I listened to the entire 4 hours on the Senate committee website. Sorry Bulwark crew, but color commentary gets in the way of understanding. If you bowed out you missed Pete thanking “Jesus and Jenny” for saving him and putting him on the path to righteousness. You also missed various Republican Senators testifying to their own faith in …
I listened to the entire 4 hours on the Senate committee website. Sorry Bulwark crew, but color commentary gets in the way of understanding. If you bowed out you missed Pete thanking “Jesus and Jenny” for saving him and putting him on the path to righteousness. You also missed various Republican Senators testifying to their own faith in Jesus and thanking their Savior for letting Trump win the election so that he can save the country from the forces of evil…and other religious crap. Hegseth’s testimony was 50% on topic and 50% praising Jesus and Donald Trump. If it wasn’t obvious before, it is now, that the Trump GOP wants the United States to be a Christian theocracy. This hearing was scary way beyond just the nomination of Pete Hegseth.
I grew up in rural Kentucky......I've been dragged to snake handling, faith healers, watched people collapse on the floor as they were "Possessed by the Spirit". I know this type of "Christianity" inside and out. It scares the hell out of me.
I did love Elissa Slotkin's calling him out on his filibustering. He did this repeatedly, and skillfully enough to preemptively curtail at least 50% of any unfriendly questioning. He did well enough to give R's the CYA cover to vote him in. Unfortunately. And a stage-managed pretense of a hearing. He refused to meet with any dems pre-hearing, and dems also made note of some important deficiencies in the FBI report on him. Shades of Brett Kavanaugh? This was a full on MAGA style BS love fest for a real Trumpian manly man. Three cheers for Pete!!
One thing I didn’t understand is why the Democrats on the committee didn’t force Hegseth to say WHY he didn’t meet with them. Although he said at one point that his team contacted someone’s office and there was a “scheduling conflict”. But the Democrat countered immediately with “I talked to your team to schedule an alternative time and they never responded”. EACH of the Democrats said they tried to schedule a meeting and it never happened. There couldn’t have been “conflicts” with ALL of them. Why wasn’t he put on the spot? Just repeat the question over and over, “Why didn’t you meet with me?” Force the little creep to answer the question. Nobody did that. Maybe Tim can give me a reason from the POV of a political operative.
The fact that Trump and the GOP slow walked the FBI background checks also has created issues....not that I think they would change any minds in the GOP
No argument from me, but the Christian Nationalism has been front and centre for a long time.......I just can't listen to people claim to be Christians and then behave in a manner that flies in the face of their alleged beliefs.
I listened to the entire 4 hours on the Senate committee website. Sorry Bulwark crew, but color commentary gets in the way of understanding. If you bowed out you missed Pete thanking “Jesus and Jenny” for saving him and putting him on the path to righteousness. You also missed various Republican Senators testifying to their own faith in Jesus and thanking their Savior for letting Trump win the election so that he can save the country from the forces of evil…and other religious crap. Hegseth’s testimony was 50% on topic and 50% praising Jesus and Donald Trump. If it wasn’t obvious before, it is now, that the Trump GOP wants the United States to be a Christian theocracy. This hearing was scary way beyond just the nomination of Pete Hegseth.
I grew up in rural Kentucky......I've been dragged to snake handling, faith healers, watched people collapse on the floor as they were "Possessed by the Spirit". I know this type of "Christianity" inside and out. It scares the hell out of me.
I did love Elissa Slotkin's calling him out on his filibustering. He did this repeatedly, and skillfully enough to preemptively curtail at least 50% of any unfriendly questioning. He did well enough to give R's the CYA cover to vote him in. Unfortunately. And a stage-managed pretense of a hearing. He refused to meet with any dems pre-hearing, and dems also made note of some important deficiencies in the FBI report on him. Shades of Brett Kavanaugh? This was a full on MAGA style BS love fest for a real Trumpian manly man. Three cheers for Pete!!
One thing I didn’t understand is why the Democrats on the committee didn’t force Hegseth to say WHY he didn’t meet with them. Although he said at one point that his team contacted someone’s office and there was a “scheduling conflict”. But the Democrat countered immediately with “I talked to your team to schedule an alternative time and they never responded”. EACH of the Democrats said they tried to schedule a meeting and it never happened. There couldn’t have been “conflicts” with ALL of them. Why wasn’t he put on the spot? Just repeat the question over and over, “Why didn’t you meet with me?” Force the little creep to answer the question. Nobody did that. Maybe Tim can give me a reason from the POV of a political operative.
The fact that Trump and the GOP slow walked the FBI background checks also has created issues....not that I think they would change any minds in the GOP
No argument from me, but the Christian Nationalism has been front and centre for a long time.......I just can't listen to people claim to be Christians and then behave in a manner that flies in the face of their alleged beliefs.