This is the warning.

Across the world at this exact moment,

there are hundreds of thousands of American forces standing vigil

in defense of liberty and freedom.

They are ready to fight tonight in Korea if necessary.

They are on ballistic missile submarines and on aircraft carriers. American forces later

today will be fired on by Houthi rebels. They will shoot down ballistic missiles headed to Israel.

From the Arctic to the Horn of Africa, the American military is the guarantor of stability and peace. It is the singularly

deadliest and most complex organization in world history. There is nothing more complex than it.

The individual service branches, like like the Army are older than the

United States. The Marine Corps motto, Semperfidelis, always faithful. The young men and

women who raise their hand and swear an oath deserve competent, able, moral leadership. Pete Hegeseth is unfit,

spectacularly so at every conceivable level. The answer to his nomination by the United

States Senate must be a hard no. It must be. Pete Hagsath is a drunk and an abuser of women.

There are millions of Americans who struggle with addiction. All of those people's lives have

worth and purpose. But the choices we make in life limit some of them. If you are a person who is slosh at five in the afternoon

or at two in the morning, you can't be the person who gets the phone call when an American

destroyer is attacked by a terrorist. You can't get the phone call when a missile barrage is

fired at Israel. and you most certainly

cannot be the person who wakes up the President of the United States with news of an invasion.

These jobs are deadly jobs.

They require stature and decency, judgment, rectitude.

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