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[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You're telling me the Fox News guy couldn't cut it? A conundrum indeed.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Watch, the next nominee will be Sean Hannity

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Maybe Hannity, Carlson, Rogan, Portnoy, and Shawn Ryan can viciously vie for the position in an electrified pentagonal arena.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Rogan leaving his podcast for this would be an incredible net positive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

He wouldn't. He'd just discuss the war plans on the podcast!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's the conversion of scaramuccis to hegseths?

[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

Assuming he's out and replaced tomorrow (makes the conversion easier), he'd be in position for 88 days.

That's 8 mooches (or 2 Trusses for our friends using the metric system).

  • 1 Mooch = 11 Days
  • 1 Truss = 44 days (or 4 Mooches)
  • 1 Hesgeth = 2 Trusses = 8 Mooches
[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That nazi being in office for 88 days seems fitting, doesn't it?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Not as fitting as being in office for 0 days, TBH.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

1 Hegseth = 1 octomooch

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

I’m sure it would tickle him to have left after 88 days.

Appreciate the mafs.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

LOL "or two Trusses for our friends using the metric system"

I needed a good laugh, thank you

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

The metric conversion is very useful thank you

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

When this baby reaches 88 days, you're gonna see some serious shit.

  • Doc Brown
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

This is amazing 🤩🤩🤩

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Kudos, that’s by far the best humorous post I’ve seen on Lemmy so far!

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They found someone worse already?

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Start to worry if Kid Rock starts cancelling tour dates.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Here comes the pillow man

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Imagine replacing your own hand-picked Sectary of Defense after only three months and it's considered a win.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure he did this every few months his first term

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

three months

7.81 Mooches to be exact.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Concepts of a process!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I heard Aaron Rodgers is looking for something to do...

Or maybe take Brett Farve before his stupid ass tries to run for governor of Wisconsin.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They're both QBs, though. Aren't they a better fit for Secretary of Offense?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Trump: “Does this guy know how to read a defense folks”

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Why didn't you link the NPR report?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I was really hoping they'd keep him, rather than replacing him with the next most sycophantic rich boy in line.

We all know they tolerate rank incompetence and have no care for the lives of americans. Keeping hegseth would be saying that much louder, so now it's someone else's turn to endanger our lives.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hopefully the next appointee knows to keep war crimes secret so nobody has to mention them and we can kill thousands of innocents in Yemen with less details leaking to the press.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I can forgive the murder of everyone in an apartment building, but not being sloppy on opsec!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Remember, losing his job should only be the most minor thing he faces out of all of this.

He should face felonies for leaking classified information and for actively creating non-traceable government records. He should be spending time in solitary for this, based on other prosecutions.

Just like his boss.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I'm honestly surprised they're even worried about optics at this point. They pretty much haven't seemed to care about really anything that's been done or said by team Trump.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why, because he was too much qualified? Next one is going to discuss war plans in a public irc channel

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Irc is to technical for them. It'll be on nazitter

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Fuckin LOL, next guy will be even worse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ah. Finally a fictional Marvel character will become part of the predisent's cabinet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably Wilson Fisk or Lex Luthor, although on second thought, they may be too competent for this administration.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Oh definitely.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I welcome Dr Doom as SecDef.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I wanna know if he’ll pick an even bigger white supremacist?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Good, but mainly because the opposition can now focus on the more heinous crimes of this administration.

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