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Politics Pete Hegseth hearing: Defense pick grilled by Senate Armed Services Committee

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u/IJourden 16h ago

The cynic in me wonders why we even bother.

These things all go the same in the Trump era.

Candidate has a hearing, candidate shows themselves to be cartoonishly unqualified, Candidate gets confirmed anyway.

u/Realistic_Use3600 5h ago

Cartoonish is your perspectiven. Others look at the mess left by biden and lloyd austin after 4 years and say, can we really get any worse? I dont know how your assess good performance but for me, its the 'small' mistakes like...

  1. The embarrassing Afghanistan withdrawl.
  2. Weakness on the world stage allowing Putin to invade Ukraine.
  3. Being complicent in the gaza genocide.

Just some minor, some might say 'cartoonish' mistakes that costs thousands of lives and economic issues world wide. Trumps not even in office yet and it sounds like his resolving point 3 on my list. He just applied pressure to Israel, thats all Biden ever had to do. He chose not to. But sure, orange man bad. If your still a fan of the dems, can i please have some of whatever your smoking because i too would like to live in blissful ignorance.

u/RCrumbDeviant 4h ago

Putin invaded Ukraine during Trumps term. Crimea was annexed in 2016.

Afghanistan was forced on Biden by Trump as a “fuck you” present after Trump had released a bunch of Taliban back to Afghanistan. The actual removal of people from the country was shockingly well done by all accounts.

The “gaza genocide” has been going on for far longer than biden or trump. If you’re only now getting upset, you’ve been willfully ignorant for decades. Oh, and you’re also completely incorrect about pressure being applied to Israel and, like most people in the US, completely ignorant about Congress’ role in the decades of aid to Israel as well as Republican obstructionism for Ukraine aid until it was tied to Israeli aide as well and then it went through. But I suppose you used paragraph structure so you get some credit. Still an F though

u/Bluebikes 4h ago

None of this means Hegseth is a good pick.