Fifty-four bottles of Madeira wine, 60 bottles of claret, 8 bottles of whiskey, 22 bottles of porter, 8 bottles of hard cider, 12 bottles of beer, and 7 large bowls of punch—for just 55 attendees.
The Constitutional Convention in 1787 was a good time. The revered Founding Fathers, known as some of the most brilliant men the world has ever seen and who gave birth to the most unbelievably advanced and prosperous country the world had ever seen... we're absolute party animals. George Washington, my favorite president in the history of presidents, famously ordered 144 gallons of rum punch for his 1758 election campaign for the Virginia House of Burgesses.
Benjamin Franklin, arguably the most raucous man of them all, wrote the "Drinker's Dictionary" and came up with over 200 euphemisms for drunkenness, including "eaten a toad and a half for breakfast," and my personal favorite, "he's clip'd the King's English."
Our founders didn't just kick off the greatest nation to ever exist, they did it while hungover.
But according to the Washington Post, Pete Hegseth isn't fit to be Donald Trump's secretary of defense because he ... drinks beer:
Several years ago, during a St. Patrick’s Day segment on “Fox & Friends Weekend,” support staff at the cable news network set up a display of beers for a holiday segment on the show. After the segment aired, Hegseth walked by the display table and drank each beer, according to two former colleagues who witnessed the incident and spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive episode. The incident struck the colleagues as jarring for two reasons: One, the displayed drinks had been sitting out for hours and were stale and warm; two, the show wraps up at 10 a.m., an early hour for alcohol consumption.
It gets worse! Hegseth drank whiskey with other veterans on camera!
A short thread 🧵about Pete Hegseth - please show your Senators! Some anonymous sources at Fox said that Hegseth sometimes shows up to work feeling of alcohol or hungover. Here’s a clip of him drinking alcohol while working 1/7 pic.twitter.com/WYmXOwCUqJ
— Decoding Fox News (@DecodingFoxNews) December 6, 2024
Fetch me my fainting couch, Mary, I feel like I've clip'd the King's English and I haven't drunk a drop.
Let me say this in no uncertain terms, and let me not mince a word.
I don't give one gray hair on a rat's ass.
I don't think Hegseth is a drunk, I think he's a soldier and soldiers know how to drink, but I don't think he abuses alcohol. I don't think he has a problem, I think he has a constitution that the permanently outraged and ignorant can't fathom because they never went through the life Hegseth did, and that he's a man who understands his limits.
But even if he did like to drink more than he should... so what? Can he get the job done? Is he capable of accomplishing the task Trump set him out to do? That's all I care about. That's all anyone should care about.
I think the left pushed way too far with these character assassination attempts over the past decade. Be it Trump, or Brett Kavanaugh, the attempt to bring down nominees with personal attacks, many of which are wholly unfounded and never proven, has gotten stale. At this point, any Republican who buys into the idea that a nominee must be a saint in their personal life in order to be qualified to do their job is a sucker buying into an Alinsky tactic that is way outdated at this point.
Rule 4: Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
The left has been using that against the right for ages, and the right capitulated over their "principles," but that well ran dry. The election of Donald Trump back in 2016 proved that, but as I've often noted, the Democrats are behind the times quite a bit as of late. They still think they can blatantly lie on news networks and the media will successfully carry that lie around the world.
(READ: Too Many Democrats Still Operate in the Old Way and It Highlights How Abusive They've Been)
Let's get real. The Democrats only care about trying to bring people like Hegseth down because they fear he'll be effective at carrying out what Trump wants to do. They'll be forced to watch as Hegseth undoes the damage they caused, strips the DEI and social experiments out of the military, and puts it back into fighting order.
And judging by the people the Democrats left in charge of every department and bureau, I think it's a pretty solid idea to ignore their opinions on who is and isn't qualified.
Everyone has flaws. There's a skeleton in every closet, a mistake made, or a regret developed somewhere along the way. It's part of the human experience. You will make mistakes until the day you die.
This is not what makes the entirety of a person. In this instance, the real question is, does this person have the will, capability, and drive to get the job done. That's all that matters in the end.
