Pete Hegseth is a disaster of a defense secretary. It’s no surprise: The former Fox host has misled the public, prayed for violence and clashed with the press. This is not a serious military leader
Source: Silent-Resort-3076
Pete Hegseth is a disaster of a defense secretary. It’s no surprise: The former Fox host has misled the public, prayed for violence and clashed with the press. This is not a serious military leader
Source: Silent-Resort-3076
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From the article:
>Hegseth, by contrast, exudes loyalty.
>Ever since his confirmation early last year, we have been seeing the results, but never more so than in recent weeks.
>Pete Hegseth is imbuing violence with a religious righteousness
>A recent Guardian editorial offered this scathing description: “Glorying repulsively in his capacity to order death and destruction from the Pentagon, Mr. Hegseth, an Evangelical Christian, has presented Operation Epic Fury as a 21st-century crusade to ‘break the teeth of the ungodly’.”
>Hegseth’s public prayers for violence without mercy even earned a rare (if indirect) rebuke from Pope Leo.
>Perhaps most dangerous of all, Hegseth reportedly lies about military realities – including to the president.
>“Pete is not speaking truth to the president. As a result, the president is out there repeating misleading information,” one administration official told the Washington Post.
>Hegseth claimed at a news conference last month that Iran’s missile and drone programs were being “overwhelmingly destroyed”. But more trustworthy sources (like a US intelligence assessment reported by CNN) say otherwise.
>He also regularly misleads citizens, through his preening news conferences and public statements.
trump and all of his clowns are a complete and utter circus so no surprises there.
No shit, anyone with half a brain could have told you this long before he became sec def.
The whole admin is full of wildly unserious people. They *think* they’re serious though, in much the same way that a 3-year-old *thinks* they’re being serious when they make ridiculously unreasonable demands of their parents. These folks are caricatures of what they think their base thinks strong/smart/powerful people are. Truly serious people have a hard time containing their laughter and ridicule at these shmucks.
Intelligent, serious, qualified people want no part of Trump’s sleazy clown show
MAGAts don’t want seriousness.
They want to be rewarded for being stars in a reality tv ahow.
That they complain when their actions have consequces that are long lasting or fatal(especially to themselves) remains their deliberate FAILURE.
Pete who?
It was obvious from the beginning that Hegseth is a militant Christian nationalist.
His fucking book is titled “American Crusade”, for Christ’s sake. The tattoos, the rhetoric, the church he attends, it’s all very obvious that he’s an extremist militant Christian nationalist. He wants his version of biblical law in America, and he wants to spread it worldwide, and he wants to do it with violence.
>Let every round find its mark against the enemies of righteousness and our great nation. Give them wisdom in every decision, endurance for the trial ahead, unbreakable unity, and overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy.
These are the words of a murderous psycho.
Who would have guessed that putting a Fox News weekend host in one of the top positions of the US government would end in disaster? That’s almost as silly as election the host of a reality tv show as president. But no one is stupid enough to do that
This just in: water is wet!
And, JUST a reminder for ALL of us: (From January 2025)
>The Senate voted 51-50 on Friday night to confirm Hegseth, with Vice President **JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote.**
>Vice President JD Vance broke a tie to confirm Hegseth after three Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Mitch McConnell — joined Democrats in opposing his confirmation. It marked Vance’s first tiebreaking vote as vice president and only the second time in U.S. history that a vice president has broken a tie to confirm a Cabinet nominee. The previous time this happened was in 2017, when former Vice President Mike Pence cast the deciding vote for Betsy DeVos’ confirmation as education secretary.
>Yes, all Democrats and Independents who caucus with them in the Senate voted against confirming Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense.
The devil always has to have an advocate
Just one of the clowns in this circus
Thank you for your service OP
No shit
He’s exactly who we knew he was. An unqualified alcoholic who abused women. Yet the Republicans in the Senate thought “sure” to appease their dear leader
He was a shitty FOX host. Why did we expect better as Sec Def?
Nuremburg for you. Department of Worm
Hegseth couldn’t have gotten hired at a security guard at my job; fucking terrifying what he’s in charge of lol
Unqualified alcoholic part time weekend only Fox and friends co-host. The perfect twit to run the Dept of defense
He’s not even a serious person, much less “serious military leader”. He was a Fox News WEEKEND Host. Let that sink in…he wasn’t even good enough for a nightly spot on Fox News…but Trump gave him control of the largest military in the world.
Wear your red hats proudly, MAG sycophants, this is your legacy.
Yet he is still there.
This is not a serious administration.
Let us pray that there is some sanity left in our military leadership
Impeach Hegseth.
He’s performing exactly as expected.
The real disaster is Congress giving him the votes.
I forget… which circle of Hell is reserved for those who commit acts of violence?
The military colleges and High-Ranking military officials have entire careers of academic study and field experience. Many of which have spent their lives working through the military.
A fox News host is the most ridiculous possible candidate for such a position. It can be said having a civilian in the position comes with advantages and disadvantages.
But whatever your political positions are, I’m positive it can be agreed that a tv host is absolutely not qualified in any way.
Then again a reality tv Star has used his tv persona to become president. People voted for that twice. So, maybe there are no standards anymore.
No kidding. He’s an adolescent man-child masquerading as a tough guy.
In the process, he is enriching himself and putting both American soldiers and civilians in grave danger of inevitable retaliation. Which he desperately wants to use as a means of strengthening the autocracy and further enriching himself.
And he’ll get sacked right before he has to justify himself.
These people aren’t stupid, it’s the plan,do Trumps dirty work you’ll get the insider stock/crypto gains and get sacked before any reckoning comes worst case scenario is a pardon.
And he’ll get sacked right before he has to justify himself.
These people aren’t stupid, it’s the plan,do Trumps dirty work you’ll get the insider stock/crypto gains and get sacked before any reckoning comes worst case scenario is a pardon.
Elect a clown, expect a circus. Did anyone expect Trump to pick serious leaders for the various departments in the US government? He picked loyalists that will do whatever he says.
His method of “fake it till you make it” is to talk like a pastor by using pauses and fake emotionality to try and make a bunch of BS more palatable.
Remember when he was in an entire room full of serious military leaders, said all his nonsense, and all those serious military leaders kept following him? Where are all the honor bound, oath keeping, disciplined military leaders we were told existed?
Someone discharged from the military for various misconduct shouldn’t be in charge of it.
It’s not rocket science but this administration is fucking dumb.
Is that the best adjective people can come up with anymore? Unserious? I don’t care if he’s the silliest motherfucker to ever live if he was qualified, competent, and had an ounce of morals and empathy.
Get rid of him and send him to cuckoos nest – he needs to be studied – might be new dsm diagnosis
He’s a serious joke. Trump will throw him under the bus soon, and place this failure of a ‘war’ on him
I wouldn’t trade a bag of chips for this douche nozzle.
so what you’re saying is hes running the Pentagon like its fox news….
The guy couldn’t hold down a regualr job at walmart, much less manage anything. He has no business being in government in any capacity; much less a cabinet member.
Maybe he shouldn’t have been confirmed- just asking! /s
He reminds me of a coked up
fratboy that sells used cars for a living.
He clashed with the press? THIS IS UNPRECEDENTED. All good politicians bow and scrape to the press.
>not a serious military leader.
Yes he is. He’s seriously bad.
Call it what it is, treason.