The alleged crimes are piling up, the evidence is hiding in plain sight, and Trump’s Pentagon is betting that nobody in Washington will dare hold Whiskey Pete accountable…
The terrifying part isn’t even that Hegseth keeps skating past conduct that would end almost anyone else’s career. It’s that the system is being trained to treat “the president likes him” as a substitute for law, ethics, oversight, and basic competence. Once loyalty becomes the only credential that matters, accountability turns into optional paperwork.
"If authorizing and paying for all of this with our tax dollars is a crime, it doesn’t seem to bother Whiskey Pete."Neither does genocide in Palestine, kidnapping leaders of sovereign nations, nor starving people in Cuba. So much for taxation without representation.
In an aside, and this is a rich statement, of all of Smitty Trump's cabinet Hegseth is the creepiest. Now, think of what I am stating here. Out of Smitty himself, Bob Kennedy, Susie Wiles and a plethora of weirdos, Hegseth stands out.
It seems that the tv personalities that trump put in his cabinet have Teflon similar to their boss. Every time Hegseth breaks laws to destroy the military and recreate to the MAGA enforcers he gets a pass.
I remember when Bush 2 was president and (I think it was Bush 2), with the “Weapons of mass destruction” being shouted from everyone’s TV set. It seemed so completely phony to me. I felt angry. I was angry that Bush and the GOP were lying to us, the American people. I felt angry that most people would not be able to see through the lies and we would be in another phony war to profit certain individuals. I’m sure there were many of us who could discern that we were being lied to. But we were young and poor and ignored.
I hated the uneducated young men who willingly signed up and enlisted to be sent over to make this phony war possible. And I also understood that the military offered them educational opportunities later on if they survived.
But I was really pissed off at the men who signed up to go into that war so that they could fly airplanes and drop bombs and kill people. A lot of them, I thought, wanted to feel empowered as they killed and destroyed the supposed enemy.
The truth has become obsolete in this administration. So much of this lying is done by Trump and Hegseth in a creatively corrupt manner.
The election of Trump to this office for the second time is of course the adaptation to total corruption in our government and our country.
Consider his picks for heads of state.
A partial list is nauseating.
RFK the anti Medicine head of health. Hegseth the twisted alcoholic ‘ Secretary of War’. Every one of his appointments has been made to destroy this country , piece by piece.
Trumps tribute to Putin requires destruction .
There ought to be jail time in their futures. Trump accuses his opponents of “ treason”.
He and his cohorts are the very embodiment of treason .
The only way to bring justice is to replace the entire regime, and sadly most of the U.S. Judicial System including the supreme Court, for regardless of what happens, the Supreme Court will provide cover.
At least a Democratic president should fire all political appointees on the first day of office, all of them, bar none. Then nullify all executive orders, save one, the executive order that creates Schedule F employee, to replace non political civil servants. The first big mistake of Biden, who issued EO 14003 that rullified Trump's EO 13597, which had created schedule F and enable Trump to replace professional civil servants with flunkies and loyalist. He should have kept that EO to reverse the damage. We were ill led then, and apparently will be in the future.
Then congress can impeach and try Scalia, Roberts, Thomas, Kavanaugh and corrupt federal judges.
The terrifying part isn’t even that Hegseth keeps skating past conduct that would end almost anyone else’s career. It’s that the system is being trained to treat “the president likes him” as a substitute for law, ethics, oversight, and basic competence. Once loyalty becomes the only credential that matters, accountability turns into optional paperwork.
"If authorizing and paying for all of this with our tax dollars is a crime, it doesn’t seem to bother Whiskey Pete."Neither does genocide in Palestine, kidnapping leaders of sovereign nations, nor starving people in Cuba. So much for taxation without representation.
In an aside, and this is a rich statement, of all of Smitty Trump's cabinet Hegseth is the creepiest. Now, think of what I am stating here. Out of Smitty himself, Bob Kennedy, Susie Wiles and a plethora of weirdos, Hegseth stands out.
That M.F. is dangerous.
Period.
History repeats so please be aware?
Remember, O Citizens: You own the joint.
Of the very good suggestions made my question is - WHY AREN'T THEY BEING DONE ALREADY?
Answer - BECAUSE NOBODY WANTS TO.
It seems that the tv personalities that trump put in his cabinet have Teflon similar to their boss. Every time Hegseth breaks laws to destroy the military and recreate to the MAGA enforcers he gets a pass.
Who is supporting him behind the scenes.
Thank you for this most thoughtful article.
I remember when Bush 2 was president and (I think it was Bush 2), with the “Weapons of mass destruction” being shouted from everyone’s TV set. It seemed so completely phony to me. I felt angry. I was angry that Bush and the GOP were lying to us, the American people. I felt angry that most people would not be able to see through the lies and we would be in another phony war to profit certain individuals. I’m sure there were many of us who could discern that we were being lied to. But we were young and poor and ignored.
I hated the uneducated young men who willingly signed up and enlisted to be sent over to make this phony war possible. And I also understood that the military offered them educational opportunities later on if they survived.
But I was really pissed off at the men who signed up to go into that war so that they could fly airplanes and drop bombs and kill people. A lot of them, I thought, wanted to feel empowered as they killed and destroyed the supposed enemy.
The truth has become obsolete in this administration. So much of this lying is done by Trump and Hegseth in a creatively corrupt manner.
The election of Trump to this office for the second time is of course the adaptation to total corruption in our government and our country.
Consider his picks for heads of state.
A partial list is nauseating.
RFK the anti Medicine head of health. Hegseth the twisted alcoholic ‘ Secretary of War’. Every one of his appointments has been made to destroy this country , piece by piece.
Trumps tribute to Putin requires destruction .
There ought to be jail time in their futures. Trump accuses his opponents of “ treason”.
He and his cohorts are the very embodiment of treason .
The only way to bring justice is to replace the entire regime, and sadly most of the U.S. Judicial System including the supreme Court, for regardless of what happens, the Supreme Court will provide cover.
At least a Democratic president should fire all political appointees on the first day of office, all of them, bar none. Then nullify all executive orders, save one, the executive order that creates Schedule F employee, to replace non political civil servants. The first big mistake of Biden, who issued EO 14003 that rullified Trump's EO 13597, which had created schedule F and enable Trump to replace professional civil servants with flunkies and loyalist. He should have kept that EO to reverse the damage. We were ill led then, and apparently will be in the future.
Then congress can impeach and try Scalia, Roberts, Thomas, Kavanaugh and corrupt federal judges.
The Republicans confirmed the appointments and have supported Trump all the way. Don't forget that at the polls.