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The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

This comes as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth continues to find himself mired in controversy. NPR has also confirmed with the same official that Hegseth shared details ahead of last month's Yemen strikes with his wife and brother in a Signal chat on his personal phone, minutes after being updated by a senior U.S. military official. The news of the second Signal group chat about the mission was first reported by The New York Times.

In March, Hegseth shared details about action against Houthi targets in Yemen in a Signal chat with top White House officials that accidentally included a journalist.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Only person that could be worse, Ted Nugent?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Let's see how much worse they can do.

What do you think? Defense Secretary Kevin Sorbo?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Aldrich Ames

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Kid Rock. He's cowboy, baby.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

TBH even Alex Jones is a step up. Hegseth is a guy who can't even pretend to be against the idea of racial cleansing. Some of his takes on Israel-Palestine are outlandish to even the Israelis.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Defense Secretary Ritchie. As in SecDef Kid Rock

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Kanye's phone is probably ringing right now

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

A couple weeks before the inauguration, I listened to the President/CEO of the company I work at go on an absolute rant about how Trump was going to get rid of all Biden's DEI hires, about how the Navy Chief was a woman and she would be fired, about how the fastest running time for a woman was slower than the slowest running time for a man(???), and some other, racist stuff.

I lost my train of thought...what happened?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So will this guy just end up back on Fox News?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

That and the lucrative after dinner speeches for rooms full of wealthy white men.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yep. He'll also constantly bring up the fact that he was sec def

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

You mean like Lawrence O'Donnell and his time with Daniel Patrick Moynihan? Did you know Lawrence O'Donnell served as an aid to Daniel Patrick Moynihan? Did he mention today that he worked for Daniel Patrick Moynihan?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For almost 5 whole months!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

How many Scaramuccis does that come out to?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

3 months in. That's like 9 mooches.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We're really starting to develop a system to measure time here. 9 Mooches to a Hegseth

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's too rational

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh god, you've inspired me to do some unit conversions.

1 Light-Mooch is 1904.591 AU. Not as much fun as I was hoping.

Maybe there are some fun coincidences with other things

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I still got a chuckle out of it. Thanks, mate 🍻

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