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nocturne@sopuli.xyz to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Democrat Asks Intel Leaders If Pete Hegseth May Have Been Drinking Before Signal Chat

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Democrat Asks Intel Leaders If Pete Hegseth May Have Been Drinking Before Signal Chat

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nocturne@sopuli.xyz to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Democrat Gets In Shouting Match With CIA Director Over Pete Hegseth’s Possible Drinking
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"He stood in front of a podium in Europe holding a drink, so of course we want to know if his performance is compromised," said Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.).
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  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    Might be easier to ask if he is ever sober

    • al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.comBanned
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      If he was drunk would he lie?

  • YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zip
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    Well, finally. It took nearly a year for US news outlets to call Trump a liar for lying. Maybe it will take less time for Democrats to call a degenerate drunk a drunk.

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    Who here would be able to get through any of this bullshit sober?

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    That photo is pretty good

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRJecfRxbr8

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    Heads up: this is what actual oversight looks like.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    DUI hire

  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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    And why you don’t go with a DUI hire.

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    Dammit, Kif! Where’s the little umbrella? That’s what makes it a scotch on the rocks.

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      Ugh…

  • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
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    Yup just a drunk mistake and not an inherently incompetent staff

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    Drunk whilst making texting, coked up when delivering his ‘defense’.

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    My first reaction to the title was “Why would Intel know anything? They make computer processors”

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      Were you drinking before posting this reply?

      • Aqarius@lemmy.world
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        I mean, yes, but I fail to see how that’s relevant.

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          Neither does Pete!

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      I read it as Incel Leaders.

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    ”Much as we might be sympathetic to people with continuing alcohol problems, they shouldn’t be at the top of our national-security structure,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told The New Yorker

    Source and more about Pete’s relationship with alcohol

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    well it was a day ending in y

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    Did he ask Schumer if that was allowed? After all we WOULDNT want to ALIENATE Republican Voters who will NEVER vote Democrat!

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