What's a nice Quaker like RantWoman doing opining about the nominee to be Secretary of Defense in the new administration?
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This headline is unnecessarily inflammatory. How about something more like GOP Senator read to stand up for responsible cabinet choices
Hegseth is a perfect illustration of why we should never send people into war without planning for whatreturning vets will need. Charitably, he almost certainly needs help about whatever he is self-medicating with alcohol.
That said, the DoD serves the whole country not just drunk Christian rapists who scream Kill all Muslims.
Surely Joni Ernst cannot be the only member of the #GOP Senate who cares about what impact Hegseth's attitudes about women will have on recruiting. Much bigger supporters of the military than I say the US military has huge problems about military sexual trauma.
And while we are talking about recruiting, considering who is overrepresented among people who serve in the military, ranting against #DEI is also really bad for recruiting.
Pete Hegseth has way too many holes to dig himself out of and Joni Ernst shouldn't have to be the only person coping with crybaby #MAGA eager to suck up to the incoming rapist Commander in Chief.
We interrupt our daily torrents of trauma from the interwebs to appreciate a famous communication from 17th century equivalent of modern Ukraine / Turkey.
Once in a while it occurs to RantWoman to consider the career paths of media commentators.
Lawrence Odonell draws on his own experience as a capitol hill staffer with a very literate and reflective voice.
RantWoman could not necessarily pull that off, which is one reason to admire Lawrence so deeply.
1. Be not afraid of transgender people in restrooms. Be afraid of Faux Snooze commentators too drunk to stand up.
2. When in ANY crisis do people get to call in Mom to spin their own behavior.
3. Who on Earth wants a sloppy drunk clamoring around in the situation room like Rudy Giuliani after the 2020 election?
4. A bipartisan commitment FINALLY to completely and successfully audit the DoD. But someone who ran two different nonprofits into the ground using their resources for a party fund should not get ANYWHERE near the Pentagon's kazzillion dollar budget.
and this is all before the rapey Islamophic white supremacist stuff.
How nice that even #DonThe Con may be able to grok all of this if the media does its work digging up truth and the public screams loudly enough.
What to do if you appear to have a massive alcohol problem and mentioned for a job with an adjudicated rapist and unabashed sex predator?
Definitely bring up a #SCOTUS confirmation where someone who also likes beer and faced down a decades old accusation of sexual assault got confirmed partly because the President who nominated the judge suppressed thousands of reports to the FBI.
The sexual harassment and drunkenness accusations are a lot fresher and NOTHING about Hegseth's financial mismanagement record suggests he will be anywhere near competent to ensure a bipartisan audit, let alone manage the Pentagon budget.
I don't care what Hegseth's mom says. Women across the political spectrum are sick of the Rapist Elect putting in place other rapists.
And the number of Hegseth's drunken fiascoes definitely does not bode well for his ability to maintain composure during a global crisis.
Ba-bye Pete.
PS, from another Twitter / x rant: The Department of Defense is supposed to defend all of the US, not just drunk Christians who shriek kill all Muslims.
PPS. Between the famous letter from Hegseth's mom and coworkers' comments about Pete's treatment of female coworkers, RantWoman wonders whether Pete's own difficulty about women in combat might partly from an inability to think about women any other way than opportunities to play grabass.
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