thinks Hegseth's answers on Hawaii tarmac raises questions, his agitated behavior; this piece by Haake, a daughter of an alcoholic father serving in the US military, dad was in the Navy, assigned to
Paul , you are yet again falling for these crappy hit jobs on SecDef Hegseth. I had heard the audio of this exchange in Hawaii with the so-called reporter ,and thought Mr. Hegseth handled the insulting nature of the redundant questioning very well. In fact I thought he was more diplomatic than he needed to be with her snide implication that he must be considering resignation.
As I had written to you in the past few days,when you consider the beyond traitorous behavior of Hillary Clinton and her handling of Special Access TS material when she was Secretary of State-- with the full knowledge of President Obama ,and her staff assisting her... this Signal story is a true nothing-burger.
As to the writer , Haake ? , and her personal analysis of Hegseth as a "dry drunk" , to me that is just another democrat snipe job. Like "when did he stop beating his wife?" sort of crap.
I experienced a dry drunk in my family for years ,and went thru years of group meetings with Adult Children of Alcoholics , and offshoot of AA groups , and can definitively say that the writer has a myopic view of what a "dry drunk " might be.
Her version sounds more like Hillary Clinton than anything else.
Entirely inappropriate slander against the Secretary of Defense Doc. Suppose someone was to question your habits Doc...on SubStack...would that be a fair equivalent. It is entirely inappropriate to plant the seeds of doubt about the abilities of the man in charge of the defense of America. Knock it off...I'm sure the Chinese love it...we do not. A pattern is emerging here. WHY.
Why would the Chinese love it? The Chinese appear to have a rigorous system of military screening and selection to identify those who are below required standard that begins at recruitment and for some military occupations even includes AI-driven biometric assessment.
It is inconceivable that he would pass selection in China for even the lowest level military position, even just based on the allegations of the woman who claims he raped her in 2017 (whom he paid off and entered into a confidentiality agreement with) and on what his mother, who has taught with the Minnesota Excellence in Public Service Series, a leadership program for Republican and right-leaning women, said about his character in a private email to him in 2018. ("You are an abuser of women — that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego." "You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth." "On behalf of all the women (and I know it's many) you have abused in some way, I say ... get some help and take an honest look at yourself...")
A report from The New Yorker claiming that he was pushed out of leadership positions at two veteran-focused nonprofits over intoxication on the job, sexual misconduct and financial mismanagement would almost certainly also disqualify him.
("Former colleagues claimed that Pete was consistently intoxicated at organization events, to the point where he had to be forcibly removed. "I’ve seen him dragged away not a few times but multiple times," one former colleague at CVA told The New Yorker ... The magazine also saw an email that a CVA employee once wrote to Pete's successor, claiming that Pete “treated the organization funds like they were a personal expense account — for partying, drinking, and using CVA events as little more than opportunities to ‘hook up’ with women on the road.”)
He would also almost certainly not get through selection based on the reports from 10 current and former Fox News employees who claimed that he drank in ways that concerned his former colleagues, two of whom claimed that
" ... on more than a dozen occasions during his time as a co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend,” which began in 2017, they smelled alcohol on him before he went on air. Those same two people, plus another, said that during his time there he appeared on television after they’d heard him talk about being hungover as he was getting ready or on set. One of the sources said they smelled alcohol on him as recently as last month and heard him complain about being hungover this fall."
Hegseth has personal qualities that appeal to Americans.
Those same personal qualities would see him reviled by the Chinese as the lowest of the low.
Hegseth, if he was Chinese, would almost certainly be considered below required standard for a Chinese low level security clearance or for entry into the Chinese military at the lowest level but that does not mean the Chinese would love it that questions are being asked about his suitability as US Secretary of Defense.
They would hate that.
They would love it that he is US Secretary of Defense.
AwakeNotWoke...thanks (not really) for your rant against Hegseth. You asked "why would the Chinese love it"....Well, the answer is because it puts you squarely on the side of the Chinese propaganda machine, AKA DEMOCRATIC PARTY. (You know, the one's who LOST the election). It appears that you support the unhinged ranting of Dr. Alexander against Hegseth, the fledgling Secretary of Defense. Good for you maybe...bad for the country. I guess you missed my point entirely. When a citizen of America, or landed immigrant of America, or even a foreigner makes a point of openly slandering and libeling the Secretary of Defense of the U.S.A., OPENLY... and accusing him of alcoholism, sexual misconduct, etc. it is an act of aiding and abetting the enemy of the country...and is useful to the Chinese...THEY LOVE TO HEAR THE TWO OF YOU BELITTLING THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE...IT IS GREAT PROPAGANDA, DONE BY YOU AND DR. ALEXANDER...IN FAVOR OF THE ENEMY OF THE COUNTRY. Are you sure you're Awake? And are you sure you're not woke? You don't sound like a patriot. Please, don't waste my time answering, i.e. anonymous person said this, and this PRIVATE EMAIL said that...and this left wing rag said this. Wake up. You work for the W.E.F. Too?
We’re at war inside and out. I did not vote for the prettiest. I did not vote for the kindest. I did not vote for the one who could give me the most. I voted for someone who could save the Republic.
Trump and his appointments are exceeding my wildest expectations.
By the way, I have a son, a volunteer who is serving now. That he is not now serving for an illegitimate, corrupt, lying, demented grifter is due to the hand of God.
The risks of black out drinking are well known but brown out drinking is also problematic. Brown out drinking appears to impair impulse control and to lead to misjudgement of cues of threat and safety even when the problem drinker is sober. But there would probably be many members of Congress with a history of drinking to this level or even of being black out drunks and they probably have no trouble getting top level security clearances or being placed in situations where they have to make quick decisions that may put other people's lives at risk.
GW Bush was a recovering alcoholic and probably a cokehead and nobody gave a rat's ass about that. He might have been deluded when he did his paranoid home invasion of other people's countries like Iraq or just a pathological liar. Either way, he was a sadist but Americans kissed his butt like there was no tomorrow and fell at his feet and worshipped while he told lies and butchered darkies. Hegseth is not president. Hegseth is a far, far better man than Bush even if he is addicted to the bottle.
Sounds like a hit piece that could be written about any of the millions of people in the United States or around the world. It’s written as if millions of people would fit this description and should millions of people be trusted as soldiers, firefighters, brain surgeons, pilots. Can anyone including the author be trusted if she has taken a drink after being hired? Her expertise is my father in the military was so Hegseth in her opinion is too.
I think you describe yourself Paul. Also strange how you keep attacking Pete Hegseth, instead of Mike Waltz, the one who invited Goldberg, "by mistake". But if we assume Waltz is not a deep-state plant, as a software engineer, I'd have to conclude the Signal "fiasco" was a software bug, NOT a user bug. There should have been a ConfirmIdentities function and a ConfirmNeedToKnow function before ever being allowed to be used by the government. Signal comes pre-installed on every gov phone because of Biden, because the creators of Signal are Pro-Ukraine war, one was even born in Kiev. It's open-source software which was meant to shield people from the government, not the government from the people. It is designed with "anonymous credentials", including in groups. Signal Groups V2, removes some of the anonymity by moving the certifications from the client to the server. Signal has now made a joke of itself by not immediately acknowledging the current problems with the app design and instead calling it user error. It may have even been a set trap. At any rate, Signal will be left in the dust now by companies that want to fix their users problems rather than laugh at them. Indeed, I started out working in DOD and I'd like to know how government employees were mandated to use buggy open-source software in the first place. Sure it's got middleman encryption protection, but that's just a function call as well. Why didn't Biden's DOD build a safe, user-friendly, bullet-proof version for government use? WHY did they use the "Ukrainian/leftist/open-source version"? That's the question that should be asked.
"There should have been a ConfirmIdentities function and a ConfirmNeedToKnow function before ever being allowed to be used by the government.
Yes, but Whos fault is this?
"Signal comes pre-installed on every gov phone because of Biden"
Under which administration do federal officers and employees currently work and operate?
"Signal has now made a joke of itself by not immediately acknowledging the current problems with the app design and instead calling it user error."
Ah.. I see.. Signal is the problem, these dudes just didnt inform the US government how their app works, the problem is never the current administration.
Bug reports lead to fixes. Bug report filed. Fix on way. There are complainers, and there are fixers. I'd rather be a fixer. When you get in someone else's car and it breaks down, whose "fault" is that? If the car company laughs at you and says it happened cause you didn't drive the car correctly, would you buy another car from that company? What if you found out that the company actually planted a bomb in your car, knowing you'd be in it? Life is about how you react to "problems". Signal has destroyed it's "brand" of "safe communications", but has created an opportunity for the next company who actually fixes it, to thrive on.
Can someone tell me all the toxins our military people are injected with and what is the dosage of each toxin? Some can cause brain damage. What about what chemicals they are exposed to? How much EMF are they exposed to? How toxic is their food? All of this can cause behavior issues and I am sure I am forgetting many other ways someone can be poisoned today in our "civilized" world.
Not owning up to mistakes is a troubling behaviour. I would argue that it is appropriate to question members of this regime, including the President himself (the tariff dogma is also a troubling behaviour).
In what ways are the tariff back and forth troubling? The countries having them imposed upon them have long had tariffs on our products in place. They enjoyed the inequities of the trade imbalances and tariff revenues. time to even these out.
In what ways are the tariff back and forth troubling? The countries having them imposed upon them have long had tariffs on our products in place. They enjoyed the inequities of the trade imbalances and tariff revenues. Time to even these out.
Tariffs are a tax imposed upon your own people. It is impossible to impose a tax upon the people of a foreign jurisdiction. Troubling is how easily people are being fooled about what these are. The rational response to a tariff I posing jurisdiction, is to let themselves shoot themselves in the foot.
You are sounding like a broken record. If tariffs are so bad, what does much of the world impose them upon the US? AND to our detriment. How is it you cannot understand that T uses tariffs as a tool to change the policies of other countries?
Reality is what it is. It does not change by merely wishing it otherwise. Tariffs are a penalty imposed upon your own people. They’re not anything else. Trumpian National Socialism = Obama Democratic Socialism. America’s founders went to war against monarchs who existed parasitically off the backs of their own people.
Hegseth ultimately anwers to President Trump who, like devout Moslems, is a teetotaller. It's unfortunate that Hegseth did not drink moderately. However, if Hegseth has damaged his brain excessively it will become evident in time. It is probably best that he is Secretary of Defense because the alternative was DeSantis.
Imagine how much worse it would be if Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris or Nancy Pelosi was Secretary of Defense.
Complete BS. A dry drunk is still a drinker, but during periods where they are not drinking, whether it be for work or other reason, is emotionally volatile because they are not able to imbibe for what ever reason. Alcoholics that go for a day or two without drinking would be prime candidates for this classification.
A person that has a problem with alcohol doesn't mean they are an alcoholic, it means that when they drink, they engage in reckless behavior or behavior that creates problems in their life. An alcoholic is a person that can't suitably engage in life without alcohol (cope with stress, have fun, deal with people, etc...) OR has a physical addiction to it. I doubt Secretary Hegseth was an alcoholic, he is likely recovered or you'd hear about his drinking. If he still is able to sneak a sup on occasion, he may be a dry drunk, but I'd think that highly unlikely given the scope of his job - he has almost no down-time and what little he has he dedicates to his family.
Why do you try so hard to discredit members of Trump's team with this speculative drivel? You claim to support Trump but consistently stab him in the back. With friends like you who needs enemies? Why don't you try sticking to the facts?
Paul , you are yet again falling for these crappy hit jobs on SecDef Hegseth. I had heard the audio of this exchange in Hawaii with the so-called reporter ,and thought Mr. Hegseth handled the insulting nature of the redundant questioning very well. In fact I thought he was more diplomatic than he needed to be with her snide implication that he must be considering resignation.
As I had written to you in the past few days,when you consider the beyond traitorous behavior of Hillary Clinton and her handling of Special Access TS material when she was Secretary of State-- with the full knowledge of President Obama ,and her staff assisting her... this Signal story is a true nothing-burger.
As to the writer , Haake ? , and her personal analysis of Hegseth as a "dry drunk" , to me that is just another democrat snipe job. Like "when did he stop beating his wife?" sort of crap.
I experienced a dry drunk in my family for years ,and went thru years of group meetings with Adult Children of Alcoholics , and offshoot of AA groups , and can definitively say that the writer has a myopic view of what a "dry drunk " might be.
Her version sounds more like Hillary Clinton than anything else.
anything that could hurt Trump I question and come hard at.
Entirely inappropriate slander against the Secretary of Defense Doc. Suppose someone was to question your habits Doc...on SubStack...would that be a fair equivalent. It is entirely inappropriate to plant the seeds of doubt about the abilities of the man in charge of the defense of America. Knock it off...I'm sure the Chinese love it...we do not. A pattern is emerging here. WHY.
Why would the Chinese love it? The Chinese appear to have a rigorous system of military screening and selection to identify those who are below required standard that begins at recruitment and for some military occupations even includes AI-driven biometric assessment.
It is inconceivable that he would pass selection in China for even the lowest level military position, even just based on the allegations of the woman who claims he raped her in 2017 (whom he paid off and entered into a confidentiality agreement with) and on what his mother, who has taught with the Minnesota Excellence in Public Service Series, a leadership program for Republican and right-leaning women, said about his character in a private email to him in 2018. ("You are an abuser of women — that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego." "You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth." "On behalf of all the women (and I know it's many) you have abused in some way, I say ... get some help and take an honest look at yourself...")
A report from The New Yorker claiming that he was pushed out of leadership positions at two veteran-focused nonprofits over intoxication on the job, sexual misconduct and financial mismanagement would almost certainly also disqualify him.
("Former colleagues claimed that Pete was consistently intoxicated at organization events, to the point where he had to be forcibly removed. "I’ve seen him dragged away not a few times but multiple times," one former colleague at CVA told The New Yorker ... The magazine also saw an email that a CVA employee once wrote to Pete's successor, claiming that Pete “treated the organization funds like they were a personal expense account — for partying, drinking, and using CVA events as little more than opportunities to ‘hook up’ with women on the road.”)
He would also almost certainly not get through selection based on the reports from 10 current and former Fox News employees who claimed that he drank in ways that concerned his former colleagues, two of whom claimed that
" ... on more than a dozen occasions during his time as a co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend,” which began in 2017, they smelled alcohol on him before he went on air. Those same two people, plus another, said that during his time there he appeared on television after they’d heard him talk about being hungover as he was getting ready or on set. One of the sources said they smelled alcohol on him as recently as last month and heard him complain about being hungover this fall."
Hegseth has personal qualities that appeal to Americans.
Those same personal qualities would see him reviled by the Chinese as the lowest of the low.
Hegseth, if he was Chinese, would almost certainly be considered below required standard for a Chinese low level security clearance or for entry into the Chinese military at the lowest level but that does not mean the Chinese would love it that questions are being asked about his suitability as US Secretary of Defense.
They would hate that.
They would love it that he is US Secretary of Defense.
AwakeNotWoke...thanks (not really) for your rant against Hegseth. You asked "why would the Chinese love it"....Well, the answer is because it puts you squarely on the side of the Chinese propaganda machine, AKA DEMOCRATIC PARTY. (You know, the one's who LOST the election). It appears that you support the unhinged ranting of Dr. Alexander against Hegseth, the fledgling Secretary of Defense. Good for you maybe...bad for the country. I guess you missed my point entirely. When a citizen of America, or landed immigrant of America, or even a foreigner makes a point of openly slandering and libeling the Secretary of Defense of the U.S.A., OPENLY... and accusing him of alcoholism, sexual misconduct, etc. it is an act of aiding and abetting the enemy of the country...and is useful to the Chinese...THEY LOVE TO HEAR THE TWO OF YOU BELITTLING THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE...IT IS GREAT PROPAGANDA, DONE BY YOU AND DR. ALEXANDER...IN FAVOR OF THE ENEMY OF THE COUNTRY. Are you sure you're Awake? And are you sure you're not woke? You don't sound like a patriot. Please, don't waste my time answering, i.e. anonymous person said this, and this PRIVATE EMAIL said that...and this left wing rag said this. Wake up. You work for the W.E.F. Too?
US Grant was a heavy drinker - he won.
Patton was not a diplomatic dandy - he won.
We’re at war inside and out. I did not vote for the prettiest. I did not vote for the kindest. I did not vote for the one who could give me the most. I voted for someone who could save the Republic.
Trump and his appointments are exceeding my wildest expectations.
By the way, I have a son, a volunteer who is serving now. That he is not now serving for an illegitimate, corrupt, lying, demented grifter is due to the hand of God.
Not all patriots are saints and Im good with that. A choir boy will never win a street fight. We need results, not sanctimonius debates.
The DEI men who dress up like women are far more dangerous than Pete!
The risks of black out drinking are well known but brown out drinking is also problematic. Brown out drinking appears to impair impulse control and to lead to misjudgement of cues of threat and safety even when the problem drinker is sober. But there would probably be many members of Congress with a history of drinking to this level or even of being black out drunks and they probably have no trouble getting top level security clearances or being placed in situations where they have to make quick decisions that may put other people's lives at risk.
GW Bush was a recovering alcoholic and probably a cokehead and nobody gave a rat's ass about that. He might have been deluded when he did his paranoid home invasion of other people's countries like Iraq or just a pathological liar. Either way, he was a sadist but Americans kissed his butt like there was no tomorrow and fell at his feet and worshipped while he told lies and butchered darkies. Hegseth is not president. Hegseth is a far, far better man than Bush even if he is addicted to the bottle.
Fifty shades of bad.
Sounds like a hit piece that could be written about any of the millions of people in the United States or around the world. It’s written as if millions of people would fit this description and should millions of people be trusted as soldiers, firefighters, brain surgeons, pilots. Can anyone including the author be trusted if she has taken a drink after being hired? Her expertise is my father in the military was so Hegseth in her opinion is too.
I think you describe yourself Paul. Also strange how you keep attacking Pete Hegseth, instead of Mike Waltz, the one who invited Goldberg, "by mistake". But if we assume Waltz is not a deep-state plant, as a software engineer, I'd have to conclude the Signal "fiasco" was a software bug, NOT a user bug. There should have been a ConfirmIdentities function and a ConfirmNeedToKnow function before ever being allowed to be used by the government. Signal comes pre-installed on every gov phone because of Biden, because the creators of Signal are Pro-Ukraine war, one was even born in Kiev. It's open-source software which was meant to shield people from the government, not the government from the people. It is designed with "anonymous credentials", including in groups. Signal Groups V2, removes some of the anonymity by moving the certifications from the client to the server. Signal has now made a joke of itself by not immediately acknowledging the current problems with the app design and instead calling it user error. It may have even been a set trap. At any rate, Signal will be left in the dust now by companies that want to fix their users problems rather than laugh at them. Indeed, I started out working in DOD and I'd like to know how government employees were mandated to use buggy open-source software in the first place. Sure it's got middleman encryption protection, but that's just a function call as well. Why didn't Biden's DOD build a safe, user-friendly, bullet-proof version for government use? WHY did they use the "Ukrainian/leftist/open-source version"? That's the question that should be asked.
"There should have been a ConfirmIdentities function and a ConfirmNeedToKnow function before ever being allowed to be used by the government.
Yes, but Whos fault is this?
"Signal comes pre-installed on every gov phone because of Biden"
Under which administration do federal officers and employees currently work and operate?
"Signal has now made a joke of itself by not immediately acknowledging the current problems with the app design and instead calling it user error."
Ah.. I see.. Signal is the problem, these dudes just didnt inform the US government how their app works, the problem is never the current administration.
Bug reports lead to fixes. Bug report filed. Fix on way. There are complainers, and there are fixers. I'd rather be a fixer. When you get in someone else's car and it breaks down, whose "fault" is that? If the car company laughs at you and says it happened cause you didn't drive the car correctly, would you buy another car from that company? What if you found out that the company actually planted a bomb in your car, knowing you'd be in it? Life is about how you react to "problems". Signal has destroyed it's "brand" of "safe communications", but has created an opportunity for the next company who actually fixes it, to thrive on.
Can someone tell me all the toxins our military people are injected with and what is the dosage of each toxin? Some can cause brain damage. What about what chemicals they are exposed to? How much EMF are they exposed to? How toxic is their food? All of this can cause behavior issues and I am sure I am forgetting many other ways someone can be poisoned today in our "civilized" world.
Has Pete been calling his counterpart in communist China?
Not owning up to mistakes is a troubling behaviour. I would argue that it is appropriate to question members of this regime, including the President himself (the tariff dogma is also a troubling behaviour).
In what ways are the tariff back and forth troubling? The countries having them imposed upon them have long had tariffs on our products in place. They enjoyed the inequities of the trade imbalances and tariff revenues. time to even these out.
In what ways are the tariff back and forth troubling? The countries having them imposed upon them have long had tariffs on our products in place. They enjoyed the inequities of the trade imbalances and tariff revenues. Time to even these out.
Tariffs are a tax imposed upon your own people. It is impossible to impose a tax upon the people of a foreign jurisdiction. Troubling is how easily people are being fooled about what these are. The rational response to a tariff I posing jurisdiction, is to let themselves shoot themselves in the foot.
You are sounding like a broken record. If tariffs are so bad, what does much of the world impose them upon the US? AND to our detriment. How is it you cannot understand that T uses tariffs as a tool to change the policies of other countries?
Reality is what it is. It does not change by merely wishing it otherwise. Tariffs are a penalty imposed upon your own people. They’re not anything else. Trumpian National Socialism = Obama Democratic Socialism. America’s founders went to war against monarchs who existed parasitically off the backs of their own people.
Hegseth ultimately anwers to President Trump who, like devout Moslems, is a teetotaller. It's unfortunate that Hegseth did not drink moderately. However, if Hegseth has damaged his brain excessively it will become evident in time. It is probably best that he is Secretary of Defense because the alternative was DeSantis.
Imagine how much worse it would be if Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris or Nancy Pelosi was Secretary of Defense.
DeSantis would have been a great alternative.
Complete BS. A dry drunk is still a drinker, but during periods where they are not drinking, whether it be for work or other reason, is emotionally volatile because they are not able to imbibe for what ever reason. Alcoholics that go for a day or two without drinking would be prime candidates for this classification.
A person that has a problem with alcohol doesn't mean they are an alcoholic, it means that when they drink, they engage in reckless behavior or behavior that creates problems in their life. An alcoholic is a person that can't suitably engage in life without alcohol (cope with stress, have fun, deal with people, etc...) OR has a physical addiction to it. I doubt Secretary Hegseth was an alcoholic, he is likely recovered or you'd hear about his drinking. If he still is able to sneak a sup on occasion, he may be a dry drunk, but I'd think that highly unlikely given the scope of his job - he has almost no down-time and what little he has he dedicates to his family.
Why do you try so hard to discredit members of Trump's team with this speculative drivel? You claim to support Trump but consistently stab him in the back. With friends like you who needs enemies? Why don't you try sticking to the facts?
The increasingly common tactic of casting aspersions under the guise of "I'm just asking questions" is really wearing thin.