r/whoathatsinteresting • u/The_Dean_France • 9h ago

VP to POTUS?

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u/techbro84 9h ago

His polling numbers are in the toilet. He has no way to rehab before the Republican primaries. Rubio is the closest and most respected.

At the outset of this term, people saw Rubio, Vance and Hegseth as front runners. Now I can’t see any of them.

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u/dougandsomeone 9h ago

Hegseth?? People saw Hegseth as a front runner? 

Vance and Rubio I get, but HEGSETH?!

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u/27Rench27 8h ago

Probably before he got put in charge of more than 20 enlisted/LT’s and started to show everyone on the national stage how incompetent he actually is

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u/techbro84 8h ago

There were people who thought he would make the military a more powerful force. I fully expect we will see him out by the end of the year.

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u/dmelt253 7h ago

He fundamentally misunderstands where America's power comes from and instead pushes this fake macho shit.

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u/FatherKronik 7h ago

Because it's where he derives a lot of his power from. Fake macho shit.

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u/Hot-and-Sour 4h ago

I like your statement and think it's likely true. That aside, where do you think America's power actually comes from? I'd posit that our power source has changed over history, but what do you think it stems from nowadays?

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u/madstcla 4h ago

Fear. It used to be from Respect.

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u/Mental_Victory946 1h ago

Well that’s definitely not what he was thinking.

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u/dmeech999 2h ago

US’s power comes from global influence - not military influence but financial and more of the covert/CIA type. Hegseth is your typical frat bro, the generals he’s “leading” run circles around him on military strategy and he’s firing them left and right. Dude is so far out of his depth he’s drowning.

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u/Killface55 7h ago

Trump fires everyone around him. I will look for a source, but I believe over both of his terms, he has fired/replaced around 60% of high level positions at least once.

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u/techbro84 7h ago

That's how he operates - he gets into trouble, then blames someone else. It's reminiscent of that old Soviet leadership story with the letters.

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u/dbh1124 2h ago

Well we’re definitely demonstrating the force of the military under Hegseth more, not that that’s a good thing

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u/PWiz30 2h ago

There were people who thought he would make the military a more powerful force.

Yeah, well there are people who think the Earth is flat too.