• favoredponcho@lemmy.zip
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    Senate cabinet confirmation is a fucking joke if Pete Hegseth passes it. The process was meant to keep unqualified people out, and it failed.

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      It has always been broken. The Civil War was in part triggered by business-friendly SCOTUS judges who ruled that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. That set off the killing of hundreds of thousands of people.