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[–] 105 points 7 months ago (1 child)

reached a new "height of criminality."

This is base level of criminality now.

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  • [–] 51 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I mean, Trump has been using his position in office to enrich himself in both terms…. What are they gonna do to Hegseth?

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  • [–] 51 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Hegseth should serve life in prison.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Hegseth should serve life in a drag show?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    He'll enjoy that too much. Drag queens are hilarious.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    He’ll enjoy that too much.

    Do you not know who Pete Hegseth is?

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  • [–] 46 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Trump knows that when he orders the military to fire on American citizens, Hegseth will enthusiastically pull that trigger. He would launch a nuclear weapon if Trump wanted him to. That kind of unquestioning psychopathic loyalty is incredibly valuable.

    Hegseth isn't going anywhere, he's one of Trump's core players, like Bondi or PeeWee Himmler.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    Even if that weren't true, the idea that this type of open corruption is grounds for firing in a Trump admin is laughable. Trump himself is far more corrupt, and hegseth being corrupt just goes further to ensure his loyalty. He can always have Bondi do a selective prosecution of this should he step out of line.

    It's basically kompromat that only Trump (through control of the DOJ through Bondi) can use.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Don't forget Bondi wasn't even their first choice. Bondi is just who they used because they couldn't get Matt Gaetz the position. Someone he could blackmail into doing anything because they already have the evidence that he trafficked and raped a minor. Gaetz assistant pled guilty and is in prison with a shortened sentence (14 years) with the agreement he would testify against Gaetz. Both Florida and the U.S. put the files in a drawer and essentially labeled it blackmail and let him walk free until they need to use it against him. He wasn't found not guilty, wasn't even tried, they just put them in a corner and said... Maybe later.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    That is an entirely accurate assessment of the situation, with one small clarification:

    Joel Greenberg wasn't his assistant, he could be better described as a wingman/ concierge/ pimp, sort of a Florida Trailer Trash analogy to Epstein/Trump.

    Greenberg was the Seminole County Tax Collector, an elected position, that oversees tax collections, obviously, but also the DMV, and Elections. So it's a powerful position, with a lot of room for corruption.

    One of the things that they did was take underage girls into the DMV after hours, and let them root through barrels of old licenses, looking for ones that resembled themselves close enough that they could use them as fake IDs.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    You're absolutely right, he's literally just their trigger happy hype man. He's there to act as a motivational figurehead who's willing to accept and promote whatever results in the most military action being taken at Trump's request. Also "trigger happy hype man" - that would actually be a cool name for a song or album come to think of it....

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  • [–] 28 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    "Under fire"? Man that sounds serious. What are they actually firing at him, though? Like how is he being penalized by being "under fire"? What does that mean?

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    It doesn’t mean anything. These headlines might as well read, “quell your rage, educated masses: the bad people are finally getting the negative attention they deserve, so put down your pitchforks…”

    It’s a slow drip of hope that consequences are just around the corner. It keeps uprisings at bay. Until decades later people realize, “wait a minute… how’s this guy running for President? Wasn’t he ‘under fire’ for some shit not long ago?”

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  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    Out of a cannon into the sun

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    That requires more energy than shooting him out of the solar system.
    I'm all for energy efficiency!
    Nice side effect: he has more time to contemplate the reason behind his long journey.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    Alternatively, launch toward the sun, include a solar power tracker, and track and follow the trajectory for science/physics class work!

    Based on trumps speed and position today, calculate where his bloated corpse will be in 9 hours, the length of a workday, which is something he never personally experienced, but tried to make worse for the average person.

    Double whammy of learning about history and science!

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    9 hours, the length of a workday

    Laughs in European.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    I mean I’m including the hour lunch there or it would be 8.. pretty sure y’all aren’t working substantially less than that..

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Fair enough, that does change things. 7.5 is pretty standard, but I've generally been contracted for 7. Which is significantly less than 9.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    It would be, yeah, and a lot of people here do work 60+ hrs because our country fucking sucks, but that’s not at all the norm for most jobs. If anything, most places that can swing it try to keep you under the hour threshold to qualify as full time (30 hrs in a week or 130 hrs in a month) so they don’t have to offer you benefits like health insurance or vacation days.. so most low-wage workers have multiple jobs and work more than 60 hrs, but still have to pay for their own health insurance or do without it.

    I’m not a big fan of mocking exploitation of the working class, regardless where they are from. You have it objectively better, act like it instead of punching down.

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    What about the peanuts farm?

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    The only fire Hegseth understands is fireball.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    Who would fire him? Trumps entire administration are the most corrupt officials to ever take office. Insider trading is the least of their many criminal offenses. The entire lot should be thrown in prison!!

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    'Fire this idiot'

    Followed immediately by "arrest this criminal".

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    Someone more knowledgeable clarify this to me ?

    "Pete Hegseth tried to make a LOSING insider trade on his advance knowledge of Trump's Iran war plans, which he advised to start," Grant Stern, managing editor of Occupy Democrats, posted on X. "This is the height of criminality and incompetence."

    How was the trade losing ? whatever stock it was went down ? was it something akin to weapons manufacturing ? and if I understand correctly, it was expected to go up because of their involvement in the "war effort" ?

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    You can gamble on whether a stock price will rise or fall. When going to war, stock prices for war companies rise because they are expected to get a lot of business, but if that call to war is suddenly canceled, then the stock price for that company decreases.

    If he made a losing bet, one of two things happened:

    1. The value of the stock was going to drop way below the value it started at, so he would earn a large payout on that gamble.

    2. He was funneling large amounts of money to other insider traders.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Thank you. I didn't know that was possible. How do you do such a gamble, practically ? Is it something that banks offer, or something you can do from a smartphone app ?

    Additionally, how does #2 work ?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    You can trade outside of trading hours by paying extra for the trade. When you do this, you can buy/sell only to others who have also paid extra. This means you have some extra control over who gets your shares and when. In addition, you can sell shares directly to other people anytime if you physically own them.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Don't have to be a good criminal to do crime! Dude's an amateur at insider-trading!

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Martha Stewart did this shit. You might argue she is more competent than Hegseth. And she went to prison.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    So this is the limit? Money? Of course.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    This photo is so good. They both look so evil.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Someone please post the reminder about the voting

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Make blond trust the law. Prosecute any government officials enriching themselves from the government.

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