The defense secretary has floated a White House run with close friends and associates, two people said. And Hegseth sparked speculation with an event in Iowa this month.

I think he might just have a fetish for losing.

  • quick_snail@feddit.nl
    2·
    12 minutes ago

    Actually, I hope he does run. He would make it easier for progressive to win because everyone hates him.

  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
    5·
    52 minutes ago

    American politics is so fucking whack, but I’m still gonna say he has no chance and if I get egg on my face I get egg on my face.

    Big part of how Trump one was playing both sides with the tough guy act but also lying that he’d stay out of foreign entanglements. Hegseth is pure tough guy act, and also started and lost a war with Iran, so he has absolutely no ability to court the libertarian/isolationist-minded people on the right who felt burned by Bush. It seems like he’s just delusional and has bought into his own propaganda.

    • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      27 minutes ago

      Right but imagine you are a hardcore MAGA supporter and found that Trump won’t be running for a 3ed term, where can you find someone shittier than Pete to elect?

  • ulkesh@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    1 hour ago

    You guys laugh, but there seems to be enough wannabe-macho small-penis dudebro idiot voters that could get the loser elected. Do not assume it won’t happen.

  • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
    11·
    3 hours ago

    We all thought the current president was going to lose in 2016 when he was dicking up the republican primaries. Don’t discount these hacks. RFK would be the strongest challenger if not for his speech impediment, how is he going to run a nazi rally with that voice?

    Vance won’t get it, Rubio won’t get it.

    • 4am@lemmy.zip
      3·
      2 hours ago

      He’s literally getting away with his wildest dreams, of course he’s delusional

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 hours ago

      I still laugh when someone watching him doing his manly macho bigly boy warrior ethos “exercise” and they shouted “all the way down, all the way UP!”, LOOOOoooool.

      I wonder if they kept their job or if they could cover and say they were directing that at others there out of shot.

      Anyway, I remember coaches and gym teachers that would STOP COUNTING when counting reps and you did bad form. Whoever was counting for little Petey here should have done that. He was not doing anything useful here. I think I counted two actual reps out of the supposed 40-something, LOL.

      https://www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth-mocked-by-critics-over-workout-video-fitness-experts-weigh-in-12066692

      • tea_n_typewriters@lemmy.world
        1·
        47 minutes ago

        I remember coaches and gym teachers that would STOP COUNTING when counting reps and you did bad form.

        The military does the same thing during testing.

        “44…45…46…46…all the way down…46…46…”

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Isn’t he tied to the Seven Mountain Mandate insanity?

      Dipshit probably believes in that Left Behind bullshit, too.