Summary
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has told Donald Trump that Pete Hegseth likely has enough votes to be confirmed as Defense Secretary, despite controversy over past sexual misconduct allegations, a financial settlement, and concerns about his leadership and alcohol use.
Hegseth’s confirmation hearing is set for Jan. 14, with Senate Republicans aiming to expedite key national security confirmations before Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.
Other high-profile hearings, including for Marco Rubio (State), Pam Bondi (Attorney General), and Tulsi Gabbard (DNI), are tentatively scheduled for the same week amidst ongoing bipartisan negotiations.
Far-right Christo-Fascist White Supremacist Pete Hegseth vs Brain-Worm Conspiracy Nut RFK?
I think RFK isn’t smart enough to do enough real damage on a global scale. He just has some stupid ideas that will help insurance companies and the medical system make more money when people get sick from preventable diseases. More company profits.
I would be more inclined to agree if we hadn’t just come out of a global pandemic with bird flu doing its best to be round two.
If it comes to that, Americans may have to use VPNs to read foreign news sources to get anything close to reliable on the state of things, too. Most of the “liberal media” here is already kowtowing to these guys and they haven’t even assumed office yet. Imagine something like bird flu under these clowns and with a totally compliant media acting like North Korea’s state media…
Just look at how much death donvict caused during Covid. RFK could quite possibly kill far, far more. And this time, those impacted may very well be children.
He doesn’t even need to ban vaccines outright to cause a lot of damage. That kind of insane idiocy coming from the very top might put just enough people off vaccination as to cause a serious clusterfuck.