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   Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 11:12:47 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

   [thread] Pete Hegseth
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth

   * Fox News political commentator, author, U.S. Army National Guard officer
   * Nov 2024 Trump intends to nominated as U.S. Secretary of Defense, Trump2 cabinet
   * conservative Republican
   * briefly worked at Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

   #PeteHegseth #ManhattanInstitute #USpol #Trump2 #GOP
   #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation
   #Project2025 #capitalism #libertarianism
   #Christofascism #antiLGBT #misogyny

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 11:18:13 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Trump to nominate Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be defense secretary
     https://www.npr.org/2024/11/12/g-s1-33970/trump-pete-hegseth-fox-news-defense-department-military

     * past CEO, Concerned Veterans for America, veteran advocacy organization
     * Fox News contributor 2014+
     * 1 House Republican Committee chair shocked at nomination
     * Hegseth was not on known list of names under consideration
     * no sense of his background/vision

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 11:26:53 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Trump to nominate Fox News host/veteran Pete Hegseth as defence secretary
     https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pete-hegseth-john-radcliffe-trump-administration-1.7381852

     * Trump also says John Ratcliffe will be his nominee to lead CIA
     * Hegseth lacks senior military or national security experience
     * defence secretary tumultuous post during Trump1
     * 5 men held job during Trrump's 4 yrs only to resign, be fired or serve briefly as stopgap
     * just 2 of them actually confirmed by Senate

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     Peter (peterlg@theblower.au)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 11:28:35 JST Peter

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     @persagen

     It's going to be random people in jobs they know nothing about, isn't it?

     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ repeated this.
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     G.I. Robot :bc: (guydudeman@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 11:38:56 JST G.I. Robot :bc:

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     • Lot⁴⁹
     • Peter

     @PeterLG @12thRITS @persagen That’s how it was during the first Trump term.

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     Lot⁴⁹ (12thrits@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 11:39:32 JST Lot⁴⁹

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     @persagen Concerned Veterans for America was not a veterans advocacy organization. It was a privatize-VA-medical-care lobby

     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ repeated this.
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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 11:42:59 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Concerned Veterans for America
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_network#Concerned_Veterans_for_America

     * Charles Koch, again #Kochtopus
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_network

     * Koch network funds nonprofit group Concerned Veterans for America
     * favors privatizing Veterans Administration
     * that goal opposed by Veterans Service Organizations such as American Legion, & Paralyzed Veterans of America

     #billionaires #CharlesKoch #KochNetwork #privatization #libertarianism

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 11:55:40 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Lot⁴⁹

     @12thRITS Awesome catch, thank you! 👍️ 🙏 Added a post updating to that fact.

     Charles Koch is unimaginably influential, evil. Seeks to destroy any/all social programs ... via duplicitous named (freedom this / choice that) think tanks, nonprofits, funded academic departments / policy papers ...

     [thread] Existential threat of billionaires
     https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112810230899017402

     #CharlesKoch #Koch #billionaires #oligarchy #plutocracy #CorporatePolluters #ClimateDenial #libertarianism

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     Frances Larina (frances_larina@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 12:13:59 JST Frances Larina

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     • Peter

     @PeterLG @persagen

     More like, "who would be the worst person for the job given the purpose of the the position".

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 01:11:08 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Trump's defence choice Pete Hegseth stuns Pentagon, raises questions about Fox News host's experience
     https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trump-s-defence-choice-stuns-the-pentagon-and-raises-questions-about-the-fox-news-host-s-experience-1.7108319

     * Trump stuns Pentagon/broader defence world in Hegseth as Sec. Defense
     * Hegseth inexperienced/untested on global stage to take over world's largest/most powerful military
     * opposed to "woke" programs that promote equity &
     * questioned role of women included in combat

     Mr. Bill repeated this.
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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 01:22:39 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Trump’s New Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth a Total Nightmare
     https://newrepublic.com/post/188349/donald-trump-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-nightmare

     * no women in combat, just white men in military
     * Islamophobia
     * ramblings about “woke” military leadership
     * complained about Muslim birth rates in states such as MI
     * supporter, “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer
     * criticized elite universities

     #PeteHegseth #FoxNews #DefenseSec #USmilitary #Trump2 #GOP
     #LauraLoomer #Islamophobia #xenophobia #Christofascism
     #fascism #authoritarianism #misogyny #paternalism #sexism

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 01:24:59 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     /1

     In 2019 Hegseth, laughed on air [Fox, I presume 🤔🤦♀️] about not washing his hands for 10 years, saying,
     
     “Germs are not a real thing. I can’t see them, therefore, they are not real.”

     #PeteHegseth #FoxNews #DefenseSec #USmilitary #Trump2 #GOP
     #LauraLoomer #Islamophobia #xenophobia #Christofascism #antiLGBT #antiDEI #racism
     #fascism #authoritarianism #misogyny #paternalism #sexism
     #ConspiracyTheorists #pseudoscience

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     BeeCycling (beecycling@romancelandia.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 01:42:00 JST BeeCycling

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     @persagen Christ on a bike. Imagine you're someone who's served your country for decades, worked your way to the very highest ranks of the military, and now you've got to deal with this absolute clown as Secretary of Defense.

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 09:29:18 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     #PeteHegseth #DefenseSec #ManhattanInstitute #USpol #Trump2 #GOP #militarism
     #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation
     #Christofasciam #antiLGBT #homophobia #antiDEI

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 02:12:58 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Trump’s Defense Secretary Pick Hopes for a Christian Crusade
     https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/trump-peter-hegseth-defense-secretary-pick-theobros-hopes-for-a-christian-crusade

     * Fox News’ Pete Hegseth travels in TheoBro circles

     #TheoBro

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 02:22:19 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     What's behind defense secretary pick Hegseth's war on 'woke'
     https://www.npr.org/2024/11/14/nx-s1-5191941/pete-hegseth-defense-department-dei

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 08:31:28 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Trump Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth prev. flagged by fellow service member as possible ‘Insider Threat’
     https://apnews.com/article/trump-defense-department-pentagon-hegseth-fox-news-8cd9f065e54a7cbbaceeec8bae9261a6

     * Hegseth flagged as a poss. “Insider Threat” by fellow service member
     * due to tattoo associated w. white supremacist groups
     * Hegseth said it’s a sham that extremism is a problem in military
     * supported military members accused of war crimes
     * criticized military’s justice system

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 03:40:48 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Pete Hegseth’s Mother Accused Her Son of Belittling, Abusing, and Lying to Women
     https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/pete-hegseth-mother-abuse-letter

     “Is there any sense of decency left in you?”

     * Fox News anchor Hegseth, Trump2 nom. Sec. Defense
     * under intense scrutiny for mistreatment of women incl. allegation of rape
     * one of his critics was his own mother, 2018

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     Leefeller Guy (leefellerguy@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 04:16:13 JST Leefeller Guy

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     @persagen Rape is not a crime, when the rapist says: "she is not my typr"

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 05:03:34 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Pete Hegseth: Trump’s Defense Secretary Pick Keeps Getting Worse
     https://newrepublic.com/post/188912/trump-defense-secretary-pick-serious-skeletons

     Pete Hegseth’s Secret History
     https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/pete-hegseths-secret-history
     nonpaywalled: https://archive.fo/nWn9p

     * whistle-blower report/other documents
     * Trump’s nominee to run Pentagon was forced out of prev. leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, being repeatedly intoxicated on job

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     sOlOw-NH (solownh@mstdn.party)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 05:10:18 JST sOlOw-NH

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     @persagen

     He has great experience working with deficits...

     "...and Hegseth admitted in January 2008 that the organization had $434,833 in unpaid bills, less than $1,000 in the bank, and credit card debts of as much as $75,000"

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 05:48:28 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     A Running List of the Allegations Against Pete Hegseth
     https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/pete-hegseth-allegations

     https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/pete-hegseths-secret-history
     * new bombshells keep emerging
     * drinking problem
     * sexual impropriety
     * financial misconduct that forced Hegseth out of leadership positions f. 2 diff. nonprofit advocacy groups catering to veterans

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     Chuck (crdfilm@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 05:58:52 JST Chuck

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     @persagen In other words, he’ll be the next GOP presidential candidate. He has al, the prerequisites.

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 00:27:44 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Pete Hegseth's mother begged him to "get some help" — he joined a misogynist church instead

     Fringe denomination's leader argues that men "dream of being rapists" because women aren't submissive enough

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 00:38:38 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     /1 Staring Down Misogyny. Welcome to Gilead. Enjoy Your Stay
     https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/03/staring-down-misogyny

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 03:28:27 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Trump considers DeSantis for the Pentagon with Hegseth under pressure over allegations
     https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trump-considers-desantis-for-the-pentagon-with-hegseth-under-pressure-over-allegations-ap-sources-1.7133148

     * Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

     [thread] Ron DeSantis, fascist
     https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110651190709407029

     [thread] DeSantis, climate change
     https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111031440939102527

     #DeSantis #PeteHegseth #Pentagon #SecDefense
     #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #Project2025 #extremism #authoritarianism
     #Christofascism #transphobia #transgenocide #antiLGBT #censorship #CRT #disinformation

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:14:04 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Military leaders are rattled by a list of ‘woke’ officers that a group urges Hegseth to fire
     https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-trump-diversity-pentagon-list-602477b6e80641b53f4f9b640a14f4ce