Pete Hegseth is still standing, at least for now. But different videos of him from the past are being unearthed and this one will do him zero good with the gun worshippers. They love to offer thoughts and prayers after each mass shooting and then go on and wait for the next one, rinse and repeat. Here, Hegseth is talking about thoughts and prayers in a different context but the message is the same. It’s B.S. as we’ve all been saying for quite some time now. Watch this blow up in his face.
Oh no, did Pete Hegseth just expose the fallacy of thoughts and prayers? Now what are the crazy pro gun folks going to offer?
— The Possum Politic (@PossumPolitic) December 6, 2024
This is not going to help his cause any, although his nomination is being touted as “the hill to die on.”
Populism under Donald Trump is an endless series of litmus tests designed to separate the holy Us from the heathen Them. No matter how many tests a Republican has passed, he or she is forever one failure away from becoming a heretic.
The new litmus test has to do with the career prospects of a former host of Fox & Friends Weekend.
“Pete Hegseth is the hill to die on,” David Limbaugh tweeted on Thursday of Trump’s flailing nominee to lead the Pentagon. “We must be fierce, loud, relentless, united and engaged.” Similar sentiments echoed across MAGA media, with special venom aimed at GOP Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa for her heresy in announcing that she wasn’t yet sold on confirming Hegseth after meeting with him privately.
“Pete Hegseth is the hill to die on.” What would possess any human being not related to him to write that sequence of words?
It’s not as though he’s so uniquely qualified to lead the Defense Department as to be irreplaceable. On the contrary, the guy reportedly waiting to succeed him as nominee is superior by any measure and for several years was the second-most popular figure in the GOP.
And it’s not as though Hegseth is a MAGA celebrity a la Matt Gaetz or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in whom the Republican base is heavily invested. He was a C-tier right-wing infotainment figure until 23 days ago, not even worthy of hosting a Fox News weekday show. If Hegseth is a “hill to die on,” what would, say, Jesse Watters be? Mt. Suribachi?
This is all true. Yet the idea seems to be that if Hegseth can’t make it, then what about Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel? All I know is that I never thought I’d be rooting for Ron DeSantis, but it looks like that has taken place. Maybe Hell has become a ski resort.
FAFO.
A certain irony is evident when right at the time one of RWNJ’s putative leaders says ‘thoughts and prayers’ are useless, the ‘other side’ demonstrates the efficacy of a ‘2nd Amendment Solution’ on one of the RWNJ funders and supporters in the health-theft industry.
I’ll safely bet this isn’t what they envisaged would happen while they stoked outrage and unfairness over the last forty years.
Their tame SCOTUS seems fond of quoting 18th century legalisms in support of their 21st century decisions. Perhaps they might like to look a little closer at the politics of the 18th century in which those legalisms were made.
Particularly the politics of France between 1789 and 1799.
Now would perhaps be a good time to investigate the market in guillotine futures.
I think He teeth finally said something intelligent: Thoughts and prayers help no one.