Did Pete leak this in a Signal chat?
Whiskey Leaks strikes again.
No, he’s clean on opsec
This whole thing is based on one guy’s speculation. Hegseth isn’t going anywhere. Trump only wants one thing from Hegseth: to give the order to fire on American citizens, if and when the time arrives, and Trump knows Hegseth will do it. He doesn’t care about any of the rest of it.
I will believe it when I see him gone.
Dude has survived so many colossal fuck ups that I’m convinced he’s staying forever
The warning shot came from The Daily Beast’s Washington bureau chief David Gardner, who says the Pentagon boss’s tenure is on life support after months of missteps, messy leaks, and a media meltdown that has the press corps bolting from the building.
No one could have foreseen this kind of behavior from a raging alcoholic!
I know many raging alcoholics and only a few of them are as stupid as Leaky Pete.
How many of them are placed in positions of such power that they can even exercise the same amount of stupidity? If I say that someone should die, that’s dumb, but nowhere as dumb as some influential person saying it, let alone a high-ranking official, let alone the official in charge of the designated people-killers.
To be fair, his vast experience as a Fox News host surely impacted his competence.
Now do RFK, Jr. before he kills the whole country.
Dr. Oz, you’re up!
And Miller
And vought
And Brendan Carr.
UseAnd my axe!Why not Zoieberg?
“This is the quietest room I’ve ever seen.”
That’s the real reason Hegseth is being dumped.
He’ll find more incompetent bootlickers for this kind of jobs.
This. He’s already dug through the bottom of the barrel. And started scraping the bottom of hell.
Wait til you see what’s under the barrel.
“We’re totally against DEI hires, we demand that MERIT determine who gets chosen for a position. That’s why it is my great pleasure to announce Barron Trump will be Hesgeths replacement at the Department of War.”
Yes, that could happen. The “Incompetent bootlicker” definitely would fit.
Eric Trump starting to salivate
PS, for all those curious. These are stills taken from an actual video, and not AI generated
I don’t know if I want to know, but… 🤦🏼♂️ Why is he wet? 🤢
Pete Hegseth, nominated by President Donald Trump for Secretary of Defense, is undergoing increased examination concerning his previous actions following the reappearance of a video from Fox News’ All American New Year Live in 2023. In the footage, Hegseth, 44, is shown sipping champagne straight from the bottle and submerging himself in a tank allegedlyfilled with alcohol during the live transmission from Nashville.
FFS. 😶🌫️
You can see it in the article. He got sent down in a dunk tank, filled with champagne of all things.
‘first to go’? Who wrote this lol there’s been a few already.
The article actually specifies it’s regarding the major cabinet positions and that supposedly they were supposed to actually get a full year in position before he would start firing them, as opposed to his first term.
I would have thought the first to go were the three he nominated… but regardless you would think that when your hire someone, especially for such a position, that they stick around for more than a year huh
“Damn it Hegseth, I thought you said we could convince the military to shoot the American citizens I don’t like…I mean…antifa.”
“I was sure calling them fat would work sir…”
“You’re fired Hegseth! Now…who can I get that will be able to convince the military to shoot their own friends and families…can’t be that hard.”
Newest purge just dropped.
Trump vowed to avoid the revolving door chaos of his first term, promising cabinet secretaries a full year to prove they could deliver. That grace period, Gardner suggested, is about to expire.
A FOX anchor is ill suited to run the DoD. Color me shocked. To avoid chaos you need to employ competent people I guess.
Who else will turn out to be useless.
But more importantly: who will they replace them with? It’s not like MAGA is completely unable to learn from its mistakes.
Anyhow, I hope for more happy infighting!
A full year? That’s more than 33 Mooches!
Petey will just be replaced with another Trumpie sycophant.
I doubt that he’s being fired for incompetence. For one, he was clearly never hired for competence. He was hired for being a familiar face and a sycophant like all the others. For another, he’s far from the only incompetent and embarassing cabinet member in the regime. I think Pete got a bit too big for his britches for Trump. He’s the only one in the administration that I think could actually get a fair amount of the MAGA cult to follow him personally after Trump’s demise and would have been in a prime position to attempt a coup on Vance if and when that happens. Trump likely doesnt give a shit what happens after he’s bounced from this plane of existence, but he might see Hegseth as a threat sooner rather than later.
We are at the point where trying to look at things through the lens of competence vs. incompetence is just the wrong paradigm
A bit of both I’d say - the way the article characterizes it, and you.
I’m wondering if Trump is now at that stage (of senility) where straighter heads have it easier to steer him, or make better decisions in his name. Where people don’t obey him whenever he shouts “You’re fired!”, or he doesn’t do it so much anymore.
In any case, watching the MAGA monster baby grow up into a fully grown tyranny is pretty terrifying.
Don’t tickle my (metaphorical) balls here FFS get rid of the man
With Trump any apparent step forward inevitably turns out to be ten steps back.
I wouldn’t be surprised if literally Kid Rock was named and confirmed as the next Secretary of Defen- sorry, let me put on my 12-year-old edgelord voice- “War.”
Nah, they’re gonna find someone who’s not skittish about just ordering the deaths of civilians without needing pep rallies and getting rid of oversight.
Stephen Miller comes to mind.
I think he’s too busy moving. Those sidewalk chalk terrorists are public enemy #1. He will stop at nothing to leave his secured gated community where nasty, nasty, people openly criticize public officials.
Yeah, the young Crypt Keeper might be up for it… As long as no one writes any dissenting opinions in chalk anywhere near him.
Secretary of Bawitdaba-da-bang-da-bang-diggy-diggy-diggy. His appointment would be in line with the U.S. slide into Idiocracy, and it’s terrifying that the rational part of my brain can’t rule out his future appointment.
Too skinny. They need someone who can make the Trump administration proud during the upcoming WWE tournaments in the White House.
We know what Trump values. They need someone who is a good fighter, photogenic, and knows something about International Relations…
Gentlemen, let me introduce you to your next SECDEF, Steven Seagal!
Frying pan > fire
Hopefully straight to the wood chipper.
Straight to the guillotine
