Trump Doesn't Give A Hoot About Hegseth And Patel
Trump indicated to several of his cronies that the Pete Hegseth nomination rested in Iowa Senator Joni Ernst’s hands, since he thinks of her as a “military person.” She met with Hegseth on Wednesday and yesterday she was unwilling to give him a thumbs up, telling a Fox News audience that “The vetting will continue, I am certain, through the next month or so until we approach that hearing date.”
Andrew Egger wrote that “in their podcasts, posts, and media appearances, the hard-charging national populists of the Bannonite right are trying to morph the confirmation fights over the likes of Pete Hegseth, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel into titanic, existential struggles over whether it will be Trump or the establishment that controls the GOP. Listen to shows like Steve Bannon’s War Room or Jack Posobiec’s Human Events Daily right now, and you’ll hear a lot of rhetoric against individual GOP senators like Kevin Cramer, James Lankford, Mike Rounds, and Thom Tillis. To the MAGA crowd, these aren’t conservative lawmakers. They’re representatives of the ‘uniparty,’ the ‘D.C. duopoly,’ the ‘globalists’ representing ‘entrenched special interests… the entrenched power base versus the people’s movement and the people’s president.’… But what’s increasingly interesting is how little of the push for confirmation is coming from Trump himself… Trump has been remarkably quiet about Hegseth… Trump ‘isn’t working the phones’ on Hegseth’s behalf either. And behind the scenes, his people are busy making contingency plans for other possible nominees. Recall it was this way with Gaetz, too. When it became clear the Florida man didn’t have the votes to be confirmed as attorney general, Trump judged it a poor use of his political capital to try to force the issue. He pulled Gaetz, nominated Bondi, and we’ve heard no more about it… It’s Trump who gets the last laugh, though, because Hegseth’s career is falling apart, not his. He’ll start bullying senators plenty quick when we get to stuff he really cares about.”
Trump would probably just like to shitcan the Hegseth nomination, the way he did with his ill-fated. MAGA-hated DEA appointee, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister who he refused to even allow the dignity of a standard withdrawal but instead posted this nastiness:
The two nominees he really does care about, wrote Marc Caputo yesterday, are ulsi Gabbard and RFK, Jr. And Patel is likely to go down too, but it’s these two reprobates who Trump will fight for. “Confirming Gabbard and Kennedy is seen as an opportunity for the president-elect to cement his legacy of broadening the Republican coalition to include disaffected Democrats and independents… [T]he two are considered Blue MAGA rock stars among the Trump faithful. They’re both loved by the new influential podcasters whom Trump courted this election and give Trump the chance to burnish his anti-establishment bona fides. ‘The appointments of RFK and Tulsi Gabbard represent a realignment in American politics that you saw in the election,’ said Roger Stone, a longtime Trump friend and adviser. ‘He understands the historical significance of that realignment.’”
I have a feeling realignment's historical significance is not something Trump cares about. This kind of stuff is always about him. I suspect that he’s all worked up about these two is because he made explicit quid pro quo promises to them during the campaign and he doesn’t want to see those explode in the Senate.
If the transition is any indication this is going to be another 4 years of chaos and dysfunction. Burgess Everett and Shelby Talcott reported it was designed to be orderly but quickly descended into Trump-centric chaos and confusion and they noted that “Questions still abound about whether Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can get confirmed… Any further havoc could spill over into legislation, as Republicans plot a challenging 2025 agenda that calls on House and Senate members to coordinate on two separate party-line bills with little room for error… Governing is hard; governing with slim majorities is really hard. Doing that while the unconventional Trump is president? Washington is about to find out how tough that is… [After Hegseth] the focus would shift to Gabbard and Kennedy.” Let’s not forget Kash.
Given his history, you can infer that he doesn't give one yoctofuck about anybody but himself. He's nom'd this kkklown kkkar probably to stick it to you all, because he knows they're all deeeeeply flawed nazis. He's giggling over all the angst he's incited in all you who could not or would not prevent him from being elected fuhrer again.
He has a very long list of ass-kissing acolytes, all equally unfit, to pick from. Eventually you and your corrupt pussies will tire of all the outrage and decide to settle for a lot of them. You'll pick a couple more (after gaetz) to TRY to resist (symbolically, remembering who has the majority in the senate and all). You w…