I suppose the confirmation of Hogsbreath means once and for all

[Ocelot II]

that the GOP Senate has absolutely no standards for presidential appointees as long as the candidates have a pulse and Trump orders their confirmation. Which means brainworm-infested crackpot Kennedy and Russian asset Gabbard are shoo-ins, too.

[surfered]

1. That's right. It's Trump uber alles.

[dalton99a]

2. Personal fealty to Trump is the only thing that matters

[NoMoreRepugs]

3. By the 4th of July this country will be unrecognizable.

[defacto7]

11. It's already unrecognizable to me.

I can't imagine what it will look like in 5 months.

[question everything]

4. Their seats are more important since the other psychopath promised to fund primaries of the opponents

[LisaM]

5. Trump's appointees rarely last.

The only bright side is that he'll likely be out of the way soon.

[Ocelot II]

8. True. But most of them have been replaced with even worse appointees.

He fires the halfway competent ones because they're halfway competent, or else they quit when they realize what a goat-fuck they're in the middle of. Then he finds a Fox host or a washed-up celebrity or a failing politician who's weaker and more incompetent than his predecessor.

[LisaM]

12. Yeah, there is always a revolving door.

It probably does limit the actual havoc each appointee can wreak, though.

[magicarpet]

6. Don't forget the other buffoons,...

Ka$h Patel,...

Kristi Neom,...

Dr. NO,.. excuse me, Dr. YES,... I mean Dr. the Wizard of Oz.

[brush]

7. It wil be the worse cabinet ever. Hegseth is an alcoholic and a rapist.

He's vowed to stop drinking but we know it's just a matter to time before he's drinking again and he'll have to be relieved from duty.

They asked for the embarrassment and they got it.

Patel and Rissian agent Gabbard will be next. The shit show continues.

[Ocelot II]

9. It's going to suck for all of us, but the GOP will own the whole damn mess

and I hope it sticks to them and stinks like the dog shit on your shoe that you can't scrape off and you track all over the house.

[brush]

10. Yep, a hot, stinking mess.

[DFW]

16. And there, as the Bard would say, lies the rub.

Their voters will indeed own the mess, but they have been conditioned to WANT to own the mess.
They see the mess as an asset, not a liability. They smell the dog shit and they smell the roses,
and they have decided that the dog shit smells sweeter.

[Ocelot II]

18. They sniff it out and step in it deliberately, I guess.

[DFW]

20. If they can't tell the difference, what's to stop them?

The roses look like Pepto Bismol and the dog shit looks like chocolate. If they can't smell the difference, they choose the chocolate.

[UTUSN]

13. K&R

[Morbius]

14. I do not think he'll last

Pete Hegseth is clearly not qualified for such a big job. Trump doesn't care now but headaches will ensue, and we all know how he deals with anything that distracts from attention he might get.

Maybe a year. Maybe less. Meanwhile, he'll do plenty of damage while he's there.

[Deuxcents]

19. I sincerely hope no one in the service of our country or civilian is hurt under his watch.

[MsLeopard]

15. All part of the "shock and awe"

wave of horrendously sickening appointments, executive orders, and blatant racist, sexist statements and actions in the first hours, meant only to cower us, the people, into accepting the next 100 undemocratic, fascist moves he makes. Straight out of Putin’s playbook. We’re being groomed for fascism, and since 1981 when Reagan came into the WH, Americans have been dumbed down to where there’s not three in ten now who can recognize propaganda from reality. I weep at the implications.

[Botany]

17. This is Kavanaugh 2.0. The FBI got 4,000 + tips

about his drinking, serial abuse of women, and
the mysterious way he had his 100s of thousands of $s debts paid off by right wing
millionaires, billionaires, and organizations such as the Judicial Crisis Network and nothing happened and he wound up on the SCOTUS to help in things like ruling that tyhe
14 Amendment Article #3 doesn't say exactly what it says. The Coup is a fait accomply.
Spelling?

[gab13by13]

26. Thank you for pointing that out

I also tried to point out that the FBI did not vet Hegseth. Someone from the FBI/DOJ should have been put on the carpet, but hey we should all sing kumbaya and it will eventually get better.

The Democratic party needs meet sooner rather than later, get a white board and do some brainstorming and come out of the meeting with a unified plan.

[Botany]

29. The rich right wing interests has been installing

"their people" into our law enforcement, political offices, and the court systems for
decades now in order to keep control even
as the population dynamics should be making
America more blue all the time. Russia has been in on this game too. I have often wondered just how deep into Fox News is Vlad
Putin and the GRU?

Rupert Murdock and Vlad Putin's friendship is
part of a calculated power grab and that includes Musk too.

I know I'm nuttier than a squirrel turd but we are in deep shit.

[SocialDemocrat61]

22. It's the Democratic Party

[Mike 03]

23. Last night was terrifying and awful.

Everything you wrote is true. I hold out hope, however, that Gabbard will be a bridge too far even for Republicans. Otherwise, I just cannot see our allies sharing intel with us.

[kentuck]

24. Maybe everyone except Gabbard?

She was once a "Democrat". She cannot be trusted.

[GoCubsGo]

25. I wonder if Joni Ernst will ever be able to

look Tammy Duckworth in the eyes again without melting into the cowardly pile of shit that she is. Did she cave because of threats, or because of kompromat? Or, both? If she had anything resembling a spine, this wouldn't be happening. Fuck her and the horse she rode in on.

[gab13by13]

27. Joni gave cover for the other Magat Senators to vote for Hegseth.

[snowybirdie]

28. We can only hope

the career people at Defense drag their feet a bit to slow down the rapist's dumb administration's orders.

[hatrack]

30. I think they'll probably let one of them die on the vine - either Kennedy or Gabbard

Why? Well, they're repulsive, unstable and utterly unqualified.

But more to the point, when they're voted down, that makes them a martyr.

Cue 20 years of screaming about "weaponization" and the "politics of personal destruction" from the GQP and their bootlickers.