Donald Trump may have made the decision to launch the war that tanked voters’ support for the GOP and dealt them a midterm shellacking. But the historic losses are accelerating a push for someone else to take the fall: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

And the House could vote as soon as next week to impeach the Pentagon’s top leader.

Many Republican lawmakers and allies alarmed by Tuesday’s wipeout are moving swiftly to pin blame for the election results on Hegseth, arguing behind the scenes that he played a chief role in convincing Trump to attack Iran with no exit strategy — and no plan for managing the inevitable political fallout.

The knives-out campaign comes despite private acknowledgement from House and Senate GOP strategists that the party’s problems extended far beyond the war, triggering 2008-level losses that will take years to reverse. But for now, party leaders – and many in their ranks – remain unwilling to directly blame Trump for their woes.

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[–] 116 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Dejavu, it’s like the Iraq war all over again where suddenly there’s not a republican to be found that was in favor of it once their grip on power slips

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  • [–] 39 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    “I think he probably knows he’s dead but would like an exit sufficiently dramatic that it gives him a launching pad to run for POTUS,” one administration official said.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahaaa... oh... man.... I needed that.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Donvict Drumpf was elected PresiDunce. Twice.
    Before that Bush jr was thought of as a dumb dumb, but he got elected. Twice.

    Think about that before you write off the stupidity of kegsbreath trying it.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    Bush Jr stole his first election and then 9/11 made people lose their minds enough to actually want him back. It’s not quite the same as the Trump bullshit, which I’m convinced was still largely a racist backlash to Obama mixed with the Democrats running terrible candidates both times Trump won.

    Hopefully this election will show that progressive candidates drive turnout, but I’m not keeping my hopes up that the oligarchs won’t find a way around that.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    We laughed about Trump too. Conservatives demand a violent, evil leader. They lust for cruelty. They require it. If Pete promises to torture and kill as many as possible, he really will win the conservative vote. That really is what all conservatives are at their core. Pure evil.

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  • [–] 31 points 5 days ago

    No beardos, no weirdos, no job you fake tough guy alcoholic womanizer. Another trump / Fox news fucking disaster for the world. Main accomplishments including killing a bunch of school age girls and fucking up the global economy.

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  • [–] 28 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    I wanna see them all cananalize themselves

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    cananalize [emphasis added]

    eat each other (nonsexually) starting from the butthole?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    Hell yeah! I'd say "eat the rich," but I'm sure they all taste like utter shit, especially the illegal immigrant people want to become the first trillionaire. If fElon succeeds, it'll be like opening Pandora's box and we may never be able to close it without losing millions of good people. So, let them "cananalize" each other...that way we don't have to taste their tainted flesh.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 days ago

    Let's reach across the aisle to help that motherfucker get into prison.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 days ago

    Lmfao they don't have the gall to blame The Big Man so they're throwing the Drunken Chud under the Bus.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 days ago

    thats the thing about Fascists, they will canabilize one another in order to save their own asses. Send him to the Hague.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Just hand him over to the ICC and call it a day.

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  • [–] 25 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    I love this idea specifically because the US would then be acknowledging and ratifying their relationship with the ICC.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 days ago*

    SecDef? I thought he was SecWar now? Next I suppose we'll be re-renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario?

    This place already smells less like a diaper.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 days ago

    Air drop him into Iran

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  • [–] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    He needs to be thrown out and then tried and convicted of war crimes... let him rot in some foreign country prison. Offer him to Iran, maybe.

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  • [–] 45 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    Nice, now lets sit back and watch MAGA eat itself for the next couple years

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  • [–] 12 points 5 days ago

    Under the bus, under the bus, everybody goes under the bus…

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago

    He should be tried for the war crimes he committed, not just impeached. Can a SecDef be submitted to a military Court Martial?

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago

    "The party of self serving backstabbing surely won't back stab me when it serves them"

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    How many scapegoats y'all think absolution is gonna take?

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  • [–] 10 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    The in fighting and finger pointing will be wilder than a Mexican soap opera.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago

    Can we also toss the worm brain guy?

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  • We can't prosecute him domestically. Best thing to do is arrest him and fly him to The Hague

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    You know what? You wanna make Kegseth the fall guy and sacrifice him as an appetizer? I'm ok with this.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    I worry there's an effort to blame the midterm bloodbath solely on the war. The GOP still has two months to push their agenda.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 days ago

    And Jeffries wants to blame it entirely on affordability. He’s not right either: we need to resist any incumbents trying to pigeonhole it into any single issue.

    It is the war. It is affordability. It is corruption. It is violation of human rights. It is the administration acting above the law. It is capricious cancellation of services which saved lives. And it certainly is the appointment of incompetent sycophants to positions that used to be meritorious

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago

    Maybe he should go hi-T and stop being trump's bitch.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Knowing democrats. This will be their one. Get it. Celebrate all over the internet. And then just stop going after traitors and pedophiles.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    The problem with trying to get votes by accusing your competition of being outright criminals is that when you get into power, you need to follow up on that claim. Then it turns out that you were just lying and no investigation actually turns up anything.

    And now the people who took those claims seriously expect lots of people go to jail and nobody does, and they think that the system is rigged. But it was just mundane lying.

    (I don't know if GOP are actual criminals actually, just extrapolating from how these have gone in the past)

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago

    "Burning the Witch" to protect the rest of their evil regime

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  • [–] 6 points 4 days ago

    The drunk racist fuck-up has a boss who needs to be in the same courthouse and eventual prison. The internal Government of Putin attacks will reveal more information about their corruption and BS.

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    This would be perfect. I hope the GOP impeaches Hegseth, and then the democrats impeach Trump when they take office in January.

    Let the heads roll.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    They still don't understand who's really to blame?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago*

    You’re not meant to.

    But it couldn’t be dear leader. Couldn’t be our bombastic buffoon in chief. Couldn’t be mango Mussolini. Oh no, it must have been someone else

    And since the Supreme Court decided the President is above the law, we’re stuck with passing the buck to the incompetent sycophants who carried it out

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  • Oh noes, whats the anchorman playing big man gonna do next?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    ....remain unwilling to directly blame Trump for their losses:

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  • [–] 0 points 4 days ago

    Jeffries and Schumer will play along with whatever their GOP besties want to do. Their common goal is just to wipe the slate clean and get the GOP back into leadership.

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