What a mess. What a mess that keeps getting bigger and bigger. The situation isn’t getting any better. It’s getting worse. He can’t see it, he won’t see it, so he won’t step down when he really should, and his boss won’t admit he made a wrong choice. From Raw Story:
More than a dozen insiders spilled new details about the leadership void within the Department of Defense, which they say has been brought to the brink of collapse by Donald Trump’s choice for secretary. The president tapped former Fox News host Pete Hegseth as the military’s civilian leader, despite having no relevant experience leading a massive bureaucracy, and his brief tenure so far has been marked with scandal, leaks, infighting and surprising dismissals, all of which inside sources told New York Magazine had undercut U.S. national security at an alarming scale. “Pete is playing secretary,” a source told the magazine. “He’s not being secretary.”
Interesting hair they split there, which seems pretty accurate to me. He’s definitely not doing the job. He’s trying to do things that make him look better (workout videos, anyone? Anti-woke, anyone?), and the department is in chaos. He’s so random that there’s no way to prepare for anything he might do. So, there’s no way to have a plan in place to fix anything. It sounds like his boss and he don’t want to admit that something went wrong. But it has. Oh boy, has it.
We know Trump is sliding into dementia. Petey Boy “just” has an ego bigger than the continent. Trump is completely unpredictable, so people just stand by to see how they can support the inanity. Pete is worse. He’s paranoid with delusions of grandeur, and he wants everyone to know HE is the boss. He will jump on anyone who he thinks is going to cross (disagree) with him. And the DoD is a screaming mess.
The source specifically cited Israel bombing Iran – which actually happened hours before the report was published online – as the type of crisis Hegseth was not qualified to handle. “For any sustained operations, we’re screwed,” that source said. “There’s nobody in the SecDef’s office at this point that has any … they’re not heavyweights. They don’t have the sophistication. They don’t have the experience.” Another source described how a veteran Pentagon employee was “close to tears” discussing the lack of readiness in the defense secretary’s office. “The department is so f—–,” the employee said, according to the source.
The more that comes out, the more we can see the disaster. I cringe, worrying about what might happen if we actually *have* a crisis. The good, knowledgeable talent is gone. Trump’s tin god actions are not a crisis, not yet. They may very well become one if he follows through on Chicago. But the DoD is now completely and totally unprepared for pretty much everything. There’s no one to step up.
Hegseth chose a fellow “bro vet,” Joe Kasper, as his first chief of staff and put him in charge of investigating the leaks, but he frequently rubbed colleagues the wrong way. “I knew he was a moron within 30 seconds of meeting him,” said Colin Carroll, who worked as deputy secretary Steve Feinberg’s chief of staff. If the secretary had said “things aren’t working out with Joe Kasper,” Carroll said, they would have resigned, but he said Hegseth made the situation worse by unceremoniously dumping them and then reassigning Kaspar days later. “That’s what pisses me off the most,” Carroll said. “I don’t want a Secretary of Defense that can’t even f—— fire people properly and not have it rebound back on his a–. Pete can’t even be a good villain.”
Nope. He can’t be a good anything except maaaayyyyybe eye candy. Maybe. He’s already going gray, and it serves him right. He’s playing at being the secretary. He’s not *doing the job*. His job is paranoia. Why isn’t this man getting fired?
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What if government destruction (wrecking things) is the POINT? There is only ONE thing that ultimately matters WRT to ANY person working in this demolition crew. That is the amount of lbs of force of that person’s lips pressed against Trump’s fat ass. And WRT to Kegsbreath, think Avogadro’s Number.
“What if government destruction (wrecking things) is the POINT? ” Hmm 🤔
Isn’t it about time there was a conspiracy theory (assuming it’s not actually true, that is) that 🍄rump is really an alien agent, sent to screw with this planet, making it all the more easy to take over?
Or even to do it just for a laugh? Or for xeno-sociological research purposes?!