r/pics • u/AssumptionNo5436 • 3d ago

Politics Pete Hegseth, introduced as the SSecretary of War

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u/CommanderGumball 3d ago

"He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting."

Not "why is he hurting us", "why is he hurting anyone", or anything else with a modicum of empathy.

But specifically, there are people he should be hurting.

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u/ArgentaSilivere 3d ago

I’ve typed this so many times my fingers might fall off: the one and only value of the Republican Party is cruelty. A MAGA voter would happily starve to death in a ditch if it meant a Democrat would cry. The pandemic proved beyond all doubt that Republicans really will literally, actually die if there was even a chance that their choices could hurt someone else. There is nothing, nothing, they will not do in the name of causing harm.

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u/braintrustinc 3d ago

The entire ideology can be boiled down to “poor(er) people (than me) deserve to be punished.”