Deleted both the Substack app and website, reinstalled, and everything seemingly back to normal...problems may have been coincidental with your "report", who know? Thank you for the alert, nonetheless!
Re Donny’s anticipated end run around that Senate advise and consent thing: can’t wait to see who, if anyone, does anything about. And if anyone does, whether there’s a SCOTUS majority cool with it. Of course, a panel that willfully misreads the 2nd amendment and ignores the Civil War civil rights stuff likely would be cool with Donny’s shit pulling…
I guess Clinton turning the national party into alt-Republicans really hasn’t been good for the nation…
Trump, using his usual ability to breeze past experience and substance and instead seek photogenic people with which to surround himself, has picked a real "winner" (extreme sarcasm font) in Hesgeth who has absolutely NO experience in managing such an enormous, sprawling entity such as the DoD. His one and only claim to "fame" is a stint in the National Guard and his support of the psychotic murdering SEAL that the Navy tried to put away in military prison.
I'm sorry, but those "qualities" do NOT make him a suitable candidate to be Secretary of the Dept of Defense. His big qualification in Trump's book is his good looks, apparently. Oddly, this eminently unqualifed candidate is just one of the many graduates of Harvard AND Princeton, who has thrown his cv away for a chance at getting close to those enticing levers of power regardless of the humiliations and obvious drawbacks of working for Trump. Just what are they teaching at Harvard, anyway??? Ambition at any cost? Harvard needs to examine their entrance requirements; they are taking in and graduating far too many trumplings.
Well he IS very good-looking, I'll give him that. Unfortunately, that sort of man tends to be self-obsessed and in love with his own reflection. It appears that is true of Hesgeth who, like Trump, cheated on his first wife with his second wife and on his second wife with his third wife. He comes with a lot of controversy--which is why Trump wants to use the relatively cloaked "recess appointment" path to get Hesgeth into position. I pray that the Senate retains a few molecules of sense and doesn't just roll over for Trump...but with so many bumkissers as Senators (I'm looking at you, Susie Collins and the execrable Rick Scott) I'm not hopeful.
He is good looking, but there is no light in his eyes, no kindness in his face. In a few years he will look like an angry old man, or he'll adopt some weird hairdo or facial hair.
I agree. His good looks are surface only--otherwise he is a creep and a weirdo (not washing his hands for a decade--ick! His dirty little trick to inspire gratitude in the young woman (Fox producer) that he was--essentially--stalking--extremely creepy!
He is a vain talking head and that's about all there is to him. Hegseth is very much like Trump--it's all about HIM.
I have to wonder whether there are any repubs who get it and are playing along with Trump in order to stay in business until the moment things get real bad and they can put the brakes on? Does anyone else wonder about that? Might Thune be that person?
I saw a piece on PBS Newshour last night about how author John Grisham and Jim McCloskey have started an organization called Centurion to get wrongly imprisoned people out of jail. I think it's safe to say that most of us find it unconscionable that people have been incarcerated under false pretenses, usually by design, while the President of our country, who IMO should be held to a higher, not lower, standard, broke the law in front of our very eyes, for all to see, and will not only walk, but will be come our president again.
Yet more proof - if more is needed - about how unseriousness and incompetency are the hallmarks of tRump in office. tRump 2.0 has been billed as "the new-new disciplined and more savvy" version of tRump 1.0...OK, so far we have "Leon" Musk and the Swamy, Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, and more of the same waiting in the wings. How can anyone "sane-wash" this spectacle, I ask you.
The Senator! Must fight these nominations like they have never fought before!
If Thune doesn't order them to go on recess.
Well, David...quite a raft of - well, horrifying news to report today...words fail me.
Government-by-Klown-Kar...what could possibly go wrong??
I've done that before.
Well, something happened to my Comments...can only post first line of text, the rest is clipped.
Deleted both the Substack app and website, reinstalled, and everything seemingly back to normal...problems may have been coincidental with your "report", who know? Thank you for the alert, nonetheless!
Re Donny’s anticipated end run around that Senate advise and consent thing: can’t wait to see who, if anyone, does anything about. And if anyone does, whether there’s a SCOTUS majority cool with it. Of course, a panel that willfully misreads the 2nd amendment and ignores the Civil War civil rights stuff likely would be cool with Donny’s shit pulling…
I guess Clinton turning the national party into alt-Republicans really hasn’t been good for the nation…
Trump, using his usual ability to breeze past experience and substance and instead seek photogenic people with which to surround himself, has picked a real "winner" (extreme sarcasm font) in Hesgeth who has absolutely NO experience in managing such an enormous, sprawling entity such as the DoD. His one and only claim to "fame" is a stint in the National Guard and his support of the psychotic murdering SEAL that the Navy tried to put away in military prison.
I'm sorry, but those "qualities" do NOT make him a suitable candidate to be Secretary of the Dept of Defense. His big qualification in Trump's book is his good looks, apparently. Oddly, this eminently unqualifed candidate is just one of the many graduates of Harvard AND Princeton, who has thrown his cv away for a chance at getting close to those enticing levers of power regardless of the humiliations and obvious drawbacks of working for Trump. Just what are they teaching at Harvard, anyway??? Ambition at any cost? Harvard needs to examine their entrance requirements; they are taking in and graduating far too many trumplings.
Well, jeez, Hegseth was on TV, on FOX, so he MUST be intelligent! Or something.
After all, Lumpy Shit Führer didn't have any experience in politics until he became President, and... ummm...
😬
we're screwed.
Well he IS very good-looking, I'll give him that. Unfortunately, that sort of man tends to be self-obsessed and in love with his own reflection. It appears that is true of Hesgeth who, like Trump, cheated on his first wife with his second wife and on his second wife with his third wife. He comes with a lot of controversy--which is why Trump wants to use the relatively cloaked "recess appointment" path to get Hesgeth into position. I pray that the Senate retains a few molecules of sense and doesn't just roll over for Trump...but with so many bumkissers as Senators (I'm looking at you, Susie Collins and the execrable Rick Scott) I'm not hopeful.
He is good looking, but there is no light in his eyes, no kindness in his face. In a few years he will look like an angry old man, or he'll adopt some weird hairdo or facial hair.
I agree. His good looks are surface only--otherwise he is a creep and a weirdo (not washing his hands for a decade--ick! His dirty little trick to inspire gratitude in the young woman (Fox producer) that he was--essentially--stalking--extremely creepy!
He is a vain talking head and that's about all there is to him. Hegseth is very much like Trump--it's all about HIM.
I have to wonder whether there are any repubs who get it and are playing along with Trump in order to stay in business until the moment things get real bad and they can put the brakes on? Does anyone else wonder about that? Might Thune be that person?
I saw a piece on PBS Newshour last night about how author John Grisham and Jim McCloskey have started an organization called Centurion to get wrongly imprisoned people out of jail. I think it's safe to say that most of us find it unconscionable that people have been incarcerated under false pretenses, usually by design, while the President of our country, who IMO should be held to a higher, not lower, standard, broke the law in front of our very eyes, for all to see, and will not only walk, but will be come our president again.
I am sorry he is surrendering in advance. Why not let 47 fire him? Can anyone shed light on strategy?
Yet more proof - if more is needed - about how unseriousness and incompetency are the hallmarks of tRump in office. tRump 2.0 has been billed as "the new-new disciplined and more savvy" version of tRump 1.0...OK, so far we have "Leon" Musk and the Swamy, Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, and more of the same waiting in the wings. How can anyone "sane-wash" this spectacle, I ask you.
Jesus! Every day news of the Trump administration will bring a shock to the system. Four more years. 😟
Musk and the Swami..."Car 54, where are you?"