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Cabinet of cretins

December 3, 2024 by Guest Post

by Wanda LaCroix, Missoula

Matt Gaetz’s withdrawal for AG allowed Republican Senators to dodge that bullet, but here comes another bomb: Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense. He’s a Fox “news” personality with absolutely no relevant experience to run a crucial US government department, much less one that oversees almost 3 million people and an $800+ million budget.

Aside from being totally unqualified, he’s yet another rapist. What is it with “Christian” “family values” proponents that makes them love rapers? 

A recently released 2017 complaint against Hegseth recounts chilling details of a drunk Hegseth blocking a woman from leaving a hotel room and then sexually attacking her. The woman underwent a rape exam and the nurse reported it. Hegseth claims it was consensual yet paid out a nondisclosure settlement to buy her silence.

But that’s not all! Hegseth says that fellow Americans, like me because I’m a Democrat, are “Marxists” which is fine for the knuckle-dragging right-wing base to pound out from their bunkers or mom’s basements, but not the Secretary of Defense! He’s called for the “categorical defeat of the Left” claiming that without its “utter annihilation,” “America cannot and will not survive.” That’s a death threat.

Wait, there’s more! Hegseth has close ties to an Idaho Christian nationalist church that wants to turn the USA into a theocracy. Because that’s worked out so well for Muslim nations.

I’m not holding my breath for Republicans to oppose the criminally unqualified cretins nominated to the Cabinet. I’m simply registering my disgust knowing that they probably will, because they did promote a traitorous felon and rapist to be the President of the USA and a lying, carpetbagging, rich kid to be a Montana Senator over a man they know damn well is more honorable than all currently elected Republicans combined.

 

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  1. Bill Cavanaugh says

    December 4, 2024 at 2:11 PM

    The stupidity of this opinion piece is off the charts and a perfect example of the uninformed brainwashed fools that vote Democrat.

  2. Clair says

    December 4, 2024 at 12:36 PM

    Dont try to post a reply if you are questioning Wanda’s name calling.

    I think this paper is going the same way as mainstream media.

    *sigh*

  3. Clair says

    December 4, 2024 at 11:09 AM

    Ahhh more name calling from the tolerant left.

  4. Frank says

    December 4, 2024 at 10:39 AM

    When the current Secretary of Defense is responsible for the slaughter of 13 of our bravest soldiers AND is responsible for bringing transgenders and drag queens into our military, I wonder at your stupidity!

  5. Clair says

    December 4, 2024 at 10:31 AM

    Awwww bless, another tolerant liberal.

    Shame you didn’t care about those thousands of children being sex trafficked across the border in the past four years. *sigh*

  6. Kevin says

    December 4, 2024 at 9:22 AM

    the criminally unqualified cretins?? Eat the election results!!

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