Posted on 01/15/2025 6:05:41 AM PST by MtnClimber
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Senate Confirmation Hearing go so badly for the Democrats as it did today. They tried and failed to crush Pete Hegseth, who was supposed to be the easiest to discredit. They should worry about how the rest of these will go, considering how badly they did at the outset.
Kirsten Gillibrand’s screeching left me with a migraine I couldn’t shake. Mazie Hirono made the migraine worse. And, well, someone memed it on X [video at link, all of the harpies shreiking at the same time].
Pete Hegseth’s service in the military more than prepared him to face down a panel of screeching women.
Listening to them go on and on about inclusivity in combat made them look ridiculous and, worse, disconnected from reality. No reasonable person thinks that men and women are equal when it comes to fighting on the front lines of battle. We can pretend we do to fortify our Woketopia, but no reasonable person believes that.
Here is Hegseth nailing the answer: [video at link]
Perhaps this was a particularly weak selection of Senators on this particular committee, and Hegseth just got lucky, but I don’t know. If I were still a Democrat, I might be a little worried that it went this badly and that the Democrats came off once again as too unhinged to lead.
Or maybe I would have YAS QUEEN’d my way through Facebook with my Hillary tribe, manifesting our magical reality distortion trick of lying to ourselves that Democrats like Tammy Duckworth and Tim Kaine got the better of Hegseth. The truth? They were outmatched —not just by him, but by the rest of the Republican Senators who kept pulling out one Deus Ex Machina after another to discredit every accusation that flew out of their mouths.
Was it really the best they could do to try to nail him on drinking and women? It wasn’t exactly a newsflash, considering it’s been sucked in and out of the media churn so often it barely registers, not to mention the surreal aspect of seeing the Left suddenly shocked, shocked that infidelity is going on here.
Maybe Hegseth, like Trump, has been on TV so long that he knows how to play the scene far better than the Democrats, who still don’t really understand how social media works or how and why clips go viral.
It was a cage match to see if the Democrats could break him. He barely flinched. They tried to pin him on assault, it failed. They tried to pin him on being sloppy with finances, it failed. They tried to paint him as an abuser of women, it failed. One by one, they seemed to discredit themselves with their weak questions and their emotional outbursts....SNIP
The clips I've seen do NOT look like that at all.
It shows a man in virtually perfect control of the situation and himself.
He is calm and clearly very intelligent and thinks very quickly on his feet, for all the questions the left is baiting him with.
The right now has more testosterone in it that the democrats have ever had in their entire existcnes.
And the best looking group of people I’ve seen yet.
This little clip is making the rounds…
https://x.com/timrunshismouth/status/1879304587339010065?s=46
Who's that?
Tulsi isn't blond.
And her confirmation hearings would be worth watching.
Any allegation from an *anonymous source* should be tossed as unreliable immediately.
IMO, they have no credibility at all.
All the false accusations lobbed at the right over the decades by anonymous sources have destroyed any credibility they might have had.
Re: 11 - the hearing yesterday was quite the scene.
Instead of asking substantive questions, Senators give mini-speeches. And when questions do eventually get asked, the emotions - anger, fear, outrage, etc. - overwhelms. Questions should be asked without passion, in other words in a dispassionate manner.
Tammy Duckworth was by far the most despicable. She was in a red rage from her first word to her last. That person is not mentally stable.
Of course and they still believe that jd vance was a bad vp pick and tampon tim was great lol
Pam Bondi. She is cute and blonde, and quite youthful looking at nearly 60. She will tear them a new one (going on now), as will Tulsi.
OK. I’ve heard of her.
Trump sure has picked a great looking group of people. Which is just an aside. They have then character to match.
They want to drag their feet do Trump begins without all his people in place...ALSO they LOVE to grandstand
“sexual assault, excessive drinking and controversial views on women in combat”
On the first two, the Senate can take testimony and not rely on hearsay.
As for the last, the problems will arise when the women are captured and raped.
Are any senators willing to go on the record to say being raped is going to be an inherent consequence of sending women into combat and that the suffering of the raped captured women should not be a factor going forward?
These hearings are kabuki theater with the Democrats trying to score points by smearing the nominees. The Kavanaugh hearings were the worst and so excessive that all but hardened leftists were sickened by the smear and innuendo. Hegseth is better qualified to lead the Pentagon than most of other Secretaries of Defense going back to McNamara and he held his own with these scandalous questions by the Democrats.
History was made yesterday. First instance of the term “jagoff” being raised in a Senate hearing. I was disappointed “REMF” didn’t arise, especially as it pertained to Danang Dick Blumenthal.
Whether or not they were humiliated is of no importance.
How many Republican Senators are voting? JD Vance has resigned, that’s 52. Has Marco Rubio resigned yet?
With Vance and Rubio out and replacements not appointed, that’s 51. Murkowski and Collins are questionable votes.
It only takes one Republican defector to get to 50.
Kamala Harris breaks ties until Monday morning.
The RATS should be required to wear clown makeup and hold umbrellas over their heads during their goofy “hearings”.
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LOL!
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