The Road to Ruin

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Poor Pete Hegseth. He picked the wrong week to stop drinking. And what a week! The post The Road to Ruin appeared first on Fat Tail Daily.

People who didn’t stand a chance in mainstream politics were suddenly elected to the US Senate. A few years ago, or even a few months ago, a guy like Abdul El-Sayed would have been a pariah. Asked who was worse — Israel or Hamas — he refused to give the only answer approved by America’s most powerful lobby. But now, apparently, a lot of voters aren’t sure either.

It is almost a week since Donald Trump was thrashed in the midterm elections. And Democrats are giddy with delight.

They hope to see heads roll. They’ve got their list. And they’re counting on Republicans to do much of the chopping. But who was going to be blamed? Who was going to be tossed off the boat in the hopes of making it more sea-worthy? MS Now:

As in the Soviet Union, no rumour is confirmed until it has been officially denied. What POTUS intends to do with Hegseth, we don’t know. He is probably the least able man in the cabinet, where the competition is stiff. As such, he may be useful to the president. Like a body double, Hegseth may draw fire that otherwise would aim for him.

But whether he goes or stays, his tenure as laughingstock head of America’s military probably won’t be like Sherman’s march through Georgia. Custer’s march through Montana is probably the more likely model. In addition to the usual battles, somewhere in the low hills of the incoming Congress an angry woman, with a feather in her hair and war paint on her face, lies in wait. Yes, it’s Vice Admiral Nancy Lacore, the very woman Hegseth fired. Lacore, with her 35 years of experience in the military, will no doubt take her place among the inquisitors Mr. Hegseth will face.

She might pose Pistol Pete questions that the rest of us have been too polite to ask. By what authority did he summarily execute alleged drug dealers — with no trial, no judge, no jury, no evidence and no defence permitted? How is that different from what the law books call, ‘mass premeditated murder’?

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