Pete Hegseth is this century's Dan Quayle. Old White men think he's attractive. When Poppy Bush named Dan as his running, old White men in the GOP -- all presumably and hopefully now dead -- insisted that Dan would bring women's support to the ticket because he was so good looking. He looked like a stick of butter on the verge of melting. Pete can't even claim that with his bad haircut, bad greasy hair, bad oily skin -- pimples and all -- and that gut. It's interesting, think of celebrities, a Black man, to be considered good looking by the mainstream media, has to be drop dead gorgeous -- Larenz Tate, Morris Chestnut, Blair Underwood, etc -- but a Ken Olin -- plain ass looking man -- qualifies as attractive to the White media. They always grade on a curve that benefits White skin.
The immensely unqualified Pete Hegseth remains in the news. Alex Bollinger (LGBTQ NATION) reports:
Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, former Fox host Pete Hegseth, flipped his position on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal without explanation, telling reporters “yes” when asked whether he supports allowing gay people to serve in the military.
Hegseth is facing an uphill battle for confirmation in the Senate due to accusations of sexual assault and extreme drunkenness. His opposition to women serving in combat roles in the military and his previous tirades against LGBTQ+ people serving in the military haven’t helped either.
For example, he said on The Ben Shapiro Show earlier this year that repealing “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” the law that banned gay and bi people from serving openly in the military, was part of a shift from the “tough looking, go get ’em army” to “the absurdity of ‘I have two mommies and I’m so proud to show them that I can wear a uniform too.'”
He said that “Marxists and leftists” allowed queer people to serve in the military, and in his book The War on Warriors he said that this was a “gateway” and a “camouflage” for broad cultural changes that harmed the military.
An estimated 6.1% of current military personnel identify as LGBTQ+, according to a 2022 study, a percentage that accounts for approximately 126,827 people. Trump is also expected to ban transgender people from serving in the military, which could result in over 10,000 people being discharged from the military at a time when the military faces difficulty in recruiting enough servicemembers.
Hegseth has also been hostile to the idea that women can serve in combat roles.
“We shouldn’t be having military sexual assault. Everybody understands that. We need to be taking care of it,” he said in 2016. “You think you bring women into infantry, different units, you might exacerbate that a little bit? I’m not saying that’s anybody’s fault, but that’s an unintended consequence of that priority also.”
So for those scoring, he's plain and stupid. Which makes him a perfect match for Trump.
Gerren Keith Gaynor (GRIO) reports:
“Donald Trump is not a god,” Thompson told theGrio during a recent
interview, reacting to Trump’s unsupported claims that the congressman,
along with other committee members like vice chair and former Republican
Rep. Liz Cheney, destroyed evidence throughout the investigation.
“He
can’t prove it, nor has there been any other proof offered, which tells
me that he really doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” said the
76-year-old lawmaker, who maintained that he and the bipartisan Jan. 6 Select Committee – which referred Trump for criminal prosecution – were exercising their constitutional and legislative duties.
“When someone disagrees with you, that doesn’t make it illegal; that doesn’t even make it wrong,” he maintained. “The greatness of this country is that everyone can have their own opinion about any subject, and so for an incoming president who disagrees with the work of Congress to say ‘because I disagree, I want them jailed,’ is absolutely unbelievable.”
U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., is not intimidated by President-elect Donald Trump, who, during an interview on “Meet the Press,” called for the congressman to be jailed for his role as chairman of the special congressional committee investigating Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021 mob attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“Donald Trump is not a god,” Thompson told theGrio during a recent
interview, reacting to Trump’s unsupported claims that the congressman,
along with other committee members like vice chair and former Republican
Rep. Liz Cheney, destroyed evidence throughout the investigation.
“He
can’t prove it, nor has there been any other proof offered, which tells
me that he really doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” said the
76-year-old lawmaker, who maintained that he and the bipartisan Jan. 6 Select Committee – which referred Trump for criminal prosecution – were exercising their constitutional and legislative duties.
“When someone disagrees with you, that doesn’t make it illegal; that doesn’t even make it wrong,” he maintained. “The greatness of this country is that everyone can have their own opinion about any subject, and so for an incoming president who disagrees with the work of Congress to say ‘because I disagree, I want them jailed,’ is absolutely unbelievable.”
When asked by theGrio if he is concerned about his physical safety amid continued public ridicule from Trump, whose supporters have already proven to be violent (re: Jan. 6), Rep. Thompson said, “I think every member of Congress here has to have some degree of concern, because you just never know.”
And for any really young readers, no, it's not normal for an incoming president to mean lawmakers have to fear they'll be targeted -- not in a democracy. And it's not just the ones Satan doesn't like, even Republicans in the Senate have to fear now as his supporters openly threaten the Senators with blackmail -- they're investigating senators who may not support Satan's nominee with the intent to find something that they can use to blackmail the same senators into voting for the nominee.
Dropping back to the December 12th snapshot:
That is blackmail. And the media just goes along with it. Provides a summary of it like it's some event at a club. Supposed journalists have a story about an attempt to blackmail members of the US Senate and they miss that aspect of the story -- or that an officer of the court, Mike Davis is openly plotting to blackmail US lawmakers.
Can you imagine that taking place even ten years ago? And the media's non-reaction, can you imagine that?
David McAfee (RAW STORY) reports on the attorney Mike Davis but manages to not mention the threat of blackmail. That threat needs to be in every article about Mike Davis. That public threat of blackmail -- forget following through on it, just that he floated it could get him disbarred. And, quite honestly, just floating should get him disbarred. But that's not going to happen if we let the crazy man make his threat and then all look the other way.
Satan is lawless and he's coming back to the White House. It's past time that lawlessness was called out but instead we get people looking the other way with regards to Mike Davis. That does not instill confidence in the media.
And the media silence harms us all.
I'm reminded of that reading Joseph William's latest at THE CHICAGO DEFENDER:
Four years ago, a white man suffocated George Floyd, a Black man, to death on a gritty Minneapolis street corner as bystanders begged for mercy. That brutal killing of an unarmed Floyd — caught on camera — turbocharged the Black Lives Matter movement, put the phrase “white privilege” into the national lexicon and inspired philanthropists to throw bushels of money at social justice nonprofits.
A year later, Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer whose job included training rookies, was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 22 years and 6 months in prison — a rare instance of accountability and introspection in America’s long history of racist, systemic violence.
Monday brought us yet another reminder of how fleeting that reckoning truly was when a white man was found not guilty of suffocating Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old Black man, to death on the floor of a grimy New York subway train as bystanders called for mercy.
The acquittal of Daniel Penny — already a vigilante hero among the far right — comes just weeks after Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris for the presidency in a racist campaign, Walmart became the biggest U.S. employer to shut down its DEI program, and social justice nonprofits realized philanthropists are closing their checkbooks to avoid Trump’s enemies list.
The Manhattan jury trying the second-degree murder case unanimously agreed with Penny: Neely, a homeless man dealing with mental illness and substance abuse, was a threat to others on the subway car that day, and Penny, a former Marine with a lethal chokehold, should not be held criminally responsible for killing him.
“What are we going to do, people? What’s going to happen to us now? I’ve had enough of this. The system is rigged.”
– Andre Zachary Neely’s father
Never mind that the killing happened in broad daylight, in front of many eyewitnesses, and was also recorded on a cellphone camera. Or that when Penny attacked him, Neely hadn’t committed an actual crime or put hands on anyone. Or that Neely was unarmed, that no lives were in danger, that passengers pleaded for Penny to let Neely go, that Penny kept McNeely in a chokehold for nearly five full minutes, maintaining it long after McNeely stopped struggling.
The jury saw and heard and processed all that evidence and — following roughly 17 hours of deliberation, including deadlocking over a lesser charge — collectively shrugged.
For a few moments, Black Lives Matter mattered. And then All Things Media Big and Small moved on. It's no surprise that racism and sexism targeted Kamala or that the media either looked the other way or joined in with attacks.
"I'm speaking." Remember the angry reaction from the Gaza Freaks. (Late to the party, Gaza Freaks are idiots who refused to actually support Palestinians and instead trashed Kamala while talking up Jill Stein and Donald Trump.) They attacked her with anger.
She was speaking. It was her public speech and her campaign event. And a heckler tries to take over the event.
And many a male politicians has said similar.
But HOW DARE A WOMAN!!!! HOW DARE SHE!!! HOW DARE A BLACK WOMAN!!!
That's what it was over and over.
They weren't going to be called out by the Black woman, oh, hell no. They weren't going to listen to her. Who the hell did that Black woman think she was?
That was the attitude and it was soaked in sexism and racism.
Gaza Freaks need to be kicked out of the left. They've doomed Palestinians and they're racist and sexist and, if in Dearborn and Hamtramck, they're also homophobe holding hands with right-wingers.
They're not left.
We ignore way too much on a daily basis and that's what gives an attorney -- who should know the law -- like Mike Davis the notion that he can go public with his plan to blackmail senators into voting the way he wants them to.
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