https://abcnews.com/Politics/rep-thomas-massie-forcing-vote-pete-hegseths-impeachment/story?id=136470894Outgoing Republican Rep. Thomas Massie seized the House floor for more than an hour Tuesday afternoon, launching a long-shot effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stemming from his controversial administration over the Pentagon, including the war in Iran.After sending a news release announcing his intent to impeach Hegseth, Massie quickly appeared on the floor where he stood for more than 67 minutes reading the sweeping 34-page resolution with eight articles of impeachment aloud."Secretary Hegseth has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as Secretary of Defense and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States of America," Massie read from the resolution, contending that Hegseth will "remain a threat to civilians and the laws of war, the integrity of United States diplomacy, and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with his duties and the rule of law.""Peter Brian Hegseth thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States," the resolution states.The Pentagon responded to Massie's move, defending Hegseth in a statement to ABC News."Secretary Hegseth has been a transformative leader for the Department of War," Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson said in the statement, later adding that the "entire Department is unified behind the Secretary’s vision and will continue working to put our warfighters and America first."
The articles of impeachment against Hegseth include ignoring laws that minimize civilian casualties, administering an "unlawful war" in Yemen, ordering extrajudicial killings, suppressing free speech and kidnapping a sovereign leader -- alluding to the U.S. capture of Nicolas Maduro early this year."Frankly, I was concerned that Mike Johnson would end Congress again, like shorten even our already truncated work period if he found out I was doing this. So I shared the idea with nobody," Massie said.Massie, a conservative who has gained a reputation as a constitutionalist through his seven terms in the House, lost a primary earlier this summer after Trump endorsed his opponent.It's unclear whether the vote will succeed, given Republicans' narrow majority in the House. Speaker Mike Johnson can lose two Republican votes before a third defection upsets the majority.Unless GOP leaders change the floor schedule again, the House must hold a vote on the resolution within two-legislative days -- by Thursday, which would force Republicans to go on the record defending Hegseth ahead of the high-stakes midterm elections. GOP leaders could offer a motion to table the resolution or cancel the legislative session scheduled for Thursday to avoid the vote.Speaking to reporters afterward, Massie explained that he introduced the articles of impeachment to place a "marker" in history on what he said was both President Donald Trump's and Hegseth's "illegal" conduct.
“Doing this wasn't predicated on whether it could succeed or not; there needs to be a marker in history,” Massie said. "The president has exceeded, and Secretary Hegseth specifically, in many ways himself, and sometimes directed by illegal orders from the president, they have exceeded all norms for rules of engagement for how you use or misuse our military, to take oil from another country, to kidnap a foreign leader, like somebody needs to put a marker in history, and that's what this is. Hopefully, it passes, and they can litigate this in the Senate.”Massie also told ABC News he had waited until Tuesday because it presents the last possible time to force consideration of a privileged resolution Congress before the midterms.Massie added he felt he had exhausted all other legislative ways to stymie the war in Iran as well as other foreign military interventions."Why today? Because Speaker Johnson has basically canceled the rest of Congress until the elections," Massie explained. "Two days from now is the end of our session before we go on recess, and there can be a vote within two days. So I had to do it today."
>>1537254BushDemocrats strike again, it seems.
>>1537254Pete Hegseth is a full-fledged war criminal and deserves nont only an impeachment but also actual serious jail time.
>>1537267Even without the war crimes he's weakened and fucked up this military with stupidity so bad it is near-indistinguishable from intentional sabotage.
>>1537254Pete's too busy running beauty pageants for his Next Top Warrior to notice. The winner gets to stand next to him during his speech and work out together.Please leave a message.
>>1537254>"Secretary Hegseth has been a transformative leader for the Department of War,"That's true. He's completely fucked it up.>the "entire Department is unified behind the Secretary’s visionAlso true. Because he's purged everyone who disagrees with him. >and will continue working to put our warfighters and America first."Great. Too bad you fucking suck at it. But don't worry, we know it's a lie anyway.
Oh lawd. He's the new bald dead faggot who ran for president as a Republican and told everyone to vote for Obama. Who was that asshole? And what do Democrats have on Massie to make him pull such a random 360?
>>1537292>And what do Democrats have on Massie to make him pull such a random 360?Spoken like someone who doesn't know Massie.
>>1537272The military is more powerful than it's ever been, actually.
>>1537329Ok so why is the strait still closed and why are we randomly downgrading our catapult systems?
>>1537331Confirmation bias is a bitch,
>>1537331The catapult systems are actually being upgraded per President Trumps orders. I know you have TDS but President Trump ordering it doesn't make it bad, it just makes you blatantly, irrationally, uncritically anti-TrumpAnd the strait is open, president Trump already confirmed his navy is escorting dozens of ships per day. If other ships aren't crossing it's their fault for their cowardice.
>>1537335The strait is gay and we're losing the war because decades of stockpiled munitions are emptied. Iran sploded them all.No, China doesn't pay me to make these claims and embolden Iran.Man, I soo can't wait until we (China) have sanity back in the whitehau tha we can railroad
Esl shill is talking to himself again
>>1537335>The catapult systems are actually being upgraded per President Trumps ordersThey're objectively being downgraded. We are reverting to older systems, not installing new ones.
>>1537380>Who even wants reliable tested solutions in the military?>Bleeding edge tech is an upgrade. It's not like lives are on the line.>Newer technology being unreliable is a failing of Trump. and Trump will render ships useless without such bleeding edge tech.What is wrong with the modern Democrat?The sky remains not falling. And do you even care about the argument you're trying to make?
>>1537381what's wrong with getting a real job
>>1537381>Literally arguing that it's actually so much better we'll be spending millions to billions of taxpayer dollars refitting our ships with systems that are older, less efficient, and heavier>Meanwhile Trump's logic is effectively "I like those old ones more"
>>1537329>The military is more powerful than it's ever been, actually.You sound like a fat hairy bitch telling herself she's beautiful in her mirror.
>>1537385Exactly.Democrats need to stop pushing government welfare and encourage people to get real jobs instead of collecting government handouts
>>1537424right over your head, huh esl shill
>>1537428There's nothing wrong with getting a real job and losing your welfare benefits liggeral
esl shill is trying to force his meme again
>>1537380>We are reverting to older systems, not installing new ones.The newer systems are inferior because the tech hasnt been fully ironed out yet and they have significant down-time due to breakdowns. Steam is reliable. In war reliability matters.
>>1537474trying to justify anything trump orders as if he's king is futile, but keep trying
>>1537476No, its been pretty widely publicized and discussed. Like, I know its your job to sit here all day and make everything about Trump but this has been a problem since day 1 with the Ford-class carriers.
esl shill kept trying
>>1537387Didn't Trump commission the original Ford class ships with the ESL magneshits?Perhaps it's not "I like" but an "It's not ready based on information".Imagine giving dRumpf the benefit of the doubt.And you know what? If we need to change it again, we can just raise taxes on billionaires or some fucking shit.No one believes you give a single care about a single penny the government spends you fucking idiot.
Trump made a lot of decisions to improve the government, like burying an investigation into a global pedophile ring to protect child fuckers.
>>1537498Well, surely once Democrats are back in power they'll pick that investigation back up, as nearly all those implicated in the files are Democrats.
>>1537474>>1537477>>1537497>Guys we're shifting back to the older, heavier and more inefficient models because the new ones are unreliable>Which is why, in the middle of an armed conflict, we will be spending billions of dollars having to retrofit these ships to use the old models they weren't built forThese "reliability issues" Trump was harping about are effectively theoretical because "uh electric has more stopping points" and some soldiers were complaining during the initial switch over. The problem with this retarded EO is that you can't just swap them out like gun parts; steam catapults require immense amounts of steam piping that is heavy as shit on the ship itself and is ironically much more vulnerable in an actual conflict than wiring. So this is gonna effectively involve gutting all these fairly new ships to install the whole mess required for steam. And that's not getting into the mess of reliability issues ironically caused by how corrosive the one two punch of that much steam and salt water is.The really funny thing is you know what the electromagnetic systems excel in? Drone warfare. AKA that thing that has been defining modern battlefields since the start of the Ukraine war. There's a reason why China and Europe immediately started installing these things across their navy when it became available. Trump seems to have latched onto a handful of complaints and disregarded the actual facts at hand; this shit is like going back to a nokia flip phone because your iphone crashed once.
>>1537505So?
>>1537508>So?So this is an incredibly retarded decision that not only makes these ships weaker, but also is an absolute logistical nightmare to follow and implement. You're effectively looking at taking a state of the art ship and ripping it apart to the point of effectively a remodel, all to install a system that is inferior to the one you are removing.
>>1537509OK, sure. Why aren't you in charge then?And you literally want the US to lose wars so you can attain political power.Why in the fuck would anyone listen to your opinion?
>>1537254Aaaand Mike sent them home early so they can't vote on it. At what point is this prosecutable? The Speaker of the House is deliberately sabotaging the House and keeping it from performing it's duties. >>1537500>as nearly all those implicated in the files are DemocratsIf that was true then Trump would be using the files to destroy the Dems. Instead he's pretending they don't exist.
>>1537510>OK, sure. Why aren't you in charge then?Non-answer>And you literally want the US to lose wars so you can attain political power.Ok so can you explain why these systems are apparently so unreliable we have to go through logistics hell to downgrade, or do you just entirely rely on "Trump said so"?
>>1537512Imagine disagreeing with experts. Did you do your own research?
>>1537512>Dis asshole wants us to use horsecatapultsCHUD
>>1537513The experts are pointing out this is a stupid idea.>https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/14/politics/trump-steam-catapult-navy>Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, added that the move would require the USS Doris Miller, which is already under construction, to be redesigned. The cost of that, he told CNN, “will probably be into the billions” and it could delay the carrier — which was expected to be in service around 2034 — “until the end of the next decade.”Oh, by the way, interesting little tidbit this article pointed out; no one makes steam catapult systems anymore. They weren't contracted out, they were made by the Navy directly and the Navy hasn't made one since 2009. We literally do not have the infrastructure for this change in the present.
>>1537515>no one makes steam catapult systems anymoreIt can't be done then, I suppose...We're only Americans after all.
>>1537515The experts are these guys:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Defense_of_DemocraciesFDD was founded in 2001 as "Emet" (אמת), which is Hebrew for "truth".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_InstituteHudson Institute is an American neoconservative thinktank.
>>1537498To be fair, he was one the leaders of that pedophile ring and murdered the co leader to keep him silent. But the damage was already done given Epstein created /pol/.
>>1537520You do realize if Epstein created /pol, it was to contain them, right? And he was on your side.Alone with Maxwell who was a reddit mod.So essentially, Epstein and Maxwell created modern democrat bullshit.
>>1537516>Guys please, we have to now spend a few years remaking all the infrastructure and manufacturing so we can install objectively inferior systems onto our battleships>And then once we have all the resources, we then need to gut our brand new/in construction ships to fit these clunky and inferior systems withinChina is laughing at us as they outfit their stuff in the same systems we're discarding.
>>1537254>adjourns house until after midterms to avoid a vote on this>basically just guaranteed the first thing the inevitable dem majority gets to vote on is removing HegsethThanks (R)etards.
>>1537574>basically just guaranteed the first thing the inevitable dem majority gets to vote on is removing HegsethThe vote would be held before the new Congress is in. Also none of this bullshit matters because the Republicans have enough votes to protect any criminal they want in the Senate.
>>1537577Then why didn't Mike allow the vote?
>>1537597Because they know Hegseth's approval rating is dogshit and none of them want to be caught arguing for him to stay before midterms.
We are winning. SecWar Hesgeth is doing a masterful job. We can't let the liggerals try to remove him when total victory is within our grasp. Iran is close to total collapse. Their people are rioting over rising prices. Two more weeks and the IRGC will be toppled by the people of Iran. We can't allow liggers to sabotage our victory.
1537618>We>We>WeHi, esl shill.
sorry you're too esl to understand the context of "we" in this setting
it's fucking hilarious how esl shill tries to copy me
I find it funny how this liggeral pretends to be american, but whenever someone says "we" he reveals he isn't one of us
Everyone will find it funny how that which constantly hates liggerals actually loves them:>>1537046>>1537067>>1537098No "context" excuse allowed by that which loves what it claims to "hate"..
153761915376221537623samefag
>>1537623It's even more hilarious how the esl shill tries to copy others: 1537627
>>1537618>We are winning. SecWar Hesgeth is doing a masterful job. We can't let the liggerals try to remove him when total victory is within our grasp. Iran is close to total collapse. Their people are rioting over rising prices. Two more weeks and the IRGC will be toppled by the people of Iran. We can't allow liggers to sabotage our victory.*This is a parody account
> the entire Department is unified That would be a first in any military
>>1537522>Trying to gaslight this much/pol/ as a containment board has always been a failure ESL shill. You can't remove the fact that Epstein is the face of conservationism.
>>1537618I dont give a fuck about your faggot war for fags, i want lower gas prices. Make it happen now, like Trump promised when he was running. I dont give a shit about other countries, we should be using the money spent on this war for Americans you fucking doublenigger
