Hegseth has been confirmed.

[Cryingdick]

yes.

[jerrymahoney]

From the David Mamet script for The Untouchables  The late Sean Connery as Malone:

 

Malone: Mr. Ness, everybody knows where the booze is. The problem isn't finding it, the problem is who wants to cross Capone.

 

Many of Trump's nominations are under-qualified except (as Ms. Wiles has put it) as disruptors. The problem amongst the Republican Senators is:

 

Who wants to cross Trump.

 

[Hawaiian]

29 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

From the David Mamet script for The Untouchables  The late Sean Connery as Malone:

 

Malone: Mr. Ness, everybody knows where the booze is. The problem isn't finding it, the problem is who wants to cross Capone.

 

Many of Trump's nominations are under-qualified except (as Ms. Wiles has put it) as disruptors. The problem amongst the Republican Senators is:

 

Who wants to cross Trump.

 

McConnell, Collins and Murkowski did.

[novacova]

3 minutes ago, Hawaiian said:

Collins and Murkowski did.

& McConnell 

[Hawaiian]

2 minutes ago, novacova said:

& McConnell 

Thank you. You caught my mistake before I could edit my answer.

[brewsterbudgen]

Shocking.  A DUI hire 🤣

[novacova]

30 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

Many of Trump's nominations are under-qualified

Faculty untrue, though it’s understood that those who are triggered by the media cannot understand this having their heads stuck in the media bubble.

33 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

Who wants to cross Trump.

Most everyone on the left and the RINO’s

2 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Shocking.  A DUI hire 🤣

How many political boozers do you support?

[jerrymahoney]

7 minutes ago, novacova said:

43 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

Many of Trump's nominations are under-qualified

Faculty untrue, though it’s understood that those who are triggered by the media cannot understand this having their heads stuck in the media bubble.

Ms. 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 NY Times via https://archive.ph/lDmIO

[spidermike007]

A bottom of the barrel, wholly unqualified, morally bankrupt man now leads one of the biggest and most important departments in the US government. Good job Don Don, you sure know how to pick them. 

[PREM-R]

So, Trump has managed to install his 'Blue Falcon' in the Pentagon by the narrowest  of margins (VP casting vote).  How long before Hegseth is spotted 'Tired and Emotional' around Washington DC?

[Jim Blue]

14 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

Ms. Wiles insists ....

 

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 NY Times via https://archive.ph/lDmIO

 

[Jim Blue]

So that explains why    Trump  went bankrupt so many times ........     

[brewsterbudgen]

28 minutes ago, novacova said:

Faculty untrue, though it’s understood that those who are triggered by the media cannot understand this having their heads stuck in the media bubble.

Most everyone on the left and the RINO’s

How many political boozers do you support?

Good point!  Winston Churchill was a notorious boozer!  That said, Hegseth is no Churchill!

[Will B Good]

 

 

Straight down to the pub then.....first round on Pete.....then hit the brothels......what a life.

[impulse]

And JD Vance was the tie breaking vote.

 

[Hawaiian]

Still waiting for more perennial vilifiers to show up.  Only a handful so far.  Some of their comments are actually amusing.

[LosLobo]

1 hour ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Shocking.  A DUI hire 🤣

And yes, this hire was undoubtedly not DEI but based on meritocracy. After all, how could a white, Christian, nationalistic, misogynistic alcoholic with no qualifications or experience be anything but the perfect candidate?

[Hawaiian]

2 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Shocking.  A DUI hire 🤣

While we are on the subject of alcohol abuse, are you aware of how the U.S. military ensures that their troops have easy and cheap access to booze.  Service clubs have happy hours with reduced prices from prices that are already low.  Then there are the package liquor stores with daily or weekly specials.  While the military does not approve of alcohol abuse they sure make it easy to get hooked.

[riclag]

Houston we have A Trump loyalist 

who will be lurking into the military community!

“The Pentagon’s accounting records are so convoluted that billions of dollars cannot be accounted for, charges a new government report”.

https://www.taxpayer.net/budget-appropriations-tax/why-cant-the-pentagon-pass-an-audit/

[herfiehandbag]

2 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Shocking.  A DUI hire 🤣

Probably gone downtown for a night on the lash to celebrate!

[Will B Good]

12 minutes ago, Hawaiian said:

While we are on the subject of alcohol abuse, are you aware of how the U.S. military ensures that their troops have easy and cheap access to booze.  Service clubs have happy hours with reduced prices from prices that are already low.  Then there are the package liquor stores with daily or weekly specials.  While the military does not approve of alcohol abuse they sure make it easy to get hooked.

 

Same in the British Army.....the prices for alcohol (and food for that matter) are a joke......at least in the Officers Mess.

[herfiehandbag]

14 minutes ago, Hawaiian said:

While we are on the subject of alcohol abuse, are you aware of how the U.S. military ensures that their troops have easy and cheap access to booze.  Service clubs have happy hours with reduced prices from prices that are already low.  Then there are the package liquor stores with daily or weekly specials.  While the military does not approve of alcohol abuse they sure make it easy to get hooked.

Pah - amateur lightweights! You should have seen us in British Army of The Rhine in the 1970s and 1980s - fittest pissheads in NATO! Mind you, the Cloggies ran us a close second!

[herfiehandbag]

3 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

 

Same in the British Army.....the prices for alcohol (and food for that matter) are a joke......at least in the Officers Mess.

Not any more, since Mess facilities were privatised and are now run by contractors profit rules!

[Hawaiian]

12 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

 

Same in the British Army.....the prices for alcohol (and food for that matter) are a joke......at least in the Officers Mess.

Early in my U.S. Navy days I was at the China Fleet Club in Hong Kong as a guest of a British sailor.  When the end of happy hour was near the group ordered a pitcher of beer for each man.  No way could I keep up with them.  By the way, that was my introduction to fish 'n chips.  Very enjoyable experience.

[jerrymahoney]

11 minutes ago, riclag said:

The Pentagon’s accounting records are so convoluted that billions of dollars cannot be accounted for, charges a new government report”.

From the WSJ:

Updated 10 days ago

What Are the Financial-Mismanagement Allegations Surrounding Hegseth?

 

Pete Hegseth has been accused of financial mismanagement while leading two small nonprofit organizations from 2008 to 2016. Revenues at Veterans for Freedom plunged during Hegseth’s tenure, from $8.7 million in 2008 to $265,000 in 2010.

 

Hegseth then took a leadership role at Concerned Veterans for America; tax filings show that the nonprofit spent more money than it raised from donations and other avenues during three of the five years he led the nonprofit.

 

Hegseth has denied wrongdoing. In December, he suggested that a 2016 whistleblower report that in part accused him of financial mismanagement was nothing more than an email from a disgruntled employee.

 

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/card/what-are-the-financial-mismanagement-allegations-surrounding-hegseth

 

[Will B Good]

1 minute ago, herfiehandbag said:

Not any more, since Mess facilities were privatised and are now run by contractors profit rules!

 

Fair enough, been a while since I ate in the mess......2019......full English, open buffet, eat what you want, was 2 Euros......and officers still tried to sneak their girlfriends in for a free meal!

 

Beer was about the same 2 Euros a pint....from memory.

[Will B Good]

2 minutes ago, Hawaiian said:

Early in my U.S. Navy days I was at the China Fleet Club in Hong Kong as a guest of British sailor.  When the end of happy hour was near the group ordered a pitcher of beer for each man.  No way could I keep up with them.  By the way, that was my introduction to fish 'n chips.  Very enjoyable experience.

 

My brother actually locked the gates to the British officers mess ....re Dependence day.....!!!

[SunnyinBangrak]

More Winning! Trump has achieved more in a few days than the woke biden regime in 4 years. Ok, that isn't exactly true, because the woke regime ruined America and the wider world in every way.

Trump is literally saving the world, and seeing notorious misinformation posters frothing so hard over it confirms we are on the right track. 

Hooray for Trump 2.0

[riclag]

15 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

More Winning! Trump has achieved more in a few days than the woke biden regime in 4 years. Ok, that isn't exactly true, because the woke regime ruined America and the wider world in every way.

Trump is literally saving the world, and seeing notorious misinformation posters frothing so hard over it confirms we are on the right track. 

Hooray for Trump 2.0

The dumming down of the Lefts attempts of introducing Marxist / racist

DEI into the military wont be continued in a Trump adminstration .

Merit, integrity and honor will become the rallying cry instead of…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14121747/Trump-plans-kick-transgender-troops-military-15-000-service-members-medically-discharged-day-office-report-claims.html

 

[Hawaiian]

32 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

 

My brother actually locked the gates to the British officers mess ....re Dependence day.....!!!

The end of an era.