Blackout alcoholic. Spouse abuser. Sexual assault, had her sign an NDA statement and paid $50k. Blatant misogyny towards women in the military. What happened to his background check? No knowledge of how to run the position, some (very) small military service, but not enough to run the largest employer in the country. NO IDEA HOW THINGS WORK.
I am so angry I’m shaking, so shocked I can barely find the words to type, so worried about the future of our country’s military with this idiot who is IN NO WAY qualified to be the Secretary of Defense now in the position. DonOld must have been laughing and applauding when he got this news. Maybe he’ll throw ketchup against the wall to celebrate. Who knows? This is a disaster and it’s started to happen. I wish I was wrong. I *wish* I was wrong.
Dear Mitch McConnell – thank you for saying HELL NO to this guy. Too bad One. Single. Republican. wasn’t brave enough to stand with the 3 of you and say hell no. And since JD is the tiebreaker, we know what he did. He said hell yes. I suppose the rest of the Republican Party is trying to keep their asses safe by not opposing the Mango Mandarin. I guess they don’t think for themselves anymore. The Orangutan does all their thinking for them, not that he thinks either. They don’t want to get on his bad side. Mitch doesn’t care. He’s stronger than DonOld and he knows it. It’s not a good idea to get on *Mitch’s* bad side.
One. Single. Republican. ONE. This party has turned into asskissers and whores. Gotta stay on the President’s good side, y’know. Never know what might happen to them, like the ads they started running against Joni Ernst in her home district, to the point where she had no choice but to capitulate. And I’ll bet she’s pretty pissed off now, too, because I’m almost positive she wanted to say HELL NO. You can’t help your people if you’re not in office. And she HAS military experience.
I suppose I’m hoping that there will be people who can guide this fool through what he’s *supposed* to be doing and doesn’t *know* how to do. If we’re lucky he’ll only do peripheral damage and, unlike the Mango Mandarin, will have some checks and balances on him, and experience that will guide him. I just ARGH why why why??!! It’s almost 3 in the morning so I can’t scream out loud. I can only scream by typing. I’m hoping you folks will be screaming too, in whatever way you choose. Unfortunately, that’s all we can do at this point and I hate it. Hate. It.
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What happened to the party of law and order? They are now the party of lawbreakers and disorder. I just saw a headline saying puppy killer Kristi Noam was just confirmed to head Homeland Security.
I call BS on Ernst not being able to help her constituents if she goes against the mango moron. I call BS on all the GOP for valuing their jobs over this country, the Constitution, our laws and ethics. They are all cowards with no morals or integrity. I’m so disgusted.
I agree with the BS. Disgust is nearly all we have left.
Trump needed someone to say ok, fire away, the next time citizens exercise their right to assembly to address their grievances with him. A rapist drunk seems to fit the bill. General Milley refused at Lafayette Square. Can’t have that.
Ouch and oof yet again, Scott. I agree.
All of Trumpler’s cabinet picks are the legislative equivalent of his previous boast of invincibility: that he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose a single vote. Now he’s showing us all that he can choose the very worst people for the most important jobs in the nation and no one will dare oppose him. In so doing, he’s stamping his authority and his untouchablility on what was once an actual political party and is now a collection of gutless wonders terrified of being bullied. Traitors all.
jarvis, you pretty much said anything I could reply with already in your comment. Traitors all, indeed, worship their god to keep their jobs, and for the god of money to keep them rich (ish?). Worst people for the most important jobs, indeed.