jordanlund@lemmy.worldM to Keep Track@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago01/24/2025 - Pete Hegseth, Trump's embattled pick for defense secretary, wins Senate confirmationwww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
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minus-squareExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoHe didn’t “win” the Senate confirmation as much as “not lost” it completely. Enough sleazebag republican senators caved in to Trump to allow the sleazebag VP to finish the job, is what happened. More of the same. We The People wanted this, We The People get what we wanted.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days ago50/50 with JD casting the first tiebreaker… unusally low numbers for secretary of defense.
minus-squareExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days ago unusally low numbers for secretary of defense. Maybe, just maybe, it’s because the defense secretary nominee is a fucking misogynist abusive womanizer wino neo-nazi TV presenter? This nominee should have received exactly ZERO votes. Traditional republicans would never have allowed this guy anywhere near the US senate building.
He didn’t “win” the Senate confirmation as much as “not lost” it completely.
Enough sleazebag republican senators caved in to Trump to allow the sleazebag VP to finish the job, is what happened.
More of the same. We The People wanted this, We The People get what we wanted.
50/50 with JD casting the first tiebreaker… unusally low numbers for secretary of defense.
Maybe, just maybe, it’s because the defense secretary nominee is a fucking misogynist abusive womanizer wino neo-nazi TV presenter?
This nominee should have received exactly ZERO votes. Traditional republicans would never have allowed this guy anywhere near the US senate building.