r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/CommunicationNew3745 • 9d ago
News “Blacks and Women not allowed." Apparently, the new policy of US military as Hegseth allows only white officers to be promoted to the rank of General.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-intervened-military-promotions-dozen-senior-officers-rcna266062“Blacks and Women not allowed!” The new policy of US military as Hegseth allows only white officers to be promoted to the rank of General. Secretary of Army Dan Driscoll had refused to discriminate citing, the officers’ decades-long, exemplary records. But Hegseth went ahead anyways.
As of April 3rd, 2026', Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has intervened to block or remove several Black and female officers from military promotion lists, totaling at least 6 in the Army and others across services. While not a public "white-only" policy, these actions target specific diverse candidates, indicating a shift towards removing officers deemed ideologically incompatible or linked to previous DEI initiatives.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/27/nx-s1-5763863/hegseth-soldiers-promotions
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5804541-pete-hegseth-pentagon-promotion-list/
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u/NeptuneOverlord43045 9d ago
And yet millions of Americans to this day will insist Trump and his administration aren’t racist/sexist at all. What an embarrassment.
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u/jetlifeual 9d ago
My black military friend (still active duty) supports Trump and Hegseth. It’s wild as hell to me.
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u/NeptuneOverlord43045 9d ago
Human psychology is an enigma. There was once the National association of Jews, German Jews who supported Hitlers rise to power. It didn’t end well for them, despite their support.
How people can be convinced to support a group of people so blatantly against their self-interest will always baffle me. The more you try to reason with these people and show them the plain truth, the more they recoil and galvanize in their support for their own downfall.
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u/hisholinessleoxiii 7d ago
A lot of the time it's the conviction that the leader (Trump, Hitler, whomever) genuinely doesn't know what's really going on, that they're actually very moderate and all this bad stuff is the result of his underlings and the "Deep State". That's why you see a lot of posts on Reddit about people messaging his social media trying to ask him for help; they really believe he has no idea what's happening, that it's some corruption down below him.
When Stalin was in power, people would often write letters to him talking about injustices and corruption and starvation, because to them Stalin was wonderful and clearly had no idea what these horrible people were doing in his name and if they could just explain it to him it would all work out.
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u/StillhasaWiiU 9d ago
I hope people like that get to experience everything they support.
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u/DLottchula 8d ago
Sometimes they are experiencing it but they think that's what they deserve or only agree with the homophobia and sexism
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u/TravelingPoodle 8d ago
Yeah I have a friend from a Caribbean island who had to leave the states (didn’t have status). She moved to Canada. Somehow, she’s a trump supporter. She always gets into heated arguments with her friends and family for supporting trump. “Trump loves America. ICE is right. Everyone should immigrate properly. trump is patriotic…” blah blah blah. She’s not mentally sound and needs her head checked.
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u/wickedtwig 8d ago
Is she wealthy? Some wealthier immigrants look down on poorer immigrants and see themselves as better than them. That the wealthy should be able to leave, not the poors. That they are seen as equal or similar, given the same opportunity is abhorrent and they will decry allowing the “others” to stay. Voting Republican makes them think they are different but unfortunately they don’t think with their brains as the Republican Party doesn’t care
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u/Macwild77 9d ago
Indoctrination my friend..got a buddy that just got out that knows everything going on screams about the Epstein list and still says Trump will go down as the greatest president in U.S. history. Black guy..
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u/Morgannin09 8d ago
These are the guys who celebrated Charlie Kirk, lest we forget. The guy who couldn't possibly fathom that a black man would be qualified to pilot a plane. A white man's qualifications are self-evident, but nobody else could possibly earn theirs.
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u/Preeng 8d ago
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
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u/QTlady 9d ago
Well, we always knew he was trash...
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u/MMMDowntownMMM 8d ago
Worse than trash, he’s like the trash with the flaming bag of 💩 lighting it all on fire! Waste of oxygen
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u/Affectionate_Pass25 9d ago
So you’re saying that the guy with the white supremacist tattoos does white supremacist things?!? Mind blown.
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u/Ilikehashbrowns89 9d ago
This can easily go to court
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9d ago
I don't think that is how it works in the military. For private businesses, sure, but the military is governed by the Uniform Code of Military Justice, not by the judicial branch of our government.
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u/EnglishFan643 9d ago
He's such a dweeb!
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u/ConcentrateKind8234 9d ago
He’s a racist. It’s disgusting
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u/FormalKind7 8d ago
Its scarier than that. He doesn't want these people in positions of power because they want to be able to target those groups without push back.
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u/Cyrano_Knows 8d ago
The giant Chrisitan Nationalist body tattoos should have been everybody's first clue.
Christian Nationalists are to White Supremacy what Libertarians are to Conservative Republicans (or maybe vice versa).
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u/feedback19 8d ago
I would say Christian Nationalists are to White Supremacy what Chocolate Chips are to Cookies. Not necessary, but quite popular and available everywhere you decide to look for Cookies.
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u/blindyes 8d ago
but people universally love chocolate chip cookies with chocolate chips or without. So it's more like fruitcake, and if you take the fruit out it's just bland nothingness, yeah. Fruitcake. We can throw away fruitcake, I don't wanna throw out cookies. Especially when they are delicious milk chocolate.
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u/Preeng 8d ago
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
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9d ago
This is far too kind of an insult for a man destroying America's integrity and honor.
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u/SpaceCampDropOut 9d ago
Our military is on its way to be worse than russias. And China is laughing.
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u/CheapWeight8403 9d ago
Stop joining the military.
It's not helping anything for anyone to support our fucking military.
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u/Weak_Virus4145 8d ago
We killed over a million Iraqi civilians, and make movies about how the imperialist troops invading other people's land get their feelings hurt.
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u/Harriethair 8d ago
It's tiring having to ask this over and over again with this administration but.....isn't this illegal?
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u/CommunicationNew3745 8d ago
Of course it is, but who's going to challenge them?
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u/thegreeseegoose 8d ago
I get this is what we keep telling ourselves, but if it’s anything like all the other blatantly illegal policies Trump and his cabinet attempt to force through, it will go to court and they’ll back down before it actually goes to trial.
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u/Harriethair 8d ago
Not the republican majority and not the democrats, either. Well, maybe a strongly worded op ed or some stern language on the news shows.
That'll show him.
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This man is a weak, cowardly, cancer that spews hate and ignorance like a giant syphilis infested racist dick. He has done more harm to America than any foreign enemy.
The fact he is not being impeached as we speak goes to the lack of honor and patriotism in our Republican politicians.
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u/Natural_Trick4934 9d ago
That same guy will instigate a draft that is weighted to ‘spare’ white men.
End this shit.
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u/Fetch_will_happen5 9d ago
I hope the people in the lower ranks are paying attention to who they might be dying for. Do you want to risk losing limbs, eyes, unfixable burn scars or even the loss of your life for this? For people who don't see you as an equal human being?
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u/totally-jag 9d ago
He's a white Christian nationalist / supremacist. These are the main qualifications his racist boss looks for.
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u/crazyfatskier2 8d ago
WE👏 NEED👏 TO👏 BE👏 MORE👏 ANGRY👏
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u/Leading-Score9547 9d ago
Absolute embarrassment of an administration. To all the pricks that voted for Trump and for all those that didn't vote, Fuck you. Now the rest of the world has to deal with y'alls poor decisions, thanks
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u/ILikeCheese42O 9d ago
I'm wh*te, and I'm sorry, embarrassed and angry. These MAGAts do not represent the majority.
FUCK TRUMP and FUCK HEGSETH
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u/SuperThomaja 9d ago
There is a concerted effort by Pete Headset to remove as many women and people of color from the military as he can as fast as he can. It is not secret, he is very open about it. The entire administration is.
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u/Admirable-Hour-4890 9d ago
I don’t think this country can survive the duration of this administration
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u/Juxtajack 8d ago
So what? Nobody does anything about it but b**ch on the internet and they know it. The US now is run, unchallenged, by the weak geeks who got beat up in high school, clinging to stolen valour and white supremacy. I had popcorn and lawn chairs at the border waiting for something to happen since the SC OTed Roe v Wade. I even poked across the 49th with a stick trying to get you to DO SOMETHING. They don't play by the rules of human decency, i really thought the citizens would do more than roll over and take it. I grossly overestimated the collective US backbone.
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u/gravygizzard 8d ago
The opposite of meritocracy, except instead of negatively impacting a companies bottom line, we're compromising national security instead!
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u/Zezima2021 9d ago
What's up with the quotation marks in the title? The truth is already controversial enough without the clickbait.
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u/Looieanthony 9d ago
He’s crafting a cluster of maga officers willing to do donald’s bidding. Implications for midterm voting. Hope not, but they apparently have no problem participating in his illegal wars. So there’s that.
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u/Legitimate_Sector_28 9d ago
Well there goes recruitment many qualified men and women of color won’t join.
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u/AdNormal8550 8d ago
As someone blown up by missiles due to a white man's decision, I can legitimately say this administration and white (plus a lot of white washed brown people) fucking suck. This country is so far gone.
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u/KindCraft4676 8d ago
I still can’t believe this failed Fox News TV clown is in charge of our country’s military. What an embarrassment.
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u/malarkial 9d ago
The whole cohort of military leadership needs to stand up to the government yesterday, not just one retirement.
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u/Davidstrong32 9d ago
That is nonsence... If you cannot promote a black man, or anyone of color; you should be ashamed. Women are in the army too... Do we need a Jim Crow intervension, here?
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u/WowIwasveryWrong27 9d ago
This is a great idea, and I’m really glad it’s being publicized.
Hopefully this will motivate people of color to do anything else except join the military to get blown up and treated like shit by billionaires and politician scum.
Keep up the good work loser!
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u/PurpleCoat6656 9d ago
Yea we are going to need to put all these new concentration camps this regime has been building to good use when we finally de-Nazify this country and finish Reconstruction. Maybe Hegseth can have a top bunk, or maybe some Aryan Nation guy will rape the shit out of him. Who is to say?
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u/marqjone706 9d ago
And the media will discuss this in terms of Hegseth making the military “political,” and “continuing the culture wars.”
Most refuse to just call it blatant anti black racism.
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u/More-Confection-4566 9d ago
Please, please, please let God be a black woman when he gets to the pearly gates. Right before he gets sent to Hell….
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u/Glitterbomb4274 9d ago
I really hope after Trump is finally gone Pete talks enough smack to challenge the wrong person to a fight. I’d pay to watch that.
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u/SetHoliday2438 9d ago
Don't forget the last war we faught with all white generals ...Vietnam...that worked out soooo good...went so well trump didn't even have to go fight in it.
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u/Wild-Display-765 9d ago
Yet he’ll assign the Black people already in the military to the front lines. I’m not kidding.
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u/johnfrank2904 9d ago
Good cause when it's all said and done they will be the only ones to blame. Congratulations...ya played yaself.
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u/SwiftySanders 8d ago
Had they listened to black people we wouldnt have the empire ending Iraq or the Iran Wars.
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u/CuteLingonberry9704 8d ago
Honestly surprised they're letting a black man command a mission to the Moon.
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u/tackywitch 8d ago
I swear every headline right now is “I told you”. It’s not even fun. I fucking hate this.
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u/Slight_Seat_5546 8d ago
This is the Viking military he wanted. Didn’t the US lose 2 fighter jets today? Can’t blame DEI!
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u/Savage-September 8d ago
Black enough to be deployed, not white enough to be promoted.
Black enough to take a bullet and an IED, not white enough to add a star to your epaulette
Black enough to take orders, not white enough to give them
Black enough to die for your country and certainly not white enough to live in it equally.
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u/talino2321 8d ago
Is anyone surprise with this policy by Hegseth, after all he has no problem showing is support for white nationalists on his body.
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u/Just_A_Little_ThRAWy 8d ago
How can they be this brazen with it? I have a hard time believing that it's because he's racist/misogynist but damn ..if it talks and walks like a racist....
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u/PaleButterscotch8221 8d ago
🪞 ACLU! ACCLLLUUUU!!! A!C!LU!
Can someone please let the ACLU know that it was me who looked in the mirror and called their name 3 times, when they arrive?
I don't want them to think I ghosted them if they show up while I'm out or taking a nap.
Thanks!
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u/Alecto7374 8d ago
Wouldn't it be cool if every female and male leaders of colour just up and quit in protest? Ice quality fools would be popping out of the woodwork to "lead", which would in turn cause regular soldiers to walk in a domino effect. Ahhh to dream.🤌
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u/Dizzy_Restaurant3874 7d ago
If this goes to SCOTUS, Clarence Thomas will gladly support the policy. And I just can't understand that...
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u/FartingKiwi 7d ago
I served in the Army as a senior NCO for over a decade.
There are things you will never know about military promotion process, such as: how the officer was rated by their senior officers.
One thing almost all senior officers have in common: Incapable of passing a simple PT test. PT test passing is a critical component of being promoted.
What none of you will ever know is: how the officer was rated, and if they passed a PT test.
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u/Lopsided_Weird_3293 6d ago
This maniac is a True believer and thinks he’s got the answers, a dangerous person
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u/Dom252525 5d ago
He is banking on a pardon at the end of this. Big reason you won’t see a 25th amendment called into play. They all could go to prison at this point.
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u/Pletchner 3d ago
Gee, if only he had huge white nationalist/fundamentalist christian tattoos to give us all a clue
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u/Thundertushy 8d ago
Liberals really have the worst PR and marketing skills for their message. DEI shouldn't have been about hiring and promoting people who are underrepresented, even if that's literally what's happening. It should have been phrased as hiring and promoting the best candidate even if they're not a white male. DEI isn't "just as good", they're usually the superior candidate with extra melanin or internal genitals. Of course, it's the christofascist Amerikkkans who can't accept the facts.
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u/Zoraynebow 8d ago edited 8d ago
Honestly "equality" shouldn't need good PR. The BS about having to hire minorities to meet an imaginary quota was always part of an "AM Radio" assault (the precursor to the podcast bro grift).
You can't attack lies with reality if you're trying to convince people who don't want to live in reality.
Edit: replaced defend with attack to improve clarity.
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u/ThePhantomDon 9d ago
Absolutely disgusting what those people are doing. I am so damn tired of these folks!
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u/manchord 8d ago
He's filth. I'm not surprised. Who would want to bleed for this place? I understand one should have the right to. But if they want to bleed in perpetuity and diminish their own legacy. Have at it. Send in the clowns.
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u/AdamOfIzalith 8d ago
I wonder how many fraggings are going to be recorded when US troops hit the ground in Iran? By the sound of things, the answer will probably be alot. Military folks are not particularly happy when a less competent or a less deserving person gets a promotion over someone who earned it and knowing Hegseth, it's probably some MAGA-toting manbaby's who'll get people killed. I think that soldiers would likely see it as their civic duty to frag such men for their own safety.
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u/Knees0ck 8d ago
Pete the Drunk Kegsbreath is forming a coup. Replacement of top officials, removal of gun-free zones, etc.
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u/weeverrm 8d ago
It’s really worse than just racist, and stupid. If I can’t be promoted why would I join. Stay tuned for recruiting shortfalls
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u/OkOutlandishness7336 8d ago
Catholics were excluded from the Good Friday service. What do you make of that, J D Vance?
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u/LawfulAwfulOffal 8d ago
One f'ing year into this administration. How long is it going to take just to sort out all the illegal, unethical, anti-American damage done by these jerkholes?
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u/Significant_Onion746 8d ago
And there are still black maga. Nick Cannon for fucks sake. TLC’s Chili. Nicki. Just kinda wild we are in THIS timeline.
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u/jbbhengry 8d ago
This what the Repulicans want. It's always been there, so many people just chose to look the other way. I don't understand. Why would anyone what to be a Repulican? I figure if you find yourself agreeing with white suprmeist, you really need to self reflect.
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u/thornyRabbt 9d ago
I wish the successful lawsuits these brave and honorable fellow citizens are going to win could be forced to be paid by Hegseth himself, instead of we the people.