Pete Hegseth doing just great thread

[Winehole23]

according to anonymous sauces, Adm. Bradley told Congress there was a verbal kill order from Hegseth



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[koriwhat]

Kill more narco-terrorists! Shit, kill all the low level drug dealers too while you're at it, in and out of the USA! Fuck them all!

[ChumpDumper]

^drug user who gets drugs from drug dealers in and out of the USA

[Winehole23]

what's a narcoterrorist?

is that a legally-defined term

[Winehole23]

or is it just pretextual bullshit to blow people up on the high seas?

[Winehole23]

Shit, kill all the low level drug dealers too while you're at it, in and out of the USA! Fuck them all!Duterte style

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIF. ohLjV0dSlAaty8uEaoziZw%3Fcb%3Ducfimg2%26pid%3DApi% 26ucfimg%3D1&f=1&ipt=9f2ac746cc487872bb88b8aae6ccebf2d07bbccff94382 69cb610c84e0e8319a&ipo=images

[Blake]

https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-what-looks-like-politics-and-imagines-itself-to-be-political-will-one-day-unmask-itself-soren-kierkegaard-41-30-04.jpg

Trumpianity

[Winehole23]

Hegseth's war on narcoterrorism appears to be more or less terrorism

We gotta get that guy out of there

[Blake]

Hegseth's war on narcoterrorism appears to be more or less, terrorism

We gotta get that guy out of there

He's like a teenager playing world of warcraft with his online buddies

[Winehole23]

wild details

(shooting at Super-Hornets and turning one of them into a submarine was under Biden, the collision and the jet falling off the aircraft carrier were under Trump)


At 1:40 a.m., Gettysburg reported that the area was clear of hostile tracks. Over the course of the next 40 minutes, the DCA was given “conflicting orders” and stayed airborne, the report reads.

Aboard Harry S. Truman, the strike warfare commander, who directed the attacks in Yemen, ordered the remaining DCA Super Hornets to return to the carrier. According to the investigation, that order was not understood by the entire strike group.

As fighters returned to the carrier, two key positions in the guided-missile cruiser’s combat information center had just changed shifts, and sailors were preparing for a helicopter landing on its flight deck, reducing the coverage of the cruiser’s AN/SPY-1 air search radar. At the same time, the E-2D Hawkeye that had overseen the strike group with its radar had a malfunction and transferred its responsibilities to one of the destroyers, according to a separate account from the pilot of Aircraft 107.

The new watchstanders didn’t know where the remaining DCA fighters were or that Gettysburg’s Identification Friend or Foe system, which automatically identifies friendly targets, was malfunctioning. For the new watchstanders, the fighters appeared on their screens as “unknown” contacts.

“The Gettysburg CIC team believed them to be enemy anti-ship cruise missiles,” reads the report.

Without checking via other means, Gettysburg’s commander, Capt. Justin Hodges, directed his crew to fire two SM-2s — one at Aircraft 107 and the other at Aircraft 112 – according to the report.

From the cockpit of the Super Hornet, the pilot saw the missile launch from Gettysburg, but was confused about the target.

“Yooooo that shit is crazy, I can’t believe they’re shooting a drone down,” reads a quote from Aircraft 107’s pilot in the separate account.

Within seconds the pilot and the weapon systems officer realized they were targets and ejected from the Super Hornet before it was destroyed by the first missile.

The second Super Hornet made an evasive maneuver and was set to eject, but the second SM-2 was deactivated before impact.
https://news.usni.org/2025/12/04/investigations-show-failures-behind-carrier-harry-s-truman-collision-loss-of-3-super-hornets

[Winehole23]

“It passes within 100 feet of our jet and shakes the jet,” the pilot of Aircraft 112 said in a separate account of the incident. “It explodes off our left on the surface of the water.”

[Winehole23]

Afterwards, the Navy introduced a software patch to correct the Aegis Combat System’s failure to identify friendly tracks, a senior Navy official told reporters on Thursday.


“We’ve invested over $55 million since this incident to correct those Aegis Weapon System deficiencies,” a senior naval service official told reporters. “Over the last two years, our industry partners have demonstrated their commitment and their ability to rapidly correct these software deficiencies, and it’s been very impressive.”

[koriwhat]

what's a narcoterrorist?

is that a legally-defined term

Easily defined if you have only 2 brain cells.

Narco = Cartel/Drug Runners
Terrorist = Self-explanatory

[Winehole23]

Easily defined if you have only 2 brain cells.

Narco = Cartel/Drug Runners
Terrorist = Self-explanatoryI asked if they had legal definitions, I suppose that's too fine a distinction

Sounds like convenient bullshit Trump made up to do more crimes, as a flex

[Winehole23]

the kernel of superlegality is that there are moral concerns -- e.g., crime, corruption, communism, immigration, race-pollution, liberal decadence, terrorism and so forth -- which are so overpowering and urgent that the law and public decency must yield to the prerogative of the sovereign to create the state of exception to constitutional order and the law to save the country.

[ChumpDumper]

Which country? Suriname?

[Winehole23]

Which country? Suriname?Proximity to Guyana and Exxon's extraction interests. Maybe they were going to poison an offshore drilling rig with hard drugs

[Winehole23]

But no, hilariously, the claim is that a small craft that would have to refuel 20 times to get to Miami was not just a proximate threat, but the equivalent of waging war on the US

[Winehole23]

Which country? Suriname?they want to establish the principle that Trump can murder anyone, anywhere

[Winehole23]

the magic words are crime, corruption, communism, immigration, race-pollution, liberal decadence, terrorism and so forth

[Winehole23]

Trumpianityin Hegseth's case, it's Seven Mountains Mandate Christian nationalism plus misogyny and racism

plus alcoholism

[Winehole23]

(you don't stop being an alcoholic just because you quit drinking for a cabinet appointment)

[Winehole23]

He's like a teenager playing world of warcraft with his online buddiesHegseth is red-assed because he got tossed from Biden's inauguration detail for being a possible insider threat

[Blake]

Hegseth is red-assed because he got tossed from Biden's inauguration detail for being a possible insider threat

Both can be true

[Winehole23]

Both can be truesure, but I see it more as the rage of an unstable unit commander with anger management issues whose career got derailed by his own lack of professionalism

[Winehole23]

(which of course is immensely appealing to Fox News and emotionally dysregulated MAGA losers)

[SnakeBoy]

It's amazing how dedicated the 4 remaining active posters here are. I can't wait to come back here one day and see winehole23 all by himself still posting and quoting himself. It's not too far off :lol

https://i.ibb.co/VWbJdpD8/Screenshot-2025-12-05-212524.png

[Spurs Homer]

Pretty sure kegs-breath is going to keep torpedo-ing boats full of fishermen until he gets fired…

this way- he can start drinking again!

lololol

[Winehole23]

and now, Hegseth can take revenge on the professional military he failed in

[Winehole23]

https://i.ibb.co/VWbJdpD8/Screenshot-2025-12-05-212524.pngit's not my fault others lost interest and decline to post here

y'all dumb bunnies with nothing to say on an anonymous forum

[Winehole23]

Political Forum (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=8)

(1797 Viewing)
Post about politics, news, government, religion and business.

[DarrinS]

https://i.ibb.co/VWbJdpD8/Screenshot-2025-12-05-212524.png

Full
Time
Job

[DarrinS]

Screeching into the void. Poor soul

[Winehole23]

The voices you hear in your head are in your head, Darrin

[Winehole23]

Venezuela doesn't produce or traffic fentanyl to any significant degree

India has replaced China as the main supplier of fentanyl and fentanyl precursors


In 2018, the Center for Strategic and International Studies warned (http://reported/) that India—already a major producer of the synthetic opioid tramadol, which was contributing to addiction crises in Africa and the Middle East—had been slow to regulate fentanyl precursor chemicals and did not regulate fentanyl itself. The report cautioned that India’s trafficking networks were expanding and could soon emerge as major suppliers to the United States.


In 2019, China responded to U.S. pressure (https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-fentanyl-pipeline-and-chinas-role-in-the-us-opioid-crisis/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) by enacting a sweeping, class-wide ban on all fentanyl-related substances and precursor chemicals. Beijing simultaneously launched enforcement campaigns that dramatically reduced (https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/8_Felbab-Brown_China_final.pdf) the flow of fentanyl to the United States. The impact was immediate: U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized (https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF02/20190716/109817/HHRG-116-IF02-Wstate-OverackerT-20190716-SD002.pdf) 314 fentanyl shipments from China in 2018, totaling 278 pounds, but only 12 shipments totaling just over 11 pounds in 2019—a 96 percent decline.


India did not take comparable action. Rather than adopt a class-wide scheduling regime, it chose to ban only the most common precursor chemicals, leaving numerous alternative precursors unregulated. This regulatory gap allowed traffickers and illicit chemists to adjust their methods with minimal disruption, creating conditions for India to assume a larger role in global fentanyl production.


Reports from the United Nations and U.S. agencies reflected this shift. A 2019 UN Office on Drugs and Crime assessment (https://docs.un.org/en/UNODC/HONLAP/43/3) described India as an “emerging manufacturing centre for synthetic opioids,” noting more than 100 kilograms of fentanyl seized inside the country. That same year, the DEA (https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-01/2019-NDTA-final-01-14-2020_Low_Web-DIR-007-20_2019.pdf) identified India as a source of fentanyl and fentanyl precursors used by Mexican trafficking organizations and warned that production was likely to expand as China tightened its restrictions.


A 2022 study (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9614337/?utm_source=chatgpt.com#B8) explained the structural reasons India was positioned to replace China: its large pool of trained chemists, extensive chemical and pharmaceutical industries, weak regulatory oversight, and socioeconomic conditions—including poverty and corruption—that make illicit production difficult to control.


Brookings Institution analyst Vanda Felbab-Brown likewise stated (https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-fentanyl-pipeline-and-chinas-role-in-the-us-opioid-crisis/) that India was the most immediate successor to China in the global fentanyl supply chain.



“So, China pulls out from its bag this magic wand and there is no more precursors coming out of China. There are many places in the world that could become the source of precursor chemicals. The most immediate locale is India. India already is a place from which precursors originate. It’s a major source of precursor chemicals for methamphetamine. It’s also a place where a lot of synthetic drugs are being produced and cooked and shipped around the world to Europe, to the United States… So, India already is a major actor in the illegal drug trade, and Indian chemist trafficking networks are very much involved in global synthetic drugs trafficking. So, India is like the immediate replacement where precursors could start originating at even a larger volume if China came out.”

These developments unfolded during the deadliest period of the opioid epidemic. From 2020 to 2023 alone, more than 310,000 Americans died from overdoses.
https://www.uncaptured.media/p/the-fentanyl-killing-america-is-from

[Blake]

Venezuela doesn't produce or traffic fentanyl to any significant degree

India has replaced China as the main supplier of fentanyl and fentanyl precursors

https://www.uncaptured.media/p/the-fentanyl-killing-america-is-from

Their feelings don't care about your facts

[Winehole23]

Their feelings don't care about your factsthe vibes are all that matter with that crew, facts be damned

[koriwhat]

Their feelings don't care about your facts

Drug production and distribution aside, dead Commies are the only good Commies. :tu

[Winehole23]

it's like when Jesus broke the sabbath to heal a sick person



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[Winehole23]

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/pikuach-nefesh-the-overriding-jewish-value-of-human-life/

[Winehole23]

didn't even have to bomb anybody


Tuesday they weren’t expecting to behold the largest illegal haul of cocaine their station had seen since the 1990s — more than 3,500 pounds of white powder worth about $28 million. “This was the largest USCG Small boat station cocaine seizure since 1995,” said Lt. Matthew Ross, Coast Guard Station Miami Beach commanding officer. “Protecting our maritime borders from illicit drug trafficking and transnational criminal organizations remains one of our highest priorities.”


https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article313449404.html

[DarrinS]

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/pikuach-nefesh-the-overriding-jewish-value-of-human-life/

myjewishlearning.com
Not reading that

[Winehole23]

myjewishlearning.com
Not reading thatwhy not?

Jesus was a Jew, a very observant one. One might even say he was a Jewish zealot.

[Winehole23]

at any rate, that was the Christian principle Ms. Villaba cited as justification for murking suspected smugglers

[Winehole23]

Jesus broke the law to heal people, Hegseth to kill them

[Winehole23]

myjewishlearning btw is a great basic source on Judaica, it's not left wing whatsoever

[Winehole23]

JTA is basically the Jewish AP, apolitical, trans-denominational

[Winehole23]

DarrinS turtles again

Brave enough to make assertions, too cowardly to defend them

On an anonymous forum

:lol

[Blake]

it's like when Jesus broke the sabbath to heal a sick person


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/us/6-republican-voters-on-us-strikes-on-boats-suspected-of-smuggling-drugs.html

She's ok with a law breaking felon for president though

[Winehole23]

She's ok with a law breaking felon for president thoughshe wants to give TRUMP permission to murder whoever he wants

[ChumpDumper]

myjewishlearning.com
Not reading that

Darrin opposes Jews and learning.

[DMX7]

didn't even have to bomb anybody



https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article313449404.html

Right. It's clear what they're doing with the boat bombing is about more than stopping drugs.

[Blake]

Right. It's clear what they're doing with the boat bombing is about more than stopping drugs.

What's it about?

[Winehole23]

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”

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[Winehole23]

https://archive.org/embed/FOXNEWSW_20160304_110000_FOX__Friends?start=420&end=480

[Winehole23]

hey look, the US Congress actually has leverage over contemptuous government officials


Congress is using its marquee defense bill to force the Pentagon into turning over videos of strikes against suspected drug-smuggling boats off the coast of Latin America.


Lawmakers plan to withhold a quarter of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s travel budget until the Pentagon provides them with the videos (https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/07/second-strike-democratic-lawmakers-demand-transparency-00679899?_bhlid=01d8baf7452cb3bc38c5bae3f2719ade9b 962fbd&utm_campaign=the-smile-12-8&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=www.readthesmile.com). The demand, quietly tucked into the final draft of the annual defense policy bill (https://armedservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/rcp_text_of_house_amendment_to_s._1071.pdf), calls for “unedited video of strikes conducted against designated terrorist organizations in the area of responsibility of the United States Southern Command” to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees.


Congressional leaders released their final draft of the defense bill Sunday, which is expected to be approved — without changes — by the House later this week and then the Senate.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/08/ndaa-boat-strikes-congress-hegseth-without-funds-00680679

[DMX7]

What's it about?

It seems like it's about trying to stir the pot in Venezuela, make them think war is coming and possibly cause a coup against Maduro.

[Winehole23]

could be bloviating

could be 100% sincere

at what point does Congress get involved? simultaneous wars in South America and Central America?


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[Winehole23]

no chance of passing but completely appropriate imho




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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ON7HfjdIVDm_d5afduDnfp71P7aTB6Yk/view?pli=1

[Winehole23]

killing survivors because rescuing them is legally messy


The Pentagon was in a bind. The military had plucked two survivors (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/politics/us-military-strike-survivors.html) from the Caribbean Sea in mid-October after striking a boat that U.S. officials said was carrying drugs, and it needed to figure out what to do with them.

On a call with counterparts at the State Department, Pentagon lawyers floated an idea. They asked whether the two survivors could be put into a notorious prison in El Salvador (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/world/americas/bukele-abrego-garcia-elsalvador-prison.html) to which the Trump administration had sent hundreds of Venezuelan deportees, three officials said.

The State Department lawyers were stunned, one official said, and rejected the idea. The survivors ended up being repatriated (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/us/politics/boat-strike-survivors.html) to their home countries of Colombia and Ecuador.

A little under two weeks later, on Oct. 29, Pentagon officials convened another session about boat strike survivors, a video conference involving dozens of American diplomats from across the Western Hemisphere. The message was that any rescued survivors should be sent back to their home countries or to a third country, said three other officials, who, like others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

Behind that policy was a quieter goal: to ensure survivors did not end up in the U.S. judicial system, where court cases could force the administration to show evidence justifying President Trump’s military campaign in the region.

The previously unreported calls demonstrate the haphazard and sometimes tense nature of the process within the Trump administration to weigh what to do with the survivors of U.S. attacks (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/us/politics/boat-strikes-trump-hegseth-caribbean.html) on boats that the military asserts — without presenting evidence — are drug-smuggling vessels posing an immediate threat to Americans.
Pentagon officials largely kept State Department counterparts in the dark about strike operations, then scrambled to try to enlist diplomats to help deal with survivors, whom military officials referred to by specific terms that included “distressed mariners.” That phrase is usually used in a peacetime and civilian context.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/pentagon-boat-strike-survivors.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7k8.jM8D.lP 08UUlO_wlc

[Winehole23]

consciousness of guilt


President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-threatens-new-icc-sanctions-unless-court-pledges-not-prosecute-trump-2025-12-10/

[Winehole23]

DOD releases Gemini-based chatbot


Earlier this week, the Defense Department announced its new generative AI tool (https://breakingdefense.com/2025/12/pentagon-rolls-out-genai-platform-to-all-personnel-using-googles-gemini/) — GenAi.mil — to deliver the benefits of artificial intelligence to the Armed Forces....

...“The future of American warfare is here, and it’s spelled AI,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth proclaimed ...
... approximately five minutes after the platform went live, someone asked it to evaluate a “hypothetical” Caribbean boat strike (https://san.com/cc/the-militarys-new-ai-says-hypothetical-boat-strike-scenario-unambiguously-illegal/). From the r/AirForce subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/AirForce/comments/1pijkwc/secdefgpt/):
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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

in a press release, DOD says ISIS operatives were killed, but I've seen no other reports of casualties

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

somewhat less eager to kill all narco-terrorists, for some reason


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[Winehole23]

Hegseth backpedaling from a court martial to administrative shenanigans

Slam dunk 1A lawsuit -- this is viewpoint discrimination


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[Winehole23]

(punishment for sedition is now demotion in rank plus a strongly worded letter in your file)

[ChumpDumper]

Right? If you think it's sedition, try to charge them all with sedition.

[Blake]

Lol "administrative action".

Hopefully Kelly turns around and sues the shit out of these morons.

[velik_m]

Dutch Navy Suspends Joint Anti-Drug Operations with US in Caribbean

The Royal Netherlands Navy is temporarily suspending joint actions with the United States in the fight against drug trafficking in the Caribbean Sea. The decision was announced by the Dutch Ministry of Defence, citing different approaches to stopping suspected vessels in international waters off Venezuela.

According to the ministry, the U.S. policy of attacking vessels departing from Venezuelan ports leads to the deaths of people without due process. Because of these actions, the Netherlands has decided to suspend previously agreed cooperative operations. Previously, the Dutch Navy closely coordinated actions with the U.S. Coast Guard in the fight against drug smuggling in the region, where the main routes pass through the islands of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire, part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

As part of the joint operation, Dutch sailors often boarded suspicious vessels in international waters, relying on U.S. intelligence data. According to the Ministry of Defence, over the past five years tens of thousands of kilograms of cocaine have been intercepted in the Caribbean, and those detained were usually handed over to the American side for prosecution in courts.

...


https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/dutch-navy-suspends-joint-anti-drug-operations-with-us-in-caribbean/

[Winehole23]

Perfidy is a textbook war crime


The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.



“.. laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called ‘perfidy.’”https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/us-boat-attacks-law.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D1A.SAmC.fIkz4L4u 74s8&smid=nytcore-ios-share

[Winehole23]

they committed a war crime (shooting civilians) with a war crime (perfidy) and then did another war crime (executed the surrendering party)

[ChumpDumper]

:lol why the subterfuge? In for one war crime....

[Winehole23]

In a subsequent strike, the surviving narcoterrorists swam away from the wreckage, were rescued by the US, then returned to their home countries

[Winehole23]

(Reportedly, the usual punishment for perfidy is execution)

[Winehole23]

If I had to describe the tenor of the recent policy of the Trump administration, I would call it vice-maxxing

It goes beyond mere contempt for decency, ethics, the law and republican government into corruption, murder and oppression

[Winehole23]

:lol why the subterfuge? In for one war crime....filled three squares on the war crimes bingo card right off the bat

[Blake]

Lol "administrative action".

Hopefully Kelly turns around and sues the shit out of these morons.

There we go.

"....US Senator Mark Kelly has sued Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, arguing that the Pentagon illegally tried to demote him in retaliation for criticising the Trump administration...."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8j31728187o

[Winehole23]

really interesting article about the Wild Weasels and Operation Rough Rider

JSOC was in command

Sounds like the action was really hairy

did we beat the Houthis, btw?


“The 480th executed a high-risk campaign against Houthi forces, employing over 134 bombs and 47 AGM-88 missiles while flying 9,000 hours and 1.4 thousand sorties under grave risk from 22 surface-to-air missile and air defense artillery engagements,” the award citation states.https://www.airandspaceforces.com/life-death-yemen-f-16-pilots-sambush/

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Sec'y Kegstand confronts the wokist menace known as the Boy Scouts of America head on



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[ChumpDumper]

He wants them to start raping boys again, I guess.

[CosmicCowboy]

Fucking idiot. Unwinding Anthropic from the defense department will be a monumental task. And why? Their requests were totally reasonable. AI is NOT ready to be autonomous on weapons systems and why would the defense dept want to be like China and use AI to monitor civilians? Fuck!!!!

[ChumpDumper]

It's not Pete-- it's Trump.

It's not just the DoD-- it's all of the federal government.

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https://x.com/PeteHegseth/status/2027487514395832410

[CosmicCowboy]

Yeah. Dumb.

[ChumpDumper]

Is OPSEC even a thing to these people?

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https://x.com/adamwren/status/2028210068714410168

[Winehole23]

nope

all vibes, no chops

[ChumpDumper]

A different vibe today, for sure.

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https://x.com/amconmag/status/2028507964445778115

[ChumpDumper]

:lmao this dipshit is going to run for president-- and abandon his post to get started.

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https://x.com/NunnForCongress/status/2028895179059401206

[Winehole23]

if Hegseth washes out of DOD into a presidential bid

that will be highly entertaining

[Winehole23]

thin-skinned


The Pentagon barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed "unflattering."https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/11/hegseth-press-briefings-photos-iran/

[Winehole23]

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https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/03/08/the-iran-war-puts-asia-in-an-energy-panic

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Hegseth muzzles Stars and Stripes

Apparently a free press isn't consistent with good order and morale

Content from wire services and FOIA are now verboten to Stars and Stripes journalists

"Modernization"


The Pentagon has released a modernization plan for Stars and Stripes that affirms the publication’s independence while expanding Defense Department oversight, introducing new restrictions on content and transitioning away from a print publication.

An eight-page memo, dated March 9 and effective immediately, limits the use of wire services, bars comics and other syndicated features and states that content must be consistent with “good order and discipline,” a phrase borrowed from the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

The memo is the first formal explanation since Pentagon chief spokesman Sean Parnell said in a Jan. 15 social media post that the Defense Department intended to “refocus” the news organization “from woke distractions that syphon morale.”



The memo also bars reporters from requesting public records through the Freedom of Information Act in an official capacity and prohibits the organization from publishing “controlled unclassified information.” This label has often been used to limit the release of information under broadly defined terms.htps://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2026-03-13/pentagon-modernization-plan-stars-and-stripes-21051529.html

[Winehole23]

apparently comic strips are now woke and gay

not appropriate material for warfighters

[Winehole23]

Section 14 of the Press Law ordered editors ‘to keep out of the newspapers anything which…tends to weaken the strength of the German Reich, outwardly or inwardly.- William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 405

[Winehole23]

Alex Klinner, RIP

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[Winehole23]

saying stuff like this is straight up disrespectful to anyone who isn't a Christian, presumably we have Jewish, Hindu and Islamic soldiers too

totally inappropriate language for a creedal, nonsectarian republic



Hegseth: "May almighty God continue to bless our troops in this fight. To the American people, please pray for them every day on bended knee with your family, in your schools, in your churches, in the name of Jesus Christ."

[SnakeBoy]

After the Army launched a formal investigation and suspended the pilots involved in the flyby of two Apache attack helicopters near Kid Rock's Nashville, Tennessee, home over the weekend, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the suspension was lifted.

Hegseth thanked Kid Rock, sharing a video of the flyby and said, "Pilots suspension LIFTED. No punishment. No investigation. Carry on, patriots."

Great job Pete!

[Blake]

Lol Trump tards love them some Hick Rock because they're told to.

[ChumpDumper]

After the Army launched a formal investigation and suspended the pilots involved in the flyby of two Apache attack helicopters near Kid Rock's Nashville, Tennessee, home over the weekend, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the suspension was lifted.

Hegseth thanked Kid Rock, sharing a video of the flyby and said, "Pilots suspension LIFTED. No punishment. No investigation. Carry on, patriots."

Great job Pete!
These are your priorities.

[SnakeBoy]

https://countrynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Kid-Rock-Helicopters.jpg

[ChumpDumper]

snacks fapping

[ChumpDumper]

After the Army launched a formal investigation and suspended the pilots involved in the flyby of two Apache attack helicopters near Kid Rock's Nashville, Tennessee, home over the weekend, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the suspension was lifted.

Hegseth thanked Kid Rock, sharing a video of the flyby and said, "Pilots suspension LIFTED. No punishment. No investigation. Carry on, patriots."

Great job Pete!

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https://x.com/RadioFreeTom/status/2039148927606194434

[Blake]

They also clearly hate and are terrified of different skin colored Americans like Bad Bunny so much so that even the evangelicals turned to cheering for old man rock.

[Winehole23]

Make-A-Wish for right wing has beens


https://countrynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Kid-Rock-Helicopters.jpg


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[Blake]

Make-A-Wish for right wing has beens

But he was such a great super bowl halftime show alternative because he loves Jesus and America

[Winehole23]

Doing this on an official account is disrespectful to Americans and disgraceful leadership

Hegseth should be impeached for sh!t like this


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[Winehole23]

.

[Blake]

Doing this on an official account is disrespectful to Americans and disgraceful leadership

Hegseth should be impeached for sh!t like this

The Secretary of War giving praise to the prince of peace for sacrificing himself is pretty rich. But on par.

[Winehole23]

extreme and radical


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[Blake]

For the first time in history, the U.S. Army chief of chaplains has been fired by the Secretary of Defense.

https://baptistnews.com/article/for-first-time-ever-army-chief-of-chaplains-fired-by-hegseth/

[Winehole23]

it's about time



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[Winehole23]

a make believe war against narco-terrorism and murder on the high seas sound like good reasons to impeach to me



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[ChumpDumper]

Tired: St. Augustine of Hippo

Wired: St. Quentin of Tarantino

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https://x.com/MMuckurty/status/2044760515738485088

[Blake]

Holy fuck :lol would love to know who trolled him into using that in a real prayer

[Winehole23]

JD Vance attempting to school an Augustinian Pope on just war theory tops that, tbh

[Blake]

Amazing how many people that call themselves Christians actually believe that this felon is doing the Lord's work.

[Winehole23]

the (((media))) is like the rabbinical Jews who persecuted Christ



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[Blake]

the (((media))) is like the rabbinical Jews who persecuted Christ

FAKE PICTURES

[Winehole23]

protecting the health of US troops is gay and woke


The military will no longer require U.S. troops to receive the annual flu vaccine, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, rolling back what he described as “overreaching mandates that only weaken our war-fighting capabilities.” wapo.st/4eAG2sx

[Winehole23]

just ask George Washington, who inoculated his troops against smallpox in 1777



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[Winehole23]

American combat deaths in World War I totaled 53,402. But about 45,000 American Soldiers died of influenza and related pneumonia by the end of 1918.

https://www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article/1616713/flu-outbreak-killed-45000-us-soldiers-during-world-war-i/

[Winehole23]

On a Feb. 10, 2019 edition of "Fox & Friends Sunday," Pete Hegseth explained that his 2019 New Year's resolution was "say things on air that I say off air."

Following through on that promise, he told (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/feb/11/germs-are-not-real-fox-news-host-pete-hegseth) his co-hosts that he had not washed his hands in 10 years because "germs are not a real thing. I can't see them, therefore they are not real." His co-hosts laughed at the remark.https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pete-hegseth-germs-not-real/

[Blake]

Yeah he says he was joking but it's pretty believable

[Winehole23]

Yeah he says he was joking but it's pretty believableHegseth's head is approximately as wise and witty as a cabbage

[Winehole23]

Super-unqualified Navy Secretary John C. Phelan steps down without explanation


The “Trump Class” battleships were a major source of frustration for Hegseth and Deputy Secretary Stephen Feinberg because they did not align with the Pentagon’s broader strategy to pivot toward smaller, cheaper uncrewed ships, according to the two people, who, like others in this story, were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.ive ships will cost the Pentagon billions to even begin developing, and are “not at all aligned with where Hegseth and Feinberg want to go,” the first person said.


Phelan had also recently seen some of his key responsibilities pulled away, according to a third and fourth person. They said Feinberg had taken over management of submarine programs and the Office of Management and Budget was already running the shipbuilding effort.

Phelan was in the lobby of the White House on Wednesday after the announcement was made, according to a person familiar with the matter. He was also seen on Capitol Hill that day. The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.



The Pentagon declined to comment on specifics about the battleship. Phelan could not be reached for comment.https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/22/navy-secretary-out-00887887

[Winehole23]

(his replacement, Hung Cao, believes in witchcraft and canvassed in the wrong district when running for Congress in VA four years ago)

https://www.rawstory.com/hung-cao/

[ChumpDumper]

Damn, this is a Newsmax host.

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https://x.com/gregkellyusa/status/2047710667260498155

lol "see Mom"

[Blake]

Damn, this is a Newsmax host.

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https://x.com/gregkellyusa/status/2047710667260498155

lol "see Mom"

I hope they remember they called him despicable when he runs for president in 2032

[Winehole23]

Make a Wish Foundation for washed up alt-right celebs


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[ChumpDumper]

Gay.

[Winehole23]

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[Blake]

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Surreal

[Blake]

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Out of touch piece of shit. Lol "$8 a gallon"

[Winehole23]

.

[Winehole23]

resegregating the US armed forces



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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

anti-wokism is just bigotry



“Mr. Hegseth’s actions, which appear to violate the rules governing a promotion system that is supposed to be apolitical and merit-based, were described by four current and former defense officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.”

[Winehole23]

wanted special treatment for his special buddies


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[Winehole23]

meritocracy appears to be affirmative action for mediocre white men in Hegseth's DOD


Pentagon rules allow the defense secretary to pull officers from promotion lists only for moral, mental, physical, or professional failings that raise questions about their fitness to lead. Hegseth, however, has not provided any explanation for the removals.


The officers selected for one-star rank are chosen through a rigorous process, where a board of admirals or generals reviews hundreds of personnel files over two weeks. Only about 5% of eligible officers make the cut, making it the most competitive promotion board in the military.

The list is then reviewed by service secretaries and the defense secretary, who are supposed to intervene only in rare cases where new information raises questions about an officer’s qualifications. Hegseth’s actions, however, suggest a pattern of targeting officers who have participated in diversity-related initiatives, (https://www.themarysue.com/dei-boycott-list-all-companies-that-ended-dei-policies-confirmed/) sometimes decades earlier.

One female officer removed from the list had served as a surface warfare officer, completed advanced nuclear power school, and was selected to be a top aide to a four-star admiral in the Pentagon. She was flagged by Hegseth after her name appeared on a website dedicated to purging “woke” military officers. It noted her past role as a diversity liaison officer, a position she held two decades ago to help recruit and retain women and minorities.
https://www.themarysue.com/meritocracy-reigns-supreme-chaos-ensues-at-the-war-department-after-officials-confirm-seven-navy-careers-have-been-suddenly-derailed/

[Winehole23]

Hegseth hates the free press



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[Winehole23]

should be interesting


The House Armed Services Committee adopted a provision for the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would demand the Pentagon inform Congress why senior military officers were fired or dismissed within five days.


The requirement was introduced by Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) and was adopted Thursday without objections in a bipartisan voice vote.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5910394-house-committee-military-firings/amp/

[Winehole23]

The provision comes as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired two dozen senior military officers since taking the helm at the Pentagon, prompting bipartisan worries that experienced officials are being dismissed without explanation.