There really are no words, not in English, that are adequate to describe the ascension of Pete hegseeth to be the United States Secretary of Defense, to be atop the chain of command of five thousand plus nuclear warheads, the ballistic missile submarines, the captains and the crews, the strategic bombers, the United States Marine Corps, and the Army and the Navy, and the Coastguard and the Space Force. This is the warning. This is a moment of deep, deep shame and dishonor,
and yes, collapse. The founders of this country envisions that the Congress of bi cameral legislature made up of two houses, upper and lower, one representatives of the people, the House of Representatives, the other the United States Senate, to whom was given the responsibility of advice and giving their consent on the President's nominations, not as a subordinate branch of government, but a coequal branch of government. Not so long ago, the United States Senate was known and admired all over
the world has its greatest deliberative body. Think about that, and then watch this clown from Oklahoma.
Mark Wayne Mullen, the Senator from Virginia starts bringing up the fact that what if you showed up drunk to your job? How many Senators have showed up drunk to vote at night? Have any of you guys asked them to step down and resign for their job? And don't tell me you haven't seen it, because I know you have. And then how many senators do you know have got a divorce before cheating on their wives? Did you ask them to step down?
No?
But it's for show, you guys. Make sure you make a big show and point out the hypocrisy because a man's made a mistake and you want to sit there and say that he's not qualified. Give me a joke.
He's a case study. Watch him talk about Matt Gates before Donald Trump laid his magic hand on him.
You got to think about this guy. This is a guy that didn't have that The media didn't give a time at day to after he was accused of sleeping with an underage girl. There's a reason why no one in the conference came defended him because we had all seen the videos he was showing on the house floor that all of us had walked away of the girls that he had slept with. He'd brag about how he would crush ed medicine and chase it with with an energy drink so he could go all night.
And after he's.
Already heard from the lawyer, from some of the people who did testify to the House Ethics Committee that he had a client who testified that she had not only seen him pay for sex with women, but also engage in sex with a seventeen year old woman at a drug filled party. Is that something that concerns you?
Well, if it is true, and I mean I got to say that that is true.
Are you disturbed by it? Do you think it's funny? Or can you comprehend that? It's the preface to catastrophe. It's the preface to the Pete Hegsath Era. Department of Defense is a one trillion dollar government agency. The man who is likely to lead it is unfit. He is the exact type of person we spend billions in this country trying to keep the officers of our armed forces from becoming He is the case study for the lack of character, judgment, probity, and rectitude the Cadets study. Pete
Hegseth is a moral disaster. As a leader for the armed forces of the United States, Pete Hegsath showed pre confirmation, pre installment, prepower, his sneering, abject contempt for America's democracy. For the United States Senators, what we witnessed yesterday was the abandonment of a central tenant of the American democracy, most spectacularly in the form of Jony Ernst. Jony Ernst claims herself to be a sexual assault survivor and a
combat veteran. Maybe so, but let's be clear, there will be more rapes in the military, and there are too many already. Jony Ernst does not care about them. She gives absolutely zero and I mean zero fi Jony Ernst cares about one thing, Donald Trump and being in his favor because Jony Ernst likes being told what to do,
apparently not exercising independent judgment or thought. A woman who is elected in part on the basis of her service as a National Guard lieutenant colonel, a combat veteran, would dare to vote for Pete Hegseth to lead the American military.
It can be said at the instant the vote is made to confirm this low man that the Republic has fallen because the United States Senate has subordinated itself, stripped itself of power, has prostrated itself, laid down, and done nothing to exercise the constitutional power it has to prevent the catastrophe that Pete Hegseth will augur. And let's understand, it is not just the perfidy of the MAGA senators, Yeah, Jeck, stupidity, the imbecility of the apologists for the indefensible. It is
beyond that. It is the utter fecklessness of the Chuck Schumer Democratic Senate. What is the plan to stop this? Chuck? The answer is, like always, there is none. Empty postures and hollow words from a silly man leading a political party broke it and corrupt enough that the American people chose this over them. Many of them believe they ran a flawless campaign. There are no words. This is a moment of grave danger for this country. What happened in
November is coming due. The inauguration is here, and it will be appalling. There is nothing standing in Donald Trump's way except the courts of law, democratic governors, state legislatures, and the most powerful interest group en force in the country, which is the American people, who are historically slow to rise in anger, but they do rise in anger, the anger of the American people, help put Donald Trump back in power, and I fear we will pay for it
a very high price. Pete Heseeth isn't Defense Secretary yet, but it looks like soon he will be. And when he becomes the most powerful defense minister in the world, it is right that you should feel a cold chill down your spine because you have been left unprotected by America's political leaders, who would dare vote yes for this buffoon. They have a responsibility to America's fighting men and women, and the utterly, completely absolutely abandon it for politics. Pete
Hag said is unfit. He is a moral and ethical chernobyl. He would be carried off of the bridge of a ballistic missile submarine if he were the captain in a straight jacket. His drinking is disqualifying, His conduct is disqualifying. His judgment is disqualifying, His recklessness is disqualifying. His abject
imbecility is disqualifying. His white nationalist tattoos are disqualifying. He's the most unfit and unqualified person ever to be nominated for a position of power in the United States Defense establishment since its reorganization and establishment in nineteen forty seven. Appalling, disgraceful, dishonorable. There are no words. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack, on our YouTube channel, follow us.
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