Pete Hegseth’s Spending Spree

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What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers

Pete Hegseth Sure Knows How to Spend Government Money

You have to hand it to the Secretary of Talking About War. $124,000 for ice cream machines? I had no idea our warfighters at the Pentagon had such a sweet tooth.

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Trump Can't Seem to Talk About Violence Without Drooling

I don't believe enough attention has been paid to the fact that, in addition to his sketchy behavior, incompetence, and relationship to an international sex criminal, our president is sort of a sick fck as regards the rhetorical value of other people's death and injuries.

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Wait, Does John Thune Actually Have a Spine?

With the Senate now in knots over the president's beloved SAVE America and My Ass bill, Senate majority leader John Thune, who is taking incoming hits from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, took some more from MAGA stans who proposed bringing back the "talking" filibuster as a way to counter the unified Democratic opposition to the bill.

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I Didn't Think Lindsey Graham Could Get Any Crazier, but Here We Are

Last weekend, Senator Lindsey Graham made the Gobshite Rounds on the teevee, and he sounded like the most bellicose legislator this side of the Klingon High Council. Graham was the subject of one of the first successful soul-ectomies performed by the current president way back in 2016, and he continues to be the index patient for the procedure.

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