Hegseth doesn't make the final decision.

If he isn't up to the job he needs to resign.

He's too arrogant and ignorant to understand that something like that makes him look like a weak "leader" who is willing to take bad advice from his cabinet members.

Meet the underside of the Trump bus.

Truman: The Buck stops here.

trump: The Buck stops... with everyone else but me!!!

While the blame goes elsewhere

The buck stops with Truman.

It will take a lot of money to pay Hogsbreath to take the fall.

He was originally selected to take the fall for any fuck ups that the Supreme Court and Congress can't cover trump for.

Trust me, Hegseth doesn't know anything that could get trump in serious trouble that trump hasn't already gotten a pass for.

And IF he does know something, he's a fool for not getting out when he had the chance. But he's a college fratboy drunk on booze and white christo supremacist delusion, blind to his own peril. At this point he's probably down to two choices: a spider hole or an open window.

associates. . .shouldn't be all that expensive to solve the problem.

does not have the qualities expected from a leader of the once and great United States of America?

I don't personally believe that Noem was sacked because she spend a quarter of a billion dollars on a video to promote herself.

"The word" was that this angered Trump, and he cut her loose.

Something else happened at the same time.

She basically said "I am only doing what Stephen Miller tells me to do" and POOF! She was gone

Because you can only blame DOWNHILL, never UPHILL, especially when Pee Wee German is at the top of that hill.

I think she said that, Miller picked up the phone, "vented" to Trump, and Trump said "OK," and she was gone.

It's also in character for Miller to have said "Give her a superhero name that makes her look like a loser for accepting it."

But a "leader"...in politics, in business, anywhere...CAN NEVER GET AWAY WITH BLAMING THEIR SUBORDINATES when THEY have the ultimate responsibility.

He'll still be prez and will still make atrocious decisions

He'll never be removed by the 25th Amendment. NEVER.

He'll only be impeached, convicted and removed if we pick up enough seats in November.

SO...

...unless it's time for his dirt nap, nothing else will matter. He can (and will) do a LOT MORE DAMAGE before he's through.

Trump is the ultimate decider...so I'm guessing Hegseth, a perpetually glued to Trump's ass yes-man, said "Great idea, my divine emperor, let's do it!"

His sycophants and suck-ups do NOTHING without Trump's approval.

Yet many keep affording him DENIABILITY, however implausible.

Enjoy being dragged under the bus, Pete.

We won't miss you.

After all is said and done, I wonder who he'll blame his presidency on in '28 as America begins our three-generation long apology to the world for what we're about to do during the next three years.

He'll be seen as nothing other than the Great Shame of America's 21st century, but he still has plenty of opportunity to burn more down before the wee man's time is over.

Donald #rump, Commander in Denial

has finally hit le ventilateur!

He’ll be up for war crimes

Not Hegseth's fault. Trump is POTUS. Trump is the one who launched this war of choice against Muslims. Trump will blame everybody but himself when the USA loses this war to Iran's Muslims. Muslims worldwide know that the USA is not very good at winning a long war against a determined enemy.

and stagger out with a war.

and ICE is already brutalizing people at the airport.

Getting Hormuz open being the main goal

I don't put too much stock in any reports but if ture this is like burning down your house to light the fireplace

Maybe he should be engaging in those talks instead of whatever this is that looks like a rally?

But the link has a great cartoon - The 5 Stages of Working For Tr**p - and that Pete is at stage 3.5

I saw it earlier and was able to find it with your title, I wanted to share it with a friend. It is from 2017 in the New Yorker.

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/wednesday-july-26th-white-house-employment