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Hegseth will be confirmed as Secretary of Defense
I wasn’t going to bother to write about Trump’s pick, Pete Hegseth, for Defense Secretary because I figured that a binge-drinking alcoholic rapist who ran two, count them two, veterans’ organizations into the ground and can’t for the life of him keep his zipper shut wouldn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of being confirmed.
Right?
Right?
Shit, I forgot that we are back in Trump World where the worse kind of person you are, the more the Orange Man likes you.
Maybe because it makes him look good? After all, he may have cheated on all his wives, but he never cheated on a girlfriend who had just given birth while still married to his first wife.
Did you follow all of that? It took me a while to figure out that while Hegseth was married to wife #1, he had a baby with future wife #2 and then cheated on both of them with future wife #3.
Of course the real question here is why the hell any of these women were willing to marry him. No one is that good in bed, especially if they’re drunk.
And then there’s the whole financial shenanigans thing. Hegseth is great at bankrupting companies, although Trump probably considers him a lightweight. Trump has…
