Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense

[robertl]

Because putting someone with no experience running anything in charge of the largest gov. department with the highest budget makes total sense.

That's like making a home depot cashier the ceo.

An even better comparison might be making a community organizer President of the US. Now THAT would be laughable!

 

[Lance_Castro]

 

[Lance_Castro]

 

[TallMan69]

Not as many that will now that a drunk is in charge of Defense.

Well, at least he put his hand on a holy book to swear his oath of office. Unlike some.

 

[TallMan69]

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Are we having fun yet?

 

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[Lance_Castro]

https://images05-military-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/images05.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/media/news/service/2017/02/marine-beer-1500.jpg?itok=_x6zrA9XUS Military Is America's Heaviest-Drinking Profession​

 

[Politruk]

https://images05-military-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/images05.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/media/news/service/2017/02/marine-beer-1500.jpg?itok=_x6zrA9XUS Military Is America's Heaviest-Drinking Profession​

What, soldiers drink more than bartenders?!

 

[RobDownSouth]

I don't know if it has been mentioned in this thread and I'm not willing to scroll back continually on a day when Lace is shitposting like crazy, but Pete Hegseth was confirmed by the absolute slimmest of margins 51-50 today in the Senate. JD Vance was helicoptered in to cast the tie breaker vote.

CNN reported..

Vice President JD Vance cast the 51-50 tie-breaking vote after former GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and GOP Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine joined Democrats to oppose Hegseth’s nomination. It was just the second time in history that a vice president has broken a tie for a Cabinet nominee – the other being then-Vice President Mike Pence for Betsy DeVos’ 2017 confirmation to lead the Education Department.

Hegseth becomes the first alcoholic to be confirmed as Secretary of Defense.
The Lincoln Project's chairman and political columnist George Conway suggested that every red-blooded American send a bottle of champagne to Secretary Hegseth's office.

(Hegseth is reportedly not a "champagne snob", so a bottle of Andre should suffice. It is doubtful he could tell the difference in any event after, say, bottle number three of his nightly intake)

Hegseth is widely expected to announce his new retention policy essentially targeting women serving in the military as "fair game" for male soldier predators, in an effort to significantly lower the percentage of women in the military. He has signaled a desire to work with the military supply chain to remove birth control from the PX system and military base pharmacies.

 

[Chernosoth]

Hegseth becomes the first alcoholic to be confirmed as Secretary of Defense.

Oops. I clicked the wrong button.
Alkies are as common as bribes in DC. He's definitely not the first.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Hegseth has got so much shit to clean out - the Augean Stables for real....

This is clear insubordination. They know exactly what they’re doing in pretending that Trump has ordered them not to teach recruits about the Tuskegee airmen. They know it’s a lie and they’ve passed it on to the media knowing the media will eagerly repeat the lie. Hegseth needs to act immediately and aggressively to punish the chain of command that allowed this open subversion and subordination to take place. This is called "malicious compliance," deliberately subverting an order by giving it the worst and most twisted reading.

Need to find out who did this and fire whoever is responsible, together with everyone in the chain of command.

From the reports coming out, there's a LOT of rot in the Air Force to be excised. Hegseth needs to start at the top and work his way down.

Obeying Trump order, Air Force will stop teaching recruits about Tuskegee Airmen
https://www.expressnews.com/news/ar...ow&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=twitter.com

 

[RobDownSouth]

Oops. I clicked the wrong button.
Alkies are as common as bribes in DC. He's definitely not the first.

I'm old enough to remember when Congressman Wilbur Mills, the chairman of the powerful House Ways And Means committee, was discovered cavorting drunkenly in a Washington fountain with a stripper named Fanny Foxe after being pulled over for driving without his car headlights on at 4 a.m.

He actually survived that scandal until he did virtually the same damned thing the next month at a strip club. Then he opted not to run for re-election and checked himself into an alcoholic sanitarium. I remember being surprised that his wife checked herself in as well. No word on whatever happened to Fanny Foxe.

Mills is remembered today for his drunken shenanigans but he was one of the prime authors of both the original Medicare legislation and the Interstate Highway System (two very "socialist" programs, y'know).

Edit: Wikipedia to teh rescue. Foxe sure had an interesting life! She was a pre-med student turned stripper when she met and married a strip club pianist. She and her husband divorced but still lived together (he was a stay-at-home dad for their three kids). They lived in the same condo building as Wilbur Mills and his wife and the four of themplayed cards together (!!!). She got pregnant by Mills and had an abortion to "protect his reputation". The publicity from her arrest quintupled her stripping booking fees. She married her business manager, got a bachelors and masters degree, and spent her later years as a divemaster in the Mexican tourist town of Cozumel. She died in her 80s a few years back. Whew!

 

[Politruk]

Oops. I clicked the wrong button.
Alkies are as common as bribes in DC. He's definitely not the first.

One thing you can say for Trump: Everyone who knows him agrees he does not drink.

 

[ChloeTzang]

 

[ChloeTzang]

When President Trump rolled out his earth-shattering executive order that forbade DEI throughout the federal government, he anticipated that the forces of the "resistance" would work behind the scenes to avoid obeying. He knew they would rename organizations and hide the DEI commandos in other positions so the whole hideous mess could be reassembled, like Frankenstein's monster, at a future date. That is why the Office of Personnel Management required all agency heads to send that memo to every employee. As this order affects government contractors as well as federal agencies, we've seen some scurrying around on the dark edge of academia to avoid compliance.

Unfortunately, it seems like the Air Force may have decided it was not covered. There is evidence of efforts by some USAF units to ignore the executive order. This is an example from Minot (North Dakota) Air Force Base. Here, you have a memo that laughs at the executive order and clearly states they have renamed the office. Luke (Arizona) AFB did much the same and the US Air Force Academy has rebranded its DEI program as "Dignity Respect and Leadership" and is continuing on. Removing this garbage from the military—and I'm under no illusion that the Air Force is unique in having commands that are surreptitiously telling the Commander-in-Chief to get lost—will require diligent effort and ruthlessness. Anyone involved in rebranding USAF DEI programs must be terminated if civilian or administratively separated if military. What we are seeing here is really nothing less than a mutiny.

Schlichter's recommendations below are under ambitious. Hegseth needs to have some trustworthy JAGs standing by, along with MPs to arrest some of them for mutiny. Have the Old Guard put up some tents and wire them in on Ft. Myer. Arrest the guilty bastards and leave them out in the cold. And remember, mutiny is the only article in UCMJ that doesn't just authorize summary execution; to suppress a mutiny, if necessary, it demands it. Arrest followed by court-martial followed by execution for mutiny.

Current JCS and Milley's replacement, AF General Charles Q Brown championed DEI and anti-white racism while head of the Air Force. He published a blatantly racist, quota-based personnel promotion document, while presiding over tanking recruiting and military readiness numbers. He needs to be axed on Monday.

https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/0...t-the-commander-in-chief-has-ordered-n2184765

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Most of the rank and file had a simple metric we lived by. If your commander (or anyone really) didn’t have a beer with you. They were suspect. It worked out time and time again…

 

[Politruk]

Most of the rank and file had a simple metric we lived by. If your commander (or anyone really) didn’t have a beer with you. They were suspect. It worked out time and time again…

Worked out how?

 

[Lance_Castro]

Boo-hoo, poor Rob.

The Military has more drunks than anywhere else, always has, for centuries!

Drinking, raping, pillaging!
Lol


https://www.rand.org/pubs/tools/TLA...s/data-on-sexual-assault-in-the-military.html

 

[Chernosoth]

DEI hires may be unqualified to do anything else with DEI education. Mutiny may seem reasonable against unemployment, minimum wage jobs, living at the bottom of the pyramid, etc.

 

[Lance_Castro]

DEI hires may be unqualified to do anything else with DEI education.

The Kamala Conundrum.

 

[Noitall]

If Charlie Brown isn't fired this week, Pete has failed

 

[ishtat]

In 1940 Churchill appointed a Newspaper Baron, Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook) firstly as Minister of aircraft production and later Minister of Supply. He had absolutely no industrial or military experience whatsoever, but turned out to be the most brilliant appointment that could have been made . He was utterly ruthless, frequently exceeded his authority, offended every senior military man he ever met, and within 18 months at the end of the Battle of Britain the Brits were producing aircraft at twice the rate of the Germans.

Unqualified people by (lack of) experience have the advantage of owing nothing to the people and institutions they work with and given sufficient drive can frequently do a good job.

 

[Wonderer67]

I think Hegseth is out of his depth. However, in saying that, I would give him a chance.

I heard, secondhand through another military veteran, (a former navy officer, who heads up an anti-piracy think tank) that when he briefed Austin two years ago, he was prepared, knew his shit and had obviously done his homework.

He had the white paper underlined and highlighted. He’d done his homework. You might not have agreed with his policies, but he was extremely well prepared. Asked good questions and was very pointed with his time and excellent questions.

My friend is pretty conservative, but was quite impressed.

Like I said, I would give Hegseth a chance and see where it goes.

 

[HisArpy]

Schlichter's recommendations below are under ambitious. Hegseth needs to have some trustworthy JAGs standing by, along with MPs to arrest some of them for mutiny. Have the Old Guard put up some tents and wire them in on Ft. Myer. Arrest the guilty bastards and leave them out in the cold. And remember, mutiny is the only article in UCMJ that doesn't just authorize summary execution; to suppress a mutiny, if necessary, it demands it. Arrest followed by court-martial followed by execution for mutiny.

Absolutely. Make heads roll, literally.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I think Hegseth is out of his depth. However, in saying that, I would give him a chance.

I heard, secondhand through another military veteran, (a former navy officer, who heads up an anti-piracy think tank) that when he briefed Austin two years ago, he was prepared, knew his shit and had obviously done his homework.

He had the white paper underlined and highlighted. He’d done his homework. You might not have agreed with his policies, but he was extremely well prepared. Asked good questions and was very pointed with his time and excellent questions.

My friend is pretty conservative, but was quite impressed.

Like I said, I would give Hegseth a chance and see where it goes.

The man advocated a return to segregated Army units in the first chapter of his latest book.

He is supremely unqualified to lead the world's most lethal military force.

And that's not even considering his huge daily consumption of alcohol.

He is a foppish military dilletante and has no business telling military professionals what to do.