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TexasTowelie

(122,051 posts)
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 04:03 PM Jan 2025

Senator Duckworth Wrecks Pete Hegseth's Defense Secretary Nomination - Reflect Politics



Watch Senator Tammy Duckworth prove Pete Hegseth is totally unqualified to be the Secretary of Defense during Hegseth's Senate confirmation hearing.
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Senator Duckworth Wrecks Pete Hegseth's Defense Secretary Nomination - Reflect Politics (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2025 OP
This is how you do it. This is how you play HARDBALL with Scum. MagaSmash Jan 2025 #1
Deer in the headlights orangecrush Jan 2025 #8
THANK YOU, Senator Duckworth, for exposing that greasy loser for what he is: completely unqualified to lead our LaMouffette Jan 2025 #2
Did anybody get the license plate of that truck that just ran over Pete? EarnestPutz Jan 2025 #3
No, but I know it was an Illinois license plate! 😁 ShazzieB Jan 2025 #18
Way more respect for Duckworth than the Faux News anchor. He is totally unqualified. Period. nt Evolve Dammit Jan 2025 #4
She "wrecks" his nomination? Only if he is not confirmed. Martin68 Jan 2025 #5
Exactly. He was confirmed the moment fuckface picked him Orrex Jan 2025 #15
A No Go at this station! Aviation Pro Jan 2025 #6
It is refreasing to hear a Democrat iwith some backbone and not the doc03 Jan 2025 #10
DAYUM orangecrush Jan 2025 #7
Wow..That was great! whathehell Jan 2025 #9
You can just sense she desperately wants to drop an "F" bomb on this motherfucker. NoMoreRepugs Jan 2025 #11
His plan is Fiddlelady11 Jan 2025 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author murielm99 Jan 2025 #13
She is brutal! Linda ladeewolf Jan 2025 #14
Too many times in the past Dems have grilled candidates but ended up voting them in. flor-de-jasmim Jan 2025 #16
If this guy is voted in, it won't be because of votes from Democrats. ShazzieB Jan 2025 #20
"Wrecked" can only mean his nomination will be DEFEATED Martin Eden Jan 2025 #17
She was excellent. TNNurse Jan 2025 #19

LaMouffette

(2,522 posts)
2. THANK YOU, Senator Duckworth, for exposing that greasy loser for what he is: completely unqualified to lead our
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 04:31 PM
Jan 2025

armed forces. It was excellent the way she pointed out that Hegs declared that the military needed to raise their standards for the troops, yet he expected us to lower the standards for him.

In October 2022, according to Bob Woodward's book, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was on the phone with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu warning Russia it had better not use nukes in Ukraine. The idea of Hegseth having any kind of clue to be able to conduct a gravely serious phone call with one of America's enemies is both laughable and terrifying. Here's part of Austin's phone call with Shoigu:



In another heated conversation laid out in Woodward’s book, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confronted his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu, in October 2022.

“We know you are contemplating the use of tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine,” Austin said, according to Woodward. “Any use of nuclear weapons on any scale against anybody would be seen by the United States and the world as a world-changing event. There is no scale of nuclear weapons that we could overlook or that the world could overlook.”

As Shoigu listened, Austin pressed on, noting that the U.S. had not given Ukraine certain weapons and had restricted the use of some of those it had provided. He warned that those constraints would be reconsidered. He also noted that China, India, Turkey and Israel would isolate Russia if it used nuclear weapons.

“I don’t take kindly to being threatened,” Shoigu responded, the book says.

“Mr. Minister,” Austin said. “I am the leader of the most powerful military in the history of the world. I don’t make threats.”


https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/10/09/us-scrambled-urge-putin-not-use-nuclear-weapons-ukraine-woodward-book-says.html

Can you imagine how excited the Russians must be about the prospect of Hegseth "leading" the military?!

ShazzieB

(21,200 posts)
18. No, but I know it was an Illinois license plate! 😁
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 08:21 PM
Jan 2025

As an Illinoisian, I have voted for Sen. Duckworth every time, and I have always been proud to call her one of my senators. But I have never been prouder than I am right now. Brava, Senator Duckworth! Bravissima!

Evolve Dammit

(21,083 posts)
4. Way more respect for Duckworth than the Faux News anchor. He is totally unqualified. Period. nt
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 04:59 PM
Jan 2025

Orrex

(65,621 posts)
15. Exactly. He was confirmed the moment fuckface picked him
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 06:32 PM
Jan 2025

Holy fuck when will that suppurating orange prolapse just die?

doc03

(38,169 posts)
10. It is refreasing to hear a Democrat iwith some backbone and not the
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 05:35 PM
Jan 2025

mealy mouthed "My friends across the aisle". Like Michael Steele lectured MJ the other day we don't have to be civil.
When have they been civil with us.



whathehell

(30,212 posts)
9. Wow..That was great!
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 05:31 PM
Jan 2025

Loved the way she took the focus off women's qualifications for combat and got it back to the question of his qualifications for the job he seeks.

Response to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Linda ladeewolf

(975 posts)
14. She is brutal!
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 06:08 PM
Jan 2025

I like it. She knows her shit, he knows nothing, unless it’s how to be faithless.

flor-de-jasmim

(2,219 posts)
16. Too many times in the past Dems have grilled candidates but ended up voting them in.
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 06:55 PM
Jan 2025

I hope this time is different.

ShazzieB

(21,200 posts)
20. If this guy is voted in, it won't be because of votes from Democrats.
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 01:08 AM
Jan 2025

We're in the minority, so he doesn't need any votes from Democrats to be confirmed as long as all the Republicans get in line.

After seeing Senators Duckworth, Kaine, and Warren (one of them on each of the 3 MSNBC shows I watched tonight) each talk about this nomination and their role in the hearing, I'm quite convinced that Pigseth will get zero votes from Democrats.

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