Apparently Hegseth is still holding out that somehow he's going to be saved. I'm sure the chatterbox wire has been humming full tilt in the Beltway how he's being ejected by New Year's as the election casualty. The Administration would be well-served to replace him with a tried and true veteran general for a change who actually knows how to do the job.
The Administration would be well-served to replace him with a tried and true veteran general for a change who actually knows how to do the job.
This is exactly the kind of elitist cultural rot we're trying to shun from our national identity with this war.
The IRGC is a communist-allied Christian-killing regime getting in the way of important trade routes. Now their military is gone and the only leverage they have left is to use their civilians as meat shields and play pirate against civilian vessels. What's the problem? Compare this and Venezuela to FDR's wars which were an absolute shitshow.
This was a success in the same way that buying BTC at $30k is a success. If I buy at $30k and it dips to $20k, it's still the right decision. Doubling down would be an even better decision.
I feel that Hegseth is a mixed bag. On one hand, he has done a lot to improve the military, refocusing it as a fighting force and ensuring that our warfighters are up to the job that, hopefully, they will never have to do. At the same time with basic things has fumbled the football. With Iran he needed to get in front of what we were doing and really explain it to the people. Instead he didnt and the IRGC got to execute a whole social media campaign against the US and that hit not only the US but the entire world.
There's plenty of explanation. The past 20 years of discourse is the explanation. When the President says 1776, that means go ahead and kill everyone that hates our country. And then the Retard Right decided to stand in solidarity with the communists for world peace because evidently they can't read between the lines and they have no concept of timing and risk.
Who cares what the world thinks of my country? It's the fucking IRGC and Democrats. Geography has gifted us an opportunity to remove them from history and we have an assignment from God to do so. I don't care what the rest of the world thinks. It will thank us later.
I agree with your point of view and its the same one that I have on Hegseth.
Personally, I think Massie is just trying to make a scene at this point as he leaves office. Since Speaker McCarthy was ousted, Massie has been a huge issue for the entire Republican Caucus. Massie will try to frame this as wanting to get the US out of foreign wars, but that's more of a cover; his issue is with Republicans and, as an extension, Trump, Speaker Johnson, etc.
Hegseth is one of the best characters this season, first guy to play the part well in my lifetime (except maybe the few months after Trump fired Yesper and promoted Chris Miller)
Glad they killed off that loser Massie, this is a fitting end to his damnation arc.
I convinced Massie to endorse Trump. Our conversation had nothing to do with the Epstein files.
He said he wasn’t sure if he was gonna endorse, leaning towards not.
I said are you crazy?
Massie didn’t actually think Kennedy would be offered to lead the HHS.
Let alone that Massie himself would be seriously floated for secretary of Ag until his untrusting, undisciplined friends tried to spread the rumors in blog posts to put public pressure on the admin to lock in the position. The position Massie didn’t even ask for but they were offering! At least until that strong arm attempt.
This knee jerk untrusting and aggressive behavioral pattern tells you everything you need to know about libertarians btw.
Anyways we spoke for a long time about it the night before Massie changed his mind and endorsed. The conversation focused almost exclusively on the amount Trump could change through the Bureaucracy without relying on Congress. Including on the regulatory front where Trump has the power to enact the entire PRIME act trough USDA policy, and how getting the presidents ear would be a much easier way for Massie to advance this initiative than through his bills.
After the election, instead of helping fulfill the opportunity Massie knew existed he immediately started being oppositional with Trump in a cynical populist appeal. He never tried to explain to his fans the opportunities he knows exist. He only appealed to the hopelessness his fans already felt, feeding into what they believed for internet popularity. That is not leadership.
Currently the USDA is rewriting the entire animal protein regulatory landscape. Including many of the provisions of the PRIME act and additional changes on selling across state lines which is key for enabling local processes to compete with the big players who can sell out of state.
Massie is not at all a part of that effort. Instead of helping guide it he has resorted to misrepresenting and diminishing it from the sidelines. He can no longer be happy about his own baby. He has removed himself so far from the joys of success because he has to root against it to be vindicated.
He can only be vindicated by death, destruction and democrat victory. So that is the outcome he will nihilistically push now.
Massie knows Congress is useless. That’s why he IS the ultimate grandstander. In fact his stated reason for first running for office is literally grandstanding.
He said he didn’t think it was possible to turn around inflation or the debt. So his sole aim in Congress was to act as a canary in a coal mine, providing a historical record of dissent so that people in the future know not everyone supported the collapse.
Guess what genius? Nobody cares about you becoming the next futile, cautionary Catonian tale. We want to save America! And not all of us have given up yet.
Why tho?
I think it's because Massie got primaried and has a wild, wild hate for Speaker Johnson going back to when he first got the speakership.
Apparently Hegseth is still holding out that somehow he's going to be saved. I'm sure the chatterbox wire has been humming full tilt in the Beltway how he's being ejected by New Year's as the election casualty. The Administration would be well-served to replace him with a tried and true veteran general for a change who actually knows how to do the job.
This is exactly the kind of elitist cultural rot we're trying to shun from our national identity with this war.
The IRGC is a communist-allied Christian-killing regime getting in the way of important trade routes. Now their military is gone and the only leverage they have left is to use their civilians as meat shields and play pirate against civilian vessels. What's the problem? Compare this and Venezuela to FDR's wars which were an absolute shitshow.
This was a success in the same way that buying BTC at $30k is a success. If I buy at $30k and it dips to $20k, it's still the right decision. Doubling down would be an even better decision.
I feel that Hegseth is a mixed bag. On one hand, he has done a lot to improve the military, refocusing it as a fighting force and ensuring that our warfighters are up to the job that, hopefully, they will never have to do. At the same time with basic things has fumbled the football. With Iran he needed to get in front of what we were doing and really explain it to the people. Instead he didnt and the IRGC got to execute a whole social media campaign against the US and that hit not only the US but the entire world.
There's plenty of explanation. The past 20 years of discourse is the explanation. When the President says 1776, that means go ahead and kill everyone that hates our country. And then the Retard Right decided to stand in solidarity with the communists for world peace because evidently they can't read between the lines and they have no concept of timing and risk.
Who cares what the world thinks of my country? It's the fucking IRGC and Democrats. Geography has gifted us an opportunity to remove them from history and we have an assignment from God to do so. I don't care what the rest of the world thinks. It will thank us later.
Would take 2/3rds of senate to actually remove him, not going to happen.
Massie is a clown, compromised, or this is some covert slop op and there's another shoe to drop. All 3 are not mutually exclusive.
Not sure how I feel about Hegseth. I agree with some of his ideas, but I feel like he could accomplish his objectives more effectively.
But what does Massie have against him?
I agree with your point of view and its the same one that I have on Hegseth.
Personally, I think Massie is just trying to make a scene at this point as he leaves office. Since Speaker McCarthy was ousted, Massie has been a huge issue for the entire Republican Caucus. Massie will try to frame this as wanting to get the US out of foreign wars, but that's more of a cover; his issue is with Republicans and, as an extension, Trump, Speaker Johnson, etc.
Hegseth is one of the best characters this season, first guy to play the part well in my lifetime (except maybe the few months after Trump fired Yesper and promoted Chris Miller)
Glad they killed off that loser Massie, this is a fitting end to his damnation arc.
Source: https://x.com/LudwigNverMises/status/2120198559177802227