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The Trump Presidency 2.0
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Just a thought - but if the initial report was true - then one might also think that a lot of the infighters - as well as the SecDef - should be getting replaced.
"Infighting" within the DOD would also have to be exclusively a byproduct of either resistance to the administrations agenda or an active campaign of "malicious compliance" with the administrations agenda.
It seems obvious to me that the ENTIRE reason for Trump putting Hegseth was primarily to serve as a disrupter to the current status quo. Disrupters almost always come with "infighting" - it is the very nature of putting a disrupter into a position.
...just a casual biased emotional partisan observation and in no way represents facts or critical thinking.
"Infighting" within the DOD would also have to be exclusively a byproduct of either resistance to the administrations agenda or an active campaign of "malicious compliance" with the administrations agenda.
It seems obvious to me that the ENTIRE reason for Trump putting Hegseth was primarily to serve as a disrupter to the current status quo. Disrupters almost always come with "infighting" - it is the very nature of putting a disrupter into a position.
...just a casual biased emotional partisan observation and in no way represents facts or critical thinking.
Please don't include the fact that this single-sourced anonymous reporting comes on the heels of Hegseth finding leakers and shit-canning them. They aren't whistleblowers, they didn't engage the appropriate channels- whoever the single anonymous source is leaked to the press, hoping some smooth-brained sycophants with TDS would take the bait. And here we are.
FWIW, the President described the newest sky-is-falling leaks and OUTRAGE as "a waste of time" and personally let Hegseth knows he stands behind him.
President Trump is the captain of a ship with a hostile crew; that's the story. But the breathless headlines are fun - it lets us know exactly who's who, and I'm here for it.
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The risky thing about firing people...they know where the bodies are buried.
Which is why Putin tosses them out of windows.
Maybe, post the conversation and then I'll believe it.
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Word on the street (NPR for what it's worth) is the White House is shopping for a new SECDEF given the most recent issues....
That’s certainly one way to read it, especially if you hold overtly cynical biases towards the admin and its leader and don’t want to bring anything of value to the discussion.
Unmask the source, provide the proof, and I’ll go allllllllll the way back to the first time we addressed this nothingburger to exactly what I said- make your charge, support it, fire whenever you want.
We went through 5 pages of this already and not a single SME could clearly define what was classified, what reg/instruction/section/law was violated, just a bunch of feelings and conjecture.
Trump isn’t firing Hegseth. The DoD is on the right track and that output is enough to weather yet another manufactured scandal.
Miss me with the outrage we are doing more important things.
ETA for clarification of the above now bolded- Trump and the admin is saying they aren't going to fire him- I think the main reason here is that Trump has fired essentially (if not zero) no one from this admin as opposed to Trump 1.0. I think he's holding the line if you get appointed/approved, you keep the job cause fuck the haters. That being said- Trump also supported Gaetz publicly and privately all the way up until he couldn't. It's my opinion he doesn't fire Hegseth, for those reasons stated.
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I love the JD Vance memes- this one was a banger. There was a follow on that said "Dhali Llama cancels meeting with JD Vance" and JD had the oompa loompa/fat JD face and it was magnifuque.
hahahahahah exactly. I love everything about this- mocking politicians, everyone making their own take, and the fact that JD is in on the joke and shares them. Nature is healing.
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