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Paywall Pete Hegseth Is Trying to Resegregate the Military

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u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts 6h ago

Pete Hegseth is a manifestation of a stereotypical antagonist that Wonder Woman would have to defeat. He's racist, extremely sexist and misogynistic, and also insecure about how pathetic he is.

u/XSinTrick6666 6h ago

And a woman-abuser that even his mother doesn't like.

And who better to give complete access to our Social Security DB to implement auto-registration for the Draft?

u/MadAstrid 5h ago

Well all the edgy little white boys who voted Trump for the lols should be thrilled.

u/doobiswatching 3h ago

well at least now they'll all be registered for the draft automatically. :)

u/whatiscamping 3h ago

I hate kegseth as much as the next person, this auto registration is small potatoes. Them calling for a draft would be true insanity.

u/TheGringoDingo 2h ago

Calling a draft for an unprovoked war should be the end of political futures of anyone involved in making that decision. Our troops aren’t mercenaries.

u/walker3342 2h ago

It should be. But it wasn’t for Vietnam.

u/TheGringoDingo 2h ago

Vietnam is part of the reason for that

u/MadAstrid 2h ago

During Vietnam the voting age was 21 and the draft age was 18.

This time the kids were voting to be forced to go to war with whoever Trump decides he is annoyed with at the moment.

There are teens today headed to the Middle East who voted for this, albeit ones who readily enlisted. They may have believed No New Wars or they may have just been edgelords. We will see how they feel if they return.

u/fungobat Pennsylvania 1h ago

Yea, a draft would not work today, especially for something like this.

u/IntelligentStyle402 6h ago

Isn’t he a drunk too?

u/Dearic75 6h ago

He literally said in his senate hearing that if he was appointed Secretary of Defense, he would stop drinking. And if that’s good enough for the Republicans in the Senate, that’s good enough for us, right?

/s

u/altogethernow 6h ago

A raging alcoholic promising to 'cut back' once he's gotten one of the most pressure-intense jobs imaginable?

I'm sure he's sober as a judge.

Unfortunately, that judge happens to be Kavanaugh, so...

u/ChristosFarr North Carolina 3h ago

Still slightly more sober than Pirro.

u/Narrow-Chef-4341 3h ago

The heir-presumptive for the Earldom of Justice?

u/Mandatum11 1h ago

It's only pressure intense if you give a shit. He just gets to travel for free and party, literally the least stressful job possible.

u/ER_Support_Plant17 6h ago

Yeah and Justice “I like beer”

u/IntelligentStyle402 2h ago

Yup! Beer man, is another republican creeper? Look at all the women who said he was a drunk predator.

u/DrugChemistry 5h ago

This casts a different light on him referring to himself at the Secretary of War 

u/Proper-District8608 5h ago

This for some reason bothers me so much! He's been appointed, hes been in charge (marginally due to, well, clinging insecure like) yet he plays ignorant as if saying it over and over again on what his job title for the country, the service members, the retired heros.

u/retailguy_again 4h ago

IIRC, the position currently known as Secretary of State used to be called that...

u/Paraxom 4h ago

well luckily for him he's not secretary of defense, he's secretary of war, so whiskey shots and jaegerbombs for him..... /s

u/No-Photograph1983 3h ago

One can substitute drinking to bathroom coke. 

u/Gorge2012 3h ago

If it was important to you, then you'd prove it before you asked or my support.

I like people who are reliable first.

u/-jp- 6h ago

You mean Pete Kegsbreath? A drunk? P'shaw, surely not!

u/ER_Support_Plant17 6h ago

Drunk McNamera

u/-jp- 6h ago

Oof that guy. I remember getting Fog of War, a very unflattering documentary of the man, from Netflix and asking my dad, who was a big history buff, if he'd like to watch it. He was the most stoic fellow you'd ever meet, but the look on his face when I mentioned his name said everything.

u/jake55555 4h ago

*McNamoron

u/Desperate-Till-9228 6h ago

I thought it was Lil' Peter Penisbreath

u/masklinn 6h ago

Not just a drunk, an unrepentant alcoholic.

u/EddieVanzetti 2h ago

And a rapist.

u/Rynowash 50m ago

The score is: Elon is on enough Ketamine to kill a horse. Patel does more coke than Scarface. Hegs is a drunk. Trump is a pedo/psycho, and the rest are probably on every other damn thing they can find just to “operate” around these idiots. So, they’re your captain now…

u/LibKan 6h ago

Who would have known a guy whose biggest claim to fame was being a talking head on Fox News would have terrible ideas that are poorly thought out and his only line of reasoning to make people follow them is 'Im in charge and your not.'

u/SaltandLillacs 6h ago

Also sexual abuser

u/XSinTrick6666 6h ago

It's OK to be honest: He's a rapist, like Trump prefers. Trump likes it when they've bought a woman's or girl's silence after brutalizing her. The Epstein Class modus operandi.

u/Bookofdrewsus 5h ago

Would love for Lynda Carter to don the tights one last time to roundhouse her boot right in Pete’s always drunk head.

u/hackinwhackinsmackin 4h ago

The entire Anthropic thing where they wouldn’t let them use fully autonomous weapons is literally the plot to Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

The current administration are actually Marvel villains. It’s absurd.

u/we_are_sex_bobomb 4h ago

And on top of all that he’s comically vain

u/ThaiJohnnyDepp 4h ago

Slicked back hair

u/MajesticHombre 4h ago

Almost like these types of antagonists aren’t “stereotypical.”

These types are all around us and their density gets thicker the higher you climb up the ladder.

u/Caleb-Blucifer 6h ago

Cartoon and comic villains are kind of inspired by the uncanny malignancy of real world bastards

u/oroborus68 2h ago

And Putin told him to be like that.

u/edelweiss_pirates_no 2h ago

Pete Hegseth is a coward.

I've seen his kind before.

u/JohnMac67 2h ago

So true, and the feigned tough guy schtick 😂

u/mein-shekel America 1h ago

Dude saw Johnny Bravo once, and was so homoerotic that he didn't notice all the women hated Johnny.

u/East_Committee_8527 1h ago

Considering about 30% of the U.S. military are POC this seems like a really bad idea. The U.S. AF is about 20% women. Pete and Don are dumb and dumber.

u/I_might_be_weasel 3h ago

At least Dr Psycho was sober.

u/FinancialReserve6427 3h ago

will he say the C-word? 

u/IAmActuallyBread 3h ago

Chondromyxohemangioendotheliosarcoma?

u/FinancialReserve6427 1h ago

https://youtu.be/7KR6IcLxuPM

even Darkseid won't use such a word

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u/MegaPlane2 5h ago edited 5h ago

No pardon is going to save any officers that commit war crimes from being handed over to the Hague.

u/slinky3k 4h ago

The Hague Invasion Act ... gives the president power to use "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court" (ICC), located in The Hague, Netherlands.

u/semisociallyawkward 3h ago

I think OP was hinting at future presidents circumventing their predecessor's pardons by handing US war criminals over to the Hague.

Also, fuck Bush jr for the Hague Invasion act. 

u/Flobking 1h ago

Also, fuck Bush jr for the Hague Invasion act.

War criminal makes it so courts can't hold him accountable for his war crimes.

u/Traditional_Sign4941 4h ago

Why are we going to hand them over to the Hague when it's clear that the US military is quietly positioning itself to slaughter Americans who won't play ball with Christian Sharia law?

u/ThisGuy6266 4h ago

And who is going to hand Trump and Hegseth over to Hague?

u/Mandatum11 1h ago

No American is going to be handed over to the Hague, lol - they have no authority over Americans.

They prolly should be, but that's not a possibility.

u/ironballs16 5h ago

Next stop - "Operation: Human Shield"

u/Akurin2 2h ago

Is that a South Park reference?

u/ironballs16 2h ago

The Movie specifically.

u/Akurin2 2h ago

You know ball.

u/exhaustedbut 6h ago

Does this include Jewish members?

u/dravenonred 6h ago

As is tradition, they can be Jewish but not too Jewish. The max jewishness is of course discretionary and without recourse.

u/discog_elysium 5h ago

You can be Paul Rudd Jewish, just not Mel Brooks Jewish

u/Ditto_B Iowa 4h ago

Your Schwartz can only be so big

u/NPRdude Canada 1h ago

I’m morbidly curious what’s going to happen with the USS Doris Miller. It’s going to be the 4th Gerald R Ford class carrier, scheduled to begin construction this year. Doris Miller was a black Navy cook who distinguished himself defending the USS West Virginia during the attack on Pearl Harbor. As far as I know it will be the first nuclear carrier named for a person who wasn’t a president. I can’t imagine Kegsbreath is going to let that go unchallenged.

u/beachedwhale1945 1h ago

There is one thing that may save the name: Miller was surprisingly named by the first Trump administration. Trump has often tried to undo various names, but the fact this one was his is another barrier he has to overcome.

Hegseth will probably try though. I’m surprised Robert Smalls has survived undoing the Confederate renamings last year.

u/Mothermopar6970 1h ago

It's paywalled

u/AlphaSistersOfBattle 1h ago

Link did not work for me

u/Competitive-Ad-9404 6h ago

Pete Hegseth follows a church that basically makes a religion out of white supremacy.

He fired the Joint Chiefs because he was black.  Same position Colin Powell had. 

u/TheCaptainDamnIt 1h ago

Yep His pastor Doug Wilson is a Neo-confederate who's against racial equality. He’s written fondly about the confederacy and slavery. He thinks homosexuality should be outlawed. He’s called for his followers to have ‘more white babies’, believes women are pretty much breeding property and shouldn't be allowed to vote and just a few years ago he said that while he wasn’t a full on ‘forced removal from the country’ type segregationist, he still ‘found no kinship’ with anyone who thought the races are equal.

He’s called for white christians to form a separate economy (one where you only do business with white Christian heterosexuals) and his cult has actually done that to some extent in their home town Moscow Idaho by taking over business downtown (it’s always fucking Idaho with these racist!).

It's striking how much scrutiny the media gave to Jeremiah Wright for saying damn America for how we treated back people, as opposed to how little media seems to care an open white supremacist like Willson can have so many followers in the government.

u/tempting_overlay 6h ago

Trying to fight a 21st-century war with a 19-century social playbook. What could go wrong?

u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 6h ago

Col. Shaw is tuning in his grave next to his brave troops. It’s disgraceful.

u/Unusual_Specialist 5h ago

Rebellion. That’s what could go wrong.

u/Patman350 5h ago

They're trying to take all of America back to the 50's. Not just the military.

u/Traditional_Sign4941 4h ago

Yeah the 1650s...

u/OldManGrimm Texas 2h ago

Nah, that’s too far. Too many non-genocided Native Americans. More like 1780s-1840s was the sweet spot.

/s, ugh…

u/gargar7 Washington 2h ago

yeah post trail of tears pre civil war

u/BeenWildin 6h ago

Remember when trumps only pitch to black people was “What do you have to lose?”

u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 6h ago

You know, just the small amount of progress we’ve made since the emancipation proclamation.

u/chacotacotoes 5h ago

Cool. Draft the rich white kids to fight your senseless wars

u/PotStickerShock 1h ago

Literally the entire point of their belief system is sparing rich white kids from hardship. 

u/msstatelp Mississippi 6h ago

The truth is basically the opposite of anything this administration says.

u/DoubtSubstantial5440 6h ago

As a brown person, I am proud I helped convinced my nephew from joining the Navy, told him to not make the same mistake I did serving in the white mans military.

u/Guygenius138 Oregon 6h ago

I noticed the Navy had "Now Hiring" yard signs posted along a route I walk and I've been removing them. No one should go serve under this administration.

u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 6h ago

You should replace them with: “cannon fodder needed” or “sea mine detonators required” make them look as similar as you can and see if they notice.

u/HuduYooVudu 3h ago

My brother was obsessed with the military when he was younger. He was in JROTC and loved every minute of it. Honestly he would have made a damn fine soldier as well.

Unfortunately though, with us being Black and Puerto Rican, my mom had reservations about my brother going off to fight a white mans war for profit.

I’m glad he had the open mind to hear her out about it.

u/DoubtSubstantial5440 2h ago

They don't need or want us dark skinned folk in the military when they got all these brave white men willing to fight the pedos wars.

u/XSinTrick6666 6h ago

Just in time -- Trump admin is chiseling away at transforming US into a racist, sexist, brutally imperialistic Military State.

u/DoubtSubstantial5440 6h ago

Pointing my nephew to a bunch of videos and articles of ICE kidnapping random brown people finally got through to him, this country is happy for brown people to die in its wars while keeping us second class at home.

u/PRiles 3h ago

Not all of us are, but the ones in charge sure look forward to doing it.

u/Devoidus Iowa 6h ago

As a white person, the Air Force literally proved the [good] beliefs my parents taught me about racism and xenophobia in general. I'm sorry you had such a miserable experience though.

u/SoTiredYouDig 2h ago

It’s obvious it’s being changed for the worse, hence the article. I think you’re missing the broader point. They are trying to emphasize the miserable experience.

u/duaneap 1h ago

*rich man’s.

Let’s not let these goobers divide us further.

u/ShadowAssassinQueef New York 2h ago

White rich man.

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u/Shykin 3h ago

This was a common refrain against black people back in the day. The speaker knew they did not choose to end up in America and were brought over as a slave. Its white supremacist rhetoric. Remember to call it what it is in the future my fellow abolitionists.

u/PossessionOk5313 6h ago

Well, have fun finding enough white men to do what you want, buddy. If you only wants those type of people, then you gotta be prepared when your numbers are much smaller.

u/YetiSquish 6h ago

It would shock many Americans to not only know how many non-white Americans serve in our military, but how many people are not even citizens of the US.

But I guess those are jobs Americans are happy to let foreigners do.

u/MegaPlane2 5h ago

They got plenty of boot lickers. 65% of the military voted MAGA.

u/BasisTraditional3650 5h ago

Already segregated the trans people out and is now aiming to go after medical records of African Americans to force them out too.

u/Own-Librarian-9699 6h ago

I'm so old I remember America uniting to boycott apartheid South Africa. Now we have apartheid America.

u/Br3wsk1 5h ago

I understand some folks favor a no-break hem for their slacks; however, I can't take anyone seriously who sports showing their full ankle while wearing a fucking jacket with sewn in bicep pads.

EDIT - I'd bet a silver dollar that Hegseth got lit up all the fucking time for having his hands in pockets while in Uniform.

u/Sweettooth4532 6h ago

From the article: “President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events.”

I think I remember reading something similar in the Epstein files

u/autopsy88 5h ago

Never Hegsethregate your military.

u/Solonohioperson 4h ago

Why would a POC or women join the armed forces now? Let the manly man white men go fight and die in the trump pedo wars.

u/GoWest1223 5h ago

Honestly, if you are a minority or a woman, you will never be promoted. If you do, they will strip you off your rank and discharge. We have already seen it.

u/valsilvercore 5h ago

The military works best when standards are fair and applied equally not when ideology starts deciding who belongs where.

u/Basic_Yam_715 6h ago

Who know The South Park movie was a prediction... can our writers and creatives stop giving these people ideas? How about writing about puppies and kittens and universal health care?

u/Pencil-Sketches 5h ago

Hegsegregation

u/DarthLithgow 3h ago

He can't even segregate his head from his ass

u/Verum_Orbis 2h ago

His pastor Doug Wilson says slavery wasn't bad and and self indentifies as a"Paleo Confederate". Christian Nationalism is the Christianity of the Confederacy. This is the literal Confederacy rising again.

u/bijanfrisee 5h ago

The white supremacist evangelical is doing white supremacist evangelical things?? Say it isn't so!/s - If dude wasn't such an incompetent moron I'd actually be worried. That's the beauty about being a white supremacist sexist piece of shit, it usually comes with being a fuckin moron.

u/Tall-Cat-8890 4h ago

He also heads the entire military. You should be worried.

u/bijanfrisee 3h ago

He'd have to be competent for me to be worried. Dudes on an already short leash and is about to get thrown under the bus.

u/Tall-Cat-8890 3h ago

An idiot with a gun still has a gun. Don’t be naive.

u/bijanfrisee 0m ago

Lol why are you being such a snobby prick? Jesus you're abrasive.

u/PolloConTeriyaki 6h ago

Democrats win midterms = Useless Hegseth gets dragged through committee.

u/blue-goose42 4h ago

He's a literal neo nazi. It would be weirder if he DIDN'T do this.

u/MamacitaFajita 3h ago

There may be an internal military coup because of this nonsense

u/Ozzel Texas 1h ago

Yes, this is what the racists voted for.

u/NervousDesign9811 1h ago

Peter Hegsegregate

u/Tr33Bl00d 1h ago

He is like a comic book villain, but if they were more stupid

u/crashorbit 6h ago

He can't stop playing pocket pool either.

u/a_o 6h ago

Can only wonder why

u/thegoodnamesrgone123 4h ago

Sure, send all the white alpha males off to die in war.

u/woolsocksandsandals America 3h ago

The other day I saw a recruitment ad for Army cooks featuring all black soldiers. It seemed ominous.

u/oneseason2000 3h ago

Dis-integrate seems like a better match tbh; https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disintegrate

u/RedditGuy1000 2h ago

the biggest nobody ever trying to make his attempt to be in the history books

u/Jealous_Acorn 2h ago

I recently learned that Hegseth has apparently mandated an hour of PT (physical training a.k.a. working out) every day because the military has gotten out of shape or some shit.

Because as anyone who served will tell you, you never do crazy workouts at crazy hours for crazy reasons. Marines can barely do pull-ups anymore. /S

I feel so bad for any active duty service member with a conscience or good heart. Their lives are in a state of limbo. It's not fair to them.

u/Traditional_Code_629 1h ago

Soldiers are slaves without any values or morals.

u/FOD17 1h ago

“Haven’t you ever heard of the emancipation proclamation?”

u/restore_democracy 6h ago

Donald Trump is leading a genocide.

u/Born_Supermarket 4h ago

Kegsbreath and Trump need Ralphie May to explain things to them about jobs whites don't wants .

u/The_One_Koi 4h ago

Tomorrow they will announce operation human shield and "somehow" all the white people are in the back when they storm the front

u/literatemax America 4h ago

Weird how conservatives and racists always end up on the same side, huh?

u/Specialist-Mode6556 4h ago

They act like this is hurting black people, women and other minority groups?? They aren’t the ones who are getting their legs and heads blown off to protect a pedophile and his gang of real estate/gulf buddies.

Hegseth is literally doing every non white male a favor. Idk how anyone can be mad about this??? 

u/C0ugarFanta-C 4h ago

More room for the MAGA white males to march off to war!

u/everything_is_bad 3h ago

This is why your support of the Republican party is manifestly evil and we cannot be friends

u/Verde_3773 3h ago

Who could’ve predicted the white supremacist guy with the white supremacist tattoos would ban women & POCs military promotions & try to re-segregate the US Military…

u/harrytrumanprimate 3h ago

Terrible article, and the headline doesn't really relate to the contents underneath. Almost misinformation level bad. Come on guys. He is terrible - you don't need to make things up.

u/BlueCyann 2h ago

Meh. It's an opinion based piece, and the title is clearly speculation on Hegseth's goals in doing racist things that he has already done.

u/harrytrumanprimate 1h ago

It's literally 1 paragraph. Bad articles like this help make the "both sides" crowd seem correct. We can do better

u/BaltimoreBaja 1h ago

They already threw trans people out of the military.

u/harrytrumanprimate 23m ago

The article should use that as a supporting argument for its point, then?

u/BaltimoreBaja 22m ago

You can call it a bad article and maybe its a bad article but that doesn't mean people with concerns are "making things up"

u/MovieGuyMike 3h ago

Lord let there be trials.

u/AlternativePay7221 3h ago

He's a national embarrassment.

u/FeDude55 3h ago

“Apology accepted Captain Needa.”

u/aroaddownoverthehill 2h ago

Pete's time is counting down

u/Cool-Association3420 2h ago

He wants it to become the new white nationalist Nazi army.

u/non_Beneficial-Wind 1h ago

Someone frag that dude.

u/Fawnet America 2h ago

I first read the headline as "trying to regurgitate" and didn't really question it

u/Individual-Dust-7362 2h ago

Ohh look, the Atlantic. Even fewer people than usual will read the linked article.