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


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:z6rujpf4u56jfie7aqic2nfg/bafkreigtm64g5xjepdoixlmwapk4msg2tgdkwpn3y7xa64zwq hwfaoolly

[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.

2047710667260498155

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.

[Winehole23]

you can tell which ideologies are dangerous by the skin tint and national origin of the speakers



"Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies. Beaches in Spain and Italy and Greece and Bulgaria. Boats and men arrive. When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late? I pray not, and I believe not."

[Winehole23]

Hegseth disgraces his office and the country and needs to be removed

[Winehole23]

there is right now btw, an actual ongoing invasion of Europe by people with a dangerous ideology -- Russians

[Winehole23]

Hegseth literally just did a "Camp of the Saints" bit to commemorate D-Day

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[Winehole23]

Hegseth aligning himself rather directly with the soldiers *defending* the beaches at Normandy, who were, and you might find this surprising, not the Americans or Canadians or British, but rather, and this is interesting, the

[Winehole23]

lololol

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:eivqo2tskdfn4dbrm3dv2mku/bafkreibdlfyn7d6p7pxe3lzvoec33quhfv2nwr33o4qbl7icf 2xdiijyvu

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qyqbfjkwwohghps2bbknj4ni/bafkreig5x6s7sa2ojuoo7btbaogc3qms5n2jmgfby3dt4vqc4 42iee6qp4

[Winehole23]

but Jesus Jews are classed as Jewish

and "Reformed Judaism" is classed as Christian-Reformed

did Chat GPT write this?


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cmvc2f5b5fou3ijbgagiovlj/bafkreibjcrrnxdm4zzodxg6q4dmduxhyyex7iam4hs2sclyg7 4ssbbutpa

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2026/06/06/lds-church-left-off-defense/

[Winehole23]

will Mike Lee and Pete Hegseth kiss and make up?

outlook is cloudy



https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36n7wd7gg4tapamnog4zyyc6/bafkreidbc525jbbabdnwe25sbsit3ixidxv52wnwxyu6uyfq7 kjtqryq54

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:73t3muu2pudsajp7a2fj3aly/bafkreihcpbk6n7t2dx2622v6f3khcsbs4qavhgjxff73kkeos vqf2q24qa

[Blake]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:73t3muu2pudsajp7a2fj3aly/bafkreihcpbk6n7t2dx2622v6f3khcsbs4qavhgjxff73kkeos vqf2q24qa

I wonder what Jews think of this conversation lol

[Winehole23]

I wonder what Jews think of this conversation loldo you mean, because Christians like to point at the Bible but seldom read it?

[Winehole23]

or because it's very Jewish to disagree, even with other Jews?

[Blake]

or because it's very Jewish to disagree, even with other Jews?

Because practicing Jews think all Christians are wrong, no matter what denomination or sect.

[Winehole23]

Because practicing Jews think all Christians are wrong, no matter what denomination or sect.Practicing Jews are what percentage of Americans?

[Winehole23]

~2% if you count all Jews as practicing Jews

who counts stuff like that anyway?

https://ajpp.brandeis.edu

[Winehole23]

there's a reason US patriotic culture ritually half-submerged religion up til now, we might be about to find out why

[Blake]

~2% if you count all Jews as practicing Jews

who counts stuff like that anyway?

https://ajpp.brandeis.edu

A little more than Mormons it looks like?

I just think it's hilarious when one religious group thinks another's beliefs is heresy.

[Winehole23]

A little more than Mormons it looks like?

I just think it's hilarious when one religious group thinks another's beliefs is heresy.in fairness, the animus against Mormons --like that against Jews -- goes all the way back

and apparently survives to this day

[Winehole23]

Pentagon walks it back


“Last week, a proposed list of simplified faith codes was released to the media. The Pentagon list included redundant and unnecessary labeling, and the mistake has been fixed,” the Pentagon said in a statement posted to social media (https://x.com/DOWResponse/status/2064015222621221315).https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/08/pentagon-latter-day-saints-christianity-00953583

[Winehole23]

@Gitmo with Laura Loomer


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/bafkreie4awnjqjfjcifsffm4lm5oh3y7m5lhoyvjsf4yyhp6h acgrre3am

[Winehole23]

Senate lawmakers voted to freeze Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's travel budget unless the Pentagon answers for an Iranian school bombing and Caribbean boat strikes, Politico reported.

The Senate Armed Services Committee approved the measure last Wednesday as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2027, passing 18-9 in the Republican-led panel.


Under the provision, no more than 75 percent of Hegseth's office travel funds could be spent until the Pentagon complies with more than a half-dozen congressional requests for information (https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/17/senate-threatens-to-freeze-hegseths-travel-in-bid-for-boat-strike-videos-iran-school-strike-probe-00964789), according to Politico. The full bill text has not been made public.
https://www.rawstory.com/hegseth-freeze-travel-budget/

[Winehole23]

shortly after Hegseth made the flu jab optional, 160 airmen at Lackland got the flu and one of them died (not necessarily of the flu)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/flu-outbreak-air-force-base.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

[Winehole23]

just great, thanks for asking!


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wbqdteupqk66bh5lxyex4y6n/bafkreibwalvbnm3jg4oaayzz5pduoif55kvfojfpcns6ivb5t 25xtpt7ha

[Winehole23]

Hegseth hates women and black people and believes neither belong in leadership roles

Resegregating the armed forces, tbh


The Navy’s top leadership believed that Rear Adm. Stephen D. Barnett was by far the best choice to lead the command that oversees the Navy’s bases at home and abroad.

The officer, however, had a big strike against him.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/us/politics/hegseth-navy-blocked-promotions-diversity.html

[ChumpDumper]

shortly after Hegseth made the flu jab optional, 160 airmen at Lackland got the flu and one of them died (not necessarily of the flu)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/flu-outbreak-air-force-base.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share




Pete bends the knee to Fauci or something.

2068041930773254315

https://x.com/FrankLuntz/status/2068041930773254315

[Blake]

Pete bends the knee to Fauci or something.

2068041930773254315

https://x.com/FrankLuntz/status/2068041930773254315


Black masks were given to recruits who were free of coronavirus, and white masks were handed out to anyone who had tested positive or might be infectious because of contact histories. Recruits continued to learn the basics, but they were under orders to inform a superior immediately if they began coughing, sneezing, running a low-grade fever or simply were not feeling well.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/texas/article/flu-outbreak-lackland-san-antonio-hegseth-vaccine-22311619.php

2046579973494800754

Muh freeeedom

[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]

Hegseth is dumb as dirt, he is hurting US troops


A flu outbreak at the Air Force's basic training hub in San Antonio is worsening, according to two sources familiar with the situation.


As of Tuesday, at least 222 recruits at Lackland Air Force Base, part of Joint Base San Antonio, had been diagnosed with the flu and four had been hospitalized, the two people familiar with the matter told ABC News.


This marks a sharp increase from the 159 cases and two hospitalizations reported last week (https://abcnews.com/Health/flu-outbreak-air-force-recruits-joint-base-san/story?id=133994394).
https://abcnews.com/Health/military-services-requiring-recruits-flu-shots-air-force/story?id=134126794

[Winehole23]

Hegseth continues to purge US armed forces commanders with no reason given


The top US army officer in Europe will retire early from the military after becoming the latest victim of defence secretary Pete Hegseth’s purge of senior officers in the armed services.General CD Donahue, a widely respected special forces veteran who has been critical to US efforts to help Ukraine fight Russia, will announce his retirement on Wednesday, according to people familiar with the situation.https://www.ft.com/content/b2936511-6549-4a93-9c9f-b6dc3cd165a0?syn-25a6b1a6=1

[Winehole23]

Financial Times


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[Winehole23]

Lackland may run out of flu jabs


The US military (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-military) is racing to vaccinate new recruits after a two-month halt on mandatory flu shots – but it’s a temporary reprieve, as the shots will soon expire and new doses will not be available for months.

Officials will need to lean on other prevention measures to contain the growing flu outbreak at Lackland air force base in San Antonio, Texas, experts say.

The flu vaccines now being deployed across military basic training camps are set to expire on 30 June, and new doses will not arrive until August or later.

It’s possible military leaders will extend use of the vaccines beyond their expiration date, but that’s “unlikely”, said Toti Sanchez, the former deputy chief at the armed forces health surveillance division of the US Defense Health Agency. And stock of the vaccine is typically low at this time of year as manufacturers switch to making the next season’s doses.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/us-military-flu-shots

[ChumpDumper]

Mandatory masks incoming.

[Winehole23]

when the government abuses and deceives courts, the presumption it is acting lawfully can be overcome

NYT v DOD


In Round 3 of NYTimes v. DOD, over Sec. Hegseth's attempt to curtail press coverage at the Pentagon, Hegseth loses yet again.

On the question of presumption of regularity, the district court again relies, in part, on DOD officials' poasting and boasting.


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[Winehole23]

if the government simply refrained from social media poasting and boasting, it could get away with a lot more

(judges can read)

[Blake]

when the government abuses and deceives courts, the presumption it is acting lawfully can be overcome

NYT v DOD



https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.292479/gov.uscourts.dcd.292479.17.0.pdf

Good on the NYT for not backing down

[Winehole23]

Hegseth killed a 25 year old US soldier

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[Winehole23]

Hegseth's Ls to date:

Houthis
Iran
Flu

[Blake]

Hegseth's Ls to date:

Houthis
Iran
Flu





Mark Kelly

[Winehole23]

Hegseth hates the free press


A federal judge has blocked the Pentagon from enforcing a policy requiring credentialed journalists to be escorted inside its headquarters, ruling that the restriction likely violates the First Amendment. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday barring enforcement of the escort policy while a lawsuit filed by The New York Times moves forward. It marks the latest development in an ongoing legal fight over Pentagon press access. “Those who drafted the First Amendment believed that the nation’s security requires a free press and an informed people and that such security is endangered by governmental suppression of political speech,” Friedman wrote in his opinion. https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2026-07-01/pentagon-journalist-escort-policy-halted-22136537.html

[Winehole23]

I wonder where Hegseth got the idea that he could freelance US force posture -- fleeting conversation with Trump, maybe?


Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (https://www.wsj.com/topics/person/pete-hegseth) was planning to head to Brussels last month to deliver what would be a bombshell announcement in a meeting with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s top military chiefs.


The U.S., he planned to say, was preparing additional cuts to its forces in Europe that would go beyond the canceled deployment of an armored brigade to Poland and the earlier withdrawal of an infantry brigade from Romania, people familiar with the matter said. But Hegseth’s proposal was nixed after it was shared with Marco Rubio—President Trump’s national-security adviser—and other senior officials, the people said.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-prepared-a-bombshell-plan-to-cut-troops-in-europe-then-it-got-nixed-cbb87e75

[Blake]

...The official line remains the same: The 10-month campaign of strikes on small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific has nearly stopped the flow of drugs by sea into the United States. In December, President Trump boasted about a 92 percent drop in seaborne shipments. Last month, in an apparent sign of further progress, he said the decline was up to 97.2 percent.

But government officials and agencies closest to the action, at sea and on America’s streets, tell a different story. In hearings, official reports, and interviews they have all but given up the pretense that the campaign has succeeded in reducing the flow of drugs into the U.S., even as 221 people have been killed in more than 60 strikes.....

https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/07/trump-narcoterrorists-boat-strikes/687763/

Murder with no trial

[Winehole23]

for these summary killings, the USG hasn't even presented evidence

just threadbare pretext

[Winehole23]

"maximum lethality, not tepid legality"

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Messages indicating the intelligence was based on years-old intelligence that needed to be re-vetted were embedded in a system used for developing targets and required a senior officer to approve adding a site to the strike list, according to the sources.www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/p... (https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/politics/us-commanders-intelligence-iran-school)

[SnakeBoy]

Hegseth killed a 25 year old US soldier

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Surely last year's flu shot would have saved him from a summer flu strain this year :cry

[ChumpDumper]

Surely last year's flu shot would have saved him from a summer flu strain this year :cry
If all the recruits were vaccinated?

Yeah.

[ChumpDumper]

It's really sad to see you grasping for the tiniest straws.

[Winehole23]

nerve, struck

[Winehole23]

Hegseth seems to be demoralizing his command


Military experts and current and former senior ranking military officials called Widmar’s early retirement from such a vaunted post a marked departure from military precedent and said it was especially concerning as part of a pattern of well-respected senior leadership exiting under Hegseth with little explanation. Uniformed military leadership, particularly legal advisers, generally remain in place across administrations to preserve the military’s commitment to nonpartisan professionalism.


“That is centuries of high-priced talent that are being cashiered without any explanation for why their service was untenable,” said Kori Schake, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a nonpartisan Washington, D.C.-based think tank. “It creates a command climate in which people are hesitant to take initiative. And that’s how countries lose wars.”


The chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Dan Caine, said in a statement that Widmar “is deeply respected and admired by all” and thanked him for his “remarkable” service. “We will miss his legal counsel, incredible expertise and experience, and his understanding of our responsibility to always speak truth to power.”


The Pentagon did not respond to a request for comment from Hegseth.
https://www.propublica.org/article/eric-widmar-retiring-joint-chiefs-legal-adviser

[Winehole23]

chickenshit grooming regulations to force black soldiers out

Pete Hegseth is a straight up bigot


Sailors with shaving-related conditions will get one year of medical treatment to meet the Navy’s clean-shaven face standard or they will be removed from the service, according to new guidance. The Navy will no longer issue permanent shaving waivers to sailors who suffer from skin conditions caused by shaving, including pseudofolliculitis barbae, according to a Navy memorandum published this week.

The updated policy brings the service into line with guidance issued last year by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth banning most shaving accommodations for service members. The Navy’s July directive instructs all sailors with skin irritation or other conditions caused by shaving — including those with current medical shaving waivers — to report the issue to their supervisors and seek medical evaluation.

If recommended for treatment, their commanding officer may issue a temporary shaving waiver, allowing them to maintain a beard up to ¼ inch in length. Commanders may grant temporary waivers for up to 90 days, according to the guidance. Those waivers must “align with prescribed treatment.” Commanders may only grant a 90-day shaving waiver four times before they must recommend a sailor for administrative separation. Sailors who cannot meet shaving standards after one year of treatment shall be deemed to have “an unmanageable permanent condition” and recommended for “separation due to failure to comply with grooming standards,” according to the memo.

“The operational success of the U.S. Navy demands the readiness of all sailors. Mission accomplishment hinges on stringent compliance with standards and ensuring implementing policies are clear, unambiguous, and compliant with law and regulation,” the memo reads. “Grooming standards add to sailor and mission safety and ensure the safe and proper utilization of protective equipment in all naval environments and operational conditions.” The policy says the Navy will not grant temporary medical shaving waivers to recruits or others entering or reentering the service.

Pseudofolliculitis barbae, commonly known as razor bumps, is a condition that can cause a person to experience painful inflammation after shaving. The condition disproportionately affects Black men, some 60% of whom may experience it, according to the American Osteopathic College of Dermatology.https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2026-07-08/navy-guidance-shaving-waivers-22212393.html

[Winehole23]

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https://archive.ph/2026.07.12-145638/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/07/12/survivors-iranian-attack-that-killed-6-us-troops-say-generals-ignored-warnings/

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

gender affirming hormone therapy for US troops over 30

this is woo woo


“Under the supervision of our world-class medical professionals, war fighters age 30 and older are going to be tested annually as part of their periodic health assessment,” Hegseth said in a video posted to X (https://x.com/SecWar/status/2077425458430230838) captioned: “The High-T Department of War.”


The test would take place as part of the regular annual health assessment. Service members younger than 30 can voluntarily get their testosterone levels tested as well, Hegseth said.
He added that if the medical team recommends treatment for a service member, it would be that individual’s decision whether to receive testosterone replacement therapy.


“This initiative — it’s not about artificial enhancement; it’s about restoring and optimizing your natural capabilities, protecting your longevity, and ensuring you have the biological foundation required to sustain the fight,” Hegseth said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/pete-hegseth-says-military-will-test-service-members-testosterone-leve-rcna587682

[Winehole23]

what a goober

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[ChumpDumper]

gender affirming hormone therapy for US troops over 30

this is woo woo

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/pete-hegseth-says-military-will-test-service-members-testosterone-leve-rcna587682

Methylene blue incoming.

[Winehole23]

DOD monitoring endocrine levels of troops with associated hormone therapy is bonkers

[Winehole23]

https://www.bing.com/th/id/OGC.2859935cd792ad71f758fb38427a46f2?r=0&o=7&pid=1.7&rm=3&rurl=https%3a%2f%2fmedia1.tenor.com%2fimages%2f285 9935cd792ad71f758fb38427a46f2%2ftenor.gif%3fitemid %3d12085789&ehk=WYwyqKiiH4FKin2uW8mR8SZpLOmNfuGq0Zw1ntzyRcc%3d

[Winehole23]

DOD monitoring endocrine levels of troops with associated hormone therapy is bonkersI also don't buy that the therapy is voluntary: the institutional benefit has already been identified, unwillingness to go along with the program is deficient warrior spirit and out of step with the president's policy priorities...

[Winehole23]

https://i.abcnewsfe.com/a/442a4fe7-2b83-44e9-bf25-237193dc0bae/blue-angels-2_1784158965512_hpMain.jpg


Officials with the U.S. Navy's elite Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron said they're conducting a review after social media footage showed a jet flying low over a crowd of beachgoers in Pensacola Beach, Florida, on Wednesday morning.


"During an arrival maneuver, an aircraft flew lower than standard profiles, resulting in a disturbance on the beach that affected civilian chairs and umbrellas," the statement said, calling it a "low-altitude pass."
https://abcnews.com/US/blue-angels-conducting-review-after-jet-flies-florida/story

[Winehole23]

woBtW5KSwWk

[Blake]

woBtW5KSwWk

"I GOT INJURED BUT IT WAS AWESOME"

I bet a number of ambulance chasing lawyers are scrambling to get a hold of them right now

[Winehole23]

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[Blake]

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Squeeze "blame Biden and co." right after "how did we let this happen?"

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Squeeze "blame Biden and co." right after "how did we let this happen?"aviation accidents aren't as common as auto accidents by a long shot, but they may not be as infrequent as you think


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_air_show_accidents_and_incidents_in_the_21 st_century

[Blake]

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So if they do activate a draft, will they still test for testosterone?

[Winehole23]

So if they do activate a draft, will they still test for testosterone?we're being led by sickos and weirdos, it wouldn't surprise me at all

[Winehole23]

The commander of the Navy’s elite Blue Angels demonstration team confirmed Thursday that a flyover of a crowded beach the day before was “unsafe” by the team’s safety standards. Jet blast from the pass on Wednesday over a Pensacola, Florida beach sent chairs and umbrellas tumbling, according to a Navy spokesperson.


“The pilot found himself, unfortunately, in a situation that we would deem unsafe over the beach,” Navy Capt. Adam Bryan told reporters Thursday. “We never intend to fly over the crowd that low, and we’ll heavily debrief it to ensure that, one, we continue on with safe flight demonstrations, and that we learn from those different things that happen.”

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-blue-angels-pensacola-unsafe-flyover/

[Winehole23]

“I had the opportunity to talk heart to heart with the pilot at the center of it all,” Salzman wrote. “He didn’t make excuses. He didn’t try to shift blame. He simply talked about the miscalculated a turn, something no pilot ever wants to experience, especially one who has dedicated his life to flying at the highest level of precision. More than anything, he talked about the weight he’s been carrying since that moment.”

[Winehole23]

brain-poisoned morons rule us



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[Winehole23]

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[Blake]

brain-poisoned morons rule us

YOU'RE GONNA LOVE THIS OR ELSE

[Winehole23]

It's amusing that Sparta managed to get this hyper-macho reputation when a) Sparta had ritualized, institutionalized same-sex pederasty, b) their tyranny over Athens lasted basically a year, and c) they were annihilated by the Thebans 30 years later and the Macedonians 40 years after that

[Winehole23]

hiding the sacrifice of US survivors


The Pentagon denied on Monday that it has failed to disclose complete statistics on the number of U.S. service members injured in the Iran war, after The New York Times reported earlier in the day that dozens of U.S. service members were hurt in three undisclosed Iran strikes last week, citing unnamed U.S. officials.https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2026/07/20/pentagon-denies-hiding-injury-stats-after-report-dozens-were-hurt-in-undisclosed-iran-strikes/

[Winehole23]

CENTCOM now says more than 430 U.S. troops have been wounded in the U.S. war on Iran (https://bsky.app/hashtag/Iran), many with traumatic brain injuries (AP).

[Winehole23]

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