Thai-American Sen. Duckworth Exposes Ignorance of Trump's Defense Secy' Nominee Hegseth

[Jingthing]

 

... about Asean.

 

Thai-American war hero amputee U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth is very impressive grilling Trump's totally unquailed Fox News suit nominee for one of the most important offices in the world. 

 

Normally you expect a baseline of basic global knowledge from such high officials relating to foreign affairs and conflicts.

But not under Trump. 

What he is qualified to do though is to blindly follow the orders of autocrat elect Trump without any pushback or questioning. 

[jerrymahoney]

(Chief of staff to-be) Ms. (Susie) Wiles insists she is not concerned about Mr. Trump’s most provocative cabinet picks, including Pete Hegseth, his choice to run the Defense Department. Mr. Hegseth, a military veteran who has been accused by a woman of sexual assault, which he has denied, has no experience leading an agency of nearly three million people.

“That’s what staff is for,” Ms. Wiles said briskly. “It’s our obligation to give him people that understand the business of national defense.” To Ms. Wiles, Mr. Hegseth is one of Mr. Trump’s desired “disrupters” of the status quo, just like his choice of Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence and Mr. Kennedy as the secretary of health and human services.

The president-elect, she said, “would rather have a disrupter at the top and buttress the disrupter with people who know the business or the agency. That’s the idea. And so if you think of it that way, it explains all of them.”

 

from NYTimes via https://archive.ph/lDmIO

[spidermike007]

During the last term Trump sort of set the benchmark for selecting nominees from the absolute bottom of the barrel, it seems like he's determined to repeat himself by selecting people who are not only massively unqualified, but like himself morally bankrupt. 

[novacova]

Those dems really know how to put a goofy comedy show, it made for a good laugh before hitting the hay last night.

[jerrymahoney]

The only real audience for the DEMs are 4 Republicans who might oppose.

[GroveHillWanderer]

I think you have to question the suitability for one of the most important positions in the US government of a man who doesn't believe in germs because he can't see them. 

 

Why Fox News' Hegseth Said He Hasn't Washed His Hands In 10 Years

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2019/02/11/why-fox-news-pete-hegseth-hasnt-washed-his-hands-in-10-years/

 

Quote

"Germs are not a real thing. I can’t see them. Therefore they’re not real.”

 

[stevenl]

1 hour ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

I think you have to question the suitability for one of the most important positions in the US government of a man who doesn't believe in germs because he can't see them. 

 

Why Fox News' Hegseth Said He Hasn't Washed His Hands In 10 Years

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2019/02/11/why-fox-news-pete-hegseth-hasnt-washed-his-hands-in-10-years/

 

 

On the positive side, this must mean he's an atheist.

[mogandave]

He’ll be cofirmed

[Cryingdick]

2 hours ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

I think you have to question the suitability for one of the most important positions in the US government of a man who doesn't believe in germs because he can't see them. 

 

Why Fox News' Hegseth Said He Hasn't Washed His Hands In 10 Years

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2019/02/11/why-fox-news-pete-hegseth-hasnt-washed-his-hands-in-10-years/

 

 

 

LOL God almighty. He has said the thing about washing his hands was a joke years ago. 

[herfiehandbag]

2 hours ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

I think you have to question the suitability for one of the most important positions in the US government of a man who doesn't believe in germs because he can't see them. 

 

Why Fox News' Hegseth Said He Hasn't Washed His Hands In 10 Years

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2019/02/11/why-fox-news-pete-hegseth-hasnt-washed-his-hands-in-10-years/

 

 

He is probably counting on the alcohol washing around in his system to counteract any germs...

[scottiejohn]

10 hours ago, mogandave said:

He’ll be cofirmed

As tonally unsuitable I hope for the sake of not just the USA!

[scottiejohn]

9 hours ago, Cryingdick said:

 

LOL God almighty. He has said the thing about washing his hands was a joke years ago. 

If so it goes to show what a clown he really is!

[RSD1]

13 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

During the last term Trump sort of set the benchmark for selecting nominees from the absolute bottom of the barrel, it seems like he's determined to repeat himself by selecting people who are not only massively unqualified, but like himself morally bankrupt. 

If it ain't broke don't fix it right? Actually his second term gaggle of broke-dicks do at least share one thing in common, they are all loyalists to a fascist, which is the only qualification for their jobs they actually need.
 

You've got a convicted felon and sex offender at the helm and you could have had 2 more sex offenders in other top positions, but they had to let Geotz go. What a pity.

 

Otherwise you would have had three p**sy grabbing musketeers in the White House all at once! Covfefe!

[jerrymahoney]

Per the chief-of-staff to-be Ms. Susie Wiles quote above, it seems to me to be a disrupter, you first must know how to rupt.

[Cryingdick]

Why say Thai-American? It is just senator Duckworth. 

[stevenl]

7 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

Why say Thai-American? It is just senator Duckworth. 

Anything on the hearing?

[Cryingdick]

8 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Anything on the hearing?

It went well and he will be confirmed. Senator Duckworth being Thai said he is some hansum man and offered his sister if Pete builds a house in Issaan., 

[stevenl]

15 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

It went well and he will be confirmed. Senator Duckworth being Thai said he is some hansum man and offered his sister if Pete builds a house in Issaan., 

Agree he will be confirmed.

The rest of your post is a racist slur.

[Cryingdick]

5 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Agree he will be confirmed.

The rest of your post is a racist slur.

 

I am not the one that made a post and brought up nationalities and ethnicities. He is an American senator. Much like i am just a douchebag not a Swedish, Irish, German, American douchebag. It made me curious why single out this guy is part Thai?

[atpeace]

11 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Agree he will be confirmed.

The rest of your post is a racist slur.

I took it as a joke and not bad.  Have some fun and calling someone a racist marks you as lacking any real perspective in most cases.

[sqwakvfr]

I really wish she would not have mentioned Donald Trump's numerous bankrupticies and pepper him with questions on Defense policy and current missions.  For instance she could have asked Mr Fox and Friends what is the name of the US Army base in the Marshall Islands and why is it strategically important? It is clear all he knows is "indo Pacfic" and this means S.Korea, Japan and Australia only.  My guess is this is the first time he has heard the term ASEAN.  I do not see him lasting long as Sec Def.   His true nature will come out while he is in office.  When I was in the Army we had a saying "any rank above Captain is a political position".  Sec Def is a political position and not a warrior position.  In recent memory my favorit Sec Def was Robert Gates.  Someone like him would have been a better choice. 

[bunnydrops]

15 hours ago, Jingthing said:

 

... about Asean.

 

Thai-American war hero amputee U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth is very impressive grilling Trump's totally unquailed Fox News suit nominee for one of the most important offices in the world. 

 

Normally you expect a baseline of basic global knowledge from such high officials relating to foreign affairs and conflicts.

But not under Trump. 

What he is qualified to do though is to blindly follow the orders of autocrat elect Trump without any pushback or questioning. 

I think this one paragraph from an opinion piece in the NYTs says it all.

 

"We live in a soap opera country. We live in a social media/cable TV country. In our culture you don’t want to focus on boring policy questions; you want to engage in the kind of endless culture war that gets voters riled up. You don’t want to focus on topics that would require study; you focus on images and easy-to-understand issues that generate instant visceral reactions. You don’t win this game by engaging in serious thought; you win by mere attitudinizing — by striking a pose. Your job is not to advance an argument that might help the country; your job is to go viral."

[HappyExpat57]

Well, yeah, but DAMN his hair looks good!

[HappyExpat57]

If you haven't watched "Idiocracy" yet, you need to. It is soon to be reclassified from "comedy/fiction" to "documentary."

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

[spidermike007]

2 hours ago, RSD1 said:

If it ain't broke don't fix it right? Actually his second term gaggle of broke-dicks do at least share one thing in common, they are all loyalists to a fascist, which is the only qualification for their jobs they actually need.
 

You've got a convicted felon and sex offender at the helm and you could have had 2 more sex offenders in other top positions, but they had to let Geotz go. What a pity.

 

Otherwise you would have had three p**sy grabbing musketeers in the White House all at once! Covfefe!

True that. Bow down to the new king. 

 

 

[frank83628]

12 hours ago, Cryingdick said:

 

LOL God almighty. He has said the thing about washing his hands was a joke years ago. 

Shows how strong the derangement is when something like that is taken seriously.

[Hanaguma]

Hegseth is more than qualified. Combat veteran, decorated for valor under fire. Ivy League educational pedigree. Calm under fire. Beloved by the actual troops, if not the MIC.  Made the ranting harpies on the committee look very very bad.  The rest is all smoke and nonsense.

[Yagoda]

Pete will be a great Sec of Defense and the reputations of those opposing him here demonstrate that. 

 

Trannies in foxholes. Its a porn flick not supposed to be reality

[atpeace]

22 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

True that. Bow down to the new king. 

 

 

 

Never thought I would be in the group doing the bowing but a quick bow and wait and see what happens is where I was at. 

 

The democratic party lost its way.  People calling others racists for making choke, a few posts above is a good example.  Four years for the dems to start being "real" and stop the shenanigans to get my vote back.