NPR: Trump Has 'Begun Process' of Replacing Pete Hegseth
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You're telling me the Fox News guy couldn't cut it? A conundrum indeed.
Watch, the next nominee will be Sean Hannity
Maybe Hannity, Carlson, Rogan, Portnoy, and Shawn Ryan can viciously vie for the position in an electrified pentagonal arena.
Rogan leaving his podcast for this would be an incredible net positive.
He wouldn't. He'd just discuss the war plans on the podcast!
No Jesse Waters?
I needed 5 names for my pentagon subjoke and those were the only ones I readily remembered. I've never watched more than 5 minutes of any pundit, so I'm pretty ignorant on who deserves my ire most.
hes still important to fox as a mouthpiece, murdoch wont let him go just yet.
Sounds like his merit was not merit enough.
What's the conversion of scaramuccis to hegseths?
Assuming he's out and replaced tomorrow (makes the conversion easier), he'd be in position for 88 days.
That's 8 mooches (or 2 Trusses for our friends using the metric system).
That nazi being in office for 88 days seems fitting, doesn't it?
Not as fitting as being in office for 0 days, TBH.
Raus he goes
Runter, hoffentlich.
Oo let’s shorten it— ‘AUS! 👉‘ might work better with a naughty dog like Pete haha
1 Hegseth = 1 octomooch
LOL "or two Trusses for our friends using the metric system"
I needed a good laugh, thank you
I’m sure it would tickle him to have left after 88 days.
Appreciate the mafs.
The metric conversion is very useful thank you
When this baby reaches 88 days, you're gonna see some serious shit.
This is amazing 🤩🤩🤩
Kudos, that’s by far the best humorous post I’ve seen on Lemmy so far!
Permanently Deleted
They found someone worse already?
Start to worry if Kid Rock starts cancelling tour dates.
Always a silver lining.
Here comes the pillow man
Imagine replacing your own hand-picked Sectary of Defense after only three months and it's considered a win.
Pretty sure he did this every few months his first term
7.81 Mooches to be exact.
Next do this fuckin guy
Trump has a process??
Concepts of a process!
I heard Aaron Rodgers is looking for something to do...
Or maybe take Brett Farve before his stupid ass tries to run for governor of Wisconsin.
They're both QBs, though. Aren't they a better fit for Secretary of Offense?
Trump: “Does this guy know how to read a defense folks”
Farve didn't even know what dime defense was!
Why didn't you link the NPR report?
Hopefully the next appointee knows to keep war crimes secret so nobody has to mention them and we can kill thousands of innocents in Yemen with less details leaking to the press.
I can forgive the murder of everyone in an apartment building, but not being sloppy on opsec!
I see you are all for killing and murder of people as you dog-whistle that you want to see people killed in their homes. That "everyone" in a multi-family building, mass murder and violence are your dehumanization messages on social machines of lemmy.
People like you and Pete Hegseth find the power of computers and HDTV Fox News electric media platforms in their hand and technology systems to attack and dehumanize and promote anti-intellectualism with snark and shit-talk to dehumanize those that you disagree with, trying to divide people into groups to classify who is sub-human compared to other groups, instead of promoting that all people are equal and that hate is a common problem no matter the race, nation, time period, geography, religion, eye color, skin color, hair color, height, gender, etc.
“Most people can’t stand up for their convictions, because the majority of people might not be doing it. See, everybody’s not doing it, so it must be wrong. And since everybody is doing it, it must be right. So a sort of numerical interpretation of what’s right. But I’m here to say to you this morning that some things are right and some things are wrong. Eternally so, absolutely so. It’s wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong. It’s wrong in America, it’s wrong in Germany, it’s wrong in Russia, it’s wrong in China. It was wrong in 2000 B.C., and it’s wrong in 1954 A.D. It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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"Imagine my shock as a neurodivergent teen when I first realized that using large vocabulary and eloquent speech doesn't make you less likely to be misinterpreted, rather it adds an entirely new layer of misinterpretation I had never even realized existed in the form of people thinking you're being snobbish or condescending when you're just trying to be specific" https://notthewriteryourelookingfor.tumblr.com/post/759681306752942080
It's called humor.
So you are here on USA topics on social machines to sanewash and morality wash Donald Trump using amusement and humor, portray this as all Reality TV "The Apprentice" and not a crisis in USA. I understand fully, that's why Elon Musk purchased Twitter in year 2022, to further support the alternate reality "this isn't real, it's just The Apprentice comedy show" perspective of Americans.
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“For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985
I was really hoping they'd keep him, rather than replacing him with the next most sycophantic rich boy in line.
We all know they tolerate rank incompetence and have no care for the lives of americans. Keeping hegseth would be saying that much louder, so now it's someone else's turn to endanger our lives.
Remember, losing his job should only be the most minor thing he faces out of all of this.
He should face felonies for leaking classified information and for actively creating non-traceable government records. He should be spending time in solitary for this, based on other prosecutions.
Just like his boss.
My hoop dream is that someone is keeping tabs and notes and if not Republicans take the POTUS next general, all of the charges will be brought then, so the fat fuck can't pardon them.
I'm honestly surprised they're even worried about optics at this point. They pretty much haven't seemed to care about really anything that's been done or said by team Trump.
Why, because he was too much qualified? Next one is going to discuss war plans in a public irc channel
Irc is to technical for them. It'll be on nazitter
Ah. Finally a fictional Marvel character will become part of the predisent's cabinet.
Probably Wilson Fisk or Lex Luthor, although on second thought, they may be too competent for this administration.
Oh definitely.
I welcome Dr Doom as SecDef.
DOOM would do a good job, he's much too qualified for this administration.
I wanna know if he’ll pick an even bigger white supremacist?
Impossible. He'll be doing harder drugs.
I mean we already have heroin Bobby running the health department.
Good, but mainly because the opposition can now focus on the more heinous crimes of this administration.
I nominate Kanye
Don't give them ideas.
He only surrounds himself with the best people...
(Good god, his fat ass has all these morons circling like a bunch of satellites)
I thought Trump would give him a medal.