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« Reply #75 on: January 14, 2025, 07:18:32 pm »
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« Reply #76 on: January 14, 2025, 07:32:02 pm »
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« Reply #77 on: January 14, 2025, 08:23:25 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on January 14, 2025, 09:08:14 am
First up today..Pete Hegseth

Blumenthal: Pete Hegseth Is So ‘Unqualified,’ It’s Almost a ‘Joke’

Stolen-Valor Blumenthal


Contrary to His Claims, Conn. A.G. Blumenthal Never Served in Vietnam: Report

May 17, 2010

Connecticut Attorney General and leading Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Richard Blumenthal never served in Vietnam -- a revelation that contradicts a central claim in Blumenthal's political narrative, according to a new report.

A New York Times investigation found that Blumenthal received at least five military deferments from 1965 to 1970 and records show he enlisted in the Marine Reserve -- a move that "virtually guaranteed that he would not be sent to Vietnam," according to the Times.

The military record also suggests Blumenthal made every effort to avoid going to war, the Times found. The embarrassing findings are fully against what has become an accepted belief about the State's top prosecutor: That he served as a Marine Sgt. during the war.

“We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam,” Blumenthal said to a pro-military group at an event in Norwalk in March 2008, the Times reported. “And you exemplify it. Whatever we think about the war, whatever we call it — Afghanistan or Iraq — we owe our military men and women unconditional support.”

https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/politics/natl-contrary-to-his-claims-ag-blumenthal-never-served-in-vietnam-report/1880706/


"Unconditional support", unless your name happens to be Pete Hegseth who, unlike Blumenthal, not only served in a war zone, but actually volunteered to do so.
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Re: Live Thread>>Senate Confirmation Hearings
« Reply #78 on: January 14, 2025, 08:24:35 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on January 14, 2025, 07:32:02 pm
It's over.  On to the next confirmation.

Nice.  :patriot:
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« Reply #79 on: January 14, 2025, 08:27:12 pm »
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Listening to a sitting United States senator who lied about his military service to advance his own political career lecture an actual combat veteran about "financial mismanagement" as US debt exceeds THIRTY TRILLION DOLLARS is beyond hilarious. Kudos, Da Nang Dick.
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« Reply #80 on: January 14, 2025, 08:28:18 pm »
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« Reply #81 on: January 14, 2025, 08:45:49 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on January 14, 2025, 10:34:46 am
Oh, my sides!
Sen. Jack Reed claims that the military is more lethal than ever because it's more diverse than ever. Let's get 'em, girls!

If DEI had been around during WWII, American tanks would have been rolling into Tokyo in early 1944.

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« Reply #82 on: January 14, 2025, 09:06:34 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on January 14, 2025, 10:53:15 am
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SENATOR JACK REED TO HEGSETH: You are supposed to remove partisan politics from the military. You propose to inject it. This is an insult to the Constitution. I have voted in favor of all of your predecessors. But you lack the character, composure and competence to be confirmed.
9:54 AM · Jan 14, 2025

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What a terrible senator..a terrible human being who has taken hundreds of thousands campaigns $ from defense contractors
10:50 AM · Jan 14, 2025

Top Five Corporate Donors (all defense contractors) to Jack Reed over the last five years

            
ContributorTotalIndividualsPACs
Lockheed Martin
$55800
$47800
$8000
L3Harris Technologies   
$54725
$39725
$15000
General Atomics
$41650
$32650
$9000
Greenberg Traurig LLP
$41500
   $26500
   $15000
RTX Corp
$27460
$18460
$9000
   

Clearly, Lockheed, Rayethon, et al. are calling in all their chips with Reed to kill off the Hegseth threat to their gravy train.
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Re: Live Thread>>Senate Confirmation Hearings
« Reply #83 on: January 14, 2025, 09:15:17 pm »
Quote from: libertybele on January 14, 2025, 11:15:51 am
This proceeding has been interrupted several times .... how are these people getting in? Security should have been put in place to screen those that entering the building.

Here's the security that would be in place if these people had been Trump supporters:

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Re: Live Thread>>Senate Confirmation Hearings
« Reply #84 on: January 14, 2025, 09:32:16 pm »
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If DEI had been around during WWII, American tanks would have been rolling into Tokyo in early 1944.



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Re: Live Thread>>Senate Confirmation Hearings
« Reply #85 on: January 14, 2025, 09:36:02 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on January 14, 2025, 11:54:59 am
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Mazie Hirono might be the least intelligent Member of Congress, and that's saying something.

This line of questioning is unbecoming of her position as a United States Senator.

She's definitely giving Patty Murray a strong challenge here.  Hirono essentially asks Hegseth if he will resign if he takes a drink of any alcoholic beverage at any time over the next four years.  I wonder what her position might be on President Trump if cocaine is found inside the White House over the next four years.
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Re: Live Thread>>Senate Confirmation Hearings
« Reply #86 on: January 14, 2025, 09:38:41 pm »
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Hillary's failed VP Tim Kaine goes after Hegseth by bringing up his seven-year-old daughter

Third dumbest Senator in Congress.
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Re: Live Thread>>Senate Confirmation Hearings
« Reply #87 on: January 14, 2025, 09:42:17 pm »
Quote from: deb on January 14, 2025, 12:50:44 pm
The more I listen to these Democrat female senators, the more I believe women should NOT be in leadership roles anywhere. Rude, bombastic, bitchy harpies.

This interview is for you, @deb


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEaef07rD6c
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« Reply #88 on: January 14, 2025, 09:57:29 pm »
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Ernst was the biggest hurdle for Pete’s confirmation. That hurdle has now been cleared.

The Dems have made it easy for her.  Who wants to side with those hate-filled morons?
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« Reply #89 on: January 14, 2025, 10:46:12 pm »
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« Reply #90 on: January 15, 2025, 07:21:56 am »
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Re: Live Thread>>Senate Confirmation Hearings
« Reply #91 on: January 15, 2025, 08:16:06 am »
Next up, Attorney General Pam Bondi. Turban Durbin has some thoughts.

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From Dick Durbin’s opening statement that he plans to deliver at Pam Bondi’s confirmation hearing today: “But I need to know you would tell President Trump ‘No’ if you are faced with a choice between your oath to the Constitution and your loyalty to Mr. Trump. You joined Mr. Trump in working to overturn the 2020 election. You have repeatedly described investigations and prosecutions of Mr. Trump as ‘witch hunts,’ and you have echoed his calls for investigating and prosecuting his political opponents.”
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She should lean forward, tap the mic, and say, “Because they are witch hunts.”
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« Reply #92 on: January 15, 2025, 09:06:30 am »
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« Reply #93 on: January 15, 2025, 09:14:41 am »
Exclusive — Marco Rubio to Shred Globalists in Confirmation Hearing: ‘Liberal World Order’ Not Just a ‘Fantasy,’ But ‘Dangerous Delusion’

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the next Secretary of State, will take the globalist foreign policy establishment to task in his opening statement at his confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/14/exclusive-marco-rubio-to-shred-globalists-in-confirmation-hearing-liberal-world-order-not-just-a-fantasy-but-dangerous-delusion/
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« Reply #94 on: January 15, 2025, 09:37:54 am »
 Rubio, Bondi among 6 nominees with confirmation hearings Wednesday
by Julia Mueller - 01/15/25 6:00 AM ET

The Senate’s fight to confirm President-elect Trump’s Cabinet accelerates Wednesday, as more than half a dozen nominees head into their confirmation hearings.

Committees will hear from Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R), Trump’s choice for secretary of State; fossil fuel executive Chris Wright, who’s up to run the Energy Department; and Pam Bondi, whom Trump named as his attorney general nominee after former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) withdrew from consideration.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R), Trump’s pick for to lead Homeland Security, was scheduled to appear Wednesday, but her hearing has been bumped to Friday.

Trump and his allies are working to get the incoming president’s team solidified as his Jan. 20 inauguration nears. With a 53-seat majority in the Senate, Republicans are optimistic about clearing the nominees, but even a small handful of party holdouts could pose hurdles.

Here’s what you need to know about the nominees with Wednesday confirmation hearings:

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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5085500-trump-cabinet-hearings-rubio-bondi-wright-ratcliffe/
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« Reply #95 on: January 15, 2025, 09:43:40 am »
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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R), Trump’s pick for to lead Homeland Security, was scheduled to appear Wednesday, but her hearing has been bumped to Friday.

Based on the disgraceful questioning of Pete Hegseth yesterday, I fully expect her to be grilled over her "Dog" incident
 by the 4 harpies of the apocalypse and their eunuchs Kaine and Stolen valor boy.
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« Reply #96 on: January 15, 2025, 10:00:18 am »
Hirono at he best and most honest yesterday.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1879309711952245111
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« Reply #97 on: January 15, 2025, 10:08:04 am »
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Based on the disgraceful questioning of Pete Hegseth yesterday, I fully expect her to be grilled over her "Dog" incident
 by the 4 harpies of the apocalypse and their eunuchs Kaine and Stolen valor boy.

Noem will appear before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee chaired by Rand Paul. The goofy Dem on this committee is Blumenthal. Fetterman is on it too which should be interesting.
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« Reply #98 on: January 15, 2025, 10:13:24 am »
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Noem will appear before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee chaired by Rand Paul. The goofy Dem on this committee is Blumenthal. Fetterman is on it too which should be interesting.

Thanks for the commitee update.  The Harpies won't be in the room.  Just Andy Kim and Rubin Galalo
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« Reply #99 on: January 15, 2025, 10:31:18 am »
The Democrats disgraced themselves yesterday in the Hegseth confirmation hearing. What is even crazier is they don’t know it.

Meanwhile, in California…

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