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Hegseth nomination in a nutshell: The last CEO we hired had all the right credentials, but turned out to be a dud. The only alternative is to promote a mailroom intern to replace him.

look guys I know everyone hates the tariffs. But we need to restore manufacturing to the US. and it's not like any American manufacturing companies use these weird metals called "steel", "aluminum", or "copper"

i for one will not stand for claims of deep state corruption if it’s not accompanied by hard evidence

"Defends Not Posting About Politics" is an insane line

Time for an Infrastructure Week!

When Sotomayor is dunking on your for being a shit lawyer and telling you to tone down your partisan reflexes....

Don't believe anything like this unless it's from Trump's mouth.

Simply because Hegseth lacks the credentials of Lloyd Austin doesn't automatically him more competent. Might be a broader lesson there, for the Populists.

Most depressing thing about this is that this "brilliant" epiphany apparently has to be reached by every POTUS for themselves, from scratch, for the last 25 years - despite the wealth of lessons from their predecessors. And it's not just Russia. Same bullshit with Pakistan.

Raise tariffs on China by another bajillion percent and kill TikTok in the face.

This is incredible. Not literally incredible — it’s entirely predictable. So, shocking, I suppose. politico.com/news/2025/07/0…

Colby: Pivot to Asia! *allies pivot to Asia.* Colby: 😠

It makes for a great soundbite since the much greater cost to the economy incurred a the result of the tariffs is much messier to calculate. So they get to brag about spending dollars to get pennies, by not talking about the dollars.

Same as Vance, fundamentalist Tuckerism - all alliances are bad. America First = America Alone.

The idea that the duly elected head of the executive branch can't fire people who work for the executive branch was always ludicrous on the face of it, and effectively declared federal bureaucrats to be a ruling caste answerable to no one.

I think he *knew* better, and originally adopted his current persona purely out of expediency. But you play a role long enough and it's not longer a role, it's your life. Little by little you have to convince yourself to believe the nonsense you are spouting 24/7, or go nuts.

I don't know whether he actually threatened Xi and Putin with direct strikes against their capitals, but neither of them would take this threat seriously at this point. Not even after Iran. We have signaled our reticence to use force against our enemies extremely clearly.