Sometimes I just can’t be sure if a Democrat is as vapid as they come across or if they are really just that dishonest. Enter Elizabeth Warren who decided to lash out at Pete Hegseth on Wednesday, but in the process only managed to walk herself into a brick wall.
Hegseth, who is nominated to be Secretary of Defense under Donald Trump, is currently facing headwinds after The New Yorker dropped a hit piece claiming he had drinking issues while leading a veteran’s advocacy group. Since then, some of his former colleagues have gone on the record to dispute those reports.
Regardless, Democrats smell blood in the water, and Warren joined the fray with this post.
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In 2023, over 29,000 active-duty troops were sexually assaulted, including more than 6 in every 100 women in the military.
Many servicemembers never report these crimes. The rates of assault are estimated to be up to 4x higher.
Pete Hegseth must not be the Defense Secretary.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) December 4, 2024
I had to do a double-take when I read that. Isn’t 2023 firmly in the middle of the now-outgoing Biden administration? Wasn’t Lloyd Austin Secretary of Defense during that time? Didn’t all of the awful things listed by Warren happen on her party’s watch?
I mean, I don’t claim to be a genius, but the math isn’t difficult here. Warren is essentially saying, “Look at all these sexual assaults that occurred on active-duty under the Biden administration! We can’t let Pete Hegseth become Defense Secretary!” That’s a “wait, what?” moment if I’ve ever seen one. It’s like getting kicked out of a rental house you vandalized and then demanding the landlord not allow another tenant to live there. Did Warren just not realize how her post would come across, or is she such a dishonest fraud that she didn’t care?
So all that happened on your party’s watch?
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) December 5, 2024
So, because Biden’s Defense Secretary failed you’re going to blame someone that was nominated to fix it?
Not understanding the logic here, Pocahontas. Want to try again?
— Roscoe Smith IV (@LoneStarLegendX) December 4, 2024
As to the veracity of her numbers, six percent does seem to be reported by at least one study. The majority of sexual assaults occurred on-base or on-ship during a deployment, with 21 percent of women allegding abuse during instances of hazing or bullying.
Back to Warren’s statement, it’s part of a broader narrative on the left that we see perpetrated anytime Republicans try to change the status quo. For a Democrat, it is assumed that all failures and inefficiencies, up to and including sexual assaults, are acceptable under their leadership. Thus, in the mind of someone like Warren, Hegseth must be worse. Of course, that’s nonsensical. The litany of disasters that have occurred under Democrat leadership count. They aren’t an assumed baseline.
I don’t know what’s going to happen with Hegseth’s nomination. In the end, it’ll be up to Donald Trump whether he makes it to a confirmation vote or not, and that’s his perogative as the president-elect. In the meantime, though, Democrats should sit down and stop talking. The American people have had enough of their grandstanding while they run the government into the ground.
