>Who will be keeping the Scorecard of justice?
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>why did the Constitution stop applying this mandate in the "1950's"?
The Roosevelt administration showed [them] the full power of the chief executive, especially with emergency powers. The media was given the task of making the President a celebrity and crafting the 'Leader of the Free World' narrative. It's challenging (by design) to infiltrate and wield power in a three-part government, so the role of the Office of the President has been intentionally expanded since the 1940s.
>needs to make it through confirmation.
Maybe. He may receive a recess appointment:
“Do you think he’ll get confirmed by the Senate?” a reporter asked Massie, to which Massie could be heard responding, “recess appointments.”
“He’s the Attorney General,” Massie added. “Suck it up!”
Under Article II of the United States Constitution, the President has the “Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/13/rep-thomas-massie-on-whether-gaetz-will-be-confirmed-ag-by-senate-recess-appointments/
https://x.com/haleytalbotcnn/status/1856806886819205280?
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You've never actually kissed a girl, have you, Anon?
>why scared of Hegseth?
He's not an insider who knows how the game is played and will therefore play along. That immediately makes them uncomfortable with his selection
>It'll take me another day to finish the Game[2] Stringer.
>never heard of him and I thought I knew who everyone was at fox.
In picking Fox News Channel host Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense, President-elect Donald Trump has selected a military veteran and popular conservative media personality with a large following of his own.
Here are a few things to know about Hegseth.
He called to “clean house” at the Pentagon
Hegseth complains in his latest book that “woke” generals and the leaders of the elite service academies have left the military dangerously weak and “effeminate” by promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. He says rank and file soldiers are undermined by “feckless civilian leaders and foolish brass,” adding that “the next commander in chief will need to clean house.”
He mocks and misgenders transgender servicemembers and says the military is turning off recruits.
“America’s white sons and daughters are walking away, and who can blame them,” he writes in “The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free.”
Like Trump, he espouses a traditional view of masculinity, writing that men are innately drawn to fight, compete and prove their strength. Also like Trump, he is sharply critical of NATO allies that he says are not spending enough on their own defense, calling them “self-righteous and impotent nations asking us to honor outdated and one-sided defense arrangements they no longer live up to.”
He calls the political left, “America’s domestic enemies” and “America-wreckers.”
Hegseth’s writing is contemptuous of the policies, laws and treaties that constrain warfighters on the battlefield, from restrictive rules of engagement to the Geneva Conventions, which he suggests are outdated against enemies who don’t abide by them.
He has little patience for the moral questions surrounding war. Of the Americans who dropped nuclear bombs on Japan to end World War II, he writes, “They won. Who cares.”
He calls to rename Defense Department back to its original moniker, the War Department, and implement a 10-year ban on generals working for defense contractors after retiring from the military.
He’s questioned the role of women in combat
Hegseth has pushed for making the military more lethal and said that allowing women to serve in combat roles hurts that effort.
“Everything about men and women serving together makes the situation more complicated, and complication in combat, means casualties are worse,” Hegseth said during an interview last week on “The Shawn Ryan Show” podcast to promote his new book. “I’m straight up just saying that we should not have women in combat roles — it hasn’t made us more effective, hasn’t made us more lethal, has made fighting more complicated.”
While he said that diversity in the military is a strength, Hegseth also said it was because minority and white men can perform similarly, something he said isn’t true for women.
By opening combat slots to women, “we’ve changed the standards in putting them there, which means you’ve changed the capability of that unit,” Hegseth said in the podcast interview.
He’s a military veteran
Hegseth has served in the military, although he lacks senior military or national security experience.
After graduating from Princeton University in 2003, Hegseth was commissioned as an infantry officer in the Army National Guard, serving overseas in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as at Guantanamo Bay.
He was formerly head of the Concerned Veterans for America, a group backed by conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch, and also unsuccessfully ran for the Senate in Minnesota in 2012. According to his Fox News bio, he has a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
https://apnews.com/article/who-is-pete-hegseth-trump-defense-secretary-2e2bdd16c8e90f5d037f763cfadbde94