Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense

[Wat_Tyler]

Given past performance by ALL past administrations, including Trump's first, skepticism is a healthy attitude. But what Trump is doing is dramatically transformational.

Oh, I agree, but the proof is in the puddin', not the recipe, or the ingredients, or the cooks. Puddin'.

 

[Rebel5soul]

Oh, I agree, but the proof is in the puddin', not the recipe, or the ingredients, or the cooks. Puddin'.

Which is why Chloe and I believe they're going to try to kill him.

 

[Politruk]

But what Trump is doing is dramatically transformational.

Only in the sense that digestion is transformational.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Which is why Chloe and I believe they're going to try to kill him.

I hope you're wrong.

 

[Rebel5soul]

I hope you're wrong.

So do I but he's goring too many ox's.

 

[Politruk]

Which is why Chloe and I believe they're going to try to kill him.

Who's they? There is not really any Deep State -- at least, not one that would want Trump gone.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

So do I but he's goring too many ox's.

People like their shibboleths, I agree.


And then there's all that Bitter Resentment afloat . . . .

 

[Rebel5soul]

People like their shibboleths, I agree.


And then there's all that Bitter Resentment afloat . . . .

They are the manipulator's that will find some crazy like Sirhan Sirhan or L H Oswald to do their dirty work for them.

We still have no real answers re. Butler, do we?

 

[Politruk]

They are the manipulator's

But there is no they.

that will find some crazy like Sirhan Sirhan or L H Oswald to do their dirty work for them.

Oswald did nothing -- that was a Mob hit.

 

[Bray123]

So do I but he's goring too many ox's.

*oxen

 

[AceDesSpades]

The Tet Offensive???

We won that and then Cronkite surrendered for the military.

There is the history of the military based upon fact (like Pete) and the recreations of the political based upon goals.

 

[AceDesSpades]

They are the manipulator's that will find some crazy like Sirhan Sirhan or L H Oswald to do their dirty work for them.

We still have no real answers re. Butler, do we?

It is as if they didn't want to know: failure is an orphan.

 

[UltraChad]

I'm an individual, you should try it sometime.

OHHH that's FAR REICH WING thinking right there buddy......

Why so much HATE and RACISM??? Who hurt you??

 

[AceDesSpades]

OHHH that's FAR REICH WING thinking right there buddy......

Why so much HATE and RACISM??? Who hurt you??

life

 

[DeluxAuto]

OHHH that's FAR REICH WING thinking right there buddy......

Why so much HATE and RACISM??? Who hurt you??

Histrionics.

 

[Rebel5soul]

Lotsa generals filling out those retirement papers.

 

[Politruk]

Putting women in combat works well enough for the Israelis.

 

[HisArpy]

Lotsa generals filling out those retirement papers.

Cool thing about military officers wanting to get out and turn civilian; their resignations have to be accepted and it takes months to get it all squared away.

Those generals don't have months.

Even better part; after separation you can still be called back to active duty for up to 2 years after your official separation date. Usually this is reserved for use during war times, but it also applies to "after discovered" bad conduct while in service.

Which means that even if they do separate before Trump takes over, the ones who engaged in that little mutiny meeting can be called back to active duty and courts martialed.

 

[Rebel5soul]

Cool thing about military officers wanting to get out and turn civilian; their resignations have to be accepted and it takes months to get it all squared away.

Those generals don't have months.

Even better part; after separation you can still be called back to active duty for up to 2 years after your official separation date. Usually this is reserved for use during war times, but it also applies to "after discovered" bad conduct while in service.

Which means that even if they do separate before Trump takes over, the ones who engaged in that little mutiny meeting can be called back to active duty and courts martialed.

They set themselves up for whatever consequences that will be coming when they made the decision allow themselves to become corrupted in furtherance of their careers.

 

[Politruk]

They set themselves up for whatever consequences that will be coming when they made the decision allow themselves to become corrupted in furtherance of their careers.

Corrupted? Nobody suggests they're taking bribes or anything. Doing DEI because civil government wants it is not in any way corruption.

 

[AceDesSpades]

Lotsa generals filling out those retirement papers.

Hiring ghost workers comes first...

 

[AceDesSpades]

HisArpy said it first. Better.

 

[Rebel5soul]

We won WWII with 7 4 stars. We currently have 44.

 

[AceDesSpades]

None of them are Patton: exiled

 

[Bray123]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/16/pete-hegseth-sexual-assault-accuser-paid/

Hegseth paid the complainant in his rape case to go away, thus proving his Faux News / MAGAT credentials.

"Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, paid a woman who accused him of sexual assault as part of a nondisclosure agreement, though he maintained that their encounter was consensual, according to a statement from his lawyer Saturday and other documents obtained by The Washington Post,

Hegseth’s attorney, Timothy Parlatore, said that Hegseth was 'visibly intoxicated' at the time of the incident, and maintained that police who were contacted a few days after the encounter by the woman concluded that 'the Complainant had been the aggressor in the encounter.'