Pete Hegseth on deck. Looks like we are about to see how good a Senate Leader John Thune can be, and how supportive of Trump the GOP senate will be.
Senate braces for ‘train wreck’ as hearings kick off for Trump Cabinet picks
The Republican-led Senate is slated to hold more than a dozen hearings this week for President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, with the hope of confirming them quickly after he’s inaugurated on Jan. 20.
..snip… The hearings kick off Tuesday with Hegseth; former Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., Trump’s pick for veterans affairs secretary; and former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum for secretary of the interior.
Seems this is the first time that I will be paying much attention to these Confirmation Hearings. Irritating already, i.e., when first glancing thru the article I took it as meaning Pete Hegseth could be confirmed tomorrow and moved into the Pentagon by Wednesday. I may not make it past Pete Hegseth’s hearing if the REPs can’t kick some serious DEM buttocks tomorrow…
Grok – can Thune get Hegseth confirmed?:
..snip..snip-snip..snippety snip-snip… Current Outlook:
• As of the latest reports, there’s an indication that Thune believes Hegseth has the votes, suggesting a coordinated effort within the GOP to rally support. However, this confidence is not universally shared, as some senators have expressed reservations or remained non-committal.
In summary, while there are significant challenges due to the allegations against Hegseth, the political environment and the concerted efforts of Trump’s allies, combined with Thune’s leadership and strategic maneuvering, might just secure Hegseth’s confirmation. However, the outcome remains uncertain until the actual vote, as last-minute changes in political support or new revelations could alter the situation.
If Thune gets Hegseth thru—then I’ll be in Thune’s corner thru out these hearings…Hegseth is a must for me.
Wild boars are some tough critters. Once saw a TV documentary about wild boar hunting in Louisiana. Involved one badass wild boar w/ some serious looking tusks … some chase dogs … a pit bull catch dog named Sarona Trouble (that or similar) … and a man with a knife.
Chase dogs chased the boar into a closed in area—probably chosen by the boar as a great defensive position. Man with the knife calls the chase dogs out before the boar killed them. Then he lets the catch dog into that closed in thicket…catch dog grabs a boar’s ear (such pit bulls are known as an “ear dog” – in fight circles)…man with knife grabs boar’s other ear, and starts cutting the boar’s throat with the knife.
I ended up with one of Sarona Trouble’s male pups some years later – named him Louisiana Trouble on the papers, but called him Louie – short for Lucky Louie – after he survived a lightning strike. You can’t let these types of pit bulls run free—they’re ‘Chain Gang’ dogs…or something like 3/8 to ¼ inch steel aircraft cable dogs. He was my second pit bull, and I had his chain wrapped around a tall pine tree. His dog-house was a flipped over 14’ Jon boat on some big sawed tree stumps.
That area of Florida—one quickly learns to get inside when it starts lightning. I watched as one lightning strike hits the tall pine Louie was chained to…it circled the tree – then jumped from the tree to the Jon boat Louie was under. Three of Louie’s legs went rigid whilst one rear leg was moving—that moved Louie around and around. I dashed out to go help him, and another lightning strike hit nearby—I retreated back into the hut, and started shouting “Louie” over and over. He finally stopped circling in that one spot and staggered up. Never chained Louie to another tree, and built him a real doghouse after that.
Karmi, lets keep our fingers crossed. Pete is no pushover. May be lots of fireworks.
Interesting video. Why do these people have to talk so fast? Do they think it sounds more important? Why have the animals survived, and humans may not, in that environment?
Most people are not aware that Great Dane dogs were bred to hunt wild boar. They are so gentle and quiet at home. There is a hunting group in Hawaii that works with Great Danes.
Shirehome:
You can force people not to return to their former homes, doesn’t work with wild animals.
An interesting spiel on radiation and radioactive contamination. They aren’t the same no matter how fast you talk. The specific chemical characteristics of the radioactive contaminant and the media (soil, water, groundwater) makes a big difference in how and how fast a radioactive contaminant moves through the environment and receptors (living things).
It was interesting that they finally thought about the daughter products.
the humor is ratioed by the inclusion of the lawfare scammer norman eisen,
I’m not saying rubin is like a warthog, they have some use
Ah, Rubin is going to launch a “vibrant, new, independent media outlet.” Good luck with that. I don’t think progressive thought is a growth market at this time.
My initial thought pretty much borne out. Boars find radiation delicious.
Rubin’s an interesting case. She was a bog-standard liberal Democrat Hollywood lawyer for 20 years, supported Kerry in 2004. Somehow becomes a “conservative” writing for The Weekly Standard in 2005, hired to the Washington Post in 2010. Somebody in the establishment plucked her out of obscurity to role-play a conservative for some reason. And it seems she has outlived her usefulness.
You can’t fool me, it’s a guy.
According to this article, the Senate can stop debate on a cabinet nominee with a simple majority vote. If the Republicans have a majority vote for the confirmation then they can push them through.
With McCormick, the Republicans can overcome the weak sisters like Tillis, Murkowski and Collins but not others like Cassidy
Minnesota State House of Representatives is the focus here: Democrats (in the minority by one seat) are refusing to show for the session, hoping to stall any official business in the House. It is par for the slimy leftist course.
Talk about editorializing and posing as news.
I was looking to see who President Trump might have picked to head the all important Secret Service, and among the headlines I could choose from was this one–
“Trump Mulls Putting his Life in the Hands of a Right-Wing Hothead”*
The article then went on to characterize Bongino as, among other bad, bad things, “a leading election denialist, January 6 insurrectionist defender, and Covid-19 conspiracist,” and on and on.
Sounds like the Minnesota left is copying the Wisconsin left from the Walker years.
P.S. The New Republic article above then went on to characterize Bongino, among other bad, bad, things as ” …a leading election denialist, January 6 insurrectionist defender, and Covid-19 conspiracist. “
The “vibrant, new, independent media outlet” is The Free Press.
Sorry for the double post but, after I added the P.S. to the first comment, it never showed up, so I reentered it.
“Trump Mulls Putting his Life in the Hands of a Right-Wing Hothead”*
The article then went on to characterize Bongino as, among other bad, bad things, “a leading election denialist, January 6 insurrectionist defender, and Covid-19 conspiracist,” and on and on.
Snow on Pine:
Sounds a bit overqualified. 🙂
RE: Being an “election denialist”
In the 2020 race, half dead Biden supposedly received 8 million plus more votes than Trump did.
Did this, does this seem likely?
Diden it raise all sorts of red flags?
Would you say that this enormous disparity in the number of votes between the two candidates called for a very close investigation/examination of the whole voting process, in each and every state?
I think that this would have been the only reasonable thing to do.
Moreover, in 2024 Harris received only 74.7 million votes, and lost to Trump, who received 77.2 million votes.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Where did those 8 million plus Democrat votes that Biden got in 2020 disappear to in 2024?
@Snow on Pine:Where did those 8 million plus Democrat votes that Biden got in 2020 disappear to in 2024?
The Trump vote went from 74.2 million in 2020 to 77.3 million in 2024, a gain of 3.1 million votes.
The Biden vote was 81.3 million in 2024 and the Harris vote was 75.0 million, a loss of 6.3 million votes.
In other words the total votes for the Republican or the Democrat went from 155.5 million to 152.5 million, 66.6% turnout to 63.9%, a loss of 3.0 million votes.
So it’s not really that mysterious. Some of the 6.3 million didn’t vote in 2024, and some of them switched to Trump. Maybe some of those non-voters or switchers represent fraud in 2020, I’m convinced some of them do, but fraud significant to Presidential elections is tens of thousands of votes in specific deep-blue precincts in purple states. The Dems losing 6 million and Trump getting 3 million more doesn’t seem like slam-dunk evidence of fraud, it looks more like a tiny change in turnout across the country.
If you ask me the really suspicious change is from 2016 to 2020: 60.1% turnout, 128.8 million to 2020’s 155.5 million, 66.6% turnout. Trump only got 63.0 million of that. Supposedly we went from 227 million voters to 237 million in four years, based on turnout and totals (I didn’t show my work on third party votes but I included them).
That does not make a lick of sense: the US population went from 323.1 million in 2016 to 331.4 million in 2020. 10 million more people, many millions of them illegal immigrants, and there were 10 million more legal voters? Where did they come from?
I don’t think that’s plausible on its face, if someone told me that was legit I would want to see them show their work: how many people entered the US, how many left, how many eligible voters left the rolls and how many entered.
Something has been done between 2016 and 2020 to permanently change who is allowed to vote and how those votes are counted.
“it seems she has outlived her usefulness”
I question the implication that Rubin was ever useful.
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Pete Hegseth on deck. Looks like we are about to see how good a Senate Leader John Thune can be, and how supportive of Trump the GOP senate will be.
Seems this is the first time that I will be paying much attention to these Confirmation Hearings. Irritating already, i.e., when first glancing thru the article I took it as meaning Pete Hegseth could be confirmed tomorrow and moved into the Pentagon by Wednesday. I may not make it past Pete Hegseth’s hearing if the REPs can’t kick some serious DEM buttocks tomorrow…
Grok – can Thune get Hegseth confirmed?:
If Thune gets Hegseth thru—then I’ll be in Thune’s corner thru out these hearings…Hegseth is a must for me.
Wild boars are some tough critters. Once saw a TV documentary about wild boar hunting in Louisiana. Involved one badass wild boar w/ some serious looking tusks … some chase dogs … a pit bull catch dog named Sarona Trouble (that or similar) … and a man with a knife.
Chase dogs chased the boar into a closed in area—probably chosen by the boar as a great defensive position. Man with the knife calls the chase dogs out before the boar killed them. Then he lets the catch dog into that closed in thicket…catch dog grabs a boar’s ear (such pit bulls are known as an “ear dog” – in fight circles)…man with knife grabs boar’s other ear, and starts cutting the boar’s throat with the knife.
I ended up with one of Sarona Trouble’s male pups some years later – named him Louisiana Trouble on the papers, but called him Louie – short for Lucky Louie – after he survived a lightning strike. You can’t let these types of pit bulls run free—they’re ‘Chain Gang’ dogs…or something like 3/8 to ¼ inch steel aircraft cable dogs. He was my second pit bull, and I had his chain wrapped around a tall pine tree. His dog-house was a flipped over 14’ Jon boat on some big sawed tree stumps.
That area of Florida—one quickly learns to get inside when it starts lightning. I watched as one lightning strike hits the tall pine Louie was chained to…it circled the tree – then jumped from the tree to the Jon boat Louie was under. Three of Louie’s legs went rigid whilst one rear leg was moving—that moved Louie around and around. I dashed out to go help him, and another lightning strike hit nearby—I retreated back into the hut, and started shouting “Louie” over and over. He finally stopped circling in that one spot and staggered up. Never chained Louie to another tree, and built him a real doghouse after that.
Neo is disinclined to offer remarks about Yvonne Elliman.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZA9mhJF_dI
Karmi, lets keep our fingers crossed. Pete is no pushover. May be lots of fireworks.
Interesting video. Why do these people have to talk so fast? Do they think it sounds more important? Why have the animals survived, and humans may not, in that environment?
Most people are not aware that Great Dane dogs were bred to hunt wild boar. They are so gentle and quiet at home. There is a hunting group in Hawaii that works with Great Danes.
Shirehome:
You can force people not to return to their former homes, doesn’t work with wild animals.
An interesting spiel on radiation and radioactive contamination. They aren’t the same no matter how fast you talk. The specific chemical characteristics of the radioactive contaminant and the media (soil, water, groundwater) makes a big difference in how and how fast a radioactive contaminant moves through the environment and receptors (living things).
It was interesting that they finally thought about the daughter products.
TMI?
oh noes https://contrarian.substack.com/p/i-have-resigned-from-the-washington
the humor is ratioed by the inclusion of the lawfare scammer norman eisen,
I’m not saying rubin is like a warthog, they have some use
Ah, Rubin is going to launch a “vibrant, new, independent media outlet.” Good luck with that. I don’t think progressive thought is a growth market at this time.
My initial thought pretty much borne out. Boars find radiation delicious.
Rubin’s an interesting case. She was a bog-standard liberal Democrat Hollywood lawyer for 20 years, supported Kerry in 2004. Somehow becomes a “conservative” writing for The Weekly Standard in 2005, hired to the Washington Post in 2010. Somebody in the establishment plucked her out of obscurity to role-play a conservative for some reason. And it seems she has outlived her usefulness.
You can’t fool me, it’s a guy.
According to this article, the Senate can stop debate on a cabinet nominee with a simple majority vote. If the Republicans have a majority vote for the confirmation then they can push them through.
With McCormick, the Republicans can overcome the weak sisters like Tillis, Murkowski and Collins but not others like Cassidy
https://ballotpedia.org/Confirmation_process_for_Donald_Trump%27s_Cabinet_nominees,_2025
Powerline, Hinderaker: “Constitutional Crisis In Minnesota [Updated]”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/01/constitutional-crisis-in-minnesota.php
Minnesota State House of Representatives is the focus here: Democrats (in the minority by one seat) are refusing to show for the session, hoping to stall any official business in the House. It is par for the slimy leftist course.
Talk about editorializing and posing as news.
I was looking to see who President Trump might have picked to head the all important Secret Service, and among the headlines I could choose from was this one–
“Trump Mulls Putting his Life in the Hands of a Right-Wing Hothead”*
The article then went on to characterize Bongino as, among other bad, bad things, “a leading election denialist, January 6 insurrectionist defender, and Covid-19 conspiracist,” and on and on.
* See https://newrepublic.com/post/188678/dan-bongino-trump-secret-service
sdferr:
Sounds like the Minnesota left is copying the Wisconsin left from the Walker years.
P.S. The New Republic article above then went on to characterize Bongino, among other bad, bad, things as ” …a leading election denialist, January 6 insurrectionist defender, and Covid-19 conspiracist. “
The “vibrant, new, independent media outlet” is The Free Press.
https://www.thefp.com/
Sorry for the double post but, after I added the P.S. to the first comment, it never showed up, so I reentered it.
“Trump Mulls Putting his Life in the Hands of a Right-Wing Hothead”*
The article then went on to characterize Bongino as, among other bad, bad things, “a leading election denialist, January 6 insurrectionist defender, and Covid-19 conspiracist,” and on and on.
Snow on Pine:
Sounds a bit overqualified. 🙂
RE: Being an “election denialist”
In the 2020 race, half dead Biden supposedly received 8 million plus more votes than Trump did.
Did this, does this seem likely?
Diden it raise all sorts of red flags?
Would you say that this enormous disparity in the number of votes between the two candidates called for a very close investigation/examination of the whole voting process, in each and every state?
I think that this would have been the only reasonable thing to do.
Moreover, in 2024 Harris received only 74.7 million votes, and lost to Trump, who received 77.2 million votes.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Where did those 8 million plus Democrat votes that Biden got in 2020 disappear to in 2024?
@Snow on Pine:Where did those 8 million plus Democrat votes that Biden got in 2020 disappear to in 2024?
The Trump vote went from 74.2 million in 2020 to 77.3 million in 2024, a gain of 3.1 million votes.
The Biden vote was 81.3 million in 2024 and the Harris vote was 75.0 million, a loss of 6.3 million votes.
In other words the total votes for the Republican or the Democrat went from 155.5 million to 152.5 million, 66.6% turnout to 63.9%, a loss of 3.0 million votes.
So it’s not really that mysterious. Some of the 6.3 million didn’t vote in 2024, and some of them switched to Trump. Maybe some of those non-voters or switchers represent fraud in 2020, I’m convinced some of them do, but fraud significant to Presidential elections is tens of thousands of votes in specific deep-blue precincts in purple states. The Dems losing 6 million and Trump getting 3 million more doesn’t seem like slam-dunk evidence of fraud, it looks more like a tiny change in turnout across the country.
If you ask me the really suspicious change is from 2016 to 2020: 60.1% turnout, 128.8 million to 2020’s 155.5 million, 66.6% turnout. Trump only got 63.0 million of that. Supposedly we went from 227 million voters to 237 million in four years, based on turnout and totals (I didn’t show my work on third party votes but I included them).
That does not make a lick of sense: the US population went from 323.1 million in 2016 to 331.4 million in 2020. 10 million more people, many millions of them illegal immigrants, and there were 10 million more legal voters? Where did they come from?
I don’t think that’s plausible on its face, if someone told me that was legit I would want to see them show their work: how many people entered the US, how many left, how many eligible voters left the rolls and how many entered.
Something has been done between 2016 and 2020 to permanently change who is allowed to vote and how those votes are counted.
“it seems she has outlived her usefulness”
I question the implication that Rubin was ever useful.