Unmasking the Political Spectacle - Senate Confirmation Hearings
Show Notes
Is the American Senate confirmation process just a political spectacle, or does it serve a deeper purpose? Join us as we dive into the fiery arena of U.S. Senate confirmation hearings, spotlighting the grilling of Pete Hegseth, a decorated military veteran, and the political motivations behind these public spectacles. We unpack the intense scrutiny faced by nominees, especially when anonymous sources fuel the fire, as seen in Senator Tim Kaine’s pointed questioning about Hegseth’s alleged intoxication. This episode examines the Democrats' resistance to moving away from a "woke" military and advocates for a return to focus on military efficiency and strength.
00:00:01.163 --> 00:00:07.350 Hey everybody, would you like to be a confirmation hearing?
00:00:07.350 --> 00:00:16.875 Would you like to be grilled by senators who are just looking for, you know, a soundbite, something to catch you on?
00:00:16.875 --> 00:00:29.899 I mean, if you were paying any attention to the Senate confirmation hearings that have been going on, you know, first of all, the media rips the living hell out of the speed that this has done, because efficiency, apparently, is bad for government.
00:00:29.899 --> 00:00:42.889 And number two, apparently there are no stones you can turn and there is no depth to the depravity that someone was willing to go to ruin someone's personal career.
00:00:42.889 --> 00:00:45.389 Hey everybody, welcome back to the Rant Network.
00:00:45.389 --> 00:00:46.862 I'm David Solomon.
00:00:46.862 --> 00:00:53.502 That is Stuart Frisco clicking on his computer, making these obscene noises again.
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00:01:20.281 --> 00:01:22.986 Hmm, is it really like that?
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00:01:27.915 --> 00:01:31.950 So, stuart, I don't get it.
00:01:31.950 --> 00:01:37.825 You know we don't have this in Canada, these so-called Senate confirmation hearings when you want to have a cabinet member.
00:01:37.825 --> 00:01:44.308 You know you get a cabinet member because you run the government, but apparently that's not the way it works in the United States.
00:01:44.308 --> 00:01:54.790 You run the government, but apparently that's not the way it works in the United States, that whenever you want somebody to be the head of, or the secretary of, or the whatever, both parties have to be represented in these hearings and questions are asked.
00:01:54.790 --> 00:02:04.168 And apparently, stuart, I find when they want to go after somebody, they could care less who they hurt in the process.
00:02:04.188 --> 00:02:04.670 What say you, my friend?
00:02:04.670 --> 00:02:07.959 Well, thanks for letting me speak at some point in this rant.
00:02:07.959 --> 00:02:23.144 So I actually sit in front of monitors all day long and take in news all day long, as right now in the left-hand corner I'm watching Pat Bondi getting completely and utterly grilled, getting completely and utterly grilled.
00:02:23.144 --> 00:02:39.032 Yesterday was a star-stellared show of I'm going to say, brinkmanship of a dusted boot, very, very religious, devout Christian, pete Hegseth.
00:02:39.032 --> 00:02:48.638 And when it comes to credibility in the military, you really can't match this guy.
00:02:48.638 --> 00:02:54.044 First of all, he's got the bronze star.
00:02:54.044 --> 00:03:10.622 Second of all, he tongue-lashed with some of the biggest marksmen in the actual government's history and he took them down one at a time as bumbling idiots, and one of them and I got to try and find.
00:03:10.622 --> 00:03:13.169 Stop my camera from going this up and down.
00:03:13.169 --> 00:03:34.572 I'm sorry about that, but what I can tell you is, if you remember a man named Cain, hillary Clinton's loser running me, hillary Clinton's loser running mate, you know, he kind of disappeared into the woodwork and he reappeared his dumb little head literally just the other day.
00:03:34.572 --> 00:03:35.813 Hang on a sec, david.
00:03:35.813 --> 00:03:39.084 Help me for one second while I turn off the AI track.
00:03:39.084 --> 00:03:39.604 There we go.
00:03:39.604 --> 00:03:58.531 So what I can tell you is Mr Kane, if you want to pull up a picture there of Tim Kane sat there and approached this gentleman by the name and respectful, you know, pete Hexeth, and said have you ever been drunk?
00:03:58.531 --> 00:04:02.109 Have you ever been drunk and shown up for work?
00:04:02.109 --> 00:04:06.530 And he went on and on and on.
00:04:06.530 --> 00:04:13.986 Yes, david, I see that it's still going in and out and I'm trying to get that smart adjustments.
00:04:13.986 --> 00:04:14.568 What happened?
00:04:14.568 --> 00:04:16.831 Nope, wrong camera.
00:04:16.831 --> 00:04:28.987 That's why David One second and he decides to go after him because he had a drink and that he allegedly was drunk.
00:04:29.100 --> 00:04:37.052 By the way, every single incident was backed by an anonymous source.
00:04:37.052 --> 00:04:43.634 I'm sorry, every single complaint was an anonymous source.
00:04:43.634 --> 00:04:59.774 Wow, but you know, mr Exes didn't stop there, he stood up and took it like a man, just said the facts, said the truth and even took down Pocahontas.
00:04:59.774 --> 00:05:08.377 But when Tim kept going, mr King kept going on at him and it ended his 90 seconds of soundbite fame.
00:05:08.377 --> 00:05:25.274 It was rebuted by a fellow congressman I mean Senate member and the Senate member asked has there ever been a Senate member shown up for an evening vote, a little tipsy after drinking?
00:05:25.274 --> 00:05:33.509 And you know the Alcohol Lobbying Committee has basically bottle service in the Senate, which I didn't really know.
00:05:33.509 --> 00:05:35.310 It was exposed last night.
00:05:35.310 --> 00:05:44.800 And you know this man served our country honorably, had a distinguished career representing soldiers.
00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:58.557 After they returned back he represented a news network which eviscerated three other networks, including CNN, msnbc and ABC News.
00:05:58.557 --> 00:06:00.077 He was on Fox News.
00:06:00.858 --> 00:06:20.160 But the hatred towards this guy is more than just his Teflon service and his volunteer to save and represent this country in the Iraq war, offered to serve, served under both presidents and went into service under President Obama.
00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:23.331 But it's not good enough for the Democrats.
00:06:23.331 --> 00:06:29.932 They lost the mandate at the election booth, yet they still think they're relevant.
00:06:29.932 --> 00:06:39.538 They don't know how to deal with the fact that the United States of America no longer wants a woke, broken military.
00:06:39.538 --> 00:06:42.687 They want the most lethal fighting machine.
00:06:42.687 --> 00:06:56.814 If you can carry an M-16 and carry the weight of all the ammunition and packs and could run so many miles in so many seconds and minutes, then you are eligible to represent the military.
00:06:58.458 --> 00:07:08.930 It's not about how many men, women, because there's only two genders in the US military and that's the way it's going to be written in stone in the next four years.
00:07:08.930 --> 00:07:11.293 Why is that so important?
00:07:11.293 --> 00:07:13.132 Am I anti-transgender?
00:07:13.132 --> 00:07:14.550 Am I anti-gay?
00:07:14.550 --> 00:07:26.745 No, I'm for normalcy where the Democrats in the Senate are not, and the way they go about it.
00:07:26.745 --> 00:07:29.750 It's so obvious how they try and get soundbites.
00:07:29.750 --> 00:07:34.918 I wish the Senate hearings go unfettered.
00:07:34.918 --> 00:07:39.052 Yes, david, I see the camera is still moving.
00:07:39.052 --> 00:07:41.757 I cannot help.
00:07:42.947 --> 00:07:45.860 While you're doing the technical thing, let me just throw something in here.
00:07:45.860 --> 00:07:51.016 Okay, and I don't agree with what you just said about normalcy, and I'm not even going to get in down that road.
00:07:51.016 --> 00:08:02.057 But let's get to the point here, folks, of what the Democrats want to do, and that is completely defame delegitimize the Republican Party.
00:08:02.057 --> 00:08:04.627 That is their only goal In a two-party system.
00:08:04.627 --> 00:08:07.016 It's me versus you, and then it's in the conversation.
00:08:07.016 --> 00:08:28.449 And it's funny because when the shoe is on the other foot, when they try, when the Democrats try to put forward their nominees, whether it's for Supreme Court, justice or for cabinet positions, republicans were land-based last time when Biden was coming in.
00:08:28.449 --> 00:08:28.790 How dare you?
00:08:28.790 --> 00:08:29.112 How dare you?
00:08:29.112 --> 00:08:30.918 This is the president's picks.
00:08:30.918 --> 00:08:31.600 How dare you do this to him?
00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:32.504 And yet here it's okay, here it's okay.
00:08:32.504 --> 00:08:46.145 And oh, by the way, the great hypocrisy of all this, stuart, is that if you go and you check all the skeletons in the closets of every single one of the Senate members, you'll find something Right.
00:08:46.145 --> 00:08:54.148 You talked about Elizabeth Warren, how she lied about her heritage, how she's lied about things, and yet she stole a senator.
00:08:54.148 --> 00:08:55.650 They didn't throw her out.
00:08:55.650 --> 00:08:58.477 Ok, that's OK to lie.
00:08:58.477 --> 00:09:05.378 Now Pete Hexham might have had a background issue and in a world where we tell everybody, hey, you know what, let's give you a second chance.
00:09:05.378 --> 00:09:07.187 You could rehabilitate yourself.
00:09:07.187 --> 00:09:19.333 Apparently, you cannot, because, according to the Democrats, you know, when you open your eyes in the morning, you've already made a transgression and, as a result, you are not eligible for the position and we're going to completely destroy you.
00:09:19.333 --> 00:09:32.674 And so when you hear conversations, questions about his drinking, you know, and if let's say he was a recovering alcoholic and I'm not saying he is, let's say he was, should we not applaud that or should we denigrate that?
00:09:32.674 --> 00:09:36.453 Democrats want to denigrate anybody who doesn't agree with them, so it really doesn't make a difference.
00:09:36.974 --> 00:09:41.957 Well, you talked about, though, when he finally comes into policy and you said look, we have the.
00:09:41.957 --> 00:09:42.477 We have.
00:09:42.477 --> 00:09:44.779 We won once a bold and strong army.
00:09:44.779 --> 00:09:53.596 We were the, you know the the kingmakers of the world, and now DEI policies matter more than a good army.
00:09:53.596 --> 00:10:02.192 It hurt us, and, instead of Democrats taking a knee and saying we screwed up, this is wrong, we need to go back and rethink it.
00:10:02.192 --> 00:10:10.638 And, believe me, people who are on the outside of the Democratic Party have been screaming at the Elizabeth Warrens, at the Bernie Sanders, at the AOCs.
00:10:10.638 --> 00:10:13.009 You've lost touch with America.
00:10:13.009 --> 00:10:21.323 What you said about normalcy in the army is yes, people do not want to hear about like.
00:10:21.323 --> 00:10:24.751 Stop talking about sexuality, stop talking about what gender you want.
00:10:25.173 --> 00:10:27.005 We need the best people to defend this country.
00:10:27.005 --> 00:10:28.929 The united states is under attack.
00:10:28.929 --> 00:10:39.357 The world needs a superpower to to defend from russia and china and iran and all of these bold, emboldened enemies.
00:10:39.357 --> 00:10:54.313 And we're worrying about DEI and I'm telling you, I spoke to people, stuart, this week, who told me it's a disaster that DEI programs are dying, and I'm like it's not a disaster, it's designed wrong.
00:10:54.313 --> 00:10:55.176 Stop it.
00:10:55.176 --> 00:10:59.595 The army has to be a meritocracy, not the EI.
00:10:59.595 --> 00:11:02.268 Stop it, please stop it.
00:11:02.268 --> 00:11:11.174 And Pete Hexeth is representing what the Democrats hate Well you know, listen, they're arguing his qualifications.
00:11:11.775 --> 00:11:13.438 Have you ever done an audit?
00:11:13.438 --> 00:11:15.089 Well, on this company?
00:11:15.089 --> 00:11:16.211 The answer is no.
00:11:16.211 --> 00:11:18.878 They just had to drill it in a way.
00:11:18.878 --> 00:11:19.948 It's so wrong.
00:11:19.948 --> 00:11:38.759 And you know what, even today, on Bondi's hearing, which is going on in my ear and I apologize to everyone for my lack of participation today I can get a boo-hoo cricket here, but it's a matter of you know, stopping the actual motion of the camera.
00:11:38.759 --> 00:11:40.825 But it's just disgusting.
00:11:40.825 --> 00:11:42.347 You know they lost.
00:11:42.347 --> 00:11:46.014 They're losers.
00:11:46.014 --> 00:11:48.818 Their Teflon city is burning to the ground.
00:11:49.961 --> 00:11:52.846 But DEI deserves to be in the military.
00:11:52.846 --> 00:12:03.514 This is their argument over Pete Hedson and that he's not one of 40-plus four-star generals which, by the way, during World War II there were seven.
00:12:03.514 --> 00:12:08.582 And the military didn't get better in a hundred years.
00:12:10.184 --> 00:12:13.554 Listen, should women be in military?
00:12:13.554 --> 00:12:17.042 Absolutely, we've demonstrated that in Israel.
00:12:17.042 --> 00:12:18.171 But you know what?
00:12:18.171 --> 00:12:20.535 The girls that serve the front line in Israel?
00:12:20.535 --> 00:12:24.673 They're able to carry a pack, a rifle and ammo, just like the men.
00:12:24.673 --> 00:12:28.438 There's not a wimpy line in a military.
00:12:28.438 --> 00:12:32.171 It's do or die, support or fail.
00:12:32.171 --> 00:12:34.836 That's what a military is about.
00:12:34.836 --> 00:12:41.351 It's not about making people feel good, it's about being a war machine.
00:12:41.351 --> 00:12:41.852 Why?
00:12:41.852 --> 00:12:47.399 Peace through strength is the only way the world responds.
00:12:47.399 --> 00:12:55.080 But Chris, the former prime minister of Canada, who's 91 years old, let him live to 100.
00:12:55.080 --> 00:12:56.409 Maybe he should choke on an apple.
00:12:56.409 --> 00:13:16.658 But all these people are so anti-Trump because their own inadequacies weigh more than their accomplishments, and the only way a narcissist can deflect is blame someone for something else to remove the spotlight in their inadequacies and failures.
00:13:17.994 --> 00:13:32.719 Stuart, it goes a step further, okay, and that is that what Donald Trump has brought to the table in Washington, and it scares the bejeebers out of so many, whether it's the State Department or whatever is he wants to rethink how we do government.
00:13:32.719 --> 00:13:37.019 All right, and why did he bring in Pete Hexeth and not a four-star general?
00:13:37.019 --> 00:13:40.440 It's because he wanted a different approach to it.
00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:42.839 He wanted a different angle.
00:13:42.839 --> 00:13:45.317 Why is he bringing Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk?
00:13:45.317 --> 00:13:49.642 Because they want to look at government in a different and more efficient way.
00:13:49.642 --> 00:14:00.856 This scares the crap out of the left, because now what you're going to do is you're going to expose what these so-called fallacies are, all of these things that they kept saying.
00:14:00.856 --> 00:14:04.615 No, we need more government, we need DEI.
00:14:04.615 --> 00:14:06.815 How has DEI worked?
00:14:06.815 --> 00:14:08.352 By the way, you brought up LA.
00:14:08.352 --> 00:14:10.057 How has DEI helped?
00:14:10.057 --> 00:14:11.981 Right now, the city of LA, right now?
00:14:12.631 --> 00:14:16.830 Hey they're not willing to accept help from New York Fire Department.
00:14:18.172 --> 00:14:32.197 This is to show you stupid policy to your point is that they're refusing trucks to go in because they're worried about bringing in you know, different fauna into California that might disrupt the environment.
00:14:32.197 --> 00:14:36.937 But let's let it burn down as a new fire erupts yesterday.
00:14:36.937 --> 00:14:37.899 It's okay.
00:14:37.899 --> 00:14:42.539 And this is where DEI and this is where stupid thinking comes into play.
00:14:42.539 --> 00:14:47.301 Okay, this is where people who want to say oh hell, no, it's about climate change.
00:14:47.301 --> 00:14:53.212 Guys, enough, the American people, it's really hard.
00:14:53.212 --> 00:14:57.355 American people are getting tired and that's why they made the vote.
00:14:57.355 --> 00:14:58.700 That's why they voted this way.
00:14:58.700 --> 00:15:00.913 They're voted of the same old.
00:15:00.913 --> 00:15:07.961 They're tired of the of the years of being told hey, we, we know what's right for you.
00:15:07.961 --> 00:15:10.985 Dei is going to make all the difference in the world.
00:15:10.985 --> 00:15:18.341 It didn't Ask the people of North Carolina, who suffered badly in floods because of DEI.
00:15:18.402 --> 00:15:19.183 Wait a second.
00:15:19.183 --> 00:15:26.384 Not only that, we're not going to help you from FEMA because you're a known Republican.
00:15:27.130 --> 00:15:29.379 This needs to be removed.
00:15:29.379 --> 00:15:30.732 Well, this is the mindset.
00:15:30.732 --> 00:15:42.100 Is that when you are dealing with these things, when we're talking about the military, when we're talking about FEMA, when we're talking about all these things, it can't be politically driven in terms of which party is going to run this.
00:15:42.100 --> 00:15:43.715 It has to be the best.
00:15:43.715 --> 00:15:47.635 People are making the best decisions, and this is what happened in the army.
00:15:49.350 --> 00:15:53.441 Dwight, you know you ask this about a doctor and I'll ask the same question the doctor's ready to operate on you?
00:15:53.441 --> 00:16:01.211 And do you want the right person doing it, or do you want someone who is selected because of a dei policy?
00:16:01.211 --> 00:16:05.775 If, if that d person happens to be the best person, they phenomenal.
00:16:05.775 --> 00:16:06.797 You've checked two boxes.
00:16:06.797 --> 00:16:19.476 But if it's more important to have in an army certain number of races, religions, whatever, you don't win a war, folks, and I'm sorry, we're in a war.
00:16:19.476 --> 00:16:26.081 And if you're not ready for it and this is where the Democrats hate us, Stuart, it's because the Democrats keep saying you're not in a war.
00:16:26.081 --> 00:16:31.577 It it's because the Democrats keep saying you're not in a war, there's no war.
00:16:31.577 --> 00:16:33.205 Open your eyes at the threats out there and it's coming to our shores.
00:16:33.205 --> 00:16:36.535 Last word, my friend, as we wrap up the hump day version of the RAND Network.
00:16:37.177 --> 00:16:46.475 David, all I can tell you is it's just a joke, Wrap it up, David.
00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:49.523 All right, folks.
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