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Pentagon stunned by Trump's nomination of Fox News host as defense secretary (fortune.com)

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President-elect Donald Trump stunned the Pentagon and the broader defense world by nominating Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as his defense secretary, tapping someone largely inexperienced and untested on the global stage to take over the world’s largest and most powerful military.

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 9 points 1 week ago (6 children)

t’s not stupidity, it was a clear option between something the American people know does not work, and something that might work.

There is no reasonable expectation that Trump would "work" for anyone outside of some very wealthy and grifters. So, yes, voting for Trump is stupid.

Accelerationists can fuck off.

[–] finderscult@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Well there is no reasonable expectation that voting for Harris improves anything given her explicit statement she's going to be just Biden in a wig.

When you present unreasonable choices, you get unreasonable decisions. To most people Trump isn't the ultra competent, ultra intelligent, ultra evil fascist you guys have been propagandizing him as for the last decade.

He's an incompetent version of a generic politician.

[–] Beryl@jlai.lu 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think anyone but himself ever called Trump ultra intelligent or ultra competent

[–] finderscult@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Really? Dems have been saying he's going to dismantle the US, completely use the US military to eliminate his political opponents, that he has pages on pages of plans to change the US into a dictatorship and stop all future elections while eliminating the US Constitution. I mean really Dems have been attributing to him this massive grand plan that would require a master manipulator operating completely perfectly to accomplish.

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