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@SenatorCollins You will be gone after the next vote. No room for traitors and people that are not team players.

After careful consideration, I have decided to vote against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Secretary of Defense. While I appreciate his courageous military service and his ongoing commitment to our servicemembers and their families, I am concerned that he does not have the experience and perspective necessary to succeed in the job. Our military is under tremendous pressure right now. Active conflicts in the Middle East and Europe combined with escalating threats in the Pacific, all against a backdrop of severe financial challenges and four years of ineffective leadership by the Biden Administration, make this an especially critical time for those who lead our military. The next Secretary of Defense will be responsible for managing a massive bureaucracy that includes nearly three million employees and a budget of nearly $850 billion. In addition, our next Secretary faces long-standing procurement and supply issues that continued to worsen under the Biden Administration. In sum, the Secretary is going to be facing a number of incredibly complex problems that are going to require highly skilled management ability. I am concerned that Mr. Hegseth does not have the management experience and background that he will need in order to tackle these difficulties. His limited managerial experience involved running two small non-profit organizations that had decidedly mixed results. I am also concerned about multiple statements, including some in the months just before he was nominated, that Mr. Hegseth has made about women serving in the military. He and I had a candid conversation in December about his past statements and apparently evolving views. I am not convinced that his position on women serving in combat roles has changed. Women comprise nearly 18 percent of our active-duty military. They continue to make critical and valuable contributions to our national defense. I have long advocated that women who wish to serve in and can meet the rigorous standards of combat roles should be able to do so. And numerous women have proved that they can accomplish this difficult feat. Currently, thousands of women are serving in combat roles and many others serve in non-combat functions. Their service is essential to the success of our military. Mr. Hegseth also appears to lack a sufficient appreciation for some of the policies that the military is required to follow because they are codified in the laws of the United States of America. While I understand his points on the importance of up-to-date and workable rules of engagement, our prohibitions against torture come from American laws and treaties ratified by the United States, including the Geneva Conventions. Therefore, I will vote against the nomination.

@bennyjohnson This dude should have never been allowed to do this service. This was a set up. Because of people like him, the Episcopal Church is in rapid, massive decline.

🚨BREAKING: Bishopess lectures Trump, demanding he protect gay, lesbian, and transgender children and reconsider deportations. What a joke.

@JeffFletcherOCR Another wasted 1m.

The Angels avoided an arbitration hearing with José Quijada.

The absurdity of that moment given the $20 million in NIL invested is hard to overstate.

@mkhammer Agreed. Enough of their psycho crap.

I shouldn’t cuss, but fuck you, we’re not doing this anymore.

@KitMaherCNN @carrieunderwood What a class act. No panic. Just confidence. America is back.

*Music not playing* @carrieunderwood: “I can just sing it”

@libsoftiktok Rich liberals have come close to destroying this country. School choice? No. I'll send my kids to private schools. Defund the police? Sure, I live in a gated community with private security. Punish looting? Nah, I don't have to go to the stores, my butler delivers it. Fthem!

Julia Roberts endorsed Kamala who was California AG when CA passed a bill which lowered penalties for looting and shoplifting if the value was under $950. She supports soft-on-crime Democrats who turned CA into a lawless shithole. She’s now seeing that elections have consequences. Looting is horrible especially during a disaster like this. Glad Julia agrees. Hopefully she votes differently in the future.

The United States has been played by the biggest group of leftest and empty husk of a president … the level forgery can only be described as an epic tragic mugging of the citizens of this once great country. the shadow government of the Democratic Party forgery’s have led to massive embezzlement and theft, massive displacement and death of American citizens and let’s not forget war… courtesy of the @POTUS and his handlers Afghanistan, North Carolina Tennessee California Chicago New Orleans York New Orleans … there a lot of work to do and watch how nervous Adam shift is…

@WhiteHouse Nobody wants diverse. They want competent. That didn't happen. It killed America.

President Biden made a commitment that his Administration would look like America. The result: President Biden assembled the most diverse Administration in U.S. history.

@PaulaYScanlan I'm sure you are talking about abortion. It's not a right. Someone lied to you. No matter what you call it or how you frame it, it's murdering a baby.

still just a girl waiting to lose all my rights in 4 days 🥰

@EricLDaugh You are in the way Mr Pence. Please move over and let freedom and common sense march on.

🚨 MIKE PENCE: I may have been the FIRST to call on Republicans to reject RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health & Human Services. Don't defer to Trump. The Secretary must be pro-life. The Senate must reject RFK Jr. and have Trump select someone else.

@VigilantFox Adam Schiff is a walking, talking, breathing piece of shit. Everyone in America knows it. That is the type of person the California voter votes for. And we wonder why our state is a literal dumpster fire.

NEW: Sen. Adam Schiff acts like a child and figuratively covers his ears while questioning Pam Bondi about the 2020 election. SCHIFF: “Was there massive fraud affecting the result of the 2020 election? Yes or no?” BONDI: “Senator, I’m glad you asked that question. If you’ll let me answer what I saw in Pennsylvania—” SCHIFF: “No, I asked a simple question about massive fraud. I can only tell you what I saw. I know you want to answer a different question, but my question is, can you tell us whether there was massive fraud affecting the results of the 2020 election? Yes or no? Was there or was there?” BONDI: “Let me tell you what I saw when I went—” SCHIFF: “That’s not my question. So you can’t answer that question. You can’t speak that even easy truth to us, let alone to the president. So let me ask you a different question.”

@AAC0519 @TheKevinDalton @chamath @friedberg @Jason I don't trust progressives to rebuild my grocery list.

@TheKevinDalton Serious question for Californians: Do you trust progressives to rebuild these neighborhoods? @chamath @friedberg @Jason

They are going to turn Altadena into one gigantic apartment complex. “As we start rebuilding, starting to relax some of the zoning laws, especially in a more working class neighborhood like Altadena. So that rather than putting up single-family residences, we could allow developers to build duplexes and apartments”

@ProjectLincoln Ya right. Biden did that. You people are pathetic.

BREAKING: President Biden has successfully convinced Israel and Hamas to agree to a ceasefire and hostage release deal.

@emilykmay You need a smarter boyfriend.

fireman boyfriend says that the water shortages in california to fight the fire were not the fault of the govt and that every engine on the entire west coast could be at these fires, and it wouldn't be enough. it's the perfect fire.

You're crazy

@EdKrassen You keep spewing the same old non sense. You just don't get it.

So Trump just announced an External Revenue Service to collect tariffs and other foreign money. It sounds good in principle but tariffs are just a tax on American companies and consumers. Do people not understand that? It’s economics 101.

@notcapnamerica Nobody cares what Big Mike does.

Michelle Obama announces she will not be attending Donald Trump’s inauguration. apnews.com/article/trump-…

@jarvis_best Oh stop. You are embarrassing yourself.