fruitcake when there are hundreds, if not thousands, of other individuals who know what it means to run what is arguably the largest, most important, most complex organization in the world?
Please choose one or all that apply:
A. The Senators are worried about crossing Trump and sinking their political careers.
B. The Senators are worried about crossing Trump because he has “dirt” on them.
C. The Senators are worried about crossing Trump because they are worried about their safety and the safety of their families (as in Putin’s Russia).
D. The Senators have been fed an obedience drug that neuters critical thinking.
E. The Senators have developed such hate for Democrats that they oppose anything that Democrats have to say or propose.
F. The Senators actually like the Hegseth mentality of male dominance and brutality.
G. The Senators are actually Russian plants - watch the “Americans” TV series.
H. The Senators have caught “chaos disease” from meeting with Trump.
I am sure I have missed a possibility. Please share if you have a better theory. But one more question and I will let you go.
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
Little high, little low
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me
……If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters….
Wake me up…..when something really matters to America. Wake me up when America becomes sane again. MASA!
I think it's the inevitable outcome when the law says money votes. The guy with the most money votes the most. The guy with the least scruples and a head start gets his little snow ball of money rolling and then he's able to run that immense money ball right up to the crowd of representatives and say "vote the way this guy (for now, because I am showing him my usefulness) says to vote, or I will run this over you" and they do.
I think the Musk mElon telling them he'll "primary" them if they don't do his/FFOTUS' bidding is a way of saying take your jobs, pursue you to the ends of the earth and ruin your home, family and friends if you don't click your heels and say "Yes Sir" when we speak. Just being pursued by the government for no crime at all can ruin a person's reputation, empty their bank account and isolate them from family and friends so it's not necessary to find a crime. These people know that to be targeted by the likes of mElon would go far beyond losing their jobs. They're still cowards, but they have reason, and they created that reason themselves when they first went short-sightedly into the pursuit of laws to let money vote.
Thanks, Bill. I've been trying to understand what happened last night - I watched it live on MSNBC, where Rachel Maddow was following the voting. All your reasons are valid. The Senate and House of Representatives needed to be cleaned out of all the members who in any way supported the insurrection of January 6. But that didn't happen, and the corrupt Supreme Court has been of no use in the defense of the Constitution. So here we are. And this is just the beginning.