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Jane Bodnar's avatar

A showboating, blustering and totally unqualified person for such a crucial position...all requirements for the typical Trump pick.

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Charles G Haacker's avatar

All anyone needs to work for Trump is to be a total suck-up. No experience necessary. Apply within.

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kate weiman's avatar

And Congress will vote you in!

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Charles G Haacker's avatar

They don't want their swamp drained. It's where they live. 🤮

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Mike Thweatt's avatar

As a good friend of mine used to say “All style and no class”

And you can add “no qualifications” in Hesgeth’s case

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Michael Murphy's avatar

@ Mike Thweatt

In my lexicon, "style" is a high compliment. What Trump has is not (by my definition) style; it's a pose, and a fake one at that.

Having said that, I'm kind of a word nerd, and I'm interested in your definition of "style." Can you help me out? Is it a regional slang term?

A story just for fun. I'm 78, and I'm taking college classes to keep me out of my wife's hair and to try to stave off mental ossification. One of my classmates texted me and called me a pimp. I was ready to loosen his teeth until another classmate told me that it meant sharp, with it, and was actually a compliment.

Words do change their meaning with different times and different locations.

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Mike Thweatt's avatar

I’m kind of a word nerd myself so I appreciate your question!

It’s less than a regional saying, it was the saying(s) of one individual, but an individual I had very high regard for. He wanted nothing more than a military career and earned a senatorial nomination to West Point … only to get sidelined by an unknown (and very minor) lazy eye condition in his physical. Sadly we (our group of friends) lost touch with Danny after high school so I don’t know if he ever attained his dream or not - I hope so.

Danny used that saying to define someone who was always “styling” without consideration of the consequence(s) of their words/actions. He also had the converse saying that someone was “all class, no style”, meaning they were either saying/doing the right things for the wrong reasons, or they were ineffective because they had no pizzazz.

We called those two sayings “the Danny Young rules of style and class”.

I also have a funny story about regional words/sayings. When I graduated college in 1974 (I’m not far behind you in age!) I did not have a job and helped another friend move from Vermont to Maryland, where he was going to work for his (religious, not socio-economic) godfather. We stayed with his godfather that week while he was taking care of things and I was offered a job as well … so I took it, and moved to MD with my friend and his wife the next weekend, working to make precast concrete manholes. A job that was actually even less glamorous than it sounds!

The crew was a very interesting mix of (1) locals who had worked there for several years or were going to work there indefinitely. And (2) college kids who were helping to put themselves thru school, or were just out of college and needing a job until they got something better. There was a bit of a rift between the groups to say the least. On my 2d or 3d day of work one of the “locals” very nonchalantly said to me “Hey sweets, hand me that hammer” pointing to a 16 pound sledge hammer (a VERY manly hammer by the way!). Apparently I looked up with a look of “what did he just call me?” on my face. Fortunately my friend happened to be right next to me and pleadingly assured me it was just a saying and was like saying “Hey buddy” or “Hey Jack”. I was not convinced, but I handed him the hammer without saying anything. That was a very close call because he swung that 16 lb. sledgehammer like a toy, and probably would have mopped that sweat and oil stained floor with me if I had said anything!

I learned more about people in the summer I worked in Towson, MD than I did in my entire life to that point … or since!

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

"Straight out of Central Casting. . . "

Pity the part calls for a villain. . .

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Linda MacDonald's avatar

Square jaw. Empty head. "Christian" nationalist. Abuser. Drunk.

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Joe F's avatar

And total A-hole !

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Mary Roeser's avatar

Let's face it. The Drunk at DoD (you forgot the bottle of whiskey, Ann) meets all of the Convicted Felon's criteria for office: 1) he is obsequious; 2) according to the Felon at least, he looks good on TV; and 3) he is utterly unqualified to hold any position.

He is also, like the Convicted Felon, proof that an empty barrel does indeed make the most noise.

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Amy's avatar

You left out “misogynist and sexual predator.” Key qualification for any white male applicant.

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Mary Roeser's avatar

Point well taken. You're right. Being a misogynist and sexual predator is also a criterion for male contenders.

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Brendan Classon's avatar

The puffed-out chest is perfect

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Myvesa's avatar

Brilliant! The Orange one needs to have his eyes examined if he thinks this idiot is handsome and telegenic. He is a disgusting arrogant fool.

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Mike Thweatt's avatar

Sorry to be the Pronoun Police here Myriam, but you got your last sentence wrong. It should be:

“THEY ARE disgusting arrogant fool(S).

I feel better now …

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Myvesa's avatar

I was talking about Hegseth, but it applies to both of them. Thanks for pointing it out to me.

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Anne's avatar

Nailed it!!

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David Skoglund's avatar

He is Trump’s little bitch!

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Rita Lugrine's avatar

like a balloon filled with foul air

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Pam Johnson's avatar

He looks exactly like one of those dead-eyed Nazis in a WWII B movie.

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Steve Slivka's avatar

I wish a senator would have asked Hehseth about his White Supremacist/Christian Nationalist/Prison tattoos during his confirmation. I guess It didn't matter. R senators that knew better (looking at you Joni Ernst) were going to vote for him no matter what.

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Steve Slivka's avatar

"Hegseth"

Stupid fat fingers!

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ASBermant's avatar

That’s because they admire his “White Supremacist/Christian Nationalist/Prison tattoos.”

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Amelia LeClair's avatar

A perfect Disney buffoon - would be easily bested by the usual mongoose and wombat, but has protection from the Orange Balloon.

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G Wayne Henderson's avatar

Just perfect, down to each tattoo!

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Warden Gulley's avatar

That tattoo! "ME the people". Love that one.

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Professor and retired USG's avatar

Brilliant! It’s all about loyalty and image. No need to master the job.

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Patt's avatar

National security served up by a dry drunk

https://open.substack.com/pub/sabrinahaake/p/national-security-served-up-by-a

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