The coming majority must assert its power
Pete Hegseth is a war criminal if the plain facts that he denied hold up, which they will.
He went from commissioning a new TV makeup room, pioneering the position of Pentagon ‘First Lady’ as his third wife, nicknamed Yoko Ono trails the “major” to make make sure that his pants stay up and the bottle remains off his lips, to war criminal in record speed.
Incompetent, unserious, emotionally-addled, unfaithful, corrupt and dishonest are perfect descriptors for Hegseth that will soon precede another, which is murderer.
Hegseth’s spiritual advisor is a nut job pastor with Taliban fantasies, who believes women shouldn’t vote and slavery was a good thing for black people. He has declared himself to be ‘War Secretary’ when no such title or job exists in America.
Each hour of his service has been a desecration of the US military. The eunuch Congress has tolerated his insouciance, impertinence, insolence and arrogance, and its members are his co-conspirators in debasement.
Hakeem Jeffries said on Monday that he does not support impeachment for Pete Hegseth.
Wrong answer.
The coming Democratic majority must have purpose and meaning.
The coming majority must assert its power with a simple declaration that the Article 1 branch of government is co-equal, and will use all of its power to confront Trump’s lawlessness and that of his accomplices.
Pete Hegseth, RFK Jr., Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and Emil Bove should all be impeached.
Faithfulness to duty requires it.
Pete Hegseth has joined the ranks of men like William Calley and Ernest Medina.
You should know about a man who stopped a war crime and paid a heavy price. He was an American hero. His name was Hugh Thompson. This is an American story, which I’ve previously shared, but is important to be reminded of at this moment:
The tragedy at Mỹ Lai: an American shame
“You have to do the right thing in life, but don’t look for any rewards.”
It is appalling that there are not enough Republicans in the House and Senate willing to impeach and convict all of the criminals in the executive and judicial branches of our government, including the mob boss, Trump himself. We are aware that our country is sinking in a cesspool of corruption and criminality. The GOP majorities are aware of this and have the power to stop it; we should not have to live in the MAGA swamp until the next congressional elections.
When people talk about war crimes, they always reach for Calley or Medina. Fair enough. But Hegseth reminds me of something worse: the guys who turned atrocity into a flowchart.
America has never just produced the gunmen. We’ve also produced the bright, ambitious “strategists” who sit under fluorescent lights and rename murder as “lethality,” as if a new label makes the blood less real. Those men scare me more than the ones with rifles, because they make barbarism sound professional.
Look at the Phoenix Program. It didn’t need a thousand Calleys. It needed a handful of clever operators who believed chaos could be “managed.” That’s where the real sickness lived: in the bureaucrats who wrapped brutality in jargon until nobody could tell the difference between a policy and a crime scene.
That’s Hegseth. Not a warrior. Not even a villain in the classic sense. He’s the middle manager of Calleys. The guy who mistakes nihilism for strategy and calls it doctrine. That’s why impeachment isn’t some symbolic gesture. It’s the bare minimum for a country that wants to stay a country.
Schmidt is right. But the danger isn’t just the man committing the crime. It’s the one who builds a system where the crime becomes the job description.