The man is as moronic as he is sadistic. He's also crippled by insecurity and that makes him very dangerous indeed.
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Because he's a dumbass?
The fact that they had faith in him in the first place, tells you everything you need to know.
[ just points at all of him ]
Because he's an utterly unqualified talk show host.
But these dumbfucks keep voting for TV personalities, so I'm not sure what they're expecting.
Better question is why they ever had any faith in an unqualified alcoholic TV propagandist to head up the world’s largest military.
Oh dont stop there.
His book indicates he doesn't understand history.
He was forced to step down from two veterans non profits, with accusations of financial mismanagement.
Racism. It’s always what it boils down to
Woaaaaah, hey. Let's not get overly reductionist. He's also LGBTQ-phobic, xenophobic...
Because he's a fucking idiot.
*Drunken idiot.
Drunken fucking idiot
Why are Republicans criticising Hegseth?
Because they need a fall-guy for Iran. It's ironic because the things directly under Hegseth's control appear to have largely functioned as intended. That is the strikes on Iran have been carried out with minimal US losses. Don't @ me about war crimes like the Minab school, Republicans DGAF.
The problem with the Iran war is the decision to start it and the terms upon which it will end. We should launch an investigation into who's responsible for that.
This is the real answer. Republicans don't give a shit that he's a drunken asshole, or that he's a moron doing stupid stuff like removing vaccine requirements among the soldiers, or that he's destroying military leadership. They care that they might lose elections and need to blame a non-elected person.
Yeah, especially as a lot of the criticism of the war rightly falls to the civilian leadership making idiotic decisions on how to fight the war.
Probably has nothing to do with him being a total moron.
That's an essential qualification in those circles.
If his strategy of “use all the bombs we have” was working they’d still have faith in him. As it stands now it might cost them the next election and all their donor money.
because they are rather slow. wait till they wake up to whats happened to literally every facet of the federal government.
You have to have a brain to wake up.
Well, fascism doesn't require skilled people. It just requires loyalists. You can see that in many areas.
I'd call him an empty suit but he's so full of shit that'd be a lie.
He's smugly incompetent
Never had any to begin with
Is it because he's an irredeemable See You Next Tuesday?