That would be the footing of someone who is so puffed up with their (supposed) superiority that they can’t see what they are standing on. That could be the position that is so valued that it’s a fixture, except it isn’t. They do not see they’re on the top of a hill and sliding down. The job and all that goes with it could be slip slidin’ away. Thank you, Raw Story:
While Donald Trump is being excoriated by Republicans over his Iran deal, which one GOP lawmaker called “… a tremendous foreign policy blunder,” MS NOW’s Bill Rohde stated on Thursday morning that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth can expect that his role in advising the president to launch the war has put his job at risk. Discussing the blowback Trump is facing over the war that, for the moment, has ended in a stalemate, Rohde claimed that Hegseth is already a prime target instead since he is already on the outs with a substantial number of Republican lawmakers.
Gee, ya think? Petey Boy Hegseth has worn out his welcome big-time, and he just doesn’t want to make an enemy of the Senate, especially when he barely squeezed into the position on a Vance tie-breaker. He’s done well in making enemies, especially in the Pentagon with the ridiculous damn surprise polygraph tests. His people aren’t going to have any respect for him if he doesn’t respect them. But outside of that and Signalgate I and II, and oops, heading off topic. Or maybe not. Firing the top-ranking people in the Armed Forces was a bad idea. Actually, there isn’t one good thing I can think of about Hegseth.
“At some point. President Trump is the person most responsible for this strategic defeat and failure,” Rohde told the “Morning Joe” co-hosts. “But I would argue the person second most responsible, who is in the most dangerous position politically, is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. He repeatedly lied to the American public in his press conferences about the progress of the war, and he also refused to give basic information to members of Congress. There’s a lot of ill will among senators and House members towards Pete Hegseth.”
Yep. He was trying to cover his arse ahead of time because he knew he was lying, and that the war was *not* going well, as we found out. We spent a lot of money to lose. We have to spend a lot more to replenish what we used, and it would be a good idea to rotate out the ships over there to check them over, too. Admittedly, I know very little about that sort of thing, so some of this is theorizing, but not all. We know about all the missile and bomb costs.
Quoting Hegseth asserting “The aftermath of this is going to be in our interest,” Rohde asked, “Did he warn the president about the Strait of Hormuz before this war? Was he honest with the American public? And to the 50,000 Americans who risked their lives in the 13 soldiers who died? You know, his performance is just something that has to be looked at.” Co-host Willie Geist added, . It turns out this is a much, much more complicated problem than can be solved by blowing things up.”
I say, again, gee, ya THINK????!!!! There was very little planning done for this war. They figured if we threw enough explody things at Iran, they’d roll over, we’d take their uranium, and we would be good. Nope. No plan means losing. We lost. There is nothing we can say that would be we were evenly matched, or that we won. Hegseth is on a slippery slope. And going by what Denis said today, it’s not going to improve. So long, farewell; we’re glad to say goodbye. The sooner the better.
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