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Thank you for laying down the marker over and over in these postings, and for telling the truth. You do matter, as does the truth you speak.

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Hegseth is the walking definition of an abuser of alcohol. Such a person will promise/bargain with employer, boss, spouse, POTUS-elect for a job he badly wants by absolutely guaranteeing, and promising on all that is holy that THIS TIME he will stop drinking.

Don't believe a word of it.

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He doesn’t say he’ll stop harassing women or learn how to be a good leader: On the job training?

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Thank you David for TRUTH.

It seems to be a heavy lift for

those in MSM and very

refreshing to see in TPM/MM.

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"my pastors" - does that tell you everything you need to know about the Xtians?

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What hit ME is that trump is rejecting a candidate for religious reasons. The religious test prohibition of Article IV probably isn't actually violated with a nomination, but it sure shows a disturbing aspect of trump's catering:

“no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”

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Well they are his, and they deserve each other, but the rest of us don’t.

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BREAKING NEWS: Pete Hegseth promised "He won't drink anymore;

He won't drink any less either."

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When one compares whatever alleged windfalls or self-dealing from which Hunter Biden may have profited by invoking his father's name to the billions of dollars tRump's family and in-laws reaped in consequence of tRump's first term of office, and the promises of an even greater haul during this ethics-free coming term, it is stunning how the media draws up equivalences between the two families, completely neglecting the fact that the tRump Crime Family machinations directly impact relations between pay-to-play countries and the US.

Transactional relationships are the very essence of tRumpism and "Art of The Deal", and anything and everything that this administration will do will be informed by "What's in it for me/us?" It's his history, both as a "businessman" and president, and as the saying goes, "You ain't seen nothing yet".

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If Hegseth gets the job, I will start drinking.

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That’s just one of your problems, then there’s messing where you shouldn’t be messing, and the bigly one, you are so not qualified for the position. Are you so damn arrogant that you think you are??

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AN OPEN LETTER TO MY MAGA NEIGHBOR

You Know Who You Are: Your House Still Draped in MAGA Banners, Red Hat Firmly on Your Head, and Truck Plastered with Trump Stickers

https://open.substack.com/pub/patricemersault/p/an-open-letter-to-my-gloating-maga-450?r=4d7sow&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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