r/politics • u/T_Shurt • 19h ago

Possible Paywall Hegseth Announces Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich Will Help Lead Military

https://newrepublic.com/post/216045/pete-hegseth-elon-musk-newt-gingrich-help-lead-military
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u/VariationDry 19h ago

This is the stupidest thing I have read all month.

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u/polarparadoxical 19h ago

...stupidest thing, so far.

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u/Even_Trifle9341 19h ago

Eh, it’s the 30th so we can have a bit of optimism.

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u/grumpyoldbolos 19h ago

Its Oct 1 in Australia, pls let this be the dumbest thing I hear all month🙏

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u/Thevshi 19h ago

Sorry dude, I'm 99.9% sure you're going to be disappointed. We have elections coming the first Tuesday of November and there are A LOT of desperate Republicans out there.

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u/aerkith 12h ago

Ah yeh. This next month is gonna be a shitshow.

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u/Thevshi 11h ago

I'm sorry, but I think shitshow is a complete and total understatement

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u/Enlightened_Gardener 10h ago

I am SO glad to be on the other side of the planet for the midterms.

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u/MissKhary Canada 18h ago

America: Hold my beer

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u/AZ_Corwyn Arizona 17h ago

Narrator: it was not the dumbest thing he heard this month

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u/Raesong Australia 17h ago

Lol. Lmao, even.

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u/realityhermit 14h ago

waving across the ditch from oct 1 in Aotearoa, NZ - i'd join you in prayer to anything out there; but I am not putting money on that. Somehow each month has managed to outdo the last, and ramping up to midterms ... I'm gonna predict we hear the -dum(b) dum(b) dum(b) Dum(b)- getting louder.

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u/grumpyoldbolos 14h ago

Kia ora bro! The mid terms are keying up to be the apocalypse for the US as a democracy, agreed it's only going to get dumber

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u/azflatlander 17h ago

Better get into a coma.

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u/Timemyth 7h ago

Whatever you do then, don't listen to press coverage of Pauline and One Nation. It's MAGA Oz Style, complete with it's own band of balaclava wearing wankers. (The Neo Nazis)

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u/Throwawaylikeme90 19h ago

I had a doomsday buzzer beater typed out and I decided not to speak it into the universe. 

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u/zombie_overlord 19h ago

Thanks. I'm sure they're already working on it, but thanks nonetheless

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u/neverwrong804 19h ago

Whisper it to me

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u/Cruxion Virginia 18h ago

Optimism? In this economy?

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u/CougdIt 17h ago

Dude way to jinx it

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u/MrChip53 19h ago

At most there's less than 12 hours left in the month. What could they have left!?

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u/polarparadoxical 19h ago

You are tempting fate.

We do not need another seal broken.

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u/Nynaeve_al_meowra 19h ago

What's that about breaking seals?

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u/anapunas 18h ago

Niel the seal is listening.

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u/blasek0 Alabama 17h ago

Calling this timeline's Dragon Reborn a woolhead is an insult to woolheads.

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u/Little_View_6659 8h ago

I’m guessing it’s referencing the breaking of the seals to start the apocalypse on Supernatural.

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u/PhilDGlass California 16h ago

Hold my covfefe

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u/RoverBoyNumber6 19h ago

Got four hours left, EST…

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u/SchrodingersWetFart 19h ago

I mean, it’s the last day of the month….

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u/Tamihera 18h ago

…did you see about the privileged officer corps they’re going to be recruiting out of Liberty?

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u/AdjectiveNoun1234567 15h ago

Only 2+ more years of this shit... 🫠