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'Fire this idiot'
Followed immediately by "arrest this criminal".
Trump knows that when he orders the military to fire on American citizens, Hegseth will enthusiastically pull that trigger. He would launch a nuclear weapon if Trump wanted him to. That kind of unquestioning psychopathic loyalty is incredibly valuable.
Hegseth isn't going anywhere, he's one of Trump's core players, like Bondi or PeeWee Himmler.
Even if that weren't true, the idea that this type of open corruption is grounds for firing in a Trump admin is laughable. Trump himself is far more corrupt, and hegseth being corrupt just goes further to ensure his loyalty. He can always have Bondi do a selective prosecution of this should he step out of line.
It's basically kompromat that only Trump (through control of the DOJ through Bondi) can use.
Don't forget Bondi wasn't even their first choice. Bondi is just who they used because they couldn't get Matt Gaetz the position. Someone he could blackmail into doing anything because they already have the evidence that he trafficked and raped a minor. Gaetz assistant pled guilty and is in prison with a shortened sentence (14 years) with the agreement he would testify against Gaetz. Both Florida and the U.S. put the files in a drawer and essentially labeled it blackmail and let him walk free until they need to use it against him. He wasn't found not guilty, wasn't even tried, they just put them in a corner and said... Maybe later.
That is an entirely accurate assessment of the situation, with one small clarification:
Joel Greenberg wasn't his assistant, he could be better described as a wingman/ concierge/ pimp, sort of a Florida Trailer Trash analogy to Epstein/Trump.
Greenberg was the Seminole County Tax Collector, an elected position, that oversees tax collections, obviously, but also the DMV, and Elections. So it's a powerful position, with a lot of room for corruption.
One of the things that they did was take underage girls into the DMV after hours, and let them root through barrels of old licenses, looking for ones that resembled themselves close enough that they could use them as fake IDs.
The only fire Hegseth understands is fireball.
I mean, Trump has been using his position in office to enrich himself in both terms…. What are they gonna do to Hegseth?
Depends on whether daddy granted his permission.
or gets his cut of the robbery
"Under fire"? Man that sounds serious. What are they actually firing at him, though? Like how is he being penalized by being "under fire"? What does that mean?
It's like when a corporation gets "SLAMMED" for some anti-social act, or policy. It means theyvare being criticized for it, but the accountability ends there.
It doesn’t mean anything. These headlines might as well read, “quell your rage, educated masses: the bad people are finally getting the negative attention they deserve, so put down your pitchforks…”
It’s a slow drip of hope that consequences are just around the corner. It keeps uprisings at bay. Until decades later people realize, “wait a minute… how’s this guy running for President? Wasn’t he ‘under fire’ for some shit not long ago?”
Hegseth should serve life in prison.
We can do better.
Hegseth should serve life in a drag show?
He'll enjoy that too much. Drag queens are hilarious.
He’ll enjoy that too much.
Do you not know who Pete Hegseth is?
https://www.newsweek.com/grindr-app-crashes-milwaukee-rnc-1927750
It's always projection with these people
Yeah, he's a treasonous PedoCon, a member of the party that crashes Grindr whenever they gather. He's obviously compensating.
Bryon Noem can give him some tips.
Or, wild idea, prosecute?
Yeah the editor toned down the quote in the headline. The actual quote from the article was:
"Firing this drunk idiot is the bare minimum. @PeteHegseth should be prosecuted."
Yeah it's probably not going to happen until after the Republicans are out of office and someone can fix the DOJ.
Republicans being held responsible and suffering consequences after leaving office? That's a funny joke, but I've already heard it.
even if at some point the rule of law returns and they will prosecute, this unhinged piece of shit would rather murder-suicide his whole family than assume any responsibility and consequences
I'm cool with him pulling a Goebbels.
reached a new "height of criminality."
This is base level of criminality now.
Yeah this isn't even nearly as many felonies as Trump had prior to be elected.
Out of a cannon into the sun
That requires more energy than shooting him out of the solar system.
I'm all for energy efficiency!
Nice side effect: he has more time to contemplate the reason behind his long journey.
Alternatively, launch toward the sun, include a solar power tracker, and track and follow the trajectory for science/physics class work!
Based on trumps speed and position today, calculate where his bloated corpse will be in 9 hours, the length of a workday, which is something he never personally experienced, but tried to make worse for the average person.
Double whammy of learning about history and science!
9 hours, the length of a workday
Laughs in European.
I mean I’m including the hour lunch there or it would be 8.. pretty sure y’all aren’t working substantially less than that..
Fair enough, that does change things. 7.5 is pretty standard, but I've generally been contracted for 7. Which is significantly less than 9.
What about the peanuts farm?
I'm always so angry when this gets brought up. He loved that fucking peanut farm and he gave it up! That's how much he cared about the American people. We didn't deserve him.
So this is the limit? Money? Of course.
Someone more knowledgeable clarify this to me ?
"Pete Hegseth tried to make a LOSING insider trade on his advance knowledge of Trump's Iran war plans, which he advised to start," Grant Stern, managing editor of Occupy Democrats, posted on X. "This is the height of criminality and incompetence."
How was the trade losing ? whatever stock it was went down ? was it something akin to weapons manufacturing ? and if I understand correctly, it was expected to go up because of their involvement in the "war effort" ?
There are ways to make money when stocks go up, of course, but there are also ways to make money when stocks go down. We don't know the details, but the bottom line is that he bet one way, and the market went the other.
You can gamble on whether a stock price will rise or fall. When going to war, stock prices for war companies rise because they are expected to get a lot of business, but if that call to war is suddenly canceled, then the stock price for that company decreases.
If he made a losing bet, one of two things happened:
The value of the stock was going to drop way below the value it started at, so he would earn a large payout on that gamble.
He was funneling large amounts of money to other insider traders.
Thank you. I didn't know that was possible. How do you do such a gamble, practically ? Is it something that banks offer, or something you can do from a smartphone app ?
Additionally, how does #2 work ?
You can get a brokerage app, exactly what app and how they work are dependent on your region.
#2 just involves knowing the right people.
Don't have to be a good criminal to do crime! Dude's an amateur at insider-trading!
Even I think I could do better, after an internship at the white house
Martha Stewart did this shit. You might argue she is more competent than Hegseth. And she went to prison.
That was in the before times when actions of the rich still had some consequences.