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Liz Plank's avatar

tell me the worst mistake you made that’s still not as bad as what he did

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Emerson White's avatar

I purchased something off amazon for a female twitch streamer. I remember changing the shipping address back to my house. I proceeded to buy two "personal massager"s (bullet vibrators) and some epoxy because I was going to pot up some electronics. I get the notification that it is delivered ... and left with a worker at the front desk. There is no front desk at my house, and I've just sent not one but two vibrators to this poor girl.

She was nice enough to throw away the package without opening it, or asking me what was inside of it.

Still not a fraction of a percent as stupid as Pete Hegseth.

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Liz Plank's avatar

lmfaooooo

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Cheri's avatar

And to make matters worse, when interviewed when he landed in Hawaii, Hegseth DEFLECTED 100% and blamed the Atlantic reporter! This is classic male behavior... do something heinous and blame the woman for her reaction. Everyone: keep your eye on the culprits here and do not get sucked into the deflected argument having anything to do with that reporter. Also, their hyprocrisy is suffocating. Excuses for Trump et al's behavior always, while screaming at dems for doing way less harm than what repubs do daily.

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Liz Plank's avatar

real men take accountability for their stupidity

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Patrick B Cummings's avatar

This is brilliant. You are a great writer.

This really nails how I feel right now. As a middle aged man myself, I find it unbelievable that these constant failures keep leveling up, while good, smart, capable people who can’t con the idiots as well keep losing.

I’ve known guys like Pete my whole life, we all have. He shouldn’t be allowed to manage a Dave and Buster’s much less the DoD.

If only he was capable of embarrassment like a normal person.

Wait, you have a boss?

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Mike Moore's avatar

Remember how horribly upset we had the audacity of being over Trump's handling of classified documents? Apparently we were just overreacting. Nothing to see here.

Chapter 2.

Unless a democrat does the same thing, we'll never know how bad it really is. /s

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Liz Plank's avatar

🥺🥺🥺🥺

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bluedot's avatar

Hillary was secretary of state, not defense--but that makes Pete's fumble so much worse!

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Liz Plank's avatar

and my typo nothing in comparaison!!!

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Emerson White's avatar

Also worth remembering that her home brew server was never compromised (the emails got to wikileaks by FOIA request) while the diplomatic cable service she was supposed to be using was compromised and had its contents leaked by Chelsea Manning.

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Bill Radl's avatar

I've been searching for the words you provided: "The powerful are clowns. And while that’s definitely scary, it can also be liberating too."

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Robert DeBell's avatar

I love the idea of women no longer being careful, be loud, be abrasive, be unapologetic, if men in charge can be this profoundly stupid, it's past time for women to be outspoken and HUMAN. I'm crying 😂😭 the oppression of 50% of the greatest people in the world weighs on my heart

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Barbara's avatar

I’m a therapist. When talk to text was new I was adding an appointment with Matt, a new client, to my calendar. It automatically sent an appointment reminder to this client as “ass with Matt”. I must’ve meant assessment, but whatever, there was no getting out of that one.

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Selene's avatar

Thank you, you just cheered me up immensely ❤️ I recently emailed my ex boyfriend when I was feeling particularly lonely. Very bad idea. Oops. It didn’t even register with my ex, much less national news, so I guess I’m ok. 🤣

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Mike Moore's avatar

More of this. I'm infected. I hope it's contagious:

The Woke Virus:

- You read books, and don't burn them

- You embrace science

- You are willing to change your mind when new information becomes available

- You understand that most issues aren't black and white

- You believe in true equality for all people

- You like to share

- You embrace cooperation

- You respect others' rights

- You believe culture and the arts has value

- You care for the planet and all of its life

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Janelle's avatar

Chaos reigns.

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Elizabeth F's avatar

I so needed to read this today... Some of us (the less privileged in a variety of Intersectional ways) are not allowed to Eff up. Women and/or people of color and/or members of the Q+ community and/or other "others" are tone policed to the moon, even when speaking out undeniable truths... but folks in the white supremacy/masochism tribe (and this can be women - gah the MLM selling antivaxxers, and other underprivileged too who just uphold the norm) can screw up magnificently, beat thier partners, commit (other) felonies, destroy communities and start stupid wars and get a pass.

Here's the framework MAGA gang (or whatever corrupt tribe, be it the mean girl table in middle school or the sycophants on FoxNews) uses:

Hint... all arguments will conclude that whatever Team DT did was correct, despite the contradictions, immorality, horrors or incoherence of their conduct.

The sillogism:

Premise: BS

Premise: BS

Premise: BS

Conclusion: Team DT is always right because Team DT did it.

Bonus post script: Biden and Obama and Hillary and the crazy woke are to blame.

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