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A senior official exclusively told MS NOW how decorated military officers with decades of experience were withheld from promotion after Pentagon staff printed out internet searches showing they had attended official events like promoting Covid-19 vaccinations or marking International Women’s Day.
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I thought this guy froze himself until they found a cure for his Boneitis?
Oh that’s Pete Hegseths picture.
I know it’s easy to scapegoat Hegseth, but don’t forget the orange bastard who put him in this position in the first place.
The Heratige Foundation, A.L.E.C., The Cato Institute, and The Federalist Society are all examples of the people that put Papaya Pinochet in power to pick Hegseth
if this guy and pretty much anyone in this Nazi administration doesn’t get life in prison minimum, the US is a failed state.
Aren’t most of your senior staff TV personalities? I’m pretty sure you have already failed.
It failed in 2016.
My problem with prison for them is that involves nazis continuing to breathe. I think we should build them a national memorial wall, and then line them all up against it.
All forms of finality punishment are cruel. You’ll never change my mind that death sentences are anything other than evil purely based on the fact that if it’s on the table for anyone, it’s on the table for everyone and we have a false conviction rate of nearly 1 in 20.
I generally agree with this sentiment for common criminal law. So, I upvoted your comment.
I disagree when it comes to nazis creating concentration camps, murdering people in the streets and subverting democracy, but I still respect your position as reasonable. I admit I am not as reasonable right now. I am in a civil war state of mind and I still want my enemy as dead as they want us to be. Maybe I’ll cool off if the threat is actually stopped. We are not done yet, though. Conservatives are currently regrouping and will continue pushing for fascism.
You’re thinking of judicial murder. Putting this admin up against a wall would be summary self-defense.
Agreed, impeachment is basically firing. And not something I would consider a “win”. More of a side effect of him having to go to prison or the ICC for war crimes.
This guy lost us trillion dollar bases. He is a fucking moron.
Best US general for the world ever
Question. If you would be a foreign nation, how much would it be worth to you to pay somebody to do this to an opposing country’s army? Second question, you think this guy would be an easy target? Just wondering.
When you stop enforcing a meritocracy, you lose good people, simple as
The best people they’ve lost aren’t in the military yet. It’s everybody considering ROTC who’s reading this story.
To say the least - they’ve shat all over what used to be any trust or confidence anyone sane ever may have had in them
Impeach this piece of shit before he causes more damage than he already has.
He’ll be replaced with a bigger piece of shit within a day.
Impeach the commander in shit.
Impeachment is not removal from office.
I know. I’m going for realistic expectations, considering his last trial didn’t even include witnesses.
Hegseth was actually appointed with no margin of error, 50:50 and VP tiebreaker, so no a worse guy could not replace him.
What if Democrats manage to investigate and refer evidence to state criminal trials (so they are safe from pay-to-pardon) all of Trump’s corrupt appointees, and let Trump pick more corrupt people to repeat the cycle, like flies to a piece of crap?
Exactly, this shithead just put his lead shithead as chief-of-staff. These picks are just getting worse. They’re probably just waiting for nazi general clones to finish gestating before firing more women and minorities in leadership positions.
Genuinely unsure about this, but what happens if Congress impeaches, convicts and removes him and then chooses not to confirm any of the new candidates put forward for the next two years? Does the department just operate without a secretary?
Dumbfuck had lots of “acting” whatevers; presumably that would work here, too. But as noted, no matter how bad the current guy is, there’s always someone worse out there.
First of all, not within a day, and second, the replacement can be immediately impeached too. Disruption is still a win compared to letting Hegseth or any replacement purge and politicize the military with impunity.
Then Vance. Then Jeffries. It’s so frustrating.
Impeachment would not remove him from the position, that would require a 2/3 senate vote and conviction
I wonder if there are Republicans out there whose anger at Trump wrecking the midterm is more significant than their fear of crossing him (and/or blind loyalty).
This is an opportunity for the first of them to break from his control. They could be some of the first to pretend that they were never actually in favor of his insane policies.
No shit.
Democrats have barely half, 54
Every time you think you know just how low this dumbass can go, you find out something like this.
What a total fucking loser.
When he get tossed out on his ass, I hope all those good people who lost their jobs, and had their careers destroyed by his meddling, sue the living shit out of him.
You know, historically, when you surround yourself with generals who are just loyalists, your military weakens significantly.
Yes but then they won’t oppose your rule.
Yes, but it gives you a Palace Guard-type army to protect regime security.
I guess, but they will still be less effective at that too. It opens up easier access for rapidly declining morale, infiltration, and assassination.
This what happens when you grant a 13 year old his wish and let him run the US military.
No it isn’t; that’s an insult to 13-year-olds. Not only is Hegseth more childish, there’s a huge element of malice and actual evil that 13-year-olds lack completely.
13-year-olds fuck things up due to inexperience and not taking matters seriously. Hegseth is deliberately stuffing the leadership with loyalists in order to further his fascist agenda.
They don’t mean every 13 year old. Mostly the pudgy moron in a video game lobby talking shit about banging your mom then they have a screaming fit when they are the first to get killed.
fucking loser snowflake
the results of internet searches were used by Hegseth’s office to withhold promotions from women and people of color. He was granted anonymity for fear of retaliation.
The senior official also described how Hegseth intentionally scuttled the promotions of senior officers who were perceived to support diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives; played a role in implementing the Pentagon’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate; were involved in the evacuation from Afghanistan; or had a connection to former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Mark A. Milley, who served as President Donald Trump’s senior military officer but after retirement publicly criticized Trump’s leadership.
Hegseth intentionally scuttled the promotions of senior officers who … played a role in implementing the Pentagon’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate
https://www.history.com/articles/smallpox-george-washington-revolutionary-war
Hegseth is a fucking clown. George Washington had to deal with smallpox back when the only innoculation technique had a 5-10% mortality rate and a one month post innoculation recovery.
The actual issue about the health of the troops is irrelevant; Hegseth’s decision-making isn’t about that. It’s about filtering out anybody who puts objective reality above loyalty to Trump and his fascist agenda. Hegseth is purging the military of political opposition so that when the time comes to throw out the Posse Comitatus Act and march troops to subjugate the American public, nobody will be left to stop it.
Exactly this.
The right wing of American politics has laid claim to the military for decades, and the membership of armed forces have gotten more and more Republican-aligned.
It’s a coup followed by a military crackdown waiting to happen.
My wife’s family are big football fans.
She loves talking about the missed opportunity a Republican POTUS in Trump’s shoes could have had, talking about your “defensive game starts with the mask” and “offensive game we go for the zone and get the jab”
That would require the administration to have humor, empathy, and the best interests of citizens at heart. They’d rather just fearmonger and grift.
Because of the pandemic, 2020 should have been the absolute easiest reelection in history and trump fucked it up.
Literally all Trump had to do was let everything Biden set up just keep coasting on autopilot and he’d have had a great economy to gloat over
That meant brushing aside highly decorated officers with decades of experience leading carrier strike groups, thousands of flight hours on dozens of different aircraft, multiple joint assignments inside the Pentagon and shore and sea duty locations around the world. Some had multiple advanced degrees from schools like MIT and Johns Hopkins, and others had deployed in support of several conflicts like the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and Operation Inherent Resolve against ISIS.
Think maybe that might contribute to their inability to succeed in Iran? No shade to the Iranian people, they’re persevering through grit and stubborn refusal to kowtow to an illegal bombing campaign.
Only the straightest militaries base promotion on impressing an alcoholic frat bro #nohomo /s
Never forget, when there was a list of potential promotions, this chucklefuck immediately removed every single non-white male from the list citing DEI as the only reason they were even on the list.
And people clapped back, no they were on the list due to years of quality dedicated service and DEI is the only reason he removed them
